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FRIDAY, MARCH 31, 1989
Andy Slovis Provided Leadership
For Young Country Day Champs
MIKE ROSENBAUM
Sports Writer
T
he powerful Birming-
ham Detroit Country
Day basketball team
which dominated its Class C
rivals on the way to the state
basketball championship this
month had, on paper, one ap-
parent weakness. Five of its
top players were sophomores.
For much of the season and
the state tournament, Coach
Kurt Keener started four
sophs. The lone senior in that
starting lineup was point
guard Andy Slovis. Slovis'
leadership helped the young
Yellowjackets take their first
state basketball crown.
Keener calls Slovis "ex-
tremely important" to the
team's success. "Not just in
the games, but going back in-
to summer, into pre-season,
providing a model for the
younger kids to follow. And
being a leader in everything
we did. He was a very, very
committed athlete and I
think he fulfilled his role as
the captain as well as any in-
dividual I've ever had," says
Keener, who has coached 11
years at Country Day.
When his teammates voted
Slovis captain before the
season "I took it upon myself
as a senior and the captain to
be the leader," Slovis ex-
plains. He tried to combine
vocal leadership with leader-
ship by example. "Before the
game I'd like to say stuff to
the team . . . inspirational
stuff."
The leadership role tem-
porarily affected Slovis' game.
"Early, a little bit," he says,
"there was a little pressure.
But I got used to it, learned
to make it help me."
"He really was the quarter-
back on our team," says
Keener, adding that when
another guard was injured
before the state tournament,
"more of a burden fell on An-
dy. He really played with an
unselfish attitude and took
great pride in passing the ball
to his teammates, setting peo-
ple up and playing good
defense. I think he was one of
the keys to our success in the
state championship."
Slovis, a two-year starter
and three-year letterman,
averaged just under eight
points per game this season
and led the Yellowjackets
with 7.5 assists per game, 5.3
steals and 44 percent
shooting from three-point
range.
Country Day was a consen-
sus number one in Class C all
season. Their title surprised
few prep followers. Slovis says
his teammates "expected it.
That's what made it so much
harder. If we would not have
won the state championship
then people would've said,
`What happened?' "
Country Day lost three
games last season, all to
Class A schools. "I felt once
we played well there wasn't
anyone in the state that could
beat us," says Slovis.
Winning the title "was pro-
bably the biggest relief. We
really had reached our goal,"
says Slovis. "It was probably
the greatest feeling I've ever
had . . .
"I had thought about all
these things that I was going
to do when the final buzzer
rang. Then after it did ring
emotion just took over?'
Slovis taped the final game
from the PASS telecast. "I
must've watched that game
about seven times already.
Every time I watch it, it gets
better. I don't think it's sunk
in yet."
Keener calls Slovis "an in-
tense, fiery competitor. I
think he's the type of person
that when he sets his mind to
doing something he's totally
focused on that. It was really
his goal this year to win a
state championship. And
everything that he did was
geared toward that end."
Mike Slovis, four years
older than Andy, gets some
credit for preparing his
brother for high school ball.
The two played many one-on-
one games in their backyard.
"I remember times when he
used to beat me and I'd come
in crying, he beat me so bad
out there," says Slovis. "He'd
take me to play with his
friends" also. The two still
play, but with different
results. "It's not even close
now," says Slovis.
Although Slovis was
recruited by Division III
schools such as Albion and
Wittenberg, he will not play
college basketball. He will at-
tend the University of In-
diana this fall and hopes to be
part of the basketball team.
"Maybe a student assistant-
type role," he says.
Slovis will contact Hoosier
coach Bobby Knight regar-
ding a role on the team.
Slovis' long-term goal in
basketball is coaching. "I
wouldn't mind going into
coaching somewhere down
the line," he says. "I've wat-
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ched so much basketball in
my life."
Although Slovis does not
have to prepare for a basket-
ball season next fall, he will
join Country Day teammates
Chris Webber and Ryan
Ringold on a summer- AAU
team, "Just for fun." O
ROUND UP
Pair Compete
In Swim Event
Linda Goldstein took one
first and five second-places
and Dena Bernstein had a se-
cond and a pair of fifth-places
at the recent Michigan U.S.
Swimming Short Course
meet at Michigan State
University.
Goldstein took the mile at
17:49. She placed second in
all her other events. She
described the meet as a tune-
up for the junior national
meet which concludes Satur-
day in Pensacola, Fla. She
hoped to post a qualifying
time for the senior nationals
in the 200 freestyle at the
junior national meet.
Bernstein, who swam for
the state Class A champion
Birmingham Groves High
School team last fall, took se-
cond in the 100 fly (2:14) and
placed fifth in the 100 fly and
500 free at the U.S. Swimm-
ing meet.
Bernstein has applied for a
spot with the U.S. Maccabiah
team. The U.S. swimmers will
be invited according to their
times. The invitations will
come after the NCAA swim
meet in April.
Bulls Win
Berris Crown
The Bulls won twice on
March 8 to take the Honey
Berris League basketball
playoff title at the
Maple/Drake Jewish Com-
munity Center. The Bulls
beat the Wolverines 62-58.
Dave Baxter led the winners
with 36 points.
The Bulls earned their spot
in the final with a 66-42 win
over Supreme Court. Baxter
scored 25 points. The
Wolverines got 18 points from
Steve Rosen to take the other
semi-final, downing What's
Up Doc? 59-49.
A members-only, five-on-
five basketball league at the
Center will begin in the fall.
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