Banner Graphic, Volume 16, Number 156, Greencastle, Putnam County, 10 February 1986 — Page 5
Experience gives Johnson edge
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Experience in the ring and in his corner was a winning formula for Marvin Johnson the light heavyweight champion for an unprecedented third time. “His experience and my inexperience is what hurt me,” Leslie Stewart of Trinidad said after his bid for the World Boxing Association title ended in a knockout Sunday with referee Franco Priani of Italy stopping the fight 56 seconds into the seventh round. Stewart, 24, who weighed 175 pounds, was bleeding from cuts around both eyes when the fight ended. “The blood was bothering me, but I feel the fight could have gone a couple of more rounds,” he said after losing for the first time in 19 professional fights. “Next time I’ll be better prepared,” said Stewart, who had hoped his youth and physical conditioning would pay off if the fight went the scheduled 15 rounds. “We lost the fight because both fighters were cut in the first round. They stopped the bleeding in Johnson’s corner right aw y. We were never able to stop the bleeding,” Jim Cavo, Stewart’s manager, said. Johnson unloaded an assortment of jabs and heavy punches to Stewart’s head from the opening bell. “Stewart gave it everything he had, but I was a little too wise and a little too experienced. He fought a good fight, but he didn’t seem ready for me,” Johnson said. Stewart was forced to fight his way off the ropes at Market Square Arena for
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Bulldogs hand Cougars third loss in row
By DEREK DOEHRMANN Banner-Graphic Sports Writer MONROVIA—North Putnam coach Bill Brothers has seen the symptoms before. The ‘sickness’ affects his team in close games. It appears that a remedy is needed badly In the Cougar camp, as Monrovia applied the correct dosage down the stretch in a 63-55 Bulldog win. THE GAME’S FINAL margin was the largest of the contest. In fact, the game was on the line until the final 30 seconds. Monrovia led 15-11 after the first stanza and built up a 27-19 spread with less than three minutes left in the half when the Cougars, three of which were subs, made a run. Brothers inserted A 1 Gray, Mike Spires, and Dale Greeson into the lineup and installed a three-quarter-court pressure defense that forced the Bulldogs into seven turnovers.
Greencastle regional opens Thursday Pioneers stop Cubs with press
BySTEVE FIELDS Banner-Graphic Sports Editor EMINENCE—Watch it on film, draw it out on paper, wald through it in practice a dozen times, but Mooresville’s full-court press defense is something no team in the Eminence-IHSAA girls basketball sectional ever seems to handle. That tangled web of long, aggressive arms and a bench that, at times, seems to be limitless, always stands between others and that desired Greencastle regional berth Mooresville has now won eight of 11. FOR THE FOURTH straight year Greencastle’s efforts were choked off 6141 by the Mooresville press Saturday night. The Pioneers led by as much as 25 points while ending the Tiger Cubs’ year at 14-6. “Their press, it was not...it was easy to beat if the girls just saw and they could not see what they had to do to beat it,” Gleen Hile said after completing his first season as head coach. “They had to throw over it.” Mooresville coach Joe Johnson apparently expected that. He made a lineup switch from Thursday night’s semifinal game, replacing 5-5 Shary Nebel with 5-11 junior Carmen Griffith to go along with 511 twins Deanna and Dianna Sharpe and 6-1 center Cheryl Weis. BY THE TIME Greencastle arched the ball over the outstretched, arms another Mooresville player stepped into the passing lane, contributing a great deal to the 32 turnovers. “When we did get over it, we didn’t attack it. We were scared to death. We fell back into old ways,” Hile said.
most of the match. “I’ve got four kids to feed,” Johnson of Indianapolis, who weighed 174 pounds for his fifth title fight, said. “I needed the title to provide security for my family. That was the big incentive.” The partisan hometown fans who dominated the crowd of 8,173 also provided incentive, greeting Johnson with cheers, booing Stewart as he was introduced and chanting “Marvin, Marvin” loudly as he unleashed his relentless attack on Stewart. Johnson claimed the title Michael Spinks surrendered after winning the International Boxing Federation heavyweight title over Larry Holmes. The victory came in the same ring where he had lost to Matthew Franklin, later known as Matthew Saad Muhammed, in his first defense of the World Boxing Council title. He later won the WBA title and also lost it in his first defense this time to Eddie Gregory, later known as Eddie Mustapha Mohammad. Johnson was ahead on all three cards when the fight was stopped. “Personally I don’t agree with the way he won. It was a head butt. It took me by surprise,.” said Stewart, the No. 2 contender behind Johnson in the WBA rankings, said. “I don’t think so,” Johnson said when asked about the comment. Johnson’s victory was his 15th consecutive since he was knocked out by Spinks in the fourth round at Atlantic City on March 28, 1981.
