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September 10, 1992
Grosse Pointe News
Sports
ULS booters bounce back from a tough loss
By Chuck Klonke
Sports Editor
Outplaymg a team doesn't
always guarantee a VIctory.
UniversIty LIggett School's
soccer team found that out last
weekend when It dropped a 2.1
decISIOn to Notre Dame In the
semifinals of Its four.team mVI.
tational tournament
The Knights bounced back to
beat Mount Clemens 3-2 m the
consolation game to finish
thIrd
Alpena won the tournament
by beatmg Notre Dame 1-0 m
overtime In the champIOnshIp
game. The Wildcats mpped
Mount Clemens 1-0 In the sem.
lfinal
"We outshot Notre Dame 25.
15 and they scored both theIr
goals as a result of free kIcks,"
said ULS coach DaVId Backhurst
"I felt we outplayed
them, but we didn't playas
well as I think we can ..
The Knights will have to be
even better this week as they
go on the road to play two per.
enmal powers m Class B ULS
VIsited Cranbrook on Wednes.
day and IS at Lutheran North
on Friday. Both games are also
Metro Conference contests.
"Those are two of the toughest
teams we'll face this year,
but you improve by playing
teams like that," Backhurst
Said.
Summer camp will help
ULS basketball team
By Chuck Klonke
Sports Editor
Summer camp may pay dIVIdends
in the fall for the University
LIggett School girls basketball
team.
"I took seven of the gIrls to a
team camp at Western Michi.
gan and It was the best thmg
they could have done," saId
coach Anne Bellah, whose team
opens the season Friday at 4
p.m. agamst Lutheran West in
the Ann Arbor GreenhIlls InvI'
tational
"One of the teams we played
was Detroit Kmg and I told the
girls they'd learn a lot from
them. I've been seeing the ben.
efits of the camp m the preseason
and I'm sure I'll see
more when the season starts."
Three starters are returning
for the Lady Knights, mcluding
last year's leadmg scorer, Juhanne
Grant
Grant, a sophomore, can play
pomt guard but wIll probably
see more actIOn in the low post.
"She's such a versatile
player," Bellah saId "She has
good court sense and wIll be
one of our key people down
low."
Grant's twm brother, Joey,
was a starter on the ULS boys
team last winter.
"You can always find them
after practice playmg one-onone,"
Belloh saId.
Jumor Magda ChoJnacka IS
back at pomt guard and sophomore
Stacey Corbin IS a returnmg
starter, who can play a
Local prep sports calendar
Grosse Pointe South
Thursday, Sept. 10
Boys golf vs Edsel Ford, 3 pm
Friday, Sept. 11
Boys soccer at Romeo, 4 p m
Football at Warren Matt. 7 30 p m
Saturday, Sept. 12
GIrls temus at ULS InVItational,
830am
Boys, girls cross country at West
Bloomfield InVItatIOnal, 10 a m
Monday, Sept. 14
Girls tenms vs PH Northern, 4
pm
Boys soceer at Lake Shore, 4 p m
Boys golf at Utica. 3 pm
Tuesday, Sept. 15
Boys and girls cross country WIth
Fraser at Anchor Bay, 4 pm
Girls basketball vs Mount Clemens,
7pm
Wednesday, Sept. 16
Girls tenms at Eisenhower, 4 pm
Boys soccer at G P North, 4 p m
Boys golf vs Warren Matt, 3 p m
Thursday, Sept. 17
GIrlS basketball vs ChIppewa Val
ley, 7 pm
Boys golf at G P North, 3 30 p m
Girls SWImming vs Stevenson, 7
pm
Grosse Pointe North
Thursday, Sept. 10
Boys golf at Anchor Bay. 3 pm
Girls tenms vs Ann Arbor Huron. 4
pm
GIrls basketball vs Regina, 7 pm
Friday, Sept. 11
Eo) ~ 90CCer vs Utica. 4 pm
wmg or low post.
They'll probably be Joined m
the starting lineup by junior
Shona Malkar and senior Amy
Mehr.
Others expected to see con-
Siderable actIOn are senior
Kama Kennedy, Junior Jamila
Hoard, sophomore Melissa Buhalis
and freshman Katherine
Riddle.
"We have a lot of young talent,"
BellaH said. "We'll have
one freshman on the varsity
and another on the JV. Both
should be fine players."
Belloli is counting on determination
to be one of the Lady
Kmghts' strengths this season.
"We're not very tall so we'll
have to work hard on reboundmg.
