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11/29/2008
Following the game, the IHSAA Executive Committee named Joe Colone of Fort Wayne Bishop Dwenger as the winner of the Phil N. Eskew Mental Attitude Award in Class 4A football.
Colone played both ways for the Saints at running back and linebacker and is also a three year letterwinner for the track and field team. He led the Saints as captain of this year’s team and was named to the Summit Athletic Conference second team.
Colone is the vice president of his senior class and serves as president of Bishop Dwenger’s chapter of the National Honor Society. He is a member of the Key Club, Spirit Club, and Bishop Dwenger Ambassadors. He has volunteered with the Community Harvest Food Bank and “Lose the Training Wheels”, a bike camp for kids with special needs.
Academically, Colone ranks 13th in his class with a 4.52 GPA on a 4.0 scale. He plans to attend Indiana University and study biology.
Colone is the son of Anthony and Jeri Colone of Fort Wayne.
The award is presented annually to a senior participant in the state finals who was nominated by his principal and coach and has demonstrated excellence in mental attitude, scholarship, leadership and athletic ability. It is named in honor of the IHSAA’s third commissioner who served the association from 1962-76 and who helped initiate the state tournament in 1973.
Indiana Farm Bureau Insurance presented a $1,000 scholarship to Fort Wayne Bishop Dwenger High School in the name of Colone.
Class 4A Game Quotes
Indianapolis Cathedral Head Coach Rick Streiff
“It’s a sense of relief. We knew it would be a dogfight. When you put two Catholic schools out there that are pretty good, you’re going to get a game like this. It was a great football game against a great football team.”
(On changes at halftime) “We made no changes. We asked the coaches are they (Dwenger) doing anything we didn’t prepare for…and they weren’t. So we said, ‘OK, lets go play football.’ ”
“It’s a great group of kids and I’m excited for them. The first championship for me (1992) was a big deal because it’s every coaches goal. Now I just look at the kids and I’m so happy for them.”
Fort Wayne Bishop Dwenger Head Coach Chris Svarczkopf
“I’m really disappointed for our players because they played their hearts out. Mistakes ended up being the difference. Cathedral was very physical and they capitalized on our mistakes that we made.”
“Our defense played super. We just weren’t able to get things going offensively when we needed to. When we did, a mistake or a penalty cost us a score.”
“Our fourth quarter drive was just guts and our guys not wanting to quit. Trevor (Yerrick) did a great job keeping the ball alive. It’s too bad it didn’t end up the right way. We had the ball in the endzone but couldn’t score. We went play action and they took us out of field goal range.”
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