MEANWHILE, NORTH PICKED up its offensive slack as Chris Colvin knotted six points in the period to help forge the Cougars into a 29-29 halftime standoff. North’s first lead of the night came on their first possession when Chris Lyons hit a jumper. After missing on his next three attempts, Lyons found the touch as he managed a 10-point effort in the third quarter, 18-on the night. On the defensive end, the pressure continued to frustrate the Monrovia backcourt as North Held on to a 45-44 edge after three quarters. COACH JERRY HOOVER’S Bulldogs came out in the fourth quarter with some life that seemed lacking in the previous eight minutes. Monrovia began to break the press breaker and also started banging the boards. North suffered 33 per cent shooting and costly turnovers that sealed the Cougars fate. “We’ve played in tight ones all year but
Contributing to Greehcastle’s problems were early fouls against 6-6 junior center Tawnva Pierce and 5-8 junior forward Pat Archer. Pierce picked up her first foul on the Pioneers’ first possession of the game and got numbers two and three early in the second quarter. Her second foul caused coach Hile to get a technical for questioning the call. Archer had four fouls at halftime. Despite 13 turnovers and playing without Pierce and Archer the last 5Vi minutes of the first half, Greencastle trailed just 27-19 at halftime. “I thought we had a chance. We played like crap the first half and were in the game,” Hile said. “But in the third quarter we just let ourselves get out of what we knew we had to do.” BECAUSE OF THE press, Greencastle never got into the half-court offense it wanted. “We never really got into an offense the whole night. They took us out of our offense the whole night,” Hile said. Which is something coach Johnson didn’t expect. “We really, for the first time all year, played our best defensive game. And another thing, this is their third game,” Johnson said while watching his 17-3 Pioneers cut down the nets for the eighth time. ‘ ‘We decided we were going to go wholehorse with them, just see what happens. I think they got tired.” CAROL BRADEN DIDN’T get tired, scoring 17 points and grabbing a teamhigh six rebounds. “I thought Carol Braden played her heart out. She’s the only reason we only got beat 20. She decided she was going to play hard,” Hile praised.
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Phil Wendei (10) has started looking for his shot more now that tournament time is drawing near and that really throws opponents off. Entering Saturday's game with
our key players just don’t perform when it’s on the line,” Brothers said. "I told them before the game that if we put ourselves in a come from behind situation down here that it would be tough to come back.” “When I put those subs in, I was trying to play people that would do the job,” Brothers said. “For a good part of the time they succeeded. However, we caused our own downfall tonight. I don’t know why our guys can’t do their job in the end.” HOOVER, WHOSE SQUAD upped their record to 7-8, thought his team gained some confidence in the final quarter. “We just looked unenthused in the third quarter,” said Hoover. “Then, we got a couple of shots which got things going and our confidence came right back. For us to win, we have to realize that we have to play hard all the time.” John Whalen led the Bulldogs with 23
