Banner Graphic, Volume 13, Number 102, Greencastle, Putnam County, 6 January 1983 — Page 8

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The Putnam County Banner-Graphic, January 6,1933

Cubs and Cougars play two games

High school basketball holiday over

By STEVE FIELDS Banner-Graphic Sports Editor There is nothing easy about the way Greencastle and North Putnam return to the high school basketball schedule. Both Putnam County teams play two games, . Greencastle going on the road twice and North ; in a split. The Cubs go to West Vigo Friday and to Owen Valley for a WCC game Saturday. The Cougars travel to Edgewood Friday and host Foutain Central Saturday. SOUTH PUTNAM AND Cloverdale take a more gradual route to the schedule and play their lone weekend games at home. South is host to Rockville and Cloverdale expects a visit from Eminence. , “I would prefer to have* one game, but the Owen Valley game was moved this year,” coach and Athletic Director Doug Miller said of the Cubs’ two-game weekend road trip. The Cubs are also preparing for two different styles of ball teams. “Owen Valley is different from West Vigo in that they don’t have a balanced attack,” Miller said. WEST VIGO IS a 5-4 basketball team, picking up its fifth win 54-43 over Marshall, 111. Tuesday night. “They’ve got a very balanced

WCC at a glance WCC Total Cascade 5-0 5-3 Greencastle 1-0 5-3 Owen Valley 1-0 3-4 South Putnam 3-1 5-5 Danville* 3-2 5-2 Tri-West 2-2 3-4 Cloverdale 1-2 6-4 Edgewood 0-2 1-5 North Putnam 0-3 0-6 Monrovia 0-4 0-7 *New member has one automatic loss. GP TP Avg. Chad Tucker, Cloverdale 10 204 20.4 Jerry Neese, Cloverdale 10 203 20.3 Dennis Hogan, Cascade 8 148 18.5 Brian Clark, Danville 6 111 18.5 Brian Richards, Greencastle 7 119 17.0 Greg Wright, Owen Valley 7 118 16.9 Shawn Wood. Owen Valley 7 118 16.9 Brett Meek, South Putnam 10 161 16.1 Todd Inman, Greencastle 8 112 14.0 David Dorsett, Monrovia* 6 81 13.5 *Does not include Tuesday night game. Sports schedule Friday Greencastle at West Vigo, basketball North Putnam at Edgewood. basketball Rockville at South Putnam, basketball Saturday Greencastle at Owen Valley, basketball Fountain Central at North Putnam, basketball Eminence at Cloverdale, basketball

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basketball team. You can’t really key on one person. They run the fastbreak very well. They like to get the ball out and go and like to use 1-2-1-1 full court defensive pressure,” Miller said. The Vikings are expected to start 6-4 Keith Brazzell at center with 6-2 Gary Fagg and 6-0

Spartans playing better on the road than at home

By The Associated Press There's no place like away-from-home for Michigan State, which just closed another successful road show on its “meat grinder” tour. The Spartans visited No.B lowa Wednesday night, and spoiled their hosts' debut in the new Carver-Haw keye Sports Arena with a 61-59 upset victory. Kevin Willis and Sam Vincent scored 18 points apiece for Michigan State in the Big Ten opener for both teams. Vincent hit a free throw in the final seconds and lowa lost a chance to tie on a turnover with two seconds left. TOP TWENTY In other games involving Top Twenty teams, Auburn bounced fifth-ranked Alabama 91-80, third-ranked Kentucky got past Louisiana State 52-50. N 0.9 Syracuse trimmed Providence 83-58. No. 10 Arkansas topped Mercer 83-62, 13th-ranked Louisville defeated Kentucky Wesleyan 79-58, N 0.17 Georgetown stopped Monmouth 82-59, and No.lß North Carolina beat Rutgers 86-69. “We enjoy breaking in new arenas," said Michigan State Coach Jud Heathcote, whose Spartans dampened Boise State's debut at its new complex earlier this season.

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Jay Cottom at forwards. Keith Wilbur and Tony Taparo, a 6-1 senior, are the guards. With Cascade sitting at the top of the WCC at 5-0, Greencastle can’t afford a loss at Owen Valley Saturday. Greg Wright and Shawn Wood are the top shooters for coach Jerrill Vandeventer’s 3-4 team both averaging 16.9 points per game. NORTH PUTNAM COULD be in more trouble than before Christmas. Just when it appeared the 0-6 Cougars gained more fire power with a healthy Jeff Eaton, an injury takes senior starter Scott Bullerdick out for the season. Bullerdick. averaging 8.6 points per game and one of the team’s leading rebounders, suffered a broken leg in loss to Cascade. Eaton moves into the starting lineup for Bullerdick. "Offensively he’s fine,” coach Phil Myers said, admitting that defense is what has kept Eaton out of the lineup to this point. “It’s one of those games we can win if we play well,” Myers said of the trip to Edgewood. EDGEWOOD IS A 1-5 ball club. Mickey Jacobs, a 5-10 junior guard is the team's leading scorer with a 13.4 average, shooting mostly from the perimeter. Jay Brown, a 6-2 junior, averages 10.2 points per game and

