1 16-C- THE PLAIN DEALER, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1986 6. SCHOOL FOOTBALL Willoughby advances Rebels surprise top-rated Bengals By EDDIE DWYER PLAYOFFS STAFF WRITER Frank Vittori and a superb defensive effort, stunned South, behind the play of fullback REBELS No. 1-ranked Benedictine, 14-7, in a Division II regional championship game yesterday at Finnie Stadium. Rebels (12-0) will face North Canton Hoover in a state semifinal matchup Saturday at 3 p.m. at the Rubber Bowl in Akron.
Hoover defeated Youngstown South, 24-0, last night. played as underdogs all year and thrived on it," said George Ward, the Rebels' senior linebacker and co-captain. "We didn't get much respect early in the season, but today we showed just what team-play can accomplish." Willoughby South defense, as it has done in the Rebels' 11 previous victories, wasted no time in coming up with the big play. On the game's first series, Benedictine passed from its 35-yard line. Ken Hoffert, Willoughby South's senior safety, intercepted at the Bengals' 47 and returned it 19 yards to the 28.
i. Running their option offense to perfection, the Rebels moved 28 yards on eight plays, with Vittori powering off left tackle for a three-yard touchdown. The extra point by Jack Grisdale put Willoughby South on top, 7-0, with 6:42 remaining in the first quarter. felt coming in that we could hurt their 4:4 defense with our option," said Rebels' coach Dan Hoffman. "I don't think there is a better fullback in the area than Frank (Vittori) or a better all-around quarterback than our Darren Muchnicki." Benedictine, which closed its season at 11-1, threatened to tie the score late in the opening quarter.
an interception by linebacker Pat Cosgrove, the Bengals, on the strength of a 25-yard pass from quarterback Preston Hrisko to wide receiver Bob Clark, drove for a first down at the Willoughby South 15.. On fourth-and-five from the 10, Hrisko overthrew wingback Tom: Zdanowicz in the end zone. Taking over on their 10, the Rebels, with Vittori picking up big chunks of yardage inside, marched 90 yards on 17 plays. Vittori capped the drive by scoring on a 10-yard run off the left side with 5:56 left in the first half. Grisdale kicked the extra point to make it 14-0.
Just before halftime, Benedictine moved into scoring position again with Hrisko hooking up with Zdanowicz on a 33-yard pass play to the Willoughby South 14. On fourth-and-three from the seven, Hrisko tried to force a pass to Zdanowicz and it was picked off in T. CONWAY the end zone by the Rebels' Dan Salesky. Willoughby South's Frank Vittori scores the' Rebels' first touchdown on a three-yard run yesterday at Finnie "Our defense just played outstanding," said Hoff- Stadium. The Rebels defeated Benedictine, 14-7, in the Division Il regional championship game.
man. "It has been the heart soul of our club all year. The Bengals are an outstanding football team, they second Benedictine, half, challenged cut us the all adjusting deficit day." to the option attack in the Bengals' Bossu to 14-7 on a nine-yard run has sympathy for players by Hrisko with 11:16 remaining. The score' was set By DICK ZUNT 14-7, in a Division II regional champion- line before a fourth-down pass went out of up by a blocked punt by the Bengals' Cliff Arrington, STAFF WRITER ship game yesterday at Finnie Stadium. the end zone with eight seconds left in giving Benedictine a first down at the Willoughby What do you say to a Benedictine foot- The scores of previous games between first quarter.
The Bengals reached the the South 28. After forcing the Rebels ball team that has just lost its first game of the two schools show that the Rebels won South 7 in the second quarter, but Rebel destructed one more time as to Clark punt, the had Bengals self- the season, ending a string of 11 victories? 6-0 in 1972; 8-6 in 1973 (the year Benedic- defensive back Dan Salesky intercepted a 82-yard return for a touchdown called an apparent "I just told them that I know how they tine won the state Class AA playoff cham- pass in the end zone with three minutes back for clip- feel," said veteran Bengal coach Augie pionship); 28-8 in 1974; and 18-14 in 1975. left. In the Bossu, Ohio's winningest active coach, a "No, I didn't mention those scores to the scoring opportunity flutterea ping. defense came final six with minutes, Willoughby South's man of few words but many victories.
players before the game," Bossu said. away early in the fourth quarter when the victory. up another crucial play to secure Since 1955, his Bengal teams are 234-78-7. "Those games are history." senior Bob Clark's 82-yard punt return into Benedictine on the Rebels' 30, Hrisko was "I told them that although they did not The Bengals' log shows three state play- the end zone was nullified by have a good first half, I thought that they off championships (1973, 1980 and 1981) penalty. 1 a clipping 1: sacked from behind by Willoughby South's Chuck Sponaugle and lost control of the ball.
Following a played "We a had great the second half. and one Associated Press poll crown After the game, the Bengals filed quietly wild scramble, the Rebels' Sean Aborn made the same defensive people on (1957). out of the locker room. "I feel recovery at the the field in the second half, they just played This Benedictine team, sixth in school said Claik, was simply a Bengals' total 35. effort from out much, on the much field." better and made adjustments history to finish with an undefeated regu- Senior Tom Zdanowicz, a flanker (four the team," said Vittori.
