Banner Graphic, Volume 12, Number 77, Greencastle, Putnam County, 7 December 1981 — Page 6

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The Putnam County Banner-Graphic, December 7,1981

Hanover at Bowman Tuesday night Aponte leads Tigers to victory

"We couldn't have won it a .better way,” DePauw University coach Mike Steele said af,ljer the Tigers presented him ~\yith his first coaching win, a 71~p 7 drubbing of Millikin on Satur- ! (Jay night in Bowman Gym. I DePauw led nearly from start .tQ finish. A couple defensive gaffes in the middle of the first half enabled the Big Blue to take a 19-18 lead, their only one tis the night. DePauw came back to lead 36-32 at halftime, ■ stretched it to 10 in the second half, and survived a Millikin - rally with six minutes left to win • going away. . “WE COULD’VE DONE what we did against Wabash," Steele poted, "but we kept telling the players that we have to win the game and not expect them to lose it, because good teams don't do that." The rally DePauw staved off saw the Big Blue come within 56-50 with just under seven minutes to play on the strenth of poor Tiger shot

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JIM PRICE 52 point weekend

Cubs get thumped by Pats By STEVE FIELDS Banner-Graphic Sports Editor TERRE HAUTE- Greencastle basketball coach Doug Miller walked around a corner Saturday night and was immediately confronted by a gigantic photo of the 1974 Terre Haute North state baseball championship team. “Nice picture, isn’t it?”, Miller said recovering from its impact upon him. ' MILLER’ REACTION to the photo was much like Greencastle’s reaction to the Patriots’ quickness and leaping ability during a 60-36 spanking adJMtiinistered by coach Howard ‘ Sharpe’s 42nd high school * basketball team. * The only difference between * Miller’s reaction to the photo ‘ and Tiger Clubs’ reaction to the i Patriots, was the coach ] recovered right away, the Cubs t didn’t recover at any time * during the evening. t ‘ ‘There was no question in my mind, but our kids were intimidated by their quickness,” Miller said after being baptized into the head coaching ranks by the dean of Hoosier basketball coaches. MILLER WASN’T GOING to take the Friday night double overtime victory against TriWest as an excuse. “The halfcourt trap Terre Haute North came out in, was the deciding factor. We did not handle their half-court pressure well.” Miller said. Until Saturday night the quickest team the Cubs had seen was Cloverdale. “They are the class of Terre Haute,” Miller said of the Patriots. Standing no less than 6-2, and quick enough to grab flies in midair, the Patriot starting five caused nine first quarter Greenturnovers. After Todd Inman’s bucket gave the Cubs their only lead at 2-0, the 1-2-2 hslf-court zone trap took control. WHILE THE 6-2 Patriot guards and forwards trapped the 5-8 -Jnman, Rex Harbison, Tracy

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selection and ball-handling errors. Millikin had the bad with a chance to slice it to four, but guard Eddie Taylor threw it away. DePauw then scored two straight buckets to ice the threat. The Tigers were led by sophomore forward Juan Aponte - known to Tiger faithful ‘‘best-kept secret in Indiana basketball" -- with 23 points and 13 rebounds, both Tiger season

Cloverdale wins 6th straight, but had to work for this one

AVON-Finally Cloverdale had to work hard in four quarters of basketball to win a game. Cloverdale defeated Avon Tees Saturday night to raise its record to 6-0 for the season. The Clovers, also 1-0 in the WCC, host Eminence Friday night in a non-conference game. “IT WAS A GOOD game for us,” coach A 1 Tucker said, happy because the Clovers had to concentrate and play hard for a full game for the first time this season. “This probably did us more good than any game we’ve played.”

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Greencastle High School center Jon Lamar (53) may have been the tallest player on the court Saturday night, but his threeinch height advantage did little good against the leaping Terre Haute North Patriots.

