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Dodgeball tourney raises $1,000; Money raised given to Casey Sparling Scholarship
The Wabash Plain Dealer Online
Ten teams took the hardwood at Northfield High School Saturday for the first dodgeball tournament, presented by Wasted Talent, the dodgeball team that participated in the World Championships in Las Vegas last fall.
All proceeds from the event, right at $1,000, were donated to the Casey Sparling Memorial Scholarship Fund.
Team Caucasian Invasion cruised through the competition, posting wins over team World Champs and the Sophs.
In the semi-finals of the winner’s bracket, The Invasion posted a win over the Jaundice-Stricken Jaguars to advance to the championship game in the double-elimination tournament.
Pre-tourney favorite, the Coaches, benefactors of a first-round bye, were sent to the loser’s bracket by the Miller’s.
The Miller’s posted a win over Off Constantly in the opener.
The Sophs had an opening round win over Dodge Caravan (with front side airbags) before the loss.
The Divas (the all female team) were handed two straight losses as were the World Champs.
The Miller’s and Coaches both battled through the loser’s bracket before the Miller’s claimed the upset win.
With the Jaguars lying in wait, the Miller’s were stalked and eliminated.
The Jaguars then went on to beat the Invasion twice in the championship series.
Several individual awards were handed out on the day.
The Human Bullseye went easily to David Price. Price was the first one out nearly every match the Caravan played in.
Ty Mills took home the Laser-Rocket Arm award while Andrew Glasscock was the Artful Dodger winner.
Glasscock was crafty all day, and even eliminated Coach Tony Uggen in a one-on-one showdown to place the Miller’s in the semi-finals of the loser’s bracket.
Levi Allen took home the Best Hands certificate, coming up with numerous putouts via the catch.
The Dodge Caravans (with frontside airbags) won the Clark Fork Wampus Cats best team name award.
The Jaguars went on to beat a depleated Wasted Talent team.
After that was the free-for-all last-man standing contest.
Nate Dunn was the victor, outlasting the field.
Finally, Jared Tackett took home the Casey Sparling Memorial Dodgeball Tournament Sportsmanship Award for his etiquette on the day.
The works are in progress for a fall tournament next year.
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Wasted Talent versus the world
The Wabash Plain Dealer Online
By AARON TURNER, aturner@wabashplaindealer
Wednesday, September 6, 2006 12:05 AM EDT
Seven local men will begin a journey with one goal in mind – to be the best.
But not just at any sport, though, the highly-competitive world of dodgeball.
Fueled by local success at the Wabash County Sportsfest, presented by Oldies 106 and First Federal Bank & Trust, Wasted Talent, the two-time defending champ, will, after a generous donation from G&S Metals, travel to Las Vegas for the World Dodgeball Championship Sept. 15-16.
“We went before the G&S board of charitable work, and they agreed to it,” Matt Bever, team member, said.
The idea came from another team member.
“I was looking online, and I saw that there was a world championship,” Bobby Galley said. “I thought we might have a shot after the way we played in the Sportsfest.”
Bever, along with Napanee’s Eric Highley, are original members of the team, who played in the coed division last year.
Highley, the team captain, said that training already has begun, but since the squad hails from different area codes around the state, it’s all on an honesty bases.
“I’ve been working out after school,” Highley, who teaches at Northwood High School, said. “Everybody has.
“It’s getting to the point where we’re getting noticed for it, too.”
Known as the “Dodgeball guys” at Ball State’s Irving Gym, Galley and Bever have been working on sprints as well as long toss and burnout.
Highley has also been working on quickness, while Jason Stanley, as well as Lee and Tory Shafer, both of whom work at G&S, have been jogging.
Those six, along with Coley Schenkel, will leave Sept. 14 with a flight from Indianapolis International Airport.
Schenkel, the Shafers and Stanley all competed on different teams during the Sportsfest, but jumped at the chance to compete for the world title.
“I’d like to thank Hoffman Nursery for allowing me to go,” Schenkel said. “I hope we represent them well.
“I think it will be a good time.”
The pedigree is pretty good.
Stanley at Highley both have state championship rings for the Northfield Norsemen, while the Shafer name has been synonymous with baseball for quite a while.
“We’re looking to bring back the trophy,” Bever said. “I like our chances because we’re all pretty athletic, can throw relatively hard and we’re all pretty quick.”
Highley, who has become known as Mr. Dodgeball at Northwood, said that the championship won’t come easily, but it is attainable.
“We’re going to have to play well, there’s no doubt about that,” Highley said. “There’s no doubt in my mind we’re good enough, we just have to go out and show it.”
The squad will stay at the Excaliber.
The event will take place at the Las Vegas Sports Center.
“We couldn’t have done it without the generous donation from G&S,” Bever said. “That was huge.”
By AARON TURNER
By AARON TURNER
Hill Billy Editor
GREY EAGLE — It was a relatively slow day at Big Birch Lake, the destination of summer vacation of many.
And so the day played out, the day after showers blanketed much of the region, relagating temperatures to 70 degrees with mostly overcast skies.
The fishing was the best yet with Marc Bever, Todd Martin and Jason Warnock all taking to the shores and shallow waters for some bait fishing with night crawlers the feast of choice for the panfish, rock bass, perch and on rare occasions, Northern Pike.
The catch was bountiful with bluegills the main catch.
Martin reeled in the biggest catch, a nice Northern, but it was Warnock that tallied the biggest keeper, a well-rounded rock bass. Martin’s Northie slipped off.
For the duration of the morning, the trio, with a little help from Aaron Turner and Sean Mathias, harvested quite a few fish for the feasting to come.
With the chance of rain later in the day, and the thought of beating the big rush to Double Rs for Buck Burgers, Bever, Warnock and Martin began the task of cleaning the catch.
It was soon after that Tuesday’s greatest memory happened.
Martin and Warnock scaled the fish while Bever carved the catch into edible fillets.
The three stood in waist-deep water with the catch resting on the dock directly in front of them.
Spoons were used to remove the scales, but Warnock tried a different approach.
With a knife from his tacklebox, Warnock would jab the his knife into the fish tails … until the Tuesday version of Idiots-R-Us intervened.
On one of his attempts to stick a fish, Warnock’s right handed slipped off after the stabbing motion. The follow through slid Warnock’s palm over the blade, inflicting a three inch gash in the meaty flesh of his hand.
“I always do that,” Warnock said, almost immediately following.
With blood welling like a Old Faithful, Warnock lifted his palm, much to the delight of Turner and Matt Bever, but the shegrin of wife Jennie.
Cousin-in-law Krys Martin was off like a flash en route to the cabin for bandaids and fixer-uppers.
When Warnock re-raised his palm, the first pass-out of Vacation 2006 nearly happened.
Todd Martin, after second review, has a weak stomache, and the sight of blood sent Martin to the dock.
The tan that Martin had earned over the first three days of vaction quickly left his face as the sight of blood made a Martin weak in the stomache. So weak that the 6-foot-2, 225-pounder made a dash to the dock, where he quickly rolled to his back, his arm resting on his head as his stomache tried to calm the unease that was upon him.
“If you can fillet a hand, you can fillet a fish,” Marc Bever said, paraphrasing a Dodgeball excerpt.
And so it was as Warnock and Bever, and eventually Martin finished the fillet job with Warnock finishing the second half with his hand wrapped in butterfly bandages and gauze.
No fish survived.
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