Banner Graphic, Volume 13, Number 120, Greencastle, Putnam County, 27 January 1983 — Page 7

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American Legion baseball is coming to Putnam County By STEVE FIELDS Banner-Graphic Sports Editor Attention all Putnam County high school baseball players between the ages of 16 and 19: There will be an American Legion baseball team for you to play on this summer. The Greencastle and Cloverdale American Legion Posts have consolidated their support behind DePauw University baseball coach Ed Meyer and myself and there will be a Putnam County team playing in the new Walker Stadium at DPU. NO LONGER WILL good baseball players have to drive to Brazil, Crawfordsville, Danville or sit out the summer. Meyer will coach the team. Games will be played at DePauw University's new stadium and already there are 16 scheduled games. American Legion baseball is for boys born on, or after Aug. 1, 1964. In other words, if your 16th birthday is on July 29, you are -eligible. If it falls on Aug. 2, you are not eligible. If your 19th birthday is on Aug. 2 you are eligible to play, but if it falls on July 3lst you're out. . This team needs money for things like uniforms, balls and bats, catching equipment, batting helmets, umpires and transportation. In round numbers, approximately $4,000 is needed. The Greencastle and Cloverdale American Legion Posts have .agreed to share expenses to a limit. AMERICAN LEGION BASEBALL is well organized statewide. This year's state tournament will feature 16 sectionals with 64 participating teams and the state championship in Rockport. located near the Ohio River. This is no shabby operation we're getting into and we are expected to run a tight ship Baseball players from Greencastle, Cloverdale. South Putnam and North Putnam high schools are eligible to try out. Legion rules allow only an 18-player roster. We must set the roster and have it and other paperwork completed and into the state by June 15. The two sponsoring Legion Posts are picking up the insurance costs and the sectional entry fee. Putnam County baseball players already on a Legion team, such as Tracy Pursell and Pete Meyer from Greencastle, must file a letter with the state office asking permission to change teams. They must also have a release form signed by the manager of the team they previously played for - in their case. Clay County. PLAYERS FROM THE four county schools, unless already attached to another Legion team, can play only for Putnam County’s team. In other words, if a player doesn’t make the squad here, he can t try out for the Clay County or Crawfordsville team. It’s just like in high school district, players are locked into a set area. This will not interfere with high school baseball No Putnam County high school has sponsored a summer team for the last two years. It has left a lot of baseball players without a diamond to call their own and nothing to do during the summer The Legion tryouts will be held after the sectional round of the high school state tournament and no game will be played until after the regional round. In most years that will free all players to complete high school responsibilities. Coach Meyer would like to know just how many players are interested. Remember, transportation to road games will be provided, so essentially there is no pay-to-play catch clause. If you want to play, contact either coach Meyer (658-4839 or 6536303) or myself (653-3237). IF YOU WOULD like to give financial support, or donate equipment, contact coach Meyer, myself or Dick Andis, who is serving as team business manager. Remember, outstanding players of the past few years like Pursell. Mark Braden, Randy Collier. Billy Chestnut, Mike Meyer and Jim Price all have been forced to play for teams outside the county because there was no team here. Pursell went undefeated for the Greencastle High School team last spring and didn’t lose his first game of the year until the American Legion regional, but few saw him. We have good baseball players in Putnam County turned out by strong Little League programs. There are Babe Ruth programs for the Little Leaguers to continue their playing during the summer and now, for the first time in at least three years, there is going to be a step of advancement, American Legion baseball.

Non-conference games no breather

By STEVE FIELDS Banner-Graphic Sports Editor Just when the West Central Conference high school basketball race gets interestingly close, the contenders begin playing non-conference games. Greencastle travels to Terre Haute South, Cloverdale is host to Van Buren and North Putnam goes to Danville in Friday night games involving Putnam County teams. Edgewood is at Bloomfield, Tri-West at Owen Valley and Monrovia at Indian Creek in other Friday night games. SATURDAY night, Greencastle travels to Monrovia for a WCC game, South Putnam is at Avon and North Vermillion calls on North Putnam. Mooresville is at Edgewood and Danville is at Cascade also on Saturday night. For Greencastle it’s like jumping from the frying pan into the fire After losing their last two against South Putnam and Cascade the Cubs are going against Pat Rady’s 10-2 Terre Haute South club. The Braves