Mooresville’s scoring leader came off the bench-junior Joanna Ash. The 5-5 guard scored 14 points in the second and third quarters. The two teams appear poised for a rematch next year, as starter Dina Duncan and reserve Elizabeth Emery are Greencastle’s only seniors, while reserve Kristi Johnson is Mooresville’s only senior. “WE’VE GOT A lot of talent and we’ve got to make our minds up between now and next year at this time, that we’re going to come out here and handle these people,” Hile said. “If we don’t make our minds up, we’re going to do that, we’re going to end up getting beat 20 points again.” **** SOMETHING MORE IMPORTANT: Referee Jim Flanagan left Saturday night’s sectional championship game after the first quarter because his wife was having a baby in Indianapolis. Eminence High School Athletic Director Dan Mitchell said he received a telephone call with approximately 11 seconds left in the first quarter. Alternate Jerry Wallace stepped in to complete the contest with Joe Reed. Greencaitle (41) Archer 01-3 41, Tucker 2 3-51 7, Pierce 4 2-4 4 10. Braden 5 7-0117, Duncan 0 3-4 2 3. Maguire 01-2 21. Gorham 0 00 3 0, Crawley 0 2-2 0 2, Kauble 0 M 1 0, Emery 0 0-0 0 0, Spencer 00-00 O-Totah FGII. FT 10-20, PFIB Mooretvllle (01) De. Sharpe 4 4-0 3 12. Griffith 3 0-1 2 0, Weis 2 04) 5 4. Dl. Sharpe 2 3-12 7, Loux 3 2-3 4 8. Aah 7 0-1 1 14, Minks 2 0-01 4, Johnson 1 2-2 0 4. Nebel 0 0-0 10, Bryant 0 0-1 0 0, Elmore 1 0-2 2 2, HoferlMoo-Totab FG 25. FT 11-22. PF 21 REBOUNDING Greencastle <2B)-Braden 0, Archer 5, Tucker 4. Pierce 3, Maguire 3, Crawley 1, Kauble 1, Spencer 1, Team 4. Mooresville <33>-De. Sharpe 10, Dl. Sharpe 0, Weis 4, Ash 3, Griffith 1, Loux 1, Johnson 1. Minks 1, Elmore 1, Team 5.
a 10.1 scoring average, Wendei scored 21 points and passed out 10 assists in the 97-72 victory over Olivet Nazarene. (Banner-Graphic photo by Steve Fields).
points and 12 rebounds as Monrovia outrebounded North 36-24. Darryl Clements added 14 while the backcourt combo of Jon Davis and Neal Watson netted 12 and 10, respectively. Colvin added 15 and Kent Jones 10 to assist Lyons for North. The Cougars dropped to 6-10 and will visit county rival Greencastle Friday night while Monrovia will travel to Tri-West. North Putnam (55) Lyons »(Ml4 18, Marsteller 2 0-0 34, Long 0 *-• 10, Jones 4 2-4 2 10, Colvin 7 1-1 5 15, Gray 10-0 12, Spires 0 0-0 0 0, Greeson 3 0-0 2 0. Totals-FG 26, FT 3-5, PF 18. Monrovia (63) Witte 2 0-0 14, Clements 4 6-8 2 14, Whalen 8 7-12 1 23, Watson 5 0-11 10. Davis 60-1312, Brlant 0 04) 00. Totals--FG 25, FT 13-22, PF 8. REBOUNDING North Putnam <24)-Lyons 10, Jones 5, Marsteller 3, Colvin 2, Long 1, Gray 1, Greeson 1, Team 1. Monrovia (36)-Whalen 12, Witte 8, Clements 6, Watson 6, Davis 2, Team 2. Turnovers: North Putnam 15, Monrovia 20. SCORING BY QUARTERS North Putnam II 18 16 10-55 Monrovia 15 14 15 10-63
QUARTER SCORING Greencastle 6 13 8 14-41 Mooresville 8 19 22 12-61 TURNOVERS: GHS32, MHS24
Regional round
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) First-round regional pairings in the 11th Indiana High School Athletic Association girls’ basketball tournament (First-round games on Thursday at 6:30 and 8 p.m , local time, with winners playing 7:30 p.m. Saturday for regional championships): Anderson Anderson Highland vs Clinton Central Wapahani vs Muncie Central Benton Central Lafayette Harrison vs Twin Lakes sectional winner Benton Central vs Southmont Calumet Hammond Clark vs Lake Central Andrean vs Gary Wallace Center Grove Franklin vs Indpls Ben Davis Indpls Roncalli vs Cascade Columbus Columbus North vs Seymour Jac-Cen-Del vs S.Dearborn Elkhart LaVille vs Bremen Elkhart Memorial vs S.Bend St. Joseph's Fort Wayne Jay Co. vs Ft. Wayne Northrop DeKalb vs New Haven Gibson Southern Forest Park vs Boonville Gibson Southern vs Evansville Mater Dei Greencastle S. Vermillion vs Edgewood Mooresville vs Terre Haute North Greenfield Winchester vs Greenfield Richmond vs Rushville Huntington Maconaquah vs Marion Huntington North vs Kokomo New Albany Silver Creek vs Scottsburg Corydon vs Clarksville Vaiparabo Valparaiso vs N.Judson Mich. City Rogers vs Kankakee Valley Warren Central Indpls Tech vs Noblesville Warren Central vs Indpls Brebeuf Warsaw Columbia City vs Prairie Hts Winamac vs Wawasee Washington Linton vs N.Central (Sullivan) Vincennes vs Bedford-N.Lawrence
Wendei blooms to tourney form
