Banner Graphic, Greencastle, Putnam County, 29 November 1974 — Page 7
Anderson converts for 48-47 win
Clovers hit late free throws to edge Cascade
CLOVERDALE-Cloverdale nesday night, the last pair with guard Rick Anderson sank four just four ticks remaining in the clutch free throws in the last game to lift the Clovers to a 48twenty seconds here Wed- 47 nerve-testing victory over
the Cascade Cadets. All four charity stripe tosses came on 1-1 situations after the Cadets had fouled Anderson in the backcourt in attempts to alleviate one point defecits, but the senior floor leader shook off the pressure to culminate a game-high 17 point performance, showing the way to the Clovers’ first victory of the young season. The free throws represented the only Clover scoring in the final 2:57 of the nip-and-tuck contest, as they tried to preserve a three point lead (their biggest of the night) with careful passing around the 1-2-2 zone defense the Cadets were reluctant to leave. However ckie to two missed Clover shots in that interim the Cadets had as many chances to tie or take the lead after Steve O’Brien had narrowed the margin to one with a ten footer that found its way off the rim and through the net at the 1:06
mark, setting the scoreboard at 44-43. The first opportunity went for nought when Cadet Jack Baker converted the front end of a 1-1 chance at the free throw line into an air ball with 51 seconds left Kelly Bailey then broke the Cascade full court press by dribbling up the left sideline, feeding Geoff Gale underneath the Clover basket. Gale, who was pressured, took the high percentage shot, but it bounced off the rim and into the eager hands of a Cadet, who immediately called time with just 43 seconds to go. Calling a play designed to beat the half court trap press the Clovers had gone to in the fourth quarter the Cadets were fouled up when Cloverdale came out in a man-to-man, and took the ball up the left side in an effort to beat the change of ploy. But Anderson and Tom Alexander double-teamed the
ball, the latter coming up with a steal with 25 seconds to go. He passed it to his partner in theft, who was immediately fouled to set up the first of his crucial trips to the line. After Anderson had converted the first pair of charity tosses with 20 seconds left Cascade high point man Phil Whethington pulled the Cadets back towithin one when he sent an eight footer off the board and in with just eight seconds
to play.
After Anderson’s second conversion the Cadets called time, and when they put the ball back into play they found all the Clovers standing together at half-court, watching the final basket fall that could not pull Cascade close
enough.
Commenting on the halfcourt trap press that the Clovers went to in the final quarter, when they grabbed the lead away from the Cadets for
Backcourt pressure Cloverdale substitute Jerry Chestnut applies the pressure to Cascade guard Jack Baker during fourth quarter action Wednesday night in Cloverdale. Chestnut came off the bench to point the trap press the Clovers threw at the Cadets in the final stanza, using his quickness to help force the visitors into costly mistakes. (Banner-Graphic Photo). Hosts take command early
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Sports
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 29,1974,
Tiger Cubs fall to Athenians, 75-60
CRAWFORDSVILLE- The Crawfordsville Athenians handed Greencastle their first loss of the young basketball season Wednesday night with a convincing 75-60 victory. The hosts, in running their record to 2-0, scored the games first 6 points and gradually built up a lead that the Tiger Cubs couldn’t overcome. Both teams applied full-court man-to-man pressure early in the game but quickly dropped the press in favor of a more conservative type of defense. Greencastle tried a zone but saw Crawfordsville race to a 17-10 first quarter lead with excellent outside shooting. Cub center Rex Baker kept his team in contention with 6 points in the quarter. Second period action saw Crawfordsville continue to increase its lead with almost half of its 19 second quarter points coming from the charity stripe (Crawfordsville converted 7 of 9 free throws while the Cubs were being whistled for 7 personal fouls). The Athenians used some fine offensive rebounding to take a 36-21 lead into the locker room at intermission. The second half saw the Cubs battle Crawfordsville on even terms with both teams scoring 39 points. Greencastle guard Connie Hunter had 19 of his 21
points in the second half with some fine outside shooting. Both teams substituted frequently with all of the players on both rosters seeing action. Fans might have thought they were sitting in on a foul shooting practice session the final 8 minutes of play, the two teams shot a combined total of 31 free throws. By this time the outcome of the game was pretty well decided with the only thing in doubt being the final score. Greencastle was led by Hunter’s 21 points with Baker adding 14 and Kent Frazier chipping in with 12. Frazier played quite well but still seems to be slowed down by a knee injury suffered during the recent football season. Junior forward Gary Rice led Crawfordsville with 22 points. Seniors Jon Arvin and playmaker John Schetzsle had 12 and 11 points to help pace the win. The Tiger Cubs saw their record slip to 1-1 for the season with Terre Haute Schulte coming to town December 7th. Summary: The Tiger Cubs got behind quickly in this one and found themselves trying tc play catch-up ball the rest ot
the way. Team defense must be considered one of the teams strong points on the basis of Wednesday’s performance. Big Rex Baker (6-8), rebounded well both on the offensive and defensive boards and also blocked several shots. Connie Hunter found the range after a very slow start and also played good solid defense. Coach Jim Huter showed a lot of confidence in his bench, which could spell trouble for Greencastle opponents the rest of the way.
