Banner Graphic, Volume 16, Number 120, Greencastle, Putnam County, 4 January 1986 — Page 4

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C jvordale's Rick Ford (15) drew a crowd of Greencattle defenders during his varsity debut Friday night at (VkAnally Center. The sophomore had Greencastle's

Sports schedule MONDAY ci.ester at DePauw University, 7 >0 p.m., basketball . . c ade Jr High at South Putnam C< b'al Elementary), 6 p.m., basketbali C i H'tde freshmen at South Putnam Hit * School),6p.m., basketball TUESDAY Greencastle, 6 p.m., -via girls at South Putnam, 6:30 p.m ~ basketball South Putnam at Tri-West, 6 p.m., wrestling nee girls at North Putnam, 6:30 p.m., basketball No Putnam freshmen at Fountain ■il, 6:30p.m., basketball ■ 'alley at Cloverdale, 6 p.m., WEDNESDAY , ?ji Manchester, 7:30 p.m., basketball Cascade at Greencastle, 6 p.m., wrestling North Putnam 7th Grade at Crawfords ville Tuttle, 6:30 p.m., basketball THURSDAY North Putnam girls at Greencastle, 6:30 p.m., basketball Fouth Putnam at Rockville, 6 p.m., ■ /estling si girls at South Putnam, 6:30 } basketball South Putnam freshmen at Clay City, 6 p.m., basketball Eminence Jr. High at North Putnam, 6 p.m., basketball Clay City girls at Cloverdale, 6:30 p.m , basketball F-'oth Putnam at Cloverdale, 6:30 I ...resiling t or dale at Mooresville, 6:30 p.m., b Shall FRIDAY West Vigo at Greencastle, 6:30 p.m., basketball Rockville at South Putnam, 6:30 p.m., basketball SATURDAY (■'■■■■• • Valley at Greencastle, 6:30 p basketball ( • • il<- n) Eminence, 6:30 p.m., t .ball Sot. a Vermillion at South Putnam, 6:30 ) rn., basketball Norte Putnam at Cascade, 6:30 p.m., bas’etball

I'Py puts 40-game home streak on line Monday

By STEVE FIELDS 5a r-Graphic Sports Editor V > n a team is winning, everything feels >:n and there aren’t enough games. Th ‘rents can’t came fast enough, the con’. hence is there, the ball falls through the the showers feel great and even t ie whistle doesn’t sound as harsi. ( art ever, that was the atmc tore the holiday break for the 8 1 auw University basketball team. It’s i. . iing coach Mike Steele hopes continues into Monday’s 7:30 p.m. home game with Manchester College. "MANCHESTER IS AN important game for us because it’s the first game back, plus we were so horrible up there," Steele said recalling the season opener DePauw wor - 1 -79 in double-overtime.

Brian Durham (45) between him and the goal and Chris Hanson trying to swat the ball from behind. (BannerGraphic photo by Carol Estes).

Eagles turn tigers, tame Lyons, NPHS

South-GHS title game set

By STEVE FIELDS Banner-Graphic Sports Editor It’s amazing what a few halftime adjustments can do for a high school basketball team. Move a man here, apply a little more pressure there and a little less somewhere else. Those little things allow a team to come from behind and win in the second half. In a nutshell that’s how South Putnam defeated North Putnam 72-58 Friday night in the second game of the Putnam County Classic at Greencastle’s McAnally Center. The 3-3 Eagles now take on defending champion Greencastle (2-5) in the 8:15 p.m. championship game Saturday immediately after the 6:45 p.m. consolation game. Doors open at 6 p.m. CHRIS LYONS SCORED 16 first-half points and North used eight secondquarter South turnovers to build a 34-29 halftime lead. But the second half South applied more pressure and North didn’t execute its offense as well as the 6-2 forward scored just six points. “The first half we were patient, working the ball and finding him,” coach Bill Brothers said after North’s sixth loss. “He probably handled the ball as many times in the second half. We just didn’t get it to him in position to shoot.” That and South was far more concious of Lyons, who took what might be a seasonhigh 22 shots as Brothers wanted. “He got a lot of shots out on the wing. We tried to get a little more pressure on him the second half,” South coach Bill Merkel said. “We knew Lyons was the key we had to stop.” AT THE SAME TIME, however, the Eagles picked up the game’s tempo by controlling the boards 23-17 in the second half and pressing on defense. Also, South got the ball inside to what turned out to be its key player, Brian Meek. The 6-4 senior forward scored 19 of his game-high 25 points in the second half. “Meek killed us in my mind,” Brothers said. But the Cougars couldn’t concentrate on Meek because Troy Greenlee popped 12 of his game-total 18 points. “I WAS PLEASED WITH the second half effort,” Merkel praised. “Probably the third quarter was the best third quarter we’ve played all year.”