By STEVE FIELDS Banner-Graphic Sports Editor The ballots have been mailed, the voting started, but Phil Wendei hasn’t completed his All-American campaign yet. DePauw University fans are still enjoying it. If those who watched him Saturday at Lilly Physical Education and Recreation Center were voting Wendei would win by a land slide. He scored a season-high 21 points, passed out 10 assists, made four steals and just two turnovers in 35 minutes of basketball. “I JUST CAN’T imagine there being a better Division 111 guard than Phil,” coach Mike Steele said after No. 2 ranked DePauw pulled away from Olivet Nazarene in the second half for a 97-72 rout. “If there is I sure as hell hope we don’t play against him. Wendei hit 9 of 11 shots from the floor, looking for his shot more than in previous seasons to help the Tigers win their 48th straight at Neal Fieldhouse and 18th straight this year. But DePauw needed a good Wendei, especially during the first eight minutes. Olivet’s Tigers came in 7-14 and played without their second and third leading scorers because of flu. Considering DePauw was coming off a big Tuesday night victory and had already won 47 straight at home the trap was set. “THE THING I was concerned with is the fact there is a team you should beat, but they play hard. The team that plays hard always has a chance,” Steele said of Olivet. “I thought the first half they outhustled us. Our pressure bothered them some, they had some travels, but other than that I thought they really played well.” It was after the Tigers fell behind 17-14 they started a rally that took them to a 4736 halftime lead. David Galle scored on an offensive rebound and hit a pair of free throws to put DePauw ahead for good at 9:54 in the first half.
Smetzer wins regional and semistate berth
CRAWFORDSVILLE-South Putnam is the only Putnam County school still alive in the IHSAA state wrestling tournament and the only county school with a regional champion. Dan Smetzer captured the 145pound weight class Saturday in the Crawfordsville regional with a 5-1 decision over Clinton Prairie’s Shane Robertson in the title match. SOUTH PUTNAM’S all-time match winner moves into the New Castle semistate along with teammates Pat Thibodeau and Brian Hayden, both advancing as third places. Thibodeau scored a 14-6 title-match decision over North Montgomery’s Hal Weliver and Hayden pinned North Vermillion’s
Tourney opens Tuesday
North Putnam and Cloverdale will host the opening rounds of the Putnam County Junior High boys basketball tournament Tuesday night at 6 p.m. Championship games will be played Thursday at 6 p.m. in the Greencastle
Tucker and Price shine
Jim Price’s 10 points did Indiana Central more good than Chad Tucker’s career-high 40 points for Butler University Saturday night. Indiana Central raised its NCAA Division II record to 15-4 with a 59-58 win over lUPU-Ft. Wayne, while Butler fell 106-84 in Chicago to Loyola in Division I action. Price, who scored 26 points on 11 of 13 shooting from the floor in a 69-60 win Thursday night over Ashland, netted two free throws with 16 seconds left to secure the Greyhounds’ seventh Great Lakes Valley Conference victory in 11 starts. JERRY NEESE contributed six points to Saturday’s win, matching his Thursday night scoring. Price entered last week’s two-game schedule averaging 9.1 points and 4.3 reboundds per game. Neese entered with an 8.6 scoring average, 2.5 rebounding and had passed out 47 assists, was
Freshman draw set
Greencastle will play undefeated South Putnam Saturday in the opening game of the Putnam County freshman boys basketball tournament at South Putnam High School. Greencastle and South play at 9
