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By JIM STADTER Sports EditorBremen pulled a stunning upset in the medley relay to open the first SICA West conference swimming meet for girls at Midlothian Tuesday night, but the rest of the competition held true to form asCoach Marsha Murphy’s Sandburg swimmers rolled up 53 points to annex the team title.Sandburg won only three events, but scored in 10 of 11 to amass its winning total. It was a hotly contested battle for second place as just three points separated the rest of theOak Forest’s Karen Walsh and TF North freshman Dawn Kodighiero won two events apiece while Kankakee West stole the team thunder in theSICA East-South conference swim meet Tuesday at Evergreen Park.Tinley Park, the only team to defeat Westview this season, won three events and just missed taking the title, scoring 208 points to 211 for the winners.It came down to the 400 freestyle relay, a race in which a Hillcrest foursome hit the finish first in a fantastic time of 4:06.8. Westview’s third place effort, with Tinley fifth,Hinr'hpH thp titlpwith 29 and Keavis with 28.TF South, behind double winners Shelly Zygowicz and Joann Botterman, led the blue ribbon derby with four first places. Oak I .awn and Bremen each won two events.BREMEN’S MEDLEY relay unit of Cathy Diddens, Joyce Stadter, Julie Plowman and Karen Adrian thrilled the home crowd with a winning effort of 2:08.0 in the first event on the card.Seeded third in the event, the Bremen girls knocked 4.9 seconds off their best previous time to pull the stunner. Top seeded Oak Lawn settled for second place, while SandburgEllen Wuellner of Hillcrest won by nearly three full seconds, and shaved nearly 11 seconds off their best time of the year. Oak Forest Coach Vita Meyer, whose team was second, said it best when she said the Hillcrestgirls “were really smoking.”Oak Forest had three victories, two by Walsh and one by senior diver Cathy Kaye, who scored 246.70 points to win by more than 20. Here again, Westview depth paid off. A 2-3 finish offset the 5-6 effort of Tinley’s Debbie Bettenhausen and Patti Hallahan.Walsh, a junior, won the 200was fourth in the four-team race and failed to score for the first and only time all night.Only the first three relay teams scored. In the individual events, the first five places scored points while the first six received awards. Since this was the first running of the meet, all winning efforts went on the books as SICA West conference records.Sandburg had taken an early lead as Mary Byars won the diving title with a score of 274.62 during the afternoon portion of the meet. Bremen took a shortlived lead with its medley relay w in, but Sandburg regained the upper hand in the next, event, 200-yard freestyle, and con-free (Denise Nelzel), 100 backstroke (laurel Hall) and a 2-3 finish in diving paced the winners.A star was born in TF North’s Kodighiero, who is a state contender as a frosh. Her times were startling 2:18.8 in the 200 IM and 1:11.2 in the breaststroke. Tinley’s VickiShaw added a second to herachievements in that race. Tinley also got a strong third from Muys in the backstroke.Oak Forest, third with 166 points, got additional pointstinued to add to its total the rest of the night.ZYGOWICZ GAINED the first of her two wins in the 200 freestyle, with a time of 2:09.6, but a two-three finish by Debbie Macey and Theresa Athy vaulted Sandburg into first place for good.Zygowicz notched her second win with a 6:02.9 clocking for the 500 