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The Putnam County Banner-Graphic, October 27,1981

Do Yankees have as much fight as Steinbrenner?

.* NEW YORK (AP) Looking like a bloodied but unbowed patriot right out of a Revolutionary War portrait, owner George Steinbrenner leads the New York Yankees into tonight’s sixth game of the 1981 World Series against the Los Angeles Dodgers. Will Team Turmoil rally around its battered and bandaged boss, who says he was injured defending their honor in a hotel brawl? Or will the Dodgers, baseball’s huggingest team, nail down their first world championship in 16 years? Stay tuned for the next exciting chapter in this thrilling soap opera. It arrives tonight with Tommy John trying to keep the Yankees alive against the Dodgers’ Burt Hooton. Steinbrenner promises tgat his team will rebound in a topsy turvy World Series that has had a little bit of everything so far. •'We'll win it in New York," he stormed after the Yankees had dropped three straight games in California to slip perilously near the brink of elimination. When two men got into a heated debate with Steinbrenner following Sunday’s 2-1 loss, one thing led to another and the Yankee owner emerged with a cast on his hand. It’s a good thing

sports

South Putnam is ousted; championship Tuesday

By STEVE FIELDS Banner-Graphic Sports Editor Sometimes you get the bear, sometimes the bear gets you, so goes the IHSAA TV commercial. The Bear got South Putnam Monday night, as the Eagles * closed a 3-14 season with a 15-9, *ls-9 loss to now 11-8 Van Buren ’in match three of the Green-castle-IHSAA voileyball sectional. VAN BUREN now plays Brazil, a 15-0, 15-1 winner over Rosedale in the second Monday night match. Brazil entered the Greencastle tournament with only three losses, those coming to Cloverdale, Edgewood and JVest Vigo. Greencastle and Cloverdale square off at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday night in the first semi-final match, that will be followed by Van Buren and Brazil and the championship match should get underway around 9 p.m. at McAnally Center. The cham-

Junior high teams post winning records The two Greencastle Junior High football teams closed •their seasons with winning records this fall. The Eighth Grade posted a 5-4 record as Steve Paquin ended 15 years of coaching. Mike Vanßensselaer’s Seventh Graders closed the ; season with a 5-3 record. ' The Eighth Grade came back from an 0-2 start to defeat South Putnam, Cloverdale, Rockville, Monrovia and * They lost to Brazil, Tri-West, North Putnam and * - the finale to Owen Valley. The Seventh Grade won all five of its games by shutouts. * -They defeated North Putnam, Monrovia, Cascade, Clover- ' dale and Rockville. The three losses came to Tri-West, South , ‘Putnam and Owen Valley. V* DePauw earns split The DePauw women’s volleyball squad split its Tuesday night match, beating St. Mary of the Woods 15-3, 15-10, but losing to Indiana Central 15-6,15-3.

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pion advances to the Decatur Central regional Nov. 7. Van Buren led all the way in the opening game of the match, as Jamie Price delivered the first four points - two by ace, one by spike and another by an Eagle volley error. South Putnam tied it 4-4 on Lea Ann Toney’s service, but being unable to hold on to the serve got the Eagles behind 9-4. “It seems like as long as we’ve got the serve we’re all right,” coach Becky Brothers said of the Eagle offense. AS THEY DID throughout the match, the Eagles rallied to within on, 9-8, on Deanne Scaggs’ serve, but that was as close as South Putnam got. The Eagles staged another rally to open game two. Sue Spicer drilled three straight points for a 3-0 South Putnam lead. This was a long, back and forth contest where neither team really held momentum. There

