Banner Graphic, Volume 14, Number 158, Greencastle, Putnam County, 10 March 1984 — Page 4

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The Putnam County Banner-Graphic, March 10,1984

Baltimore offering Irsay its own money deal in tug-of-war over Colts

BALTIMORE (AP) The city and the state of Maryland continued efforts to reach Baltimore Colts owner Robert Irsay in hopes of luring him to keep the National Football League franchise in Baltimore with a financial package. Baltimore Mayor William Donald Schaefer said he planned to telephone Irsay Friday and give him the details of an economic aid package worked out by the city and state. Schaefer refused to comment to reporters on whether he had talked with Irsay or with Gov. Harry Hughes. “No comment, ” the mayor said. “I have been harassed day and night. I am not going to say anything about Mr. Irsay, the lease, the Colts, until I have something to say,” Schaefer told reporters. “When I have something to say, I’ll tell you.” There was no word from Schaefer’s office Friday morning on whether the mayor had received any word from Irsay. Helen Szablya, the mayor’s assistant press secretary, said Schaefer had placed a call to Irsay but she didn’t know if the call had been returned. Norm Silverstein, Hughes’ press aide, said Schaefer told

South Putnam edges Rosedale, 4847

Defense propels Eagles into regional title game

By STEVE FIELDS Banner-Graphic Sports Editor TERRE HAUTE - Winners are built upon defense and it’s for just that reason South Putnam will play sixth-ranked Terre Haute South Saturday night in the 7:30 p.m. championship game of the Terre Haute-IHSAA basketball regional. The Eagles defeated the Rosedale Hotshots 48-47 Friday night in the opening game of the regional at Hulman Civic Center. Coach Pat Rady’s Terre Haute South Braves ousted previously unbeaten L&M 64-56 in the second game. PUTNAM COUNTY FANS can see the game on television as Channel 38 (WBAK) will carry it live. It was announced to Friday night’s first regional capacity crowd in a number of years that 2,000 tickets will go on sale Saturday at 6:30 p.m. when the Hulman Center doors open. Troy Greenlee and Mike McHugh scored the game’s first four points Friday night as the Eagles got on top 4-0 and never trailed. South was up 12-8 at the end of the first quarter, 24-18 at halftime and 36-30 when the final period opened. While winning their fourth straight game and improving their record to 10-14 the Eagles built as much as a 12-point (42-30) cushion during the opening minutes of the fourth quarter. “I THOUGHT OUR defense the first half was excellent and we came out the second half and our defense help up enough to hang on and get the win,” coach Bill Merkel said. It got as tight as one point, 42-41, during the final quarter when South went Vk minutes without scoring a point. But Brian Christy stepped into an opening in Rosedale’s defense and popped a 15-footer to move the Eagles back to a three-point advantage. Not a minute later, he connected on two free throws. “I thought Christy hit a crucial free throw and I thought (Brian) Meek hit two important free throws where they (Rosedale) could have cut it down to one. He stepped up there and hit both of them and put us back up three,” Merkel said of clutch performances. THE SENIORS ALL delivered as seniors are expected to do. McHugh scored 16 points and pulled down a game-high 13 rebounds. Christy netted four of his eight points down the stretch and Adam Hull triggered the Eagles to a 6-0 spurt during the last two minutes of the first quarter. The freshman Greenlee and sophomore Meek were in the spotlight all night, refusing to wilt under the pressure of the capacity Hulman Center crowd. “That’s a lot of pressure to ask a freshman to handle in that situation out there on the floor,” Merkel said of Greenlee’s play against Rosedale’s pressure defense. “And the other kids rely on him to do that and that’s been the key to our success in the sectional and the latter part of the season.” ROSEDALE SENT MEEK to the free throw line for a one-and-one with just 40 seconds left in the game and the Eagles leading 46-44. If Meek had missed the first one the Hotshots would have had an opportunity to tie, but he hit both and that was all South needed. “We had what we wanted,” Rosedale coach Jim Stewart said of the final two minutes. “The clock was stopped, we were on the (free throw) line. Then we couldn’t hit free throws. Not that we missed the free throws - we got it down in and it rolled back out.” South rolled out to a 12-4 lead late in the first period with a beautiful series of team plays. Greenlee started it with a basket made possible because Hull held a Hotshot in check while his teammate drove the seam. Hull came up with a loose ball for a two-on-one fastbreak that was completed by his reverse bounce pass to Christy. And finally, Christy blocked Mike Cuiksa’s shot, Greenlee grabbed the free ball and triggered it out to the breaking Hull for a layup. ROSEDALE SCORED THE final four points of the first quarter and trailed just 12-8 when the second period opened. “I

