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Page 10 i Professional Directory The Lone Tree Reporter, December 12, 2 i i , i u Splinters from the Bench....ny Ron Rife Splinters from the Bench Well, the Lone Tree girls and boys snuck a couple of games in on me last week. I knew they had played early in the week and both had lost. I also knew, or thought I knew, that those games were part of the Southeast Iowa Superconference Tournament and that it was going on all week. So, since I knew they had lost, I thought they were done for the week. Much to my pleas- ant surprise, I noticed in the paper Saturday morning that the Lone Tree girls had beaten Pekin on Friday night and then, in Sunday's paper, was a story about the Lone Tree boys beating Pekin on Saturday night. So, congratulations teams. Hopefully, there will be many more wins for you during the year. I also got another surprise on Saturday. I had seen on the school schedule that the Lone Tree wrestling team was going to compete in a tournament in New London on Saturday. So, I took my notebook and camera and headed for New London. When I got there, the coaches seeding meeting was just fin- ishing, but I didn't see Jay Gorsh anywhere. So, I wan- dered into the gym, but didn't see any familiar faces from Lone Tree. I finally tracked down the New London coach and he said he had a call from Jay that morning saying they weren't coming, but he didn't know why. I know they had a JV meet at BGM on Friday night, but thought there would be some wrestlers in New London. Anyway, after I found that out, I came back home, watched some football on TV and then headed for Iowa City and the Iowa men's basketball game. Now, on the Iowa scene, we finally found out where we will be going to play in the bowl game. While it would have been nice to go to Pasadema again, at least this way I won't have to get up at 4:00 a.m. to catch a bus to the Rose Parade area. Also, it will be a shorter drive to the Miami area than it would have been to southern California. It should be quite a game between tow really good teams• USC had its two losses early in the sea- son, to Kansas State and Washington State and has been a really dominating team since. Of course, we all know Iowa's history this year. The thing to keep in mind is that, win or lose, the Hawks have had a great season. They have elevat- ed themselves, for this year at least, into the ratified atmos- phere of the elite. While I agree with Hayden's theory that there is not such thing as a bad bowl, when you get up into the bowl tier where Iowa finds itself this year, the competition is topno- toch. Hopefully, there won't be any Ronnie Harmon like inci- dents this year. The Iowa women's basketball team played a great second half and really laid a know on Iowa State last Wednesday. Then, the Iowa wrestling team did the same to the Cyclones on Sunday afternoon. I told some people after the meet that we all ought to send bills to Iowa State demanding $1.00, because Bobby Douglas chickened out and forfeited the heavyweight match, so we only saw nine instead of ten. That is not the first time I have seen Douglas pull that stunt. In fact, I have seen him do it quite a few times. He had two heavy- weights listed in the program, but didn't send anybody out to face a stomping Steve Mocco. So, Iowa State probably would have lost anyway, maybe even gotten pinned, but at least one of the heavyweights could have tried. A couple years ago, Jim Zalesky sent one of the Fulsaas twins, I don't remember which, very undersized, against Iowa State's Mark Knauer. Fulsaas was actually in the lead when Knauer took a 'Big Eight time- out.' In other words, all of the sudden he got 'injured.' He got a second wind, got lucky on a reversal move and won. Fulsaas was overmatched, but he tried. Iowa State could have shown the same courtq and gumption. You notice called it the Big Eight tuneo and not the 'Iowa State tLr out.' I think it was really pt fected by Oklahoma State Oklahoma• You can bet farm that, when wrestlers fr0 those teams get into a bitS they'll develop an 'injury' tog timeout. People who know what they want shop the classifieds. Mike Zahs, who started the nativity show six years ago, holds up the set that started his collection a half century ago. It was meant to be a hanging ornament for a tree and Zahs joked that "if I had had a set with figures that I could have played with I probably would have stopped right there." Among the newer and more unusual sets is the one fea- turing the nativity as a Native American family, complete with animals from the American west. The tapestry, which depicts the Holy Land, is not exactly a nativity scene, said Zahs, but it is one of the most valued items in the collection, brought back from Palestine in 1908 by Frank Britton.