Banner Graphic, Volume 15, Number 29, Greencastle, Putnam County, 6 October 1984 — Page 4

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The Putnam County Banner-Graphic, October 6,1984

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RUSTY BAKER First-quarter TD run

Win ends 33-game drought

Clovers snap the hex; blast Owen Valley, 19-0

By BILL SEIBOLD Banner-Graphic Sports Writer CLOVERDALE - The Locker room was filled with crying, laughing, hugging, yelling and prayers of thanks. The homecoming featured a victory dance. Fans walked from the field with heads and spirits sky high. Cloverdale High School’s football team had just shut out the Owen Valley Patriots 19-0 Friday night to break a 33-game losing streak. COACH GARY DeROSSETT summed up the emotions of the moment in the locker room as he told his players, “I’m so damn proud!” Deßossett was proud because his Clovers had made their own breaks and played good defense. “You’ve shown you can run right at them,” he told his players. “You’ve shown you can stop their running.” Homecoming queen Cindy Taylor was just as excited as she called the homecoming victory one that “caps off the year.” Rusty Baker, Scott Novak and Rick Sawyer each scored touchdowns to total the most points scored by the Clovers in 2V2 years. THE PATRIOTS SUFFERED two hard blows Friday. Not only did they lose their sixth straight game, they also saw three starters injured in an auto acrdent just before boarding the team bus at the high school near Spencer. Starter > Rob Johnson, Ray Wilhoit and Tbn Rice all sustained injuries as their jeep overturned in the school parking lot. With the first series of the game, the Clovers established their attack. Mixing sweeps and off-tackle rushes, they moved 64 yards in 11 plays. Sawyer opened with a 19-yard sweep for a first down. Three plays later, Bob Reynolds added eight for another first down. After another Sawyer first-down run, quarterback Rusty Baker carried 10 yards for his own first down. WITH THE CLOVERS on the one-yard line, Baker kept the ball on the option sweep and scored the opening touchdown. Jarrad Hughes kicked the extra point and the Clovers led 7-0. Then the Clovers began their defensive effort which held the Patriots to only 39 yards rushing. Fourteen times the Clovers made the big play to give the Patriots negative yards. The first Owen Valley series netted three yards before the punt. The next time the Patriots had the ball it took only one play to turn it over. Quarterback Chad Burkholder dropped back to pass, was hit and fumbled. Hughes picked up the loose ball and scampered 70 yards to the five-yard line, but a penalty called the ball back and the Clovers took possession on their own 25. THE REMAINDER OF the first half featured several sets of one-two-three-punt. David Kempf recovered one fumble as the Patriot snap from center went straight up and fell into Kempf’s arms when he came through the line. The Clovers turned the ball over twice, once with a fumble and once with an intercepted pass. Early in the third quarter Bob Reynolds and rick Sawyer set up the next Clover score as they combined for 34 yards and two first downs in five carries. Then a

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SCOTT NOVAK 17-yard TD scamper

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David Kempt lets out a victory yell Friday night as he and his Cloverdale High School teammates snapped a 33-game football losing streak. The Clovers' 19-0 victory reverse play to Scott Novak took the ball to the opposite side for 17 yards and the score. The attempted two-point conversion failed. The Patriots failed to move the ball, then a bad snap from center sailed over the punter’s head for a 28-yard loss and the Clovers took possession on the seven-yard line. Sawyer carried twice, four yards and three, for the final Clover score. “I just followed Bob (Reynolds). I’m glad to have him in front of me,” the jubilant Sawyer declared. “I knew we could explode, we could accelerate. We just kept striving.” THE GAME AGAIN reverted to a series of punts. With less than two minutes remaining, the Patriots started a drive on their own 38. Running back Rich Collins put together carries of 11, 4, and 8 yards. Then, following a 10-yard penalty against the Clovers, he carried for another 12 yards to the Clover 13-yard line. Senior back Bob Reynolds spoke for his

