Banner Graphic, Volume 15, Number 138, Greencastle, Putnam County, 8 February 1985 — Page 7

Eagles win both county title games By STEVE FIELDS Banner-Graphic Sports Editor They did it in different fashions, but the South Putnam seventh and eighth grade basketball teams made a sweep of the Putnam County Junior High Basketball Tournament championships Thursday night at the Greencastle Middle School Gym. South Putnam rallied from a 10-point deficit in the final two minutes to edge Greencastle 40-39 for the seventh grade championship. BUT THE EAGLE eighth grade jumped out to an 8-2 lead and never let Greencastle any closer than five points en route to a 4734 victory. With 1:12 left in the seventh grade contest, Brad Toney capped a 16 point, 14rebound performance with an offensive rebound basket and ensuing free throw to give the Eagles their first crown of the night. Greencastle got the last three shots at the basket off an Eagle turnover, but could not get a field goal. FOB THREE QUARTERS it looked like Greencastle would win, but South was never far behind. Six Bob Moore points sent the Tiger Cubs into the second quarter with an 8-4 lead, but a Shannon Johnson basket with 2:50 left in the half gave the Eagles an 11-10 edge on the first of eight lead changes. Trent Judy’s third field goal of the second period sent Greencastle into halftime with a 20-17 lead and that margin was extended to 33-27 by the end of the third quarter. Tom Baker, Josh King and Judy hit free throws to give Greencastle a seemly solid 39-29 lead, but that was the end of the Cub offense. Johnson, Toney and Mark Dunlap scored during South’s rally and Toney capped it. TONEY LED SOUTH with 16 points and 14 rebounds, followed by Johnson with 14 points and 12 rebounds. The Eagles won the rebounding battle 44-23. Greencastle was led by Tom Baker with 10 points and Judy netted nine points. TONY BRANSON SCORED 19 points and grabbed 10 rebounds and Mitch Trusty scored nine points and grabbed eight rebounds to lead the South eighth grade to a surprisingly wide title-game margin. The Eagles led by as much as 17 points, 4730, at one point during the final minutes. Baskets by Branson, Tege Lewis and Jason Haltom sent South into an 8-2 early first quarter lead. South led 10-6 when the second quarter opened and held Greencastle at bay 22-17 at halftime. Greencastle went to fullcourt pressure in the third quarter and Pete Huber turned a pair of South turnovers into buckets, narrowing the deficit to 26-22. Mitch Trusty scored one bucket and Mike Trusty the next two, sending South into a 32-22 lead. THE EAGLES TOOK a 35-26 lead into the fourth quarter and the Cubs started their final run. Todd Lancaster and Eric Twigg cut the margin to 35-30, but the Eagles capitalized at the free throw line to move out to a 42-30 lead. South’s first and only field goal of the fourth quarter didn’t come until the 1:10 mark when Mitch Trusty made a spectacular, twisting over the shoulder shot off an offensive rebound. Lancaster and Huber led Greencastle’s effort with eight points each. SEVENTH GRADE CHAMPIONSHIP SOUTH PUTNAM (40) ....... vi Dunlap 14-6 2 6, Johnson 6 2-4 2 14, Toney 6 4-10 4 16, F lora 1 0-2 2 2, Williams 10-0 0 2. Pickens 0 (Ml 3 0. Goodpaster 0 0-000. TOTALS-FGIS, FT 10-22. PF 13. GREENCASTLE (39) Judy 3 3-4 3 9, King 3 2-5 2 8, Moore 4 0-0 18. Baker 4 2-2 3 10. Luken 0 0-2 4 0. O’Hair 0 0-0 10, Hafiey 2 04) 0 4. TOTALS-FG 16. FT 7-13, PF 14. QUARTERSCORING South Putnam J « f rpenrastle *” 6 EIGHTH GRADECHAMPIONSHIP SOUTH PUTNAM (47) ...... Mike Trusty 3 0-0 5 6, Branson 6 7-8 3 19, Lewis 3 2-3 2 8. Mitch Trusty 3 3-6 0 9, Haltom 2 0-1 0 4. Ziegler 0 0-0 0 0, Schroer 0 0-1 2 0, Nichols 0 1-2 0 0. Smetier 0 0-0 0 0, Foust 0 0-0 0 0. Battin 0 0-110, Sullivan 0 0-0 0 0. Timm 0 0-0 0 0. TOTALS-FG 17, FT 13-22, PF 13. GREENCASTLE (34) Lancaster 4 0-0 4 8, Sutherlin 2 1-2 2 5, Chadd 0 3-4 2 3, Huber 3 2-3 2 8, Hutchings 2 0-1 5 4, King 0 04) 0 0, Twigg 2 0-3 3 4 storey 0 04) 00, Rehlander 1 04) 1 2, Mazur 0 0-1 0 0, ResnerOOOOO. York 0 04) 0 0, Hood 0 04) 0 0, Bowen 0 04) 0 0 Trout 00-0 00. TOTALS-FG 14, FT 6-14, PF 20. QUARTER SCORING South Putnam *® Greencastle 6 11 9 8-34