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“In all honesty, we caught lowa on a cold night in their shooting and we are very fortunate to win,” Heathcote said. “The Big Ten will be a meat grinder all year We had been struggling and it’s great to get a victory in the opener." lowa Coach Lute Olson said his Hawkeyes, 8-2. had all the comforts of home but just didn't win. “No. I don’t think the new arena had anything to do w-ith it," Olson said. “We even moved the same rims from the old fieldhouse so there would be psychological effect from that.” Alabama, which moved up a notch to N 0.5 this week, lost its second consecutive Southeastern Conference game. Charles Barkley scored 27 points, including 20 in the second half, as Auburn pulled away in the final seven minutes. Ennis Whatley had 31 points for Alabama. 8-2, which lost its SEC opener to Florida on Monday night. “I am really disappointed for our kids,” said Alabama Coach Wimp Sanderson. "We certainly have our work cut out for us this weekend with Kentucky.” Kentucky, meamvhile, had to hold on to overcome LSU in another SEC game. Melvin Turpin blocked Leonard Mitchell’s

seven rebounds as the starting center. Fountain Central enters this w'eekend’s scheduled with a 1-7 record. The lone victory was a 70-50 romp over South Vermillion and since then the Mustangs have lost four straight. Neal Bowman leads Fountain Central with a 16.3 scoring average. He scored a season-high 29 points against a good 7-1 Montezuma squad. SOUTH PUTNAM USED the holiday period to heal. The 5-5 Eagles played half of their schedule before Christmas and a tw'o-game weekend is rare from here on out. “Physically we’re in the best condition we’ve been except for Terry Van Horn and he’s been out with the flu the last couple of days,” coach Bill Merkel said. Rockville is a 3-4 ball club. One of those four losses was by a 77-50 Greencastle rout. With the exception of point-guard Carl Taylor coach Roger Bridge’s squad is very young. CLOVERDALE ESCAPED Eminence 68-63 earlier this season and now must play the up and down Eels in a rematch Saturday night. This is the same Eminence ball club that held 66 Chad Tucker to 14 points, but also the same team that four Clovers reached double figures against.

field goal attempt with two seconds left to give the Wildcats their 10th victory in 11 games. Jim Master of Kentucky led all scorers with 14 points. Erich Santifer tallied 18 points for unbeaten Syracuse in its rout of Providence in a Big East matchup. The Orangemen, 11-0. scored the last four points of the first half and first six points of the second half to put the game away. Junior guard Alvin Robertson tied his career-high with 23 points on nine-of-13 shooting from the field to pace Arkansas, now 10-0. The Razorbacks hit 19 of 28 shots, including 13 layups and dunks, in racing to a 46-28 halftime lead against Mercer. Louisville, sparked by brothers Rodney and Scooter McCray, exploded to start the second half in routing Kentucky Wesleyan, a Division II team. Louisville. 9-2, scored 19 consecutive points early in the second half to take a 62-34 lead. Scooter had 10 points, eight rebounds and nine assists while Rodney had 14 points, six rebounds and four assists. Center Patrick Ewing scored 15 points and Michael Jackson and David Wingate each added 14 as Georgetown easily defeated Monmouth.

Cardinals fell too far behind

By The Associated Press "Credit us with a 20-point first half lead; credit them with a second half comeback, and credit us with the last 40 seconds of play,” Bowling Green Coach John Weinert said after his Falcons edged Ball State 7169 in a college basketball game. Keith Taylor hit a 20-foot jump shot with one second left to lift Bowling Green to victory in Muncie. It u'as Ball State’s first home loss in 25 games. In other Indiana college action Wednesday night, Valparaiso beat Cleveland State 75-68. Rose-Hulman downed Principia 103-79, St. Francis topped Manchester 5653. Franklin defeated IndianaSoutheast 65-59. Southern Tech downed Indiana Central 83-68 and Defiance stopped Indiana Tech 73-64. Ball State, which had trailed by 21 points in the Mid American Conference opener for both teams, pulled to within 64-63 after Ray McCallum finished off a three-point play with 3:33 left in the game. The Cardinals grabbed their first lead 12 seconds later when Larry Jenkins hit a jumper following a steal. “We wanted to run the clock down as far as possible, and I just wanted one of our good outside shooters to make sure he had a good open shot," Weinert said. "We wanted to make sure there wasn’t any time left on the clock if he missed.” Cardinals Coach A 1 Brown said. “We haven’t played very well in the early part of the game in our last two games. We haven't come back to the level of play that we had before the holiday break.”

