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LCHS girls vs. Lanphier

[DEC. 13, 2000]  Lanphier’s girls braved the roads yesterday to come to Lincoln and compete in a high school basketball game. Lincoln beat Lanphier 62-46.

Oller led Lincoln’s charge with her 18 points. She made six field goals and six free throws. Cook and Humbert were right behind Oller with 15 and 13 points respectively. Cook had seven field goals and one free throw, while Humbert had five field goals and three free throws. Ingram scored two 3-pointers for Lincoln’s team to earn a total of six points. Johnson made one field goal and three free throws, or five points. Whalen shot three free throws, and Bunch had two free throws. As a team, Lincoln scored 21 field goals, 18 free throws and 62 points.

 

Nolden scored Lanphier’s only 3-pointer of the game. In total, Lanphier of Springfield scored 18 field goals, nine free throws and 46 points.

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Mount Pulaski boys vs. Clinton

[DEC. 13, 2000]  Clinton High School braved the roads yesterday to play a boys basketball game in Mount Pulaski. Clinton beat Mount Pulaski 68-54.

Brown and Anderson led Mount Pulaski. Brown made 15 points for his team with six field goals and three free throws. Anderson made 13 points for Mount Pulaski with five field goals and three free throws. Gieseke assisted Mount Pulaski with three field goals and two free throws, or eight points. The rest of the individual scores are as follows: Blaum 2-1-5, Schlitt 2-0-4, Clark 1-1-3, Davis 1-0-2, Hudson 1-0-2 and Deibert 1-0-2. The team made 22 field goals and ten free throws, or 54 points altogether.

Clinton players Smith and Whitted made one 3-pointer each. The team made a total of 20 field goals, 26 free throws and 68 points.

Mount Pulaski’s junior varsity team just about doubled Clinton’s junior varsity team’s score: 74-38.

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There are lots of extra incentives for doing your holiday shopping in Lincoln this year. Making purchases at the following businesses could be your ticket for $5000 cash and other prizes.

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Abe's
Advanced EyeCare
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Becherer's Jewelry
Big R of Lincoln
Blue Dog Inn
Bruns Service Center
Burwell's Travel Plaza
CEFCU
Century Dental
Claire's Needleworks
The Courier
Coy's Car Corner, Inc.
Curves for Women
Eckert's, Inc.

Family Custom Cleaners
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Family Medical Center
GB Oil
Gossett's Decorator Studio
Graue, Inc.
Graue Pharmac
Green Oil Inc. -
   Kickapoo Mini Mart
Guzzardo's Italian Villa
Harris-Hodnett Agency, Inc.
Illico Apollo Mart
J C Penney Catalog Sales
Kathleen's Hallmark
Key Printing
Lincoln Daily News.com
Lincoln Furniture
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Lincoln IGA
Lincoln Medical Equipment
Lincoln Printers
Lincoln Public Library
McEntire's Appliance
McQuellon's Appliance
MediaOne
Meier Accounting
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Merle Norman Cosmetics
Mission Mart
MKS Jewelers
P & M Communications
Row Motor Sales
State Bank of Lincoln
Steak 'n' Shake
Tarter Brothers, Inc.
The Mustard Moon
The Other Side of the Fence
The Restaurant at the Depot
Three Roses Floral
U.S. Office Products
Wibben Computer Services
Jane Wright State Farm Insurance
Xamis Ford Lincoln Mercury

Sponsors only, no tickets:
Edward Jones Investments & Dr. Robert Miller, DMD

Winning tickets will be drawn on Sunday, December 17, at 5:00 p.m. at the Logan County Courthouse Square. Winning ticket holders must be present to win.


Mount Pulaski, Carroll Catholic in Class 8A tourney

[DEC. 11, 2000]  Mount Pulaski and Carroll Catholic’s junior high girls basketball teams competed in the Class 8A state tournament in Jacksonville this weekend. Mount Pulaski played Washington Central and lost 29-25. Carroll Catholic beat St. Matthew’s of Champaign, 29-28.

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LCHS girls vs. Quincy

[DEC. 11, 2000]  Lincoln Community High School hosted Quincy’s girls basketball team on Friday afternoon. Lincoln was down in the first quarter and just slightly behind Quincy in the second and third quarters, but the Lady Railspitters rallied in the fourth quarter to win 42-37.

