Banner Graphic, Volume 11, Number 154, Greencastle, Putnam County, 3 March 1981 — Page 7

Cloverdale convincing sectional champ

By STEVE FIELDS Banner-Graphic Sports Editor Cloverdale outscored Van Buren 19-2 during a five-minute stretch of the fourth quarter Saturday night to dethrone the Blue Devils 78-51 and win the Greencastle--IHSAA basketball sectional title in McAnallv Center. The first Cloverdale sectional title since 1973. and the first by a Putnam County team since 1977. puts the Clovers in the opening game of the Terre Haute regional Saturday at Hulman Civic Center against Bloomfield, winner of the Switz City sectional "THEY WERE LOOSE, emotionally prepared, mentally prepared and hungrier than Van Buren.” Clover coach A 1 Tucker said after his fifth sectional crown in 14 seasons at the helm “We played well Overall, we played very well.” Van Buren coach John Memmer pointed to Cloverdale's balanced attack as the key. “Their entire team, that one stretch there. I think they hit something like 10 out of 11 shots and that kind of sealed our fate." Memmer said. “Their entire team shot an excellent percentage and we had a stretch there it seemed like we couldn’t even find the basket.” Cloverdale shot 57 per cent (29-51) for the game and hit 8 of 13 in the final quarter to Van Buren’s 2of 11. The Blue Devils shot only 32 per cent (17-52) for the game, never getting into their running or pressing game against the Clover shooting and 27-22 rebounding advantage. “CLOVERDALE has an excellent ball club and the way they played tonight they would probably just bypass Terre Haute and just go straight to Evansville (site of the semi-state).” Memmer praised. "There is no shame in the way we played. We lost to an excellent ball club.” Cloverdale broke open a fairly tight ball game in the final quarter by going to its spread offense that uses the entire half of the court. The Clovers were up 34-25 at halftime and led by 14 points through most of the third quarter. After two Tim Sullivan free throws just 35 seconds into the last eight minutes, Cloverdale took off and never looked back. Before the cluster of Clover fans decended upon the floor in celebration eight

Others at Terre Haute Rady guides Braves to sectional title

TERRE HAUTE-Pat Rady’s first Terre Haute South team continued the sectional championship tradition Saturday night, defeating tournament surprise Dugger-Union 94-54 in the title contest at Terre Haute South. South took a 17-4 first quarter lead and held a 41-20 halftime advantage and despite what coach Rady called “super coaching” by Union’s Joe Hart. After three quarters the Braves led 64-36. Dave Conrady led South with 22 points and Tony Erdly topped Dugger with 16. It marks the fourth

Brazil peaked for tournament

CLINTON-Climbing over the 500 mark for the first time since the opening game of the season, the Brazil Red Devils defeated host South Vermillion 59-37 to win their second consecutive sectional title. The 12-11 Red Devils took a 12-4 first quarter lead and were up 20-11 at halftime After three quarters Brazil led 36-17. Jeffries and Carpenter paced Brazil with 14 points and Anderson contributed 10. No South Vermillion player reached double

Cardinals win again

SWITZ CITY-Bloomfield won its fourth straight Switz City sectional Saturday night 50-37 over host Central High School. Bloomfield, now 12-10, led all the way, taking an 11-4 advantage at the first stop. 20-13 at halftime and 30-21 into the final quarter. Leading coach Steve Brett’s team was Gilmore with 13 points and Pickett paced Central with 11 The Cardinals now meet

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Cloverdale players had scored in the last period, led by Jim Price’s eight points. ' CLOVERDALE WON THE tournament with a balanced attack. Price paced the winners with 14, followed by Chad Tucker with 16, Tony Hacker with 13 and Jerry Neese with 12. The end was a complete contrast to the beginning. Van Buren led throughout the first four minutes of the game against Cloverdale’s 2-3 zone. “We started in a zone because we didn’t want to get into the foul problems we got into last night,”