Roachdale wins ROACHDALE-With two more victories under their belt the Roachdale Baptist Academy takes an 8-1 record into Friday night’s home basketball game at the Roachdale Elementary School against Beech Grove Nazarene. Game time is 7:30 p.m. MARK STOKES HIT a jump shot with two seconds left Tuesday night to give Roachdale a 55-53 victory over host Calvary Christian in Linton. Calvary Christian rallied from a 35-18 halftime deficit to force Stokes’ heroics. Stokes finished with a team-high 24 points, followed by Butch Miller with 10. Chuck Irish nine and Kevin Lowe and Joe Fischer six each. ROACHDALE SCORED a 79-67 win over the Noblesville Christian School last Friday night, as Stokes and Miller each tossed in 18

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South Putnam captured the Putnem County seventh grade basketball title Thursday night with a fourth quarter rally. Cheerleaders for the Eagles are (front row, from left) Lisa Seibold, Melissa Varvel, Krista Hood, Andrea Phillips and Amy Berry. Players are (second row, from left) Bill Gardner, Lanny Pickens, Brent Williams, Steve

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South Putnam won the Putnam County eighth grade basketball championship Thursday night over Greencastle. Cheerleaders for the Eagles are (front row, from left) Janelle Cooper, Jamie Mark Kerrie Hutcheson, Darla Parker and Jenny Fox. Players are (second row, from left) Curt Smetzer, Kevin Sullivan, Jason Haltom, Mark

Bloomington South to play Mooresville for regional title

Defending state champion Crown Point survived a scare 35-33 against Lake Central in the Calumet-IHSAA girls basketball regional Thursday night, but Terre Haute South wasn’t so lucky in the opening game of the Greencastle regional. Bloomington South staged a fourth quarter rally to oust Terre Haute South from the 10th annual state tournament 52-49 at McAnally Center. Defending Greencastle regional champion Mooresville completed the 8 p.m. Saturday title-game pairing

DePauw should make tourney

By STEVE FIELDS Banner-Graphic Sports Editor With only five games remaining in the regular season the odds should be pretty good that DePauw University is closing in on a second straight trip to the NCAA Division HI Tournament. Remember how much fun it was last year? Putnam County folks showed their true Hoosier blood. Hoosier Hysteria at its finest, catching their favorite team in the Greencastle High School sectional, then traveling across town to watch DePauw win the Great Lakes Regional at Lilly Center. WHAT A TOURNAMENT and what a tournament town! Thanks to Mother Nature fans got to watch both the Great Lakes regional championship game and still catch the postponed high school sectional title game. Coach Mike Steele isn’t getting too sure about a tournament bid just yet. It still takes a lot of prompting to get him to talk about the possibilities. Steele still carries a nasty scar from the 18-7 season when DePauw didn’t make it despite winning its last 11 games. The odds though this year should be pretty good, in fact, heavily in favor of the Tigers. Right now DePauw is 16-5 with five games left, all at home where they have won 31 straight and 34 of 37 games since moving out of Bowman Gym in February of 1982. MARIAN COLLEGE, LINDENWOOD, Washington University of St. Louis, Rose-Hulman and Wabash are the five teams ahead. Marian and Wabash are the two best of those and both have vengence as an additional incentive. Lindenwood and Rose-Hulman are young teams, while Washington is a team going through a death march because that’s a team the Tigers want real bad. The Battlin’ Bears beat the Tigers 68-59. That looks pretty confusing when you consider Rose-Hulman later beat those same Bears and the Tigers plowed the Engineers under 79-37. Don’t start trying to figure out how you’re going to park at McAnally Center, or catch a shuttle bus to the IBM parking lot, and travel across town to another

