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The Putnam County Banner-Graphic, January 11,1983

Memphis St. falls before standing as nation's No. 1

By KEN RAPPOPORT \P Sports Writer While voters in The Associated Press college basketball poll were moving Memphis State up a notch, the Tigers were being taken down a peg by the Virginia Tech Hokies. "I give Virginia Tech credit,” Memphis State Coach Dana Kirk said after the 69-56 upset Monday night by his team’s Metro Conference opponent. ‘‘They made things happen tonight at both ends of the floor.” The defeat was the first of the year after 11 victories by the Tigers, who were ranked No. 2 behind Indiana when they took the court Monday night against the Hokies, but were pushed up to No. 1 in the latest rankings as a result of Indiana’s loss Saturday night to Ohio State. “Virginia Tech played exceptionally well,” said Kirk. ‘we didn't handle the ball like we have been. We really sputtered in the spread offense ‘which the Tigers went to when Star Keith Lee got into foul trouble). If you don't execute in the spread, it can really hurt you, and it did tonight.” > According to Virginia Tech Coach Charlie Moir, ‘T’ve had teams play better, but I’ve never had one play harder than this team did.” Perry Young’s tipin with 7:59 left sent Virginia Tech, 13-1, atyead for good and the Hokies used a foul-line parade down the sij'etch to hold on. Reggie Steppe came off the bench to score 21'i points for the winners and 'Keith Colbert pulled down 10 sebounds and held Lee to six points. * “I thought Keith Colbert did a magnificent job on Lee,” Moir said. “He’s giving away a lot of height, but he really stayed with fiimanddid the job.”

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The Top Twenty teams in the Associ ated Press college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records and total points Points based on 20-19 18-17-16-15-14 13 12-11-10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2 1: 1. Memphis St. (421 11-1 1,164 2. Virginia (13) 11-1 1,110 3 St John's (3) 13-0 1,028 4 Indiana (2) 10-1 994 5. 9-1 985 6. Kentucky 11-2 857 7 Arkansas 11-0 764 8. Vegs 12-0 734 9. Louisville 11-2 650 10 Alabama 9-2 604 11 North Carolina 10-3 529 12.10wa 9-2 511 13. Syracuse 11-2 411 14. Missouri 10-2 403 15, 8-2 395 16 Houston 11-2 293 17 Minnesota 10-1 266 18. Tennessee 10-2 234 19 N.C. State 7-2 160 20.0hi0 State 9-2 92

Elsewhere in the Top Twenty, No. 5 UCLA beat Arizona State 87-86, No. 6 Kentucky defeated Mississippi State 58-53 in overtime, Georgetown stopped No. 13 Syracuse 97-92, No. 16 Houston edged Southwestern Louisiana 79-78 and No.. 18 Tennessee turned back Louisiana State 59-58. Top Ten Rod Foster’s long jumper with 15 seconds remaining lifted UCLA over Arizona State in a see-saw game. Foster finished with a game-high 30 points, with 14 coming in the second half. Paul Williams' jumper with 47 seconds left had given the Sun Devils an 86-85 lead before Foster drilled home his gamewinning shot. After a timeout, Arizona State tried to work the ball to Byron Scott, but he was heavily guarded and Shawn Holiday’s missed a desperation shot at the buzzer. Kentucky used the free throwin overtime to turn back Mississippi State. Derrick Hord and Melvin Turpin each hit two free throws in a run of four straight Wildcat points. After Terry Lewis hit a layup for Mississippi State, Dickie Beal hit two more free throws to give Kentucky- a 53-49 lead.

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Butch Pierre hit an 18-footer with 35 seconds remaining in overtime to pull the Bulldogs within tu'o, but Beal answered with two more free throws. Overall, the Wildcats hit 19-of--19 from the line. “It was nice to get a break, especially on the road, and we did tonight,” said Kentucky Coach Joe B. Hall of the foul shots.“We didn’t play well against Mississippi State.” Second Ten Michael Jackson scored 31 points, including four in the final 68 seconds, as Georgetown withstood a furious second-half rally by Syracuse for a Big East victory before a record crowd of 31,327 at the Carrier Dome. It was the largest on-campus crowd in NCAA basketball history, surpassing the 27,318 that watched the St. John’sSyracuse game in Syracuse last year. Georgetown blew a 21-point lead early in the second half before coming back to win. The loss was the second straight for Syracuse, which opened the season with 11 consecutive victories. “We never totally lost our composure." said Georgetown Coach John Thompson. "During a timeout. I told them they were playing Syracuse, not the crowd.” “We piayed only 15 minutes of defense, and that was almost enough to win." said Syracuse Coach Jim Boeheim. Dale Ellis scored 23 points, including a four-pointer in the final minutes, to rally Tennessee over LSU. Ellis came up with a loose ball and scored a layup with 2:23 to play, and when a flagrant foul was called on LSU’s John Tudor. Ellis added two free throws to give the Vols a 59-58 lead.

