Banner Graphic, Volume 13, Number 172, Greencastle, Putnam County, 29 March 1983 — Page 8
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6-3 Tigers play at home after sweep of Earlham
Sweeping a doubleheader against Earlham Saturday 15-2 and 7-1, DePauw University’s baseball team entered the first of a six-game homestand Tuesday afternoon with a 6-3 record. Augustana College stopped at Blackstock Field for the first of four games beginning at 1 p.m. pePauw will square off with the Illinois college again at 1 p.m. Wednesday and will entertain qjPUI at 1 p.m. Thursday. All piree doubleheaders are changes from the originally released DePauw schedule. | ‘‘WE’RE 6-3 AND we’re on a mil,” DePauw coach Ed Meyer s&id, obviously happy with the start. Not only have the Tigers hit a(nd played defense well, but the pitching has been better than expected. Junior righthander Bob Cohen improved his record to 2-1 Saturday with a no-hit victory at Earlham, while freshman John Oviatt stands 2-0 asWolf pack is living a dream By The Associated Press If Coach Jim Valvano had known that his team would reverse its midseason form, moviegoers might have been lining up to see “The North Carolina State Story” at their local theaters this spring. But Valvano and his Wolfpack piayers will have to be content with a live TV version this Saturday in Albuquerque, N.M., as a member of the NCAA basketball tournament’s Final Four, along with Houston, Louisville and Georgia. After a strong start, North Carolina State swooned when guard Dereck Whittenberg broke his foot and missed 14 games. “When Dereck got hurt, I did say at the time that I had a dream that he’d come back and knock in a jump shot that would win the ACC championship,” said Valvano. “But that’s as far as my movie went. Had I known this was going to happen, I’d have sold the rights.” North Carolina State, 24-10, won the Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament and captured the NCAA West Regional championship, upsetting Virginia in both games. While Valvano’s 16th-ranked team was labeled a Cinderella team in the West, they’ll face a similar team in the semifinals against Georgia, the East champion. The 18th-ranked Bplldogs, 24-9, upset defending champion North Carolina 82-77 iit the regional final. game between Houston and Louisville in the other semifinals will feature No. 1 against No. 2, respectively. Louisville has won 16 consecutive games and will take a 32-3 record into the championship round.
Sampson stayed for more than crown
c. 1983 N.Y. Times News Service CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. The evening after his final home game as a college basketball player, Ralph Sampson sat with several friends from high school and college in a back room at the Red River Rib Company, a restaurant just up the road from the University of Virginia campus. The waitress brought nachos and potato skins and salad, and more nachos and more potato skins, and those were just the appetizers before the ribs. Four days before the start of his last Atlantic Coast Conference tournament, Ralph Sampson was a very hungry player. There was much talk at the table about North Carolina and Wake Forest, and the personnel from other ACC schools that they had noticed during the season, but little of the discussion had anything to do with basketball. “You know who has good cheerleaders?” Sampson, sitting at the head of the table, told his friends. “Utah. We said, ‘We’ve got to meet these girls.’ So we’re in the lobby of the hotel, and they want to take a picture, and I said, ‘You want to take a picture? Come on.’ They’re all around me, and I got Otheli and Doug. I said, ‘You want to be in the picture? ’ ” Once again, Ralph Sampson, team player to
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ter throwing a shutout through six-plus innings. While Cohen struck out five and walked four in the fiveinning, 10-run, rule win over Earlham, the Tigers backed him with eight hits and stole seven bases. TOM WEAVER led DePauw at the plate and on the bases. The senior second baseman rapped out two singles and swiped two bases. Freshman Scott McMahon ripped the hit of the day though,
Olson is reportedly headed for Arizona lOWA CITY, lowa (AP) Lute Olson, who built a highly successful program in lowa, was expected to be handed the challenge of reviving the University of Arizona’s basketball fortunes. A press conference at which Olson’s appointment would be announced was anticipated today, the Associated Press has learned. Olson met with Arizona officials during the weekend and met with his players in lowa City Monday night to inform them of his decision. A Tucson television station reported Monday night that a “high university official” had confirmed that Olson had been offered the job and that he had accepted the offer. “I can’t confirm or deny anything,” Orville “Butch” Henry, Arizona’s sports information director, said Monday night when asked by The APBut Henry confirmed that Arizona officials received permission from lowa Athletic Director Bump Elliott to talk to Olson last Thursday.
