Banner Graphic, Volume 13, Number 118, Greencastle, Putnam County, 25 January 1983 — Page 8

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The Putnam County Banner-Graphic. January 25.1983

South, GHS draw bye in sectional

By STEVE FIELDS Banner-Graphic Sports Editor The defending champion drew a first-round bye and the Eminence sectional favorite plays the opening game, according to the state tournament draw announced by the Indiana High School Athletic Association Tuesday morning. Undefeated Mooresville meets Monrovia in the opening game of the Eminence-IHSAA sectional at 6:30 p.m. Feb. 2. Cloverdale plays Eminence at 8 p.m. that same night. Greencastle and South Putnam play in the bye game at 6:30 p.m. Feb. 3, while the opening night winners meet at 8 p.m. The champion will be crowned Feb. 4. NORTH PUTNAM plays the second game of the Western Boone sectional. Crawfordsville and tourney host Western Boone open play at 6:30 p.m. Feb. 2 and at b p.m. North Putnam plays Lebanon. North Montgomery meets Southmont in the bye game at 6:30 p.m. Feb. 3. “It looks good,” South Putnam coach David Flora said. “Drawing the bye was a help,

Carlson is Wabash coach

By STEVE FIELDS Banner-Graphic Sports Editor CRAWFORDS VI LLE--The man who coached a Wabash College defense that shut down DePauw University’s highscoring offense in the 1982 Monon Bell Game is now a head coach. Greg Carlson was announced as Stan Parrish’s successor during a Tuesday morning press conference at Wabash College. Parrish, the third winningest coach in Wabash history, is Purdue University's

11-0 Bosse No. 1; Cathedral 6th

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - For the first time this season, the No.l team in the weekly Associated Press basketball poll is Evansville Bosse, which has Indiana’s longest current regular-season winning string at 31 straight games and has won 38 of its past 39 games overall.

ISU's Thomas asking for amateur status FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) Former world champion gymnast Kurt Thomas is seeking reinstatement of his amateur status, national gymnastics officials have confirmed. Thomas, a graduate of Indiana State University, appeal Jan. 13 in a letter to Roger Counsil, president of the U.S. Gymnastics Federation based here. USGF spokesman Ward Black said Counsil did not know when a decision on Thomas’ case might come. “No timetable has really been established,’’ Black said. “It might take a little while. His (Counsil’s) suspicion is that the ultimate decision will re£t with the international governing body in Switzerland.” He was a member of the 1976 and 1980 U.S. Olympic teams but abandoned amateur competition after the 1980 Olympic boycott. He has performed professionally at exhibitions and worked as a gymnastics commentator for ABC-TV.

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but drawing a team like Greencastle who will push us also helps. It's better to draw a team that will make you play, than someone who you will just blow away." Flora’s Eagles have a lofty 14-2 record after Monday night's 45-43 victory over TriW’est, but Mooresville is undefeated and beat the Eagles 5137 earlier this season. “GOOD, THAT’S an excellent draw,” Greencastle coach Doug Rose said. Greencastle stands 8-8 after Monday night's nonconference shellacking by Terre Haute South. Cloverdale gets to check out its draw immediately. The 6-9 Clovers play at Eminence Tuesday night. North coach Lloyd Blubaum wasn’t sure if the draw was good or bad at Western Boone. The Cougars, 1-14 after Monday night’s 48-44 loss to Brazil, playonly Crawfordsville, North Montgomery and Southmont from of the Western Boone sectional. Greencastle is the onlyarea team that plays Lebanon, and the Tigers beat the Cubs 4840. THE GREENCASTLE

new quarterback coach. “IT’S BEEN A privilege being part of the football program at Wabash College. I’m very fortunate to be in this position,” Carlson said in a prepared statement released by Wabash Sports Information Director Tom Keen. “The success we’ve had has been fun. We’ve worked hard to attain it and hopefully we’ll keep working as hard for continued success.” Wabash College’s new coach

The only loss for Coach Joe Mullan’s Bulldogs in the past two years was in the semifinals of the 1982 state tournament. Bosse, unbeaten in 27 games and ranked No.l at that time, fell to Gary Roosevelt by one point. The Bulldogs have won their first 11 games this season and,

