| Summary: | Page 13 • December 4, 1987 • THE CONCORDIAN SPORTS Cobs take third in tourney by Jim MacFarlane staff writer Concordia College's hockey team had its first taste of MI AC action last week, participating in the annual Thanksgiving Hockey Tournament at the Bloomington Community Ice Gardens. While most people were eating turkey and mashed potatoes, the Cobbers were busy skating their way to a third place finish. The Cob-bers defeated the Bethel Royals 5-0, lost to the St Thomas Tommies 5-2, and came back to win 6-5 over the Augsburg Auggies in overtime. Fine play from Cobber defensemen and aggressive backchecking and forechecking up front by the forwards enabled Con-cordia to dominate play against the Royals. Concordia defensemen not only presented their defensive skills, but also showed that they might be an important part of the Cobbers of-fensive scheme this season. Freshmen defensemen Mark Stilwell and Corey Hansen each con-nected for their first goals in a Cob-ber jersey. Stilwell started the scor-ing with a blast from the right point early in the first period, while Hansen's came midway through the second with assists going to John Bowkus and Bruce Elson. Sand-wiched between the two freshmen's goals was senior defensemen Brad Lacomy's tally at the 10:44 mark of the first period. Concordia's forwards got into the action in the third period con-tributing two goals to the Cobber cause. Sophomore John Kozicki scored from in close at the 4:07 mark giving Concordia a 4-0 lead. Brett Erdmann finished the scoring the barrage in the first period off a minutes later firing a shot past the nice set-up by John Town. Augsburg Bethel goalie: battled back scoring two Goaltender Ron Fee came up with unanswered goals. The second the shutout stopping all 22 Bethel period opened with a 2-1 Auggie shots he faced. lead. "We played well, everyone con- Concordia came right back in the tributed and did what they were sup- second period as co-captain Rob posed to," said coach Steve Deics ever.ed the score at 2-2. Baumgartner. "It was good to see Minutes later Wahlund found net our team playing so well as a unit." giving him his first of three goals and Second round action saw the Cob- the Cobbers the lead. The see-saw bers pitted against the always tough battle continued as Augsburg tied Tommies of St. Thomas. Concordia the score again, came out flying early, and were The Cobbers came out fast in the rewarded for their hustle as John Bowkus scored within the first three minutes. St ix M / o o nnnrJ fn Thomas evened « WBS QOOQ 10 see our team m so well as unit the score later as JeffJatton chalk-ed up his first of three goals. Co-captain Brian Johnston gave the Cobbers their se-third looking to put the game away as Wahlund scored his second goal with just 1:26 gone in the period. Augsburg persisted in mak-ing a game out of it when Dallas Milller scored two goals only 40 seconds apart, ac- Brenda Dames Jessica Beachy (24), Jillayne Quashnick (22), and Nancy Jacobson show defensive footwork that resulted in 32 turnovers by the Bulldogs jn the opening game. Lady Cobs prepared for conference foes cond lead of the night minutes later counting for the fourth lead change slapping a backhand past the Tom- of the game. Concordia fought back mies netminder. tying the score midway through the The second period belonged to third period as Wahlund completed St. Thomas as the Cobbers came his hat trick and sent the game into out flat, unable to match their first overtime. period temp. Hatton completed his Kozicki continued his pattern of hat trick scoring the two lone goals scoring key goals as his unassisted of the period for a Tommie one-goal goal with only 1:07 gone in the over-lead, time gave the Cobbers the much- Third period play was a repeat of deserved victory, the second as Concordia couldn't Concordia has a chance to muster an attack and St. Thomas redeem their loss to St. Thomas as padded their lead by two more goals, they head down to Minneapolis for John Kozicki and Garnet a two-game series against the Tom- Wahlund led the way for the Cob- mies this weekend. The games will bers in their third place victory, con- be broadcast on KORJ) radio at tributing five of the six goals scored 7:25 Friday night, and 2:25 Satur-against the Auggies. Kozicki started day afternoon. by Heidi Ertman sports reporter Freckles aren't very sporting at all Please, Don't Take Me SeriousLee by Lee Carlson "Freckles," she said. Bizarre sug-gestions for column topics had come my way before, but this was ridiculous. How was I going to tie this in to sports? I sport a few friend-ly freckles on my face so I guess that will have to do as far as qualifying for space in the ol' column. It certainly was a bizarre sugges-tion, but I should've expected it from the surroundings. I was in a bar. Don't get the wrong idea, it was the first time and rrtost likely the last. I had heard stories about those places but I never believed it could be that bad. "Come on," everybody had said. "It is fun and you get to meet new and exciting people." It sounded harmless enough so I decided to give it a try. Never again. Good grief, there were people drink-ing alcohol left and right, and then on top of that to be accosted by this female. Her suggestion wasn't even that good. How do you milk a column's worth of top-notch material out of freckles. They only look good on lit-tle kids. Well, I guess I should take that back because I have had some compliments on my freckles in re-cent years. Then again you must realize that anyone who can get close enough to see rriy freckles pro-bably has a poor definition of "cute." I had never really considered them cute. On the school bus dur-ing my fifth grade year, a highly im-pressionable stage,sI ran into a high schooler who threw me for a loop. "Hey, you got fly crap on your nose." Good God! What's a poor kid sup-posed to think. My folks always had stressed the importance of presen-ting a respectable appearance. Every morning