Banner Graphic, Volume 15, Number 353, Greencastle, Putnam County, 28 September 1985 — Page 5
Bulldogs edge South Putnam on Kays' OT romp
By BILL SEIBOLD Banner-Graphic Sports Writer Tom Kays opened the extra period with a 10-yard touchdown run Friday night to give visiting Monrovia a 28-21 overtime victory over the South Putnam Eagles. Kays ran for 79 yards and four touchdowns to lead the Class 2A Bulldogs to their fourth win of the season. “Kay was the reason they scored 28 points,” explained Eagle coach Mark Wildman. “He’d come up with the big run, the big play. That was a heck of a run on the (winning) TD.” BUT KAYS’ HEROICS didn’t begin until the middle of the second quarter. The key play of the first period came from Eagle John Spencer, who recovered a fumble at midfield after the Bulldogs had moved the ball 27 yards in six plays. After an exchange of punts the Eagles began to move. Tony Lewis hit John
Danville's defense limits Cougars to only two first downs
By JIM SERGENT Banner-Graphic Sports Writer ROACHDALE-Held scoreless for the fourth time this season, the North Putnam Cougars lost to the Danville Warriors 22-0 Friday night in high school football action. The Cougars, who dropped their fifth game of the season, managed only two first downs for the entire evening. The first came late in the third quarter on a roughing penalty that put North Putnam on the 35-yard line, the closest the Cougars got to the goal line. DANVILLE’S FIRST touchdown came with 4:12 to go in the opening period on a five-yard run by senior John Molloy. The scoring play was set up by a 30-yard pass from junior quarterback Todd Grace to junior tight end Jon Schoening near the Danville side line that put the Warriors on the Cougar five-yard stripe. The other Danville touchdown in the first half came with 5:26 left with third down and less than a yard. The touchdown was the result of a 38-yard drive that was started by a short North Putnam punt from bad field position. The score was 15-0 after the Warriors faked a point-after kick and made the twopoint conversion. Back-up quarterback Mark Robinson found senior Jesse Poppe in the corner of the end zone for the score. THE SECOND HALF mirrored much of the first with the exception of the two first downs North Putnam gained. In both halves the Cougars were held to negative yardage by the Warriors. The final touchdown of the evening came
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Bridgewater for 15 yards and three plays later found Chris Sullivan for 13 to midfield. On fourth-and-five, the Eagles failed to convert as the second quarter opened. The Bulldogs mounted a 70-yard drive in 12 plays. Quarterback Darryl Clements threw 19 yards to Jeff Sichting and 12 yards to Eric Floyd to set up the touchdown. Then Kays opened the scoring with a fouryard romp up the center. Adam Bennett kicked the PAT. THE EAGLES THEN put together their own 60-yard drive in nine plays. Setting up the score was a 24-yard pass play to John Bridgewater, who took the ball on the 20, shook a tackier and scampered to the fiveyard line. Two plays later Dan Smetzer went up the middle for one yard and the TD. John Bridgewater kicked the extra point to tie the score 7-7 at halftime. The Eagles’ opening drive of the second half featured five-count’em, five-big
on another goal-linestand run by Molloy with 3:13 remaining in the third quarter. After the intial drive had stalled in the series, Danville faked a fourth-down punt that turned into a 17-yard gain for the Warriors to the North Putnam 26 yard line. North head coach Bruce Lake said that his team “beat themselves.” “Everytime we would get a drive going we would mishandle a snap or fumble the ball,” he said. LAKE WAS PLEASED with the defensive effort in the game though. He pointed out senior Donnie Stranger, senior Tim Statzer and junior Tony Bryan as standouts on the defensive squad. On the other side of the coin, Danville head coach Bob Gaddis was pleased with both aspects of the Warriors game. He said Molloy and Grace helped to spark the offense behind their strong offensive line. “The defense really did a great job,” Gaddis said. He also commented on the fine defensive job that North Putnam did, hitting very hard on the line. SCORE BY QUARTERS Danville 7 8 7 0-22 North Putnam 0 0 0 0-0 FIRSTQUARTER DKS-Molloy. 5 run (Schmlnk kick 1,1:12. SECOND QUARTER DHS-Mollov, 1 run (Poppe pass from Robinson), 5:28. THIRD QUARTER DHS-Molloy, 1 run (Schmlnk kick), 3:13. STATISTICS DHS NP First downs ll j Hushing yards 144 -31 Passing yards 75 is Passes 8-23-1 3-18-1 Total offense 219 -12 Return yards 48 43 Punts-Avg. 4-34.8 8-27.5 Fumbles-lost 4-2 1-0 PenaKles-yds. 55 50
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plays. Starting at their own 28, the Eagles opened with a 28-yard keeper by Lewis who went right behind a line of blockers. Almost immediately the Eagles were facing fourth-and-three at the Bulldog 37yard line. Electing to go for it, the Eagles called on John Smetzer. His three-yard run cleared the sticks by inches for the first down. Following a short run and a short pass, they again faced a fourth-and-three situation at the 27. Again electing to go for the first down, Lewis threw a nine-yard pass to Brian Meek. THEN THE THIRD fourth down situation came at the 11-yard line. This time Lewis found Chris Sullivan at the four for another first down and goal-to-go. Finally Lewis carried to sneak up the middle for the first Eagle lead. John Bridgewater kicked the conversion to set the score at 14-7.