straight year Rady, a native of Roachdale and former Bainbridge High School coach, has put a team in the regional. His last three were at Shelbyville. South now plays Brazil, winner of the second game of the Terre Haute regional at Hulman Civic Center. T.H. SOUTH (94) Shouse 7 0-1 0 14, Hart .10-1 3«, Bentley 1 0-0 5 2. Conrady 8 6-7 3 22, Troani .104) 26. Irvin 6 3-10 15. McCormick 546 1 14. Day 1 04) 0 2, Mahurin 1 04) 0 2, Murray 1 1-2 2 3, Reno 2 4-4 0 8, Watson 0 0-0 2 0 -- Totals FC. 38 FT 10-16 FF 18 DUGGER-UNION (54) Ballard 1 04) 0 2. Bonham 4 1-2 5 9, Bovd 5 44! 4 14. Chaney 0 2-3 I 2, Denham 4 04) 4 8. Krdlv 7 2-2 4 16. Hale 0 04) 1 0. Page 1 1-3 0 3 - Totals FT 22 FT 10-16 PF 19 T.H. South n 24 24 30-94 Dugger-Union 4 16 16 18-54

figures. Going into the Terre Haute regional for the second year in a row, the Red Devils have now won six straight games. Brazil plays Terre Haute South in the 12:30 p.m. game at Hulman Civic Center. BRAZIL (59) Jeffries 7 0-1 1 14, Dressier 0 0-0 1 ft, Carpenter 7 0-1 2 14, Liston 1 2-2 0 4. Thomas 1 0-2 0 2, Lancaster 2 2-2 t 6, Anknev 2 2-2 4 6, Anderson 5 0-12 10, Crick 0 0-1 1 0. Buell I 0-0 2 2. Crabb 0 I - 211 totals FG 26 FT 7-11 PF 13 SOUTH VERMILLION (37) Frazier 2 1-2 2 5, Wilson 0 ft-fl I ft, Sims 4 1-2 3 9. Alhaugh 1 CM) ft 2, Hamerslv 2 5-9 2 9, Whitaker 0 2-2 I 2. Maguire 10-0 12, Sutliff 1 0-0 2 2, l.atinovich 2 0-2 I 4. Milan I 0-1 0 2. I.indsev 0 0-1 0 0 - totals FC. 13 FT 11-18 PF 15

Cloverdale in the opening game of the Terre Haute regional Saturday at 11 a m. in Hulman Civic Center. Bloomfield’s last trip to the semi-state was in 1965. BLOOMFIELD (50) Jeff Vandeventer 3 1-13 7, Helms 5 3 3 0 13, Gilmore 7 4-6 1 18. Henderson 4 1 2 2 9, Curt Vandeventer I 0-2 0 2. Sours 0 1-2 0 1, Miles 0 0-0 I 0 - Totals FC. 2ft FT 10-16 PF 7 SWITZ CITY (37) Border 2 0-0 5 4, Frye 2 0-0 I 4. Himebrook 4 0-0 0 8, Mowerv 4 2-2 2 10. Picket 5 1-3 3 11. Sipes 0 0-0 I 0. Worland 0 04) I 0 - Totals FC. 17 FT 3-5 PF 13 Bloomfield II 9 10 20-50 Switz City 4 9 8 16-36

Clovers 23-2 sectional and conference champions

Tucker said in reference to the semifinal victory over Rockville. “I felt we could go at them man-to-man and I felt we could control every position. But, those fouls can be a difficult situation, and I didn’t want to get into foul trouble in the first half .” The plan almost didn’t work. Van Buren didn’t score against the zone, but the Clovers had five team fouls just 2M> minutes into the contest. Van Buren forged a 7-4 lead with five free throws and a Mark Chamberlain field goal. TONY HACKER PUT an offensive

