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Wheelchair travel forms bond between native and visitor 
When Ryan Chalmers, 24, arrived in Newton on Saturday, it marked the 35th day of his 71-day journey across America in his racing wheelchair.
Although Chalmers planned to continue through Marion County on Saturday, Torey Hett of Marion asked if he might consider staying until Sunday morning and take part in the Challenge Games at Derby.
Like Hett, Chalmers also was born with spina bifida, which is an incomplete closure of the spinal column, and means they do not have complete use of their legs.
With Chalmers averaging 60 to 70 miles a day since starting his journey April 6, one of the first questions Hett asked Chalmers was if he became sore traveling those distances.
“He told me the first week he was, but that now he is getting used to it,” Hett said.
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TC women fall at Southwestern, men win by three
Written by Janae Rempel Friday, 08 February 2013 01:45
The Bluejays split their games at Southwestern Thursday. The women fell to the Moundbuilders, 83-52, and dropped to 13-2 in the KCAC, 17-8 overall. The men won by three, 67-64, after playing from behind the majority of the first half and improved to 11-4, 12-12.
WOMEN – Southwestern led from start to finish in a game characterized by chilly shooting by the Bluejays. It was an ugly start for Tabor, who struggled offensively and recorded 26 percent shooting from the field on the night (18-70), 14 percent from behind the arc (3-22). The Moundbuilders burst to an 11-0 lead before Tabor got on the board with a Hannah Paust basket at 17:16. The Bluejays later enjoyed an 8-0 surge when Katlyn Mary and Nikki Lewis hit back-to-back three-pointers followed by a Loren Oliver basket to narrow the Moundbuilders’ lead to 15-10 with 14:20 left in the half. Tabor again drew within five less than two minutes later on a Lewis basket, but Southwestern surged off Tabor misses to build an 18-point, 36-18, lead at the 6:23 mark. Tabor narrowed the gap with a 7-0 run, and Lewis scored Tabor’s final four points of the half, but Southwestern claimed a 41-31 advantage at intermission.
Nothing seemed to fall for the Bluejays in the second half, who shot just 18 percent from the field (6-34). Out of 12 attempts from behind the arc in the half, not one fell. Southwestern outscored Tabor 42-21 in the half and held a 31-point advantage when time expired.
Lewis led the Bluejays with a game-high 16 points. Mary added 14 for Tabor, while Oliver had 13. Hannah Paust grabbed 10 rebounds to aid the Tabor attack.
MEN – Tabor once again found a way to win down the stretch, but it took time for the Bluejays to get rolling. Tabor’s only lead of the first half was at 2-0 when Marc Hopkinson scored off a Cameron Rust steal at the 18:16 mark. But the Moundbuilders surged to a 10-2 lead after a dunk at 12:28. The teams traded points until a Brent Jackson three-point basket at 5:52 ignited a 7-0 Tabor surge that tied the game at 23 after a Ryan Chippeaux basket. The Moundbuilders answered with a three-point basket, but Robbie Samuel narrowed the Southwestern lead to 26-25 off a steal. Samuel drained a basket at the buzzer, but the Moundbuilders held a 31-27 lead at the break.
Southwestern maintained a narrow lead until Hopkinson evened the score at 39 with a basket off a steal at 15:18 and followed with two game-changing baskets behind the arc in less than a minute to shift the game in Tabor’s favor, 45-40. Southwestern rallied to take a narrow 48-46 lead, but Hopkinson answered with another three-pointer at 11:06. Southwestern took its last lead, 54-53, with 5:50 left to play. Four points from Chippeaux at the charity stripe put Tabor in front 57-54, but a Moundbuilder three-point basket tied the game at 57. Another three-point basket by Southwestern tied the game at 62 with 1:53 left to play, and the score was evened at 64 one minute later. A foul sent Chippeaux to the line with 33 seconds remaining, where he made one of two shots for a 65-64 Tabor lead. The Southwestern shot did not fall, and the Moundbuilders sent Jackson to the line with a foul with eight seconds remaining. Jackson made both charity baskets to widen the Tabor advantage to three, 67-64. Southwestern had opportunity to tie the game, but a three-pointer at the buzzer bounced in and back out, sealing the Tabor victory.
Chippeaux led the Tabor attack with a double-double, recording 19 points and 12 rebounds. Hopkinson added 15 points for Tabor.
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