Banner Graphic, Volume 14, Number 91, Greencastle, Putnam County, 21 December 1983 — Page 9

Tigers beat Marian and odds for title

By STEVE FIELDS Banner-Graphic Sports Editor Three years of quality recruiting paid off for coach Mike Steele Tuesday night, as the DePauw University basketball team defeated Marian College 61-50 to win its own invitational tournament without the services of three starters. Sophomore guards Phil Wendel and Tim Vieke and classmate center Joe Vanderkolk were on the bench in street clothes because of in-

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DePauw has starters on bench By STEVE FIELDS Banner-Graphic Sports Editor If you bet the farm on Marian College Tuesday night in the championship game of the DePauw Invitational Basketball Tournament you’re either moving out today or looking for another place to live. Don’t feel too bad, it was a smart bet on paper. DePauw was going against a 9-3 Marian team without three starters that account for an average of just under 33 points and eight rebounds a game. SOMEONE ONCE TOLD me Mike Steele was a good poker player, but nobody ever said he could change spots on the cards. Please, if you haven’t seen this DePauw team play do yourself a favor and come out to the Jan. 7 game with Manchester. You won’t see superstars, slam dunks, a coach waving a towel or high-fives, but you will see a good basketball team loaded with solid players. Nobody but a long-shot gambler needing a stake would have bet on DePauw Tuesday night. Point-guard Phil Wendel was out with a knee injury. The team’s leading scorer Tim Vieke was down with a back injury and center Joe Vanderkolk was walking around on three legs, two of them crutches. CRAIG McATEE CAME up with an outstanding tournament of 36 points, 20 rebounds, two blocked shots and a pair of steals. And despite playing over 70 minutes of basketball, the 6-6 junior committed just one turnover. Steve Strap came off the bench to score 12 points, grab 13 rebounds, pass out two assists and committed just two turnovers. Those are the statistics, but he did a lot of things that don’t show up on paper. It was an incredible team effort. It surprised a lot of fans and some of the coaches watching, but it didn’t surprise the people involved. “THOSE GUYS HAVE had a lot of good practice against Phil Wendel and Tim Vieke, and people inside against Joe Vanderkolk, so it was like they were practicing against one of the 'better (NCAA Division III) teams in the nation,” McAtee said of Neal Ogle, Scott Lewis and David Greiwe. “I think they’re farther along than what other teams have had to play against us.” Jokes like, “Marian should play without three sisters to make this game even” were flying around before the game. Coach John Grimes wasn’t listening to them though. “I think they’re very deep and I don’t really think that affected them that much really,” Grimes said after his Knights dropped to 9-4. “The people who played are maybe just as good as the people who didn’t play, with the exception of the shooting ability of Vieke. "I THINK OGLE did a super job controlling the ball game, played good pressure defense and getting the ball to the right people,” the coach said of the sophomore point-guard. I wasn’t surprised at all. They’re a very, very talented ball club and they’ve got a lot of people that can play.” Steele has been talking since the season opened about how tough the second five makes it on the first five, how close each is to being a starter. He has shown this confidence by using 10 players regularly and regardless of the situation. “It would be different if we were playing five guys. If they’re hurt and the other guys are healthy, they’re better players. Some of our best workouts are our intrasquad practices because we’ve got some guys who really work hard,” Steele said. - IT’S REALLY DIFFICULT to describe how the Tigers came to play. McAtee pointed out continually in the post-game interview just how much of a team effort this was, especially the defense. “I really didn’t play that good on defense, but I had a lot of people out there helping me. Primarily the guards dropping back on the weakside, dropping back in and getting a hand up in front of my man. That’s taking a lot of pressure off of me,” -‘Mac’ said. Ogle and freshman Scott Lewis did a defensive tap dance on Marian’s Joe Rosswurm. The good six-foot guard who got 12 points for the Knights in the first round victory over Olivet, got .only four against DePauw because of Ogle and Lewis and only . seven shots, not 12 as Monday night. FOR LEWIS, HIS first collegiate start comes in a tournament championship game. "Coach ‘B’ (Benetti) came in and gave me a funny look, then he wrote my name on the board,” the Anderson High School product said when he found out he was starting. “The coach told us when you go in the game, or start, think sbout defense first and that’s exactly what I did, thought about defense and let the offense come.” Incidentally, Scott’s father missed seeing his younger son Troy score a career record 47 points in Anderson’s 83-79 victory bver Anderson Highland Tuesday night while watching the -freshman’s first start. - DePauw now has a 13-game homecourt winning streak that -started after last year’s loss to Tri-State. At the same time, -DePauw has lost only three times at Lilly Center, falling to Tri--State, Rose-Hulman and lU-Southeast. Sports Information Director Joe Owens is trying to come up with DePauw’s exact homecourt record. - NEEDLESS TO SAY, Christmas will be a little merrier at the -Steele house. Now, Steele has a 38-12 record. This is how to -promote, coach, just keep winning ball games. Putnam County people know good basketball when they see it, even if a few of them do like Purdue. Or is that Pur-who?