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Hughes Friday afternoon that he had talked with Irsay and was they were trying to set up a meeting. Despite persistent reports that the Colts will be moved to Indianapolis, Irsay told Schaefer earlier this week that Maryland should continue with its efforts to match financial incentives which have been offered officials in Indianapolis to persuade Irsay to move the team there. The Maryland Senate also took steps to keep the Colts in Baltimore. It gave final approval Friday to the bill that would allow professional games at Memorial Stadium to start at 1 p.m. Sundays. Julian Lapides, D-Baltimore, whose district includes stadium, voted against the change because he said neighborhood groups are still opposed. “I also hope, I suppose, that the Colts will remain in Baltimore, but I resent the capitulation we seem to have to make every step of the way.” The bill now goes to the House of Delegates where action is not expected until next week. As an emergency measure, it would go into effect immediately upon signature by the governor.

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South Putnam's Mike McHugh turns to score two of his team-leading 16 points Friday night against Rosedale. McHugh also pulled down a game-high 13 rebounds in the Eagles' regional victory at Terre Haute's Hulman Center. (Banner-Graphic photo by Tracy Proctor) thought the telling factor was probably the first four minutes of the second quarter,” coach Stewart said. “The first four minutes of the second quarter we were totally without any offense.” During that span South built a 20-10 lead. McHugh scored South’s first four points of the run on a field goal and two free throws. Hull chipped in the next pair and Greenlee added a field goal. It was during the second four minutes of the quarter that Rosedale started applying pressure to Greenlee at the point. It resulted in three Eagle turnovers, but the Hotshots also missed three layups. SOUTH SHOT 43 PER CENT (19-44) for the night from the floor, and 67 per cent (9-15) at the free throw line. “Offensively we just didn’t execute in the second half. I thought the kids were emotionally drained. It was a big week for them,” Merkel said of the school’s first sectional championship celebration since 1977. But the defense held up because Rosedale couldn’t get the ball inside. “We had more or less a 1-2-2 offense and they had a 1-2-2 zone against it and pressured us. They gave us the shot on the wing and we didn’t hit it,” Stewart said. MERKEL DIDN’T MIND giving up that shot either. “Their guards hurt us, but when they’re shooting 30-footers, I’d rather see them shoot 30-footers than let big people inside shoot fivefooters,” the coach said. The strategy limited Rosedale’s 6-6 center Ben Brower to 11 points. Guard Ron Fulford finished with a game-high 18 points, hitting seven of 12 from the floor. Rosedale shot 36 per cent 52) from the floor and 64 per cent (9-14) at the free throw line, which statistically was the deciding factor. South Putnam (48) McHugh 7-15 2-3 4 1«. Chrbty 3-5 2-2 3 8, Meek 1-8 4-818, Greenlee 3-5 2-3 4 8, Hull 4-18 0128. Branson 1-1 <M> 32- Totals FG 18-44, FT 10-15, PF 17 Rosedale (47) Brown 0-104) 10. Culksa 4-8 04) 28, Brower 4-103-5311, Fulford 7-124-8 118, Weise 3 2-3 58. Craft 0-1 0-01 0. Harrison 1-5 04) 02 - Totals FG 18-52, FT 8-14, PF 13 REBOUNDING South Putnam (31) McHugh 13, Meek 10, Christy 4, Greenlee 2, Hull I. Branson l. Rosedale (28) Brower 8, Weise 8, Fulford 5. Culksa 4. Craft 2. Harrison I. SCORE BY QUARTERS South Putnam 12 12 12 12-48 Rosedale 8 to 12 17-47 South Putnam sports honors program Monday The South Putnam High School winter sports awards program will be held Monday at 6:30 p.m. in the high school cafeteria. Boys and girls who participated in wrestling and basketball, as well as cheerleaders, managers, statisticians and coaches will be honored at this time.