Pursell, Billy Shuee or whoever else Miller sent into the contest, the Patriot offense went inside at will. “We had some definite match-up problems,” Miller said of North’s overall size and quickness advantage. Leading 14-8 when the second period started the Patriots out scored Greencastle 19-7 in the period for a 33-15 halftime advantage. The Patriots advantage reached 25 in the third quarter and Greencastle trailed 49-25 when the final eight

highs. Nine of his 13 boards came in the first half. "Juan is playing pretty sound through 3 games,” Steele noted. “He’s as good as anyone I’ve seen for a guy his size.” JUNIOR CO-CAPTAIN Joe Dixon added 14 points and eight rebounds, and sophomore Dave Hathway scored 10 points. For Millikin, junior forward Wayne Dunning put in 24 points to take game honors and cleared the Bowman glass nine

Cloverdale was never in serious trouble, like being behind or any other distressful situation. The score was tied 22, 4-4 and 6-6 before the Clovers went ahead 10-6 and led 12-10 at the first stop. The Clovers looked to be headed for another rout in the second period when they took a 12-point lead with 4:10 left in the half. Avon Whittled it down to seven, 36-29, by the intermission though and Cloverdale had to work a little more in the third quarter. The Orioles got as close as five and the Clovers led by as many as nine during the third quarter and Cloverdale took a

Lamar scored 10 points to top all Greencastle scoring. The Tiger Cubs are now 2-3 and travel to South Vermillion Friday night. (Banner-Graphic photo by Steve Fields).

minutes of the banjo lesson opened. As much a tribute to North’s defensive efforts as anything else was Greencastle’s 31 percent (13-42) shooting. Jon Lamar was the only Cub in double figures, reaching the 10point mark with Greencastle’s first two points of the final quarter at the 5:40 mark on a pair of free throws. THE PATRIOTS shot only 42 percent (27-64) for the game, a figure dragged down by sub-

times while playing the game with a sprained ankle. “He’s a good player inside,” Steele said, “but it didn’t affect him like it would’ve an outside player who must use his quickness. He limped more on defense than on offense and not at all when he had the ball.” Taylor added 16 points from his guard position, but it was guard Craig Patton and forward Mike Brown, who combined to go two-for-15 from the

52-45 lead into the final eight minutes. TUCKER SWITCHED the Clovers from a zone to his traditional man-to-man defense about the four-minute mark of the last period and it resulted in an 18-point lead with twominutes remaining on the clock. Jim Price closed a 52 point weekend with 24 points against the Orioles. The 6-3 senior hit six of his eight shots from the floor and was a perfect 12 for 12 at the free throw line. He is now shooting 65 per cent for the year from the floor and 88 per cent from the free throw line. Chad Tucker backed Price

stitution during the final minutes. Terre Haute North also won the junior varsity game 50-36. GKEENCASTLE (36) Inman 3 0-14 6, Itarhison 1 6-1 «2, I.amar 4 2-2 2 10. Kirharris 2 0-0 I 4, Sellers 0 0-1 0 0, I’ursell 0 3-4 13. Shuee 2 2-2 3 6, Duncan 0 2202, Hess 1 1-203, Hushingo 0-0 0 0, Judy 0 0-0 00-Tola Is KG 13 FT 10-15 PK 11. T.H. NORTH (60) Shouse 2 0-0 1 4, Newton II 1-2 3 23, Finley 3 2-2 3 8, Avery 9 2-2 0 20, Irvin I 0-0 3 2, Mauk 0 0-0 I o, Carney I 0-0 0 2, Moore 0 0-0 I 0, High am 0 0-0 2 0, Brown 0 1-2 2 1, Thompson 0 0-0 1 0- Tola Is FG 27 FT 6-8 PF 17 Greencastle 8 7 lit 11-36 T.ll. North 14 19 16 11-60

floor, who were the key. “We wanted them to shoot,” Steele mused. “When we saw them at lUPUI, they had the same kind of game. We didn’t guard them too closely, and decided if Millikin was going to beat us, they were going to have to do it.” NEITHER TEAM shot well - 25 of 59 for DPU (42 percent) and 26 of 59 (44 percent) for Millikin -- but DePauw owned the battle of the glass 39-26. The Tigers also canned 21 of 26 free throw attempts, for a sizzling 80 per cent. DePauw and Steele don’t have long to savor their first win. The Panthers of Hanover College invade Bowman Gym on Tuesday night. HANOVER IS 7-1 this year, their only loss coming to Ball State in a game they could have won save for questionable officiating down the stretch. “And they have eight of their first nine back,” Steele said.