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nailed crosstown rival Terre Haute North 74-47 Wednesday night and North beat Greencastle 60-45 before Christmas. “As of last Saturday, and the last couple of games, we’ve played well,” Rady said Tuesday night while watching the Greencastle-South Putnam game at McAnally Center. “We had our turnovers down to 15 and seem to be going to the boards a little stronger and those were two areas we really needed to work on.” SOUTH WON’T BE that much bigger than Greencastle. “We’re not the typical South team we’ve been in the past,” the former Bainbridge High School coach said. Rady’s starting lineup will have two 6-0 forwards, a 6-4 center and 6-0 and 5-10 guards. “We like to get out and run this year,” Rady said, “where last year we didn’t want to run. This year we like to press and get the ball out and go.” Greencastle might have some lineup changes Friday night, as coach Doug Miller looks for

Knight happy with play in fifth Big Ten victory

CHICAGO (AP > - It takes a lot of good basketball to please Bobby Knight, coach of Indiana’s second-ranked Hoosiers, and Knight was pleased as punch after following a 78-73 victory over Northwestern. As usual, Ted Kitchel and Randy Wittman, Knight's onetwo punch, led the Hoosiers Wednesday night, but there was more to the game than Kitchel’s 29 points and Wittman’s 24. “We played pretty well and shot well,” said Knight. “It was a good basketball game. In addition to Kitchel and Wittman, I thought we played well. “I was pleased with (Ewe) Blab in the second half, and Winston Morgan’s play is overlooked because he doesn't score, but he did a good job defensively.” Blab played early in the second half when Indiana, the

Memphis State, Louisville escape

New York City is tough place to win

By HERSCHEL NISSENSON AP Sports Writer Two of the nation's Top Ten college basketball teams visited New York and learned that it's not always Fun City. Fifth-ranked Memphis State and No.B Louisville had to fight for their lives before coming away with hard-earned victories over lona and Rutgers Wednesday night in a Madison Square Garden doubleheader. First. Memphis State held off lona 94-88 behind Keith Lee’s 28 points, including a pair of free throws with three seconds left when lona called a timeout although it had none remaining and was hit with a bench technical. Then, Louisville froze the ball

Toledo torpedoes Kent State

By The Associated Press When told that Toledo had just hit 24 of 27 field goal attempts in the second half against his team. Jim McDonald just laughed. “I didn't think they missed any,” said the first-year Kent State coach, who had just seen his Golden Flashes absorb a 9861 pounding at the hands of the Rockets. It was the only thing McDonald could laugh about in his first trip back to Toledo since leaving there as an assistant for the head coaching reins at cross-state Mid-American Conference rival Kent State. Elswhere in the MAC Wednesday night, Bowling Green and Ohio University remained in a first-place deadlock going into Saturday’s showdown at Athens. The Falcons whipped Western Michigan 63-48, while Ohio got by Central Michigan 77-72.

WCC team standings Teams WCC Total Cascade 6-0 7-4 South Putnam 4-1 7-6 Greencastle 3-2 8-5 Danville* 3-2 8-3 Cloverdale 2-2 8-5 Tri-West 2-2 4-6 Owen Valley 2-2 4-9 Monrovia 1-4 2-8 Edgewood 1-4 2-10 North Putnam 0-5 0-11 •h irst year member, one automatic loss.

more offense and a little stronger rebounding ball club. MONROVIA IS 2-8 overall and 1-4 in the conference. The school that turned out former Indiana University basketball coach Branch McCracken and named its gym after him, has beaten only Indianapolis Baptist and Owen Valley. David Dorsett is Monrovia’s leading scorer with a 16.0 average and a penetrating, scrappy kind of guard. Cloverdale could have its hands full with Van Buren. The 6-6