Blaydes, Matt Flora, Jeremy Mason, Jeremy Hutson and back row, from left) Bob Burton, Mark Dunlap, Shea Goodpasture, Jeremy Sadler, Shannon Johnson, Brad Toney, Chris Torr and the Eagles are coached by Bob England. Tad Christy is not pictured. (Banner-Graphic photo by Steve Fields).

Timm, Tege Lewis, Warren Foust, Todd Nichols (back row, from left) coach Carl Coons, Steve Schroer, Troy Branson, Mitch Trusty, Mike Trusty, Brent Ziegler, Shawn Battin and manager Wayion Walton. (BannerGraphic photo by Steve Fields).

with a 70-44 rout of South Vermillion. DESPITE LEADS AT the first three stops, Terre Haute South’s season came to a close at 17-3. The Braves held a 19-12 lead after one quarter and were ahead 30-24 at halftime. But the Panthers closed the game to two points, 39-37, in the third quarter with Lutes leading the way. Lutes led now 12-8 Bloomington South with 15 points, followed by Martin with 12 and Cassidy with 11. Wiggins and Owens led Terre Haute

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parking spot before the opening tip at DePauw. A lot of things could happen yet. REMEMBER LAST YEAR? A lot of Hope College fans already had tickets to the NCAA Division 111 finals in Grand Rapids, Mich., purchased when the Flying Dutchmen blew a 20-point lead against Heidelberg, then lost the consolation game. Hope College was ranked No. 1 all last year. The odds are against DePauw hosting the tournament again. That’s not inside knowledge, that’s just looking at who is ranked where in this region. Wittenberg (20-2) is not only the top team in this region, but No. 1 in the nation. However, that could change when the next poll comes out because No. 8 Otterbein (18-2) handed Wittenberg a 97-83 loss in Ohio Athletic Conference (OAC) play Wednesday night. Otterbein is ranked second in this region and Hope College (15-3) third. JUST WHO FITS in where after that is open for, and probably will be debated by the NCAA Division 111 Tournament Selection Committee. DePauw is the only member of last year’s final four in Grand Rapids that hasn’t been ranked. Steele plays a tough schedule from beginning to end, he doesn’t load up with weak-sisters early just to get in the top 20. Maybe he should. Defending NCAA Division 111 champion WisconsinWhitewater is ranked No. 9 with a 14-4 record. Upsala

South with 13 points each and McDavid tossed in 11. DEANNE SHARP SCORED the first six points of the basketball game and Mooresville broke away from South Vermillion for good with full court pressure in the second period. The Pioneers got their running game going in the second period through the guards’ defense and board domination, building a 36-16 halftime lead. The Pioneers took a 52-20 lead into the fourth quarter and coach Joe Johnson

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Young, Lathrop are very similar

