Estherville Daily News (Newspaper) - January 5, 1987, Estherville, Iowa Dally January 5. 19878 STAR Of shoots down Jays for TOM WILLIAMS Sports Minn. The state of Minnesota has probably seen enough of Estherville Midgets by The Midget basketball team its third Minnesota trophy in as many years with a 76-45- demolition of an Minn. became the Jackson Holiday Tournament champions for the second straight year with Saturday night's the sixth win against no Blue Jays were throttled by the more physical Midgets last 62-44. that junior guard Craig Arment tortured the Jays with several fourth quarter The Midget defense kept the Jays to just 16 points in the second half while the champions cashed in 35 to put the game way out of Tim Maaske was working without the services of Arment this time Arment has been sidelined since the holidays with a case of Picking up the slack was senior starting point guard Todd had a quiet first half as the Blue Jays spread their defense In the second the senior ripped the nets for one downtown shot after another as the Jays decided to jam up the middle after being burned inside by the likes of the Moritz twins and by forward Wes and guard Brad was the second straight night Roede has shown success from what would be three-point range under Iowa said Roede has made a lot of progress with his attributing most of the success to better shot judgement not forcing his shots He's beginning to be more patient and working the added that Roede is on the road to becoming one of the best point guards in northwest of the many reasons the Midgets are undefeated at this point in the season is its defense and balanced Saturday's win proved Midgets held a team that into the contest with a 5-1 to just 45 The same Midgets kept Minnesota's Springfield to only 51 the same the Midgets have proven that opposing teams cannot concentrate their efforts on one player and expect to shut down The team has had three scorers in double figures for six straight games Roede led a pack of four double digit Midgets with a season high 21 points Dave Moritz dumped in 16 points and Bixby and Niles offered 12 and 11 appears that everytime the Midgets take to the they been getting better and Maaske about his team's success at offensive That area of the game has been one of the few weak points for the Midgets at able to gain second and third shots is the mark of a really good Maaske has been averaging about 35 or 36 rebounds per game lately and Maaske says die reason for that is his players have learned to attack the boards JV tags Lakefield with first ever Minn. While Estherville's varsity was disposing of Jackson for the varsity championship of the Jackson Holiday the Midget junior varsity was busy claiming the JV trophy over at School a very good team in a 43-41 makes such a win so special is not ' that it a dean sweep of the Jackson The in winning the handed a loss to a group of players who have not tasted defeat since they began the seventh Midgets had to beat out two unbeaten win ie They themselves brought with them a respectable 4-1 led the entire game after going up 6-1 in the Lakefield found itself trailing by nine at the Lakefield began playing shooting said Midget coach Denny combined with some Estherville turnovers allowed Lakefield to gap before the Midgets settled Midgets won the game on free throws as Lakefield was forced to foul towards the a big no doubt about said He added that Estherville played a pretty sound defensive game to improve its record to 5-1. Mi Guge 12 and 10 Lindell and paced Estherville junior varsity will host Algona Garrigan Tuesday night at 6:30 p.m. before the varsity takes to the crowns three champs in own JV JOE Sports Writer Estherville hosted a junior varsity wrestling tournament Saturday Eight grappling squads from around the area in the These included Spirit and main reason for the according to Estherville's wrestling coach Ron was to the kids some tournament was run a bit differently than There wgre 19 different with four wrestlers from towns in each Each class contained wrestlers who were of comparable weight and ability to insure that each of the matches would be This gave the kids a chance to go at it one with nearly the same talents as their Each grappler wrestled the other three people in their There was a and fourth place for each wrestlers fared well for the Eight Midgets wrestled in the and three ended up champions of their class by the close of the Estherville also had two second place and two third place did a fine Swanson He was very pleased with the success of the tournament and to the Mad 18 wrestlers competing and seven Spirit Lake had nine competing with one Algona had eight competing and three Emmetsburg had eight competing with two Spencer had eight and one had seven competing and one had four competing and one Chad Moffitt had an outstanding day pinning two of his three The twelth class champion took Steven Eischeid of Algona in a hard fought 4-3 match and then went on to pin Mark Wilson of Spencer and Steve Labash of Fairmont in 2:22. eight champion Troy Casperson had a fine day also pinning two of his three He pinned Terry of in 5:32 and Jeff Hatfield of Fairmont champ Chad Kaltved won all three of his He beat out Brad Welle on a technical 15-0. Kaltved then took Steve Wiseman of Spencer 9-5 hnd then beat John Tiede of Fairmont 10-6. that did a fine job for Estherville include Brad Brian Chad Mark Kraft and Dana Howard launches the ball over the fingertips flf Iter North Photo By Joe Cita 4 Jeremy bMi Chad Chad Brian Sesti 4:M; Oud Scott 4:; - Dava Brian 7-1; Brian Jimt 14; Dm Brian Clata Troy 1:X1; Troy baat Cody 17-4; Troy baat 4-1; Brad Gtmt 1:41; Brad imam Scott 1:; baat Brad u - Chad baat Brad 1M; Chtd boat Stavo Chad boat John 1M; U - boat 44; Chad 1:M; Chad 1:9; 11 Marc Scott (A) Mare Marc Kraft boat Scott U - Dana Oao Eric Codi Muti baat Dana Goo Dan Mumford 1:S. girts lose to basketball team wasn't quite as lucky as their male counterparts Friday night whan they dropped a 52-34 verdict to Hie art tied with Lakota for the State Line Conference - The Mustangs played tough through the first half as they managed a 16-10 lead after the first The score was tied at 22-22 by the halftime Very cold shooting doomed A-R in the Uken of Titonka led all scorers with 23 points while Sheila Verbrugge was leader with 11. was by Just three 40-37. Stacy Glasnapp led the hosts with eight and VicH VonBank and LaRae Kluger managed seven and - Physical worked on Titonka to the point of wearing the Indians out as the Mustangs rode to an easy 96-38 State line Conference victory Friday had way too much depth for said A-R head coach Mustangs beat Titonka in every Randy and Joel Taylor burned the hoops for a total of 40 points while fee team shot M percent from the A-R also was 13 of 18 at the charity stripe compared to Titonka's six of 12. improved to 4-Q*nd will travel to North Kossuth Tuesday and they have begun to anticipate possible rebound situations aren't just standing around we continue to average around 36 boards per Masske be hard to if everything else remains Moritz and Niles combined for 18 rebounds alone Saturday as the Jays the boards war was never really in the contest from the beginning as Estherville broke out to a 36-20 lef d. The Midgets did fall apart for a short period of time right halftime when four straight turnovers were converted to six straight Blue Jay Instead of leading by 16 the Midgets went to lockers holding a 36-26 Roede began hitting outside in the second Jackson to lose any sort of confidence might have gained in the first What might have broken the was when Roede stole a ball and scored on a in the third quarter to hand Estherville a 64-39 cleared his bench during the remaining four minutes of the Midgets have one of the games of the season to play Tuesday night when they hoet Algona Garrigan in the Estherville The Golden Bears gave the Midgets fits last The team is embarking on strenuous part of their hedule as it has to play 10 including Jackson tourney in just 27 Estherville resumes Lakes Conference action Friday night when the Storm Lake Tornadoes sweep into Mike Phillips sneaks past a Cougar in Friday evening boys basketball action at Photo By Joe 19, 1987 to April 10, 1987 to 1 residents and students from reciprocity MN citizens 62 years of age or older may attend tuition course outline or more TECHNICAL Jackson Campus Minnesota 56143 Mn Toll Free 1 800-622 8778 1-507-847-3320