Big Ten leader, went ahead to stay after Northwestern had led 40-38 at the half and had led by as much as nine points during the first half. Morgan didn't take a shot but he pulled down three defensive rebounds, had nine assists and ne steal. Art Aaron topped Northwestern with 21 points, 19 of them coming in the first half when he threw in three threepoint goals from outside 21 feet. “What was Aaron on threepoint goals going in?” asked Knight, who answered his own question by saying, “0-for-7 but I guess we bring out the best in everyone.” W'hile Aaron was firing away and Wittman was hard at work keeping the Hoosiers in the game, Kitchel went scoreless for the first nine minutes. But once he started hitting, including four three-point goals,

for more than seven minutes late in the game and nosed out Rutgers 54-49 for its eighth consecutive triumph In other games involving The Associated Press Top Twenty, second-ranked Indiana outlasted Northwestern 78 73, No 6 Virginia trounced George

Miami stayed one game behind with a 71-67 triumph over Eastern Michigan. Ball State beat Northern Illinois 5848. as the rest of the league is at least three games behind the leaders. Mitch Adamek made 14 of 18 field goal attempts as Toledo hit a school record 69 percent for the game, including their first 13 shots of the second half. Toledo also outrebounded Kent 46-28. Adamek finished with 30 poin ts. while Ken Epperson had 19, including all seven field goal tries. Dave Zeigler led Kent State w ith 21 points. “Everything fit together,” said said Rockets Coach Bobby Nichols. “(Usually) one guy gets a hot hand, but we had four or five tonight.” Bowling Green ripped off a 202 streak late in the second half to blow open a close game. Keith Taylor scored 19 points to

Blue Devils lost an 87-80 scoring marathon to West Vigo Wednesday night, but proved they know where the basket is located. Jeff Yocom scored 24 points against the Vikings, but the 6-3 junior is averaging only 14.3 per game. Senior guard Billy Albright is carrying a 13 point average and reached that mark against West Vigo. THE CLOVERS ARE off Saturday night, but travel to McAnally Center Tuesday for a West Central Conference game against Greencastle.

the Hoosiers roared back. A three-pointer by Kitchel and a basket by Jim Thomas put Indiana ahead 43-42 with 17:20and the Hoosiers never again trailed. “At one point in the second half it looked like we had it,” said Knight, “but they came back and made it touchy.” So much so that Northwestern twice climbed within two points of the lead in the final minute, but a rash of free throws by Wittman and Thomas accounted for Indiana's last nine points. “Free-throw shooting is a matter of concentration,” said Wittman. “You have to get it going mentally and stick it in the hole.” “I think you saw why Indiana is rated as high as they are,” said Northwestern Coach Rich Falk. “They do everything it takes to win big games. They hit free throws under pressure and

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Washington 59-44, ninth-ranked Houston clobbered Rice 76-40, No. 12 Arkansas nipped Texas Tech 62-59, No 13 Missouri defeated Kansas 76-63 and No. 15 Georgetown crushed Set on Hall 71-48. Top Ten Memphis State, 15-1, took ad-

lead the Ealcons. Tim Waum had 11 points and Cordell Eley 10 to pace Western Michigan. “I don't think we played very w r ell, but it is nice to not play well and win." said Bowling Green Coach John Weinert. John Devereaux pumped in 21 points and had 16 rebounds for Ohio, which led by eight at halftime, then scored the first 12 points of the second half to put Central Michigan away. Melvin McLaughlin led the Chippewas with 25 points. “We bent but did not break.” said Bobcat Coach Danny Nee. “We don't look pretty, but we're successful.” Central Michigan Coach Dick Parfitt saw rebounding as the difference. “It seems we had just no emotion on the boards. Out of the seven conference games we played, Ohio looks like the most powerful." Craig Tubbs scored 24 points for Miami, which outscored

North Putnam appears to be in more trouble this weekend. The 0-11 Cougars take on a good 8-3 Danville team, then host a smaller, but quicker and more muscular North Vermillion team Saturday. Danville can put two players 6-5 or better on the court and five players over 6-1 if needed. Senior Brian Clark leads the Warriors with a 17.7 scoring average, playing forward at 6-2. NORTH VERMILLION won’t put a player over 6-0 on the court, but every one of them will be quick. Against Greencastle, the Falcons started 6-0 Jeff Clark and 5-10 Scott Leigh at forwards with 6-0 Rob Craft at center and 5-11 Rod Sutherlin and 5-8 Bill Sutliff at guards. North Putnam got one boost last week when Scott Bullerdick made a surprising return to practice and did see action against Cloverdale. The senior was one of the Cougars’ top scorers and rebounders before the pre-Christmas leg injury benched him. North Putnam gets little time