Greencastle Feb. 3 6:30 p.m. South Putnam Mooresville I Winner Game 1 Feb. 5 -s^—76:30 p.m. Monrovia Feb . 3 8 p.m. Cloverdale Feb. 2 . 8 p.m. Winner Game 2 Eminence IHSAA Girls Basketball Sectional

regional will feature for the second year the Bloomington, South Vermillion, West Vigo and Eminence sectional winners play at McAnally Center Feb. 12. Defending regional champion Bloomington North has the long route on its own court. Bloomington South meets Edgewood in the opening game of the sectional and North takes on Owen Valley in the second game. Brown County meets a tough Martinsville team in the bye. At South Vermillion, defending champion Turkey Run drew the bye. Rosedale meets North Vermillion in the opening game at South Vermillion High

is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh. He lettered four years in football and track and came to Wabash in 1980 as defensive coordinator. His appointment came as somewhat of a surprise. It was believed that long-time assistant and former Indiana University defensive back Mike Deal would be named head coach. Deal was reportedly a leading candidate for other NCAA Division 111 head coaching positions earlier this

coupled with top-ranked Indianapolis Cathedral’s loss to Indianapolis Manual last week, moved up one spot to regain the No.l rating in the latest AP poll of sports writers and broadcasters. The loss by Cathedral, in the first round of the Indianapolis tournament, was its second to Manual this season. Cathedral fell five spots to sixth place in this week’s poll, while Manual vaulted all the way from 17th to fifth. Bosse picked up 17 of 21 firstplace votes and 428 of a possible 440 rating points from AP’s statewide panel. The only other unbeaten team among the Top 20, Michigan City Rogers, also moved up one spot to second place with four votes for No.l and 394 points. Evansville North, whose only loss in 11 games was to Bosse, also climbed one ranking to third place at a distant 293 rating points. New Castle, which has lost to Cathedral twice by a total of three points, rose two spots to fourth. Manual, which also beat Indianapolis Arlington last week for the city tourney cham-

Flowers looking for more playing time at UNLV

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) - John Flowers, one of the most sought-after basketball prizes in recent Fort Wayne history, says he’s leaving Indiana University because of a lack of playing time. “The main reason (for leaving Indiana) was not getting to play a sport which I grew up playing all my life and a sport which I grew to love,” said Flowers, a 6-foot-10 forward-center from South Side High School. “I just wanted to go somewhere where I could get to play.” His apparent choice now is Nevada-Las Vegas, which was second on his list when he came out of high school. “They’re more suited to my game,” Flowers said in an interview with the Fort Wayne NewsSentinel. “They like to get up and down the floor.” This season Flowers hasn’t seen much of the floor. After appearing in all 29 games and averaging 4.7 points and 17 minutes per game as a freshman last year, Flowers’ sophomore

School and Montezuma takes on traditional favorite Rockville in the second game. South Vermillion gets first shot at Turkey Run in the bye game. IN WEST VIGO’S five-team sectional, the host will have to play three games to defend its title. Brazil and West Vigo open the tourney in a single-game session Feb. 2, Terre Haute South and North tangle in the second game and the winner of the Brazil-West Vigo contest squares off with Van Buren. The winner of the Greencastle regional takes on the winner of the Warren Central regional again this year in the second game of the Ben Davis semistate. Mooresville was the

fall and is said to be one of Kenyon’s final candidates. CARLSON HAS HIS work cut out for him, because of coach Parrish’s success. Over five seasons on the sideline Parrish carved out a 42-3-1 record and turned out two Little AllAmerican quarterbacks - Dave Harvey (1977) and David Broecker(l9B2) While the 34-year-old Carlson inherits an experienced team, he must rebuild the offensive backfield.

