Banner Graphic, Volume 14, Number 134, Greencastle, Putnam County, 11 February 1984 — Page 4

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The Putnam County Banner-Graphic, February 11,1984

Brazil rallies to pull away from Eagles in final period

By CHRIS KN AUER Banner-Graphic Sports Writer The South Putnam Eagles played an exciting second half of basketball Friday night, but couldn’t produce enough points to overcome Brazil as the visiting Red Devils won 65-56 in high school varsity basketball action. The game was closer than the score might indicate. The Eagles attempted to rally late in the third quarter, but Brazil

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Edgewood press stymies Clovers

By PAT REILLY Banner-Graphic Sports Writer CLOVERDALE - “We played well up to a point,” Cloverdale coach A 1 Tucker said after Friday night’s 57-42 varsity basketball loss to visiting Edgewood. “The first half was a good ball game,” Edgewood coach John Holmes offered. “Then we put the press on.” THE MUSTANGS, who held only a 17-16 lead at the end of the frist half, slapped the press on the Clovers at the outset of the third quarter. “The press creates problems for us,” Tucker admitted. “With our people, we’ve got to do a better job.” Cloverdale’s Roger Shrum hit two free throws to give the Clovers a one-point advantage at 18-17 with 6:42 remaining in the third period, but Edgewood’s Mike Cage answered with a field goal. The Mustang press then produced a turnover as Mickey Jacobs stole the ball and picked up two more points, putting the visitors up 21-18. “WE GOT A COUPLE of quick turnovers,” Holmes said. “That made the difference.” “Then you capitalized on them,” Tucker said to Holmes. “Turnovers aren’t any good unless you capitalize on them, and you did.” The Mustangs added another two points in the early stages of

Bulldogs whip 'Bama

By KEN RAPPOPORT AP Sports Writer The loss of two starters and a top backcourt reserve from last year’s Final Four team has taken some of the air out of Georgia basketball this season. But Friday night’s 82-69 whipping of Alabama was proof that the Bulldogs aren’t completely deflated. “We played good against the press and that was important,” Georgia Coach Hugt Durham said. “We shot a very good percentage (61 per cent from the field) tonight because we were able to lay some up against the press. But we also hit some key shots.” The Bulldogs got 27 points from Vem Fleming, who has been trying to take up some of the slack left by the graduation of Terry Fair, Lamar Heard and Derrick Floyd.

Lewis scores 40; Fountain Central star hits first 17 field goal tries

By The Associated Press Anderson’s Troy Lewis isn’t slowing down in his bid to become Madison County’s career-scoring leader. Lewis shook off the disappointment of the Indians’ first loss to score 40 points Friday as Coach Norm Held’s club downed New Castle 70-51. Lewis, who has 671 points this season, brought his career-total to 1,719 points. He is going after the mark of 1,810 set by Lapel’s Mark Bamhizer. Lewis a strong candidate for Mr. Basketball sparked the Indians as they bounced back from last week’s upset loss to Muncie Central that sent them tumbling from the top spot in The Associa ted Press ratiags to Not* The 77-68 loss to Muncie South wasn’t a surprise to the Purduebound senior. “We haven’t played well the last five games, and we were just looking for something bad to happen,” said Lewis after Friday’s game. “We got outre bounded real bad by Muncie South, and

thwarted the effort by outscoring their hosts 22-16 in the final period. BRAZIL’S rebounding in the first half kept the Eagles from controlling the ball very much as the Red Devils pulled down 24 rebounds to only eight for South Putnam. “We were killed on the boards in the first half,” South coach Bill Merkel said. “We just couldn’t dominate.”

the third quarter before the Clovers were able to score again. Bryan Scott, who led the Clovers in scoring with 16 points for the night, hit a field goal with just under five minutes to play to keep Cloverdale within striking distance. CLOVERDALE’S Bob Speedy hit the first of two free throws to close the gap to 23-21, then Shrum scored to knot the game at 23 with 3:40 left in the period. Jacobs broke the tie with a field goal only seconds later, giving the Mustangs the lead for good. Edgewood added four more points on two field goals before the Clovers found the range again. Bryant Lucas was fouled on a field goal attempt with 1:19 left to play and went to the line to shoot two. Hitting both shots brought the Cloverdale total to 25, still four short of the Mustangs’ 29 points. LUCAS AND SCOTT combined for the next Clover score. Lucas came up with the steal and Scott put in the layup with 35 seconds remaining in the quarter. The Clovers had pulled to within two. But a field goal by Jay Brown with only three seconds left widened the gap to four. The quarter ended with the Mustangs up 31-27. In the fourth period the Mustangs moved the lead to 10 and then to 15. While the Clovers kept coming at Edgewood, the difference was