Grand finale Eagles play Tiger Cubs and Cougars meet Clovers

By STEVE FIELDS Banner-Graphic Sports Editor The old saying goes that you save the best for last, Wednesday night is just that, the last game of the high school football season for all four Putnam County teams and the final game in the career of 50 high school seniors. South Putnam is at Greencastle and Cloverdale is at North Putnam. The only things at stake are the Putnam County Keg at North Putnam and Greencastle’s domination of South Putnam. ALSO, THE West Central Conference championship will be decided Wednesday night. Edgewood is at Cascade, TriWest is at Monrovia and West Vigo is at Owen Valley. Should Edgewood win, the Mustangs

he wasn’t scheduled to be in the lineup tonight. He’d have trouble holding a bat. But outfielder Jerry Mumphrey, benched for the fourth and fifth games after getting just two hits in 10 at-bats earlier, will get that chance. Yankee Manager Bob Lemon was expected to restore Mumphrey to the lineup and return him to center field. The Dodgers hoped to have third baseman Ron Cey in their starting lineup. Cey suffered a slight concussion when he was hit in the helmet by one of Goose Gossage’s 94-mile per hour fastballs in the eighth inning Sunday. He was x-rayed and stayed in Los Angeles overnight before flying to New York Monday to join his teammates. Dodger Manager Tommy Lasorda said he would use Cey as long as the third baseman had no dizziness or aftereffects of the beaning. Hooton and John were the starters in Game Two of the Series won by the Yankees 3-0. Hooton has not worked since and will have five days of rest for tonight’s assignment. John volunteered to go to the Yankee bullpen Saturday and pitched two innings in an 8-7 Dodger victory that deadlocked the Series at 2-2.

were three lead changes, as South Putnam’s 3-0 bowed to Van Buren’s eventual 6-3 advantage. The Eagles moved ahead 8-6 on five straight Lynette Parker points and held that until Deßrenn Pell served up six straight Blue Devil markets. “WE DID comeback,” coach Brothers said of her young team. “We get up (ahead) ana we know what to do, it just doesn’t seem to come. We had a lot of underclassmen out there tonight so it’s good experience for next year.” South Putnam attempted only 18 spikes during the evening and only eight of those crossed the net. Nicki Ratcliff, Glenda Perkins and Sue Spicer each had one unreturned spike. Lynette Parker led the Eagle service scoring with six points, followed by Teanne Scaggs with four, Sue Spicer three, Lea Ann Toney two and Carrie Hammond, Nicki Rafcliff and Lisa Staley each scored one.

Corso not disappointed at 2-5

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) Corso says his Hoosiers should feel no disgrace “in losing to the kinds of teams we have.” Corso says with losses to Southern Cal, Michigan, lowa and last Saturday at Ohio State history, “now we will try to win our last four games and end up who knows where.” Corso said in his weekly news conference Monday he is not unhappy with the team’s 2-5 performance so far. “There’s been only one real disappointment. And that is we really felt we should have won at Syracuse.” IU will pay Michigan State, 25, Saturday in East Lansing. “Michigan State has been

are out-right conference champions and could make the IHSAA class AA playoffs. Should Cascade win, there could exist a four-team tie between Edgewood, Cascade, North Putnam and Monrovia. Greencastle will have seven seniors playing in the purple and gray for the last time under coach John Fallis. They have not played on a winning varsity team, however, they could equal the 4-6 record of their sophomore year. It would also mark the fourth straight year Greencastle has won its final two football games. South Putnam’s 17 seniors have been haunted by the near miss this season and now face the Greencastle jinx. The Eagles have never beaten the Cubs in varsity football and this

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playing very well ever since the Notre Dame game,” the Hoosier coach said. “They blasted Wisconsin and had a tremendous football game against Purdue. They’re hot.” The Spartans have outstanding quarterbacks in Bryan Clark and John Leister, who throw in the direction of what Corso calls “the best 1-2-3 receiving combination in the league.” The receivers are Otis Grant, George Cooper and tight end A 1 Kimichik. “They’ve got a pair of good runners, but we look at their No. 1 things as the passing attack,” Corso said. “All three of those guys are tall, lanky kids who can run after they catch the

