Banner Graphic, Volume 12, Number 45, Greencastle, Putnam County, 29 October 1981 — Page 9
Cloverdale beats Brazil to retain sectional crown
By STEVE FIELDS Banner-Graphic Sports Editor Displaying a power game, a unesse game and a defensive game. Cloverdale High School defeated Brazil 9-15,15-7 and 159 Tuesday night to win its second consecutive Green-castle-IHSAA girls volleyball sectional title at McAnally Center. Cloverdale now advances to the Decatur Central regional Nov. 7 to play the winner of the Franklin Central sectional. “I TOLD myself before we came here that if the girls won they really deserved it because I knew Greencastle would be good and Brazil would be good.” coach Joan Effinger said. ‘ Not only would they be good, but since they lost to us earlier in the season they would really be out to get us. So I knew it was going to be a hard way for us to go, but they did it.” The Clovers did it with a season high 64 attempted spikes during the championship match and that did not include the number of blocks that eventually intimidated the Brazil power game. And when the spikes got by blockers Laura Roach, Jill Swearingen and Lisa Evans, it seemed like Tracy Receveur was there to dig them out during games two and three of the championship match. After the emotionally draining 15-8,19-17 victory over Greencastle in the semi-final match, Cloverdale came out flat in the championship game. But at the same time, Brazil,
Tigers' streak stopped DePauw’s volleyball recently won its third match of the season in a tournament at Taylor, but lost its other four games on Saturday to see its record drop to 3-19. DPU opened against Oakland City, losing 15-10,15-11. The Lady Tigers then lost to lUPU-Fort Wayne 15-7,15-12 and Indiana Central 15-5, 15-7 before knocking off Huntington 4-15, 15-8, 15-3. DePauw ended the day’s action with a late-night match against host Taylor, losing 15-8.15-0.
St. Joseph's and Brownshurg clinch IHSAA playoff positions
By The Associated Press South Bend St. Joseph’s has lengthened the state's longest winning string in high school football to 31 games. The Indians, ranked No.l in class AAA football, scalped Michigan City Rogers 27-0 Tuesday night and ran their 1981 season record up to 10-0. The Raiders fell to 3-7. In other football action involving a ranked team Tuesday night, Prownstown, ranked No. 5 in class AA, clinched a District 12 playoff spot with a 14-0 victory over Mitchell. In both games, the losers’
Dodgers and Yankees are ready to play, but Cey still uncertain
NEW YORK (AP) Series parade, and now the Los Angeles Dodger manager will try again tonight to nail down the championship which has eluded the California team for 16 years. Day-long showers, fog and wet grounds forced postponement Tuesday of the sixth game of the 1981 Series between the Dodgers and the New York Yankees. That delayed the confrontation between former roommates Burt Hooton of the Dodgers and Tommy John of the Yankees, the scheduled starting pitchers. John beat Hooton 5-3 in Game 2 of the Series, the last contest the Yankees won. Los Angeles has taken the next three in the best-of-seven Series and is anxious to nail down its first world championship since 1965. Lasorda wasn’t thrilled about being placed on hold for 24 hours at this point. “It does disappoint me,” said Lasorda after Commissioner Bowie Kuhn ordered the game called off at about 4 p.m. EST Tuesday. “No player or manager likes to hang around and wait. But unfortunately, we have no control over the weather.” Bill Murray, Kuhn’s administrator, and umpires Dick Stello and Larry Barnett spent the day under leaden skies at Yankee Stadium, inspecting the soaked field. “There was a poor forecast with light rain at the Stadium this afternoon and no possibility of playing the kind of game you would all like to see,” said Commissioner Kuhn. “The wet field conditions were not getting any better because of the persistent fog and high humidity. ” So, the commissioner ordered the postponement, the 26th in World Series history and the first since 1979 when the opener between the Baltimore Orioles and Pittsburgh Pirates was a casualty of snow. It means the longest season in baseball history tfill go at least one day more.
who defeated Clay County rival Van Buren 15-6, 15-12 in the semi-final just 30-minutes before the title match, was also flat. "THEY DID THIS TO Brazil when we played them earlier in the season,” Effinger recalled. “I don’t know if it’s the jitters or because they sat here and -watched them play and got all worried about it. But this happened during the season against Brazil and they came back and beat ’em." Cloverdale's primary : first game trouble was serving, as four of the first five Clover services ended by fault. But,once cornered the match took on a different look and definitely a different strategy from the regular season meeting. It was during the regular season meeting of the two teams coach Effinger and assistant Duarte Da Silveira initiated the finesse side of the offense -- the dink. There was little dinking in the championship. It was the offense trying to slam the ball down the other’s throat and the defense was just daring them to try it. Cloverdale got out to a 5-0 lead in game two on Jill Swearingen’s service with Laura Roach slamming down two of her eight spikes. RHONDA HUGHES, who along with Bev Riley set up the power game, delivered three more Cloverdale points for an 82 lead and the margin ballooned to 11-2 on Receveur’s service as the intimidating Roach came through with back to back scoring dinks.