The Georgia-Alabama contest was one of a handful of college basketball games Friday night. No ranked teams were in action. Georgia, 13-8 and 5-7 in the Southeastern Conference, snapped a five-game SEC losing streak on the strength of a 20-5 scoring spurt in the final 7:13 of the first half. Fleming scored the final six points of that outburst as Georgia turned a 20-19 deficit into a 39-25 halftime lead.ln the second half, Alabama was never closer than 12 points, the last time at 53-41 with 11:45 to play. Buck Johnson scored 20 points to lead Alabama. “We didn’t feel we were out of it at the half down by 14,” Alabama Coach Wimp Sanderson said. However, after in-

The Eagles came out using a combination of man-to-man and zone defense against the Red Devils’ baseline attack. Poor shooting by Brazil kept the Eagles close, despite being outrebounded, and the opening stanza ended with the visitors ahead, 12-10. BRAZIL TURNED ON their firepower in the second quarter with forward Jeff Buell pouring in eight points and 6-4 center Mike Butts scoring 10. By half-

too much to overcome. “We have so many limitations,” Tucker said. “We have a difficult time putting together a consistent game. It requires full effort for 32 minutes for us to be competitive. Still, we’re working hard, and we’re probably performing as well as we can. That’s all I can ask of anybody.” CLOVERDALE ENDED conference play with a 4-5 record. Currently the Clovers are .500 for the season with an 8-8 overall record. They travel to Shakamak on Feb. 17. The opening game of the evening didn’t go well for the Clovers either. While the score was close at half, the junior Mustangs came back with a strong second half to defeat the Cloverdale junior varsity 55 -36. Edgewood (57) Cage 2 2-2 4 (. Brown 3 84) S 8, Hacker 4 2-4 2 10, Smith 5 2-2 2 12. Jacobi 7 8-7 0 20, Harrison 0 00 0 0. Barnes 1 1-2 0 3, Dreher 0 O--0 2 0. Alfonso 0 0-0 0-0 - Totals FG 22, FT 13-17, PF 15 Cloverdale (42) Stolti 1 0-2 0 2, Speedy 3 2-5 0-8, Scott 7 2-3 4 18, Lucas 0 2-2 1 2, Shrum 2 14 5 10. Mann 0 0-1 3 0, Klein 1 04) 1 2. Williams 0 04) 2 0. ( unduff 1 04) 0 2. Jones 0 0-0 0 0Totab FG 15, FT 12-10, PF 18. REBOUNDING Edgewood (10) Barnes 1, Brown 5, Cage 3. Hacker 8, Jacobs 1, Smith 3 Cloverdale (23) Speedy 5, Scott 7, Cundiff 2. Lucas 3, Shrum 6 SCORE BY QUARTERS Edgewood 2 15 14 28-57 Cloverdale 8 10 11 15-42

termission, “They came out and made some turnovers. But we turned it right back over and that took us out of the game.” Durham agreed. “The first five minutes of the second half were important, as they always are. We had three turnovers (early in the half), but so did they. Had we let them cut into the lead at that point, they would have been back in the game.” In other action, Paul Anderson hit two free throws with 50 seconds left to trigger Dartmouth to a 60-57 victory over Yale; Arne Duncan’s 16 points led Harvard over Brown 85-66; Howard Levy sewed 12 points to pace Princeton to a 34-28 victory over Columbia and Mike Payne sewed 17 points to lead Fairleigh Dickinson to a 75-74 victory over Loyola College.

that’s one thing we had to improve on tonight. ” In a game involving a non-rated team, Terry Blankenbeckler hit his first 17 shots from the field and finished the night 18 of 22 with a school record 39 points as Fountain Central pounded Turkey Run 87-45. Michigan City Rogers, the new leader in the weekly poll, No. 2 Hammond Noll, No. 4 Noblesville and No. 14 L&M extended their undefeated strings Friday. Rogers, 18-0, defeated LaPorte 64-54 as the Slicers used a slow ball control attack to keep the Raiders off balance. Delray Brooks, Rogers’ challenger to Lewis for Mr. Basketball and the state’s second-leading sewer heading into this week’s action, scored only three points in the first half and finished with 19 points and nine rebounds. Brooks, averaging 34.6 before Friday’s game, put 14 points on the board in the final period as the Slicers pulled to within six in their upset bid.

time the Eagles were trailing 34-22. In the third period Merkel pulled out his own offensive weapon, Adam Hull, who joined his teammates in taking advantage of Red Devil turnovers caused by South’s full-court defense. By the end of the quarter, he had scored eight of the 18 points tallied by the Eagles. South Putnam’s full-court pressure had another effect: It

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It was rough under the basket Friday night as North Putnam's Todd Bock won this rebound battle with Greencastle's David Rushing. While Bock pulls the ball