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RICK SAWYER Got final Clover score TD

over visiting Owen Valley was their first since Sept. 11,1981, when they shut out Dugger-Union 60-0. (Ban-ner-Graphic photo by Tracy Proctor) team mates, “We wanted to hold them, We wanted that shutout. We didn’t give.” A desperation pass toward the end zone failed for Owen Valley and the celebration began. Principal Gary Novak declared with a big smile, “We’ve been waiting for this for three years. Hopefully, we’re on a new trend to get football where it needs to be.” COACH DeROSSETT CALLED his team “survivors.” “As a team we put emphasis on having fun; we put emphasis on defense and gang tackling,” he said. “When you play ranked teams like Tri West, Monrovia and Linton the fun is in becoming more sound. These boys are survivors.” The opening series, which led to the first touchdown, featured several sweeps. “When they don’t stop it, you keep running it,” Deßossett explained. “They had to honor Scott Novak’s possible breakaway on a pass. That gave us the run. It was Sawyer’s best game.” Sawyer carried 18 times for 127 yards and one touchdown. The Clovers now stand 1-6 and travel to North Putnam next week for a cluster game. The Cougars also possess a 1-6 record. SCORE BY QUARTERS Owen Valley 0 0 0 0 0 Cloverdale 7 0 12 0 19 FIRST QUARTER GHS- Baker, 1 run (Hughes kick), 6:16 THIRD QUARTER CHS- Novak, 17 run (run falls), 5:59 CHS - Sawyer, 2 run (run fails), 3:37 CHS- Baker, 1 run (Hughes kick), 6:16 STATISTICS O.V. CHS First downs 7 11 Rushing yards 39 164 Passing yards 10 22 Passes 2-10-0 2-5-1 Total yards 49 186 Return yards 51 11 Punts-avg. 7.31.7 6-26 Fumbles - lost 5-1 3-1 Penalties - yds. 4-30 8-95

Wilson's toe boots Cubs to win at South Putnam

By STEVE FIELDS Banner-Graphic Sports Editor One foot can make a big difference in a high school football game. A foot, 12 inches - here or there - could have sustained a number of offensive drives by either Greencastle or South Putnam Friday night. But it was Troy Wilson’s 30-yard field goal that gave Greencastle the 3-0 victory. “I GUESS YOU could say we’re lucky, but on the other hand we did have the courage to really ... I’m proud of what we did down here and proud of what we did on defense all night,” coach John Fallis said after his Tiger Cubs retained possession of the County Bucket. Penalties and outstanding defense by both teams decided this football game at South Putnam. The only touchdown of the night, an eight-yard pass from Pat Meyer to Robert Sedlack, was called back by a holding penalty. That set up Wilson’s third field goal of the year one play later with 52 seconds left in the first half. “The biggest play of the game was down on the goal line when we had an apparent first down and they (the officials) threw the flag,” South Putnam coach Bob Gaddis said. WITH JUST OVER two minutes left in the game it was still anybody’s football game. Sparked by Tony Lewis’ 25-yard pass to Greg Phillips, South marked to the Greencastle two-foot line behind the running of Lewis, Darrin Lewis and Danny Smetzer. Smetzer, who gained 78 yards for the night, plugged away for one yard at a time, putting the Eagles on the Greencastle three. Faced with a fourth-down-and-inches, Lewis quarterback sneaked the ball and appeared to have the first down. But South was flagged for illegal procedure and instead of a first down on the Greencastle two-foot line, the Eagles were back around their own seven. When Lewis tried to hit sophomore Chris Sullivan on a slant-in pattern Joe Franklin stepped in to break it up and give Greencastle possession with 1:55 left on the football game. “ALL NIGHT LONG it was big plays. Not necessarily big runs, or big passes, just big breaks one way or another. I was on a roller-coaster all night long,” Fallis said. There were eight turnovers between the two football teams. Jack Bedwell, Joe Franklin and John Hecko intercepted passes for Greencastle and Meyer recovered two fumbles. Sullivan in-