pionship, received the remaining vote for first place. Newcomer Indianapolis Brebeuf, whose only loss in 13 games was to Muncie Central, was voted 19th after its victory over Perry Meridian for the Marion County tourney title. Besides Bosse and Rogers, the only remaining unbeaten team in the state is 11-0 John Glenn High School of Walkerton. Glenn received honorable mention in this week’s poll. The Associated Press Top 20 Indiana high school basketball teams, with firstplace votes in parentheses, records through games of last Saturday and rating points (440 possible): 1. Evansville Bosse (17), 11-0,428 2. Mich. City Rogers (4). 11-0,394 3. Evansville North, 10-1,293 4. New Castle, 12-3,269 5. Indpls Manual (1), 13-2,238 6. Indpls Cathedral, 12-2,229 7 Gary Roosevelt, 11-2,205 8. E Chicago Roosevelt, 12-1,170 9. Elkhart Memorial, 11-2,117 10. Anderson Highland, 11-2,109 11. Marion, 10-3.92 12. Anderson, 10-3,72 13. Indpls Ben Davis, 11-2,53 14. Indpls Arlington, 12-3,52 15. Connersville, 11-1,38 16. Washington, Ind., 11-1,32 17 Muncie Central, 9-2,29 18. Attica, 12-1,28 19. Indpls Brebeuf, 12-1,22 20. Gary West, 10-3,19 Others with five or more points, listed alphabetically: Ft. Wayne Snider, Ft. Wayne South, Gary Wallace, Glenn, Mishawaka Marian, Muncie South, Oak Hill, Terre Haute South.

season has been a disappointment. He’s appeared in just eight games this year and has averaged only 3.3 points and 14 minutes per game. Why the inactivity? “I wasn’t having real good practices," Flowers said. “Practices were good the beginning of the year, but later on I hit a slump and had trouble. Everybody has their ups and downs. But I felt I still should have gotten to play more. But Coach (Bob) Knight didn’t feel that way, and he’s the boss there. And whatever he says goes. Then after I put everything into perspective, I decided I should leave. ” Two weeks ago, before Indiana’s Big Ten opener at Ohio State, Flowers walked out of practice and threatened to quit the team but was coaxed into staying by teammates Winston Morgan, Stew Robinson and Tracy Foster, the former Homestead standout and close friend of Flowers. But that was the beginning of the end.

last Greencastle regional champ to make the state finals. Defending state champion. No. 1 ranked and undefeated Heritage plays Ft. Wayne Luers on the second night of action in the Ft. Wayne Harding sectional. Last year Heritage ousted Sullivan 66-53, then beat Valparaiso 52-45 for the championship. Valpo eliminated Indianapolis Brebeuf 41-33 in the other semifinal game. Boston Celtic guard Quinn Buckner and Los Angeles Laker coach Pat Riley both were selected by teams in the National Football League draft.

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As Sharon Evars (13) couldn't stop this Terre Haute South layup, the Greencastle High School girls basketball team couldn't stop the Braves. The Tiger Cubs were shelled 44-17 at McAnally Center and now enter Thursday night's season finale with an 8-8 record. (Banner-Graphic photo by Rick Combs).

Sycamores stumble over own turnovers

By The Associated Press Indiana State’s turnovers turned the tide for New Mexico State which slipped past the Sycamores 72-70 in overtime in a Missouri Valley Conference college basketball game. Elsewhere Monday night. Oral Roberts downed Butler 6452 in a Midwestern City Conference game, Evansville beat Oklahoma City 76-63 in another

Tiger Sharks win first swim meet against Chargers

LINDEN-Hard work and diligence finally paid off for the Greencastle High School swimming team. The Tiger Sharks broke a 16meet losing streak Monday night, defeating host North Montgomery 73-53 by taking nine of the 11 possible firsts and two of the top three scoring positions in five events. “I KNOW WINNING isn’t everything, but it’s nice to win,” coach Paul Bretscher said, obviously happy. “The last time we won a meet was in early December of 1981 at North Putnam. I think the last time we won at home was January 1981. I hope that one doesn't go too much longer.” Bob Nealon, Todd Gray and Eric Schoenfeld were double event winners for the Tiger Sharks. Nealon won the 200yard and 500-yard freestyle events. Gray led a one-two finish in both the 200-yard IM and the 100-yard breaststroke. Gray won the IM in 2:20.53 and Mike Opdahl finished second. When Gray clocked a 1:09.21 first place time in the breaststroke, Martin Oliver was right behind.

