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HollerV\ eaver68 SI 44 33 57 60 SO SIRoller Doubtful for Green BayBv The Associated Press Defensive tackle Dave Roller, mainstay of the Green Bay Packer defensive line most of the season, is not expected to play Sunday when the Packers and Chicago Bears renew the National Football League's oldest rivalryRoller, the club's leader in quarterback sacks, was declared an unlikely participant Friday by Coach Bart Starr But Starr said outside linebacker Gary Weaver. Green Bay's leading tackier, has a better chance of playing Roller has been bothered by a sprained ankle. Weaver by a pulled hamstring Roller's replacement is expected to be Dave Pureifory, who has been slowed by a foot injury The Packers and Bears, both 4-5. will be meeting for the 115th time, and Starr said Green Bay will need some extra effort to stop the improved Central Division rivals'Their defense is the steady pursuing type that never lets you have a breath of air, Starr said On offense, we definitely have to contain 'league leading rusher) Walter Payton You also have to talk of quarterback Bob Avellim and their passing gameWe also have to protect our passer and somehow get to theirs. Starr said Chicago has 36 quarterback sacks this season, the Packers 33At the beginning of the season neither the Pittsburgh Steelers nor the Miami Dolphins expected to lace elimination from the NFL playoff picture with five weeks left Yet, for one of the two, that may happen this Sunday when they meet in Pittsburgh In Sunday’s other games, it will be New Fngland at Baltimore, Houston at Cincinnati. Philadelphia at Cleveland, St Louis at Los Angeles, San Francisco at Atlanta. Seattle at Minnesota, Kansas City at Oakland, Washington at the New York Giants, Tampa Bay at the New York Jets, Detroit at New Orleans and Denver at San Diego Monday night’s game is Buffalo at DallasParkview Counts on Experience To Make Up for Lack of SizeORFORDVILLE—When Coach Ken Sisson at Orfordville Parkview says his 1976-77 basketball team lacks size, he's not kidding It would be possible for Sisson to put three six-footers on the court at the same time this season, but not likely. Center Steve Warn, at 6-2, is likely to be the only six-footer in the starting lineup when the Vikings meet South Wayne Black Hawk in the season opener Tuesday at South Wayne.Of the 14 players the Vikings have on their varsity roster, seven are 5-foot-9 orless.That's not about to lessen Sisson's enthusiasm, however We can hardly wait for the ball to start bouncing.’’ he said We re eagerto go After his team’s dismal 3-16 record and last-place finish in the Central Suburban Conference last year, Sisson could be excused if he showed a little pessimism But he feels this year s team will be better because of experience We have seven kids who played a lot of ball for us last year. he explained In fact, we started an all-junior team last season up at Elkhorn in the tournament and they played very well.” The young Vikings played very well for three quarters in that game, anyway, before the heavily-favored Elks pulled away in the fourth quarter and finally won by 20.We re shooting for at least 500 and I think we’ll finish anywhere from there on up I would be very happy with a 500 season, but not necessarily satisfied.” he addedleading the way for the Vikings will be senior Ron Harnack. a 5-foot-ll forward Harnack finished as the fifth-leading scorer in the conference last year with 232 points Ron was our leading scorer and rebounder last year,” Sisson said He's a good, strong kid and very aggressive In fact, he's sometimes too aggressive on defense, overplaying his man .” Joining Harnack at forward will probably be senior Rich Viken Viken has come along real well, the coach said He’s only 5-9 or 5-10 but he’s the quickest guy we've got on the court We brought him up from the junior varsity last year for awhile and he did a good job My main concern with him is his defense.Warn, in the post, whom Sisson called, small as centers go in the league.” will round out the starting front line He's stronger this year, and appears to be