Banner Graphic, Volume 16, Number 139, Greencastle, Putnam County, 23 January 1986 — Page 6

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The Putnam County Banner Graphic, January 23,1986

Purdue is ready for IU BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) - The latest edition of the Purdue-Indiana rivalry, one of the oldest and most intense in college basketball, unfolds tonight with the surprising Boilermakers a co-leader in the battle for the Big Ten championship. “Indiana will be hungry,” said Purdue Coach Gene Ready who swept the twogame series with the Hoosiers last season for the first time since arriving in West Lafayette in 1980. “We have one of the best rivalries in the nation, and we’ll have to play awfully well just to compete with them.” The basketball rivalry between the two schools dates to 1901, and Purdue holds an 88-58 advantage. However, the Hoosiers have recorded victories here at Assembly Hall 11 times in 14 games. The game is the first of three consecutive crucial road outings for the 15thranked Boilermakers, 16-3 overall and tied for first with Michigan at 5-1 in the Big Ten. Purdue visits Ohio State Saturday and then is off until a Feb. 2 game at Illinois. “If we can survive this road trip (including Illinois) with a victory or two, we ought to be in great shape with five of our last nine games at home,” says Ready. Purdue won here last year 72-63 in what became known as the “The Chair” game when frustrated Hoosier Coach Bob Rnight hurled his sideline seat across the basketball court after being whistled for a technical foul. The incident resulted in a second technical foul, and moments later Rnight was ejected with a third technical foul. He received a one-game suspension from the Big Ten. “Last year, it was a very exciting trip,” says Purdue’s Troy Lewis, the 6-foot-4 sophomore guard who leads his team in scoring with an 18.4 average. “The fact that it is a very intense rivalry, I had looked forward to the game,” said Lewis, who grew up learning about the rivalry before being selected coMr. Basketball as a senior at Anderson High School. “We played well, and the chair incident was the highlight of the year. Everyone always asks about it.” Indiana brings a 3-2 conference mark into the game and is 11-4 overall. “I think the players really have gotten over all the talk (about the chair),” said Lewis. “It’s just the fans keep bringing it up and reminding us of it.” Indiana guard Steve Alford, an old high school rival of Lewis selected Mr. Basketball a year before Lewis, leads the conference in scoring with a 26.4 average after hitting 70 points in his last two outings. He’s ninth in the nation among major college players, averaging 23.9 and has shooting percentages of .574 from the field and .912 from the foul line. Alford has 334 points, boosting his career-total to 1,393. He’s moved into 10th place on the Hoosiers’ career-scoring list and needs nine points to pass Jimmy Rayl and 35 to catch Ray Tolbert. “Our main concentration is how we’re going to stop Alford,” Lewis said this week.

Brown best NFL rookie

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Wide receiver Eddie Brown of the Cincinnati Bengals was named the NFL’s rookie of the year Wednesday by the Pro Football Writers of America. Brown, who was also named offensive rookie of the year by The Associated Press, caught 53 passes for 942 yards and eight touchdowns. The PFWA also announced its allrookie team, which was minus Chicago’s William “The Refrigerator” P6rry, the NFL’s most publicized player this season. He was beaten out at defensive tackle by Tim Newton of the Minnesota Vikings,

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IUPUI's fastbreak offense got slowed down a little Wednesday night when Jeff Roach (left) couldn't get the outlet pass by DePauw Univer-

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By STEVE FIELDS Banner-Graphic Sports Editor INDIANAPOLIS—Pressing DePauw University is pressing your luck. Sooner or later its going to run out. lUPUI’s ran out in the second half Wednesday night. Guided by point-guard Phil Wendel and ignited by Joe Vanderkolk and Mike Connor, the third ranked Tigers ran their record to 15-1 with a 74-60 victory in Indianapolis. DePauw takes a record 13game winning streak and 44-game homecourt winning streak into Saturday afternoon’s 3 p.m. game with Huntington College at Lilly Physical Education and Recreation Center. Admission is free. JUST AS COACH Mike Steele expected, the Metros proved much tougher on their own court at the Indiana University Natatorium than in their 88-63 loss at DePauw earlier. Using a full-court press defense and beating the Tigers’ defense with a wide-open fastbreaking offense, the Metros stayed within a bucket through nearly all the first half. In fact, if Joe Vanderkolk had not snapped out of a shooting slump to score 14 fir-st-half points, the Tigers might have trailed at halftime instead of leading 34-28. “We’ve been telling him just shoot it, don’t worry,” Steele said of the 6-6 forward. “He really needed a good game.” The second-half though DePauw greeted lUPUI with some fullcourt pressure of their own, then dropped back into a zone defense. And once in possession of the rebound, the Tigers pushed it up court in a