"Credit every guy on lar season (10-0), outscored 11 previous catches for 89 yards) and defensive back offensive line. It was more their my blocking yards than to the my loughby Benedictine, South in which five has not defeated Wil- opponents, 279-44, but did not cash in on who never left the field, summed meetings, found itself two first-half opportunities yesterday. "The first half went to them and the things second up: running that got the job trailing, 14-0, at halftime before losing, Benedictine reached the South 10-yard half went to North Canton Hoover gains semifinals, 24-0 By DON FRIEDMAN ousted them from the playoffs last night. and Tim Rupp intercepted passes, David John Murray, who kicked three extra STAFF WRITER "This was our seventh shutout," said Ed Crawford blocked a punt that led to a touch- points and did the Hoover punting, kicked a North Canton Hoover, one of two teams to Glass, the Hoover coach. "We have played down and Brian Ashby recovered a fumble.
state seconds playoff before record intermission 48-yard for field a goal 17 defeat St. Edward this fall, earned a date to great defense all year. That's probably the Their first touchdown in the second quar- 17-0 reason we are where we are today. time lead. play semifinal game Saturday in the Rubber Bowl "It's pressure defense and if the other ter South came punt.
two Hoover plays got after the ball on the blocked War- It was not until the final 2:09 in the Willoughby South (12-0) in a Division II Crawford a game in Akron. team can't drive us out of it, we're going to riors' 37. A 36-yard pass to halfback Tim that Hoover scored again. The Vikings drove make life miserable for them. I felt if we Rupp put the ball inches from the goal line 68 yards and quarterback Joe Dalpra Vikings (11-1), who were state semifi- could keep the heat on South, it would be this and fullback Terry Friel carried in on the sneaked the final yard for a TD.
Dalpra did nalists in 1984, did a solid defensive job in kind of game." an amazing job with a broken thumb on his defeating Youngstown South, 24-0, in a next play with 9:41 to play in the second passing hand. He broke his right thumb regional championship game before 4,100 South had minus 19 yards rushing and quarter. Wednesday, but managed to complete 10 of fans in Baldwin-Wallace's Finnie Stadium picked up 63 passing by completing six of 14 Hoover drove 27 yards in five plays for its 22 passes for 124 yards including the 36- last night. South was the only team to defeat attempts. The Vikings sacked South quarter- second score, Rupp going the final two yards yarder to Rupp.
Canton McKinley until Austintown Fitch back Andre Ballinger five times, Adam Wells with 3:20 left in the half. South finished with a 9-3 record. IN BRIEF Steelers, Bengals fined for fighting FROM WIRE REPORTS Dave (Rambo) Edwards of the burgh Steelers was fined $1,500 by the National Football League for making a late hit during a game with the Cincinnati Bengals and eight of his teammates were fined a total of $3,200 for what followed. An undetermined number of Bengals also were fined for their roles in the Oct. 26 incident that was triggered when Edwards hit wide receiver Tim McGee with a forearm on a pass play near the end of the game, won by the Steelers, 30-9.
All nine Steelers said they might appeal the fines. Locals: CWRU runs to title 4 Ed Menis finished sixth and Bob McCarthy seventh to pace Case Western Reserve to the NCAA Ill Regional cross country championship with 56 points yesterday at Hope College in Holland, Mich. The Spartans, coached by Bill Sudeck, will join runner-up Otterbein (91) in the NCAA finals at State University of New York in Fredonia. with a closing 70 in gusty winds and a 278 total 10 strokes under par. Davis Love III was Australia's Ian Baker-Finch overcame a double bogey on the third hole to maintain a three-shot lead after three rounds of the $275,000 Australian Open at Melbourne, Australia.
Baker-Finch took a doublebogey on the third hole, but managed to finish the day at even-par 72 for a 54-hole score of 9-under-par 207 and a three-stroke lead. 1 Soviet weightlifter Yuri Zaharevich hoisted a total of 448 kilograms (988 pounds) at the World Weightlifting Championships in Sofia, Bulgaria, for, a combined world record in the second heavyweight category. Zaharevich also set world marks in the snatch of 201 kilograms (443 pounds) and the jerk, 248 kilograms (547 pounds). John Julias of 3 Lakewood is one of three Americans competing at the championships. Jennie Longo of France, set an indoor world record in Paris, covering three kilometers (1.8 miles) from a standing start in 3 minutes, 43.49 seconds.
Louisiana State basketball coach Dale Brown said he was optimistic that the NCAA Infractions Committee would treat his team leniently on 20 allegations of wrongdoing. Former major league catcher John Stearns has been hired by the Milwaukee Brewers as a minor-league catching instructor. 4 OBITUARIES Jack Durell, was horticulturist When the Cleveland Board of Education closed the school gardens program in 1978, Jack Durell retired as horticulture teacher and director of the tract garden at Benjamin Franklin School. Mr. Durell, 63, of southwest Cleveland, collapsed and died Friday while crossing Lorain Ave.
to get to the Lorain Branch Library at W. 82nd St. The coroner will rule on the cause of death. Services will be at the Golubski Deliberato funeral home, Garfield Blvd. and Turney Garfield Heights, at 10 a.m.