North Putnam's homecoming spoiled by Cascade, 20-6

By JIM REILLY Banner-Graphic Sports Writer ROACHDALE--North Putnam’s homecoming queen, Jana Buser, looked on with mixed emotions Friday night. Her tears of joy at winning the royal honor gave way to a measure of sadness as her Cougars lost 20-6 to visiting Cascade in high school football action. “We were sluggish tonight,” Cougar coach Bruce Lake said, “at least to start off with. We were lucky to only be down 6-0 at the half.” PART OF THAT luck came at the hands of the North Putnam defense in the early going. The visitors took the opening kickoff and marched down the fiild from the 39 to the 26. Facing first-and-10 from that point, the Cougars got stingy. A field goal attempt three plays later did not go into the end zone, and luckless North Putnam was forced to put its hands on the ball for the first time at the Cougar oneyard line. A 1 Gray kept grinding it out, earning 30 yards on three plays as well as two first downs. But the attack stalled and Tracy Lashley kicked it away. AGAIN THE CADETS drove back, picking up momentum and first downs to the 14 with a first down. Two 15-yard penalties put the skids to Cascade as they were forced back to the 40 with second-and-33.

Reds hike ticket prices to aid 'rebuilding efforts'

CINCINNATI (AP) The Cincinnati Reds adjusted their ticket prices, three days after the ballclub reported a financial loss of $4.5 million for this season. The Reds reported on Tuesday that they’d suffered a financial loss for the fourth straight year. That includes the players’ strike year of 1981, two lastplace finishes and this season’s fifthplace showing. The ballclub said Friday that it’s increasing its lower-level box seats by $1 to $8 next season, the biggest increase.

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TROY WILSON His kick the difference

tercepted a pass and Gary Hazlett and Rolland Vickrey each recovered a fumble for South Putnam. But neither team could take advantage of the breaks because of the other’s defense. South had 246 yards of total offense to Greencastle’s 192, but the only statistic that counted was on the scoreboard. GREENCASTLE’S defense allowed the Lewis-to-Brian Meek connection only one completed pass. “They just played great covereage on Meek and it’s something he’s going to run into,” Gaddis said. “He’s going to have more great games because something else has to give.” Lewis entered the game as the No. 4 passing quarterback in the state and Meek as the No. 4 receiver, according to statistics reported to, compiled and released by the IHSAA. Greencastle adjusted its defense for both and that contributed to South’s 131 rushing yards. “We changed our defense slightly for him (Meek), which we seldom do and it was apparent that we did in our lack of ability to stop the run and our lack of ability to get a pass rush,” coach Fallis explained. “But we had to do that. If we ere going to send people, or we were going to declare to the run, then they were going to make some big. big catches on us and the lesser of two evils for me was to stop that (Meek).” GREENCASTLE FANS CALLED for a blitz against Lewis, a roll-out passer. “Our game plan was not to put pressure on him,” Fallis said. “I know listening to the fans in the stand, they all wanted to blitz.

Jesse Hensley took advantage of that break to pick off a Cascade pass, giving his Cougar teammates a chance to claw back at the start of the second quarter A 15-yard penalty restricted the North Putnam claws, however, and when they were forced to punt, Cascade again drove. EIGHTY-FOUR YARDS later, Cascade broke the scoring ice with a six-yard pass, but the extra point failed. “We had penalties that cost us,” Lake said. “But we didn’t play like we’re capable.” IT WAS NORTH Putnam’s turn to start a drive in the third quarter. But after Gray gained 16 yards in two carries, a penalty put the Cougars in a bit of a hole with first-and-15 at their own 38. “Our running game was good,” Lake said. “Gray just did a super job.” Another punt by the Cougars and another Cadet drive that ended in eight points began to spell the beginning of the end for the hometown celebrants. DOWN 14-0 AT the start of the final quarter, the Cougars couldn’t get any momentum started, as again they were held to their nine-yard line on fourth-and-14. The Cadets took advantage by beginning the series at the 30 and having Kevin Johnson catch a Jeff Perry pass on the seven. With 7:26 left North Putnam was getting desperate. A Cascade interception on the

Other seats will be either the same price, 50 cents more expensive, 50 cents cheaper or $1 cheaper. “The price changes will enable the Reds to continue their rebuilding efforts to provide a contending team for Reds’ fans, while maintaining prices that are in the lower half of all major league baseball teams,” the Reds said in a statement. “Twenty of the other 25 major league baseball teams had prices for their primary box seats in 1984 that were the same or higher than the Reds will have in 1985.”