juries from Monday night’s win over Ohio Wesleyan. Wendel has minor knee cartilage damage, Vieke an aggravated back injury and Vanderkolk a severe ankle sprain, which required a cast. AND DESPITE THE absence of 32.9 points and eight rebounds from the lineup, DePauw won its 13th consecutive game in Lilly Center’s Gaumey Neal Fieldhouse. Craig McAtee earned tournament MVP honors with 19

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points and 14 rebounds and Neal Ogle also worked his way on to the six-player team with 11 points, eight assists and an outstanding defensive effort on Marian’s Joe Rosswurm. But it was an outstanding team effort in which coach Steele freely used 10 players and even had two freshmen playing guard a couple of times. With the three sophomores out of the lineup, Ogle and freshman Scott Lewis started at guards with McAtee at center and Juan Aponte and Dave Hathaway at forwards. “I DON’T THINK there is any question but what our defense won the game for us,” Steele said after DePauw’s second tournament win of the season. “With three starters out the things we talked about, we said we’ve got to get good team defense, the offense, it’ll come, but the team defense is what we’ve got to have.” Defense is just what the Tigers played. Through the first half, DePauw had five players within 15 feet of the basket and Marian’s offense was not offensive, but tentative. “We had good scoring opportunities. I don’t know if it was a result of their good defensive play or our inability to put the ball in the basket when we

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Senior members of the DePauw University basketball team (from left) Steve Strup, Dave Hathaway and Juan Aponte accepted the championship trophy from

Goldsberry voted into Hall of Fame

Tom Goldsberry, who coached Greencastle High School to eight sectional basketball titles from 1947-1960, is one of five men announced today as 1984 inductees into the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame. GOLDSBERRY will be joined in March 22 induction ceremonies at the Indiana Convention Center by Jim Rosenstihl of Lebanon, Rex Rudicel of Muncie, Clarence Riggs of Evansville and Ted Server of Franklin. Previously announced as new inductees were Morris Pollard, Gene Ring, Dee Williams, Norm Sloan and the late James Gridley. With 588 career victories in 39 years as a coach, teacher and high school administrator, Goldsberry stands fifth on the all-time Hoosier coaches’ winning list. Only Marion Crawley, the late Greencastle native, with 734; Howard Sharpe, still active at North Knox, with 704 starting 1983, Ward Smith of Attica with 692 and Everett Case of Franklin with 676 rank ahead of Goldsberry. A native of Campbells burg and a graduate of Greencastle High School and the old Central Normal College at Danville, Goldsberry began his coaching career at Bridgeton High School. He also coached at Ellettsville (now Edgewood) before assuming the reins of the Tiger Cubs in 1947. GOLDSBERRY won eight sectional titles at Greencastle before resigning. He later coached at Union City, 19601969, and finished his career at South Putnam, 1970-75. In all, he won 13 sectional crowns in achieving an overall 588-282 mark.

All-tourney team Craig McAtee, DePauw, MVP Neal Ogle, DePauw Chris Craney. Marian Dan Penn, Olivet Randy Morrison, Olivet Mark Oberholtzer, Ohio Wesleyan

had scoring opportunities,” Marian coach John Grimes said. “They did come out and play us very tough defensively, no doubt about it.” AND THE OFFENSE did come, in a variety of ways, after some first half confusion and with a lot of hard work. At one point during the first half, Steele took three of his five timeouts allotted for the game during a one minute period when the Tigers fell behind 2012 against Marian’s full court pressure. “Whenever we play Marian it’s never a pretty game because they play just like we do. They do all the things just like we try to do, consequently it makes you look like two poor teams sometimes,” Steele said in reference to the 17 first half turnovers the two committed. And just as he did against Ohio Wesleyan, Steve Strap came off the bench to spark the

Athletic Director Tom Mont Monday night after the Tigers won the DePauw Invitational at Lilly Center. (Banner-Graphic photo by Tracy Proctor).

