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The Putnam County Banner-Graphic, October 24,1981

Fernando, Cey keeps Dodgers afloat 5-4

LOS ANGELES (AP) Like a card shark working with a fast shuffle and a deck full of aces, Fernando Valenzuela dealt a little magic to breathe some World Series life into the Los Angeles Dodgers. "It was one of the guttiest performances for a pitcher without his stuff that I have ever seen,” Manager Tommy Lasorda said with a touch of admiration in his voice after Valenzuela had struggled to a 5-4 victory over the New York Yankees Friday night. The victory left the Dodgers still trailing 2-1 in the best-of-seven Series They sent right-hander Bob Welch against New York's Rick Reuschel in today's fourth game, hoping he had more going for him than Valenzuela did in Game Three. "He was like a poker player bluffing his way through a bad hand,” Lasorda said of the 20-year-old rookie who has become the Dodgers' meal ticket this season. Valenzuela, the chunky left-hander from Mexico, just shrugged at his manager’s description. "I don't play poker,” he said. "I play baseball.” The young left-hander gave a gutsy demonstration of his craft, surviving on a night when he surrended nine hits, including two home runs, and seven bases on balls. He had important help from Ron Cey. who clubbed a three-run homer and made two key fielding plays at third base. It was obvious early that this would not be a vintage Valenzuela game. He walked two Yankees in the first inning but squirmed out of trouble by getting Lou Piniella to bang into a double play. In the bottom of the first, Cey supplied the Mexican southpaw with a quick three-run cushion. Davey Lopes opened with a double and Bill Russell beat out a bunt for a single against Yankee starter Dave Righetti, also a rookie. It looked like the 22-year-old Righetti might escape when he got both Dusty Baker and Steve Garvey with the runners still anchored. But Cey worked the count to 3-2 and then drove a fastball into the left field seats as a record Dodger Stadium crowd of 56,236 howled. "We had a chance to get him, but he came back to get Dusty and Steve.” said Cey. "We haven't been doing the right things in hit situations.il was just hopeful I could get something early for us.”

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Chris Leer (36) breaks outside on a misdirection play during the Greencastle victory over Cloverdale, only to find he has more blockers than expected from teammates Ron-

Cougars find growl in second half

By JOE HORINE Banner-Graphic Sports Writer SPENCER-The North Putnam Cougars finally came out of their cage in the second half with a frigid ground game at Owen Valley Friday night and upped their record to 6-3 with a 21-12 chilling of the Patriots in a WCC high school football game. “We were able to get our hands on the ball much more in the second half,” Cougar coach Gene Roe said. “Our offense didn’t get to run many plays in the first half but we were able to score with the ground game in the second half.” BOTH TEAMS were somewh&t lethargic in the opening stanza, apparently dulled by the chilly conditions. Owen Valley took the kickoff and drove to the Cougar 22 on 11 rushes and one pass play before

South Putnam comesclose again inl4-13setback againstEgewood

ELLETTSVILLE-If ifs and buts were candy and nuts. .. If ifs and buts were points the South Putnam High School football team would have a couple more victories. It happened again to the Eagles Friday night as they were edged 14-13 by Edgewood in a West Central Conference game. THE LOSS SENDS South Putnam into its season finale Wednesday night at Greencastle without hope of a winning season However, the Eagles

turning the ball over on downs. North Putnam was driving in Patriot territory when a fumble froze its only possession of the first quarter. In the second quarter, the teams traded possessions around midfield and the game appeared as though it might end up a scoreless tie. But as intermission drew near, the Patriots mounted a 64-yard, 11play drive that was aided to a large degree by two costly Cougar pass interference penalties. Owen Valley’s Dale Hicks, who had 70 yards rushing in the first half, ran for the touchdown with only four seconds remaining for the only score of the half. The halftime statistics were basically close, although Owen Valley had a 65-yard edge in

can still equal the best season in the school’s history at 4-6 should they become the first South Putnam football team ever to beat Greencastle on the varsity level. Edgewood, on the other hand, kept its conference championship and IHSAA playoff berth hopes alive. The Mustangs close the season at Cascade Wednesday night, a game that will decide the conference championship. Cascade dropped a 28-27 decision to

