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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.