Greencastle clinches share of WCC title

Cubs top stubborn Cougars

By STEVE FIELDS Banner-Graphic Sports Editor When Tom Goldsberry coached basketball at Greencastle High School between 1948 and 1960, championships were common place. So maybe it was only fitting Friday night that on “Tom Goldsberry Night” at McAnally Center Greencastle should clinch at least a share of the West Central Conference high school basketball championship with a 49-43 victory over county rival North Putnam. THE TIGER CUBS closed their league schedule with an 81 reewd and improved their overall record to 13-5. They can still win the title outright, pending the completion of Edgewood’s WCC schedule. The Mustangs have just one league loss with games remaining. North Putnam dropped to 1-16 overall and finished conference play at 1-8. The Cougars will host Brazil Saturday night. Pre-game festivities honored one of the mo6t successful high school coaches ever to sit the bench in Indiana. Goldsberry will be inducted into the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame in March for his 588 wins during a 39-year coaching career. But

slowed Brazil’s offense to only nine points in the period. With only eight minutes remaining in the game, the Eagles had pulled to within three at 43-40. FOR THE FIRST couple of minutes into the final quarter South Putnam stayed within two, then tied the game at 45 with 5:20 left. However, the Eagles’ chance to take the lead was halted by Buell, who converted a steal in-

away his teammates head down court to set up the offense during the county and conference game at McAnally Center. (Banner-Graphic photo by Steve Fields)

Friday night’s game in his honor was not one for the hall of fame. THE TWO TEAMS each shot 38 per cent, got a lot of inside shots and at times seemed to be feeling each other out for a future meeting. “It was kind of like everybody was in a daze,” North coach Bill Brothers said. “I don’t think Doug (Miller) threw all his cards at us tonight.” The Greencastle coach wouldn’t admit to holding anything back while defending the County Keg and winning the second leg of Putnam County’s triple crown. “You never show all of your trump cards,” Miller said. Brothers saw only three quarters of the game. Because of civic responsibilities which could not be avoided, the firstyear head coach was away from teaching and coaching duties at North Putnam all week. Assistant coach Jim Brothers ran the pre-game preparation and held the reins through the opening quarter. IT WAS MORE the kind of game North Putnam wanted to play than Greencastle. “We knew coming down here we had to control the tempo. Green-

Lewis, the state’s leading scorer, was 18 of 27 from the field and also pulled in 10 rebounds. Anderson connected on 29 of 58 from the field. Noll downed Gary West 62-53 to bring its record to 17-0. The Warriors, who were cold from the field, used free throws to produce their victory as Kurt Finke scored 23 points and Teyon McCoy had 20. Noll converted 26 ts 39 free throws, compared with West’s three of five. Noblesville, also 17-0, topped Center Grove 45-35 after leading by only three points at halftime. The Millers were led by Larry Simmons with 16 points. Scott Haffner, Noblesville’s top scorer, had a season-low 12 which will knock down his 28.5 scoring average. L&M outscored Worthington 79-62 as Jeff Oliphant had 21 points, 16 rebounds, sue steals and seven assists. Tony Patterson contributed 24 points and 13 rebounds to L&M’s 18th victory this season.

to a layup. Then an Eagle foul sent Butts to the line for a one-and-one. He hit both, giving Brazil a 49-45 lead. The advantage then went to five until the final minutes, when Buell scored a couple of more times to give the Red Devils their final margin of victory. Adam Hull had his fifth game over 20 points, as he tossed in 25 for the Eagles. “He (Hull) has been playing extremely well,” Merkel said.

castle naturally wanted to get the ball out and go, they have the talent to do that,” Brothers said. And it was North’s style of play that dominated the night, but a style of play which Greencastle adapted to and used to its advantage during the late going. After getting out to a 3830 lead in the opening minute of the fourth quarter, the Tiger Cubs went into their spread offense to draw North out of its effective 2-3 zone with 6:33 left to play. “We had the lead and they were in a zone. There was no point in us putting the ball up anymore,” Miller said of the tactic. “But we’ve got to hit free throws when we go to our delay game.” THE CUBS HIT nine of 16 free throws for the game, but missed the front half of two bonus situations in the fourth quarter. Essentially though, Craig Flint’s two free throws with 21 seconds left in the game clinched it. Greencastle’s lead was a shakey 47-43 when the senior tickled the nylon twice. North Putnam got out to a 4-0 advantage with Gene Ensor and Ryan Wehrman hitting buckets before David Rushing got the

“I was pleased with our overall performance tonight.” MERKEL WAS able to see some optimism about the game and the schedule ahead. “I believe these tough teams will help us prepare for the sectional in two weeks,” he said. South Putnam will entertain West Central Conference rival Owen Valley next Friday. South Putnam (58) Christy 2 04) 3 4, McHugh 4 2-