Irsay has wanted earlier the starting time for years saying it would help improve the chances of getting televised and generate more revenue for him. Meanwhile, the Save The Colts Committee had scheduled a rally at the downton Holiday Inn for Friday evening. Gil Griggs, leader of the group, said it was an opportunity for Colts fans to send their own public message to Irsay. The loan package that Baltimore and the state will offer Irsay includes a low-interest sls million loan. It was worked out between local business leaders and Francis J. DeFranicis, secretary of Maryland’s Department of Economic and Community Development. Local business leaders have agreed to absorb the $500,000 cost difference between the 8 percent interest rate Irsay wants and the 11 percent the banks pay. The money is to refinance debt left over from Irsay’s 1972 purchase of the Colts. Under the arrangement, Irsay would also sell the Colts training complex at Ownings Mills and the state would lease it back to him.

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Clock strikes midnight for Cinderella L&M

BySTEVE FIELDS Banner-Graphic Sports Editor TERRE HAUTE - Now there are only two undefeated teams left in the IHSAA state basketball tournament. Using its superior quickness to create a full-court game, Terre Haute South defeated sentimental favorite L&M 64-56 Friday night in the second game of the Terre HauteIHSAA regional at Hulman Civic Center. SOUTH, NOW 23-1, plays 1014 South Putnam in a rematch of the 1977 regional championship game at 7:30 p.m. Saturday night. The winner returns to Hulman Center next week against the Syemour regional winner as part of the semistate. “They are a ball-control ball club,” South coach and Putnam County native Pat Rady said of South Putnam. “We’ve got to press and get them in a running game.”

Pacers suffer from Suns-burn

PHOENIX, Ariz. (AP) - The Phoenix Suns, who fattened up their record during a 2 Vi-week homestand, now go back on the road where they have known only famine this National Basketball Association season. Friday night, the Suns won their seventh straight game at home and 16th in the last 18 as they placed seven players in double figures while downing te slumping Indiana Pacers 130110. Walter Davis scored 22 points, James Edwards and Rick Robey each added 20, Maurice Lucas and Larry Nance 16, rookie Rod Foster 13 and Paul Westphal 10 as the Suns (31-33) are now 24-8 at the Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum. But on the road, they are 7-25 and have lost 15 of the last 18. Looming on the horizon is an East Coast swing through

Brewers heartened by strong p

By The Associated Press The Milwaukee Brewers received some good news in the arms race that could get them back into a pennant race. Relief ace Rollie Fingers and starter Pete Vuckovich, the American League Cy Young winners in 1981 and 1982, respectively, pitched impressively in Friday’s 8-7 11inning exhibition victory over the San Francisco Giants. Fingers, who hasn’t pitched in a regular-season game since Sept. 2, 1982, because of elbow and forearm problems, made his spring debut and worked a perfect seventh inning in which he struck out the first two batters he faced. Earlier in the game, Vuckovich, who missed almost all of the 1983 season with a torn rotator cuff in his pitching shoulder, hurled three innings and gave up two runs on three hits after retiring seven of the first eight batters he faced. Although the Minnesota