All four 3-pointers in the game went to Lincoln. Ingram scored three 3-pointers and Bunch scored one. Oller made over a quarter of the team’s points, with one field goal and 10 free throws. The next highest scorer was Ingram, with her three 3-pointers. The rest of the individual scores were as follows: Humbert 3-1-7, Bunch 1-3-6, Cook 2-0-4, Dawson 1-0-2 and Johnson 0-2-2. The team made 11 field goals and 16 free throws for their 42-point total.

Quincy made 14 field goals and nine free throws to make 37 points.

The Lincoln and Quincy junior varsity teams also faced off. Lincoln doubled Quincy’s score: 52-24.

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LCHS boys vs. Peoria Manual

[DEC. 11, 2000]  Lincoln Community High School’s boys basketball team competed in Peoria this past weekend against Peoria Manual. Peoria won 74-67.

Lincoln had a total of eight 3-pointers: two by Tungate, two by Williams and four by Alexander. Alexander led Lincoln with four 3-pointers, five 2-point field goals, six free throws and 28 points. Tungate made three 2-point field goals in addition to his 3-pointers, three free throws and 15 points. Williams made two 3-pointers, two 2-point field goals, three free throws and 13 points. Schrader made four field goals, or eight points. Schonauer made two points. Altogether, Lincoln made 23 field goals, 12 free throws and 67 points.

Peoria Manual had four 3-pointers, 20 2-point field goals, 22 free throws and 74 points.

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Illini Central vs. Buffalo Tri-City

[DEC. 11, 2000]  Illini Central invited Buffalo Tri-City to Mason City this past weekend to compete in a high school boys basketball game. Illini Central creamed Tri-City 78-48.

Fletcher scored two of Illini’s three 3-pointers. Mulford scored the other one. Arnold scored almost a third of the team’s points, with 24. He had nine field goals and six free throws. The other individual statistics were as follows: Miller 7-0-14, Grimsley 4-4-12, Fletcher 3-2-10, Deters 3-0-6, Hankins 1-3-5, Mulford 1-0-3, Cunningham 1-0-2 and Scott 1-0-2. The team’s total statistics were 30 field goals, 15 free throws and 78 points.

Tri-City made two 3-pointers, 16 field goals, 10 free throws and 48 points.

In the junior varsity match, Illini Central also beat Tri-City, 64-49.

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LCC vs. Indiana University East

[DEC. 11, 2000]  Lincoln Christian College traveled to Upland, Ind., this past weekend to beat Indiana University East. The Preachers "started off the game in a lackadaisical manner, especially defense," says coach Randy Kirk. At halftime, the score was 47-38, Lincoln. Kirk added, "The good news is that we got some other scoring opportunities from people like Donnie Bowman and Toni Okusami." In the second half, Lincoln scored 55 points, and Indiana East scored 48 points. The final score of the game was 102-86.

Coach Kirk noted Matt Clark for his scoring and all-around play, including four steals, five assists and one turnover. He also made three 3-pointers, 10 2-point field goals and seven free throws, yielding 36 points for his team. Lincoln had four more 3-pointers: two by Jake Raymer and one each by Josh Weber and Donnie Bowman. Donnie Bowman made 18 points for his team with his one 3-pointer, four field goals and seven free throws. Dante Watson almost matched Bowman with 17 points. Watson made eight field goals and one free throw. Antoni Okusami had five field goals, two free throws and 12 points. The rest of the individual scores were as follows: Jake Raymer, 3-0-8, Zach Below 3-0-6, Josh Weber 1-0-3 and Aaron Johnson 1-0-2. Altogether the team made 37 field goals, 17 free throws and 102 points.

Indiana University East scored 14 3-pointers, 16 2-point field goals and 12 free throws to reach its 86 points.

The Preachers travel to central Wisconsin Saturday to play Northland Baptist.

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Lincoln College basketball

[DEC. 11, 2000]  Balanced scoring led the Lincoln College men's basketball team to the championship of the Shawnee Classic tournament Saturday and Sunday. The victories give the Lynx a 10-2 record for the season. Lincoln defeated the host Shawnee squad, 83-70, Sunday afternoon. Lincoln handed Rend Lake a 79-60 setback in a Saturday night contest.

Three players, Jay Bates, Brian Moffitt and Eric Crockrell, all scored 18 points to pace the Lynx Sunday against Shawnee.  Also contributing double figures for coach B. J. McCullum was Marlon Brooks with 13 points.  