with 23 points and Jerry Neese scored 12 to round out the double figure scorers. “AVON IS A pretty nice ball club,” Tucker complimented. “We had our best effort of the year throughout the game.” Cloverdale’s junior varsity is now 1-3, losing Saturday night by 11. CLOVERDALE (76) Chestnut 2 2-5 2 6. McCammon 3 0-2 0 6, Price 6 12-12 1 24, Denny 0 0-0 10, Neese 6 03 2 12, Samuels 0 1-2 0 i. Tucker 8 7-9 2 23, Aelty 12-3 14, Wooldridge 0 0-1 1 0. TotalsFG 26 FT 24-34 PF 10. AVON (65) Wheeler 2 0-1 5 4, Ware 5 0-0 2 10, Roberson 0 0-0 20, Wickham 60-0 4 12, Stoneking3 1-1 17, White 2 5-5 29, Drake 51-2311, Rodgers 0-0 5 10, Burke 1 0-0 0 2. Totals-FG 29 FT 7-9 PF 26. Cloverdale 12 24 16 24-76 Avon 10 19 16 21-65

Eagles beat Danville for clean sweep of weekend

By DAVID EVENS Banner-Graphic Sports Writer DANVILLE-The Danville Warriors attempted to put a South Putnam Eagle feather in their cap Saturday night, however the Eagles scalped the Warriors 65-52 with a fine defensive effort. South Putnam changed defenses several times in the game, using a 2-3,1-2-2 zones and man-to-man to shut down a potent Danville offense and make a close game lopsided. “I THINK THE defense in the second half won it for us,” commented a happy coach Bill Merkel. “We thought we would go with the zone to take some of their aggressiveness away from them. We went into halftime down two, but we had the momentum swinging our way.” South Putnam took the opening tip to take a quick 2-0 lead as Gary Nichols drove for the score. The Eagles dropped into their 2-3 zone but the Warriors, who shot 53 per cent from the field in the quarter, shot over the zone to take the lead at 4-2. The Eagles moved easily through the Danville man-to-man defense as Brent Meek, Chris Stitzle hit layins with Sean Pack finding the door open twice to give the visitors a 10-6 lead. However, when the Eagles tried to shut the Warriors off with a 1-2-2 zone Todd Griffith

How top 20 fared

INDIANAPOLIS (API - How The Associated Press Top 20 Indiana high school boys’ basketball teams fared last week. 1. Anderson (4-2) lost to Alexandria 7271, OT; beat Valparaiso 80-55; lost to Anderson Highland 66-60 2. S.Bend LaSalle (2-1) lost to Anderson Highland 76-65; beat Valparaiso 88-72 3. Marion (3-0) beat Lawrence North 5750. 4. Indpls Cathedral (5-0) beat Indpls Manual 88 58. 5. Indpls Howe (4-0) beat Martinsville 49 39. 6. Valparaiso (1-3) lost to Gary Roosevelt 69-68; beat Penn 66-56; lost to Anderson 80-55; lost to SB LaSalle 88-72. 7. Anderson Madison Hts (4-0) beat Carmel 63-57. 8. Jeffersonville (4-1) beat St Xaiver, Ky 79-47; beat Clarksvilleß9-46 9. Ft. Wayne Harding (4 I) beat Woodlan 63-60; lost to FW Elmhurst 60 52.