“When they look at their films they can’t be too impressed with how many games we’ve won in a row (six), or impressed with how good our record is because they know they had a great chance to beat us.” So very true, because the Tigers didn’t put the Spartans away after opening a 44 34 lead early in the second half. That was the game David Galle scored 26 [joints and pulled down a career-high 21 rebounds. DePAUW HAS TO BE concerned with several Manchester players. Jere Eaton scored 19 in that first game, 6-4 forward Mike Tauteris had 16 points and eight rebounds, 6-4 center Tal Ryzewski scored 13 points and pulled in nine rebounds and Joe Nadaline scored 10. In addition, Manchester’s Scott Jennings, who had 14 points always gives DePauw point-guard Phil Wendel trouble defensively.

In fact, after making eight errors in the second quarter alone, the Eagles committed just two turnovers until Merkel cleared the bench with an 18-point lead and three minutes left in the game. South finished with 13 errors to North’s 15. Until the final four minutes it was a seven-point basketball game. The final margin indicates otherwise, but the Eagles only took a 47-40 lead into the final quarter and midway through the period the Cougars closed the gap from 51-40 to 5346 on baskets by Lyons and Chris Colvin. BUT AT THE POINT South scored 12 straight unanswered baskets to take a commanding 65-46 lead. Meek, Greenlee and Kent Yocom each scored four points during the run that broke the game open. “What patience the second half?” Brothers said. “We ran the same offense and same defense the second half we did the first half. The second half we were supposed to be trapping (on defense). Very seldom did you see a trap out there on the floor. They outhustled us the second half.” While South had three players in double figures with Meek’s 25, Greenlee’s 18 and Greg Phillips’ 10, North had just Lyons with 22 and Colvin with 14. LYONS AND MEEK also did the lion’s share of rebounding for their respective teams. Lyons had 12 of North’s 35 and Meek 10 of South’s 36. While North’s shooting dropped off from 46 per cent (13-28) in the first half to just 39 per cent (23-59) for the game, South’s improved to 50 per cent (17-34) the second half and finished at 48 per cent (29-60) for the night. South takes a two-game winning streak into Saturday’s championship game, while North a three-game losing streak into the consolation contest. NORTH PUTNAM (58) Lyons 11-22 0-0 3 22, Long 2-9 5-7 3 9. Spires 0-1 (Ml 0 0. Jones 0-1 0-0 4 0. Colvin 5 4-7 2 14. Marsteller 2-5 3-4 3 7, Allen 3-7 0-0 1 0, Greeson 0-1 0-0 0 0, Gray 0-1 0-0 1 0, Leek (Ml 0-0 0 0. Totals-FG 23-59, FT 12-18, PF 17. SOUTH PUTNAM (72) Meek 9-17 7-7 2 25, Brian Bridgewater 2-4 1-2 5 5, Phillips 5-10 0-0 1 10. Greenlee 7-13 4-5 2 18, Sutherlin 2-5 0-0 14, Yocom 3-0 0-0 3 6, Lewis 0-0 1-2 1 1, Pickens 0-3 0-1 0 0, B. Arnold 1-10-00 2, Evans 0-11-2 01, Bruce Bridgewater 0-0 (Ml 0 0. Totals-FG 2*410, FT 14-19, PF 15. REBOUNDING North Putnam (35)-Lyons 12, Long 6, Marsteller 5, Spires 2, Colvin 2, Allen 2, Gray 2, Greeson 1, Team 3. South Putnam (36)-Meek 10, Phillips 4, Sutherlin 4, Brian Bridgewater 3, Greenlee 3, Yocom 3. Evans 3, Lewis 1, Bruce Bridgewater 1, Team 4. QUARTER SCORING North Putnam 15 19 8 18-58 South Putnam 17 12 18 25-72 TURNOVERS: NP 15, SP 13

Admission free at DPU

All fans will be admitted free to DePauw University’s home basketball game Monday night against Manchester College, according to coach Mike Steele. It’s “Community Night” which

The situation brings back memories of 1982-83 season for Steele. The Tigers finished the year 18-7. “When we came back from the long break we lost to Marian in a close game at Marian, the only time we’ve ever lost to Marian Then we lost to Huntington at Huntington, then we won 11 in a row.