That was how the Braves beat L&M. Dominating the offensive boards and keeping pressure on L&M at all times, South pulled out to a 22-13 first-quarter lead. Then L&M turned it into a halfcourt game and started hitting the boards to narrow South s lead to 34-30 at halftime. “WHEN I SAW them play Washington Catholic I knew they were for real," Rady said of L&M. “They’re as good as anybody we’ve played all year.” South led by four and six points through most of the third quarter, but L&M did get within two, 42-40, on a pair of Jeff Oliphant free throws. However, the Braves scored the next six points and led 46-40 when the final period opened South’s quickness advantage was obvious and Rady wanted to exploit it a little. It was a twoand four-point game until the last 3M> minutes when South’s quickness in the backcourt and

Philadelphia, Boston, New York and Washington with a later trip to Seattle and Portland. “It’s going to be real cold outside, but we’re hoping we can heat it up inside,” said Davis. “We’ve been playing really well the last two months especially at home and there’s no reason why we can’t play like this anywhere else. “We’re playing total basketball and everybody’s playing well. It’s not one or two guys doing the bulk of the scoring. We’re dishing it around and no team can key on any one of our players anymore.” Indiana, despite a game-high 23 points from Clark Kellogg, fell to 18-45 overall and 3-28 on the road after losing their sixth in a row. “What it boiled down to was they just manhandled us,” said

ROLLIE FINGERS Back in form

Twins lost to the Houston Astros 4-3, Jim Eisenreich had his second consecutive four-hit game, giving him eight straight hits for the spring before he was retired for the first time on a fly ball in the ninth.

The package is aimed at matching an offer Irsay reportedly received from Indianapolis. Frank Kush returning to Baltimore-Washington International Airport Thursday night would not comment on whether the Colts would be moving to the midwestern city. “I’m sure it will be a very fine place for somebody’s football team,” Kush told reporters at the airport. Maryland Gov. Harry Hughes said Thursday he hopes to arrange an face-to-face meeting with to explain the financial package put together by the state. Hughes said he is willing to go to Chicago, where Irsay lives, to meet with the Colts owner because “the issue here is that important.” In Indianapolis, meanwhile, the Capital Improvements Board, which must approve any kind of move by the Colts, cancelled a meeting it had scheduled for Friday, PE. McAlister, the board chairman, told a Baltimore television station Thursday. McAlister said the board was delaying at least another day or two ‘ ‘just in the hopes something breaks. ’ ’

L&M fouls inflated the margin to 10 points. GUARD MARVIN UTLEYIed South with 17 points, followed by forward Griff Mills with 15. Tony Patterson paced L&M’s first regional appearance since 1969 with 21 points. Jeff Oliphant tossed in 18. Randy Padgett, the only senior starter on this L&M squad, socred 13 points. lAM (56) Riley Padgett 0-4 0-0 2 0, Randy Padgett 614 1-2 4 13. Patterson 0-25 3-6 3 21, Oliphant 7-14 4-1 2 18. Ellett 1-3 (M) 0 2, Schenck 1-2 003 2- TotalsFG24-62,FT8-12,PF 14 T.H. South (64) Mills 5-10 5-6 3 15, Acuff 4-8 04) 1 8. Dowell 46 1-2 1 8, L'tley 8-16 12 0 18, Andrews 0-2 0-0 0 0. Keohane 1-7 0-1 4 2. Dooley l-I 0-0 0 2, Allen 5-7 -12 3 11 - Totals FG 28-57, FT 8-13, PF 12 REBOUNDING IAM (37) Patterson 13. Oliphant 11, Randy Padgett 9. Riley Padgett!. TH. South (21) Allen 5, Mills 4. Acuff 4, Keohane 4, Utley 2. Andrews 2. SCORE BY QUARTERS IAM 13 17 10 16-56 T.H. South 22 12 12 18-64

Pacers Coach Jack McKinney. “We couldn’t stay with them and they were just too much for us. They did some great shooting and we didn’t expect their big men to shoot so well from the outside especially Robey. We just didn’t have enough punch to go with that.” The Suns trailed 20-17 until reeling off the 12-0 string for 2920 lead as Foster and Nance scored four points each in the 2:09 span. They led 36-25 at the end of the quarter as Robey sank a 3-point goal before the buzzer on a 25-foot jumper. “That was the first one of my NBA career,” he said. “I saw (Pacer center Steve) S .ipanovich keep backing up, so I said ‘the hell with it’ and let her go. I had two seconds left, so I fired.” Phoenix was up 67-57 at halftime.

