Banner Graphic, Volume 15, Number 241, Greencastle, Putnam County, 6 June 1985 — Page 7
One-run victors
Alexanders’ and Butler’s LP scored one-run victories in Wednesday night Senior Division play of the Greencastle Girls Softball League. Alexander’s edged Gould’s 3-2 and Butler’s nipped Heritage House 10-9. SHERI SWIHART RAPPED a triple and single and Pat Archer a pair of singles to lead Alexander’s second win. J. Owen hit a home run and K. McKinney a double to place Gould’s hitting.
WJNZ survives scare
WJNZ scored two runs in the bottom of the seventh inning to improve its Greencastle Girls Softball League Junior Division record to 4-0 with a 9-8 victory over Sherm’s Realty and State Farm outslugged Torr’s 14-5 Wednesday night. SHERM’S LED 8-4 After three innings because of a weak WJNZ defense that committed six errors for the game. However, with two runs in the fourth, one in the fifth and finally the deciding two runs WJNZ remained unbeaten. Winning pitcher Hyidi Allen, Kim Irwin and T. C. Porter each rapped out two hits in the eight-hit WJNZ offense. No player on Sherm’s team had more than one single, according to the game report.
Softball parade Saturday
The Greencastle Girls Softball League will celebrate its 12th season Saturday with the annual “Parade Day”. The parade, consisting of convertibles bearing past-presidents of the league and 16 decorated trucks carrying the league’s teams, will leave the Fairgrounds at 9:30 a.m., travel through downtown Greencastle
Last signup for camp
The final signup for the Greencastle High School girls basketball camp will be held tonight (Thursday) from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at the McAnally Center
Orioles and Dodgers win
The Orioles scored two runs in the bottom of the fifth inning for a 9-8 Minor League win over the Giants and the Dodgers erupted for seven runs in the third inning during a 14-3 Major League victory over the Cardinals in Wednesday night Greencastle Youth Baseball League play. Joe Spiker and Matt Scott paced the 10-hit Oriole attack with two singles,
Elks holds off Legion
Elks can call Wednesday night’s 4-3 Greencastle Babe Ruth League victory over Legion a team win without a doubt and for a variety of reasons. ELKS SCORED THREE first inning runs for a 3-1 lead, but it was Nick York’s fifth inning single that scored Robbie Osborne with what turned out to be the winning run. Legion narrowed the gap to 3-2 and before the final out was made, pushed home a third run in the bottom of the seventh inning. Henry Williams struck out seven, walked four and scattered seven Legion hits to become the winning pit-
Trooper wins gold medals
PUTNAMVILLE-Mike Shelton surprised even himself by winning two gold medal, a silver and one bronze during the recently completed Indiana Police and Fire Games at the lUPUI Track Stadium in Indianapolis. The games are an annual event for police and firemen from around the state. SHELTON, A 1979 graduate of Indianapolis Tech High School, high jumped six feet, four inches to one gold medal, then took another as part of the 400-meter relay team. Times
Pain won't stop Zoeller
HARRISON, NY. (AP) Fuzzy Zoeller is hurting again. “It’s a different kind of hurt, a different kind of pain,” Zoeller said. Is the pain, he was asked, severe enough to prohibit him from defending his title next week in the U S. Open? Zoeller hesitated just a fraction of a second, his eyes looking away. Then he grinned. “Oh, hell. I’ll be there You know that. I’ll be there if I have to have a wheelchair,” he said, and then went off for some heat treatment and a date with a physician. The free-spirited Zoeller underwent major back surgery a couple of months after his playoff victory in the American national championship last year. For a time, his career appeared to be in jeopardy.
Kim Sheldon ripped a triple and two singles and Dale Gossard three triples to lead Butler’s by Heritage House. Sherri Ellis, Diane Kendall and winning pitcher Kelly Emberton contributed two hits each to the second Butler win of the year. TERRI MAHONEY RAPPED out two singles to lead Heritage House offensively and Karen Napoli connected for a triple.