Now Valenzuela had a three-run lead and there have been times when that would have been plenty for him. This, however, was not one of them. In the second, Bob Watson reached him for a ledoff homer and before the inning was over, the Yankees had another run on a double by Rick Cerone, a long fly that advanced him to third, and Larry Milboume’s RBI-single to right. An inning later, the Dodger lead had completely evaporated as Valenzuela was jolted for a single by Piniella and Cerone’s home run, putting the Yankees in front, 4-3. Valenzuela was being rocked and later he would be asked about two minor earthquakes that sent pre-game tremors through Los Angeles. "I didn’t feel any earthquakes this morning,” he said. “I thought the earthquake was during the game, because they were hitting the ball so hard.” Righetti, however, wasn’t finding his first World Series start very smooth, either. "I knew in the bullpen that I wasn't at my very best,” the young Yankee left-hander said. "I just didn’t feel good.” After being belted around in the first inning, Righetti walked Valenzuela leading off the second, but escaped without any damage. When Garvey opened the third with a single and Cey walked, Manager Bob Lemon came out to get Righetti. He thought nervousness was part of the problem. “They’re human,” Lemon said. “You’re not a machine. I pitched a couple like that and I still remember being nervous. You can’t be human and not be nervous.” George Frazier relieved and pitched out of the jam without the Dodgers scoring. In the fifth, with the score still 4-3, the same scenario was repeated. Garvey opened with a single, bouncing the ball over the head of third baseman Aurelio Rodriguez, who replaced injured Graig Nettles in the Yankee lineup. Again, Cey followed with a walk. This time, however, the Dodgers cashed in on the opportunity. Pedro Guerrero faked a bunt, perhaps drawing Rodriguez in a fatal step or two. Then he bounced the ball over the third baseman’s head into left field for a double. “If I catch the ball, it’s a double play, maybe a triple play,” Rodriguez said. Instead, Garvey dashed home with the tying run. After Rick Monday was intentionally walked, loading the bases, Rudy May

nie Pettit (64) and Tim Gould (81). Leer carried the ball 22 times for 131 yards during the 31-14 win Friday night at Cloverdale. (Banner-Graphic photo by Steve Fields).

total offense. THINGS PICKED up right away in the second half as North Putnam took the kickoff and drove 60 yards in 8 plays to get on the scoreboard on a fouryard run by Perry Mason with 8:42 remaining in the third quarter. Mason led all rushers in the game with 127 yards on 21 carries. The extra point by Tim Blocher made the score 7-6, the same count that stood at the end of the third quarter. The Cougars scored their second and third touchdowns of the evening on passes from quarterback Bob Smith, one to Dave Lawhorn and the other to Hank Lawson for 24 and three yards, respectively. According to Roe, both TD passes were audibles called at the line of

Monrovia Friday night. “The breaks were the difference,” coach Mark Wildman said of the Eagles’ loss. “Our defense couldn’t have played any better. We held them to 134 yards. I don’t know what their average is, but imagine it’s more than that.” SOUTH PUTNAM led 74) at halftime on the strength of a 4~ yard touchdown run by. Steve Smith. The senior set up the offensive drive by intercepting an Edgewood pass during the first

scrimmage by Smith. THE FINAL TALLY of the game proved too little too late for the Patriots. A 93-yard pass from quarterback Harry Ohler to Hicks was pretty but no danger to the Cougars’ lead as the contest ended 21-12 only minutes later. SCORING SUMMARY North Putnam 0 0 7 14-21 Owen Valley 0 6 0 6-12 Second quarter OV-Hicks, 5 run (kick failed) Third quarter NP-Mason, 4 run (Blocher kick) Fourth quarter NP-Lawhorn, 24 pass from Smith (kick failed) NP-Uawson, 3 pass from Smith (Lawson, pass from Smith) OV-Hicks, 93 pass from Ohler. (run failed) Statistics OV NP First downs 13 14 Rushing yards 118 217 Passing yards 158 52 Passes 6-17-2 4-9-3 Return yards 101 65 Fumbles-lost 0-0 2-2 Yards penalized 11-110 6-70

quarter and two plays later tallied the six. Sean Pack kicked the PAT. Edgewood scored all of its points in the third quarter and started the drives on two South Putnam turnovers. The Eagles did not allow the Mustangs past the 50-yard line but once in the first half and most of the second half the Mustangs were corralled. Junior Rod Ogan, who entered the game with more than 1,000 yards rushing, carried the

