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Sports Quiz
by Larry Duncan
SUPER BOWLS 0 BORES?
1. What players perticipated in the
first« ver Super Bowl touchdown in
Super Bowl 11
2. arne the first kicker to connect
on four field g Is in a Super Bowl.
3. Name th first-ever team not to
score a touchdown in Super Bowl
play.
4. arne the only New York Jet to
ever score a touchdown in Super
Bowl play.
S. arne the fir t-ever te m to
: scar. fety in Super Bowl pl y.
6. me the first-ever team to
score over 40. points in Super Bowl
gan1e. .
7. Name th only Super Bowl team
to score five touchdowns in one
quarter.
8. arne the low scoring Super
Bowl game to date.
Sports Quiz Answers
1. Bart Starr threw Willie McGee a
37 y rd TO; 2. Don Chandler of
Gr en B y in Super Bowl II; 3.
i mi Dolphins in Super Bowl V; .
tt Snell i Super Bowl m. S. Pit­
rgh Steelers in Super Bowl IX
vs. Minnesota; 6. Chicago Bears t
the ew England P triots in Super­
Bowl XX 46-10; 7. shington
R ins in Super Bo I xxn, 8.
iami be t Washington 14-7 in
Super Bowl VII
By HARRY . ANDERSO • JR.
SpflCl., to th. Michigan Cltlz n
D orr-Located aero rom
Detr it City Airport, there' a chool
know to few, but unknown to m ny.
� I C I tion once known for th
famo DeLaSalle collegia now 10-
cat d in Warren.
lthou h it h a high
rollment of 75- tudents, it h on
of the be t CIa D ba kerb II
programs in the t�te.
The n�me of the. chool is th
Evangelical Chri tian Academy, a
mall private chool on Detroit's
orth t Side.
Although over- hadowed by the
like of e t sid basketball powers
Per hing, orthern, E t Catholic,
Cas Tech and Denby, third year he d
c ach Ron Womack is very confident
of hi quad which is compri ed
tl y of Clas A caliber ball
"0 E THI G W ort of
peered was the quality of players we
have on our team," Womack aid.
"We play in a area of the city which
i ri .h in ba kctball talent.
, Al though a greater number of
talent attend East Catholic, Northern,
Cas' Tech, Pershing and Denby we
get a good crop here.
"""
"It' difficult to play in the shadow
of the other east side chools because
of our ize and schedule, we're not
fortunate to schedule teams like Ket­
tering, Denby, Southwestern or Per-
hing."
Womack, who's also the chool's
athletic director, tries to put hi best
foot forward to schedule schools in
classes A and B but runs into
problems at times.
"Sometimes when I attempt to
make a schedule I call orne of the
clas A and B schools in the city and
the suburb ," Womack explained .• 11
don't know if it intimidation factor
HARRY DEASON. Jr.Mktllgan
Evangelical Academy players chat with assistant coach during a break at practice. •
or what but a lot of cl A, B and C
htt want to play us .... ·
NICKNAMED THE JETS, be­
cause of their location near Detroit
City Airport, Evangelical Christian is
a member of t Greater Metro Inde­
pendent Conference which com­
prises Evangelical Christian. Trinity
Christian, Taylor Bapti t Park,
Franklin Rose, and Taylor Light of
Ufe.
The Jets have dominated the con­
ference the past few years under
Womack. The east side school has
complied records of 15-5 in 1991 and
19-2 this past season. .
So far this on the quad has
been unbeaten and they've done It
with a mall number of pi ye .
"We only have 10 players on our
varsi ty team and onl y 10 on the junior
varsi ," Womack said. "We're
trying to build our program through
our (unior high program which has
more players than our varsity and
junior varsity."
"We don't even have tryouts.
Tho e who come out for the team are
automatically on the team, but we
have a winning program: Unlike the
other private schools in the. area we
don't even recruit here to attract
players to our program."
H�,!�yE_ . �!;�P MICS,
not at tettes. Is the mo t important
issue et Evangelical Christian.
The standard of academic excel­
lence is strictly enforced by Womack
and the school instructors.-
"Education comes first," Womack
said. "We have a lot of pride in our
program and have one of the highest
academic requirements in the state.
You can't have any F's on report card
(luring the semester. Even if you
have a "B" averag�, if you have an
"F" you cannot play the entire
semester."
Womack is not only the boys bas­
ketball coach, he's also the athletic
director and girls basketball coach as
. well.
the chool' athletic director
he' not only re ponsible for the
eduling 0 gam , but make
ure that the players not only 0 to
, but do I in h001.