freestyle, and her TF' South teammate Botterman doubled up in the 50 and 100 freestyles, with respective times of 27.0 and 59.0.Sandburg won the meet going away, picking up its second and third blue ribbon efforts in the last two events on the card. Lisa Krula sped to victory in the 100-yard breaststroke in a time of 1:19.2 and the freestyle relay team put the finishing touch on the team title romp.The quartet of Cindy Vos, Kathy Brennan, Athy and Macey covered the 400-yard distance in 4:09.0. TF South, which dominated the solo freestyles, settled for second place in the relay.IN ADDITION to its stunner in the opening event, Bremen picked up a second blue ribbon when Diddens returned to register a 1:11.2 reading in the 100-yard backstroke.Completing the list of winners were Oak lawn’s Cory Boyle, 2:35.0 in the 200-yard individual medley, and Peg Wantiez, 1:11.8 in the 100-yard butterfly.Sandburg steadily built up its total by scoring in all except the first event, including four second places, two by Maceyonrl nnn nnnh Ywt \ I r\c* nn/1 A tKifpack. Oak I^wn and TF South shared runnerup honors with 31 points, followed by BremenTinleyWestviewinLee, Sue Souffrant and Mary Seconds in the medley rela;50 free (Joyce Yolkmann), 1CSwimmingTHE STAR-TRIBUNE: Thursday, October 23, 197519SICA NORTH At ThornridgeTeam Totals; Homewood Flossmoor 312, Thornndge 236, Thornwood 173, Thornton 108, Richards 158, Eisenhower 92, Bloom 54 200 yard Medley Relay: 1 Homewood Flossmoor (Kathy Shea, Sharon Benigni, Sue Ahrendt, Linda Vax) 2 05 604. 2Thornndge, 2 13 6 3 Richards, 2;21 6. 4Thornton, 2 21 9 5 Eisenhower, 2 23 9.200 yard Freestyle: I. Helen Lmdstrom (HF), 2 14 651 2 Duffy (HF), 2:18.7, 3 Schweiqer (R), 2:19 8. 4. Eriksen (TR),2 26 3. 5 Bloom (TR), 2 31 8. 6 Michaels (TW), 2:34.1.200 yard Individual Medley. 1. Laurie Scherer (HF), 2 38 895. 2. FernandezCTW). 2 39 5 3 Gurgel (HF), 2 43 2 4, Glynn (R), 2 50 4 5 Dwyer (TR), 2 52 7 6. W.lsens (TR), 3:01.7 50 yard Freestyle: 1. Sue Ahrendt (HF), 26 449. 2. Barry (R), 27 9 3. Vax (HF),28 2. 4 Gill (TW), 28 8. 5. Russell (TR),29 0 6 Isaacson (TR), 29 7Diving 1 Maxine Masfey (TR), 256 54,2 Kulczyk (TW), 215 82 3 E.erman (TR), 209 37. 4. Cohen (HF), 208 83 5. Rub.no(R), 181 44 6 Susay (HF), 177 87.100 yard Butterfly: 1 Sue Ahrendt (HF),1 04 293 2 Steinberg (TW), 1:11.6, 3. Rowe (HF), 1:12 1. 4 Holleman (TR), 1:20 3. 5 Bloom (TR), 1:21.4. 6 Keeler (TT), 1:23.7.100 yard Freestyle: 1. Kathy Shea (HF), 58 904. 2 Duffy (HF), 1:02.1. 3. Barry (TW), 1:02.5 4 Fernandez (TW), 1:03 4 5. Merritt (TR), 1 03 9 6 Gill (TW', 1.04.2, 500 yard Freestyle: 1. Helen Lindstrom (HF), 6 05 775. 2 Schwe.ger (R), 6 15 8 3. Rowe (HF), 6 38 6 4 Sternberg (TW),6 39 5 5. George (TR), 6 54.1. 6 Herman (TT), 6 58 2.100 yard Backstroke: I. Kathy Shea(HF), 1:07 460 2. Scherer (HF), 1:14.5. 3. Eriksen (TR), 1:15 2. 4 Glynn (R), 1:16 1.5 Pawlowski (TR), 1:18 9 6. Johnson(TW), 1:20 4.100 yard Breaststroke: 1. Kitty Voight (HF), 1:22 693 2. Benigni (HF), 1:24 1. 3. Lynn (TR), 1:24 4. 4. Radivojevich (E), 1:24 7. 5. Voss (TR), 1:26 1 6. Dalle (E),1 26 2400 yard Freestyle Relay: 1 Homewood Flossmoor (Linda Vax, Suzanne Shea,Carolyn Duffy, Ruth Wickersham),4 19 775 2 'Thornndge, 4:26 7. 3. Thorn wood, 4 44 9 4 Thornton, 4:50 3. 5.Richards. 5 00 4SICA WEST At Bremen Team Totals: Sandburg 53, Oak Lawn 31, TF South 31, Bremen 29, Reavis 28.200 yard Medley Relay: 1. Bremen(Cathy Diddens, Joyce Stadter, Julie Plowman, Karen Adrian), 2 08.0 2. Oak Lawn, 2:12 8. 3. Reavis, 2 13.9. 