they come up with the big plays when the game is on the line. “As for Kitchel, we tried to put a hand in his face,” said Falk, “but you can’t let him check the wind before he shoots that three-pointer. He’s a great one.” Kitchel is one of the best outside shooters in the conference, but he is against the three-point play. Thomas finished with 14 points for Indiana while Jim Stack had 18 and Michael Jenkins 17 for Northwestern. INDIANA (78) Kitchel 11 3-3 29. Wittman 10 5-7 25, Bouchie 2 0-0 4. Brown 0 0-0 0, Thomas 5 4-4 14. Morgan 0 0-0 0, Kobinson 0 0-0 0. Blab 3 0-0 6. Totals 31 12-14 78. NORTHWESTERN (73) Stack 6 6-6 18. Aaron 8 2-3 21. Goode 7 0-0 14, Rathel 1 1-4 3, Jenkins 6 4-7 17. Schultz 0 04) 0, Peterson 0 0-0 0, Clarv 0 0-0 0 Totals 28 13-20 73 Halftime—Northwestern 40, Indiana 38. Three point goals-Kitchel 4. Aaron 3. Jenkins Fouled Out-Aaron Total fouls— Indiana 16, Northwestern 19 A—5,323

vantage of foul problems by lona's top two scorers Steve Burtt had 31 points and Gary Springer added 15 to move from a 61-59 lead to 70-61. Lee and Bobby Parks, who finished with 21 points, each scored four for the Tigers during that span. Memphis State’s first 15 op-

Eastern Michigan 29-11 in free throws to overcome a 28-21 field goal deficit. The Redskins reeled off 10 unanswered points, six of them by Tubbs, in the second half to take a lead they never relinquished. Marlow McClain was high for the Hurons with 16. Eastern Coach Jim Boyce said his team was good enough to win, but lacks a point guard to take charge. “We still lack leadership,'' he said. "We don't have anyone good enough; it’s as plain as that ." Ball State’s Ray McCallum scored 20 points, including six critical points down the stretch. With Northern trailing by one point in the second half, McCallum scored on a tip-in. two free throws and a layup to give Ball State a 53-46 lead and sew up the victory. Northern was led by forward Tim Dillon, who had a gamehigh 26 points.

to recover from the double game weekend. Covington is at North Putnam Tuesday night in a makeup game postponed by last weekend’s ice storm. The junior varsity game starts at 6 p.m. and the varsity game at 7:30 p.m. instead of the usual 6:30p.m. andßp.m. times. SOUTH PUTNAM plays an Avon team with a deceiving 4-8 record. The Orioles should be 49 Saturday night though, as they take on Mooresville Friday, a team that has lost only once. Avon is led by 6-3 forward Jed Wickham’s 16.2 scoring average. Guard Andy Ware is scoring at a 13.6 clip per game. The Avon victories have come against Zionsville, Brownsburg, Indianapolis Scecina and Cascade. Again, South Putnam will play without junior forward Brian Christy.

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KITCHEL: Shows way with 29 points

ponents had averaged only 61.4 points a game and Coach Dana Kirk called lona 'the first team we've had this year w r e couldn’t contain offensively.” In the nightcap. Louisville Coach Denny Crum said he thought it was obvious why he ordered the Cardinals to freeze the ball with a 51-49 lead and more than eight minutes left. Rutgers' Tom Young said his players didn t challenge Louisville’s stall “because w'e were tired. I wanted to rest our players and then come out and foul with two minutes to go. Who figures they’re going to stali against us for five minutes?” At Charlottesville. Va.,

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Virginia’s Ralph Sampson scored 16 points, grabbed 16 rebounds and blocked four shots and the Cavaliers, 16-2, pulled away from George Washington in the final seven minutes. Reserve Jim Miller added 11 points, all in the second half. Houston’s Abdul Akeem Olajuwon scored 20 points, pulled down eight rebounds and rejected four shots to lead the Cougars, 16-2, over Rice in Southwest Conference action. Second Ten In another SWC game at Lubbock, Texas, 16-1 Arkansas used clutch free throws down thestretch to fend off Texas Tech. Darrell Walker had 18 points for the Razorbacks.

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