Fresno State battles to title game with defense
NEW YORK (AP) - The Wake Forest Demon Deacons found out a little about defense in the National Invitation Tournament not theirs, Fresno State’s. “No Atlantic Coast Conference team played defense like this,” said Wake Forest Coach Carl Tacy after his team was smothered by the Bulldogs 86-62 in the NIT semifinals Monday night. The surprisingly easy victory for Fresno State over the Deacons sent the Bulldogs into the finals of the nation’s oldest post-season basketball tournament Wednesday night against DePaul, a 68-58 winner over Nebraska in Monday night’s other semifinal game at Madison Square Garden. Ron Anderson and Bernard Thompson each scored 10 points in the first half to help Fresno State pull out to a 14-point lead at intermission and the Bulldogs breezed home from there over a seemingly stunned Wake Forest team.
the end, had been looking for Otheli Wilson and Doug Newburg, the open teammates, in search of another assist. Sampson had attracted all the attention, but Newburg, who started one game for Virginia this year, was the one to get the Utah cheerleader’s address. The old friends talked about memorable parties of the past, and laughed as they recalled the names of women they had met. At the beginning of the end of his college career, the day after his No. 50 was unfurled from the top of University Hall and several days before he began his final attempt for a national championship, Ralph Sampson hardly appeared to be under the weight of a terrible amount of pressure. As the nachos, and the stories, and the laughs about the good old days were passed around, one of Sampson’s friends smiled and said, “You can see why he stayed four years.” The date, May 22, comes to the front of Sampson’s mind as quickly and easily as April 4, the date of this year’s national collegiate championship game at Albuquerque, N.M. For the last three years, much of the excitement in Charlottesville during the month of May concerned the future of Ralph Sampson, his decision whether to continue at Virginia or
swatting a three-run home run in the fourth inning. McMahon also showed some speed with a stolen base that surprised coach Meyer. Rounding out DePauw’s offense were junior Joe Fitzgerald with a single and two stolen bases, freshman Tim Weaver with a single and stolen bases and Ben Hohman, Mark Phillips, Newt Crenshaw and Dave Chalmer all had singles. OVIATT STRUCK OUT eight and walked two in the second game, while getting the support
“I don’t think we quit,” said Tacy. “We just didn’t concentrate. Once we got behind, it got out of hand. Their pressure hurt us we just didn’t concentrate on offense.” In every aspect of the contest, the game plan worked to perfection for the team from the Pacific Coast Athletic Association. “Our plan was to get a big lead in the first five minutes, then make them (Wake Forest) play from behind,” Anderson said. “Offensively, Wake Forest was being denied the ball and couldn’t get going our defense was too tough.” The Bulldogs, actually finished the regular college basketball season ranked No. 1 in the nation in defense. Fresno State virtually settled Monday night’s opener with a 38-24 halftime lead. The Bulldogs then delivered the knockout blow at the start of the second half by outscoring the Deacons 13-4 during a stretch that gave the Bulldogs a 59-36
of eight Tiger hits, in'hiding two doubles from McMahon. Tom Weaver rapped out another pair of singles and Tim Weaver took the example with another pair. Freshman Scott Burgess came through with a double, single and an excellent squeeze bunt to bring in a Tiger run. Earlham 000 02-2-0-2 DePauw 5334 X-15-8-1 WP-Cohen and Hohman: LP-Vogel and Smith. Earlham 000 000 l-M-I DePauw 200 320 0-7-8-1 WP-Oviatt and Sarsany; LP-Lebo and Smith.
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lead with 11:30 left in the game. With a host of their red-clad fans from California rooting them on, the Bulldogs led by as many as 28 points twice before the one-sided contest was over. Anderson was the game’s high scorer with 24 points, while Thompson added 23 for Fresno State, which won its llth game in its last 12 and improved its record to 24-10. Delaney Rudd scored 16 points and Anthony Teachey contributed 14 for Wake Forest, which closed out its season at 20-12. “I thought Wake Forest would run the ball more,” said Boyd Grant, the Fresno State Coach. “We respect their guards. We figured we had to stop their guards from penetrating —and we did. DePaul’s victory wasn’t as easy in this 46th NIT. The Blue Demons had to come back after blowing a 15-point lead and finally broke away in the last six minutes behind Tyrone Corbin’s cool foul shooting and key baskets.