After a fourth place finish in the seven-team Monrovia Invitational, the South Putnam High School wrestling team has the Jan. 22 West Central Conference Championships as its goal. The Eagles host Cascade Thursday night in the last meet before the WCC. Members of the

South 4th in Monrovia Invitational

Havey and Phillips champions

MONROVIA-Pat Havey was named the outstanding wrestler and along with Tim Phillips won a championship Saturday in the seven-team Monrovia Invitational high school wrestling tournament. Undefeated Owen Valley won the tournament team championship and Indianapolis Washington finished second. Danville took third place and South Putnam was fourth. Morristown, Fountain Central and Monrovia rounded out the field. HAVEY WON THE 126 pound championship and Phillips the 138 pound title for South Putnam Brent Cash took second place at 105. while Dan Smetzer was thnd at 98 and Tony Hodges third at 177. Havey was voted the outstanding wrestler of the tournament by coaches of the particpating teams. The senior won his first and third matches of the day by first period pins and his second by 7-2 decision. He

North girls put up fight before losing 10th game

BAINBRIDGE-When Turkey Run’s veteran girls basketball team that won the South Vermillion sectional last year, entered North Putnam High School’s gym Monday night, most expected a runaway contest. Turkey Run won the game 5341, but it was never a runaway and the 1-10 Cougars were never out of reach until the final buzzer sounded in the nonconference game. “THE THIRD AND fourth quarters by far, the third quarter imparticularly was the best quarter we have played all year,” North coach Lloyd Bluhaum praised. ‘‘That is the

No. 2 Bosse plays No. 4 North

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Even if The Associated Press pollsters rate Evansville Bosse only the second-best team in the state, Coach Joe Mullan considers his Bulldogs No.l. And so does Coach Bob Walker of four-th-ranked Evansville North, whose Huskies play Bosse tonight. “When you’ve got the No.l and N 0.4 teams in the state from the same city, and considering the kind of game it was last year, how can a basketball fan miss a game like that,” Mullan says of the showdown at Evansville’s Roberts Stadium between the two 7-0 powers. “They'll get their money’s worth.” Bosse, ranked No.l by the AP last year when it went through the regular season unbeaten, had to rally from nine points down in the final minute to force an overtime against North.

South squad are: Seated from left, Tony Cox, Dan Smetzer, Brent Cash, Pat Havey, Trent Thompson, Tim Phillips and Don Langston. Standing from left, coach Mark Wildman, Jim Tesmer, Jeff Denny, Brian Johnston, Dan

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pinned Fountain Central's Carver in the first period of the title match Havey is unofficially 13-0-1 for the season. Phillips avenged his only loss to win the 138 pound championship. The now 13-1 senior pinned Danville's Kincaid in the first period to get even for the blemish and bring them home the title. Philips also scored a first period pin over Owen Valley’s Franklin and a third period pin over Taylor of Morristown, thus earning a trophy for the most pins in the

kind of basketball these girls are capable of playing.” Neither team hit the basket in the first quarter, as the Warriors took a 9-6 lead into the second period. “The second quarter Turkey Run started hitting the basket and my-girls got a little rattled,” Blubaum said of the 29-13 Turkey Run halftime lead. North scored all of its seven second quarter points at the free throw line. NORTH HAD TURKEY Run on the ropes early in the fourth quarter. The Warriors couldn't extend their lead and North did cut the margin to nine, though trailing 41-29 when the final