But when a quarterback is rolling outside it doesn’t do any good to blitz up the middle. All you are doing is chasing him from behind. We decided to cover (the pass) instead of chasing him.” Other than the drive that resulted in Wilson’s field goal, Greencastle never put on a seious scoring threat, despite the five breaks provided by the defense. “They stuck us, they stuck us real well,” Fallis said of the Eagle defense. “We hurt ourselves with missed assignments, but they stuck us.” Steve Penley led the Greencastle ground attack with 95 yards in 15 attempts. He broke the trap for a 31-yard gain in the first quarter and had another 20-yarder in the third quarter. But it was his 12-yard run for a first down with 31 seconds left in the game that secured the fourth Tiger Cub win in seven starts. GREENCASTLE THREW FOR only 79 yards, but they were effective yards. Franklin picked up 37 of his 38 net yards in receptions on one play in the second quarter while helping set up Wilson’s kick. Sedlack got the Tiger Cubs out of trouble with an 18-yard reception in the fourth quarter, capping a 37-yard performance in four catches. “That was a good football game,” Gaddis said, obviously disappointed to be on the short end. “It was anybody’s game. I can’t take anything away from Greencastle. They played well and won, we played well and lost.” The now 3-4 Eagles may have suffered another loss. Receiver John Bridgewater suffered a knee injury and was taken from the field on a stretcher at the end of the game. The extent of his injury will be reported when the information is available. GREENCASTLE, NOW 4-3, returns home and to cluster play next week against an old rival under a new name - Brazil, now consolidated as Northview. South Putnam hits the road next week for a long trip to Covington. SCORE BY QUARTERS Greencastle 0 3 0 0-3 South Putnam 0 0 0 0-0 SECOND QUARTER GHS - Wilson. 30 field goal STATISTICS GHS SP First downs 9 15 Rushing yards 113 131 Passing yards 79 115 Passes 8-16-1 11-23-3 Total offense 192 246 Return yards 37 46 Punts - Avg. 5-34 3-32.2 Fumbles-lost 3-2 3-2 Penalties - yards 8-61 8-70

second play after the kickoff not only boosted the visitors morale but, more importantly, it began to eat into the clock. CASCADE’S FIELD GOAL attempt from the 25 was signaled no good, but North Putnam funbled on the first play from scrimmage and again the Cadets had the ball and control of the clock. Another field goal attmept went wide, before Cougar quarterback Tracy Lashley threw to Ed Lasley for an 80-yard touchdown. When you start playing catchup it’s hard,” Lake said. “They ran two guys on Lasley all night. They had us scouted well. We can still have a good season. We just got to get together. We’ll come back.” SCORE BY QUARTER . Cascade 0 6 8 6-20 North Putnam 0 0 0 6-6 SECOND QUARTER C-Smith 6 pass from Perry (kick failed) 6:01 THIRDQUARTER C-Smith 6 pass from Perry (Daryl Stephenson pass from Johnson) 4:48 FOURTH QUARTER C-Johnson 7 pass from Perry (kick failed) 7:34 NP-Lasley 80 pass from Lashley (pass failed) 2:40 STATISTICS C NP First downs to 8 Rushing yards 104 93 Passing Yards 114 80 Passing 10-19-1 1-9-2 Total Offense 218 173 Return Yards 56 50 Punts - Avg. 2-48.5 5-28.0 Fumbles-lost 2-0 2-1 Penalties-yards 6-55 6-24

Pacers lose to Chicago PEORIA, 111. (AP) Rookie guard Michael Jordan scored 18 points to lead the Chicago Bulls to a 102-98 victory over the Indiana Pacers in an National Basketball Association exhibition game Friday night. A member of the 1984 U.S. Olympic basketball squad, Jordan missed his first shot after entering the game with three minutes left in the first quarter. A little over a minute later, Jordan scored his first NBA points by hitting a 25 footer, and finished the game as the Bulls high scorer. Indiana guard Vem Fleming led the Pacers with 16 points.