relieved for the Yankees. With Mike Scioscia at bat, Lasorda sent Reggie Smith into the on-deck circle. It looked like Valenzuela’s night might be done. “We had to get a run,” the manager said. “If we didn’t score the go-ahead run, I would have pinch-hit for him.” Scoscia hit into a double play, scoring Cey. It wasn’t exactly the way Lasorda had planned it, but the run had scored and the Dodgers were ahead. So, Valenzuela stayed. He pitched through the next two innings innings without allowing a hit, although Watson drove Baker to the fence for his long drive in the seventh. Then in the eighth, the Yankees turned the heat on the young lefty again. This time, Rodriguez and Milbourne opened with singles. Bobby Murcer was sent up to swing for May and the instructions from Lemon were to bunt for a base hit. Murcer squared on the first pitch and got the bunt into the air. Cey burst in from third base and made a diving stab, grabbing the ball at the last moment. Then he jumped to his feet and fired to first, where Milbourne was trapped for a double play. “I got greedy and I got caught,” said Lemon. Murcer said he had not gripped the bat hard enough on the bunt. “I was trying to get the guys over, but I was trying to make it perfect,” he said. Willie Randolph followed with a slow roller to third and Cey grabbed the ball and tagged Rodriguez for the final out of the inning. It was to be the Yankees’ last gasp. In the ninth, Valenzuela retired the Yankees in order, pitching for the first time all night like the brilliant rookie who had captivated baseball for much of the 1981 season. “When he smelled the win, he went after it,” said Lasorda. And when he got it, the Dodgers hoped it might signal a turnaround in the Series for them. It fell to Welch, who has been living in the bullpen during the post season, to keep the recovery going. “1 always wanted to start but it (the rotation which did not include him) paid off for us in the playoffs,” he said. The Yankees also went to a fourth starter today, using righthander Reuschel. Lemon promised a return to action for slugger Reggie Jackson, who has sat out the first three games of the Series, recovering from a strained calf muscle.

Late breaks finally go to Greencastle in 31-14 win

By STEVE FIELDS Banner-Graphic Sports Editor CLOVERDALE-Greencastle defeated Cloverdale 31-14 Friday night in a West Central Conference high school football game with a very deceiving score. Cloverdale led 14-12 with 9:33 remaining and ended up losing by 17 points to the Tiger Cubs. “I have two thoughts,” Greencastle coach John Fallis said after the third Cub win of the year, “my first thought is I feel sorry for Cloverdale. We’ve been in that situation before where it’s been close all the way, then something seems to go wrong. It seems like every bad break in the world that could happen, happened to them at the end and I can feel for them. "THE SECOND thought is we conditioned very, very hard. I don’t know if that’s a factor or not, but if it is, then our kids deserved to win because they worked harder than most kids will.” Cloverdale coach Mike Stallcop saw it as a one-play football game. “It boils down to right there at the end. They scored with something like \ x k minutes to go and we’re still only behind by four points. After all the things we had done wrong, we’re still only behind four points,” Stallcop said. “And then that one big glaring error...that just put us away. I felt like even though they scored, if we could have got our hands back on the ball, I was confident we could take it down and make a run at them.” The “glaring mental error” was not covering a Greencastle kickoff after the Cubs went up 18-14 on Brent Elkins’ 23-yard touchdown run with 4:41 left in the game. A Clover back just watched the football, apparently not realizing it was not like receiving a punt. The kickoff is a live ball. GREENCASTLE’S Brad

ball all but three times for Edgewood and gained 130 of the Mustangs’ 134 yards rushing. Ogan scored the first Edgewood touchdown in the third period when the Eagles fumbled the opening on-side kickoff. SOUTH PUTNAM still led 7-6 after Ogan’s score, thanks to a dropped conversion pass. The Eagles got a good kickoff return, but fumbled the football and again Edgewood was on the march. This time quarterback Bobby Shield hooked up with

Calbert jumped on the offering at the Cloverdale nine and the Tiger Cubs scored four plays later when Chris Leer added to the biggest night of his sophomore varsity season with a two-yard touchdown on the option. Greencastle kicked off again and Cloverdale’s Troy Craig fumbled it after a 20-yard return with less than two minutes remaining in the football game. Tim Gould recovered the loose ball on Cloverdale’s 39 yard line. Calbert, who rushed for 37 yards in the fourth quarter alone, ran 20 yards on the second center snap of the possession for the final touchdown. Gary Wilson kicked the PAT to set the final score. But those last five minutes were nothing like the game. In fact, there were actually three games within this one contest. The first game resulted in a 7-6 Cloverdale halftime lead and the second saw Greencastle moving the football freely through the second half without putting a lot of points on the scoreboard. The final game was the last five minutes of “Space Invaders” type action. "IT BOILS DOWN TO the fact that number one, we gave them the big play,” coach Stallcop said pointing out Greencastle scored three of its four touchdowns on fourth-and-long yardage situations. “How are you going to win doing that? ‘‘And number two, we couldn’t stop their option play, or we couldn’t stop their misdirection stuff, their counters up the middle. Our defense didn’t play well. I thought we gave up an awful lot of yardage,” Stallcop lamented. To be exact, Greencastle racked up 282 yards rushing for the game after gaining only 89 in the first half. The Cubs had 115 yards rushing in the fourth quarter alone. Meanwhile, Cloverdale’s primary means of

end Kevin Thompson for a 25yard touchdown pass and P.D. Baugh caught a Shields’ pass for the two-point conversion and 14-7 lead. Edgewood’s offense and South Putnam’s offense did more to keep the Eagles off the scoreboard than the Mustang defense during the third period. South Putnam ran only four offensive plays in the period. The Eagles cut the lead to one, the final score, when Smith capped his 106-yard rushing