MCC match, Tri-State topped Spring Arbor 66-53 and Vincennes defeated Southeastern lowa 75-65. After the Sycamores’ loss Monday night at Terre Haute, Indiana State Coach Dave Schellhase said, "Turnovers really hurt us tonight. I knew coming in that we couldn’t make a lot of turnovers and expect to win. They made nine;

“I told him (Knight) I was thinking about leaving two or three weeks ago,” added Flowers. ’’He said when I decided to leave he'd do the best he could to help me go somewhere. He told me to do whatever makes me happy and he would help me out. I thank him for that. “I’m not leaving with any hard feelings,” said Flowers. "He’s (Knight) the best coach in the country, and if he thinks a player shouldn’t play, he shouldn’t play. You can’t argue with success. But from an athletic standpoint, which I was in, I saw only one side of the story ; and that was my story. I wanted to play and wasn't getting to play. And that's after I come in and bust my butt in practice. “Some days I’d have a good rebounding practice, but other days, those rebounds weren’t there. That was my role to rebound and play defense.” “It started building after I got back from the holiday tournament,” Flowers pointed out. “I knew I wasn’t going to play in the Ohio State

Schoenfeld, who joined the team about three weeks ago, won the 50-yard freestyle in 25.07 seconds with Martin Oliver finishing second and took the 100-yard freestyle in 57.75 seconds. TODD WATKINS won a first and second for the Sharks. Watkins took the 100-yard backstroke in 1:02.40 with Quentin Oliver finishing second for Greencastle. Watkins and Opdahl finished second and third in the 100-yard butterfly. Quentin and Martin Oliver, Gray and Watkins formed the first place 200-yard medley relay team that put Greencastle ahead 8-6 after one event. Quentin Oliver, Opdahl, Nealon and Schoenfeld make up the first place 400-vard freestyle relay team. Greencastle scored as many or more points in every event but diving, where North Montgomery had two entries against Chris Buchanan. The Tiger Sharks won’t have an opportunity to end the homepool streak until Feb. 8 when

Leaders hold on to top positions

By The Associated Press UCLA, Indiana and North Carolina kept the top three spots today in The Associated Press college basketball poll, while a loss to previously unbeaten Arkansas allowed five members of last week's Top Ten to move up one notch. In a nationwide poll of 60 sports writers and broadcasters, UCLA grabbed 28 first-place votes and 1,146 points, and Indiana had 25 first-place votes and 11 fewer points than the Bruins. Last week, the Hoosiers trailed UCLA by only eight points. North Carolina stayed in third with 1,024 points and five firstplace ballots. Nevada-Las Vegas, the only NCAA Division I school with no losses, and Memphis State got one first-place vote each and took the fourth and fifth spots in the poll with 974 and 906 points, respectively. They each jumped one spot from last week’s Top 20 as Arkansas lost to Houston 7560 and fell from fourth to No. 12. Also moving up one place were No. 6 Virginia, No. 7 St. John's and No. 8 Louisville. Rounding out the first 10 were Houston, which leaped from 14th to ninth with its victory

we made 18. That’s the whole game right there." Ernest Patterson hit a 17-foot jump shot with two seconds left in overtime to get the victory for the Aggies. New Mexico State’s Derek Sailors hit a layup on a pass from Gillis Williams with 20 seconds left in regulation to tie the game 66-66. Indiana State called a timeout to set up for a

game because I walked out of practice that week. Then I didn't get to play in the next three games. I thought I should have played. “The last game I played was at the end of the Nebraska game,” Flowers said. “Since then. I haven’t stepped on the court.” Flowers’ best game was in the Indiana Classic, when he scored a team-leading 16 points against Eastern Michigan. That was Dec. I.Q, exactly two years after he announced hjs decision to attend Indiana. At that time, he said it was a relief to get his decision out of the way. Two years later, he says it’s a relief leaving. "I just have a good feeling knowing I'm going to go somewhere where I can play," said Flowers. "I just know I went there (Indiana) and tried. But that school was probably not meant for me. Indiana will always be a good school. And they'll probably be in the (NCAA) Final Four and might win it all, but I felt like I wouldn’t be a real big contributor to them.”