Hunter Fraiitr Crois Baker Bruce
Miller 0 0-0 Jones 0 0-0 Williams 0 0-0 Losin 0 0-0 Stevens t 0-1 Earl 0 0-0 Whaley 0 )-« Cox 0 0-0 Totals 10 10-17 Crawfordsville (75) FO FT-FTA Schetzsle 5 Kadinger I 0-0 Rice 7 0-11 Arvin 4 0-0
Williams 3 0-1 0 Wilhite 4 0-0 1 Hudson 1 4-0 1 Staton 1 1-1 4 Paligraf 0 1-1 3 Bowerman 0 0-0 3 Impicciche 0 0-0 0 Totals 18 14*30 11 Score by Quarters G'castle 1® 1' 41
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B-Team Score: 4 17 17 14 33 41
the final time, Cloverdale coach A1 Tucker said, “We weren’t moving defensively, really, all night. In a situation like that it’s either going to work or you’re going to get burned badly, but we managed to scrap and get by.” Coming off the bench to point that press was junior Jerry Chestnut, whose quickness prompted his coach to insert him. “He was our best bet at the time. I felt he did an adquate job in the last five or six minutes.” Chestnut even surpassed adequacy when, with three minutes to play he reached around behind Baker to slap the ball in to the hands of teammate Anderson at halfcourt, took a return pass and hit a layup that marked the final Cloverdale basket of the night, stretching their lead to
44-41.
Prior to the fourth quarter the game had been tied three times, with the lead changing hands five times. Cascade held the biggest advantage, six points, midway through the third quarter, when they controlled the boards and hit the bucket to wipe out a 25-24 Cloverdale halftime lead. But with Bailey coming off the bench to provide spark for the Clovers with a couple of baskets Cloverdale pulled to within one point by the end of the period, setting up the final eight dramatic minutes of play. Randy Barron complemented Anderson’s offensive output with eight points, most of them coming in a second quarter streak from the outside that helped turn around Cascade’s 15-14 lead at the end of the first frame. Rick Langdon also provided outside balance while Alexander and Gale picked up six and seven points, respectively, around
t the hoop.
Mark Skinner showed a 4 strong outside shot for a 6’3” o man, supplementing 7 “ Whethington’s 15 points with 10
for Cascade.
to The field goal shooting 75 percentages were about even for the game, the Cadets hitting IS 38 per cent to the Clovers’ 36, as
were the rebounding stats, 3029 in favor of the hosts. But the Clovers won the game at the line, Anderson’s 7 for 8 performance there supplying most of the Clovers’ 8-12 showing, while the Cadets managed only 3 for 9. Looking ahead to Saturday’s trip to South Putnam when the Clovers try to improve on their 1-1 record Tucker forecast, “We’re going to have the same problem of being outmanned on the boards, playing against taller players. We’re just going to have to accept it that we’re going to have close games like tonight all year.” Even though exciting to the fans, games like that all year are likely to sprout a gray hair or two for the Clover mentor.
