Canton Observer for September 29, 1988 - Canton Public Library

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Dan O'Meara, Brad Emons editors/ 591 -2312
Thursday, September 29.1988 O&E
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Salem t&ps North
Wendy Shiek of Plymouth Salem returns volley
to Becky Greasier in the No. 2 singles
match Monday. The Rocks and North Farmington
squared off in a key Lakes Division
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contest, with Salem edging the Raiders 4-3.
Shiek went three sets with Greasier before
losing 7-6, 3-6, 6-0. See complete results on
Page 2D.
Salem defense maintains
streak in team's 2-0 win
By Dan O'Meara
staff writer
Plymouth Salem soccer coach Ken
Johnson never worries his team's defense,
and be shouldn't have to for a
long time.
The majority of Rock defenders
are sophomores, but they've already
turned in plenty of impressive performances
for Salem, 8-2.
Their latest effort resulted in
Monday's 2-0 defeat of Farmington
in which the Rocks posted their
fourth consecutive shutout and seventh
straight victory.
Tbe Falcons, wbo have lost only to
Livonia Stevenson, tbe No. 1-ranked
team in Class A, and tbe Rocks,
rated No. 8 in the state, slipped to 4-
2 overall and 1-2 in the Lakes Division.
Salem's Ryan Fitzpatrick, Jake
Baker and Brad Fiach have com-
bined with senior Troy Giacherio to
whitewash the opposition in the last
344 Mi minutes of play. And, of
course, first-year varsity goalie
Matt Tudor — he's a junior — deserves
a large share of tbe credit,
too.
THE ROCKS haven't been scored
on since Plymouth Canton's John
Cortese did so in the second half of a
game played Sept. 12. Salem scored
the last three goals to win 4-2.
"They're like that all the time,"
said Johnson of his defenders.
"Fitzpatrick has played six solid
games — 80 minutes — which is unusual.
.» .
"We take ooe game at a time. We
might get a game when we're unlucky,
but I think we can play with
anybody."
The Rocks got all the scoring they
needed early in the game as senior
Donovan Nichols continued to be Salem's
offensive leader.
He scored the only goals five and
15 minutes into the contest on assists
from Greg Christensen and Marc
Lipke, and the Rocks let the defense
do the rest.
Nichols, a converted defender,
leads tbe team with eight goals and
three assists, and Lipke, a midfielder,
is next with five goals.
"WE WEREN'T on our game tonight,"
said Farmington coach Cathy
Cole, adding the Falcons didn't get
into tbe flow until the second half.
Area players charged
Ptease turn to Page 3
in KSU hazing incident
The fate of three Kent State hockey
players from the Observer A Eccentric
coverage area will be determined
— in part — this morning
when they make a court appearance
In Kent, Ohio, to face charge* on
their roles in a hazing party that resulted
in the hospitalization of a
freshman player.
Kirk Aldridge, a 24-year-old senior
(ram Btoomfield 'Hills,
charged with furnishing beer and in-
; Uqoor to persons under U
A.
that
penalty of six
11.000 One.
months la jail and a
from Livonia, and Brtaa Dawson, It,
rom
a fovththat
carries
I penalties of M days in jail
and a m o fine
hockey
State players charged for a Sept 14
party ta which five freshmen players
were allegedly taken to a boose off
campos and forced to drink a mix
They were
i mohawk-style haircuts
One of the freshmen, Tim Evans,
apparently had a sews reaction to
the alcohol He was transported by
ambulance from the party to the
State health center before
taken to the city hospital. His
to university
officials, leading to the investigation
that raonlted in charges being filed
~ n i auu i w t w Mi u
lla, was tore of ram and beer,
r and tn- then given mohawk-style
under 21 One of the fr^unen
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5 SI. incident p r o m K e n t Stilts
pr—tdenf Michael Schwartz to canhockey
season and call for a
conduct cenrt to investigate
A group of faculty
review campus police
reports before deciding the fate of
the players. Possible penalties include
revoking their scholarships
and ordering their expulsion from
school. * *
IN A PREPARED Statement regarding
the future of Kent State
hockey. Schwartz said: "Based on the
Information provided to me, I do not
believe this program is an acceptable
representative of oar univmHy
or oar athletic program in general.
Consequently, I have suspended the
program for a year and will review
its future at a later date."
• Aldridge, a center, was the Golden
scorer a year ago,
setting school records for goals (41)
and points (12). He added 41
Wiljanen, a forward, had st
and 11 assists for 17 points aa
e
son, also a forward, collected i
goals and 14 assists for lPpotats.
Lakes football crown
on line next 3 weeks
THEY ARE KNOWN as the
Three Rs — and they're
not reading, writing and
arithmetic.