Linebacker Duane Bickett of the Indianapolis Colts was named to the defensive squad. The all-rookie team also includes five offensive players who entered the NFL with prior professional experience. They were 34-year-old quarterback Dieter Brock of the Los Angeles Rams, who played 11 seasons in the Canadian Football League, and four refugees from the United States Football League running backs Kevin Mack of Cleveland and Gary Anderson of San Diego; guard Tom Thayer of the Bears and center Bart Oates of the New York Giants.

sity's David Galle before Dan Falotico (right) reached in to knock it away. The Tigers all but stopped the break completely the second half

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controlled break, Wendel at the controls. “I thought Phil had a helluva game. He got the ball to the right guys, he shot the ball well, he did some good things,” Steele praised. AND WITH WENDEL pushing the gas pedal, the Tigers increased their lead to 11 points just 3Vfe minutes into the second half. Wendel stole the ball and dished out one of five assists to breaking teammate Scott Lewis for a 43-32 lead at the 16:35 mark. “I feel like if a team is going to press us, they’re going to pay for it eventually if we’re playing well,” Steele said. “The first half it’s what kept them in the game. We must have given them 10 points on uncontested layups. When we have the ball and they score, that’s a potential fourpoint swing everytime. “Once we eliminated that we came down the floor and Joe Vanderkolk had open shots, Dan Falotico had open shots, then we were able to score. ’ ’ ONCE UP BY A double-figure margin, the Tigers began performing surgery on

Cougars in thick of WCC hunt

By STEVE FIELDS Banner-Graphic Sports Editor Anyone planning to attend a Putnam County high school basketball game this weekend should disregard records of the participating schools. In most cases there is a good or respectable record going against a weak or poor one. Friday night 4-7 Greencastle plays host to 6-5 Cascade and 5-4 Tri-West is at 1-9 Cloverdale in two West Central Conference contests. South Putnam goes for its eighth straight victory at 5-7 Eminence. AFTER BEING IDLE Friday, 5-7 North Putnam plays host to Cloverdale Saturday night in a conference game and South journeys to 2-8 Turkey Run to makeup a game postponed by the football playoffs. Greencastle and South get little recovery time after the weekend though, as the two collide Tuesday night in a county and conference rivalry at South Putnam. The Eagles currently have the Putnam County Bucket. North Putnam will be „ watching Cascade’s game with Greencastle intently. It’s been a while, but the Cougars are in the WCC title chase with a 3-1 record, one game behind 4-1 Cascade and 5-0 league leader Danville. “ESPECIALLY WHEN WE’VE got two of the tougher ones coming up after that,” Bill Brothers said of the Cougars’ coming games. “But we’ve got to beat Cloverdale. We’ve talked about the conference race and who we’ve played and who we have left.” Beginning with Cloverdale, North has five consecutive WCC games, playing host to Danville (Jan. 31) and South Putnam (Feb. 7). “That one loss (to Owen Valley) right now is it, in overtime in a game that we should have held on to,” Brothers

the lUPUI defense. The Metros got within eight, 43-35, but Wendel scored off a rare one-on-one move off the clearout and Vanderkolk netted a pair of free throws to put DePauw back into a 47-35 lead. As usual the Tigers got great play off the bench, but from different people. In addition to Vanderkolk’s 18 points, five rebounds and one assist without a single turnover, the Tigers got several good minutes from Steve Wiles, including a three-point play that gave them a 54-40 lead with 10:20 to play. “It was a big play for us,” Steele said. “Steve Wiles came in and played some defense for us and fought guys on the boards and just gave us a nice lift.” DESPITE THE PASSING of Scott Fath, the Metros never got inside the 13-point barrier the last 10 minutes of the game, committing eight turnovers against the Tiger defense. “I was real pleased with how hard our kids played. I thought we fought them on the boards and did some good things,” Steele praised after his 91st

WCC standings Teams WCC Total Danville 5-0 7-3 Cascade 0-1 6-5 North Putnam 3-1 5-7 Owen Valley 3-1 6-4 Greencastle 2-2 4-7 Tri-West 2-2 5-4 South Putnam 1-3 8-3 Monrovia 1-4 4-6 Cloverdale 0-3 1-9 Edgewood 0-4 1-10 recalled. Cloverdale can’t worry about North Putnam though until after playing Tri-West Friday. “They’ve got a tough way to go right now,” Brothers noted. “WE’VE BEEN IN their situation. They’ve got some younger kids playing and play well. (Craig) Whitaker does a good job handling the ball and keeping them out of trouble in pressure situations,” the coach said of Cloverdale’s senior point-guard. For the first time this will be the second time around for sophomores Hugh Patton and Rick Ford. The 6-2 frontliners were brought up to the varsity just before the Putnam County Classic and faced the Cougars in the consolation game. Ford scored 21, Patton 16 and Whitaker 12 in that game, but North won 67-60 behind Chris Lyons’ 25 points. Tri-West comes to Cloverdale after a 6959 loss to Brownsburg in the Hendricks County Tournament. It will be a homecoming for Jim Coon-a Cloverdale High School graduate, a member of their most successful team and still the record holder in track. GREENCASTLE AND CASCADE appear headed opposite directions of their present records. The Tiger Cubs picked up their second WCC win at Edgewood last

while winning their 13th straight and improving their record to 15-1. (Banner-Graphic photo by Steve Fields).