Things get hoppin' when things get Clover green

By STEVE FIELDS Banner-Graphic Sports Editor A 1 Tucker must have a green thumb. Actually it’s green with a yellow nail. This has got to be considered one of the best jobs in his 14 years of leading the Clovers. When the season started he wouldn’t predict Cloverdale winning more than say 14 games. THE HOLDER OF 204 VARSITY career coach victories. Tucker was faced with putting two sophomores in the starting lineup and could only hope veteran Jim Dean would heal up from a football knee injury. Two players Tucker was counting on didn’t come out, and then Tony Hacker and Mark McCammon were absent, by Hacker’s admission, from the opening practice after football season ended. “I knew there was going to have to be an awful lot of maturing with this ball club because of the number of rookies we were going to go with,” Tucker said. “But basically they’re pretty level-headed kids, they think pretty well, they’re good students, good citizens and they just did a good job.” The “rookies” were Jerry Neese and the coach’s son, Chad. Neese scored 12 points in the championship game and has been the Clover quarterback, number two scorer (14.8) and assist leader all season. Tucker, who lets his playing speak for itself, scored 16 points and average 10 points a game this year. WERE THE TWO SOPHOMORES nervous going into the championship game? “Before the game, yes,” Tucker said during the post-game celebration at McAnally Center. “But after the opening tipoff it was just another game,” Neese added. “Just another game” might have been the difference for Cloverdale. As Coach Tucker said before the sectional, this bunch is a pretty unemotional team. They don’t really get up with a lot of rah, rah stuff. They play steady. Van Buren came out fired up and still only scored on free throws. DEAN SHOWED EVERYONE in the final 90 seconds Saturday night that his knee is completely healed. Dean dribbled three-quarters of the length of the floor, then pulled up to sink his only two points of the night. Billy, I didn’t forget you. Chestnut, the guy I call the team radical, scored 19 points in the semifinal victory and eight points in the title game. “I just tried to do what I could,” Billy said without offering to buy me a coke which is his customary greeting. “That’s your last chance, you haven’t got another chance after the sectional if you lose.” Price was his normally brilliant self. Only a junior the 6-4 forward scored 22 points and pulled down 14 rebounds. Just think, he could get even BIGGER! If anyone looked at that busted lip he suffered in the Rockville game they would have thought Jim was in a boxing match. HACKER HAS NEVER played better. Coach Tucker said before the season that Tony was showing signs of more dedication and working harder. He wasn’t sure if he wanted to play basketball this season, but of course it turned out to be his best, averaging 11 points. Dave Whitaker, Don Trumbo and Brent Jones normally don’t see a great deal of playing time, but they have never lacked for hustle or attitude. Don must have watched Price’s ball handling because the junior did a little behind-the-back act of his own. Troy Craig and Dan Samuels joined the varsity for the tournament after playing JV all season. Craig even scored on a 17footer. As Jimmy Dean said, “When everything is going your way, you might as well go for it.” ACCORDING TO A RELIABLE source, who shall remain nameless, although he does have a nephew starting in the

rebound back in to cut the gap to 7-6 and a Jerry Neese bucket at 2:17 off a Billy Chestnut steal put Cloverdale ahead to stay. Van Buren tried pressing sophomore starters Tucker and Neese more on the perimeter during the early going of the second quarter. The idea gave Cloverdale the opportunity to build a seven-point lead when center Hacker and forward Price found themselves open for eight-foot jumpers. “Mainly it was just there,” the coach’s

Fields' Findings

Cloverdale backcourt and a son starting guard for Wabash College. Joan Tucker must have been nervous before watching her husband and son in the championship game. Mrs. Tucker tried to get into McAnally Center with an appointment card instead of a ticket. Joan is loving every minute of this season. “I love it. I could stand it right on through March if I have to,” she said. There appears to be quite a reunion lined up for the Hulman Civic Center regional. Cloverdale meets Bloomfield in the opening game. Bloomfield coach Steve Brett and former Clover basketball stars Joe Williams and Rod Hervey were teammates at Indiana State University. TERRE HAUTE SOUTH plays Brazil in the second game. South coach Pat Rady is a Roachdale native and coached the Bainbridge High School power team of the mid-60’s that were led by Larry Steele. Rady’s wife Margaret is a 1960 graduate of Cloverdale High School and his mother-in-law, Mrs. Gladys Huber, still lives in Cloverdale. Brazil coach Jim Buell started his career as an assistant coach for A 1 Tucker at Cloverdale before going on to Staunton and then Brazil. *** I’ve got a bunch of weekend staff writers to thank for some clutch performances this year. David Evens, a 1980 graduate of North Putnam High School and now a freshman at Purdue University, has driven home almost every weekend to work basketball games. Joe Horine, a sophomore at DePauw University, has begged for Cloverdale games all season and it has nothing to do with basketball. He writes about cheerleaders on the side. DePauw University Sports Information Director Pete Shownir got to see some central Indiana high school ball after growing up watching Huntington and then the Muncie teams. Rolf Ricker, a DePauw senior, pulled me out of some pretty tough weekends during the heavy schedule. Tracy Proctor, a 1980 graduate of South Putnam High School, will make it as a photographer if she never does as a coach and teacher. She has taken most of the action shots this season. Tracy and I will see you all in Terre Haute. Braves protest killings WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. ( AP) The green swatch of tape on the Atlanta Braves’ batting helmets will remain until the cases of the 21 slain or missing children in Atlanta are solved, according to a spokesman for the National League club. The players also will do 30-second taped commentaries, to be distributed to Atlanta-area radio stations, pleading with the killer or killers to give himself up, said Braves spokesman Wayne Minshew

