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-.6 Sports ,, ' Playin' the Field with Jeremy Williams Waasup ACC? Welcome back to the field. Quickly for a roundup of what's happened in the last couple of weeks. Well I said that Michigan won't go under 3 unless they me;s up. Well they messed up. My S~pe~ Bowl pick from the AFC is Miami and now Dan Manno is hurt and will miss most of the season. I wanted to see the Montreal Expos in the playoffs but they did not make it. Now to hoops. Conditioning is over for both Lumber- jack squads.Now practice begins on the hardwood. That means for the men Frank McCourt enters the picture. That paragraph has got the making for a good horror movie. Just kiddin', coach. Please don't make me run extra sprints. On the real tip, it's time to get it on. "Let's get ready to rummmmmmbbbbbbbbbblllee." Also, I will have a special award in my column eve~y month. It will be called the "Paul Bunyan" award. It will go to the biggest and baddest Jack on the basketball court. One will go to the men's team and one to the women's team. Now obviously the season just started but I have an award to give already. This "Paul Bunyan" goes to Jim Kissinger. "Kiss" is out for the year bu~ still gets up_at our 6:00 am practices and helps out. He will also be gomg on our trips to road games and keeping stats and filming the games. Get Well Soon! I have some thoughts I want to share with you on this years men's and women's teams. Both. teams have two players from Alpena High School. Well Tanya Liske and Jessica Krajniak are both 5'7 and play guard. Waylon Smolinski and Jason Bies are both 5'11 and they too play guard. Hmmm. Coincidence? Both teams are relatively small. The Lady Jacks have one true center in Amanda Romel as do the Jacks in myself, Jeremy Williams. Coin- cidence? The women's team has nine players, one of whom is a sophomore. The men's team has 18 players, two of which are sophomores. That's a ratio of one sophomore to eight freshmen for both squads. Coinci- dence? They also each have a coach that played together as Lumberjacks during the same year in Bobby Allen and Mike Kollien. Coincidence? OK I'll stop. To the gridiron. Here's the "Big-J's" top ten in college football. 1) Florida, what an offense. 2) Florid& State, they bounced Miami. 3) Ohio State, what's a top ten list without a member of the Big Ten in it. . 4) Arizona State, I guess I'll ha~e to give them their props. 5) Nebraska, boy, they're creeping back. 6) Tennessee, see #5. 7) Alabama, undefeated but hasn't played Florida or Tennessee yet. 8) Colorado, the Buffalos haven't faced Nebraska yet but will be stubborn. 9) Tie, Michigan and Northwestern, NW is in first place in the Big Ten. U of M has to tum it up and play like they did against Colorado. 10) North Carolina, sleeper. Note: What happened to Texas and Penn State? Look out for Iowa and West Virginia. They might give some people a tough time . . Hockey and Basketball started up, but it's crunch time in Baseball right now. The Yankees are in and so are the Braves. What? What happened to the Indians? Oh well! I say Atlanta in six games and Fred McGriff will be the series MVP. Maybe it's too early to say but I like the Detroit Red Wings in the Stanley Cup versus the Montreal Canadians. Remember I'm French-Canadian. In pro hoops, Chicago will repeat: In college, ACC will beat North Carolina for the title ... yeah right. ACC is a differ- ent class. On the real,ACCwill win the NJCAA (National Junior College Athletic Association) crown. Not just the men's or the women's teams, but both. Well that's it for this edition for the field. Peace! RIP: Tupac Shakur. "How many niggas fell victims to the streets, rest in peace young nigga ther-e's a heaven for a G!" Tlie <PoCemic / Octo6er 30, 1996 Sophomore Stoppa leads Lady Jacks BY JEREMY WILLIAMS SPORTS WRITER The Lady Jacks enter this season facing a mighty task. This year's women's team is young but determined. They are represented with nine com- petitive and fiesty ladies who· have no doubts about what they can do. Coach Mike Kollien re- turns for his fourth year as head coach of the Lumberjack attack. He is complemented by his assistant coach, Tracy Gribble, who backs Kollien for a third straight season. Together they are tackling the task of turning this squad into legitimate contenders. "We'll be alright as long as we don't have any injuries," Gribble said. "It's tough to scrimmage and practice with only nine girls, but we won't have to keep everybody happy. Everybody will receive play- ing time and each one will feel that they have contributed." Last year's Lady Jack bri- gade finishedat 8-14. With only one sophomore returning, the Lady Jacks will have to grow up quickly. Marisa Stoppa is that lone sophomore and she hails from Alcona. She is a 5'9 forward who will lift the Lady Jacks with her solid play and experi- ence. PHOTO BY POLEMIC STAFF The ACC Lady Jacks took time out of their busy practice schedule to pose for a team shot. Back row: HEAD COACH MIKE KOLLIEN, MARISA STOPPA, CHRIS MAY, AMANDA ROMEL, ANGIE KOKOWICZ, ASSISTANT COACH TRACY GRIBBLE. Front row: JESSICA KRAJNIAK, KELLY PALMER, KELLY SADLER, TANYA LISKE. Leading the list of guards this year is a couple of former Wildcat standouts, (5'7) Tanya Liske and (5'7) Jessica Krajniak. From Atlanta is (5'7) Cherie Green. Kelly Palmer (5'6) from Brimley and Kelly Saddler (5'6) from Johannesburg-Lewiston round out the guard play. The Lady Jacks feature one true center in Amanda Romel (6'0) out of Posen. Playing at the forward slots are Angie Kokowicz at 5'8 hailing from Ogemaw Heights and 5'11 ChrisMayfromJohannesburg- Lewiston. Alpena's women's team will have to overcome a few obstacles buttheywill be tough to handle. "We just want to be com- petitive in games, especially in the last two or three minutes of a ball game. We want to re- main positive," Gribble said. The Lady Jacks open their season versus the alumni in the annual alumni scrimmage on November 9. ACC's first regular season contest will be at Kalamazoo on November 22. Softball team challenges LSSU ii PHOTO BY POLEMIC STAFF Head Coach Tracy Gribble introduced her ACC softball players during a recent press conference. Also pictureJI are (from left) Mike Kollien, women's basketball head coach, Richard Lessard, cross country coach, and Bobby Allen, assistant coach men's basketball. BY LESLIE MALE STAFF WRITER The Mackinac Bridge may have shut down the weekend of September 27, but the Alpena Community College's women softball team didn't during their scrimmages against Lake Superior State University. Coach Tracy Gribble commended the squad for their performance even though the adjustment from the batting cage to fast-pitch may have been a setback to the team during the scrimmages with LSSU. ACC's softball team is young this year, with 12 out of 16 players being freshmen. But Gribble noted that they worked hard this fall, squeezing in a few practices despite the cold and rain. 'They enthusiastically toughed it out," Gribble said. Practice will resume sometime in March, with pitchers and catchers starting in Janu- ary. Coach Gribble said she is "very, very ex- cited" about the upcoming season. Industrial Technology Education Auto Service Technology Auto Technician· Rick Engstrom Ext. 241 Concrete Technology Robert Eller Kevin Sylvester Ext. 220 Ext. 364 Design Technology Kathy Dapprich Ext. 224 at COMMUNITY COLLEGE Phone: 517-356-9021 f .I Auto Body Repair Technology Thomas Winter Ext. 289 Machine Tool Technology Ivan McLaren Ext. 268 Jeff Monroe Ext. 258 . Utility Technician Roy Smith Ext. 243