mistakes were as crucial as the victor’s successes. St. Joe’s got its first score of the game following a blocked punt in the first half. The Indians recovered the ball on the Raiders’ 21-yard line and five plays later, quarterback Mike Carmole plunged over for the score. St. Joe’s dominated the second half. Overall, the Indians gained 202 yards rushing and held Rogers to 29 yards on the ground. St. Joe’s also intercepted five Raider passes and recovered one fumble.
Swearingen, who didn’t come alive at the net until game three of the match, served up points 12 and 13 for the Clovers’ Roach and Dawn Ferguson closed out the tying game. It boiled down to a one game season, all the chip in one pile, shake hands and come out bump, set and spiking. RECEVEUR, Ferguson, Lisa Evans and Dawn Ferguson, who came off the bench, were taking some punishment handling spikes from Nu Nu Jolliff and Stacey Pritchard. “And defensively, that girl right there, she played a fantastic game with bump passes.” Effinger said pointing to Receveur. Cloverdale took a 7-1 lead in the championship match, Receveur serving five straight points. But Brazil was not 13-5 for nothing and battled back to within one, 8-7, before Evans and Swearingen pulled a double block of a Pritchard spike. The game was tied one last time at 9-9 before Evans’ service ace put the Clovers up for good. A Roach spike got the service back to Swearingen and the senior drilled in four unreturned serves for a 13-9 lead. ROACH, WHO started the evening in rough fashion, closed with two services heard ’round McAnally and Swearingen’s spike of the final volley triggered the celebration. Cloverdale attempted a season high 64 spikes during the championship match, putting an amazing 57 (89 per cent) of them over the net. Paced by Roach’s eight and Swearingen’s seven, Cloverdale had 20 unreturned spikes. Swearingen led the Cloverdale service scoring with 15 of the team’s 38 points. Rhonda Hughes and Receveur each scored eight, followed by Roach with three, Riley two and Ferguson and Evans with one each.
Jim Reiner, rushed for 139 yards on 22 carries and scored a touchdown on a 5-yd run Dale Scott scored two touchdowns for the Indians on runs of nine and two yards. He carried the ball 18 times for 74 yards. By The Associated Press Current Indiana High School Athletic Association football ratings of district leaders, showing current rating points and average; average if victorious this week; average if beaten this week; and total games to be counted, x-already qualified; the top four teams in eech district advance to the sectional pnyoffs next Tuesday): Class AAA District I . Current.. Win Lose G Pts...Avg... x-Griffith 27 3.00 3.00 2.70 10
The rainout afforded an extra day’s rest to Hooton and John and to the opposing third basemen, both of whom were doubtful starters for the game Tuesday night. The Yankees’ Graig Nettles missed all three games in Los Angeles with a sprained left thumb and Ron Cey of the Dodgers was recovering from a frightening beaning after being hit in the head by a Goose Gossage fastball in the eighth inning of Sunday’s fifth game. “I’ve seen replays of it and since I know the outcome, I felt better about seeing them,” said Cey. “I feel extremely fortunate to be standing here.” But Cey still wasn’t sure he could play. “I felt good this morning and I was optimistic about playing, but this afternoon changed my mind,” he said. “There was some dizziness and lightheadedness. I was not in good shape.” Cey will work out before tonight’s game and then decide on his availability. “I have my ups and downs,” he said. “I’m told that is a normal experience. If it persists on a periodic basis, I’m not allowed to take the field. If I can’t sustain myself in a workout, I’m not going to endanger myself playing. The doctor told me if there’s one iota of doubt you can’t do it, don’t. It’s your life and that’s more important than one game.” Cey remembered the beaning. “It's pretty difficult to get out of the way of a ball that takes off and that’s going 94 miles per hour,” he said. “When I decided it was time to get out of the way, the ball followed me like a magnet. “I remember hitting the ground in slow motion. It felt like slow motion. I don’t remember a lot but I do remember saying, Am I all right? What do I look like?’ Everything was blurry.” Lasorda recalled the horror of the moment.