Box Scoro Clovort (44: FG FT
Alexander Bailey Barron Cummings Longdon Anderson Chestnut Gale Ramey To tals
Cadets (47)
Baker Cherry Skinner Whethington Tharp O'Brien Totals
Score by Quarters Clovers 14 25 31 48 Cadets 15 25 3 4 4 7
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Clutch shooter Rick Anderson fires one of the four free throws that he connected on in the final twenty seconds of Wednesday night’s game at Cloverdale to insure the Clovers 48-47 victory over WCC foe Cascade. Off to a good start in the conference Cloverdale will take on another WCC opponent Saturday night when they travel to South Putnam. (Banner-Graphic Photo).
South Putnam falls, 69-63
Staunton press brings win over Eagles
Hunter
Clover frosh stop Cougars for third victory in row
Cloverdale’s 9th grade basketball team steadily increased a 10-8 end of first quarter lead into a 51-36 victory at North Putnam Monday, extending their season opening winning streak to three games. Still a fairly tight contest entering the final quarter, as the Cougars were down by onlyseven points, the Clovers broke it open by outscoring the hosts 16-8 in the concluding minutes. Cloverdale coach Jim Coon cited clutch shooting from the floor in the final session that aided the Clovers to their comfortable winning margin. The Clovers connected on 49 percent of their field goal attempts for the game, while the Cougars hit on 39 percent. North Putnam turned around the advantage at the free throw line, hitting at a 57 percent clip to 33 percent for the winners. Kevin Walker led the Clovers with 20 points, followed by Mike Monnett with 13 and Mark Rutenberg with 10. North Putnam’s O’Hair showed the way to the losers’ hoop with 10 markers, while Wilson and Means bagged 8 apiece. Cloverdale also picked up a C f .1
team victory at North Putnam’s expense Monday as Kevin Williams hit a pair of
clutch free throws with two seconds remaining in the game to ice the 34-31 win.
BRAZIL - The South Putnam Eagles journeyed to the Brazil gym Wednesday evening for a homecoming bout with the Staunton Yellow Jackets and came home without a victory, having fallen, 69-63. The Eagles, who won their opener against North Salem almost two weeks ago, looked like this was their first game and the layoff is certain to have had some adverse effect in their effort. Jeff Burdge, still suffering from a knee problem, was back in action and scored the first two points in the game but scrappy Staunton tied the score. Staunton, as a result of South’s inability to hit the hoop and excellent hustling' and rebounding by the Yellow Jackets, jumped to a 20-9 lead at the end of the first quarter. The second quarter found aggressive Kelly Chesshir in the Eagle lineup and with 5:15 left in this stanza the Eagles began to find the basket. South Putnam began to get back on defense and slowed the Jackets fast break and when the half ended the Eagles had cut the lead to three points with the
score standing at 28-31. The second half began with South Putnam controlling the tip off and Chesshir penetrating the Staunton defense with a layup to bring the Eagles within one point with 6:34 left in the period. At this point it appeared the Eagles were ready to play ball but Staunton would not give up so easily. The lead changed hands several times during this period and with Staunton’s full court press, which seemed to rattle the Eagles, the Yellow Jackets hung on at 50-46 to end the third quarter. The final period got underway with the Eagles missing a layup and Staunton missing two free throw attempts and another minute passing before either team scored. South Putnam’s Keith Puckett hit a field goal to bring the Eagles within two but Staunton coverted on a foul t shot and remained ahead by ’three. Both teams exchanged baskets and with 6:31 left in the game Staunton called time out. Jim Buell’s Yellow Jackets once again came to the floor with their sticky press and once
again it worked for them. The Eagles threw the ball away three times in a row and with 5:20 left the Yellow Jackets were once again up by five, 5752. The Eagles began to settle down and with 3:27 left and a bucket by Puckett the Eagles were back in the game with the score reading 57-58 in Staunton’s favor. Mark Holderfield then fouled Staunton’s Cooper who increased the Jacket lead to three points. The Eagles, with time running out and
finding themselves behind, once again committed errors and fouls which placed the ball in the hot hands of Yellow Jackets,and when the final buzzer sounded the scrappy Yellow Jackets were not to be denied their homecoming victory to the tune of 69-63. South Putnam’s Junior Varsity upped their season mark to 2-0 by defeating Staunton 65-59. The 1-1 Eagles won’t have to wait so long for their next test which will be their home opener Saturday night. Tom Goldsberry’s crew will en-
tertain southern rival and WCC foe, Cloverdale.