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John Hecko reads the defense as he prepares to take the center snap in Greencastle's fifth victory of the season. The senior quarterback completed seven of 13
Cubs flat at Cascade but remain undefeated
By STEVE FIELDS Banner-Graphic Sports Editor CLAYTON-When Friday night’s high school football game at Cascade ended it was difficult to pick out the winner without looking at the scoreboard. A stranger might have asked which team was 5-0 and ranked 10th in Class 2A and which had just one win. It was one of those evenings when the numbers didn’t give an accurate account of what happened. But the bottom line was that Greencastle remained undefeated with a 27-18 victory over Cascade. “I’M NOT SURE whose fault it was, but we better put a little bit of the blame on the coaches. We played poorly, but we also coached poorly,” coach John Fallis said after the Tiger Cubs’ third West Central Conference victory. “We need to be happy we’re 5-0 and I would still rather play poorly and win, than play a great game and lose. I don’t think it was the ranking because we were up 27-6 at halftime. Perhaps it was just one of those games. You’re not going to perform at 100 per cent every game and this was just one of those games.” Greencastle used Cascade’s mistakes to build a 21-point halftime cushion and needed every bit of it to hold off a secondhalf rally. “Even?” Cadet coach Mike Costlow asked. “We outscored them 12-0. I’d say we won the second half. “THE FIRST HALF we had three defensive mistakes and on all three of them they scored. We had people out of position. We had the defenses called and the guys didn’t do what they were supposed to do and they scored on us. The way I look at it, that’s what beat us,” the first-year Cadet coach said. Cascade went through the Greencastle defense for 293 yards of total offense and was never forced to punt the entire evening. The only time the Cadets showed punt formation they passed, Jerry Faletic pulling in 15-yarder from William Smith for a first down enroute to a third-quarter touchdown. “I was afraid they would run right at us, but I never dreamed they could run a quarterback sneak for much yardage,” Fallis said of Smith’s 135-yard rushing performance. BUT GREENCASTLE parlayed the Cascade mistakes into a comfortable 21point halftime lead. Bill Neumann, who came through with several big plays during the game, set up the first Cub touchdown when he recovered a Cadet fumble. Joe Franklin, the No. 10 receiver in the state, started a 51-yard catching night with a 13-yard reception and Neumann kept the initial drive going with a three-yard run for a first-down. Quarterback John Hecko
But the Bulldogs took little time to regroup. Mixing the pass and the run, they moved 51 yards in nine plays. Capping the drive, Kays went in from the two-yard line. The missed kick allowed the Eagles to maintain a 14-13 lead. In the closing seconds of the third quater, Lewis threw a short pass to Greg Phillips, who tightroped the sideline for 15 yards, shaking three tacklers to complete a 42-yard play to the Bulldog 30. A 13-yard run by John Bridgewater and a 13-yard pass reception by Meek put the ball on the three. DARRIN LEWIS MOVED the ball to the one, where he seemingly carried it in for the score but the officials placed the ball two inches shy. On the second attempt he barreled in. The extra-point kick looked like a broken play, as the high snap made Chris Arnold jump high into the air. Bending over and
passes for 132 yards and a touchdown Friday night in a 27-18 win at Cascade. (Banner-Graphic photo by Steve Fields).