Cubs earn second win, dropping young Clovers

By CHRIS KNAUER Banner-Graphic Sports Writer They had to literally battle underneath the basket for the victory, but the Greencastle Tiger Cubs came up with a 70-63 win over the Cloverdale Clovers in the opening game of the Putnam County Classic Friday night at McAnally Center. The now 2-5 Tiger Cubs head into Saturday night’s championship game against the South Putnam Eagles at 8:15. The 1-5 Clovers play tonight’s consolation game against the North Putnam Cougars at 6:45. GREENCASTLE WAS ABLE to pick up on a couple of fine performances from forward David Rushing and guard Scott Dunn. After a blistering start in the opening games of the season with 30 and 35 points for his first two games and 15 in a later outing, not too much was heard from Rushing until Friday when he led his teammates with 29 points. Dunn had his second highest performance of his season for the Tiger Cubs with 17 points and runnerup honors in team scoring. A newcomer to the Cloverdale high school basketball scene, sophomore forward Hugh Patton, led his team with 18 points. He was followed by Mark Garrett with 12 and Rick Ford with nine. “THIS WAS THE FIRST time Hugh and Rick have started varsity,” first-year Clover coach James Stewart said. “They went out there and did a very good job.” Both teams did a good job from the field,

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Deßusschere ousted as Knicks' GM

NEW YORK (AP) - Scotty Stirling, the new general manager of the New York Knicks, says Dave Deßusschere’s firing is not the first step in a large-scale housecleaning. Stirling, who quit his job as vice president in charge of operations fornthe National Basketball Association to join the Knicks, said Friday that his first task will be to evaluate all aspects of the team, including Coach Hubie Brown. But he said Brown would be retained at least until the end of the season.

means Putnam County residents can watch the 8-1, two-time NCAA Tournament team play free at 7:30 p.m. at Lilly Physical Education and Recreation Center.

“It took a couple of games to get to playing where we thought we could play,” Steele recounted. “That’s what we have to be concerned with here. We’ve got Manchester here (Lilly Center) Monday, then we go to Franklin and to Taylor.” IT’S A TOUGH WAY TO start the second half of the season. However, opening at

the Clovers putting in 23 of 40 attempts for 58 per cent, while the Tiger Cubs were 26-of-48 for 54 per cent. However Cloverdale had to contend with two major problems that kept it in the deficit after Greencastle took the lead in the second quarter. Fist was turnovers, the Clovers having 22 to the Tiger Cubs’ 12. THE SECOND PROBLEM was free throws. Cloverdale was 17-of-30 (56 per cent) compared to Greencastle’s 18-of-26, meaning point oppurtunities were missed. “We still need to improve on our shooting,” Stewart said. For the wrong half of the ball game the Clovers had things going their way. Beginning at the opening tip-off the Clovers worked on a small lead, going into the second quarter with marginal 16-13 edge. Then things got to be sticky for the Clovers after Greencastle coach Doug Miller called timeout at 4:26 with GHS trailing 22-17. After seeing 2-3 zone defense much of the game, Cloverdale received a surprise in the form of several defenses being applied. THE SITUATION CAUGHT Stewart’s four sophomores on the floor off guard. “We just couldn’t make the adjustment offensively,” Stewart said of his young team. As a result the Clovers had a hard time controlling the ball. Eight turnovers resulted in four Tiger Cub field goals for the quarter. When the melee was over