Leslie Bottoms and Tami Kiger hit home runs, Mindy Gregory two doubles and Missy Varvel chipped in with a triple and turned a double play to help State Farm even its record at 2-2. Bottoms finished with a two hits, adding a single to her offense. Kara Scobee connected for a double and single, Brandy Bogle two singles and Varvel finished the night by adding a single to her triple. VARVEL STOPPED A Torr’s rally in the second inning with a double play. Torr’s had bases loaded when Varvel fielded a ball off Amy Williams’ bat, tagged the runner going toward third base and threw to second base for the second out. Kristin Deer led now 2-2 Torr’s with two singles.
and out Indianapolis Road to the Girls Softball Fields. Opening ceremonies will be followed by a full day of softball games, the first scheduled to begin at 11 a.m.. The public is invited to attend. In case of rain, the parade will beheld June 15.
Lobby. Girls in grades four through eight are eligible for the camp. The camp fee is $lO per athlete.
while Mike Perrine added a double Scott Graham singled three times and Cary Hutchings had a double and single in the seven-hit Giant offense. Jason Frisbie rapped a double and single and Brad Resner rapped a double to support winning pitcher Billy Hudkins. Steve Mays had a double for the Cardinals.
cher, but he was also backed up by an error-free defense. Mike Watts led Legion with three singles and a triple in a four-hit performance and David Pettit had a triple. No Elk player had more than a single, “but they were all timely” according to the game report. Greencastle Babe Ruth League play continues Thursday night with the Moose meeting Rokicki Insurance, a first-year team. Friday night Kiwanis takes on 1-0 North Putnam. All Monday through Friday games begin at 5:30p.m.
and names of the other runners were not available. The Indiana State Policeman, who lives in Greencastle, long jumped 19 feet, 5 3 / 4 inches to a second place silver medal finish and captured a bronze medal in a third place 100meter dash showing. STATIONED AT THE Putnamville Indiana State Police post for the last 11 months, Shelton was formerly a track and field athlete at Tech High School and also on the All-Marine Corps track team.
“Last September, October, I didn’t know if I’d ever play again,” he said. But Zoeller, a former Masters champion, made a dramatic comeback, winning the Bay Hill Classic early this season. Then, as a test, he played five weeks in a row. “It was too much,” he said before teeing off today in the first round of the $500,000 Manufacturers Hanover Westchester Classic. “I found out that I’m better off playing one or two, then taking a break.” He said his new problem “a pain in the right hip that radiates up into the right shoulder” developed at the Tournament of Champions in California. “I played hurt, and I haven’t gotten over it yet,” Zoeller said. And he hasn’t made a cut since.
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Tiger Cubs are team of heroes
By STEVE FIELDS Banner-Graphic Sports Editor Has anybody noticed there are no less than seven seniors in the Greencastle High School baseball team starting lineup? That’s pretty unusual for a sectional champion in this area. Most baseball coaches have noted their best tournament teams around here have been loaded with underclassmen instead of seniors thinking about graduation of their uncertain futures DAVID RUSHING IN center field and John Hecko in right are the only two underclassmen InSaturday’s 11 a.m Bloomington-IHSAA regional game with Edgewood at Winslow Park, coach Stan Ward will probably have the two underclassmen in the lineup with seniors Mike Cooper, Pat Meyer, Tony Hurst, Ken Tew, Jon Williams, Brian Singer and Tom Chadd Jack Bedwell will undoubtedly be the designated hitter for either Chadd or Hecko. “There is a difference in teams and kids and these kids enjoy playing baseball,” Ward said. “A big part of them sat out and watched last year and they got hungry, where in the past years maybe we’ve had more kids playing and maybe they take it too much for granted.” Cooper, Meyer and Hurst are really about the only regulars in the lineup from last year Williams, who started as a sophomore, was in Florida and Hurst was working his way back into baseball after some early problems. How things do change in a year because Williams is hitting .375, with a team-high eight home runs and 30 RBIs, while Hurst has an 8-3 pitching record and a .400 batting average with three home runs and 15 RBIs. BACK IN MARCH, at the Putnam County Junior High School basketball tournament, Ward, who had just left practice, said for the Cubs to be good this year Cooper was going to have to win a lot of games. He’s 100 with a team-leading 1.033 ERA, has struck out 79 and walked 31 over 61 innings. “Mike was pretty inconsistent for us last year and he