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Cubs didn't surprise Clovers
By STEVE FIELDS Banner-Graphic Sports Editor Remember how Cloverdale ran through Greencastle like fire through paper during the regular season meeting of the two high school volleyball teams? Greencastle remembered also Tuesday night in the sectional semi-final. Cloverdale wasn’t surprised though, and because of coach Joan Effinger’s motto ‘‘be prepared for the worst,” Cloverdale scored a 15-8,19-17 victory over the Tiger Cubs and eventually won its second straight Decatur Central regional berth. "THERE IS ALWAYS that want, and the will, to beat the team you lost to in the season,” coach Effinger said of the Cubs’ vengence attempt. “See, we came back last year with that and that’s what did it for us last
x-Hammond 27 3.00 3.00 2.70 10 x Hobart 27 3.00 3.00 2.70 10 Hammond Noll 21 2.33 2.40 2.10 10 Lake Central 21 2.33 2.40 2.10 10 Valparaiso 18 2.25 2.33 2.00 9 Merrillville 18 2.00 2.10 1.80 10 District 2 Current. Win . Lose. . G Pts.. Avg.. x-SB St. Joe 30 3.00 3.00 3.00 10 x-FW Snider 27 3.00 3.00 2.70 10 x-Laf.Jeff 24 300 3.00 2.67 9 FW Dwenger 24 2.67 2.70 2.40 10 Elkhart Cent. 21 2.33 2.40 2.10 10 M.C.Elston 21 2.33 2.40 2.10 10 District 3 . Current.. Win... Lose—G Pts.. Avg.. x-Carmel 27 3.00 300 2.70 10 x Marshall 27 300 3.00 2.70 10 Ind.N.Central 24 2.67 2.70 2.40 10 Ind.Chatard 21 2.62 2.67 2.33 9 ind.Roncalli 21 2.62 2.67 2.33 9 Anderson 21 2.33 240 2.10 10 Ind.Washngtn 21 2.33 240 2.10 10 Lawrence No. 18 2.25 2.33 2.00 9
Cloverdale 1981 volleyball sectional champion
year. And I was expecting it and I’ve been telling the girls to expect it.” From the looks of the first game Cloverdale was headed to the championship match without much trouble. The Clovers led 3-0 before six straight Susan Whaley points put the Tiger Cubs on the scoreboard and into the lead 6-3. Three missed Cloverdale spikes, a service ace, an illegal set and a LaChelle Wells spike accounted for Whaley’s serve. However, with two Dawn Ferguson service aces and a Jill Swearingen spike the score was tied 7-7. Greencastle’s final lead was 8-7 before the Clovers scored the last eight points of the match on the services of Rhonda Hughes and Tracy Receveur. During those eight points Laura Roach dominated the net with three spikes and
District 4 Current. Win Lose—G Pts.. Avg.. x-Martinsvlle 27 3.00 3.00 2.70 10 TH South 20 2.50 2.56 2.22 9 Floyd Central 19 2.38 2.44 2.11 9 Richmond 21 2.33 2.40 2.10 10 Castle 18 2.25 2.33 2.00 9 Seymour 18 2.25 2.33 2.00 9 Ev. Mater Dei 20 2.22 2.30 2.00 10 Bedford-N.L. 18 2.00 2.10 1.80 10 Ev. Harrison 18 2.00 2.10 1.80 10 Class AA District 5 .Current Win. Lose. G Pts.. Avg x-Goshen 23 2.88 3.00 2.56 9 x-New Haven 22 2.75 2.78 2.44 9 x-Concord 21 2.62 2.56 2.33 9 Peru 18 2.25 2.33 2.00 9 River Forst 17 2.12 2.11 1.89 9 Plymouth 17 2.12 2.11 1.89 9 Angola 17 2.12 2.11 1.89 9 Homestead 15 1.88 2.00 1.67 9
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two dinks that were unreturned. A THIRD GAME appeared certain when Greencastle took as much as an 11-3 lead with Wells, Marcia Spencer, Tammi Sutherlin, Shelley Hunter and Sandy Fox serving up the points. But while Fox was Greencastle’s only power spiker at the net, Cloverdale was countering with four - Roach, Swearingen, Evans and Receveur. With the Tiger Cubs up 11-3, Rhonda Hughes and Dawn Ferguson and Bev Riley started setting the ball up close enough to the net for the power game to take hold. With Lisa Evans serving six straight points - two aces, a Swearingen spike and Receveur dink -- Cloverdale cut the Cub lead to 11-10. Spencer served the Cubs to a 12-10 edge, but three straight Swearingen serves put
