Banner Graphic, Volume 15, Number 216, Greencastle, Putnam County, 10 May 1985 — Page 6

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The Putnam County Banner-Graphic, May 10,1985

Edgewood 15th victim of season

Greencastle WCC champion

By STEVE FIELDS Banner-Graphic Sports Editor Ken Tew drove in three runs with a triple and single and Mike Cooper pitched a three-hitter as Greencastle captured the West Central Conference high school baseball championship outright Thursday with a 5-1 victory over Edgewood at DePauw University’s Walker Field. The victory improved Greencastle’s overall record to 15-2 and concluded its conference season at 8-0. Unofficially Edgewood holds second place in the WCC with a 6-2 record, followed by Tri-West at 5-2, Owen Valley 4-2-1, Danville 3-2-2, South Putnam 3-4, Monrovia 1-5 and Cascade and North Putnam 1-6. Danville still has games to complete with both Edgewood and Owen Valley that were suspended by darkness. GREENCASTLE SCORED TWO runs in the second and three in the third to secure its second straight WCC title. Last year they shared it with Edgewood. “We did what we had to do. We got the right things pieced together and Kenny Tew’s two-run base hit was the one that put things in position for Mike (Cooper) to be able to cruise a little bit,” Greencastle coach Stan Ward said. Tew, not known for his power hitting, followed Tom Chadd’s third inning lead off single with a one-out triple to right field for the first Cub run. The line drive appeared to be a routine single, but it took a high,

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Chris Colvin slides safely into third base around the tag of Cloverdale's Darin Price during Thursday's county contest. Colvin went three-for-five at the plate for the Cougars, including a double and Price helped the Clovers

Hess leads Cubs to county golf crown

Shooting its best score ever at Windy Hill Country Club, the Greencastle High School golf team extended its domination of the Putnam County Golf Tournament with a 31 stroke victory. The Tiger Cubs shot 153, followed by South Putnam with a 184 and North Putnam 207. Cloverdale does not have a team. CRAIG HESS SHOT the best nine holes of his high school career, as well as his best in tournament play at Windy Hill, carding a 37 to lead a group of four Cubs under 40. Tim Dunn followed with a 38 score, Ted Frye and Andy Lewis each shot a 39 and Wade Terry 40.

Eaton best at defense

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Not much was expected of Mark Eaton, who scored just 53 points in his 30-game college career at UCLA, when the Utah Jazz picked him in the fourth round of the National Basketball Association draft three years ago. But Utah took a chance that the 7-foot-4 Eaton might develop into a worthwhile backup center. As it turned out, he developed into much more than that. After setting a record with 456 blocked shots and grabbing a league-leading 720 defensive rebounds this season, Eaton was named NBA defensive player of the year on Thursday. He received 32 votes from the 78-member panel of sportswriters and sportscasters. “Unlike scoring, defense is somewhat of a constant, something you can do every night,” Eaton said. “I really felt when I came into the league that I could affect the

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hard bounce to the right and Greencastle’s advantage in the bigger ball park became obvious. “THE FIELD IS bigger and if it gets by somebody it’s going to go to a longer fence, so you’re looking at three (bases) instead of two just about all the time, unless you’ve got a really good jump in the outfield, or somebody’s got a cannon for an arm out there,” Ward said. Brian Singer followed Tew’s triple with a base hit, giving Greencastle a 2-0 lead. Jon Williams opened the three-run fourth inning that gave the Tiger Cubs more than enough runs to secure the conference title. Williams singled and scored on David Rushing’s double. “David Rushing had a big hit. He hit a long fly ball and a couple of

with a two-run single. Cloverdale rallied from an 11-1 deficit to defeat North Putnam 18-12. (Banner-Graphic photo by Jeff Siner).