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Greencastle wanted a running game with North Putnam Friday night and sometimes got it, as David Rushing takes the layup in before Chris Colvin (21) can get into position to stop him. (Banner-Graphic photo by Steve Fields)

Cubs on the board. Mike Cooper’s second field goal of the night tied the game 6-6 with 2:54 left in the first quarter and after Jim Hunter blocked a Cougar shot, Cooper scored again to give Greencastle the lead for good with 1:59 left in the opening period. HUNTER, RUSHING, Jay Hopkins and David Murphey each came up with steals for Greencastle in the opening three minutes of the second period. But because of poor shooting, Greencastle managed to gain only a 16-8 lead. “We did what we wanted to offensively. We simply did not shoot the ball well,” Miller said. “Our defense, I thought, held up pretty well.” Neither team scored in the final 1:43 of the first half and Greencastle led 18-14 at the intermission. Wehrman cut the margin to 18-16 on the opening possession of the second half, but Greencastle jumped back into a six-point lead when Cooper scored back-to-back buckets. GREENCASTLE’S lead was 34-28 when the final eight minutes of basketball opened. After a bucket by Cooper and two free throws from Hopkins

Three rated teams, including both Muncie teams in the Top 20, were defeated Friday. Bloomington South upset No. 9 Columbus North 71-51, while Carmel knocked off No. 13 Muncie North 6342. Anderson Highland raced past No. 17 Muncie South 79-65 as Mark Gray returned from a three-game absence caused by an ankle injury and scored 26 points. All five starters finished in double figures for the Scots. The list of winners included No. 5 Indianapolis Ben Davis, No. 7 Terre Haute South, No. 10 Washington Catholic, No. 11 Warsaw, No. 13 Fort Wayne Northrop, No. 15 Elkhart Memorial, No. 16 Evansville Bosse, No. 18 Vincennes, No. 19 North Montgomery and No. 20 Franklin. : Ben Davis, 17-1, used a fourth-quarter freeze to hold off Plainfield 56-51 and Terre Haute South rolled over Evansville Reitz 71-44. The Braves broke the game open by scoring the first seven points of the second half to take a 40-23 advantage and never looked back. Griff Mills led the 16-1 Braves with 17 points.

2 4 10, Brant on 1 0-0 2 2. Meek 3 00 3 8. Pittman 0 0-110, Greenlee I H 1 I. Hull 0 7-7 4 25. Pickena 0 80 0 0 - Totab FG 21. FT 14-18. PF 20. Braiil (85) Anderson 4 2 4 1 10, Buell 8 45 0 20. Brush 0 0-0 0 0, M . Buell 0 00 0 0, Butts 8 8-8 4 18, Lumtdon 0 80 1 0. McDonald 0 1-2 3 1, Slack 3 2-4 2 8. Farris 2 4-4 18, Clark 0 88 0 0 - Totab FG 23, FT 1825, PF 12. SCORE BY QUARTERS South Putnam 10 12 18 18-58 Brazil 12 22 » 22-85

for the Cubs and a deuce by Wehrman for the Cougars, Miller went to the high offense. Cooper led all scorers in the game wiht 22 points for Greencastle, three below his average. Smith chipped in another 12 points. Wehrman led North with 14 points and was the only Cougar in double figures. BOTH TEAMS SNARED 31 rebounds, but Hunter’s performance dominated the boards. The 6-3 senior pulled down 16 rebounds, nine in the first quarter. Wehrman pulled in eight to lead the Cougars. Greencastle also won the junior varsity game, 37-21. North Putnam (43) Wehrman ( 2-2 l 14, Enior 2 22 5 «, Colvin 1 1-1 5 3, Haler • 12 2 1, Bock 3 0-4 16, McAfee 1 44 0 2, Lanky 3 4-4 16. Horton 2 11 1 S - Totals FG 18, FT 7-8, PF 16 Greencastle (48) Hopkins 1 2-2 1 4, Smith 4 4-1 1 12. Hunter 2 2-3 3 6, Rushing 1 4-4 4 2, Cooper 16 24 1 22, Flint 4 2-2 6 2, Murphey 6 1-2 2 1, Job 6 44 6 6 - Totals FG 24, FT 4-16, PFB REBOUNDING North Putnam (31) Wehrman 8. Lasley 6, Bock $, Ensor 4, Colvin 3. Haler 2. Horton 2. McAfee 1. Greencastle (31) Hunter 16, Cooper 6, Hopkins 6, Smith 2, Rushing 1. SCORE BY QUARTERS North Putnam 8 6 14 15-43 Greencastle u j 1( , wl