leave for the financial security of the National Basketball Association. “We’ve kidded him that we were thinking of red-shirting him,” said his coach, Terry Holland, “so he could go through that process again.” This spring, the decision has already been made. The reporters from across the nation will not stop here this year. There will be no reason for the television crews, and their minicams, to camp outside his window. “What are you going to do for excitement this May ? ” Sampson was asked. “Graduate,” he said. On May 22. But first, there is much work to do. The final evaluation of the college career of Ralph Lee Sampson will be determined on the basis of what happens, or does not happen, in the next three weeks. “Some games, everybody takes the burden,” Sampson said. “Since I’m 7 feet 4, and I expect a lot, I may take a little bit more.” That is an understatement, because now there is the added burden of history, and its inevitable comparisons with the dominant college centers of the past. The critics ask how many championships Sampson has won, as if championships are won alone.
JAMES BLACKMON First team
Alford tops AP All-State squad; Tucker 3rd team
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - The 1983 boys high school basketball season was dominated by seniors, says New Castle Coach Sam Alford, who had one of the best—his son Steve. Steve Alford, leading high school scorer in the state this season, was named to The Associated Press All-State basketball team Monday along with fellow seniors James Blackmon of Marion, Scott Hicks' of Indianapolis Cathedral, Craig Neal of Washington and Derrick Dowell of Evansville Bosse. The team was selected in an AP survey of sports writers and boradcasters throughout the state. “As a dad, I am very proud. I know how hard he’s worked the last few years,” said Sam Alford. “He’s given up a lot of things that many other teenagers don’t have to. And as a coach, I very proud of his skills.” The 6-foot-l Alford averaged 37.2 points a game for the season and set an all-time tourney record with 57 points in the semistate round. Sam Alford said being a father and coach to his son was tough the first two seasons at New Castle but turned around the final two years. “Steve scored more than 20 points every game in both his junior and senior years, 51 straight games,” said Sam Alford, who admits he hopes his son wins the state’s Mr. Basketball award. “As a dad and a coach, I have a double interest. Steve probably has the best stats of any player who’s ever been considered for Mr. Basketball. He’s hit 60 percent from the field, 94 percent from the foul line, got seven rebounds a game and had 200 assists for the season.” Sam Alford also recognizes the talents of the other members of the AP first team. James Blackmon: “A super player and a great person,” says Sam Alford. “Steve and I have great respect for his ability.” Scott Hicks: “Steve and Scott both played guard on the same team at summer camp. We both have a lot of admiration for him. Both he and Blackmon are great leapers.”
The Sampson era at Virginia, which has included the construction of two teams completely different in personnel and style, has produced one National Invitation Tournament champion and one trip to the 1981 Final Four at Philadelphia, where the Cavaliers lost to North Carolina in a semifinal game. Last season ended shockingly early when Wilson’s leg injury distorted the team’s offensive balance and weakened its defense and the Cavaliers lost the Mideast semifinal game to AlabamaBirmingham. Less than two months after that loss, when Sampson considered the pros and cons of staying at Virginia, he said the chance of the Cavaliers winning a national championship became a major consideration, second only to the chance to gain a degree on time. In the 19405, George Mikan led DePaul to a National Invitation Tournament championship in the days before the NCAA tournament became the more powerful one. In the 19505, Bill Russell’s University of San Francisco team won two championships. Wilt Chamberlain, whose Kansas team lost the 1957 championship game in triple overtime to North Carolina, was branded with the image of a loser for years.