Box Scort South Putnam (43) FT Burdge 2 0 Chesshir Cowger 4 o Ames 0 0 Holderfield 4 2 Erwin 3 0 Scobee 1 0 Puckett 7 2 Brown 1 0 Staunton (44) FG FT F Brown 452 Huffman 7 4 2 Moody 3 4 4 Kirchner 3 0 0 Koile 3 0 4 Cooper 322 withers g 2 1 Score by Quarters Eagles 4 28 44 Staunton 20 31 50
Puckett
Rookie QB hits Pearson at 0:28
Dallas stays in contention with late bomb
By JOHN NELSON AP Sports Writer The Pittsburgh Steelers, with the eager aid of the Miami Dolphins and reluctant assistance of the Houston Oilers, could start clearing up a confusing National Football League playoff situation Sunday. They got no help, thank you, from Dallas on Thanksgiving Day. Pittsburgh, 8-2-1, can clinch the American Conference Central Division with a victory over Houston, 5-6, if the Dolphins beat Cincinnati Monday night. That set of circumstances wouldn’t eliminate Cincinnati from a wild-card spot, but it would cancel any slim mathematical hope the Oilers have of gaining the playoffs.
In the second of two Turkey Day games, Dallas was 28 seconds away from mathematical elimination from the playoffs when Clint Longley, who had never run an NFL regular-sea-son play before, threw 50 yards to Drew Pearson for a touchdown, beating Washington 2423. The Cowboys have been in the playoffs for the past eight years, and could gain an unprecedented ninth if the Redskins, 8-4, lose a few more and Dallas, 7-5, wins a few more. Longley came into the game for the injured Roger Staubach. In the earlier Thanksgiving game, the Denver Broncos, 6-5-1, beat Detroit, 66 and now eliminated from the playoffs, 31-27. Denver’s Otis Armstrong
ran for a touchdown and 144 yards in the game to surpass the 1,000-yard mark. In Pittsburgh’s last game, Terry Bradshaw and Franco Harris combined with the NFC’s stingiest defense to lead the Steelers to a 28-7 victory over New Orleans. Bradshaw threw for two touchdowns, ran for another and tentatively has regained his starting position from Terry Hanratty. Harris, with 114 yards against the Saints, now has 762 for the season and is shooting for his second 1,000-yard plus season. Dan Pastorini — if he can keep off his back after being sacked seven times last week by Dallas — could give the Steeler defense trouble. In other Sunday games, Baltimore, 2-9, is at Buffalo, 6
3; Kansas City, 4-7, meets the Cardinals, 9-2, at St. Louis; New England, 7-4, plays in Oakland, 9-2; Los Angeles, 8-3, is at Atlanta, 2-9; New Orleans, 4-7, faces Minnesota, 7-4; Green Bay, 6-5, is at Philadelphia, 4-7; the New York Jets, 4-7, host San Diego, 3-8; the New York Giants, 2-9, travel to Chicago, 3-8, and San Francisco, 4-7, is at Cleveland, 3-8. The Dolphins, confounded this year by occasional lapses in their defensive secondary, will have to here up against Cincinnati if they hope to stop the precision passing of Ken Anderson. The Bills are tied with the Dolphins for first in the AFC East, and would put the pressure on Miami with a victory
Sunday. Buffalo, led by O.J. Simpson’s 937 yards, is a twotouchdown favorite. Bert Jones, sidelined since Nov. 3 with a shoulder injury, may get the nod at quarterback for the Colts. With the Redskins’ loss, the Cards can clinch the NFC East title by beating Kansas City. Jim Hart, whose 17 TD passes lead the NFC, could lead the Cards to their winningest season since 1960, while the Chiefs, who lost to Cincinnati last week, are assured of their first losing season since 1963. Oakland had a nine-game winning streak broken last week by Denver and the Raiders need to regain momentum after clinching early in the Turn to page 8B, Column 1
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