HAPPY HOLIDAYS in 100IM, 10Us Ryan Daniel and 18S Matt Meserole and Colin Terwelp Evan Moore Finished 1-2

HAPPY HOLIDAYS in 100IM, 10Us Ryan Daniel and 18S Matt Meserole and Colin Terwelp Evan Moore Finished 1-2

Page 12 Thursday, December 18, 2008 The Westfield Leader and The Scotch Plains – Fanwood TIMES A WATCHUNG COMMUNICATIONS, INC. PUBLICATION D. Blair Corbin’s Devil’s Den From Collecting Cards Devil of the Week Matt Marcus Blue Devils Raiders To Having Her Own Bowling By BRUCE JOHNSON Specially Written for The Westfield Leader and The Times It seems like only yesterday that I and Rene Stevens (218). tournament came in the opening round, who “appeared to be” running up the walked into CJ’s Extra Innings, when it But she transferred to Linden the where most entrants picked the 14th- score. We forgot two guys who should Walk Down Memory Lane was located on South Avenue in what is next year, helping the Tigers win a seeded ’74 squad to upset the third- have been near the top of the list: Bruce now a laundry store, and CJ pointed out couple of state Group 4 titles. After seeded ’47 team, and in the semifinals, Jester and Matt Ince. From the archives of The Westfield Team and Susan Williams was named this young girl who was there to buy high school Dixon was off to the Uni- where every entrant went by the seeds BIRTHDAY BOYS Leader and The Scotch Plains- to the Third Team. All three were some NBA cards. versity of Kansas, where she averaged and took the ’77 and ’70 teams. A happy belated 69th birthday (Nov. Fanwood Times – www.goleader.com named to the All-UC First Team and “Can you guess whose daughter this 14.2 points for her career, was named Others who had the most points were: 30) to faithful Den reader “lynchnd.” A December 21, 2000: The Westfield the 20-3-3 Blue Devils, who finished is?” my brother said. Big 12 Player of the Year and earned Glen Kehler (6-3, 24), Don Mokrauer Red Bank Catholic graduate, he has High School swimming boys were fourth in the state rankings, were It took one glimpse, maybe two sec- All-America honors in 1997. (7-2, 22), Scott Selert (7-2, 22), Jerry lived in town for years and become generous host to top-ranked Holy named Union County Team of the onds, before I answered, “Boo.” The Timing is everything, and as Dixon Livesey (6-2, 20), Bruce Moran (6-2, both a faithful follower of the Blue Spirit, losing by a respectable 93-77 Year. daughter of Russell (Boo) Bowers graduated from college and had to be 20) and Dave Machlowitz (5-2, 18). Devils, and a constant critic of the Den. score. Vincent Chen touched first in December 2003: Serving as Blue smiled. Her name was Tamecka Dixon, wondering what to do with her adult Many thanks to all who took the time to He’s also buddies with former Franklin the 100-yard backstroke with a time Devil girls’ assistant soccer coach at the time maybe the 11- or 12-year- life, the WNBA was holding its first participate! Bowler Chet (The Jet) West. of 57.87 and Zach Coppa tied for first from 1985 through 1990 and taking old daughter of one of WHS’s all-time draft in anticipation of its inaugural THIS AND THAT On Dec. 10, I toasted what would in the 50-yard freestyle with a time of over the reins as head coach in 1991, best basketball players. season of women’s professional bas- @ The WHS girls basketball team have been the 122nd birthday of one of 23:04 Peter Giordano formally announced Imagine my surprise the other day, ketball. Dixon was a second-round pick, opens at home Saturday, 2 p.m., against the all-time great actors, the late Victor December 19, 2001: Dreams it was time to let go and retired this while googling away the hours before No. 14 overall, by the Los Angeles North Hunterdon, then plays Chester Andrew de Bier Everleigh McLaglen. year. His teams won seven Union work (or was it googling away the Sparks. (Pa.) on Sunday, 3 p.m., in the Lady Born in 1886, he starred in such early turned into reality for the Raider wres- hours at work?), when I googled She earned a couple of champion- Phoenix Classic at University High classics as What Price Glory?, Beau tling team when all 14 Raiders stepped County championships, nine ship rings in L.A and had a career-best Watchung Conference titles, seven Tamecka and found out she had just School in Newark. While graduation Geste, The Lost Patrol, The Informer, on the mat with positive intentions finished her 11th year in the WNBA! year in 2003, averaging 13.7 points per took the three girls who helped turn Wee Willie Winkie, Gunga Din, Fort and startled