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movement was passing, as quarterback Bill Chestnut threw for 126 yards. The Clovers had only 90 yards rushing. CLOVERDALE took a 7-0 lead on the opening possession of the football game. Brien Holsapple, who led the Clover ground game with 53 yards, scored from four yards out on a super second-effort run. Darrell Garrison set up the score when he salvaged a misdirected Chestnut pass aimed for tight end Jim Price, the play covering 43 yards to the Greencastle 13. Greencastle cut the margin to one with 40 seconds left in the half when Mike Lee leaped to pull in a Craig Flint pass for a touchdown. However, the kick was wide, leaving the Clovers up 7-6. Greencastle went to the option in the second half with Bill Shuee at quarterback. That is when Leer picked up the majority of his 131 yards rushing for the night. SHUEE, WHO has not played since about the third or fourth game of the season because of illness, picked up a Cloverdale blitz on Greencastle’s opening drive of the second half and Elkins turned the junior’s dump pass into a 17-yard touchdown. The play capped an 11-play drive that started from the Cub 43. The PAT kick was short, leaving the Cubs with only a 12-7 lead, where it remained until the fourth quarter. Price blocked Charlie Sage’s punt on the opening play of the fourth quarter and Cloverdale teammate Ron Roach recovered, putting the Clovers on the march from their own 42. Chestnut was going to the air since the group game wasn’t moving, and on the fifth play of the possession he and McCammon hooked up for a 49yard touchdown pass on a simple streak pattern up the middle

night with a 16-yard touchdown run. Troy Thompson set up score by catching a 35-vard Bobby Hendrich pass. ••TROY MADE a great catch,” coach Wildman praised. “It was intercepted and Troy went in and fought for it and made the catch ” Thompson finished the night with two catches for 32 yards Statistically, South Putnam played Edgewood even, despite the difference in records. The now 345 Eagles had 215 yards

of the field. McCammon, who missed the last two games with a knee injury and did not carry the ball from his normal halfback spot because of it, also kicked the PAT for a 14-12 Cloverdale lead with 9:33 remaining. That’s when the roof fell in on Cloverdale. COACH FALLIS wasn’t worried about trailing by two with over nine minutes left in the game. “It seems like every game we’ve been in lately it’s been like that. We score and go up, they score and go up, then it goes back and forth. There was never any doubt in any of our kids or in my mind that we could come back and score another one,” Fallis said. And the coach wasn’t surprised by Leer’s season-high 131 yards rushing either. “He’s going to be better. He’s truthfully not at full speed because of that sprained ankle. A couple of times tonight, I think, if he had his full speed he would have broke a longer run. He broke some like 15 and 18 yards that might have gone for 60 if he had his full speed. He’s going to be a good running back,” Fallis praised. Neither team gets much time to let the bumps and bruises heal. Greencastle is host to South Putnam Wednesday in the 7:30 p.m. season finale, while Cloverdale goes to North Putnam. SCORING SUMMARY Greencastle 0 6 6 19-31 Cloverdale 7 0 0 7-14 First quarter CHS-Holsapple. 4 run (McCammon kick) Second quarter GHS-Lee, 21 pass from Flint (kick wide) Third quarter GHS-Elkins, 17 pass from Shuee (pass failed) • Fourth quarter CHS-McCammon, 49 pass from Chestnut (McCammon kick) GHS-Flkins, 23 run (run failed) GHS-Leer, 2 run (kick short) GHS-Calbert, 20 run (Wilson kick) Statistics GHS CHS First downs 20 9 Rushing yards 282 90 Passing yards 49 126 Passes 3-11-0 5-104) Return yards 50 90 Punts-avg. 2-19.0 2-33.0 Fumbles-lost 3-0 2-1 Yards penalized 3-25.0 3-25.0

total offense to the now 7-2 Mustangs’ 243. SCORING SUMMARY South Putnam 7 0 0 6-13 Edgewood 0 0 U 0-14 First quarter SP-Smith, 44 run (Pack kick) Third quarter F.HS-Ogan. 8 run (pass (ailed) EHS-Thompson. 25 pass from Shields (Baugh pass from Shields) Fourth quarter SP-Smith. 18 run (run failed) Statistics SP EHS First downs 8 8 Rushing yards 154 134 Passing yards 61 100 Passes 4-16-2 6-18-1 Return yards 29 19 Punts-Avg. 5-27.0 6-25.0 Fumbles-lost 3-2 2-2