Banner Graphic, Volume 12, Number 91, Greencastle, Putnam County, 23 December 1981 — Page 7
Tiger Cubs maturing fast as victory string mounts
By DAVII) EVENS Banner-Graphic Sports Writer A leaky McAnally Center roof kept the referees wiping the floor Tuesday night in a Greencastle High School basketball contest. The Tiger Cubs also did some wiping up of their own as they defeated Owen Valley 67-45 with a well-rounded effort. GREENCASTLE, now 2-0 in the West Central Conference and 6-3 overall, will host West Vigo Jan. 8 following Christmas break "You're not going to win consistently at this game unless you have a whole team playing together," commented GHS coach Doug Miller on his team's effort. "This effort tonight really started. I think, at North Vermillion a week ago. We played very similar to this ball game, just superb from beginning to end, then we came back tonight and put it together again.” Both teams came out looking almost identical in the first quarter as each burned the nets at 73 per cent and each used a 23 zone to open the game. Owen Valley took control early, jumping to a 7-4 lead behind a threepoint play by Tim Vest, who entered the game as the WCC’s leading scorer at 20.6 per game. JON LAMAR then matched Vest’s effort with three of his game-high 26 points to tie the "ame. Greencastle grabbed its first lead of the evening at the 2:49 mark with consecutive field goals from Bill Shuee, Tiacy Pursell, and Rex Harbison to
Irish find patsy in Valparaiso SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) Note to the Notre Dame basketball team from Coach Digger Phelps: Celebrate breaking that four-game losing string, but don’t get carried away. The Irish, now 2-4, dominated the second half of play Tuesday night and defeated Valparaiso 75-60. “To win by 15 points gives us confidence,” Phelps said. “I saw a lot of good signs tonight, but we have our work cut out for us on this road trip (the next two weeks) with Kentucky, Missouri, Virginia and San Francisco.” The Irish, after trailing by as many as eight points in the first half and 30-27 at halftime, dominated the second half with the inside play of 6-foot-10 junior center Tim Andree, junior forward Bill Varner and 6-8 sophomore Cecil Rucker, who came off the bench for 12 points and seven rebounds. Andree led all scorers with a career-high 23 points, 15 in the second half. Varner had 13 in the last half to wind up with 19. He also had 10 rebounds. “We found out we had to have our bigger team on the boards with Rucker, Varner and An dree, and that got us back in it,” Phelps said. “I thought we started pounding the boards in the sec''" i half. We wanted to get the ball inside, and we were able to do it. Andree has played well in two games now, and it’s obvious we need his help inside because he’s the only big power player we have.” Notre Dame took the lead for good on two consecutive Andree baskets with about 12 minutes left in the game. The Irish stretch a 63-56 lead by scoring eight straight points in the final minutes. The Crusaders were scoreless for more than three minutes. The Crusaders, led by 6-2 freshman forward Brian Hubbard with 15 points, hit one more basket than Notre Dame but lost at the free throw line. The Irish converted 21 of 30 (18 of 25 in the second half) while Valparaiso got only five tries and made four. “We played with a ton of poise for a young team because we controlled the tempo and were willing to hold the ball,” said Coach Tom Smith of Valparaiso, which hit 56 percent from the floor in the first half
WCC standings WCC Overall South Putnam 3-0 6-3 Greencastle 2-0 6-3 Cloverdale 1-9 7-0 Tri-West 2-2 4-3 Owen Valley H 5-4 Cascade 2-3 4-3 North Putnam 1-2 3-5 Monrovia 0-2 2-3 Edgewood 0-2 0-6 Tuesday night’s scores Greencastle 67, Owen Valley 45
take the 13-11 advantage. A lastsecond Patriot shot made even the first quarter score identical at 17-17. The 6-7 Lamar took control of the second period as the senior pulled down four rebounds in the quarter and scored six of Greencastle’s 18 points. Lamar’s rebounding, coupled with the 75 per cent Tiger Cub shooting, allowed the Cubs to slowly control the game. WITH GREENCASTLE leading 23-22, the turning point occurred as Owen Valley coach Jerrill Vandeventer drew a technical foul, resulting in four Tiger Cub points and a 27-22 lead. The Patriots fought back, however, to tie the game at 2929. Shuee then fed Lamar twice for four points and Pursell hit two free throws to give Greencastle a 35-30 halftime advantage. “That was an excellent first half of basketball,” Miller said.
