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SPORTS by SUE McKinlev Lady Warriors Capture First Basketball Title

The Lady Warriors of Wildwood High School captured their first South Jersey title every by defeating Kingsway 40-36 in the final clasn last Friday. When the contest began, the Dragons and six busloads of noisy fans rattled the Warriors for a 10-4 first quarter lead. Ann Turner scored the only Wildwood buckets in that stanza while the Warriors turned the ball over 10 times. Turner excelled for six more points in the second period and Wildwood cut the turnovers down to four, but Kingsway still led 20-14 at the half. THE THIRD QUARTER was introduced with a sharp Rose Hall delivery to Turner to cut the gap to 20-16. Wildwood finally knotted the score at 22-22 with another

f Hall-Turner connection later in the period. Warrior Angie Patten net- ; ted one with 2: 10 left in the 1 third to give Wildwood its first lead Of the game. Turner tallied nine points in the third, while Kings1 way's Denise Lyles hit for t four, and Wildwood led 29-28 going into the final quarter. Kingsway recorded the t first two buckets for a quick > 32-29 lead, but it was the last ) time they'd see the advantage. c Turner made it 33-32 with i 5:25 left to play and sealed i the victory with a pair of t free throws at 33 seconds, t Wildwood coach Dave Triano won his first South t Jersey crown in his nine > years as head coach, r Congratulations! i THE STORY didn't end so well for the Lady Panthers

n of Middle Township, who fell 59-49 to . Mainland in the 1- South Jersey finale. e After a Bev Grant s 17-footer a second before the halftime buzzer, the Pans thers led 25-23. i- The third quarter opened r up with a fair exchange of 8 buckets by Panther Con Osborne and Mustang Frane cine Ralph. Angie Evens k added a corner hit to tie the t game at 27-27. Lee Ann Dean picked off a Panther pass and gave ti Mainland the lead that held 1 to the end. f MIDDLE'S GRANT put on a show in the final » quarter as she netted 11 of i her 23 in the stanza. The i » 5-foot-3 speedster cut the < Mustang lead to three, but Mainland retaliated quickly j with Evans and Dean > connecting for another five 1 > points. The Panthers I -couldn't recover from the I final blow. Mainland coasted to vie- 1 tory as Middle's season tick- J ed from the clock. 1 Earlier in the week was a i topfwtch high school girls 1 performance that put tie t Panthers in the final game, c Middle toppled Sterling 60-55 in the semifinal meet-\ v ing at Pennsauken Vs Wednesday. s PANTHER RONNIE LYNN rose to the occasion a to score 11 points, eight in F the first half. Lynn also held f Sterling star Cheryl Zekas to four first half points. f Lynn, noted for her defen- n sive ability and relentless i>

effort, took advantage of the fact that Sterling ignored her offense and sank four jumpers and three free throws. Kara Me»Vey launched bombs hitting nothing but net, canning eight of her 14 points in the third quarter. Bev Grant paced the Panthers with 19. putting or, display her All South Jersey style. Cori Osborn tallied 10 and Betsey Gilbert dominated the boards. • *3 • A HIGH SCHOOL junior from Wildwood. Marcea Huemer, took on the pressure at the Peddie School in Hightstown to help capture the school's sixth straight title at the NJISWAA Girls Swimming and Diving Championships. At Wildwood high school, where there is no swim Huemer was like a fish out of water. Although the transfer to has been an uphill struggle academically, has consistently her grades to the category and her swimming times into the winning category. As a freshman, Huemer state prep champ in the ■ 50 and second in the IOC freeI style. Last year she won the 200 and 100. This year she repeated her wins in the 50 It looks as if Marcea will someday be than just another fish in the sea.

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