Banner Graphic, Volume 14, Number 286, Greencastle, Putnam County, 9 August 1984 — Page 9
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South is playing whole new game of football today By STEVE FIELDS Banner-Graphic Sports Editor A few years back South Putnam’s football team had to avoid contact in practice. There weren’t enough Eagles to afford an injury. Now, after their first .500 season, South scrimmaged Wednesday on the first day of full-contact practice. Coach Bob Gaddis said the 45 Eagles in grades nine through 12 out for the team went at it full go Wednesday afternoon. “WE’VE STILL GOT a lot of question marks, still shuffling a lot of kids around, but things are about where we thought we were,” Gaddis said of his third Eagle squad. Like every other team in Putnam County, South sustained heavy graduation losses and has only five seniors. That makes it a little surprising the Eagles are that far down the road with their offense and defense. “They know it pretty well,” Gaddis said of the first team offense. “The second and third team now, they don’t run it very well.” TONY LEWIS HAS established himself as quarterback and team leader, as expected. He’ll have a little more freedom on the playing field since South doesn’t have a breakaway back like Brian Christy last year. “We’re so pass oriented I’m not so sure how much I’ll let him in,” Gaddis said adding there are a few more option plays in the book. “He’s confident, a lot more confident than he was this time last year.” Gary Hazlett is running at Christy’s old tailback spot. “He’s not very fast, but he’ll be a good, steady kid at tailback,” Gaddis said of the 163-pound senior. SOUTH’S OFFENSIVE LINE is settling in with 170pound veteran Trent Thompson at right guard and 6-0, 237-pound sophomore Tony Cash at tackle. Gaddis has two ways to go at center, 5-7, 145-pound John Spencer or 6-0, 215 pound Jason Baugh, No, it’s not as simple as size either because some of the best centers are small and quick. Spencer would wind up at left guard and Baugh at left tackle, which means Gaddis still needs another offensive lineman. Another opportunity for playing time. GREENCASTLE COACH John Fallis is looking and looking and trying and looking some more. Somewhere, somehow he’s got to find blocking for a potentially potent offense. The Tiger Cubs have to score and score a lot because the entire defense graduated.
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GREG LOUGANIS : Going for Olympic record
Vilas needs to play, he must keep winning
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - At age 32, his tennis career slowed by injury and scandal and his world ranking at its lowest level ever, Guillermo Vilas is still fighting. “At this stage, I have to be very objective. I need to play a lot,” the sixthseeded Vilas said after his raininterrupted 6-2,2-6,6-4 victory over Cassio Motta in the second round of the U.S. Open Clay Court championships on Wednesday. “It’s tough when you arrive at my age... it’s so unjust,” he said of his suspension last year by the International Pro Tennis Council for allegedly accepting $60,000 in appearance money from a tournament in Rotterdam. He was reinstated early this year but was soon out again with a rib injury. “After all these things, I’m fighting to
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come back because I love the game,” said the Argentine player, currently ranked 15th in the world. “Last year, I only played half a year. I spent more time with the lawyers than on the court. Right now I’m trying to play as much as I can to get my ranking up. ” Vilas’ peak was in 1977, when he won 50 straight matches en route to 15 singles championships, including the U.S. and French Opens. He was ranked second in the world behind Jimmy Connors that year. “Jimmy and me, we both love the game, but I can’t tell you it’s all laughs and joy all around,” said Vilas. “Everybody can smell when you don’t have that edge anymore. Even if it doesn’t show on court, you have to have the mental edge. You
Water breaks are coming pretty regularly in all four Putnam County high school football practices. South Putnam captains (clockwise) Trent Thompson, Rodney Hutchison, Gary Hazlett and Kelly Lewis and David Smith return to the backfield offering the combination of power and speed. And of course somewhere in there Steve Penley will probably find a home. Whoever earns the quarterback position will have veteran tight end Robert Sedlack and speedy Joe Franklin to catch passes. But somebody still has to open holes. “WE’VE GOT A lot of people in there who are pretty equal in ability, so they’re all working hard for a position right now,” Fallis said of the offensive line. Pat Meyer, John Hecko and Todd Sutherlin are competing for the quarterback job. Meyer may have a slight edge right now being the senior and No. 3 quarterback last year. Fallis has used a combination of running and passing quarterbacks in the past, but probably not this year. “I’d say not because Pat and John can both run and pass the football some and I really haven’t had much of a chance to look at Todd yet,” the coach said. FRANKLIN COULD MISS a good deal of practice next week while competing in the National AAU-Junior Olympic Track and Field Meet in Flordia. The junior will be competing in the 400-meter dash, an event he ran in 51.7 seconds during the regional qualifying meet and in 51.5 during the Wilma Rudolph Invitational over the weekend. With Franklin at wide receiver and Smith in the back field Greencastle should have some respectable speed.
