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8 Section 4 Chicago Tribune, Sunday, March 23, 1986 High schools s. 1 Teutopolis girls match boys' crovn -S vJj 7 i I' v. Trloun. photo by Walwr ten .1 I The Peoria Manual Rams, who entered the girls' Class AA finals as underdogs, cele- Unheralded walks off with trophy ft By Jerry Shnay Chicago Tribune CHAMPAIGN For two years, Doris Carte's prayers were answered. The answer was always "No!" "Not this year," she vowed.

"I didn't care who we played. I wanted to come back here and win. I wanted revenge." Saturday afternoon at the Assembly Hall, Carte got her revenge and Teutopolis finally won a girls' state basketball championship. Massac County's Patriots from Metropolis were the last barrier; but after losing two consecutive Class A title games, the Lady Wooden Shoes stomped their foes 5944. Not only was this third time a charm, but it also made the close-knit community on the outskirts of Effingham the basketball capital of the state.

Two Saturdays the boys' team won the small-school title. It was the first time in state history a school took the boys' and girls' titles in the same season. Saturday's attendance of 5,030 was the largest for a Class A title game and the second-highest for a girls championship since the two-class system was started in 1980. Carie, the soul of the Shoes' offense, led all scorers with 20 points. Although Saturday's victory was a moment to cherish, she will never forget last year's agonizing two-point loss to Elgin St.

Edward in the final. "I missed a free throw with six seconds left," she recalled. "We could have won the game. I will never forget that, and that's why I wanted to come back this year. No matter what it took, I wanted this victory." Carie has started for the Lady Shoes four years.

As a sophomore, she was heartbroken after a 56-53 overtime loss to Quincy Notre Dame in the title game. But that was easy to take compared to missing that free throw. "I can't describe how I feel," said coach Dennis Koester, whose team wound up 31-1. "You could see it in the girls' faces. They5 weren't about to lose again." That was evident midway though the second quarter when the Shoes, with Carie popping away from 15 to 18 feet, took control.

The Shoes' strategy against the taller Patriots was elementary. Carie was the key, as S-foot-10-inch Beth Niebrugge and 6-foot Sandy Braun were matched against Massac's front line of 6-foot Kandi Sandusky, 6-foot Kathie Foss and 6-2ya Angie Foss. "Coach told me to get the ball inside to Beth and Sandy," Carie said. Niebrugge and Braun had 18 and 12 points, respectively, and each had 10 rebounds. Elgin St.

Edward, last year's state champion, rolled over Pit-tsfield 72-39 in the third-place game. St. Edward raced to a 15-0 lead in the first three minutes and led 42-14 at the half. The Greenwave, embarrassed by Massac County Friday in the semifinals 56-37, had four players in double figures. Beth Hasenmiller scored 17 points, followed by Julie Mousel 15, Yvette Robeson 13 and Anne Rotundo 11.

ft Sheryl Porter of Marshall right and Peoria Manual's Carta McGhee battle for control of McGhee played her best overall game of the tournament "When you get in a tight game you expect your all-stater to perform," Brown said. "To expect anything less, I don't think is giving her the credit she deserves." Porter and Veronica Ross had to handle virtually all of Marshall's offensive load. The veterans of last year's championship team closed out their high school careers with Porter scoring 20 points and Ross 17. "That's been the case most of the year that they've carried the offensive load," Gaters said. A crowd of only 2,578 watched the championship game, the smallest attendance total for a championship game in the tournament's 10-year history.

A crowd of 3,562 APLniptalo a loose ball during Manual's 57-46 victory Saturday night for the Class AA title. watched York beat Richwoods in 1984, the previous low. Marshall, whose biggest first-half lead was four points, hit only eight of 25 first-half shots and scored only five points in the second period. Manual hit 12 of 28 in the half. McGhee, who fouled out of Saturday's semifinal early in the fourth period, had 11 first-half points.

Baker drew her third personal foul with 1:37 to play in the opening quarter. She stayed in the game and had six points and six rebounds before halftime. Guard Valerie Whitford hit 9 of 13 shots for Lincoln 28-2, mostly from the outside, and Aremelder Johnson hit 9 of 12 from the inside to lead the blitz past Richards 24-7. Both finished with 18 points. Shelbyville in Indiana's Final Four brate their first state championship after dethroning Marshall 57-46 Saturday night.

By Linda Young Chicago Tribune CHAMPAIGN Nobody invited Peoria Manual to this party. The Rams entered the Class AA regional tournament unranked and unheralded. They didn't leave until they had their first state championship trophy. Defending champion Marshall was the Rams' final victim in a 27-3 season, falling to Manual 57-46 in the Assembly Hall. "We were confident, but we were kind of scared of Marshall's reputation," said 6-foot-3-inch senior Carta McGhee, who punished the Commandos with 24 points and five rebounds.