WCC statistics WCC Total Scoring Off. Def. Edgewood 5-1 7-2 175 127 North Putnam 5-2 6-3 169 170 Monrovia 5-2 7-2 158 108 Cascade 5-2 5-4 136 169 Tri-West 4-3 4-4 210 106 Greencastle 3-4 3-6 131 158 Owen Valley 2-6 2-7 79 185 South Putnam 1-6 3-6 127 151 Cloverdale 1-6 2-7 176 205 Wednesday games South Putnam at Greencastle Cloverdale at North Putnam Edgewood at Cascade Tri-West at Monrovia West Vigo at Owen Valley

will be the fourth meeting bet- IRONICALLY THE team that ween the two teams. opened the season holding the

Los Angeles then used consecutive seventh-inning home runs by Pedro Guerrero and Steve Yeager to beat Ron Guidry Sunday and move within one victory of the world championship. To nail it down, the Dodgers must break a six-game losing streak in Yankee Stadium. Los Angeles has not won a game in New York since the second game of the 1977 World Series. Hooton was the winning pitcher in that one and the Dodgers hope he can repeat that tonight. If he can, it will complete a perfect turnaround from the 1978 Series when Los Angeles won the first two games at home only to lose the next three in New York and Game Six and the Series in Los Angeles. Hooton remembers. “I tell everybody I don’t think back to the last Series we played in,” he said. ‘‘But the same thing happened in ’7B. We Iwon the first two and the Yankees won the next four. We’ll have our work cut out Tuesday.” While the Dodgers battled their Yankee Stadium hex, the Yankees had World Series history working against them. Since the present 2-3-2 Series scheduling system was adopted in 1924, no team has captured the championship by gaining all

season came to a dose in the loss to Van Buren, who now meets Brazil in the semifinals. (Banner-Graphic photo by Steve Fields).

ball.” Asked about using extra defensive backs against the pass-minded Spartans, Corso replied, “I don’t think we’ll put any more defensive backs in because I don’t think we have any left.” Recalling the OSU game, Corso praised tailback John Roggerman, who gained 50 yards in 16 carries. “Roggeman has tremendous heart and great enthusiasm. He does everything you ask and is a great competitor. He doesn’t have great natural ability, but he wants to win all the time, and sometimes you’d rather have that than a kid with natural ability.” The coach also was pleased with fullback John Mineo, who

scampered for 42 yards rushing and gained another 50 as a receiver with four catches. “Teams have geared to stop the tailback and the tailback plays, so we went with the fullback more. But I would anticipate the fullback being played a little more closely and so maybe we’ll see the talibacks emerge more this week.” Corso said safeties Dart Ramsey and Steve Mitchell, injured last Saturday, might not be ready for Michigan State. Ramsey injured his wrist and Mitchell suffered a thigh bruise. Corso said he would not know their status until the middle of this week.

Putnam County Keg is in position to get it back again. Cloverdale at 2-7 is a definite underdog going into North Putnam, a 7-2 team on the season. The Cougars will field 15 seniors who have, over the last three seasons, won 25 of the 30 games they have played. Those seniors have been on two conference championship teams and could, with some help, be on a team that shares the league this title year. They were also members of North Putnam’s first IHSAA football playoff team. Cloverdale will have 12 seniors playing their final football game in the green and gold. Cloverdale traditionally has given North Putnam trouble, last year being the exception, rather than the rule.

four required victories at home and none on the road. If the Yankees are to take the crown, they will become the first club to achieve it that way. But Series history also seemed to dictate that this showdown would stretch into a decisive seventh game. Of the 46 times a team has held a 3-2 advantage in games, it has won Game Six and the Series only 17 times. Still the Dodgers were delighted to win the pivotal fifth game at home. “We go into the Stadium with just one game to win before we know we’re champions,” said Dusty Baker. “That’s a lot different than going in there one game down.” If the Dodgers fail tonight, they would turn to rookie sensation Fernando Valenzuela for Game Seven. Valenzuela struggled to a 5-4 victory in Game Three, triggering the Los Angeles recovery. The Yankees would use Dave Righetti, also a rookie, who was knocked out early in Game Three against Valenzuela. Both teams had scheduled workouts at the Stadium canceled by rain Monday. And tonight’s forecast was bleak with showers predicted. This already is the latest World series in history because of the player strike and the extended playoff schedule.