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STEVE ALFORD First team
AP All-State team
The Associated Press Indiana high school All-State basketball teams for 196283: BOVS First Team Steve Alford, 6-1, Sr., NewCasUe James Blackmon. Sr., Marion Derrick Dowell, 6-6, Sr., Evansville Bosse Scott Hicks, 6-3, Sr., Indpls Cathedral Craig Neal, 6-4, Sr, Washington Second Team Delray Brooks. 6-4, Jr., Mich. City Rogers Johnny Fort, 6-4, Sr., Gary Wallace Tim McCalister, 6-2, Sr., Gary West Troy Lewis, 6-4, Jr., Anderson Booker James, 63, Sr., Ft. Wayne Snider Third Team Brian Miles, 6-6, Sr., Evansville North Chris Heineman, 6-1 Vi, Sr, Connersville Chad Tucker, 6-6, Sr., Cloverdale Mike Heineman, 6-3, Sr, Connersville Jerome Brewer, 6-5, Sr., Indpls Arlington Honorable Mention Winston Garland. Gary Roosevelt; Tim
Craig Neal: “Craig is from my old home town of Washington. Steve and Craig talked on the phone about every week They play basketball together every time we go to Washington. An excellent player.” Derrick Dowell: “I didn’t get a chance to see Derrick play this year, but I was very impressed with him at last year’s state finals. He’s a strong rebounder and great jumper. ” Steve Alford was the top votegetter on the team, receiving 11 of 19 first-place votes and 350 of a possible 380 points in the balloting which was completed before last weekend’s state tournament finals. He will attend Indiana University to play for Coaah Bob Knight next fall. The 6-3 Vi Blackmon, headed for Coach Joe B. Hall’s Wildcats at the University of Kentucky, had four first-place votes and 312 points. Blackmon averaged 32.6 points and seven rebounds a game for the Giants. He scored 52 in an 89-87 doubleovertime loss to Anderson Saturday, the most points by a player in the semifinals or finals in the 73-year history of the state tourney. Dowell, 6-6, had two firstplace votes and 238 points. The 6-3 Hicks collected 202 points, while Neal, 6-4, got 190 points. Dowell, who led Bosse to its second straight unbeaten regular season and the state’s No. 1 ranking, averaged 26.8 points and 12.1 rebounds. He will play next year at the University of Southern California.
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SCOTT HICKS First team
Hill, Southwoood; Mark Freels, Evansville Bosse; Casey Carrabine, Merrillville; Todd Samuelson, Plymouth; Kreigh Smith, Tipton; Steve Jackson, Ft. Wayne South; Brad Fichter, Princeton; Jeff Moe, Indpls Brebeuf; Chuck Watson, Warren Central; Walter Lewis. Elkhart Memorial; David Siegel. Indpls Pike; David Wright, Lebanon; Rusty Doyle, Clinton Prairie. Others receiving more than one vote, listed alphabetically: Bryan Asberry, Gary Wallace; Jeff Brownfield. Indian Creek; Jerome Calderone, Mishawaka Marian; Lowell Cisowski, Andrean. Bnan Fish, Seymour; Pete Frank, Oak Hill; Tellis Frank, Gary Wallace; Mark Gary, Anderson Highland; Scott Haffner, Noblesville; Jamie Johnson. Plymouth; Eric Jurabc, Crown Point; Mark Morin, Martinsville; Rob Mowerv, Switz City; Jerry Neese, Cloverdale; Dave Polak. Whiting; Marc Ruhling, Goshen; Chris Schafer, Princeton; John Schultheis, Jasper; Derrick Spight, Indpls Marshall; Anthony Stewart, Gary Roosevelt.
Hicks, who averaged 20.4 points and nine rebounds, plans to attend Notre Dame. Neal, a 27.3-point scorer for his father, Coach Stan Neal, will play college ball at Georgia Tech. Dowell and Hicks were honorable-mention picks on the 1982 All-State team. The AP girls’ All-State squad for 1983 is headed by Heritage’s Jody Beerman, a 5-5 senior who is the only repeat first-team member from last year. Beerman, of Heritage’s 1982 state championship team, averaged 20 points a game this year as the No. 1 Patriots went unbeaten before losing to Crown Point in the state tourney semifinals. Others on the first team are 53 Kelly Fitzgerald, who led Bed-ford-North Lawrence to the tourney championship last month; 5-11 Kay Sharp of Lafayette Jeff; 5-8 Roxanne Cox of Scottsburg; and 6-foot Tammy Hammel of Crown Point. Sharp was an honorablemention pick last year. The boys’ second team this year is headed by 6-4 junior Delray Brooks of Michigan City Rogers. Brooks, an honorablemention All-State as a sophomore, averaged 25 points a game for the Raiders this season. Another junior, Troy Lewis, who led Anderson to the state tourney runner-up finish Saturday and was the state’s highest-scoring underclassman at 30 points a game this season, was also named to the AP second team. The others are 6-4 Johnny Fort of Gary Wallace, 6-2 Tim McCalister of Gary West and 6-3
Teams should enter The Greencastle Women’s Softball League is now accepting teams for the coming 1983 season. Teams are limited to Putnam County residents and the first roster is due April 30. Anyone wishing to enter a team should contact Mark Adams (653-8627), Wendall Barger (653-5920), Susie Skinner (795-6094) or Tim Smiley (653-8570). Fishing reports are available Beginning Thursday, March 31, the Indiana Department of Natural Resources (DNR) will provide a statewide fishing report as a service to Hoosier anglers. THE TAPED REPORT will be updated every Thursday, varying in length from 90 seconds to three minutes. The latest information on fishing hot spots, outstanding catches and water conditions at major reservoirs will be provided. The report, compiled by field surveys from DNR biologists, will also include a regional breakdown of fishing activity and what baits are the most successful for Hoosier anglers. The fishing report can be heard 24 hours a day by dialing 317-232-4002. It is not a toll-free number WRITTEN COPIES OF the report are also available upon request. For more information on the DNR statewide fishing ; report, persons may contact the Division of Public In-; formation and Education, 615 State Office Building, In ' dianapolis 46204, or call 317-2324200.