This time, Mullan says, the pressure is off the Bulldogs. North also cleared a perennial hurdle last week by beating Terre Haute North, which had beaten the Huskies each of the previous three years in their game before Bosse. “This year, we’ve been fortunate enough to make it all the way through without a loss,” said Walker. “Now we’ve got a good opportunity to play against the No.l team in the state.” The AP board of sports writers and broadcasters, however, again picked Bosse behind top-ranked Indianapolis Cathedral. In fact, the top seven teams in this week’s poll were unchanged from a week ago. Cathedral, which has been No.l most of the season despite one loss, kept a comfortable margin over Bosse in the latest voting. The Irish earned 15 of 21 first-place votes for 406 of a

fastest time for the tournament. OWEN VALLEY’S Trimble was the only one between Cash and first place at 105 pounds. Cash was pinned in the second period by his West Central Conference rival after scoring a first period pin over Morristown's Martin and a second period pin of Monrovia's Stewart. Smetzer lost his first match of the day to Monrovia’ Dettv at 98 pounds, then came back to earn a third place. The Eagle pinned Morristown’s Hulman in the second period and Fountain

eight minutes opened. Lori Plunkett and Pam Neumann both juniors, led the balanced Cougar offense with nine points. Turkey Run won the junior varsity game 28-20. TURKEY RUN (53) Knott 2 2-4 4 6, Cook I! 2-. r i 4 8. Waldridge 4 14 I 9. I.ivesev 5 1-7 3 11. Leatherman 4 0-414 8. I). Brown 2 2-2 2 fi. A. Brown 0 0-0 0 0, Bruckman2o-2 1 4. SullarsO 1-2 I 1. Totals - - KG 22 FT 9-26 PF 20. NORTH PUTNAM (41) Plunkett 4 1-2 3 9. Bloeher 2 0-0 2 4. Pickel 2 1-3 4 5, Speas I 1-2 1 3. Hartman 1 3-4 i 3 5, Neumann 4 1-4 19, Horton 0 0-2 0 0. Greene I 0-0 I 2. Crodian t 0-0 I 2. MeMurtry 0 0-0 1 0. Buser 0 2-2 I 2. Totals-FG 10 FT 9-19 PF 20. Score by quarters Turkey Run 9 29 31 53 North Putnam 6 13 29 41

possible 420 rating points. Bosse had five votes for No.l and 380 points, while N 0.3 Michigan City Rogers had the remaining ballot for first and totaled 338 points. Evansville North remained fourth with 260 points, followed by Marion with 223 points, Indianapolis Ben Davis with 211 points and Anderson with 164 points. Anderson plays Muncie Central on Friday. New Castle, which plays Marion on Friday and Cathedral Saturday, moved up one spot to eighth, changing places with Elkhart Memorial. Anderson Highland and Gary Roosevelt rose one spot apiece to 10th and 11th, respectively, while Gary Wallace, which did not play last week, dropped two places to 12th. East Chicago Roosevelt climbed two spots to 13th, and Indianapolis Arlington, also idle last week, remained N 0.14.

Gray, Tony Hodges, Tom Franklin, Kelly Stitzle, David Elmore, manager Chris Steele and assistant coach Wayne Schuetter. Not pictured are Brian Hayden and John Bridgewater. (Ban-ner-Graphic photo by Lester Wilson).

Central’s Beeson in the first. Hodges pinned Fountain Central’s McGrady in the first period before losing a 10-6 decision in the second round to Indianapolis Washington’s Moore, at 177 pounds. The senior earned a third place via second period pin of Owen Valley’s Andries, a wrestler he will face again Jan. 22 in the WCC Championships at South Putnam High School. Teams participating in the Monrovia Invitational wrestling tournament were: South Putnam. Owen Valley, Danville. Indianapolis Washington, Morristown. Foun-

Price helps Warriors INA, 111.—Jim Price scored nine points and pulled down four rebounds Thursday night to help Rend Lake Junior College win its ninth game of the basketball season. The Cloverdale High School product was one of four freshmen to play a major role in Rend Lake’s sixth win in its last seven starts. The Warriors are now 9-4 overall and 2-0 in the Great Rivers Athletic Conference. Price hit four of eight field goal attempts and one of two at the free throw line for his nine points. Volleyball anyone? Women’s recreational volleyball will resume Monday night at 7 p.m. in the Greencastle High School girls gymnasium. The volleyball is open to any woman who would like to play. Sports schedule Wednesday Greencastle freshmen at Owen Valley, 6:30 p.m., basketball Fountain Central freshmen at North Putnam. 6:30 p.m , basketball North Putnam Jr. High at Eminence, 6:30 p.m., basketball.