Fields' Findings

Steele won't promise rose garden and Gadd awaiting team By STEVE FIELDS Banner-Graphic Sports Editor The two most encouraging things to come out of the breakfast reception for the two new DePauw University basketball coaches were the breakfast itself and Athletic Director Tom Mont’s mini-report on the Lilly Physical Education and Recreation Center. Mont introduced, or re-introduced, Mike Steele, the new men’s basketball coach, and presented Debbie Gadd, the women’s basketball coach, to the small group of Greencastle businessmen for the first time. Both coaches had better suit-up. Steele is 6-5, only two inches shorter than his two tallest players, and Gadd is right at six-foot, a-good deal taller than any of her prospective players. ALTHOUGH COACH STEELE has all but one player back from a team that wor only five games last year, he’s not going to promise they’ll be any better. Before Christmas he might wish they had all graduated. But after two weeks of practice Steele is not sorry he left the Butler assistantship to sail his own ship at DePauw. “I’ve been really pleased with the effort. The practices have been real spirited,” Steele said. When a coach starts talking that way I begin to get suspicious. However, Steele brought out that while names like Greg Notestine, Dave Hathaway and Mike Krauss will be familiar, a couple of new names should stick in peoples’ minds. A FAMILIAR SITE as an athlete, Ted Rutan will be a new comer to the DePauw basketball program. For the last three years he’s patrolled the outfield for coach Ed Meyer’s baseball team and batted leadoff. However, before coming to DePauw the 5-9 senior was the lefthanded point-guard on the 1977 Columbus team that made it to the final four in the IHSAA state tournament. That team’s tallest player was 6-2. Craig McAtee might be the best kept secret ever to come out of Washington High School’s tradition rich basketball program. “He can help us right away,” Steele said of the 6-7 freshman. McAtee played very few games his senior year in high school because of a knee injury. It was believed to be ligament damage at first, but it was later discovered to be merely a broken bone, something that shouldn't give him trouble at DePauw. But the guy is a blue chipper. “He could play at Ball State or Butler,” Steel said of the freshman. “He has a chance to be a tremendous player for us.” Steele reported McAtee is already beefing up. He weighed about 170 when he arrived on campus and with the weight program and some vitamins Craig is already around the 180-pound mark. REALLY IT’S TOO early for Steele to say what kind of team the Tigers are going to be since it is his first year. And another reason Steele can’t, or won’t say, is because he has seen very few of the teams on DePauw’s schedule play. “You know Butler gives scholarships. Well, these kids have done everything that the kids at Butler did and aren’t on scholarship. Sometimes it was tougher getting the kids to do some of the things than it has been here because sometimes a scholarship player thinks the university owes them something for playing,” Steele said. Steele will find out Nov. 30 how his Tigers stack up when they host Wabash. NOW COACH GADD couldn’t sa> much because the majority of her team is still playing volleyball and field hockey. However, she did say the primary offense will be the fastbreak. “If we can’t get the basket off the fastbreak, then we'll set it up because most of the girls are set shooters,” Gadd said. That could be one of the biggest problems, outside of the lack of height, that Gadd faces this year. There is no such thing as a jump shooter on this team. Coming from the division one level like Steele, coach Gadd says the major difference between the players is agressiveness. “When these girls go up for a rebound, if someone else goes up for it, or has it, they’ll let them have it,’’ Gadd said. She’s going to try and change some of that with drills. ATHLETIC DIRECTOR MONT says as far as he knows DePauw will be in Lilly Center by late December. The Gaumey Neal Fieldhouse, which will make up the bulk of Lilly Center, will have three full-length basketball courts running east and west. The main court area, which will be surrounded by the 3,200 plus seats, will be a different color surface from the rest of the courts. The Lilly Center will also house a new swimming pool, 70meter track, three weight rooms, handball courts, four doubles and one singles tennis court and an area large enough to have eight volleyball matches in progress at one time. *** TWO DATES GREENCASTLE High School sports fans should keep in mind is Nov. 9 and 10. The Greencastle Fall Sports Banquet is Nov. 9 and the following night is the basketball preview.

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