Wichita State is caught again for rules violations

MISSION, Kan. (AP) The NCAA has levied another probation against its most penalized member, Wichita State University, this time for violations in the school’s football program. Wichita State, which now has been cited seven times by the NCAA since it began its enforcement program in 1952, was slapped Wednesday with a twoyear probation. The Shockers basketball program already is on a threeyear probation, handed down less than a year ago for recruiting violations. Under the terms of the football probation, the Shockers are restricted from appearing in bowl games and on television during the 1983 and 1984 seasons. The Missouri Valley Conference school also will be allowed to award only 25 scholarships, instead of the normal 30, during each of the 19831984 and 1984-1985 school years. Head football Coach Willie “Jeff” Jeffries and assistant coach Fayne Henson will be

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Cathcart giving pro football a shot with USFL

By STEVE FIELDS Banner-Graphic Sports Editor For the second consecutive year there is hope DePauw University will have a professional football player. Offensive Player of the Year, Rick Lindlow was tested Wednesday by an Atlanta Falcon scout. Nick Mourouzis says the Chicago Bears and the Washington Redskins have both expressed interest in signing 1981 punter David Finzer, who was among Dallas' last preseason cut. HOWEVER, THE BEST bet for professional football at the present appears to the Bob Cathcart, a linebacker on the 9-1 team of 1981, Cathcart, the defensive line coach this year as a graduate assistant, has a contract with the Chicago Blitz of the United State Football League (USFL). “I think I have the talent to play, it’s just if I get the chance,” the 6-3,230 pound three-year starter said. The USFL call surprised Cathcart. He was tested by NFL scounts in the spring of 1982, but nothing became of it. He returned to DePauw this year to finish up his degree and. help coach an inexperienced defense. “I had kind of given up on the idea,” the Indianapolis Scecina High School product said. THEN CAME THE call from George Allen’s franchise. “When the guy first called me I was wary of the deal because I never had met the man, or run for the blitz, or anything like that,” Cathcart recalled. “They said they were going strictly on coach Mourouzis’ recommendation and that they respected his judgement having coached in the Big Ten and all.” When the NFL teams passed him up, Cathcart thought about the USFL, but just waited. Coach Mourouzis and former DePauw coach Jerry Berndt gave him reason to be optimistic about playing again. “Coach Mourouzis and coach Berndt both told me I had the ability to play if I set my mind to it and do some things like get stronger and a little faster,” Cathcart said after a workout at Lilly Center. As far as strength, it’s near a career high for him. With the February training camp near the next couple of weeks are really going to be important for Cathcart’s playing future. SPEED W'AS AND always has been one of Bob’s weaknesses. “On the Division 111 level my speed was pretty good, but at the pro level it’s probably average. For a linebacker it’s always an advantage to have quicker speed. I've been working on it a lot,” he said. One of the big things that coaches and pro football experts worried about during this year’s NFL player strike, was the lack of hitting. A player can condition himself, but being away from contact and game play could really hurt Cathcart during the preseason tryouts in Pheonix. Ariz. “I ll probably be at a disadvantage, but it will be the same for almost everybody out there,” said the player who last hit during DePauw’s 21-14 victory over Wabash at Blaekstock Stadium in 1981. MOST OF THE professional hopefuls in the camp should be like Cathcart. guys who have been out of the playing part of the game for a year or so, or players cut from the NFL and trying to make a comeback. The players who were picked in the USFL's first collegiate draft Tuesday more than likely will wait until after the NFL draft and see where the good money is coming from. The Blitz will play at Chicago’s Soldier Field beginning in March. According to all the publicity so far, the league will not bid against the NFL for players, a mistake the World Football League made. The idea appears to be to put competitive teams on the field in a year-round football concept, not to compete with the established league, and gradually build up the talent stable. Giving football one more shot is not interfering with the history major’s plans. “Eventually, if I don’t make it. I’d like to get into some kind of professional sports management and being around camp, even if it’s only for a couple of weeks. I can meet some people and get my name in some doors," Cathcart said hopefully.

prohibited by the school from recruiting bff-campus for a specific period of time, according to a report by The Wichita Eagle-Beacon. Jeffries has been head coach since 1978. The university was charged with five violations of NCAA rules, three of which the NCAA said occurred on Aug. 12, 1982. The violations were committed by the head coach, an assistant coach and a graduate assistant, none of whom was identified in the NCAA report. It had been widely reported that the school was under investigation for the recruitment of Dennis “Tex” Allen, a junior college prospect who did not enroll at Wichita State. Allen had been quoted as saying he was met by an NCAA investigator shortly after he was driven to Wichita by a Shockers assistant coach. The NCAA charged the two coaches and the graduate assistant with knowingly providing false and misleading information to the NCAA at an unspecified time. In addition, the head coach was accused of

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instructing a recruit and his mother to lie to the NCAA. The head coach also was accused of giving a recruit cash in the office of an assistant. The money was to be used to pay the recruit’s transportation costs home, the NCAA said. The NCAA further charged that the assistant coach and the graduate assistant provided transportation for a recruit between his home and the university so the recruit could enroll in WSU and participate in preseason practice. The assistant coach also purchased a meal for the recruit, the NCAA said. The assistant coach and the graduate assistant contacted a recruit on August 12, 1982 at a time prohibited by the NCAA, the infractions committee reported. The NCAA said the assistant coach and the graduate assistant lied when they told WSU President Clark Ahlberg in August 1982 that they had reported their knowledge of violations of NCAA rules to the infractions committee.