Gary West, which takes on Gary Roosevelt tonight, rose three spots to 15th, and South Bend Washington, a 26-point loser to Rogers on Saturday, fell three places to 16th. Six newcomers were voted to the AP poll at the bottom end of this week’s Top 20. The six new teams marked the biggest addition to the poll in a single week all season. Three of the newcomers, however, were voted to a 20th-place tie with Indianapolis Manual, which fell four spots from a week ago. Leading the parade of new members of AP’s elite is Attica, 11-1 for the season and voted to the N 0.17 spot. Muncie Central, 7-2 and back after a two-week absence from the Top 20, was picked 18th. and Frankfort, 9-1, made its first appearance in the poll in the No. 19 spot. Lebanon, which administered the only loss of the season for

lain Central and Monrovia. Owen Valley won the tournament. 98-Dan Smetzer, SP, lost 13-3 major decision. Detty Mi won second period pin over Hulman. MT: look third place, first period pin over Beeson, FC. 105-Brent Cash, SP. won first period pin over Martin. Mt.; won second period pin Stewart: M; lost second period pm Trimble to finish second place. 112-Tony Cox. SP. lost first period pin, Dourghety, Mt.: lost second period pin, Starkey, FC. 119-Brian Johnston. SP. lost first period pin. Mann. Mt.: lost 18-9 major decision. Hunt. M. 126-Pat Havey. SP, won first period pin, Steinmetz. D; won 7-2 decision. Short, Mt.; won championship by first period pin. Carver, FC. 132-Tom Franklin, SP. lost 9-2 decision. Coleman. IW; won 6-2 decision. Cook, M; lost 6-2 decision. Mann. Mt. to finish in fourth place. 138-Tim Phillips. SP, won first period pin. Franklin. OV; won third period pin, Taylor. Mt.; won championship by first period pin. Kincaid. D. 145-Trent Thompson. SP. lost 7-1 decision. Viltetow, I): lost 13-3 major decision Hunsucker. M. 155-Brian Hayden. SP. lost first period pin. Rick Cunningham. OV: lost 10-5 decision. Talbert, Mt. 167-Dan Gray, SP, lost first period pin, Fretz. OV : lost second period pin, Ratcliff. FC. 177-Tony Hodges. SP, won first period pin. McGrady. FC; lost 10-6 decision. Moore. IW; finished third place by second period pin. Andries, OV. iKS-Kelly Stilzle. SP. lost first period pin. Jennings. OV: lost first period pin, Chastain. M. llwt.-South Putnam did not have a heavy weight entry.

both Attica and Frankfort, was one of this week’s newcomers voted to the 20th-place tie. The others are Columbus North and Fort Wayne Snider The Associated Press Top 20 Indiana high school basketball teams, with firstplace votes in parentheses, records through games of last Saturday and rating points (420 possible): 1. Indpls Cathedral (151.10-1.406 2. Evansville Bosse (5). 7-0.380 3. Mich. City Rogers < 1),8-0,338 4. Evansville North. 7-0.260 5. Marion, 8-2.223 6. Indpls Ben Davis. 8-0,211 7. Anderson, 8-2,164 8 New Castle, 9-2,154 9. Elkhart Memorial, 9-1.146 10. Anderson Highland, 8-1.118 11. Gary Roosevelt, 8-2.93 12. Gary Wallace. 7-2,92 13 E.Chicago Roosevelt. 9-1.62 14 Indpls Arlington. 8-1,61 15. Gary West. 8-2,31 16. S.Bend Washington, 8-1.25 17. Attica, 11-1.12 18 Muncie Central. 7-2.9 19 Frankfort. 9-1.8 20 (Tie) Lebanon. 8-1.6 Columbus North, 8-1.6 Ft Wavne Snider, 8-2.6 Indpls Manual, 7-2,6 Others receiving votes, listed alphabetically: Brazil. Connersville. Goshen. Lake Station. Loogootee. Merrillville. Noblesville. Oak Hill. Silver Creek, Washington. Ind.