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Hoyas drub Toppers to tune of let's get physical'
By The Associated Press The Georgetown Hoyas and Western Kentucky Hilltoppers gave it their best shots and some shots were harder than others. “It was more like a pro game than a college affair,” said Western Kentucky Coach Clem Haskins after Tuesday night’s fight-punctuated, 64-45 loss to 17th-ranked Georgetown. “I was very disappointed in the officiating. If the officials want to call a National Basketball Association game, let them get
Keeping up
Caldwell Jones has a Julius Erving night
By The Associated Press By any measure, it was one of Caldwell Jones’ finest games in the National Basketball Association. The substitute center led the Philadelphia 76ers with his season-high 20 points. W’hen the chips were down in the crucial fourth quarter and the New York Knicks led by one, 84-83, Jones scored 11 straight points in2:so. His 12 rebounds were the most for any player. He played a grueling 37 minutes, only one less than durable Julius Erving’s 38. From the foul line, he was perfect: 10 for 10. Jones also made two steals and only the Knicks’ fleet Michael Ray Richardson had more. And when it was over, the 76er: had a 112-105 victory Tuesday night Jones, whose average was only eight points a game and whose previous high this season was 13, characterized his effort as “only fair.” Philadelphia Coach Billy Cunningham thought otherwise, though. Nuggets 121, Rockets 109 Alex English scored 30 points as Denver defeated Houston. Denver led by only three points,
"We did not have the defensive effort in the first half but that was mostly my fault. We were playing back in a zone and we thought going in that their outside shooting was suspect. They threw in some in the first half that really kept them in the ball game.” THE TIGER CUBS played the Patriots even in the third quarter, thanks to the scoring of Lamar. Like stuffing quarters in a vending machine, the Tiger Cubs fed big Jon the ball and he delivered with nine of the 11 Greencastle points in the quarter. Owen Valley pulled within one of the host at the 4:30 mark with a 10-foot jumper from Greg Wright to make the score 38-37. Harbison then fed Lamar to spread the lead. Brad Sellers passed to Lamar for the final Greencastle basket of the period, giving the Tiger Cubs a 46-41 lead. Greencastle used two
an NBA license.” The rough game was halted in the second half when the Hilltoppers’ Percy White threw a punch after Georgetown’s Fred Brown had wrapped his arms around White’s head. At the final buzzer, Western Kentucky’s Bobby Jones was knocked to the floor by a punch after he had grabbed Georgetown’s Pat Ewing. Eric Floyd led the Hoyas with 22 points, including 14 in the second half as Georgetown won its seventh straight game and
Townsend waived INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Free-agent Raymond Townsend has been placed on waivers by the Indiana Pacers of the National Basketball Association. Townsend, a 6-foot-3, 185-pound guard from UCLA, was acquired by the Pacers Oct. 21.