Tri-West visits McAnally Pool. However, Feb. 1 Greencastle travels to Crawfordsville. Greencastle 73, North Montgomery 53 200-medley relay-1:57.22, Greencastle <O. Oliver, Gray, Watkins, M. Oliver); North Montgomery; North Montgomery. 200-freestyle~2:ofi.ll. Nealon, G; Stout, NM; ( rosier. NM. 200-IM -2:20.53, Gray, G; Opdahl, G; Strand. NM. 50-freestyle-25.07, Schoenfeld. G; M. Oliver,C; .Meharry, NM. Diving-214.75, O’Neal, NM; Servies, NM; Buchanan, G. 100-buUerfly--58.85, Eggers. NM; Watkins, G; Opdahl, G. 100-freestyle-57.75, Schoenfeld, G; Meharry, NM; Stout, NM. 500-freestyle-5:44.47, Nealon, G: Crozer, NM; Strand, NM. 100-backstroke-l : 02.40, Watkins. G; Oliver, G; Thomas, NM. 100-breaststroke-1:09.21, Gray, G; M. Oliver, G; Eggers, NM. 400-freestyle relay-4:02.58, Greencastle (Opdahl. Q. Oliver. Nealon, Schoenfeld); North Montgomery; North Montgomery Southmont 78. Greencastle 42 200-medley relay-1:47.73, Southmont; Greencastle. 200-freestyle-1: 54.45, Wilson, S; Savoldi, S: Gray, G. 200-IM-2:018.08, Watkins. G: Morrison. S: Wininger, S. 50-freestyle-21.80, Hedrick. S; Cline, S; Schoenfeld. G. Divine-170.80. Hamm. S: Buchanan, G.' 100-butterfly-1:06.15, Morrison. S; Gray, G; Stahnke, S. 100-freestyle-47.70, Hedrick, S; Cline. S; Nealon, G. 500-freestyle-5:08.72, Wilson, S; Savoldi, S; W atkins, G. 100-backstroke-l: 03.42, Potts. S; Q. Oliver, G; Hucksted, S. 100-breaststroke-l: 11.32. Wininger, S: M. Oliver. G: Opdahl. G. 400-freestyle relay-3:51.26. Southmont; Greencastle.

over Arkansas, and Kentucky, 11th a week ago. The Second Ten is Villanova, Arkansas. Missouri, lowa, Georgetown. Minnesota, Illinois State, Syracuse. Wake Forest and Oklahoma State. Illinois State, which improved its record to 14-1 by beating Tulsa 61-55, and Wake Forest. 13-2, were not ranked last week. They replaced Virginia Tech, which lost to Virginia and Tulane, and Auburn, which lost to Vanderbilt. Last week's Second Ten was Kentucky, Missouri. Villanova, Houston. Syracuse, Minnesota, Virginia Tech. Oklahoma State. Georgetown and Auburn. The Top Twenty teams in the Associated Press college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records and total points Points based on 20-19-18-17-16-15-14-13-12-11-10-9-8-7-6-54-3-2-1: I.UCLA 1281 13-1 1,146 2.lndiana (25) 14-1 1,135 3. Carolina (5 15-3 1.024 4. Vegas 16-0 974 5. State (1 14-1 906 6. Virginia 15-2 898 7.St. John's 17-1 859 8. Louisville 15-2 809 9. Houston 15-2 679 10. 13-3 627 11. 12-3 580 12. Arkansas 15-1 551 13. Missouri 14-3 389 14.10wa 12-3 379 15. Georgetown 134 331 16 Minnesota 12-3 233 17. Illinois State 14-1 213 18. Syracuse 13-3 200 19 Wake Forest 13-2 114 20. Oklahoma State 13-2 83

final shot but couldn't get tile shot off. The Sycamores led 43-37 at the half. Lindsay McElmell led Ne,w Mexico State with 17. Mark Golden scored a game-high 25 points, and James Smith was the only other Sycamore in double figures with 18. New Mexico State is 10-6 for the season.