We're not very fast and we
aren't great at handling the
ball, but the heart they play
with will have a lot to do with
our success," Belloli said. "It's
a hustling team and our three
returnmg starters have good
court sense It's a close-knit
team WIth a lot of hard workers
who want to Improve"
After a season without a
league affilIation, ULS will
play in the Metro Conference
The Lady Knights are m a divisIOn
with Lutheran Northwest,
Lutheran West, Harper Woods
and Hamtramck
"It'll be fun to be competmg
for a league champlOnshlp,"
BelloH saId. "I think we'll be
very competitive"
GIrls temus at ULS rournament,
830am
Boys, girls cross country at West
Bloomfield InVItatIOnal, lOa m
Football at Mount Clemens, 1 p m
Monday, Sept. 14
Boys golf at Romeo, 3 p m
Girls tennis vs ChIppewa Valley, 4
pm
Boys soccer at Mott, 4 p m
Tuesday, Sept. 15
Boys golf vs Ford, 3 p m
Girls basketball vs Lake Shore, 7
pm
Girls SWlmnung vs Dearborn, 7 p m
Boys, girls cross country WIth L'Anse
Creuse at LakeVIew, 4 pm
Wednesday, Sept. 16
Boys golf at Utica, 3 p m
Girls tenms at Stevenson, 4 pm
Boys soccer vs G P South, 4 p m
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Saturday, Sept. 12
Thursday, Sept. 17
Boys golf vs G P South, 3 30 p m
GirlS basketball vs RoseVIlle, 7 p Tn
Thursday, Sept. 10
Boys golf at Southfield Chnstlan, 4
pm
Friday, Sept. 11
Girls basketball at GreenhIlls InVlta
honal
Football vs Lutheran East, 4 15 pm
Boys soccer at Lutheran North, 4
pm
GIrls tenms vs E Grand RapIds, 4
pm
Saturday, Sept. 12
Boys, girls cross country at Algonac
InVItatIOnal, 10 a m
Girls basketball at Greenhills [nVlta
tlOnal
FIeld hockey at Sauk Valley
GIrls tenms vs E Grand RapIds.
ULS has a young team WIth
only four semors on the squad,
and three of them mIssed the
Mount Clemens game because
of injurIes or Illness
"Three of our four defenders,
the stopper, the sweeper and
one of the outSIde defenders,
are sophomores, but they're all
good players," Backhurst Said
Henry Ackerman gave the
Knights a 1-0 lead over Mount
Clemens when he scored on a
rebound with the game onJy
three mmutes old The Bathers
tied the score mIdway through
the first half and It remained 1-
1 at halftime.
Fifteen mmutes mto the sec
ond half Tom SImmonds put
ULS ahead 2-1 when he headed
Jeff Backhurst's corner kIck
mto the net
The Kmghts mcreased the
lead to 3-1 With eight mmutes
left when Matt SpIcer deflected
Pat Moltane's pass past the
Mount Clemens goahe
ULS got a strong game from
sophomore goalkeeper Chns
Adamo, who filled m for semor
Vince Harkms. Harkms hurt
his ankle m the Notre Dame
game
Jeff Backhurst and sopho
more midfielder Frank Tymrak,
who scored the only ULS
goal agamst Notre Dame, were
named to the all.tournament
team
ULS opened the season with
a 6-1 victory over Warren Be.
thesda. Jeff Backhurst scored
twice on penalty kicks and
Omar Sawaf also had two
goals Gary Spicer and Moltane
completed the Kmghts' scoring
Sophomores Tymrak and
Chris Comeau played strong
games for ULS.
Football
A three-yard touchdown run
m the third quarter by St AIphonsus'
Steve RlOs spoiled
University LIggett School's
non-league opener as the Arrows
mpped the Kmghts 14-12
ULS begins Metro Conference
play Friday when lt hosts
Lutheran East at 4 15 P m
On star squad
Terry Shook of Grosse Pointe
Woods IS a defenseman on the
USA All-Star team which wIll
play the CanadIan All-Star
team m a senes of games on
the Roller Hockey InternatIOnal
Tour.
The teams wIll play at Cabo
Arena on Fnday, Sept 11, at
7:30 p.m.
G P North, G P South m ULS Invlta
tlOnal, 8 30 a m
Monday, Sept. 14
Boys soccer at Lutheran Westland,
430pm
Boys golf at Country Day, 4 pm
Tuesday, Sept. 15
GIrls basketball at South Lake, 7
pm
Boys golf at Bmnmgham Groves, 4
pm
GIrls tennis vs Cranbrook, 4 pm
Wednesday, Sept. J6
FIeld hockey at G R Ottawa HIlls
415 p m
Boys soccer vs Lutheran East, 4 30
pm
Thursday, Sept. 17
GIrls basketball vs Roeper, 6 pm
Boys soccer at Lutheran Northwest,
430pm
Boys golf vs Oakland Chnstlan, 4
pm
Girls tennis at Toledo Notre Dame.
430pm
Star of the Sea
Thursday, Sept. 10
Basketball at Holy Redeemer. 7 pm
Tenms vs Oakland Cathohc, 4 p m
Friday, Sept. 11
TenniS at G P North JV. 4 pm
Monday, Sept. 14
Tenms at Royal Oak Shnne, 4 pm
Tuesday, Sept. 15
Basketball vs St Agatha. 7 pm
Thursday, Sept. 17
TenniS vs Farmmgton Mercy. 4 pm
Basketball at Southgate Aquma~. 7
pm
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Hall
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Photo b, K P Bdlaya
Midfielder Frank Tymrak (13) of University Liggett School holds off a Noire Dame player during
the semifinals of the ULSsoccer tournament last weekend.
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straIght NCAA champIOnshIps
It had only been done once be
fore - by 1948 OlympiC cham
pion Wally Rls - until Scholes
accomplIshed the feat
Scholes has hved m the
Pomtes smce 1960 He worked
as a manufacturer's agent for
the automobIle mdustry after
graduatIOn from MIchIgan
State, but IS letired from that
Job
He IS active m the Grosse
Pomte Theatre and has had
parts m teleVISIOn commel clals,
mcluding one as a doctor m an
Arbor Drugs spot He also ap
peared as an extra m the movIe
"Hoffa"
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