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Dernes i uivc ■ ■ viumvi ■Into Wrestling TourneyThe 1970 Indiana High Schoolr be eligible for the State Tour- Ed Berry, Maconaquah.wxestJing sectional tournaments I ney,get underway Thursday evening I The Gary schools did notat 16 sites throughout the. State with a field of 219 schools entered.The Logansport Berries, along with five other Loganland teams will be competing at Taylorqualify because of the month long teachers’ strike.The other sectionals will be held at Bloomington, Calumet, Crawsfordsville, Crow Point, EiWiart, Evansville, Franklin,High School near Kokomo jn i New Castle, New Haven, Pike, a tourney that includes' 15 South Bend and Warren Central.teams and 179 wrestlers.Competing at Taylor besides the Berries are Lewis Cass,Pioneer, Maconaquah, North Miami and Peru.The weigh-in for the event will be conducted at 4 p.m. with the first pound scheduled to start at 5 p.m. The second round is slated for Saturday beginning at 9:30 a.m. The afternoon session will be at 2 p.m. with the consolation and final rounds at 6:30 p.m.Tlhe Berries are defending j has a dual NCC champion champions in the sectional, and , marking. He was first last year145—Daymond Jones (0-8) vs. Ridgeway, Kokomo.155—Mike Jones (10-7) vs. Bill Martin, Pioneer.165—Wayne Fisher (0-1) vs. Parham, Kokomo.175-Jay Bolen (314) vs. Kenworthy, Western.185—Ken Kombold ((Hi) vs.The regionals will be Feb. Northwestern.14 and the state finals will be I ? i Brewer (6-3-2) vs. Feb n j Pochon, Taylor.The Berries are going, into the tourney with a 7-2 record.Logansport goes into the event with two defending champions and a host of possibilities.Bon Howard, 123-pound senior,has a pair of NCC championships, along with sectional and second in the state in the 127-pound class last year.Don Howard, 137-pounder, alsoClose Games(n Y Tourneythrough the 12 years of the sport in Logansport they have compiled a list of 43 individual champions and five team trophies.Logansport finished fourth inin the sectional and third in the regional.Logansport wrestlers, their records and pairings for the first round include:YM-YWCA—We Fight, Runners, Depressives and Black Power survived first round games in the YMCA high school basketball tourney here Tuesday afternoon.We Fight eliminated the Reapers 66-42, the Runners dropped the Rogues 5149, the Depres-sives edged the Gunners 41-39 !and Power downed the Reapers1965 for its lowest placing, and: mani Hill, aside from a third in 1965 it f GarY Smith (9-7) vs,has either won the tournaznent j Bussell, taylor. or placed second. Jt5—Mike Schroder (1-2)98—Vie Hardy (114) vs. Bow-166-42.Gary Krantz led We Fight with 23 points and Rick Sweet added 20, Mike Rans led theIn order to compete in the event a wrestler must have competed in at least six interschool squad meets or tourneys or weighed in a minimum of eight in his qualifying weight todrew bye.123—Ron Howard (17-0) vs.! Staffer, North field.139—Jim Smith (5-8) vs. Sloane, Wabash.137—Don Howard (17-0) vs.Runnens with 16 and Leroy Brown hit 18 for the Rogues.Ron Gaby and Joe Eisert hit 22 for Black Power while Steve Hartoin, Pat Newton and Keefe Hart each hit 10 for the Rea]*ers.•a
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Logansport Pharos Tribune and Press
Logansport, Indiana, US
Wed, Feb 04, 1970
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