son said of getting the ball inside. “They started coming out on us tighter so we just dumped it inside.” THE BLUE DEVILS started getting some penetration on the wings of the Cloverdale defense and closed the gap to 24-21 behind center Dennis Halfhill and forward Mark Chamberlain. Price hit back-to-back 10-footers to make sure the Devils got no closer. A Chestnut steal followed by a Price layup increased the margin to five and another Price field goal made the margin

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seven points. Tucker’s 18-foot, two-handed shot gave the Clovers a 34-25 halftime lead. Not only did the Clovers have the lead by nine at halftime, but coach Tucker had what he wanted in the way of fouls. “At halftime I realized we were in good shape (and said), ‘Hey, let’s go after them.’” the coach who hates to see his team play zones said. AFTER BEING WHISTLED for five fouls in the first 3W minutes, the Clovers committed only two more in the half. Although play was ragged in spots by over-hustle, the contest was a physical, but well-played game. Cloverdale committed only nine turnovers and Van Buren 12. CI,OVERDAI,E (78) Price 7 8-8 2 22, Tucker 5 6-6 2 16. Hacker 6 1-2 1 13. Chestnut 3 2-2 3 8, Neese 5 2-12 t 2. Dean 10-0 12. McCammon 0 1-3 3 1. Whitaker 10-0 12, Trumbo 0 0-12 0. Jones 0 0-110. Craig 1 0-0 0 2. Samuels 0 0-0 0 0. Totals - Ffi 29 FT 20-29 PF 19. VAN BUREN (51) King 1 2-2 3 4. Sullivan 2 3-3 4 7. Halfhill 6 4-5 4 16. Johnson 3 2-4 4 8, Chamberlain 3 04) 4 6, Albright 0 4-4 0 4. Brown 0 1-201. Floyd 00-000. Warner 10-012.1.ucas 0 00 0 0, Jackson 0 0-1 0 0. Carter 1 1-2 1 3. Totals - FG 17 FT 17-23 PF 21. REBOUNDING CI.OVERDAI.E (27) Price 14. Tucker 5. Hacker 5, Chestnut 1. Neese 1. Samuels I. V AN BI'REN (22) Halfhill 9. Johnson 4. King 3. Chamberlain 2. Jackson 2. Sullivan I. Warner I. BY QU ARTERS Cloverdale 14 20 19 25 -78 Van Buren 9 16 14 12-51

Tourney scoreboard

Indiana High School Basketball Bovs Sectional Tournaments By The Associated Press Saturday's Games All Championships Anderson Anderson 67. Madison HtS 64 Bedford Bedford-N.Lawrence 38. Bloomington Soulh 28 Blackford Blackford 52. Wapahani 44 Benton Central Frontier 52. Twin Lakes 50 Brow nshurg Brownsburgs7. Mooresville44 Boonville South Spencer 54. Teeumseh 43 Calumet Highland4B, Merrillville 45 Carmel Noblesville93. Hamilton Hts 62 Columbia City Whitkos2. Manchester 51 Columbus Columbus North 39. Hauser 35 Conorsville Connersvilles3. Union Co. 52 DeKall) DeKalb7<). Angola 55 Fast Central South Ripley 65. Milan 32 Fast Chicago Whilingsl. KC Roosevelt 50 Fast Noble laikeland 62. Fairfield 53 Flkhart Elkhart Memorial 82. Flkhart Central 81 Evansville Fv Central 53. Ev. North 51 Floyd Central Floyd Central 87. Corydon 35 Fort Wayne I FW Wayne .36, FW South 34 Fort Wayne II FW Concordia 52, FW Harding 48 Fountain Central Fountain Central 68. Covington 56 Frankfort Rossville62. Tri4Central 44 Franklin Central Indpls Marshall 57. Indpls Roncalli 53 Gary Gary Roosevelt 60. Gary West 50 Greencastle Cloverdale7B. Van Buren 51 Greenfield Eastern Hancock 72. Mt. Vernon 66. 2 OTs Greensburg Greensburg 82. RushvilleOO Greenwood Indian Creek 59. Franklin 55 Hammond Andrean7l. Hammond 68 Huntington Homestead 54. Northfield 42 Indpls Ben Davis Indpls Pike 41. Indpls Ben Davis 40 Indpls Hinkle IndplsChatard6B, Indpls Cathedral 66 Jay County Jay Co 37. Randolph Southern 35. OT Jeffersonville New Albany 51. Jeffersonville 50 Kankakee Valley Kankakee Valley 74. Boone Grove 50 Kokomo Northwestern 51. Kokomo 47 Lafayette Harrison 43. Lafayette Jeff 41 Lebanon Weslern Boone 26. Zionsville 24 Logansport Cass 41. Pioneer 39 Madison Charlestown 55. Madison 53 Marion Marion 88. Oak Hill 65 Martinsville Bloomington North 42. Martinsville 40 Michigan City Mich. City Rogers 61. Mich. City Elston 60 Muncie Muncie South 45. Muncie North 43 Newcastle "'*• Shenandoah 40. Richmond 39 North Judson Oregon-Davis 78. S. Central 75. OT North Montgomery MeCutchoon 70. Southmont 56 Pauli Craw ford County 88. W Washington 46 Ply mouth Argos 47. LaVillo 41 Princeton Mt Vernon 73. Princeton 64

