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Card wrestlershost tourneyHAMILTON, III - TheHamilton Cardinals will host the nine-team Class A district wrestling meet Friday and Saturday with Cardinal coach Bob Hanks picking Quincy Notre Dame as the favorites to win the title over his injury ridden Cards who are the defending champions.The Cards tuned up for the meet by dropping a 34-16 decision to the Ft. Madison junior varsityteam Tuesday.Notre' Dame closed its dual season with a 56-3 win over Carrollton and a 28-25 victory over Camp Point Central in a triangular last weekend.Hanks feels that the field is well balanced with every school having an opportunity to advance wrestlers to the sectional tournamentOther teams in the field are Carthage, Nauvoo-Colusa. LaHarpe. Dallas City. Central, Brown County and Rushville, a newcomer to the Hamilton districtInjury listFour regulars are off the injury list and will return to the Hamilton lineup for the district but are not in top form.They are Arnie Brevick, Dave Cameron who has been moved up to 145 to replace Tom Shoen who is still out with a broken hand, Kerry Klepfer and Doug Olsen.Mike Terrell, a 138 pounder, has the top Hamilton record of 20 wins, no defeats and one draw Heavyweight Greg Jordan has won 22 and lost 6. John Moves at 112 is 19-1. i Arnie Brevick at 126 is 14-1-1, i Doug Olsen at 167 is 14-7. Dave ! Cameron at 145. 14-6-1. Mike Merritt at 185 is 13-10-2 and Ran-; dy Whitaker at 132 is 11-2. i Kerry Klepfer at 167 has missed more than half the season and i is 5-5 and 98 pounder Hank I Summers is 12-14 i The rest of the Cardinal lineup includes Larry Biggs, 5-13-1, at 105 either Tom Ross 4-5, or Rob-. bie Smulling, 12-4, at 119. i Moves. Terrell and Jordan are defending district champions and 3 Klepfer and Whitaker were 3 runners-up last season as the t Cards nipped the then Quincy t Catholic Bovs squad 116-103^ to - win the tournament.Whitaker advanced through the 0 sectional at Mt. Olive to place fourth in the state tournament, s ScheduleThe tournament opens with the r first round Friday night in the g Hamilton High School gym-v nasium starting at 6:30 p.m.The competition will resume att 1 p.m. Saturday and the cham-s pionship round and the wrestle y backs will start at 6 30 p.m Saturday.Hamilton and Notre Dame have meet twice in duals with the teams splitting Kevin Oitker of the Raiders, 8-7 for the season, presents a strong challenge to Moyes at 112 He holds a 5-4 decision over Moves.Heavyweight Greg Frericks is another top Quincy wrestler with a 15-3 record and two wins over Jordan this season Jordan defeated Frericks in the championship match last winter.John Dietrich of the Raiders has a 13-1 record at 119 and Kevin Wensing at 155 is 8-2 There will be plenty to eat at the tournament with the Hamilton Wrestling Boosters set to serve a soup supper starting at5 p m Friday.Breakfest will be served from 9 a m until 10:30 a m Saturday and food will be available throughout the day in the cafeteria with the menu including home made chili, vegetable soup, maid rites, hot dogs and home made pies.The summary from Tuesday's Hamilton-Ft. Madison dual meet follows:98 - Ernie Melin FM dec Hank Summers 1-0105 - Bill Croll FM dec. Larry Biggs4-0112 - John Moyes H by forfeit 119 - Dean Sherwood FM dec. Tom Ross 7-4126 - Bill Napier H dec Bill Leroy 6-2132 - Randy Whitaker H draw with John St. Clair 6-6 138 - Mike Terrell H dec Ken Walker 10-4145 - Steve Shannon FM pinnedDave Cameron 5:46155 - Larry Meierotto FM pinnedTerry Turner 3:05167 - Mike Walker FM pinned DougOlsen 2:54185 - Mike Merritt H draw with Bryan Thornburg 2-2 Hwt - Greg Jordan H dec. Tim Krebill 4-0Wins forAtlanta,Marion Co.BRASHEAR, Mo. - Marion County upset third seededWvaconda 29-27 and fourth seed-• *ed Atlanta downed hoat Brashear 45-38 in Class A Missouri girls regional basketball action here Wednesday night.The semi finals are scheduled for tonight with top seeded North Shelbv meeting Atlanta and second seeded LaPlata playing Marion County.The championship game will be plsyed st 7:30 p.m Friday.Millie Tulev led Marion Countv in its upset over Wvaconda with 14 points and Laurie Wenneker added 10.
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Keokuk Daily Gate City
Keokuk, Iowa, US
Thu, Feb 12, 1976
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