By STEVE FIELDS Banner-Graphic Sports Editor Only one Putnam County High school wrestler has ever made it to the IHSAA state finals. That was Cloverdale’s Keith Johnson in 1981. But Saturday afternoon Cloverdale’s Rob Young and North Putnam’s Ryan Lathrop need win only their first match in the Franklin Central semistate to qualify for the Feb. 16 state championships at Market Square Arena. YOUNG TAKES A glittering 20-1 record into the heavyweight division against Franklin Central’s Wendis Fugatt, 14-6 for the year. Lathrop enters the 138-pound division against 22-5 Travis Ehle of Indianapolis Northwest. Although in different weight classes and in different high school programs, Young and Lathrop are alike once on the mat. Neither wrestler is considered strong for his division, but both are quick. “Proportionately he’s not a particularly strong heavyweight, but again, his length and quickness has helped him a lot,” Cloverdale coach Dave Kiley said of Young. YOUNG HAS USED his 6-5, 200-plus pound body to win 20 matches, including last week’s Crawfordsville regional championship, the Putnam County Tournament title and the South Vermillion Tournament. “He’s fairly quick for a heavyweight, along with his height, that gives him leverage, and his ability to think. He’s a thinking wrestler,” Kiley credited. There are two championships conspicuously absent from Young’s record - the WCC crown and sectional title. The senior didn’t get to wrestle in the WCC Tournament because of Cloverdale's suspension, but in the sectional he was edged 6-5 by a revenge minded Steve Stewart of Rockville “I think the loss in the sectional helped him. I felt like he was getting to the point where he believed he couldn't get beat,” Kiley said. YOUNG AVENGED his only loss in the Crawfordsville regional title match. “Stewart basically ran from him the second time he wrestled him. Rob went after him.” the recounted. Because this is Young’s second trip to the Franklin Central semistate, Kiley feels he’s better prepared. “I felt like he was more intense and much more ready to go this year than last. His draw is better too and he personally feels like he can do something.” Young’s a tough guy to pin and because

pulled his starters. South Vermillion’s Endicott scored 16 of her game-high 23 points during the final eight minutes. The Wildcats were whistled for three technical fouls, two on the bench and one on a player. CARRIE HENDERSON LED Eminence sectional champion Mooresville with 15 points and Kim Butrum had 12. BLOOMINGTON SOUTH (52) Cassidy 51-3011, McDonald I 04) 0 2, Foster 4 1-249, Nettleton 0 1-201, Martin 6 04) 1 12, Curtis 1 1-2 0 3. Lutes 6 3-7 015. TOTALS-FG 23. FT 6-16, PF 5.

stands 13-5 and No. 16 in this week’s poll and Clark brings a 12-5 record, which was good for a tie at No. 20, out of Massachusetts. THE ODDS ARE good for DePauw making .the tournament. First, the Tigers should win 20 games. If they don’t trainer Steve Foster is in a lot of trouble for not keeping players healthy and Steele could be fitted for an uncomfortable belted jacket. Second, from a third place finish last year and 43-12 record over a two-year period there are seven players on this team and one outstanding coach. Let’s toss another little idea around here. Last year’s crowds at Lilly Center should make someone beside DePauw smile. And no, LeMoyne Owen probably won’t be one of those smiling after last year’s 49-point semifinal loss to the Tigers. That’s another plus for the Tigers, they got into the record book in their first NCAA Tournament. ENTERING WEDNESDAY NIGHT’S game not a single DePauw player carried a double-figure scoring average. After his 16-point performance Phil Wendel is now averaging a team-high 10 points per game. Coach Steele has always said his players were very coachable and did what they were told. At halftime Wednesday night he told the Tigers to keep Taylor University off the free throw line, to quit fouling. Taylor never shot a free throw the second half. WHILE MOORESVILLE HIGH School was winning the Eminence sectional for the seventh time in 10 years last Saturday night, one of its best basketball alumni was setting a record for DePauw University. Freshman guard Jenny Bauer hit 18 of 21 shots from the floor and four-of-four free throws in a school record 40-point night. “I don’t know what to say,” Bauer told the Tiger Talk crowd Tuesday, “in high school I never got to shoot the ball.” The only way Mooresville guards shoot is on layups after stealing the basketball. Somehow they still carry double-figure averages that way.