a little faster than last year,” Sisson said of WarnBacking up the tront-court starters, the Vikings will have 6-foot-l junior Tom Ballou and 6-foot-2 senior Steve Larson‘‘Tom ' Ba llou i is very inexperienced. Sisson said. He had a health problem up until about two years ago so he missed a lot of basketball But he’s a real hard worker and could come alongLarson is a good, strong boy. but he’s not real smooth and his defense is weak Randy Harnack, twin brother of Ron, will start at one of the guard spots; with Jon Hegge. Marty Reichard and Joel DeIorme all battling for the otherRandy is about 5-11 and a good steady ball player. Sisson said I’m really not sure about the fifth spot Hegge lt;5-8i is fairly quick and pretty good defensively DeLorme (5-9) is a good shooter and an excellent defensive player Reichard is small also (5-8), but he’s quite a bit quicker than others ”The Vikings may have to rely on their quickness against most opponents this year To go with that. Sisson plans some changes on defense.We’ll use some pressure tactics this year.” he promised We’ll use some zone, some man-to-man and some combinations to keep the bigger teams from setting up and getting in on usOn offense, we’ll try to use a controlled running game,” he saidWe’ve got to start to try to do some things to shake up the other team ”Not surprisingly, Sisson picks Columbus and Milton as the teams to beat in the Central SuburbanI just think nobody is going to touch Columbus this year. he said But you can’t rule Milton out They’ve got a winning tradition going there and a couple of big people coming back. If I had to pick someone after those two it would probably be Evansville, but we’ll be competitive with any team in the league .”If Sisson’s preseason optimism rubs off on his players, the Vikings—despite averaging just over 5-foot-10 may refuse to come up short in 1976-77 The Parkview schedulexNov 16—A1 Sooth Wayne Black Hawk Nov 19—At Beloit Turner Nov 23—Oregon xNov 30—East Troy Dec 3—At Milton xOec 7—At Beloit Catholic Dec 10—Columbus Dec 14—At Clinton Dec I7-At Evansville Jan 7—Lake Mills Jan. 14- Beloit Turner Jan. 21—At Oreqon Jan 28- Milton Feb 4— At Columbus Feb 11—Clinton Feb 18— Evansville Feb 24-At Lake Mills «Feb 2S—Milwaukee Riverside « NonconferenceSuburban Teams SplitColumbus, the preseason favorite to win the Central Suburban Conference basketball championship, got off to a good start Friday night with a 60-41 nonconference victory at Ripon Other Central Suburban teams, I^ake Mills and Beloit Turner, weren't as fortunate Lake Mills lost a nonconference decision at W’aterloo, 68-47; and Turner did the same at Edgerton. 63-51 Gregg Waddell scored 19 points and Cal Tobison added 15 to lead the Cardinals past Ripon, which has appeared in the last tw-o WIAA Class B Whitewater sectionals Columbus pulled away to a 13-5 lead after the first quarter and went onto victory Mike Bock scored 19 points for RiponWaterloo made 22 of 27 free throw attempts in its victory over the L-Cats AJ Kelger scored 21 points and Jim Wacek added 14 for Waterloo, which led13-3 at the end of the first quarter and 30-17 at halftime Dave Martin led Lake Mills with 11 pointsWATERLOO 68, LAKE MILLS 47 Lake Mills (47) - Pf iefer S 0 10 TneioH, 102 Schuenke. 50)0. Liebenow, 102. Martin, 5 111 Mi Grath 3 i r kum. ? i s Totals 22 3 47 Waterloo (68)- Stevens, 157 Haoerman, 102 Kegler. 8 5 21 Wacek, 5 4 14 Danlke. 2 2 6 Cronm, I s 1 Berndt 4-0-1 ■ i f ! l 3 Totals 23 22 68Lake Mills 3 14 14 16—47Waterloo |J \j i; 21—48Free throws rossed Lake MiMs4, Waterloo 5 Total fouls Lake Mills 2i Waterloo ll B game Lake Mills 27. Waterloo 26COLUMBUS 60, RIPON 41 Ripon (41)—Lukosi, 10 2, Nnnemann, 3 39 Mason, l o 2 Ka.ser 1 0 2 Bock, 7 5 19 Calien. 1 0 2. Brieske, 0 l l Northrup. 20 4 Totals 16 9 41 Columbus (60) Waddell, 8 3 19 Baliweg. 5010 Todtson, 6 3 15 Me er. 4 0 0 O Br on, 0 2 2 McNulty, 0 3 3. Cullen i i 3 Totals 24 12 60 Ripon S 11 9 14—41Columbus (3 17 17 u—40Free throws missed Ripon 8, Columbus 12 Total fouls Ripon 17, Columbus 12 B game Columbus 59 Ripon 54 (OT)
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