would be the same: a clean pair of underwear with no holes and then Mom would slap a little spit on the hair to make it stay down. What was I supposed to do now? I slumped in the seat and desperately tried to figure out how the hideous matter could have located itself upon my face. The bike, that had to be it. My older brother Phil had warned me. Like all ejder siblings, he had heard the calling and imparted some wisdom to his little brother about a life-and-death matter. "Lee," he said, "it's simple. You get boogers because when you're riding your bike, flies go up your nose and then they just sorta . change." It sounded logical enough to me. Flies are bugs and "bugs" is spelled like booger, kinda. It really wasn't important to study the linguistics of the matter but at least 1 could figure out how the stuff got there. I must have sped past the grove a little too fast on the trusty Huffy. They didn't go up the nose but they must have hit relatively close to the nostrils and then splat-tered. You'd think a guy would notice that when he was brushing his teeth. I guess that explains why I hadn't noticed it before. I made it to the house and scampered upstairs to the bathroom before my brother "told me so" and my mother could "scold me so." I looked in the mirror and took my glasses off to get a real good inspec-tion. I didn't see any fly crap. I saw freckles. "That's okay," said Dad, "I got 'em too." Great! I'll be set for good now. Ac-tually I was less than thrilled.I had never referred to my Dad as "cute." An older neighbor told me that I had been out in the rain and my face rusted. He laughed. I laughed too.because he was older than me and his kid was supposed to be my best friend. Later on, I thought about it and I changed my mind. He was a jerk. His damn kid didn't have any freckles and I bet he didn't think my Dad was cute either. I kicked in the thermometer on the side of their hog barn because it was rusty. He must have left it out in the rain.ha ha ha. Yeah, freckles might be cute on little kids but so are missing teeth. Neither subject thrills me ^it this moment. A couple of days ago I had all four of my wisdom teeth cut out. Never again! 1 think it was lucky that it was • See page 14 The Lady Cobbers ended a tough opening non-conference schedule with a 2-1 record. A 80-65 loss to North Dakota University was sand-wiched between victories over University of Minnesota-Duluth, 84-64, and ^loorhead State Univer-sity, 107-78. The Lady Cobbers opened against the UMD Bulldogs, a Division II school. ' "We played well against a talented team," said head coach Duane Siverson.'The ladies executed the defense, outrebounded and out-hustled them. The constant pressure wore them out, giving us the oppor-tunity to capatilize on our fast break." The preseason did have some set-backs for the Lady Cobbers. By the second day of practice a half dozen players were sidelined with injuries. Starting center Patty Kubow joined the ranks four days before the first game and Sandi Leines is still out with a swollen disk while MaryLee Legried has been playing with a broken finger. "Being nearly injury-free for four years and then being hit with six is hard to take," said Siverson, "but the rest of the team picked up the slack and responded well in the first game." Seniors returning for the team this year included Jessica Beachy, Chen Beyer, MaryLee Legrid and Nancy Jacobsen. "We'll be looking for a lot of teamwork on the court from these players," said Siverson. "That's one of our strongest assets, we work as a team. The ladies are committed to the philosophy of teamwork. You don't win a game with individuals." The team hosted the NDSU Bison last Friday and saw the end of a 30-game home winning streak. 'The loss to NDSU was no feather in our cap," said Siverson. "You have to realize that they're a Divi-sion II school and an excellent ballclub. The loss gave us a good look at our weaknesses." "We played hard, aggressive ball the first half," said Legreid, "but our intensity broke down in the third quarter. They scored some buckets, and then they really took it to us. We lost to a tremendous team." The Lady Cobbers seemed to recover quickly and the following night the game was all Cobbers as they destroyed the host Dragons 107-78. "The kids responded well to the defeat," said Siverson. "They ac-cepted the outcome and came back ready for the game against MSU. The ladies played the kind of ball they are capable of. We held them to 30 points in the first half and we played aggressive in addition to shooting 57 percent from the field." The team showed a well-balanced attack, keeping in touch with the philosophy of teamwork. Six of the Lady Cobbers scored in double figures with Beachy leading the way. The victory broke a drought that had seen Concordia go five years without a win at Moorhead State. The Lady Cobbers play tomorrow at Harnline and Monday at Bethel. "Hamline will be a good game for us," said Siverson. "We'll have to push for turnovers and out-hustle them," said Legried. Soccer women honored by Lee Carlson sports editor Three members of the Concordia women's soccer team were named to the West Region All-American team. Jill Collier, Dawn Kilgard and Sara Pittorf each earned All- American status for their play dur-ing the 1987 season. Collier, a senior from St. James, MN, was a co-captain for the Cob-bers and a four-year starter. Described as "the heart and soul of the team," Collier led the team in interceptions, steals and assists while playing the full 90 minutes of each game. Fellow co-captain Dawn Kilgard also played every minute this season and finished behind Collier in steals and interceptions. Another four-year starter, Kilgard attended Golden Valley High School. After leading the team in goals with nine, Sara Pittorf joined her teammates on the All-American list. The frosh from Bumsville will be an integral part of the Cobber success for years to come.
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