83-80, goir g into the final quarter. » But English scored 12 points and Glen Gondrezick and Ken Higgs each added three baskets as Denver outscored Houston 38-29 in the final quarter. Lakers 124, Trail Blazers 110 Norm Nixon and three other Los Angeles players totaled 97 points as the Lakers beat Portland. The Lakers took a 33-26 first-period lead, and the Blazers got no closer than four points after that. Los Angeles led by as many as 24 points in the fourth quarter. Nixon led all scorers with 27 points followed by teammates Mike Cooper with 26, Mamall Wilkes with 24 and Earvin “Magic” Johnson with 20. Kings 106, Bucks 101 Reggie King scored 23 points and Mike Woodson 21 to lead Kansas City past Milwaukee. Behind their two high scorers,
primary weapons to bust the game open in the fourth period - - a tenacious man-to-man defense and the play of Brian Richards. The Tiger Cub defense did not give up a field goal in the fourth quarter, allowing only four Patriot points. Greencastle held the visitors scoreless for over six minutes in the period. WITH THE DEFENSE doing its job at the Owen Valley end, Richards came on strong on the offensive side scoring all of his 11 points in the quarter as the Tiger Cub guards once again fed the big men. Scott Hess scored the last four Greencastle points as the Tiger Cubs won it going away. “You can’t single out anyone in this ball game because you go right down the kids who played tonight and each one played their row tonight and each one did an excellent job tonight,” Miller said in summing up his team’s effort. GREENCASTLE also won the JV contest 40-34. GREENCASTLE (67) Harbison 3 0-2 46. i.amar 11 4-5 4 26. Inman 3 2-3 4 8, Shuee 1 1-2 1 3. Pursell 3 3-4 2 9, Sellers 0 0-000, Hess 1 2-2 0 4, Richards 4 3-4 211, Rushing 0 0-0 10, Judy 0 0-0 0 0. Totals--2615-221867. OWEN VALLEY (45) Vest 4 6-8 5 14, Thomas 3 2-4 2 8, Tucker 1 0-0 3 2, Wood 2 1-4 2 5, Spear 2 2-2 1 6, Wright 4 11 I 9, Evansoo-000,SchroerO 1-2 0 1, Hallo 0-0 1 0, Swafford 0 0-0 0 0. Totals-16 13-2115 45. Greencastle 17 18 II 21-67 Owen Valley 17 13 11 4—45 REBOUNDING GREENCASTLE <34>-Harbison 3, Lamar 7, Inman 2, Shuee 3, Pursell 3, Sellers 2, Hess 1, Richards 12, Rushing 1. OWEN VALLEY <2O)-Vest 3, Thomas 2, Wood 4. Spear 6, Wright 3, Evans 1, Swafford 1.
eighth in 10 outings. But the victory generally left a bad taste for Georgetown Coach John Thompson. “It was extremely physical and I spoke to the officials at halftime,” he said. “The officials told me that as long as it was incidental contact, they would let it continue. But there was an awful lot of contact being allowed by the officials.” Floyd, a 6-foot-3 senior guard, scored seven points and assisted on two other baskets as Georgetown ran off 11 straight
the Kings opened a 16-point lead in the second quarter and held off a late surge by the Bucks behind Sidney Moncrief. Moncreif wound up with 19 points, but fouled out with 5:34 to play, and baskets by Eddie Johnson and Ernie Grunfeld gave the Kings an insurmountable 100-86 lead with 3:53 left. Celtics 120, Cavaliers 116 Larry Bird scored a seasonhigh 36 points, including a long jumper with 1:20 left that gave Boston the lead for good, to lift the Celtics over Cleveland. It was the seventh straight defeat for the Cavaliers, who have now lost 19 of their last 21 games. Mike Mitchell, who led Cleveland with 31 points, hit two free throws with 1:52 left to tie the score 116-116. Bird, who also had seven rebounds and seven assists, then sank his jumper from the top of the circle and
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The inside play of Jon Lamar is growing with leaps and bounds, as witnessed by a power move to the basket by the 6-7 Greencastle High School center. The
points to take a solid 49-36 lead with 10:29 left. In other college basketball games involving the nation’s ranked teams, No. 6 Arkansas defeated Southern Mississippi 63-54; No. 7 San Francisco edged New Orleans 86-83 in overtime; 13th-ranked DePaul stopped Maine 90-67; No. 14 Tulsa trimmed Florida Southern 94-88; No. 19 Alabama-Birmingham whipped California State-Chico 80-60 and No. 20 Villanova hammered Pace 121-64.