Spinks may jump to heavyweight next
LAS VEGAS, Nev. (AP) Michael Spinks, who hasn’t lost a fight in 10 years, enters the ring a prohibitive favorite tonight to retain his undisputed light heavyweight championship in a scheduled 12-round bout against Diamond Jim MacDonald. Spinks, a 1976 Olympic gold medalist who is 26-0 as a pro, has been the champion longer than MacDonald has been fighting professionally. His last loss was as an amateur in 1975. “I don’t know how it feels to lose, I haven’t lost in so long,” said Spinks. “I don’t want to go through any humiliation like that.” Oddsmakers in this gambling city don’t give MacDonald much of a chance of doing that, even though he is undefeated with 15 knockouts in 16 bouts. The 26-year-old challenger from Nashville, Tenn., is such an underdog that most sports books did not post odds on the fight The only betting action is 6V 2 -5 that MacDonald won’t be standing after seven rounds. “I hope he’s easy prey,” said Spinks. “I would like them all to be easy.” Even MacDonald doesn’t sound too confident about his chances. “I’m not predicting anything,” said MacDonald, an ex-Marine who likes to sing and write lyrics to religious music. “It’s God’s will from here, but I did come here to win.” MacDonald will have support from 2,000
championship series at two games each on a last second shot Wednesday night. Game No. 5 is Friday, also in Los Angeles. (AP wirephoto).
Fields' Findings
had to do what he’s done for us this year,” Ward explained after the sectional championship game. “He’s our most valuable player, there is no question about it. But just like today (Saturday), it’s marginally most valuable when you look at Tommy Chadd’s triple.” Chadd’s triple, of course, drove in the go ahead runs. Though 25 games the senior left fielder has .268 and driven in 14 runs, four of those coming in the 20th win of the year and the final sectional title since 1977. Chadd and Hecko have been in and out of the batting order, as Ward tried to get Bedwell in for the one not hitting. Sometimes all three have been hitting the ball. “I JUST HAD A feeling about Tommy in batting practice last night because I’ve been hitting Hecko some toward the end of the season,” Ward explained. “He’s a senior and I thought it’s got to mean more to Tommy as a senior than anybody else and I put him in there and he wins the ball game for us.” There have been any number of heroes for Greencastle. If Hurst doesn’t do the job against Danville during the regular season the Cubs don’t win the WCC, or Cooper has to pitch and he might not have been as effective in the sectional against the Warriors. And at the same time, if Hurst doesn’t do the job against Cloverdale in the sectional. . On the other side of the coin. Cooper hit a two-run home run that put Greencastle ahead of Cloverdale and
Marines being bused in from Southern California bases to watch the fight compliments of promoter Don King. It’s all part of the promotion King labels as “DDay Dynamite.” “I would hope they cheer for me, too,” said Spinks. “We’re all from the same country.” The fight could be the last in the light heavyweight division for the 28-year-old Spinks, who last month turned down a million-dollar offer to fight heavyweight champion Larry Holmes. He doesn’t relish the idea of moving up in weight, but says he has run out of opportunities in his division. “It doesn’t look too bright for me to stay and fight as a light heavyweight,” said Spinks, who indicated he would accept a Holmes bout if it came around the end of the year. Spinks is getting $150,000 for the title defense, while MacDonald will receive $50,000. Another title fight on the card features World Boxing Council cruiserweight champion Carlos DeLeon against topranked contender Alfonzo Ratliff in a scheduled 12-rounder The fights, from the Riviera Hotel, will be telecast on a network syndicated by King throught a number of independent stations.