"You catch a lot of rumors that Marshall is unbeatable and all that, but we came in and we kicked tail." East St. Louis Lincoln recovered from its 51-46 loss to Manual in the semifinals to bounce Richards 68-37 for third place. Both teams knew if Manual, with McGhee, 6-1 Rissa Taylor, 64 Holly Baker and 5-11 Micah Bingeman, started getting second and third shots, the championship game was over. "We had to keep them in an up tempo, and we didn't do that until it was too late in the game," said Marshall coach Dorothy Gaters, who was trying to coach the Commandos 284 to their third state championship. "We knew we had to do a super job on the boards.

We were a little remiss in that." "We wanted to hold Marshall to an outside game," said Manual coach Dennis Brown. "We wanted them to shoot from the outside and not get second and third shots inside." "The first thing we wanted to do was work the boards, then get the ball inside," said Baker, who sidestepped foul trouble to score seven points. She had 21 points and 20 rebounds in Manual's semifinal victory. "If we weren't open inside, then the girls outside would take the shot," McGhee said. "They knew we'd be inside to rebound." When McGhee hit a driving layup to put Manual up 47-34 with 5:07 to play, Marshall was finished.

The Rams built a 35-26 lead with 3:02 to play in the third period. Monica King hit from the outside to put Manual up by seven, then stole an inbounds pass and drove to the hoop to stretch that lead to nine. Marshall cut the gap back to five behind back-to-back baskets off the fast break by Sheryl Porter, but Manual took a 40-32 lead on McGhee's 3-point play as time expired in the period. Manual, whose only losses came at the hands of No. 1-ranked Peoria Central during the regular season, took its first lead with two minutes left in the first half.

McGhee stole an inbounds pass and hit a layup to put the Rams on top 23-21. i An Williams of Bloom clears 6 feet 4 inches in the jump Saturday in the Oak Park track and field free throw line, hitting 23 of 32 to just five of nine for Warren Central. The Warriors 23-5 were led by Jeff George, the All-America quarterback on Warren Central's two straight football championship teams, with 20 points and DuWayne Futch with 12. At Ft. Wayne, Kyle Persinger stole the ball with 20 seconds remaining and hit the winning free throw with three seconds left to give Marion an 83-82 victory over Michigan City Rogers.

Marion 24-3, the defending state champion, will play Southridge in the Final Four. Southridge was a 60-52 winner over Evans-ville Memorial at Terre Haute. Marion beat Southridge in the state semifinals last year. Marion had to rally from 10 points down at halftime. The game was tied at 82-82 and Rogers had the ball when Persinger made the big steal.

Marshall learns patience pays off Chicago Titan CHAMPAIGN In nine consecutive trips Downstate to the girls' Class AA state basketball tournament, Marshall has built its considerable reputation as a team that loves to run and gun. But the Commandos learned that patience is a virtue Saturday morning in a 44-22 semifinal victory over Richards in Assembly The victory sent Marshall into Saturday night's championship game against Peoria Manual, which rode Holly Baker's 20 points and 21 rebounds to a 51-46 win over East St. Louis Lincoln in the other semifinal. Richards' Bulldogs knew their only chance against the quick, pressing Commandos was to run a delay. They held the ball for the first three minutes before Mechell Reid broke free for a layup.

Then, after Sheryl Porter tied the game with a rebound basket, Richards tried to hold it again. But the Bulldogs turned it over and Porter scored again. Then they turned it over again, and Veronica Ross scored on a layup just before the end the first quarter. Defending state champion Marshall was, for all practical purposes, on its way to its second straight title game. "Part of the strategy of the delay is to prey on the patience of the defensive teams" said Marshall coach Dor othy Gaters.

"I thought we showed pretty good patience." Marshall led 18-7 at halftime, stretched its lead to 29-15 going into the final quarter and pulled away to a 42-19 lead with less than four minutes left. Porter paced the Commandos with 15 points. Ross added 13. Reid had 10 points for the Bulldogs. Manual trailed 38-33 with 7:04 to play when all-state center Carta McGhee went to the bench with her fifth foul.

Baker, a 6-foot senior, took over with eight of her points to rally the Rams. Manual, playing in the title game in its first appearance Down-state, went ahead to stay at 39-38 when sophomore Rissa Taylor hit a jumper from the baseline with 5:28 left. Linda Young Badminton title stays in Palatine Defending state champion Palatine outscored runner-up Prospect 43-33 to win the team title in its own eight-team invitational badminton tournament Saturday. Andrew was third with 29 points, Joliet Central fourth with 25 and Maine West fifth with 22. Led by senior Jeanne Hsieh, coach Kathy Crandall's Pirates Highlights won the No.