the Celtics later iced the victory when Robert Parish scored on a rebound of his own blocked shot with eight seconds to go. Pistons 106, Mavericks 98 Kelly Tripucka scored 18 second-half points to rally Detroit past Dallas. The Pistons, who trailed by as many as 13 points in the first half, took the lead for the first time three minutes into the third quarter on a 15-3 scoring binge. Detroit’s second-half spurt was aided by Terry Tyler’s 15 points. Tripucka, the firstround draft choice from Notre Dame, was the game’s high scorer with 27 points, while Tyler finished with 20 and Phil Hubbard, 16. Bulls 92, Bullets 90 Ricky Sobers hit a 20-foot jump shot with two seconds left to lift Chicago over Washington. The Bulls tied the score at 90 with 33 seconds left when Reggie Theus scored on a layup. Washington then tried to take the last shot of the game, but Bullets guard John Lucas lost control of the ball with 11 seconds to go and turned it over to Chicago. Sobers led the Bulls with 14 points.
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Terry Cummings scored a season-high 27 points and Bernard Randolph added 15 to lead DePaul over Maine. Cummings, who left the floor with 6:50 left, also was a standout on defense as he and Randolph held Maine’s high-scoring Clay Pickering to eight points. “When the score was tied 2424 in the first half, I knew that was the moment to get these guys going,” said Cummings. “We lost our cool against UCLA and I made up my mind that it would never happen again.”
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Scott Hastings scored 21 points to pace Arkansas’ conquest of Southern Mississippi. The victory was the seventh straight for the undefeated Razorbacks. Darrell Walker was Arkansas’ only other double-figure scorer with 10 points. Joe Dawson led the Golden Eagles with 18 points, while Curtis Green had 12 for the losers. Quintin Dailey’s 12-foot jump shot with 2*2 minutes remaining in overtime sent San Francisco ahead to stay over New Orleans.
ter. Pursell and the Cubs prevailed in the WCC clash, 67-45. (Banner-Graphic photo by Tracy Proctor). ;
Pacers steal it, away 1 INDIANAPOLIS <AP) - £ steal and a fast break layup tty Johnny Davis gave Indiana its first lead in the second hajf against Atlanta, and the Pacefc put it away at the foul line. Davis made his steal when tie had been forced to switch off dh Hawks’ center Steve Hawes. » “I knew if they threw the ball out there if I could intercept it the floor was going to be wide open,” Davis said after the Pacers downed Atlanta 92-88 Tuesday night in the National Basketball Association. “It was just a matter of anticipating. Once thhy went where I thought they would, the rest was just coverting.” Davis finished with 20 points and had 12 assists while playing a Pacer season-high 45 minutes. Rookie Herb Williams led all scorers with 26 for Indiana. Davis’ steal and basket gave the Pacers an 87-86 lead with 1:01 to play. They trailed with 1:38 left in the third quarter and were down by eight; &$- 78, after Hawes hit a layup with 4:52 to play. Williams scored 12 points -in the final period as the Pacers outscored Atlanta, 24-15. The Hawks went scoreless more than 4M> minutes in the last quarter. A short jumper by Mike Bantom ignited a 13-point streak that ended with Williams making two free throws with 46 seconds left. Davis and Williams combined to score final 12 points. The extra work didn’t bother Davis. “I’ve played a lot longer than that on the playgrounds*’ he said. “I don’t mind playing long minutes if the coach feels he needs what I’m doing out there.” Atlanta’s Rory Sparrow hit a jump shot with 29 seconds left, pulling the Hawks within One point. Williams then hit two free throws with nine seconds to go and Davis wrapped up the victory with another free throlv two seconds before the final buzzer. Hawes, Eddie Johnson and Sam Pellom shared scoring honors for Atlanta with 14-point performances. Indiana’s third straight victory gave the Pacers a l£j;i record. Atlanta, plagued with injuries that kept Tree Rollins and Danny Roundfield frbm making the trip, slipped to 1015. Williams, on medication earlier in the day to combat the flu, was seven of nine from the field in the first half. The game was tied 10 times in the first half and the lead switched five times, with Atlanta’s seven-point halftime advantage the biggest lead. ~
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