All tourney team First team F - Jim Price, Cloverdale F - Duncan Gilmore, Rockville C - Tony Hacker, Cloverdale G - Billy Chestnut, Cloverdale G - Brady Johnson, Van Buren Second team F - Glenn Logan, North Putnam F - Jim Lear, Rockville C - Dennis Halfhill, Van Buren G - Jerry Neese, Cloverdale G - Brent Atwell, Greencastle

Seymour Brownstown 45. Crothersville 40 Shelbyville Shelbyville 35. Triton Central 34. OT South Adams Norwell 58. Southern Wells 46 South Bend SB Riley 67. SB Adams 54 South Dearborn Lawrenceburg 65. Switzerland Co. 53 South Vermillion Brazil 59. S. Vermnillion 37 Southport Indpls Howe 87. Southport 65 South ridge Jasper 69. Southridge6B Switz. City Bloomfield 50. Switz City 37 Terre Haute Terre Haute South 91, Dugger 51 Triton Warsaw 67. Triton 57 ValparaisoValparaiso 72. Portage 61 Vincennes Vincennes 9o, S. Knox 53 Washington Loogootee 44. Washington ill Regionals First-round regional pairings of the 64 sectional winners in the 71st Indiana High School Athletic Association boys' basketball tournament March 7 (Games 11 a m and 12:30 p in., local time, with winners meeting at 8.15 for championship i: Anderson Noblesville vs Anderson Blackford vs Northwestern Columbus Shelbyville vs Indian Creek Columbus North vs Bloomington North Connersvillr Lawrenceburg vs Connersville S. Riplev vs Greensburg Elkhart Argos vs Whitko Elkhart Memorial vs Warsaw Evansville Evansville Central vs Vincennes S.Spencer vs Ml. Vernon i Posey l Fort Way ne I-akeland vs FW Concordia FW Wayne vs DeKalb Frankfort Western Boone vs Rossville McCutcheon vs Brow nsburg Gary West Gary Roosevelt vs Andrean Whiting vs Highland Indianapolis Indpls Chatard vs Indpls Pike Indpls Marshall vs Indpls Howe Lafayette Harrison vs Fountain Central Kankakee Valley vs Frontier Marion Homestead vs Nonvell Marion vs Cass Michigan City Oregon-Davis vs Mich. City Rogers S Bend Riley vs Valparaiso New Castle Shenandoah vs Eastern Hancock Jay County vs Muncie South Seymour Floyd Central vs New Albany Brow nstown vs Charlestown Terre Haute Cloverdale vs Bloomfield Brazil vs Terre Haute Soulh Washington C rawford Co. vs Bedford-N Lawrence Loogootee vs Jasper INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Among the lowest scores in Indiana boys sectional basketball tourney play were a 12-10 Logansport victory over Pioneer in 1966; a 14-12 decision by Haubstadt over Fort Branch in three overtimes in 1961; a 1716 overtime triumph by Scottsburg against Madison in 1955. and a 15-14 victory by Wabash over Laketonin 1949

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