Johnson evens up title series 2-2
INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) - It seemed almost as if time were suspended momentarily as Dennis Johnson’s long-range jumper floated toward the basket. But two seconds after the shot left his hand and just as the buzzer sounded, the ball swished through the net and the Boston Celtics had beaten the Lakers to even the National Basketball Association Championship Series at 2-2. “I figured it had a 50-50 chance of going in,” Johnson said after his 22-footer beat Los Angeles 107-105 Wednesday night at the Forum. “The play was set up to take the clock down to five seconds,” Johnson explained, “with Larry (Bird) coming off the pick.” Bird dribbled, was double-teamed by Laker defenders, then passed off to the wide-open Johnson, who immediately fired the ball. “I saw Byron (Scott) and Kareem (Ab-dul-Jabbar) running toward me so I figured I’d make the shot a little higher,” Johnson said. “It felt good.” Boston Coach K.C. Jones said he didn’t have time to worry about Johnson’s shot, commenting, “My only thought was to watch the spin on the ball and see if it went in. I was watching the same as everybody else in the place.” The Lakers’ Earvin “Magic” Johnson, who’d tied the score at 105 with a basket just 19 seconds earlier, said, “We just lost a tough game at the buzzer. All we can do now is forget this game and look ahead to Friday.”
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Dennis Johnson, who hadn’t been much of a factor in the opening three contests of the title series, had 27 points for Boston this time. Kevin McHale paced the Celtics’ scoring with 28 points, while Bird added 26. McHale kept the Celtics in the game during the first three quarters, then Bird took control with outstanding all-around play in the fourth before Johnson nailed down the victory at the gun. The Lakers, who led 92-85 early in the fourth quarter before Boston surged back, were paced by Abdul-Jabbar with 21 points and “Magic” Johnson with 20. Unlike the first three games of the series, this one was close most of the way. And, unlike the third game, it was scufflefree. NBA Vice President Scotty Stirling had met with Jones and Lakers Coach Pat Riley prior to the game, ostensibly to talk about the rough play that had characterized the third game and resulted in some tough talk from both sides. “It was the best of the games we’ve played,” said Dennis Johnson. “There were no brawls and there just were not too many flaws in the game.” “I thought the game was played very aggressively but fairly,” Riley added. The fifth game is scheduled here Friday night at the Forum. The series then shifts back to Boston for a sixth game on Sunday, and, if necessary, a seventh on Tuesday.“We knew when we got here we had to win one,” said the Celtics’ Johnson.
later drove in two more runs with a lucky double that dropped between three Clovers in conference. Rushing was the hero against West Vigo, hitting a seventh inning grand slam. BUT SECOND BASEMAN Ken Tew and third baseman Brian Singer might be the two most overlooked Cubs in the lineup. Tew, hitting .325, led off the game against Cloverdale with a single and one out later scored on a Cooper home run. In the Greencastle Invitational championship game he led off against Attica with a triple and score on a Singer ground ball. Against West Lafayette Harrison he led off with a double, was sacrificed to third by Singer and scored on a wild pitch. Singer, who is hitting .312, had six sacrifices for the season, each moving Tew into scoring position for the heart of the order-Cooper, Meyer and Williams in any order you want. Meyer, who gets more credit for his catching than hitting, has compiled a quiet .301 batting average, with three home runs and 20 RBIs, which ties him and Rushing in that category. “IT’S NOT JUST the seniors. The underclassmen that came up, they gave us help and we just stuck together as a team,” Meyer said after the sectional championship game. Recalling Hecko’s fall or diving-take your choice-seventh-inning catch in right field against Danville, sure. Also remember Chris Gilbert pitched two victories this year, and Doug Hedrick came off the bench to play a great center field against Southmont, making an outstanding diving catch in the gap that quelled a Mounty rally. Greencastle is hitting a .318 as a team and is averaging 8.7 hits per game. But the interesting statistic on the computer printout coach Ward provided comes in the extra base hit department. The Tiger Cubs have hit 24 home runs for the year, which shows some power. But they’ve only hit 29 doubles, which seems unusual for a fast team.
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