“I’ve known Hubie a long time, and I’ve always admired him as a coach. But I will evaluate the coaching along with everything else,” Stirling said. “The things I look for in a coach how hard the team plays and how he stresses defense Hubie has to a great degree.” Stirling was to leave today for Milwaukee, where te Knicks were to play the Bucks tonight. Jack Krumpe, president of Madison Square Garden Corp., said he made the decision to replace Deßusschere three

home, where DPU has a 40-game winning streak, helps. For because of the community support, DePauw enjoys homecourt feeling few small colleges have. “It’s got to be encouraging (to the players) knowing we haven’t played our best basketball and we’re 8-1 and have a lot of games left to play,” Steele said. DePauw still hasn’t put together 40 minutes of good basketball. “We’ve had some good stretches. We were good for 30 minutes against Millikin and we were good the second half against Illinois Wesleyan and we were good against lUPUI,” Steele said. “We still have had some let-ups and breakdowns.” THE REASON BEHIND those could be DePauw’s inexperience at the forward positions. Overall the Tigers are a veteran

Greencastle was holding a 34-29 lead going into the locker room at halftime. “We needed to swing the tempo around in the second quarter,” Miller said. “Then it was critical to keep the momentum going in the second half.” THE TEMPO WAS Greencastle’s. Throughout the early part of the third quarter the Tiger Cubs were able to maintain their five-point margin. After Greencastle called its second timeout at 4 26 leading 41-36, the Cubs opened up to a 10point lead. Stewart called his third timeout at two-minutes trailing 46-36. Some Clover free throws helped to cut the deficit down when the third quarter was over, Tiger Cubs leading 50-43. Both teams began to show their muscle in the last quarter, the Clovers playing an exceptionally scrappy game against the physical Tiger Cubs. Both teams went to the stripe several times as a result, but Greencastle prevailed. CLOVERDALE <B3l Whitaker 3-8 3-4 5 9, Mann 2-3 0-0 3 4, Jenkins 1-5 (HI 0 1, Patton 8-13 2-5 3 18, Ford 1-3 7-111 9, Garrett 5-8 2-5 4 12, McLean 3-4 1-3 4 7. Price 041 2-2 1 2. Totals-FG 23-40, FT 17-30, PF2I GREENCASTLE (70) Noll 04) 04) 50, Hecko 0-11-221, Nelson 0-0 0410 0, Rushing 10-21 9-11 2 29, Sutherlin 1-2 1-3 3 3, Durham 3-4 *4l 1 6, Penley 2-5 0-1 2 4, Dunn 8-10 5-6 2 17. Hanson 4-4 2-3 4 10, York, 0-10410 0. Totals-FG 2*48, FT 18-28, PF 16. REBOUNDING Cloverdale (14)-Whitaker 5, Mann 0, Jenkins 2, Patton 3, Ford 3, Garrett 1, McLean 4, Price 1. Greencastle (21)—Noll 4, Hecko 2, Nelson 0, Rushing 5, Sutherlin 3, Durham 1, Penley 4. Hanson 2, York 8. SCORING BY QUARTERS Cloverdale 16 13 14 20-83 Greencastle 13 21 18 20-70 TURNOVERS: Cloverdale 22, Greencastle 12

After scoring 16 points in the first half of Friday night's Putnam County Classic game at McAnally Center, North Putnam's Chris Lyons draws a flock of South Putnam Eagles during the second half. It was the Eagles' defensive effort that helped them rally from a halftime deficit to beat the Cougars and advance to Saturday night's championship game against Greencastle High School. As South's Greg Phillips (22), Brian Meek (31) and Tony Lewis close in on Lyons, he dumpes off a pass to teammate Kent Jones (10) under the basket. (Banner-Graphic photo by Carol Estes).

weeks ago and that Stirling was his No. 1 choice for the job. Krumpe said he liked Stirling’s knowledge of players and management throughout the NBA, his familiarity with league operations, his knowledge of the New York market and his background in sports management. Krumpe said Deßusschere was “stunned” when he was informed of the firing Friday. Deßusschere was not available for comment.

team, but DePauw Invitational MVP Dan Falotico is a sophomore, as are 6-5 Mike Connor and 6-4 Jim Sandgren. With those three sophomores plus Wendel, Galle, Tim Vieke, Scott Lewis, Neal Ogles, Joe Vanderkolk, David Griewe and Steve Wiles all playing well before the break, DePauw had the momentum going the right direction. You have to hope when the team is 8-1, the best start we’ve ever had and looking down the road to what this team can do, you have to hope that if you give them a few days off they’re going to work out (on theu own),” Steele said. “We’ve had tne kmd of kids in the past that have done that.” The Tigers returned to practice Thursday and will go twice a day right into Monday’s contest.