Steve Lesko led South Putnam’s effort with a 44, followed by Todd Oney with a 45, Tim Porter 47, Joe Lesko 48 and Terry Freeman 60. Mike Marsteller led North Putnam with a 47, followed by Tim McAfee at 49, Pat Porter 51 and Greg Asher and Jody Marsteller with a 60 each. GREENCASTLE, SOUTH PUTNAM and North Putnam will join Cascade, Danville, Tri-West, Monrovia, Owen Valley and Edgewood in the West Central Conference meet Saturday at Cascades Golf Course in Bloomington. Greencastle is defending champion. Tee time is 1 p.m.

game .. . but I told people I just wanted to be a good backup center.” “He was starting to break through a year ago,” Utah Coach Frank Layden said. “You could tell he was going to be a very good player. “I have to be the first to admit, though, I didn’t think Mark would become as good a player as he has. I think Mark’s three or four times the player he was last year,” Laydensaid. “There’s no doubt... we would have had a better chance of beating them” with a healthy Eaton, Layden said Thursday. In leading the NBA in blocked shots for the second straight year, Eaton broke Elmore Smith’s 11-year-old record of 393 and also ranked fifth in the NBA in rebounding with an average of 11.3 a game. Others receiving votes included twotime winner Sidney Moncrief.

other good balls,” Ward said of the junior centerfielder. ONE OUT LATER Chadd received a walk, putting runners on first and second. Edgewood got the second out, but that brought up Tew and the top of Greencastle’s order. “Kenny has been going about as well as anybody we’ve got,” Ward said. And the second baseman drilled Greencastle into a 5-1 lead with the two-run hit. “You give Mike (Cooper) a couple of runs and he’s going to be tough against anybody,” Ward said of the now 7-0 righthander. After setting Edgewood down without a hit in the first three innings, Cooper ran into a little trouble in the fourth. The

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CRAIG HESS: Cub county meet medalist

Mustangs got a one-out single from Rick Smith and run-scoring triple from Kevin Perry. “They were hitting the fast ball,” Ward said of Cooper’s trouble. Over the last 3 2/3 innings Cooper threw almost exclusively breaking and off-speed pitches. “I DIDN’T CALL anything like that,” Ward admitted. “All I have to say is ‘you understand?’ and they do it. And that’s one of the advantages to Pat Meyer as a catcher. Besides having a pretty decent arm and keeping things in front of him at the plate, he calls a smart game. The coach doesn’t have to call the game from the bench. I can’t call a game any better than he can.” The Cooper-Meyer combination held Edgewood to just three hits, struck out 10 and walked just two batters. As for playing at Walker Field the first time, Ward didn’t see the advantage he had anticipated for Greencastle earlier, but said in a tournament situation with four or five teams, it would show up. “I don’t think there is any advantage against Edgewood. They have a pretty solid team at nine positions,” Ward said. Greencastle plays at Cloverdale Monday in at 4:30 p.m. game and at Sullivan Tuesday in a 7 p.m. game under the lights. Edgewood 000 100 0-1-34) Greencastle 002 300 x-5-8-! WP-Cooper (7-0) and Meyer; LP-Logston and Hayes; LOB-EHS 3. GHS 3.

Clovers outslug Cougars

BAINBRIDGE-Jim Brothers is wondering what his North Putnam High School baseball team has to do to win a game and Ken Williams is trying to figure out how his Cloverdale team got back to .500. But the fact remains Cloverdale is 8-8 and North Putnam has a nine-game losing streak following Thursday’s 18-12 county slugfest on the Cougar diamond. NORTH PUTNAM LED this game 11-1 after four innings of play. Cloverdale scored 11 runs in the fifth, two in the sixth and four in the seventh to win by six. “I would say yesterday was a very educational experience for anybody there in uniform,” Williams said. “Like Yogi said, ‘it’s not over until it’s over.’” From the fifth inning on Cloverdale dominated the game, offensively and defensively. It was a complete turn around from the early innings, according to coach Williams. “They hit the ball hard the first two innings,” Williams said of the Cougars. “They hit (David) Kempf, and (Troy) Holsapplehard. (Briar.) Alleedida super job (in relief pitching).” And once Allee got the Cougars under control, the Clovers took over. With one out in the fifth, Darin Price reached base on the first of two Cougar errors in the inning. Hugh Patton walked and Holsapple loaded the bases on the second error. CRAIG WHITAKER, Doug Brummett, Kempf and Allee then rapped out four consecutive Cloverdale hits to start the merry-go-round. Whitaker had a two-run single, Brummett and Kempf one-run singles and Allee an RBI ground rule double that bounced over the left center field fence. With two outs Cloverdale received