and Neumann scrambled for 20 more yards before Steve Penley opened a 192-yard rushing performance with a four-yard run. On third-and-five, Franklin somehow got open behind the Cascade secondary and Hecko hit him for a 19-yard touchdown play. Greencastle went for two points, but Shawn Gobert’s pass was knocked to the ground. “We went for two because we had seen in films they only kept one person back,” Fallis said. CASCADE FUELED Greencastle’s second touchdown with two penalties. The first, for having 12 men on the field, gave new life to the drive. A fumbled pitch resulted in an 11-yard loss for the Cubs and it looked as though the Cadets had them cornered. It was a passing situation and when Hecko dropped back to pass, three Cadet defenders followed Franklin on a down-and-out pattern. Penley was wide open on a screen pass, going 26 yards for the first down. He gained another 15 on two runs before bulling into the endzone from the one. Again the Cubs went for two points, this time Franklin being Hecko’s target and it was a bullseye. AS FALLIS AND the Cubs knew going into the game, Smith was the key to Cascade’s offense. He showed that on their first touchdown drive, running the option and quarterback sneaks for 56 of the 67yard drive and throwing to Scott Arthur for the final two and touchdown. Penley was the only Greencastle back consistently gaining yards. “We just had either inconsistent play or inconsistent play calling that kept us back all the time,” Fallis said. But the trap worked, Penley going for 12yards. “He broke some big ones and Joe was good for a couple of big ones early,” Fallis said. CASCADE HAD TWO and three defenders around Franklin, which was why Rick Renschen was open. The halfback pulled in a Hecko pass, cut back behind his blockers and covered 55 yards before finally being stopped at the Cascade three-yard line. Penely powered his way in from there and David Pettit’s PAT kick gave the Cubs a 21-6 lead with just 2:21 left in the half. Smith went to the air on the first Cadet play after the kickoff, but Greencastle got the ball back when Hecko intercepted the pass. Penley had 110 yards rushing by halftime, over half of that total coming on the final Cub touchdown, a 63-yard gallop with 1:08 left in the first half. Penley cut back behind two blockers en route to his 12th touchdown of the year. This game had every sign of being history. “I was hoping we had (put them away) Although I wasn’t real pleased with the way we performed in the first half either,” Fallis said.
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holding the ball toward the ground, Arnold got it down just in time for Bridgewater to connect for a 21-13 Eagle lead. Monrovia’s drive died at the Eagle 40 as a fourth-and-five pass attempt failed. But four plays later the Eagles fumbled and the Bulldogs recovered on their own 42yard line. CLEMENTS THREW A 20-yard pass to John Schmaltz at the Eagle 38. Following three rushing plays, Clements hit Del Galloway for nine yards and a first down at the 17. Kays went off tackle, cut left and in for the touchdown. The two-point conversion pass to Sichting tied the score with 2:52 remaining and eventually sent the game into overtime. Kays took the opening overtime snap from the 10, went left spinning and turning, and scored. The Eagles attempted four passes in their overtime drive. The first play saw
PROVING THEY WEREN’T out of it though, the Cadets stopped the Cubs’ initial possession of the second half and marched 55 yards for a touchdown. Smith was again the key, giving the drive new life on a 15-yard pass to Faletic out of a fake punt, one Fallis warned the punt return team about before taking the field. Smith ran a quarterback sneak 26 yards, right up the middle of Greencastle’s defense for a touchdown on the next play. Cascade’s two-point conversion pass attempt failed. It appeared Greencastle was going to come back with a touchdown of its own, but after covering 41 yards on the ground, 38 on two Penley carries, they tried the bomb. The same play that worked well against Northview and Danville resulted in an interception on the Cadet two. WHILE IT HAD the same effect as a punt, the interception gave the Cadets another opportunity to score in the third quarter. The fourth period opened with Greencastle still ahead 27 : 12, but that margin was under fire. Smith converted a fourth-and-one snap into a first down on the fourth play of the period, but the Cub defense put him right back in that same spot three plays later. Newmann might have made the play that perserved Greencastle’s win when he sacked Arthur for a four-yard loss and brought on the offense. Greencastle didn’t score, however, and Cascade took possession again with plenty of time left. This time Smith went to the air, rolling out and throwing sideline passes, hitting Faletic with a 14-yard strike for the game’s final touchdown with 2:42 remaining. CASCADE DID GET one more shot at scoring, blocking a Chris Miller punt with 42 seconds left in the game, only this time the passes fell incomplete. “We’ve got to regroup and go at it,” Fallis said of this week’s practices. Greencastle takes that 5-0 record into next Friday night’s home game with 3-2 county rival South Putnam. Cascade, now 1-4, celebrates homecoming as host to North Putnam. SCORE BY QUARTERS Greencastle I 21 o 8-27 Cascade o 6 S «-18 FIRST QUARTER GHS-FrankUn, It pass from Hecko (pass failed), 4:51 SECOND QUARTER GHS-Penley, 1 run (Franklin from Hecko), 7:51 CHS-Artliur. 