Louganis perfect in
diving competition
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Greg Louganis, called “The Flying Hero” by the admiring Chinese, has earned the springboard diving gold medal with four perfect scores, and now begins his quest for the platform gold and place in Olympic history. Louganis, 24, of Mission Viejo, Calif., was in a class by himself Wednesday, claiming the springboard crown with an explosive but graceful performance of the 11 final dives. He posted 754.41 points to 662.31 for silver medalist Tan Liangde of China and 661.32 for bronze medalist Ron Merriott of Ann Arbor, Mich. The outcome left Louganis halfway to his goal of becoming the first man to win two diving competitions in one Olympics. Preliminaries in the platform event are Saturday and the finals Sunday. But for the moment, Louganis, who has won 26 national diving titles, wanted to savor the springboard gold. “The platform is another goal and if I don’t obtain it my life is still full,” said Louganis. “I want to enjoy my springboard medal but I know my coach, Ron O’Brien, will be out there
have to be prepared to spend hours on the court practicing.” Is he capable of regaining his onetime form? “I wouldn’t be here if I didn’t think I could,” he said. The victory over the Brazilian Motta put Vilas into the third round today against unseeded Balazs Taroczy of Hungary, who also went three sets Wednesday before beating Miloslav Mecir of Czechoslovakia 6-7,6-1,6-1. Both the men’s and women’s top seeds also had to go three sets to stay alive in the week-long, $574,000 tournament at the Indianapolis Sports Center. The men’s No.l seed, Andregomez of Ecr, struggled most of the match but took control with a service break in the third set
David Varvel not only are leading the Eagles on the playing field, but also at the fountain. The Eagles will have their annual live-in camp next week. (Banner-Graphic photo by Bob Frazier). “We’re not blinding, but we’re decent,” Fallis admitted. NORTH PUTNAM COACH Bruce Lake is real happy with the way things are going. There are 26 juniors and seniors to dominate the 40-player Cougar squad so far. There are only seven freshmen and seven sophomores, but the coach still has tryouts open. Already the Cougars are working on the new power-I offense. “They’ve picked it up real well, the blocking and running of it,” Lake praised. “It will take a while to get the offense in. We’ll add a little bit to it each week. The defense though is always going to be ahead of the offense.” Lake doesn’t see North hitting until about Friday, and maybe not then. ‘ ‘We probably won’t hit a whole lot until in a game situation, we can’t afford to get anybody hurt,” he said of the numbers. SENIOR TERRY JUDY and junior Tracy Lashley are knocking heads, as expected, for the quarterback spot. Lashley’s edge here could be his six-foot height against Judy’s 5-5 As for settling on positions, the new coach is still looking, still giving everyone a chance to earn a starting assignment in the Aug. 24 opener with Greencastle. CLOVERDALE COACH Garry Deßossett has approximately 34 players out for the team, which is only six short of what he expected for the four grades.
kicking my tail Thursday.” Louganis, a drama major at the University of California-Irvine, listened to music and talked to his teddy bear, “Gar” in between dives. “I wasn’t watching my competitors, I just listened to music, and ‘Gar’ keeps me company,” said Louganis. “I just sort of set my dives to music and follow the rhythm of the day.” He never trailed after any round of dives. In fact, so thoroughly did he dominate the competition that he almost could have skipped his final dive and still walked off with the gold. After 10 dives, Louganis’ point total was 662.01, just .30 fewer than Tan’s 11-dive second-place total. The women’s platform diving takes over the spotlight today at the Southern California Swim Center with an eight-dive preliminary program. Finals are Friday night with Wendy Wyland and Michele Mitchell of the United States among the favorites. China has the biggest threat to the Americans in Chen Xiaoxia, 22, of Canton, called the “Flying Swallow” by her countrymen because of her delightful flights off the 10-meter platform.
and beat Blaine Willenborg 7-5,2-6,6-3. Women’s No.l Manuela Maleeva of Bulgaria downed Debbie Spence of Cerritos, Calif., 6-1, 2-6, 6-0. The N 0.2 women’s seeda Garrison of Houston, Texas, also needed three sets to oust Yvonne Vermaak of South Africa 6-2,2-6,6-3. In today’s quarterfinals, Maleeva will play N 0.7 Kathy Rinaldi, a 6-4,1-6,6-4 winner over Kate Gompert of Roswell, N.M. The men’s N0.2-seeded Henrik Sundstrom of Sweden also had to go three sets but suffered a 6-2, 3-6, 6-4 upset loss to unseeded Alejandro Ganzabal of Argentina. “I played fine. He just played too well,” said Sundstrom, ranked ninth in the world. “He played his forehand very well, and he had a good drop shot.”