coaching victory. Along Vanderkolk’s 18, the Tigers also got 18 points and a team-high 10 rebounds out of sophomore center Mike Connor. Forward Dan Falotico finished with 11 points, four rebounds and three assists. After scoring eight first-half points, Aldray Gibson-averaging 19.3 points coming into the contest-scored just four the second half for a 12-point total. THE TIGERS WARMED up for 48 per cent first-half shooting to 54 per cent (3157) for the game, shooting 67 per cent the second half. The Metros remained a consistent 39 per cent through both halves (2666). ♦ ** Coach Steele didn’t make a big deal or major announcement about it, but he did note No. 2 ranked Wisconsin-Whitewater got beat Tuesday after the NCAA Division 111 poll came out. The 1984 national champions fell at Wisconsin-Platteville. DePauw (74) Galle 3-7 0-0 2 6, Falotico 5-14 1-2 4 11. Connor 7-9 4-5 1 18. Lewis 3-7 1-2 2 7. Wendel 2-4 3-4 1 7, Vanderkolk 8-9 2-24 18. Wiles 1-11-103, Ogle 0-10-010, Vieke 1-2 0-00 2, Sandgren 04) 0-0 0 0, Mills 04) 0-1 0 0, Qreiwe 0-2 04) 0 0. Sturgeion 0-0 04)00, Lem 1-1 0-1 0 2—Totals FG 31-57, FT 12-18, PF 15 lUPUI (60) Landis 3-8 2-2 2 8, Gibson 6-15 04) 2 12, Fitts 3-8 1-2 2 7, Becker 3-11 0-0 4 6, Roach 3-6 1-2 2 7, Fath 3-7 04) 3 6, Adams 2-5 4-4 3 8, Sellable 1-1 0-0 0 2, Smith 2-3 0-0 1 4, Davis 0-2 04) 0 o—Totals FG 26-66, FT 8-10, PF 19 REBOUNDING DePauw (40)-Connor 10, Galle 5, Vanderkolk 5, Lewis 4, Falotico 4, Wendel 3, Vieke 1, Wiles 1, Ogle 1, Griewe 1, Lenz 1, Team 4. lUPUI <33)-Becker 10, Fitts 7, Roach 4, Adams 3, Smith 3, Gibson 1, Landis 1, Team 4. HALFTIME SCORE: DPU 34, lUPUI 28 ASSISTS: DPU 16 (Wendel 5), lUPUI 14 (Fath 5). STEALS: DPU 8 (Lewis 3), lUPUI 9 (Gibsons). TURNOVERS: DPU 20, lUPUI 15

week, while the Cadets dropped their second game in three outings since Christmas, falling 70-60 to Avon in the Hendricks County Tournament. “Cascade has better personnel than Edgewood,” Greencastle coach Doug Miller admitted. “They’ve got two people that are better on the floor than what we saw a week ago.” Miller is concerned with 6-4 Doug Collier and 6-0 Tom Earls. Collier plays either forward or center and averages 21.6 points and 8.1 rebounds per game, while Earls is scoring at a 16.8 clip from a forward spot. “THE KEY FOR us is how well we play defensively. I think that will be the determining factor,” Miller said. Cascade coach Rick Ford is trying to get back on the winning side of the ledger. “I don’t think the kids are selfish, but we haven’t been working the ball real well. I can’t seem to pin-point one thing. We need to play a game. Hopefully we can play well,” Ford said. Collier and guard Jeff Perry are probable starters for Cascade. Ford has used any of seven people in the lineup regularly. Greencastle gets guard Chris Hanson back this week, but coach Miller doesn’t know how strong he’ll be, so Chad Remsburg will remain on the varsity. Hanson, David Rushing, Chris Nelson, Jim Noll and Scott Dunn are probable starters. SOUTH PUTNAM APPEARS to have another easy weekend ahead. However trips to the likes of Eminence and Turkey Run can turn into ambushes real quick. This is especially true when you consider coach Bill Merkel missed the first three days of school with the flu and some players have been in and out of classes and practice.