Lincoln held a 47-30 lead at halftime, thanks to 61 percent shooting from the floor (19 of 31).  Shawnee was limited to 40 percent shooting in the first half (12 of 30).  The Lynx held a 40-29 rebounding advantage with Crockrell leading the way with 10 boards. Jay Bates and Crockrell were both credited with four assists. Lincoln finished the game with 53 percent shooting (31 of 58) and Shawnee was 43 percent (26 of 60).

Against Rend Lake, Lincoln made 15 of 23 first-half shots for 65 percent; however, they led only 37-29 at halftime. Lincoln cooled off in the second half (18-34); however, the Lynx netted 42 points to pull away from Rend Lake. The losers made 11of 28 second-half shots for 39 percent. Lincoln again dominated the boards, 42-32, with Crockrell pulling down 11 to lead the way.  Bates once again had four assists for the Lynx.

Lincoln College (83) — Jerron Hobson 2-8-1-2-6; Michael Whrle 0-0-4-4-4; Terry Reed 0-0-0-2-0; Gene Reed 0-0-0-0-0; Jay Bates 6-8-6-9-18; Ryan Brinker 1-3-0-0-2; Marlon Brooks 6-14-0-0-13; Andrew Kehr 0-0-0-1-0; Michael Sams 2-3-0-0-4; Brian Moffitt 9-15-0-0-18; Eric Crockrell 5-6-8-10-18; Brian Thorsen 0-1-0-0-0.  Totals: 31-58-19-28-83.  Three-point goals: Hobson, Brooks.

Shawnee College (70) — Steve Payne 0-1-0-0-0; Chad King 2-5-1-2-6; Mylon Betts 0-4-0-0-0; Shaun Moore 4-6-2-3-10; Caleb Swansey 1-2-3-7-5; Ricky Green 7-11-2-4-22; Cedric Lowery 1-7-2-2-4; Riko Nelson 0-5-0-0-0; Bo Hargott 5-8-1-1-11; Scott Mattingly 3-4-0-0-6; Ronald Watson 2-6-0-0-4; Tommy King 1-1-0-0-2.  Totals: 26-60-11-19-70.  Three-point goals: King, Green 6.

Lincoln College (79) — Hobson 2-7-0-0-4; G. Reed 2-2-1-2-5; Bates 5-8-3-4-13; Brinker 4-6-0-0-10; Brooks 6-14-2-4-15; Sams 0-2-0-1-0; Moffitt 4-6-0-0-8; Crockrell 9-11-4-5-22; Thorsen 1-4-0-2-2.  Totals: 33-57-10-18-79.  Three-point goals: Brinker 2, Brooks.  

Rend Lake (60) — O'Connor 0-1-0-0-0; Goughenour 0-2-2-2-2; Smith 2-8-3-5-8; Willett 2-8-3-5-7; Burkett 2-4-3-4-8; Taylor 3-6-1-2-8; Heinzmann 1-3-0-0-3; Hearn 1-6-0-0-2; Smith 3-7-2-4-8; Matthews 2-3-0-0-4; Tucker 2-6-0-0-4; Kirkpatrick 2-4-2-2-6.  Totals: 20-58-16-24-60.  Three-point goals: Smith, Burkett, Taylor, Heinzmann.

[Bill Martinie, Lincoln College sports information director]

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Lincoln College swimming

[DEC. 11, 2000]  Alex Blanch and Ramiro Palmar were named co-MVPs of the Lincoln College invitational swimming meet at Lincoln over the weekend. Blanch and Palmar led the Lynx swimmers to the title in the men's division with 737 team points. Millikin University of Decatur finished second with 344 points in the five-team event.

Millikin won the women's title with a total of 479 points, edging Genesee Community College with 416 points. The Lady Lynx swimmers had 355 points to place fourth.  Pola Schadendorf of Genesee was the MVP in the women's division.

Placings for the Lincoln College men were:

200-yard medley relay — First (Zach Welch, Jacob Sexton, Nick Colberg, Herman Wilcher), 1:44.89

200 IM — 1. Ramiro Palmar, 2:02.49; 2. Alex Blanch, 2:07.38; 4, Jacob Sexton, 2:11.90; 5. Doug Zimmer, 2:14.38.

500 freestyle — 2. Keith Tobin, 5:05.19; 3. Nick Colberg, 5:13.71; 5. Ryan Flanagan, 5:33.75

100 breast stroke — 1. Palmar, 1:00.88; 2. Welch, 1:03.66; 3. Doug Garofalo, 1:05.97.

