From the Files of the Kosciusko County Historical Society

Editor’s note: This is a retrospective article that runs a few times a month on InkFreeNews.

Information for this retrospective series is courtesy of the Kosciusko County Historical Society.

Sept. 18, 1991 — Kelly Loughlin and Ryan Long crushed existing course records as they led Warsaw’s boys and girls cross country teams to victories over Northern Lakes Conference foe Goshen at Warsaw Community High School.

Loughlin ran a career best and course record 15:56 to lead the Lady Tigers to a 21-37 win over the Lady Redskins, and Long destroyed Oak Hill’s Brent Grogan’s record of 17:04 by touring the course in a time of 16:32 to lead the Tigers to a 26-35 victory over Goshen.

September 1969 — A part of the first annual Wawasee Band Night ceremonies held during halftime of the Wawasee-Goshen football game Friday night were the 15 pom-pom girls. This group was formed this year and is expected to participate during athletic events at the high school. They include Jill White, Taceile Estep, Carolyn Gardner, Sue Bahn, Lora Rhoads, Amy Coy, Jan Black, Laurie McFarland, Vicki Mehl, Gloria Mehl, Nancy Gunderlock, Shelley Kaiser, Patty Myers, Bethann Elam and Darlene Long.

Sept. 21, 1968 — Concord’s ace hurler, Tom Tessar, and Manchester outfielder Joe Simmons are unanimous selections for the first Northern Lakes Conference All-Star team in history, it was learned today from William Schroer, secretary-treasurer of the NLC.

Every school placed at least one player on the first team with the exception of Warsaw and Wawasee. The co-champions of the 1968 baseball race, Manchester and Concord, placed two players each, as did Plymouth and Bremen. Rochester and Nappanee added one each.

Surprisingly enough, Warsaw, which finished in a second-place tie with Plymouth, placed only one player on the first two teams, that being outfielder Ted Pfenning to the second unit. Wawasee, in its first year of competition in the NLC, had pitcher Rob Clevenger and infielder Tom Gunden on the second squad.

– Compiled by InkFreeNews reporter Lasca Randels