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TOM GOLDSBERRY: 588 career victories

Now retired and living near Fillmore, Goldsberry still stays close to basketball. He works at Market Square Arena at all Indiana Pacer games, manning the door to the players’ entrance. MEANWHILE, Rosenstihl earned his 500th career victory last week at Lebanon. A Zionsville graduate, he earned eight letters in basketball and baseball in high school. At Butler University, he lettered in football, basketball and baseball under Tony Hinkle. Rudicel, who is retired, was a three sport athlete at Huntington, played one year with

Tigers back from the eightpoint deficit. Buckets by Strap and Hathaway trimmed the margin to four and one of McAtee’s many offensive rebound baskets brought the Tigers within two, 20-18. Strap canned his second field goal to tie the game 20-20 with 4Vi minutes left in the half and his last bucket kept the score knotted 22-22. “HE PROBABLY did as much for us in the tournament as anybody because it was unexpected,” Steele said of Strap’s 12 points and 13 rebounds in the two games. Three McAtee free throws in the last three minutes of the half and a Strap steal, sent the Tigers into a 25-24 halftime lead, a lead they never relinquished. Strap opened the second-half scoring with a free throw and a McAtee offensive rebound basket gave the Tigers a five-

the Indianapolis Kautskys pro basketball team and started his coaching career at Hagerstown. He coached Muncie Burris from 1948-70 and was athletic director also. Riggs, who retired after 47 years in coaching and teaching, coached at Bosse and Reitz. His Reitz team in 1951 lost to Muncie Central in the state championship game. Server played for Madison’s 1950 state champions, then followed his coach, Ray Eddy, to Purdue. He coached at North Vernon and has been at Franklin since 1959, now as athletic director.

point lead Marian cracked just twice during the second half. Strap outswapped a pair of Knights for a steal and picked up an assist when Ogle scored a layup to put the Tigers ahead 30-24 with 15:30 left in the game. ONCE IN THAT commanding position, DePauw’s offensive rebounding, particularly by McAtee, maintained it. “That’s what really killed us was their offensive boards,” coach Grimes said. “We just couldn’t, for some reason, control that. Marian battled back to within three points, 34-31, with over 11 minutes left in the game when Aponte suddenly let it be known he was on the court. The 6-4 forward put the Tigers back ahead five with a power move to the basket and turned an Ogle pass into a 38-31 lead. DePauw’s lead hit 10 points for the first time with 5:26 remaining on a pair of Hathaway free throws. “David Hathaway has been straggling some and he came through with some big baskets at the end there,” Steele praised. HATHAWAY finished the game with 15 points, adding that with his eight point night against Ohio Wesleyan, the 6-4 forward is now DePauw’s 10th all-time leading scorer with 1,014 points. DePauw enters a two-week break with an 8-2 record, something coach Steele feels should be recognized. “Who knows how good we can be? I know one thing, we’ve got a great start. I think we’ve got to get some recognition from some people. We’ve won 19 of our last 21 games and our two losses have been to Division I people,” Steele said MARIAN (54) Smith 3-7 4-4 3 I*. Craney 4-14 041 2 12, Mahurln 2-4 0-0 4 4, Hoanwurm 2-7 0-0 5 4, Young 0-2 0-0 10, Reno 3-3 2-2 3 8, Wan•trath 1-2 0-1 1 2. McKiniie 2-2 0-0 2 4. Brock 1-8 2-2 2 4, Thwalt* 1-1 04) 1 2. DilU 0-3 04) I 2, Koiter 04) 04) 0 0 TOTALB-FG 21-53, FT 8-0, PF 25. DePAUW(II) Hathaway 7-10 2-2 2 15. Aponte 3-5 04) 3 I, McAtee 7-13 34 4 11. Lewi* 0-2 1-2 1 1, Ogle 1- 0-10 1 11, Strup 3412-8 1 8, (ireiwe 0-0 04) 0 0. Khrman 1-2 0-2 0 2, Oalle 04) 0-1 0 0, Wile* 04) 04) 0 0. TOTALS-FG 22-45, FT 1727. PF 12. CONSOLATION GAME OLIVET (71) Penn 11-100-0 1 22. Word 0-0 04 5 0. Cassell 2- 3 7, Kline 4-8 3-3 211, Morrltono-13 78 5 11. Bohnet 5-7 1-2 4 11. Johmon 0-0 1-2 0 1. Dicker*on 0404 00. Total* FG 28-52, FT 15-21, PF 21. OHIO WESLEYAN (17) Frentaoo 1-2 1-2 I 3, Jarrett 4-10 2-2 5 10, OberhoMier 1-151-12 3 27, Hoilenbaugh 0-11 7-14 11. Hendrix 1-4 04 22, Sheld* 2-5 04 2 4. Klopp 04 04 10. Zeller 0-1 2-212. Young 0404 0 0. Tout* FG 23-48, FT 21-27, PF 18. Half time score: OC 34. OWU 28.

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