perennial Union County state sectional titles and were state Last week she celebrated her 33rd birth- game. In 2006, after eight years in WHS from winless to winning – Erin Apache and The Quiet Man. He won an top dogs, Roselle Park, 39-28, in Group 4 runners-up three times. He day! L.A., she was traded to the Houston Miller, Gab O’Leary and Steph Academy Award in 1935 for his por- Scotch Plains. Huge victories by was named 1991 Area Coach of the Dixon, the daughter of Bowers (’77) Comets, where she has played the last Slodyczka – coach Joe Marino’s squad trayal of Gypo Nolan in The Informer, sophomores Charlie Bachi (160) and Year and, in 1992 and 1994, was and Portia Dixon (’76), was a freshman three years. (The Comets folded last is still very deep and very talented. and should have won in 1939 as Sgt. Andrew Silber (171) shifted the scales named Union County coach of the on coach Dave Shapiro’s 1990 WHS month, so Dixon’s professional career Veterans Tara Handza, Kerri Pringle, MacChesney in Gunga Din. He died in in the Raiders’ favor and a fall by Year. In 1994 and 2002, Giordano varsity team that went 19-6, still the is currently up in the air.) Katie Ponce, Amanda Markowski, Char November 1959. junior Matt Loomis (215) made the became New Jersey Girls’ Soccer best one-year record in school history, As a pro, Dixon has averaged 10.3 O’Leary, Anne Knisely, Sarah Nelson Last Thursday we missed the 62nd dream a reality. Coaches Association and large school although it suffered second-round ppg in both the regular season and the and Nikki Aronson will be buoyed by birthday of former WHS soccer/ December 2002: Blue Devil se- Coach of the Year. losses in both the county and state playoffs. She averaged 8.8 ppg this the return of Diana Venezia and Gabby baseballer Ed Thorne (’64), now living nior goalie Megan Connors was se- Early December 2004: Raider se- tournaments. As the first player off the past season and has 3,368 career points Jakub, who both missed all of 2007-08 in Plymouth, Mass., and a faithful reader lected to The Star Ledger All-State nior football defenseman Marc Fabiano bench, the talented ninth-grader scored in 11 years. with injuries. And sophomores Martina of the Den. And today is the 61st birth- Second Team in girls soccer. Connors was named to The Star-Ledger All- 173 points, fifth on the team behind And she is one of just six players Landeka and Dani Miller will make day of Ed’s brother, Rick (’67), now in and senior defender Ashley Kent were Union County First Team and the All- Marcie Williams (302), Claudia from the original WNBA season still major contributions. West Columbia, S.C. selected to the All-Group 4 Second Group 3 Second Team in defense. Carnevale (263), Kim Kumpf (226) playing, the others being Vickie @ Tomorrow afternoon at 4, WHS IN PASSING Johnson, Lisa Leslie, Mwadi Mabika, will host SP-F in the boys basketball Once upon a time, Dwight Sheryl Swoopes and Tina Thompson. season opener. The Raiders are coming Eisenhower, Richard Nixon and Ronald It may have seemed like only yester- off a tremendous season that saw them Reagan and their followers thought if Devil Wrestlers Have Work Ethic, Deep Lineup day that Tamecka Dixon was buying win the state Group 3 championship. somebody was a folk singer it meant basketball cards at CJ’s, but in reality After three straight winning seasons, they belonged to the communist party. CONTINUED FROM PAGE 11 it’s a long time ago. Now she even has the Devils went 7-18 last season, but To sing songs of protest – against capi- factor. He refuses to lose. He finds a lineup are going to be tough to beat. at 189 or 215. her own WNBA cards. Wonder how return six solid letter winners: seniors talism (or pro-union), a bad war or un- way to win. I think Christian and They have some of the best competi- “Kim has come a long way. He is much her rookie card is worth. Tony DiIorio, Mike Lessner, Chris equal rights – was thought to be subver- Nick can be that way. I think we can tion right from within this practice much stronger. He’s got a little confi- WHS BCS UPDATE Sheehan and Dave Pusar, junior Pat sive by many in the Joe McCarthy era. send three kids down to Atlantic City.” room,” Kurz said. dence,” commented Kurz. After hours calculating the results of Gray and sophomore Ryan Hess. Pat Pete Seeger, Bob Dylan and Joan Senior Joe Panarese, second in the our WHS BCS football playoffs, with Sabatino, Hugo Nolasco and Jaraad Baez were at the head of that group.

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