1 singles and No. 1 and No. 2 doubles. Hsieh, a member of the state title-winning doubles team last year, went 7-0 in first singles. Other Palatine firsts were by Jenni Rauch and Michele Andre 7-0 in first doubles and Christy Phoebus and Karen McKeown 7-0 in second doubles.

Stacy Spletzcr and Jenny Bregenzer took third doubles for Prospect, and Laura Gallagher and Laura Sterling won fourth doubles. Liesel Krebs 7-0 in second singles and Angel Santoro 7-0 in third singles stood out for Maine West. "It's too early in the season to Kelly high predict when repeat West, always De are Boys' New Trier Green smokes out victories Brian Harrell scored 23 points and Tim Barnard added 21 Saturday night as Shelbyville won its first semistate basketball championship in 39 years with a 73-65 victory over giant-killer Warren Central at Indianapolis. Shelbyville reached the Indiana Final Four for the first time since it won the state championship in 1947. It will play Anderson, a 72-71 winner over Gary Wallace, in next Saturday's semifinals at Indianapolis Market Square Arena.

The Golden Bears 23-3 built a 21-16 lead after one quarter, a 35-26 edge at halftime and stretched the margin to as many as 16 points early in the final period. Warren Central cut the lead to six points with 2:50 to go but could get no closer. Shelbyville had an 18-point advantage at the 1 A I 4 Trtbunt photo meet, but he had to settle for third Reynolds of Naperville North won with a by Shanahan, David Weinberg, Matt Anderson and Tom Dillon before the Dukes' Mike Real made it 4-1, late in the second period. Jamie McRae gave New Trier a 5-1 lead entering the final period. i Steve Carlson scored twice in the' third period, and Dillon and Ander-i son added single goals.

Greg Spittf finished with four assists. New' Trier has outscored opponents 32-3 in its three state tournament' games. York center Mark Esposito, the' Dukes' leading scorer, was held to' one assist Saturday. He had four goals in an 8-2 quarterfinal win Friday over Glenbrook South. Mt.

Carmel held Palatine to two! goals after the Pirates routed Maine South 12-2 in the quarter- finals. "Our defense all year long has! been our strong point," said Kurow, who also had seven of the1 top eight scorers in the Catholic League. "We do have some good defensemen, and they can move the puck up ice." Nick Iaciancio and Chris O'Neill1 scored twice for Mt. Carmel. Mike1 Kennedy.

Todd Puhrmann and' Harry Glover had one goal each. Puhrmann also had three assists. Mt. Carmel, state champ in 1979 under the late John Deuran, ousted 1 defending champion Glenbrook 4 North 5-2 in he quarterfinals. 1 By Tim Tferney New Trier Green hockey players won't be happy if coach Bob Kelly lights a cigarette after Sunday's state championship game against Mt.

Carmel. "I told the guys that if we win, I'd quit smoking," Kelly said after the Trevians' 9-1 semifinal victory Saturday over York at the Franklin Park Ice Arena. New Trier 32-5-1 and Mt. Carmel 38-2-1 face off at 4:30 p.m. Sunday at the Franklin Park rink.

Mt. Carmel advanced to the title game earlier Saturday with a 7-2 triumph over Palatine 29-5. Mt. Carmel is the Catholic League and Kennedy Cup playoff champion. New Trier, the Metro League North Division winner, had lost to Glenbrook North in the Metro title game.

The teams will meet for the first time this season. Mt. Carmel defeated New Trier Green 4-1 in the state quarterfinals last year. "I would say it's a good matchup if you look at it head to head," said Kelly, who guided New Trier East to the 1981 state title and New Trier Green to the top in 1983. "There's not much difference in the teams that play in the last four," said Mt.

Carmel coach Tom Kurow. Saturday, New Trier burned York 38-7 with goals by Doug I ChwlM Ctwnwy place. Bruce jump of 6-6. anything," said Crandall asked if the Knights could as state champions. "Maine Prospect and New Trier are good teams.

West Aurora, Kalb, Willowbrook and Shepard improving rapidly." gymnastics Hinsdale Central Invitational Addison Trail siior Dan Girls' track Des Plalnes Valley League indoor Defending champ Hinsdale South racked up firsts in five events and scored 128 points to 105 for runner-up Willowbrook at Morton. Willowbrook junior Nadine Wille led the individuals by winning the long jump 16 feet 10 inches, 220 yards 26.63 seconds and 440 1:02.14. Wille was second in the 300. Dellert, who finished fifth in the all-around for the Blazers' state champions last year, took first in floor exercise, still rings and parallel bars to claim all-around honors with an 8.26. Jack Dellert, Dan's brother, won the high bars 9.15 and was second in the parallel bars and all-around 8.26, Homewood-Flossmoor's Dan Oakley won the vaulting 9.2 and Glenbard East's Dave Raczynski won on pommel horse..