Tiger Cubs tie school record with 10th win If you would have told coach Dan Layton Greencastle was going to win Wednesday night’s high school wrestling meet after the 138-pound match he would have laughed you right out of McAnally Center. No way. Greencastle’s upper weight classes were riddled with sickness, injury and assorted other problems that called for substitutions. All but the heavyweight division that is. AND WHEN TOM SHUEE pinned Owen Valley’s Mike Hamil 1:22 into the first period of the heavyweight match, Greencastle tied a school record for most wins in a season with 10, beating the Patriots 36-31. “Now we’ve got to get into the conference meet,” coach Layton said, not pausing to enjoy the 10-2-1 long. “That’s just a strong, strong tournament. Danville is going to be real tough to beat.” Greencastle goes to South Putnam Saturday for the 9:30 a m. West Central Conference Tournament. Danville is the favorite, according to most coaches. Others participating include North Putnam, Cloverdale, South Putnam, Cascade, Monrovia, Tri-West, Owen Valley and Edgewood. OWEN VALLEY TOOK a small edge into heavyweight match. Coach Layton wasn’t about to let the Patriots’ forfeit to David Pickens at 177 pounds sour the win. The Greencastle coach pointed out the injuries and illness, but some narrow losses in the early rounds. While Troy Peters scored an 8-2 decision at 105, and Neil Masten was a 12-0 superior decision winner at 119 in the early round, the Cubs also lost two close matches. David Singer was ahead 2-1 in the second period of the 112-pound match before 1985 state finalist Brad Trimble pinned him because of one error. Scott Estes led 8-5 with two seconds left in the 119-pound match when Matt Lantz pinned him. SO GREENCASTLE trailed 25-8 after seven matches. But Rerry Bullerdick improved his record to 14-1 with a first period pin at 145, Rick Stewart scored a 12-3 major decision at 155, Brian Smiley won by second period pin at 167 and suddenly the Tiger Cubs had turned the rout around. The forfeit at 177 gave them a brief lead before Jay Temples put the Patriots back in front with a second period pin of Jamie Hyde. It all came down to the heavyweight match-doesn’t it always. Shuee improved his record to 8-5, beating the biggest heavyweight he’s faced all year, a 262pounder, in less than the two-minute first period. Greencastle will try to break the school record for dual meet victories in a single season at Cloverdale Jan. 30. Greencastle 36, Owen Valley 31 98-Paul Lantz, OV, 12-5 dec., Brad Gamer, G. 105-Troy Peters, G, 8-2 dec., John Owens, OV. 112-Brad Trimble, OV, second period pin, David Singer, G. 1 19-Matt Lantz, OV, third period pin, Scott Estes, G. 128—Neil Masten, G, 124) sup. dec., O.T. Wright, OV. 132—Phil Trimble, OV, 12-3 maj. dec., Tom Catanese, G. 138-Matt Morin, OV, first period pin, Frank Wekrheim, G. 145-Kerrv Bullerdick, G, first period pin, Tom Parrish, OV. 155-Rick Stewart, G, 12-3 maj. dec., Terry Sips, OV. 167-Brian Smiley, G, second period pin, Mike DeWess, OV. 177-David Pickens, G, by forfeit. 185-Jay Temples, OV, second period pin, Jamie Hyde, G. Hwt.-Tom Shuee, G, first period pin, Mike Hamil, OV. JV WINNERS FOR GHS: Todd Hendershot and Charlie Poynter.

Eminence beat Rosedale 71-61 last Saturday for its fifth win of the year. The Eels are led by 5-9 forward Troy Payne with an 18 points per game average and Chad Shuler at 12 points. Turkey Run got its second win in 10 starts against Indianapolis Lutheran last Saturday in the consolation game of the North Vermillion Tournament. Their other win came in December against Rosedale. UNLESS SICKNESS CAUSES a change, look for coach Merkel, or assistant coach Allan Rains-depending upon who is on the bench-to stick with Brian Bridgewater and Brian Meek at forwards then Kent Yocom at center and Mark Sutherlin and Troy Greenlee at guards.

County statistics Playen-schools OP TP Avg. HI. David Rushing, GHS 10 224 22.4 3S Troy Greenlee, SP 11 219 19.9 28 Chris Lyons, NP 12 237 19.7 26 Brian Meek, SP 11 192 17.4 25 Hugh Patton, CHS 6 80 13.3 18 Chris Colvin, NP 12 138 11 5 20 Scott Dunn, GHS 11 124 11.3 21 Rick Ford, CHS 6 64 10 7 21 Total WCC Off. Def Team Rec. Rec. Avg. Avg. South Putnam 8-3 1-3 62 4 60 9 North Putnam 5-7 3-1 60.4 64 3 Greencastle 4-7 2-2 57 7 67 3 Cloverdale 1-9 <M 54.0 68.5 FRIDAY - Cascade at Greencastle* Tri-Weat at Cloverdale* South Putnam at Eminence Danville at Western Boone Edgewood at Owen VaUey* Monrovia at Bethesda SATURDAY Cloverdale at North Putnam* South Putnam at Turkey Run Owen VaUey at L & M Linton at Edgewood •WCC Games