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Juan Aponte has suddenly become DePauw University's secret weapon. The 6-3 sophomore forward scored 23 points and pulled down a season high 13 rebounds Saturday night in the Tigers' first victory of the year. DePauw enters Tuesday

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BRETT MEEK 17 Eagle points

hit 10 of his game high 25 points over the zone. He proceeded to hit the last basket of the quarter, after an Eagle lane violation and gave the host 16-14 advantage. DANVILLE WENT to work against a 2-3 zone with a more patient offense in the second period and at the 4:48 mark had stretched to a 22-16 lead. Stitzle broke the dry spell for the Eagles before two more Warrior field goals made the score 26-18. South Putnam called a timeout with 2:32 left in the half. The timeout yielded some offense, as the Eagles went into

10. Richmond (3-1) lost to New Castle 67 49; beat FW North 55-54. 11. Ft. Wayne Wayne (2-1) lost to FW Snider 60-53; beat Huntington 64-56. 12. New Albany (3-0) beat Columbus East 74-55. 13. Anderson Highland (5-1) beat Yorktown 63-45; beatSßLaSalle76-75; beat Anderson 66-60. 14. Indpls Washington (4-1) beat Indpls Northwest 76-65; beat Indpls Tech 61-50 15. Ft. Wayne Elmhurst (4-0) beat FW Luers 42-41; beat FW Harding 60-52. 16. Gary Roosevelt (2-2) beat Valparaiso 69-68. 17. Evansville Bosse (3-0' beat Ev Reitz 62-55; beat Boonville7l-50 18 Lafayette Jeff (4-1) beat Kokomo 6754. 19. Gary Mann (1-1) did not play 20 Lafayette Harrison (5-0) beat Foun tain Central 96-37.

night's game against 7-1 Hanvoer with a 12 record. Coach Mike Steele will talk about the first win and Hanover in Tuesday's Tiger Talk in room 207 of the Student Memorial Union Building. (Banner-Graphic photo by Tracy Proctor).

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SEAN PACK 17 points, 19 rebounds

a spurt as Nichols and Meek each picked up two field goals and Pack hit two from the line, trimming Danville’s halftime lead to 30-28. Both teams came out knocking heads in the second half. Nichols cut the lead to one at 32-33 with 5:55 in the quarter Meek scored a layin to give the Eagles their first lead since the first quarter. Dan Cash put the visitors up by three with a 15foot jumper to make the score 36-33. PACK PICKED up his third foul with 3:14 left in the quarter, taking 13 of his game total 19 rebounds with him. Tom Cooper

Sports schedule Monday Greencastle at Brownsburg, swimming Southmont frosh at Greencastle, basketball North Putnam at North Montgomery, wrestling Danville girls at North Putnam, basketball South Putnam at Rockville, wrestling Danville at South Putnam, swimming Cloverdale girls at Staunton, basketball Clay City frosh at Cloverdale, basketball Tuesday Hanover College at DePauw University, 7:30 p.m. men s basketball Hanover College at DePauw University, 5 p.m., women’s basketball South Putnam girls at North Putnam, basketball South Putnam at North Putnam, swimming

replaced him, doing a good defensive job on Griffith, as the senior managed only one field goal with Cooper guarding him. “We thought Sean could handle him in the one-on-one and Sean picked up some fouls in rebounding,” coach Merkel said. “Tommy had to come in and do the job then, and I thought Tommy’s quickness would do all right. He (Pack) did a pretty good job on him, and Tom shut him down the time he was in there.” Meek, Cash, and Stitzle completed the scoring for the Eagles in the period as they all got field goals to give South Putnam the third quarter lead 42 40. THE WARRIORS stayed with the Eagles and tied the game with 5:30 left in the game The Eagles then ripped apart the box-and-one defense being played by Danville trying to stop Nichols, as the visitors lunged to a 52-46 lead. Nichols still hurt the Warriors as he fed the ball inside for four assists and eight Eagle points. Danville won the JV contest 58-47. SOUTH PUTNAM (65) Stitzle 6 4-4 3 1 6, Nichols 6 2-3 3 14, Meek 8 1-2 () 17. Pack 4 6-7 4 14, Cash 2 0-0 3 4, Cooper 0 0-0 0 U. Totals-26 13-16 1365. DANVILLE (52) Gibbs 10-0 12, Griffith 11 3-4 3 25, Mcßoberts 0 0-0 4 0, Farmer 2 0-0 4 4, Moore 5 2-4 2 12, Knotts 0 0-0 1 0. Clark 4 1-3 3 9. Totals—236-11 18 52. South Putnam 14 14 14 23-65 Danville 16 14 10 UJ--52