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Ken Tew (23) and Brian Singer (30) had a good deal to do with Thursday's WCC conference clinching victory for Greencastle. Tew, who had a triple and single for three RBIs, drove in the first Cub run and

another walk to load up the bases for Price’s second turn at bat. The freshman drilled a two-run single, narrowing the margin to 11-8. The Cougar pitchers issued two more walks, scoring the ninth run and leaving bases loaded. Whitaker ripped a triple to score all three Clover runners, giving him five RBIs for the fifth inning alone. The junior got both of his hits with two strikes and fouled off two, third-strike pitches before making the right connection. “It’s nice to have that kind of a competitor in there,” Williams praised. NORTH TIED THE game 12-12 in the bottom of the fifth inning, only to have Cloverdale slip back into a 14-12 lead. Williams didn’t feel comfortable with the two-run edge though. “In that kind of a game two runs isn’t much of a lead,” the coach said. Mark McLean lined a two-run single with two out in the seventh inning that boosted the Clovers into the more comfortable six-run margin. As much as things went for Cloverdale in the last three innings, they went for North Putnam in the first two. The Cougars scored five in the first and six more runs in the second inning. CHRIS COLVIN LED off the Cougar half of the first with a single and Terry Judy was hit by a pitch. Scott Hasty lined a double to score both runners and Darren Haler kept things alive by reaching first on a Clover error. “Their top three guys killed us,” Williams said of Colvin Judy and Hasty. Hasty raced home from third when Cloverdale committed its second error on North’s double steal. Kevin Harrigan

Big innings end games

The Tigers staged a five-run rally in the bottom of the fifth inning for an 1110 victory over the Orioles and the Yankees scored six runs in the bottom of the fourth to top the Dodgers 10-0 in Greencastle Youth League baseball play Thursday night. The Orioles led the Tigers 11-5 going into the bottom of the fifth inning. After four runs had already crossed home plate, Andrew Davies singled home the winning run. THE TIGERS GOT RBIs from Tim

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scored the second on a Singer single in the third inning. Tew also had a two-run single in the fourth. (Banner-Graphic photo by Steve Fields).

followed with a double to score Haler. When Harrigan stole third the Clovers’ third error allowed him to score. Colvin started the six-run second inning with a one-out double. Judy followed with an infield single that scored Colvin. Hasty singled and Haler received a walk to load the bases. Harrigan received another walk for the second Cougar run of the inning. TRACY LASHLEY delivered an RBI single, followed by A 1 Gray’s bases loaded, run-scoring walk and a run-scoring single by Trent Smith in machine gun fashion. The Clovers finally got the second out on a fielder’s choice at the plate, then came the unusual plays. With first base open the batter struck out, but it was a wild pitch well out of the strike zone and got by catcher Doug Brummett. While the batter raced to first, another Cougar run raced home. An almost duplicate play followed, only the Clovers got the out at the plate. Whitaker and Allee led the Cloverdale attack with a double and single each. Brummett and McLean each had two singles and Price, Kempf and Stoltz each had one single. COLVIN LED THE Cougars with a double and two singles and Trent Smith finished with three singles. Hasty had a double and single, Judy and Lashley two base hits each, Harrigan a double and McGaughey a single. Cloverdale now plays in the Sullivan Invitational Saturday, taking on the host at 11 a.m., while Linton and Fountain Central play at 1 p.m. The consolation game is at 5 p.m. and championship game under the lights at 7 p.m.

Kauble, Quinn Mesler, Derek Mager, Josh Richardson and Troy Shonkwiler, as well as Davies. Richardson led the 10-hit Tiger attack with two singles. Quentin Pilkin had a two-nan double for the Orioles, while Phil Arden had a pair of run-scoring doubles. Mike Perrine had one double. MATT AMIS and A.J. Myers combined to pitch a 10-run rule abbreviated no-hit shutout in the Yankees’ win over the Dodgers.