200 backstroke — 1. Zimmer, 2:16.12; 2. Bobby Richardson, 2:18.51.

100 freestyle — 1. Sexton, :50.64.

400 IM — 1. Welch, 4:28.47; 3. Garofalo, 4:49.95.

200 butterfly — 1. Colberg, 2:12.06; 3. Richardson, 2:29.12.

800 freestyle relay — 1. (Welch, Blanch, Tobin, Palmar), 7:37.82.

One-meter diving — 1. Justin Thompson, 394.10; 2. Sean Calhoun, 377.25.

Three-meter diving — 1. Calhoun, 382.35.

400 medley relay — 1. (Palmar, Welch, Blanch, Sexton) 3:47.80; 3. (Garofalo, Zimmer, Richardson, Wilcher), 4:05.39.

1,650 freestyle — 1. Federico Gentry, 17:52.12; 2. Colberg, 18:02.02; 3. Ryan Flanagan, 19:36.98.

200 freestyle relay — 1. (Sexton, Wilcher, Blanch, Palmar), 1:30.88; 3. (Zimmer, Richardson, Garofalo, Gentry), 1:38.33.

50 freestyle — 2. Wilcher, :22.95; 3. Sexton, :23.17.

100 backstroke — 1. Blanch, :58.32; 2. Zimmer, 1:03.43; 3. Richardson, 1:04.47.

200 freestyle — 2. Gentry, 1:56.23.

200 breast stroke — 1. Garofalo, 2:24.95; 2. Tobin, 2:26.11.

100 butterfly — 1. Blanch, :54.82; 2. Palmar, :55.16; 3. Welch, :56.58; 5. Wilcher, 1:01.18.

400 freestyle relay — 1. (Sexton, Wilcher, Blanch, Palmar), 3:23.19; 2. (Welch, Colberg, Tobin, Gentry), 3:32.14; 3. (Richardson, Flanagan, Zimmer, Garofalo), 3:39.79.

Placings for the Lincoln College women were:

200 medley relay — 3. (Emily Sansale, Kristen Jones, Liz Wilson, Kristen Holtane), 2:07.73.

200 IM — 3. Jones, 2:31.68.

500 freestyle — 3. Sansale, 5:53.06.

100 breast stroke — 2. Holtane, 1:22.14; 6. Wilson, 1:27.44.

200 backstroke — 2. Jones, 2:22.46.

100 Ffeestyle — 2. Holtane, 1:01.48; 3. Bonnie DiFoggio, 1:03.90.

400 IM — 1. Wilson, 5:40.97.

800 freestyle relay — 2. (Wilson, DiFoggio, Sansale, Jones), 9:07.30.

400 medley relay — 3. (Sansale, Jones, Wilson, Holtane), 4:47.34.

1,650 freestyle — 1. Sansale, 20:14.36.

200 freestyle relay — 2. (Lindsey Luhtala, Tamara Campion, DiFoggio, Holtane), 1:59.34.

50 freestyle — 2. Holtane, :27.99; 4. Luhtala, :29.87; 5. DiFoggio, :29:95.

100 backstroke — 2. Jones, 1:06.82.

200 freestyle — 2. DiFoggio, 2:25.72; 3. Luhtala, 2:28.88.

200 breast stroke — 3. Sansale, 2:59.37.

100 butterfly — 4. Wilson, 1:15.40.

400 freestyle relay — 1. (Holtane, Wilson, Sansale, Jones), 4:07.05.

[Bill Martinie, Lincoln College sports information director]


Lincoln College wrestling

[DEC. 11, 2000]  Dave Tackett, wrestling for coach Dave Klemm of Lincoln College, finished second in the Triton tournament this past weekend. Matt Veach, Lincoln, finished third in the competition. No team scores were kept in the tourney.

Tackett, wrestling at 149 pounds, lost the title match to Dan Hawley of Niagra, N.Y., 9-4, to place second overall. Veach defeated Brian Jones, also of Niagra, N.Y., 7-3, to earn his third-place finish. Fifteen schools competed in the two-day tournament at Triton College.

[Bill Martinie, Lincoln College sports information director]

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