District 6 .Current Win. .Lose. G Pts .Avg x-Delta 27 3.00 3.10 2.70 10 x-W.Lafytte 27 3.00 3.00 2.70 10 Harrison 24 2.67 2.70 2.40 10 Alexandria 24 2.67 2.70 240 10 Eastbrook 23 2.56 2.56 2.56 9 Elwood 21 2.33 2.40 2.10 10 District 7 . Current Win. Lose . G Pts. Avg x-Frank.Cen 24 3.00 3.00 2.67 9 Brownsburg 22 2.75 2.78 2.44 9 Danville 21 2.62 2.67 2.33 9 Mooresville 22 2.44 2.50 2.20 10 Franklin 19 2.38 2.56 2.11 9 Indpls Pike 21 2.33 2.50 2.10 10 Southmont 18 2.25 2.22 2.00 9 Brazil 18 2.25 222 200 9 District 8 . Current Win.. Lose.. G Pts. Avg x-Jaspeg 28 3.11 3.10 2.80 10 x-Provdence 23 2.88 3.00 2.56 9
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the Clovers ahead 13-12, as the Cubs missed two spikes and were called for a double hit, THE SCORE WAS tied at 1313, 14-14, 15-15, 16-16 and 17-17, as the game went into overtime, both teams having the opportunity to win a championship game berth. There were side outs and missed spikes, blocked spikes, diving saves to keep volleys alive and every imaginable form of offense and defense during the overtime. The clock ran out at 14-14, so the last eight points were scored between the two in sudden death. Finally, the lady that got off to a rocky start in game one warmed up and Cloverdale advanced to the title game on Receveur’s three serves. With Receveur doing the serving Roach blocked a Cub spike to tie the game 17-17 and after a Cub
x-Tell City 23 2.56 2.60 2.30 10 Edgewood 18 2.00 2.00 180 10 E.Central 15 1.88 2.00 1.67 9 Gibson So. 15 188 2.00 1.67 9 S.Dearborn 14 1.u5 1.89 1.56 9 Class A District 9 .Current Win. Lose G Pts. Avg. x-Frontier 27 3.00 3.00 270 10 Bremen 21 2.62 2.78 2.33 9 N.New ton 23 2.56 2.60 2.30 10 Fount. Cent. 22 2.44 260 2.20 10 S.Newton 22 244 2.50 2.20 10 N.Judson 22 2.44 2.50 2.20 10 Glenn 19 2.38 2.56 2.11 9 Attica 18 2.25 2.33 2.00 9 W.Centrai 18 2.00 2.20 1 80 10 District 10 . Current.... Win.. Lose. G Pts.. Avg x-Tip.Valley 27 3.00 3.00 2.70 10 x-W.Nobie 27 3.00 3.00 2,70 10 Adams Cent. 25 2.78 2.90 2.50 10 South Adams 24 2.67 2,70 2.40 10 Woodlan 23 2.56 2.70 2.30 10
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volleying error the 5-10 semof spiked the final point into thd scorebook. “The girls fought to the end,” Greencastle coach Terri McKee praised. “They have nothing to be ashamed of.” RECEVEUR LED the Cloverdale service scoring with 10 points and also had four unreturned spikes. Evans served eight points, Swearingen six, and eight unreturned spikes, Ferguson five, Hughes three, Roach one along with six unreturned spikes and Riley served one. Sutherlin and Whaley led Greencastle’s effort with six service points each, followed by Fox with five, Spencer and Wells with three each and Hunter and Martin with two each. Fox also led the Cub spikers with five unreturned out of the 35 attempted by the team.
Eastern 22 2.44 2.60 2.20 10 Oak Hill 22 2.44 2.60 2.20 10 District 11 . Current Win.. Lose . G Pts . Avg x-Hamiltn SE 29 3.22 3.20 290 10 X-Knightstn 29 3.22 3.20 2.90 10 Sheridan 25 2.78 2.80 2.50 10 Tri High 23 2.56 2.60 2.30 10 Hagerstown 22 2.44 2.50 2.20 10 E Hancock 19 2.38 244 2.11 9 . District 12 Current—Win. Lose. .G Pts.. .Avg x-Lawrencbrg 36 4.00 3.90 3.60 10 x-Brownstown 30 3.44 3.44 3.44 9 x-N Posey 28 3.11 3.11 3.11 9 Linton 27 3.00 300 2.70 10 Southridge 24 3.00 3.11 2.67 9 Clarksville 23 2.88 2.89 2.56 9** The top four teams in each district, based on final rating average, advance to the playoffs Sectionals, Nov. 3; Regional, Nov. 7, Semistates, N0v.13; Class A and Class AA Finals, N0v.20; Class AAA Final, Nov .21.
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