Meanwhile, the unbeaten Chicago White Sox rolled to their fifth straight triumph, downing the Cincinnati Reds 3-1 as Greg Walker drove in two runs with a pair of sacrifice flies. John Lowenstein’s two-run homer highlighted a five-run first inning and the Baltimore Orioles went on to edge the Montreal Expos 8-7. The Philadelphia Phillies got three-hit pitching from National League Cy Young winner John Denny and three relievers and blanked the Boston Red Sox 4-0. Two-out doubles in the ninth inning by Floyd Rayford and Bill Lyons accounted for the tying and winning runs as the St. Louis Cardinals beat the winless (0-4) Detroit Tigers 7-6. Mike Scioscia had a double and two singles and drove in two runs, helping the Los Angeles Dodgers edge the New York Yankees 5-4. Nick Capra singled home the

Purdue, Illinois to the wire By JOE MOOSHIL AP Sports Writer Illinois, ranked seventh nationally, can clinch at least a share of the Big Ten basketball championship today and, for a change, apply some added pressure on Purdue’s 11thranked Boilermakers. The two teams went into the final weekend of Big Ten competition tied for the league lead with 14-3 records. Illinois faced last-place Wisconsin today for what should be a victory and Purdue journeys to Minnesota on Sunday for a nationally televised game. In recent weeks, Illinois has had to chase Purdue. Last week, Purdue defeated Ohio State on Saturday to edge ahead of Illinois who had to defeat Indiana on Sunday to catch up. This week, Purdue defeated Wisconsin 61-48 Tuesday night to move one-half game ahead of the Illini who had to wait until Thursday night to move back into a tie with a solid 53-41 triumph at Minnesota. “If we beat Wisconsin, it will be the first time we’ve been ahead of them,” said Illinois’ Doug Altenberger. “I’d like to see how they react to that. It’s always been the other way around.” But Coach Lou Henson of Illinois issues this warning: “Earlier in the season we had to go to overtime to beat them and last year at the Assembly Hail, we won a close one. You can’t take anybody lightly in the Big Ten . ” While Illinois engages Wisconsin, Ohio State will be at Indiana and Michigan plays at Northwestern tonight. Illinois, Purdue and Indiana are assured of NCAA berths although the final bids do not come out until Sunday. Michigan also is shooting for an NCAA bid. Wolverine Coach Bill Frieder figures his team already has earned it by having won the last four games and are 10-7 in the Big Ten and 18-9 overall. But a victory over Northwestern tonight would be even more convincing. While Purdue battles at Minnesota on Sunday afternoon, Michigan State will be at lowa. The Spartans also have won their last four games and a victory at lowa probably would place them in the NIT along with Ohio State and possibly Minnesota.

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tying run in the bottom of the ninth inning and scored on Bobby Jones' double, giving the Texas Rangers a 5-4 victory over the Atlanta Braves. George Foster and Gary Rajsich homered in a 16-hit attack as the New York Mets swamped the Toronto Blue Jays 12Jorge Orta went 3-for-4, including a grand slam, and Butch Davis hit a two-run homer to help the Kansas City Royals to a 13- tie with the Pittsburgh Pirates. The game was then halted by mutual consent. Steve Brown, Ron Romanick, Angel Moreno and John Curtis combined to stifle San Diego on six hits as the California Angels blanked the Padres 3-0. Dwayne Murphy rapped out three hits, including a homer, and drove in two runs, and Garry Hancock had four hits to lead the Oakland A’s to a 9-5 victory over the Chicago Cubs.