No, they are the Rocks. Raiders
and Rockets, and all three are participants
in the final countdown to
determining the Lakes EM vision football
champion.
Tbe preseason is officially over
for these teams. The race begins in
earnest Saturday.
The championship will decided
over the course of the next three
weekends when North Farmington
(Raiders), Plymouth Salem (Rocks)
and Westland John filenn (Rockets)
battle each other. .
The curtain rises on Part One of'
this three-act play at 1 p.m. Saturday
when North is host to Salem. In
the following weeks, the schedule
has Glenn at Salem on Friday. Oct.
7. and North at Glenn on Friday. Oct.
14.
MEANWHILE, ON the other side
of the Western Lakes Activities Association,
it's difficult for anyone to
argue against Farmington Harrison
being a lock to win its seventh
straight Western Division crown,
even though three games remain to
be played. We'll have more on this
later.
All three Lakes contenders are undefeated
— 4-0 overall and 2-0 in the
division. That will definitely change
in the coming weeks, but how much
remains to be seen.
As was tbe case last year, we
might not have a clear winner after
three head-to-head confrontations.
For tbe second year in a row, the
division race could result in another
three-way tie. That happened last
season when North beat Livonia Stevenson.
Stevenson beat Glenn and
Glenn beat North.
The tiebreaker — which went to
the Rockets, who went on to beat
Harrison in the league final — is the
highest playoff point average, which
brings us to another key aspect of
these showdown games.
Tbe Michigan High School Athletic
Association released its first tabulation
of computer rankings this week,
and the Raiders, Rocks and Rockets
will be jockeying for a possible
playoff berth, too.
BIG BONUS points will be on the
•
Dan
O'Meara
line each week as the Lakes trio enters
the sweepstakes portion of the
'88 schedule North and Glenn are in
Region III of Class A, Salem Region
D.
While all three are unbeaten, their
four opponents to date are a combined
4-12. Glenn has won its last
three games by shutout, bot those
vanguished foes represent an 0-12
record. Thus, winning the big games
will be crucial.
The Salem-Nortb contest should
be a rock'em-sock'em, grind-it-out
struggle. Both are running teams
first and foremost.
The Raiders are capable of running
over teams with Joe Sturtz at
tailback, and the Rocks are once
again a potent offensive machine
with quarterback Ryan Johnson running
the wishbone. If be doesn't keep
it, he can give tbe ball to fat Bowie,
Steve Burlison or Mike Jarvey.
But the feeling here is the pass
will play a big role, which heightens
the anticipation of tbe unexpected.
Johnson, as well as his North counterpart,
Mike Filipovich, have
thrown the ball for big gains when
the situation demanded it.
DEFENSE SHOULD be tbe determining
factor, however, and all
three teams stack up pretty well in
Big bonua points will
be on the line each
week aa the Lakea trio
enter a the
aweepatakea portion of
the '88 achedule. North
and Glenn are in
Region III of Claaa A,
Salem Region II.
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terms of point differential. North
has outscored four opponents 117-13.
Salem 108-33 and Glenn 111-14. ' |
_ As for the Western Division rape,
it doesn't look like there is one. «*
Harrison is 2-0 while all others
have at least one loss. Moreover, the
Hawks have crushed the two teams
that were supposed to offer the most
opposition, Northville and Livonia
Franklin, the last two weeks. The
combined score was 73-14.
Harrison, 4-0 and rated No. l.in
Class B, has to play Walled Lake
Western, Plymouth Canton and Livonia
Churchill — teams with a 4*9
record altogether.
That's how it looks on paper, bot
coach John Herrington takes a more
serious approach. The Hawks aren't
assuming anything
"You only play nine games, and
we work the year round," Herrington
said, "so we'fOTrot-going to let np
in any of those nine.
"WE'RE GOING to remind the
kids about Northville and try to keep
them up for each game."
Herrington was referring to last
year's game with the Mustangs in
which the Hawks narrowly avoided
defeat, squeezing by as 7-0 winners.
And, there's always the 1984 ga&e
against Churchill in which the
Chargers upset heavily favored Harrison.
Churchill is 2-2 and probably
has the best chance of tbe remaining
three to topple tbe Hawks.
Franklin coach Armand Vigna,
however, knows bow difficult it will
be for either Western, Cantoo or
Churchill to do that The Hawks tun
quarterback Mill Coleman loose and
ravage opposing defenses with their
awesome passing game.
"We started last February
(for this game)," Vigna said. "If
you want to be champs, you've got to
beat this ieam. We're just not good
enough.
"Anything can happen. But, just
like for us, you've got to beat Harrison,
and I just don't see anybody in
our division. He (Herringtoo) is the
favorite until someone figures out
how to do it"
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