Banner Graphic, Greencastle, Putnam County, 5 January 1974 — Page 3

Saturday, January 5,1974

Banner-Graphic, Greencastle, Indiana

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Eagles Beat Linton, Tiger Cubs Lose

South Putnam’s Eaglesflushed with victory in the Greencastle Invitational County Holiday Tourn-ament-traveled to Linton last night and continued their winning ways by downing the Miners 83-72. The Eagles’ Craig Sibbitt was the game’s high scorer as he threw in 32 points. Sibbitt’s scoring was needed in the final half when the Miners saw the light and outscored the Eagles 48-47. In the closing quarter the Linton team caught fire and rampaged for 34 points while the Eagles could only hit 25. Behind Sibbitt in the scoring bracket for the Eagles was Jeff Burdge who sank 18. The Miner’s M. Sparks and Crynes shared the honors for top scoring on their team with

17 apiece while Halden and Goodman chipped in 11. The Eagles jumped out on top in the first quarter 12 to 8 and lead at the half 46-24.The Eagles are now 9-1.

The Greencastle Tiger Cubs made a close game of it most of the way last night at McAnally Center, but were edged out by a tough Plainfield team, 63-58. Bob Newsom and Scott Hunter lead the Cubs with 22 and 14 points, respectively, while Husk, Caraboa, W. Gentry topped the Quakers with 14,12, and 11 markers. The Cubs had trouble with the Quaker 3-2 full court zone press, which they used' for most of the game in attempt to befuddle the homestanding Cubs.

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The slick, quick, deadeye Quakers took a 15-13 lead after one quarter, only to have the Cubs pull ahead almost 3 minutes later. 18-17. With 4:25 remaining in quarter two, it was tied at 2020. The Cubs went to a deliberate attack in an attempt to break the Quaker dominance, but fell further behind 31-27, after two quarters. To regain the lead, however, the Quakers had to scare seven points in one minute and 14 seconds as the Cubs had led near the end of quarter two, 27-24. Greencastle scored only 11 points in the third quarter while Plainfield rattled off 18 for 49-36 bulge. Turnabout being fair play, however, the Cubs scored 22 points to the Quakers'14 in the final period to just fall short. In team rebounds, the Cubs beat the tall Quakers, 38-37. D« Pqrw loses DePauw's Tigers shot a cold 415 from the field last night dropping their game to Hanover’s Panthers 80-63 at Bowman gym. John Mussell,Hanovers,was the game's high scorer with 15 points and the Tiger’s John Chin lead his team w ith 12.

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Sibbitt

FG 15

FT F TP 2 1 32

Knetzer

0 4

Burdge

4 3

Mayo

1 0

Briones

0 2

Erwin

0 1

Hammond

0 4

Mendenhall

0 0

Totals

7 15

Linton FG Sparks 7

FT F TP 3 4 17

Myers

0 2

Halden

3 2

Francis

0 0

Goodman

3 1

Crynes

3 2

Jones

2 1

Trump

2 1

Totals

29 14 13

Greencastle FG FT F TP

S Putnam 12 24 22 25-83 Linton 8 16 14 34-72

Big Ten Basketball Battle Starts Today

Pierce

4 0 3

Newsom

7 8 1

Baker

1 0 2

AUee

1 3 4

Hunter

7 0 5

Siebrase

1 2 3

Frazier

1 1 0

Totals 22 14 18 58 Plainfield FG FT F TP

Gentry

4 3 1

Wander

0 1 3

Scifres

4 1 3

Wufel

1 0 1

Husk

6 2 4

Crowe

6 0 5

Danielson

1 0 0

Caraboa

4 4 2

Totals

26 11 19

Greencastle

13 27 36

Plainfield

15 31 49

The Big Ten basketball campaign opens Saturday with defending champion Indiana favored to repeat, but not without stiff opposition from other contenders. With the exception of Wisconsin. Big Ten teams hardly frightened intersectional rivals despite postings 55-34 record in preconference play. Many of the victories came at the expense of lesser teams while Big Ten teams had absolutely no success against such ranked teams as UCLA Notre Dame and Marquette. Indiana piled up a 7-2 record, losing to Notre Dame 73-67 on the Hoosier heme floor and then getting bopped by Oregon State 6148 in the Far West Classic. Wisconsin rolled to seven triumphs and then all but passed its big test when the Badgers dropped a 4948 decision in overtime to undefeated Marquette. Michigan and Purdue also appear as likely challengers to Indiana. Michigan managed an 82 record. The Wolverines before bowing to top-ranked UCLA 90-

70 in the championship game of the Los Angeles Classic. Purdue recorded seven victories but also lost four games. If the Boilermakers learn to wan the close ones, they'll be tough. Purdue lost to Miami of Ohio 86-85 in overtime, to Clemson 81-80 in overtime and to UTah 87-75. - Saturday's opening round features the Indiana-at-Michigan contest. The other games find Northwestern at Wisconsin. Michigan State at Purdue, Illinois at Ohio State and Minnesota at Iowa. Minnesota, rebuilding after losing its entire team from last season, had a 6-3 record. Michigan State and Northwestern, with 54 marks, were the other schools with winning records. Northwestern, under new coach Tex Winter, lost games to second-ranked Notre Dame and six-ranked Marquette. The other two defeats came in the Marshall Tournament by a total of three points. Mike Robinson, gunning for a third straight Big Ten scoring championship, continues to lead Michigan State's attack.

Virdon Says He’s Not Worried About Williams

By HAL BOCK A P Sports Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Don't try to tell Bill Virdon he’s an interim manager for the NewYork Yankees. He just doesn't see it that way. “As far as I'm concerned,” said Virdon, “I’m the manager of the New York Yankees and I like it that way. I'm not concerned about Dick Williams." Virdon, ex-skipper of the Pittsburgh Pirates, was named to the Yankee job Thursday, ending the three-month tug of war that the New York club had been waging with Oakland owner Charles O. Finley over Williams. Last month, Virdon signed a contract to manage Houston’s Denver farm club in the Pacific Coast League. Does that mean the Yankees have inherited another Williams-type contract hassle? Virdon laughed at the suggestion. “No, no.” he said. “I had a stipulation in the Denver contract that if I were offered a major league job. 1 would be free to go." That otfer came earlier this week from the Yankees, who had run into a dead end in their negotiations with Finley aimed at trying to get the A’s boss to release Williams from the last

two years of his tanaging contract. The Yankees had tiied to force the issue a few weeks ago when they signed Williams to a three-year contract. But outgoing American League President Joe Cronin nixed that deal, sending the Yankees back to Finley to try to satisfy the Oakland boss, who kept insisting on a couple of top prospects in return for Williams. “Charley wanted too much,” said George M. Steinbrenner, general partner of the Yankees. That was when the club turned to Virdon. “He’s a winner and that’s the kind of man we wanted,” said Steinbrenner. “I’ve never had a chance to be a loser," said- Virdon, who was fired last September in the midst of the National League East pennant race with the Pi-rates-only two games out of first place. “One in the lost column," reminded Virdon. “I feel if 1 had stayed, we would have won.” The Yankees, who also announced the appointment of Whitey Ford as pitching coach and the re-hiring of coaches Dick Howser and Elston Howard, signed Virdon for one year. President Gabe Paul insisted there was no significance to the length of contract.

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