4, Sand burg, 2:13.9.200 yard Freestyle: 1 Shelly Zygowici (TFS), 2 09 6 2 Macey (CS), 2:13 3. 3 Athy (CS), 2 22 7. 4 Kozyra (R), 2:23 2 5. Fox (OL), 2:26 3 6. Sansone (R), 2 29 2.200 yard Individual Medley: 1. CoryBoyle (OL), 2 35 0. 2 Vos (CS), 2:38 4 3. Plowman (B), 2 39 6 4 . Fisher (R),2 40 2 5 Lynch (CS). 2 44 l 6 Barbosa (R), 2 49 1 50 yard Freestyle. 1. Joann Botterman (TFS), 27 0 2. Adrian (B), 28 2. 3 Maciaga (R), 29 0 4 Peters (CS), 29 1. 5. Carlson (TFS), 29 5 6. Samuelson (CS), 29 9 Diving: 1 Mary Byars (CS), 274 62 2 Bock (R), 261 45 3 Overland (OL), 247.11. 4 Burke (OL), 240 42 5 Moss (R), 225 75 6 Shem (CS), 225 21mO-varr! Ruttprtlv 1 Pf»a W*ntiP7 fOl ).inNorthrBy TONY BAKANEK Awesome. That’s the onlyword to describe the Homewood-Flossmoor’s girl swim team which pounded six other squads to win the SICA North division championship Tuesday evening at Dolton.Kathy Shea, Sue Ahrendt and Helen Lindstrom won twoevents apiece for H-F as the winners took 10 out of 11 to rack up a whopping 312 points. Thornndge finished second, far behind with 236, followed by Thornwood, Richards, Thornton, Eisenhower and Bloom.The only victory denied H-F came courtesy of Thornridge diver Maxine Mastey, whose 256.54 points earned her a win over Carol Kulczyk of Thornwood and teammate SherryFirman.OTHER THAN that, it was all H-F. Shea won the 100 freestyle and backstroke with times of: 58.904 and 1:07.460. Ahrendt swam to victories in the 50 free ( :26.449) and 100 butterfly (1:04.293). Lindstroms’s pair came in the 200 free (2:14.651) and 500 (6:05.775).Other individual winners forH-F were I^urie Scherer, a10 of2:38.895 in the 200 IM and Kitty Voigt (1:22.693) in the 100 breaststroke.In addition, H-F swept both relay events. Shea, Sharon Benigni, Ahrendt and Linda Vax won the 200 medley in 2:05.604, ahead of Thornridge and Richards. Then Vax, Suzanne Shea, Carolyn Duffy and Ruth Wickersham wrapped up the victorious evening with a win in the 400 free in 4:19.775.In a good show of power, H-F landed two swimmers in the top five of every individual eventexcept one. Seconds went to Duffy in the 100 and 200 free, Scherer in the backstroke andBenigni in the backstroke.Thornridge combined Mastey’s diving win plus numerous thirds and fourths torate over the rest of the pack. Brenda Eriksen contributed a third and fourth in the 100backstroke and 200 freestyle with Sally Lynn managing a third in the 100 breaststroke.June Merritt, Diane George, Jan Pawlowski, I,aura Voss, Julie Bloom (twice), Pam Russell and Chris Holleman allearned medals for Thornridge.Thornwood slipped into third with 173 points thanks largely toEventssecond place efforts by Kulczyk (diving) and Lynn Steinberg (100 fly) while a second and third turned in by Kathy Sch-weiger plus a third in the 100 free by Sue Barry gave Richards a 50 point advantage over fifth place Thornton.H-F now holds 10 SICA Northconference records since this was the first event in girls* swimming competition.Lincoln MallSchedulesKarate BoutsThe Bruce I^ee Memorial Karate championships will he held Saturday and Sunday, November 1-2, at Lincoln Mall, with full-contact boutsscheduled on the final dav.wA variety of classes will be contested on November 1, including mini pee wees, pee wees, juniors, women and the following belts— white, green, brown and first, second and third degree black Registration will start at 10 a.m. November 4, preliminary bouts at 10:30 and then the finals.
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