U.S. is flying to more gold
LOS ANGELES (AP) - When Carl Lewis lunges and Greg Louganis plunges, they inevitably come up No. 1. Lewis, still running in high gear on the road Jesse Owens traveled 48 years ago in Berlin, dived across the finish line Wednesday to lead a 1-2-3 United States sweep in the 200-meter sprint and win the third of his prospective four gold medals. Saturday he anchors the 400 relay. Louganis, barely creating a ripple by expectedly running away from the field in the three-meter springboard diving, set his sights on Sunday’s platform competition and an unprecedented two diving golds by one man in one Olympics. The women began platform preliminaries today, and Daley Thompson of Britain led Jurgen Hingsen of W’est Germany 4,663-4,519 entering today’s final five events of the decathlon. Going into today’s competition, the United States had 124 medals, 54 gold. West Germany was second with 38 total medals and Romania runnerup in gold with 16. Like Louganis, Valerie Brisco-Hooks is seeking a double, the first woman to win the 200 and 400 meters in the same Games and only the third U.S. woman (Wilma Rudolph and Babe Didrikson the others) to win two track and field golds in one Olympics. Brisco-Hooks won the 400 Monday night. On Wednesday she cruised through 200 qualifying. Tonight she goes for the 200 gold. South African-born Sydney Maree of Philadelphia said Wednedsday he has withdrawn from today’s 1,500 meters because of a hamstring pull. And Steve Ovett of Britain, hospitalized with bronchitis after Monday’s 800 and discharged Wednesday, said he would announce early today whether he’d run the 1,500. The United States finished 1-3 in Wednesday’s springboard, Ron Merriott of Ann Arbor, Mich., getting the bronze. And Americans were 1-3 in the men’s 400 but in an unexpected order. Antonio McKay of Atlanta figured to battle Jamaican Bert Cameron for the gold. But just before the final, Cameron pulled out with a pulled muscle. And in the race itself, Alonzo Babers of Montgomery, Ala., pulled away to win, leaving McKay third. The United States defeated Canada twice, 78-59 in men’s basketball as Chris Mullin of St. John’s University scored 20 points, and 15-6, 15-10, 15-7 in men’s volleyball. Each now goes for gold, the basketball team against Spain Friday night, the volleyball team against Brazil Saturday night. The American men’s handball team tied South Korea 22-22 Wednesday night. Judi Brown of East Lansing, Mich., won silver in the women’s 400 hurdles, finishing behind Nawal El Moutawakil, Morocco’s first gold medalist in Olympic history; five U.S. boxers advanced to the semifinals; Mike Tully of Encino, Calif., got the pole vault silver, finishing second to Pierre Quinon of France, and Earl Bell of Jonesboro, Ark., shared bronze. Also, Robert Berland of Wilmette, 111., became the first U.S. medalist ever in Olympic judo, winning the middleweight silver after being defeated by gold medalist Peter Seisenbacher of Austria; Mario Martinez of San Francisco finished
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second to Dinko Lukim of Australia in super heavyweightlifting, and the United States won gold or silver in all seven yachting events. Lewis, of Willingboro, N.J., didn’t break Italian Pietro Mennea’s world record of 19.72 seconds in the 200, finishing in an Olympic-record 19.80 to beat silver medalist Kirk Baptiste of Beaumont, Texas, and third-place finisher Thomas Jefferson of Moreland, Ohio. But he did break the back of the hostility directed at him earlier by the Memorial Coliseum crowd, and then he broke his silence. “I think the most important thing for me is to win as many gold medals as I possibly can, because that’s what people are going to remember from these Games, how well the American team did,” said Lewis, who had refused in previous days to talk following his competition. He hadn’t tried for a world record Monday night in the long jump and many in the crowd reacted angrily. “When I got the boos, at first it was shocking,” he said, “but then I wasn’t really disappointed.’’ And on Wednesday, neither was the crowd of 80,909, cheering him and his teammates as they circled the track in victory, celebrating the first 1-2-3 U.S. finish in the event since 1956. “Our whole goal here was to sweep the event," Lewis said. Mennea, incidentally, finished seventh. Louganis fell short of his goal of 800 points in the springboard, finishing with 754.41 to the 661.32 by Tan Liangde of China. But Louganis said he wasn’t disappointed. “Records can be broken any time,” the 1976 Olympic platform silver medalist said, “but gold medals are hard to come by. It meant a lot to get a gold here. It was something missing in my career. The platform is another goal and if I don’t obtain it my life is still full.”
Ridgerunner rescheduled PUTNAMVILLE-The annual Ridgerunner-50 sprint car race at Lincoln Park Speedway was rained out Wednesday night and has been rescheduled for Friday night. The sprint car race is expected to attract a large number of quality entries with $3,000 going to the winner of the 50-lap race. Gates at Lincoln Park will open at 5 p.m. and qualifications start at 6:30p.m. N.P. league sets signup The North Putnam Youth Football League will hold a registration Aug. 16 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. for boys in grades four, five and six. Interested boys and a parent or guardian should report to North Putnam High School and register for the coming season. There is a $lO registration fee and additional $3.50 if pictures are desired.
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