2 pass from Smith (pass failed). 4:2« GHS-Penely, 3 run (Pettit kick), 2:21 GHS-Penley, (3 run (kick wide), 1 M THIRD QUARTER CHS-Smlth, 2* run (pass failed), 7:24 FOURTH QUARTER CHS-FaleUc, 14 pass from Smith (pass failed), 2:42 STATISTICS GHS CHS First downs 15 n Rushing yards 212 183 Passing yards 132 u« Pastes 7-13-1 10-17-1 Total offense 344 2t3 Return yards 28 m Punts-Avg. 28 0-0 Fumhles-lost 2-0 3-1 Penaltles-yards 8-00 3-25
Lewis thrown for a nine-yard loss and the next three passes were all tipped away in the end zone. The Eagles, now 3-2, travel to Greencastle next Friday. SCORE BY QUARTERS Monrovia # 7 8 8 7 28 South Putnam 0 7 7 7 7 21 SECOND QUARTER MHS-Kays. 4 run (Bennett kick), 5:27 SP-Smet2er, 1 run (J. Bridgewater kick), 1:49 THIRD QUARTER SP-T. Lewi*, 1 run (J. Bridgewater kick), 5:53 MHS-Kays, 2 run (kick failed). 2:11 FOURTH QUARTER SP-T. Lewis, 1 run (J. Bridgewater kick), 10:48 MHS-Kays, 17 run (Sichting pass from Clements), 2:52 OVERTIME MHS-Kavs, 10 run (Bennett kick) STATISTICS MRS SP First downs 17 15 Rushing yards 117 127 Passing yards 133 181 Passes 14-25-1 13-28-0 Total offense 250 288 Return yards 82 58 Punts-avg. 1-40 1-31 Fumbles-lost 3-1 1-1 Penalties-yds. 2-10 5-38
Clovers fall at Linton By DEREK DOEHRMANN Banner-Graphic Sports Writer LINTON-On a brisk homecoming evening in Linton, the host Miners held onto the football more than their guests from Cloverdale as eight turnovers handed Linton a 21-6 victory over the Clovers in high school football action. The Miners lit up the scoreboard immediately when junior Bryan Slay took the opening kickoff and scampered 87 yards for the touchdown. A failed attempt at a two-point conversion left the score 6-0. CLOVERDALE TOOK TWO plays from scrimmage and fumbled away the football, the first of four in the quarter. Linton freshman running back Mike Turchi scored from five yards out to give the Miners a 14-0 lead after the successful twopoint conversion. Early in the second period, the Miners made it look like they could make a blowout of the contest as they put together a seven-play drive that ended on a beautifully executed quarterback draw from the 10-yard line by junior Mark Kaiser. He also converted the extra-point kick to close out the Linton’s scoring for the evening. The Clovers put together some drives in the second half, one of which was a nineplay, 83-yard drive that culminated on a 40-yard run by Mike Cooper, who was in action for the first time since an early season accident. The extra-point snap was high and the Clovers failed to convert, making it a 21-6 verdict in favor of the Miners. “LINTON HAD THAT nice kickoff return to start off the game, which fired them up, especially on a homecoming night,” said Clover coach Mike Parks. “We just couldn’t hold onto the ball at first. We would run a couple of plays and set ourselves up in good shape and then we gave them the ball. “I can’t fault our kids though,” continued Parks. “We never gave up but we should have been able to hold onto the ball much better than we did tonight. Our second-half effort was very encouraging and Cooper played very well in his first action following his accident. ” STATISTICS LHS CHS First Downs 9 8 Rushing yards 114 53 Passing yards 87 99 Passes 9-11-2 13-23-0 Total Offense 181 152
P.K. Williams owns record By The Associated Press Warren Central’s Jeff George and P.K. Williams of Tri-West put their names into the record book for Indiana high school football while helping their teams remain undefeated. George claimed the state record for pass completions as the Warriors, the No. 1 team in Class SA, routed Southport 64-15 to extend the state’s longest overall winning streak to 22. The senior quarterback began Friday’s game just seven shy of the standard of 361 set by Kyle Frondorf of East Centreal from 1980-82. George claimed the record in the first quarter and finished the night with 28 completions for 325 yards and three touchdowns in less than three quarters of action. That gave George 1,070 yards and 17 touchdown passes this season. Williams, who set the state record for career yardage on pass receptions earlier this season, established the standard for pass receptions with his first catch of the night. He finished the evening with six catches for 78 yards and now has 154 in his career, topping the mark Jasper’s Larry Giesler set from 1971-74. The receptions helped No. 3 TriWest hold of Indianapolis Scecina 1020.
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