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CHAD TUCKER Third team
Booker James of Fort Wayne Snider, all seniors. Brooks and McCalister each received one vote as the state’s top player. Brian Miles, a 6-6 senior from Evansville Bosse who was an honorable-mention pick last year, heads this year’s third team. Others are 6-6 Chad Tucker of Cloverdale, 6-5 Jerome Brewer of Indianapolis Arlington, and the Heineman twins -I V2 Chris and 6-3 Mike who led Connersville to the state championship. Two juniors -5 Judy Phillips of Indianapolis Brebeuf and 5-7 Sharon Versyp of Mishawaka were named to the girls’ second team. Others are 5-7 Melissa Kilgore of Rushville, despite missing much; of the season with an injury; 5-11 Amy Hile of Fort Wayne Dwenger; and 6-foot Kelly Thomas of New Albany. Bosse’s Cheryl Dowell, . a sophomore and Derrick’s sister, was an honorablemention selection. GIRLS First Team Jody Beerman. 5-5. Sr.. Heritage Kelly Fitzgerald. 5-3, Sr, Bedford N.Lawrence Kay Sharp, 5-11. Sr , Lafayette Jeff Roxanne Cox, 5-8. Sr., Scottsburg Tammy Hammel. 64), Sr., Crown Point Second Team Melissa Kilgore. 5-7, Sr.. Rusnvilie I Judy Phillips, 5-5, Jr., Indpls Brebeuf Amy Hile, 5-11. Sr., Ft. Wayne Dwenger Kelly Thomas, 6-0, Sr., New Albany Sharon Versyp, 5-7, Jr.. Mishawaka , Third Team Tina Boruff, 5-5, Sr., Bedford-. N. Lawrence Nancy Cowan. 5-5, Jr.. Crown Point Cathey Tyree, 5-11, Sr., Ft. Wayne South Lori Tyler, 5-10, Sr., South Dearborn Theresa Bayt, 5-7, Sr , Indpls Ben Davis Honorable Mention Cheryl Dowell. Evansville Bosse; Chen" Farrell, Bedford-N.Lawrence; Sharron Tapps. Indpls Howe; Janna Bragg. Eastbrook; Kelly Lane, Vincennes Rivet; Shelly Roberts, Concord; Stacey Parker. Evansville Bosse; Emma Jones. Gary Wallace; Jill Ackerman. Jasper; Dawn Davenport. Eastbrook, Maria Stockberger. Sullivan; Cindy Tatman, Alexandria, Tami Barnes, Columbia City; Anne Kvachkoff, Crown Point; Becky Inmaß,’ Chesterton; Connie Van Meter, Evansville Memorial; Laura Lounsbury, Muncie North; Kelly Miller. Lawrence North; Gina Neff, New Prairie: Diane Swayze, Shoals; Lorea Feldman. Triton; Jodie Whitaker, Austin; Noelle Young. Rushville; Diana Small, Decatur Central. Others receiving more than one vote, listed alphabetically: Angie Anderson, Taylor; Sheila Baron. Calumet, Millicenl Brownrigg, Gary Roosevelt; Paula Crowdus, Indpls Manual; Lisa Dankovich., New Castle. Missy Gharst, Columbus North; Joyce Hudson, Marion; Cindy Jerles. Goshen; Teresa Jones. Indpls Howe; Tinna Landrum, Indpls Attucks. Heidi Lawrence, Columbia City; Debbie Leeman, Frankton; Bobbi Lovell, Bed-ford-N.Lawrence; Becky Mateia, Whiting; Robin Matheis, Loogootee; Michelle Melzoni, Wabash; Shari Moore, Merrillville; Jennie Owen, Heritage; Karen Potempa, Mich. City Rogers; Marilyn Recklehoff, Southridge; Julie Rotramel, Sullivan; Nicey Teague, Anderson . Angie Vandeventer, Bloomfield.