Wednesday. Durell The horticulturist and botanist taught 37 years in the Cleveland schools. After retiring, he gave lectures in the community and taught a course on herbs to adults in the Cleveland schools. He was born in Cleveland and his horticulture L'ai -5 14 1. education began at West Technical High School, where he studied under the late Albert T.
Haag. He was a graduate of Western Reserve University, with a master's degree in horticulture and mathematics from the university. He taught horticulture at Wade Park, Miles and Benjamin Franklin schools and directed their summer garden programs. He was co-chairman of the fair at the Garden Center of Greater Cleveland: where schoolchildren throughout the city showed their produce at the end of each summer. at Miles, he developed the Zverina Log House Herb Garden across the street on the site of the old Anton Zverina estate.
He and the children grew, many varieties of herbs and contributed thousands of plants to the annual sale of the Western Reserve Herb Society. He was an honorary member of the society and was on its speakers The Herb Society of America gave him a certificate of achievement in 1979 for his years of teaching and working with herbs. The Southeast Kiwanis Club, which helped establish the original Miles school garden, named him 1965 Citizen of the Year. Mr. Durell was one of the first Cleveland teachers to use student assistants.
He was an elder at Old Stone Church and a member of the Garden Center of Greater Cleveland, the Cleveland Audubon Society and the North Coast Photo Fun Club. .1 An aunt, Marion Morelli, survives. Neille Shoemaker, was BW professor Ir Dr. Neille Shoemaker, 77, of Berea, emeritus English professor at Baldwin-Wallace College, died He yesterday had at Southwest General Hospital: complications after emergency gall bladder surgery last month. Memorial services will be T'hursday at 7:30 p.m.
at the BW College Chapel, 56 Seminary Berea. tufa Dr. Shoemaker was chairman of the humanities department when he retired in 1974. He also had headed the BW Humanities Institute from 1966 to 1972. He joined the faculty in 1946 and headed the English department from 1949 to 1966, when he was named head of humanities.
He also had been acting librarian and acting dean of the college. He was a founding member and past president of the National Association of Humanities Education. In 1962, he received the Strosacker Award as teacher of the year and received a Fulbright grant to study the Chinese civilization in Taiwan. The following year, the State Department gave him a grant to study in Egypt and Israel. In 1965, he was named to a State Department commission to study education in Morocco.
He was a consultant for 25 years to Philander Smith College in Little Rock, Ark. A native of Jonesboro, he was a graduate of Hendricks College in that state and earned a master's degree at the University of Arkansas. His doctorate, received in 1949, was from Western Reserve University. In recent years, Dr. Shoemaker taught in the BW Elder Hostel.
He wrote articles on English and American literature and the humanities for professional journals. He was in the Marines in Hawaii and Japan during World War II. His wife, Jeanne, survives. min 10 DEATHS ELSEWHERE FROM WIRE REPORTS ST. CHARLES, Ill.
Rep. John Grotberg, a conservative who was hampered by illness during his first term in Congress, died here. Grotberg, 61, who had been battling cancer for more than a decade, died of bronchial pneumonia and colon cancer. Despite his illness, Grotberg won renomination in the March primary. But he decided to drop his reelection bid in May, and he will be succeeded by J.
Dennis Hastert, a GOP state legislator who won the seat in the Nov. 4 election. Grotberg, a former state legislator, decided to run for Congress in 1984 when Republican Rep. Tom Corcoran gave up his 14th District House seat to unsuccessfully challenge former Sen. Charles H.
Percy in the 1984 primary. Bowling: Sullins triumphs Harry Sullins knocked off top-seeded Walter Ray Williams, 233-194, in the championship game to capture the $135,000 True Value Open at Aleta Sill defeated Dina Wheeler, 238-172, to win the $100,000 Ladies Pro Bowlers Tour Sam's Town National Pro-Am at Las Vegas, Nev. 4 Tennis: Noah gains finals Third-seeded Yannick Noah defeated Kevin Curren, 7-5, 6-3, to gain today's final of the $375,000 Benson and Hedges indoor championships at Wembley, England. Noah will play Jonas B. Svensson, who ousted Libor Pimek, 6-3, 7-6.
Patrick Kubnen beat Jaroslav Navratil, 6-4, 7-6 (7-4), to win the singles title in the $25,000 IBM Open Challenger Series at Helsinki, Finland. Top-seeded Martina Navratilova and seeded Hana Mandlikova will play for the championship of the $150,000 Slims of Chicago tournament today. Navratilova defeated eighth-seeded Zina Garrison, 6-2, 7-5, and Mandlikova outlasted fourth-seeded Pam Shriver, 6-4, 3-6, 7-5. Raffaella Reggi and Sabrina Goles gained today's final of the $75,000 Honda-Virginia Slims World Championship at San Juan, Puerto Rico. Golf: Bean wins in Hawaii Andy Bean scored a two-stroke victory in Hawaii's Isuzu Kapalua International Tournament SEARS YOUR HEADQUARTERS HEARING AID -All-In-the-ear 0144 hearing aid A.
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