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Tim Vieke came off the bench to hit back to back 18-footers, giving DePauw a six-point lead and the snowball was rolling down hill. OLIVET CLOSED TO within seven, 4740, with the first two buckets of the second half, but never closer. DePauw’s lead went into double figures for good at 14:47, when Scott Lewis netted a layup off a Dan Falotico steal. “The second half we got a little better with out intensity and I think our numbers wore them down,” Steele said. Along with Wendel’s 21 points, DePauw got another 18 from Galle, 12 from Vieke off the bench and 11 from forward Mike Connor. The Tigers shot 66 per cent (4161) from the floor and 71 per cent (51-21) at the free throw line. WITH DePAUW’S DEFENSE forcing a great many of them, Olivet committed 30 turnovers, which negated a solid 57 per cent (33-58) shooting afternoon. There are only five games left in the regular season, the Tigers playing host to Marian College Wednesday night before traveling to St. Louis next weekend for games at Washington University against the host Battlin’ Bears and Webster. Provided the Tigers win all of those games, they’ll return home Feb. 18 seeking to give coach Steele his 100th career victory. Olivet Nazarene (72) Thill MMII, Hasslebring 7-13 1-1 4 15, Leadner 5-8 0-0 3 10, David 2-7 2-2 30, Metcalf 0-12 2-2 214, Tucker 3-4 0-0 1 6, Defries 0-7 0-0 2 12, Holderman 3-00-0 3 0, Fry 0-2 0-0 0 0, Rogt 1-1 1-1 0 3, Evans 0 0-0 0 0-Totals FG 33-58, FT 08, PF 10 DePauw (07) Galle 7-11 4-7 2 18, Connor 5-7 1-2 1 11, Vanderkolk 3-3 2-2 28, Wendei 0-11 3-4 0 21, Lewis 4-0,00 38, Falotico 30 1-1 2 7, Wiles OO OO 0 0, Lenz 02 OO 2 0, Vieke 07 OO 1 12. Sandgren 1-4 Ol 2 2. Mills Ol 2-2 0 2, Greiwe OO 0-0 0 0, Biederstedt 2-3 OO 0 4, Herrmann 1-1 2-2 0 4-Totals FG 4102, FT 15-21, PF 15 REBOUNDING Olivet Nazarene <2B)~Hasslebring 5. Leadner 4, Defries 4, Tucker 3, Metcalf 2, Holderman 2, Thill 1, Davis 1, Evans 1, Team 5. DePauw <24)-Galle 4, Vanderkolk 4, Connor 3, Wendei 3, Falotico 2, Greiwe 2, Biederstedt 2, Lewis 1, Vieke 1, Sandgren 1, Team 1. HALFTIME SCORE . DPU47, ONC3B TURNOVERS: ONC 30, DPU 18 ASSISTS: ONC 11 (Hasslebrings). DPU 27 (Wendei 10). STEALS. ONC 8 (Hasslebring 2). DPU 14 (Wendei, Falotico 4).
Jamie Crowder 15 seconds into the third period of the 155-pound championship match. South Putnam finished fourth as a team with 64 Vi points behind winner Clinton Central (135), Crawfordsville (83Vi) and Covington (68Vi). North Putnam finished 13th with 22Vi points, Greencastle was 18th with six points and Cloverdale did not score. WHILE ONLY THREE county wrestlers moved on, there were seven near misses at fourth place. North Putnam Bill Martin, Bob Sanford and Jesse Hensley finished fourth, as did Greencastle’s Neil Masten, South’s Richard Fox, Kevin Raisor and Tony Cash also took fourths.
Downtown Gymnasium. Admission is $1 at all sites. South Putnam’s seventh and eighth grade teams play at Cloverdale Tuesday night, while Greencastle’s two junior high teams play at North Putnam.
third on the Greyhound roster with 25 steals. Tucker, who along with Price and Neese made up the core of Cloverdale’s regular-season undefeated 1982 team that finished with a 23-1 record in the regional, hit 15 of 25 shots from the floor and grabbed seven rebounds, but got little help from his Bulldog teammates. The collegiate career-high gives the 6-7 Tucker 1,366 career points, making him seventh on the Butler all-time scoring list and in position to pass another Putnam County product. JEFF BLUE, A Bainbridge High School graduate who was three-time all-conference selection for coach Tony Hinkle from 1962 through 1964, is sixth on the scoring list with 1,392 points. The Bulldogs play at Detroit tonight (Monday) and host Valparaiso Wednesday with Tucker needing just 26 points to catching Blue.
a.m. with Cloverdale and North Putnam squaring off approximately 10:30 a m. The championship contest is at 1:15 p.m. and there is no consolation game. Admission to each session is sl.
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