THE JETS head coach explai
that there were attemp to try other
ports, butbeca of their very mall
ize, it' been a task to maintain and
create other va itv athleti .
"Basketball is the only va ity
port we have." Womack id. "We
try to develop varsity ports for girls
volleyball, girls softball, boy
baseball and boys and girls track. .
However, b cause of our ize of
7S to 80 tudents it' pretty hard to
find enough- people interested. It
doesn't take a lot of kids to run a
basketball program."
Because the Jets have a hard time
cheduling games Womack hopes to
put the Evangelical Chri tian
Academy into. the Metro Conference
which comprises teams from
Hamtramck, Lutheran West
(Detroit), Lutheran North (Mount
Clemens), Lutheran East (Harper
Woods), Lutheran Westland,.
Lutheran Northwest (Rochester
Hills). University-Ligget (Grosse
POinte), Cranbrook (Bloomfield
Hills), Clareneeville (Uvoni ), and
Harper 00' �-. �
"The Metro Conference is mostly
Class C schools," Womack said.
"Not only are the teams more com­
petitive, we won't have a hard time
scheduling games to play." .
"THIS YEAR WE are scheduled
to play Ecorse and Covert, one of the
top ranked teams in Class 0, twice.
this year. We are still working out
things with teams like Kettering-and
Bishop Gallagher for games later on
in the season."
Womack concluded that the En­
vangelical Christian Academy has
the potential to grow, not just as a
basketball power, but as a institution
of education a well.
DHA working hard, to promote kid
.By Harry M. Ander on. Jr.
SpfIC. I to ttt. Michigan CItJz.n
(Part four of a four -p�rt series)
DETROIT _" Recognition. It's
ornething that kids strive for and the
Detroit Hockey Association is striv­
ing for it's pla�ers not just thernsel­
ves. Every year th assocaition learns
something new to help their kids
beyond the Jack Adams Arena and
the Detroit Police Athletic League.
(PAL).
One of the opportunitie the DHA
i trying to-obtain for the ki to play
hockey are COllege scholarship.
Tr vel coach George Adam ex­
plain d that recruiting kids to play
college i n't like. recruiting kid to
play COllege football, ba ketball,
baseball or track' and field.
"In h key it' not a. matter of
ka ti ng r a particular team and all
of a uddcn all the college recruuers
would me down to the rink and
offer them h ck y cholar hip ,".
Adams a.ld."There' different paths
kid hav t 0 through and certian
thin r[anll tions have to do to get
their kid xpo ed to college
recruite ."
"I've talked to former Red Wing
and urrent University Of Michigan
h key coach Red Berenson and he
gave me me pointers on recruiters.
We're till w rking on getting con­
nection or our kid to obtain
chol hip for college."
"One thing about college
recruiters is that they don't go to high
. school hockey games to recruit
players. Most of the recruiting is
through amatuer hockey group like'
0UI'S. We;re starting to find out as
hockey associations get comfortable
with us pointers to help get our kids
get colle-ge scholarships, so we're
trying to position our-kids to get ex­
posure to get college cholarships."
One way the DHA is helping their
Rockies travel quad get expo UTe is
going to tournaments outside of
Michigan.
"We travel to tournaments in
Chicago, Indiana Buffalo, Ohio and
Pittsburgh, " Owens said. "Since then
we've been getting support from the
United States Amatuer Hockey �-
ociation, the major anctioningbody
of amatuer hockey in the U.S."
Another way of getting the DHA.
exposure is through inviting other 01-
ganizations down to the rink. This
way players get to meet other players
and gain exposure outside the Jack
Adams House League.
"The Red Wing have offered
their upport by offering clinics to our
kids," aid Sylvia Puckett, president
of the DRA. "The Junior Red Wings
made them elves available by spon­
soring orne of our kids to come to
their games thi year. This happens a
lot, not just a few times."
But exposure.like everything else,
takes money. Getting equipment for
maller playerS to play in the 'Jack
Players in a recent game at Jack Adam
Adams House League, but when it
come to travel squad it' a different
tory.
"When it comes to equipment it'
affordable at the house league lei,"
Adam explained."When it come to
older kids and travel qua you need
to buy new and expensive equipment
to competitive, "As kid. get older and
the game ets more COJl1P titive, the
. cost of equipment kyrockets.
One way to combat it is ponsors.
The Detroi t Hockey League for now
has no ponso from the corporate
world, but PAL and the Detroit
Recreation Department. have
defrayed orne of the cost.
All of the members agreed that
media exposre from local papers
have kept the OHA going and hopes
that more people will come in and
nract coil g couts and ponso .