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he is a thinker he’s tough to score against. “One thing he does, he just don’t like to give up points. As far as wrestling goes it s important not to give up anything,” Kiley said. LATHROP HAD TO wrestle one of the top 138-pounders in the Franklin Central semistate in the Crawfordsville regional title match. Clinton Prairie’s Brian Campbell is in the 138-pound semistate division for the third straight year, so Lathrop isn't going to see too n”' .y people any better. “He took Campbell to the limit,” North coach Tom Roach said of Lathrop’s third loss of the year. “He (Campbell) had to wrestle the entire match. He (Lathrop) had him in a pinning position late in the match, he just wasn’t able to finish it up ' The problem there was strength. Campbell was just too strong for Lathrop. “I haven’t got much strength, that’s my main problem,” the 19-3 senior said during a break from practice. CAMPBELL, DANVILLE’S David Steinmetz and South Putnam’s Dan Smetzer are the three people to beat him. Campbell was the only one quicker and stronger, according to Lathrop. Smetzer and Steinmetz were stronger. Instead of strength, Lathrop uses quickness and good techniques to win. “As far as quality of moves, combinations... the techniques on his moves is very good. He’s more of a technician,” Roach said. Roach has spent the week working with Lathrop on executing his combinations and making the transition from one to another quicker because the competition is going to be stronger. “Really you have to go with what got you there, but you have to fine tone what got you there,” Roach said. “We’ve been working on recognition on a couple of moves.”

Tourney set North Putnam and Cloverdale open the Putnam County Freshman basketball tournament Saturday at 9 a m at South Putnam High School. South Putnam meets Greencastle at 10:20 a.m. in the second game. The two morning sessions winners play at 1:30 p.m. for the county championship. There is no consolation game. Admission is $1 per session for everyone.

TERRE HAUTE SOUTH (49) Owens 6 1-2 2 13. Wiggins 6 1-1 3 13, Kelly 2 04) 2 4, McDonald 5 1-3 2 11, Watkins 4 04) I 8. Hindenburg 0 04) 3 0. TOTALS-FG 23, FT 3-6, PF 13. QUARTER SCORING Bloomington South 12 12 13 15-52 Terre Haute South 19 11 9 10-49 SOUTH VERMILLION (44) Orman 3 4-7 0 10. Tasso 0 2-2 2 2. Helt 0 0-1 0 0, Endicott 9 5-7 2 23. Ellis 3 04) 2 6, Farrington 1 04) 3 2. Eup 0 04) 3 0 TOTALS-FG 16. FT 12-19, PF 13. MOORESVILLE (70) Butrum 5 2-2 1 12, McKinley 3 04) 2 6. Deanne Sharpe 4 4-6 1 12, Dianne Sharpe 4 0-2 3 8, Henderson 6 3-6 1 15. Ash 2 24 4 6. Johnson 1 04) I 2, Griffith 3 3-4 2 9, Rickett 0 04) 1 0 TOTALS-FG 28, FT 14-24. PF 16. QUARTER SCORING South Vermillion 12 4 4 24-44 Mooresville 21 15 16 18-70

Cubs set for freshman tournament Greencastle will take a 10-7 record into Saturday’s Putnam County Freshman basketball Tournament at South Putnam High School as a result of two games this week. The Tiger Cubs closed the season with a 35-32 win in the A-game at North Putnam Wednesday night, and won the Bgame 33-31. Greencastle fell at Plainfield 44-42 in the A-game, but won the B-game 38-28. CHRIS MILLER LED Green castle’s effort in the A-game at North Putnam with 10 points, Jim Noll followed with eight, Chad Remsburg had seven, David Pettit and Brett Hecko each had four and David Bottoms two. Charlie Markum led North with eight, Mike Hart had seven, Greg Asher five, Jamie Ensor, Bill Hubble and Hugh Martin each had four Jeff King and Kent Flint scored eight points to lead the Greencastle Bteam to its final win in an 8-3 season. Mike Watts had six, Troy Peters three, Dan Hedrick. Rick Murray and Kyle Finchum each had two. North Putnam’s scoring was not available. COACH GLENN HILE noted the 10 7 Greencastle A-Team record included four losses by two points or less since returning from the Christmas break.

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