Banner Graphic, Volume 16, Number 254, Greencastle, Putnam County, 4 June 1986 — Page 10

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The Putnam County Banner Graphic, June 4,1986

Americans link drugs to athletes ByHALBOCK AP Sports Writer Perhaps the most frightening statistic uncovered in Sports Illustrated’s comprehensive investigation of Americans and their attitudes about athletics is that 86 percent of the respondents believe professional athletes use illegal drugs. That is a devastating statistic, a huge number that could ultimately undermine this fragile houee of cards. For sports to succeed, fans must care about who wins and who loses. But why should they care if 86 percent of them believe the athletes are on heroin or cocaine, uppers or downers, or some combination of these per-formance-altering illegal substances? Pollster Seymour Lieberman, who conducted the survey for SI, said his findings indicate “some erosion in the feeling that athletes are role models and heroes. We begin to see some chinks in the fans’ affection (with sports). It remains to be seen if this turns to disaffection.” That spells trouble. Within the drug section of the poll, Lieberman published some other interesting findings. One is that younger respondents were less concerned with the use of drugs by athletes than older people. But more young people than old compared to 64 percent of those over age 65 believe athletes are involved with drugs. The poll named pro football and baseball as America’s most popular sports no surprise there. But those same sports also led the poll in the perception of drug usage with 62 percent and 54 percent, respectively. That means more than half of all Americans believe that athletes on the country’s two most popular sports are using drugs. Timing is important here. The poll was conducted last November and December, well after the Pittsburgh drug trials in which baseball’s dirty laundry was embarassingly aired, but before the post-Super Bowl drug charges involving the New England Patriots. Would a later survey have increased pro football’s numbers? Seventy-three percent of those polled favor compulsory random drug tests for athletes while only 14 percent opposed them. Only 20 percent, however, favored the strongest form of punishment, a ban for offenders. There was a light side to the survey, too. It inquired about what the respondents’ greatest sports fantasy would be and discovered that more men, 3532 percent, would prefer to throw the winning touchdown in the Super Bowl than to get the winning hit in the final game of the World Series. It also found that more women than men, 15-8 percent, would prefer to ride the winning horse in the Kentucky Derby, and by 10-4 percent, to win the U.S. Open tennis tournament.

Chargers eliminate N. Putnam CRAWFORDSVILLE - North Montgomery brought an end to North Putnam’s baseball season on Tuesday afternoon at the North Montgomery Sectional by posting a win that advanced the Chargers into Saturday’s second round of play. North Montgomery 4, North Pntnam 1 North Putnam 0000010-I*4 North Montgomery 011020x-4*l Colvin and Haler; Schlicher and Swick, W - Schlicher. L - Colvin. 2B - Haler (NP) NORTH MONTGOMERY tallied single runs in both the second and third innings and added two runs in the fifth to account for its run total. North Putnam’s lone score came in the sixth as the Chargers got out of a potentially dangerous inning by getting scraped for only the one run. The Cougars loaded the bases in the sixth with no outs and scored their run on a wild pitch. They quickly re-loaded the bags before two boys were retired without further damage. Kevin Harrigan stepped to the plate and lashed a shot down the left-field line that was called foul by a couple of inches. The blow could have easily cleared the bases and put North Putnam back into the contest but instead served as a strike. Harrigan struck out on the next pitch to end the inning and the threat. CHRIS COLVIN suffered the loss on the mound for the Cougars while Kurt Schlicher picked up the win. Schlicher is now 6-0 this season and has a 0.75 earned run average. North Montgomery will play Western Boone on Saturday while Southmont and Crawfordsville will battle in the other bracket. The survivors will play Saturday afternoon for the championship.

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Cloverdale's David Kempf camps under a pop up during the first inning of Tuesday's Greencastle Sectional game with Cascade. Kempf and the Clovers

In Greencastle Sectional play

Clovers rout Cadets, 24-4

By KEITH E.DOMKE Banner-Graphic Sports Editor It was not very pretty and it wasn’t particularly well played. But the one important thing to remember is that its outcome allows Cloverdale to keep playing in this 1986 baseball season. ON TUESDAY AFTERNOON at DePauw University’s Walker Field, the Greencastle Sectional got under way as Cascade, with its 5-17 record, battled the Clovers, who came into the contest at 8-14-1. And when the dust had cleared at the conclusion of the three-hour marathon, Cloverdale found itself on top of the lopsided, 24-4 score that advanced it into Friday’s game with county rival South Putnam. Danville and Greencastle will open play on Friday at 9 a.m. while the Clovers and Eagles will battle somewhere in the neighborhood of 11:30 a.m. The championship game is slated to begin at 4:30 p.m. “Putting the play by play of the game aside, what we got out of this game is that we’re coming back .on Friday to play again,” said CHS coach Ken Williams. “A win is a win and at this point of the season, a win means you get to keep playing.” THE CLOVERS WERE swinging hot bats on Tuesday as they pounded out 16 hits. They also took advantage of errors and walks over the course of the afternoon as the Cadets booted the ball 13 times and issued free passes 14 times. But it was nothing new to Cloverdale as back on May 5, Cascade pitchers walked 31 Clovers and committed eight errors as CHS posted a double-header sweep by 19-5 and 14-8 scores. “We hit the ball all day long out there this afternoon,” Williams said. “But you never anticipate games like this. You never expect them to happen. But this is the third time it has happended with us and Cascade because when we played them earlier this month, we scored 30some runs against them and won twice. “HOW DO YOU figure this game? We score on Cascade but have trouble scoring against a lot of other teams.” Score on Cascade the Clovers did as CHS pushed home at least one run in every inning except the fourth. The big

blasted the Cadets, 24-4, to advance to Friday's game against South Putnam. (Banner-Graphic photo by Keith E. Domke)

Putnam County's baseball leaders are listed in today's scoreboard section frames were the third and sixth when CHS touched the plate seven and 13 times, respectively. “I have to say that I don’t think anyone is struggling for us at the plate right now,” Williams said. “And a game like this should help build our confidence for Friday, especially for the inexperienced kids. But, we’ll have to see.” Clovenlale 24, Cascade 4 Cloverdale 21701(13) -2416 2 Cascade 220 000 - 4 713 Kempt, Allee (2), Minnick (*) and Nees, Kempt (6); J. Stevenson, Wilson (3), Brock (6), PhiUipe (6) Durham (*) and Walker, D. Stevenson (5). W - Allee L - J. Stevenson. 3B - Gaddis (Cl). 2B - Lowes (Cl); Walker (Ca). IN THE TOP of the first, Craig Whitaker and Brian Allee gave Cloverdale a 2-0 lead as both came through with an RBI single. But two hits and two errors in Cascade’s half of the inning tied the score before a triple off the bat of Jeff Gaddis, a fielder’s choice off Darin Price’s bat and a single by David Kempf gave the Clovers a 3-2 lead. In that turn at bat, two Clovers, Gaddis and Kempf, were thrown out at the plate on close plays. Price scored the run. Cascade took advantage of four walks and a single in the bottom half of the inning to take its only lead, 4-3. Jamie Stevenson drove in teammate Todd Blackburn, who had walked, with a single and Dick Gregg picked up the easy RBI when he was issued a free pass with the bases loaded. “We started out a little slow,” Williams said, “both with the bat and on the mound. But it was good to see Gaddis hit that triple. We made some mistakes early on but I felt we played better as the game progressed.” Indeed. TWELVE CLOVERS CAME to the plate in the seven-run third that put CHS ahead for good, 10-4. But only three of the runs came by way of the RBI as Brad Fritz smacked a single that drove in one run and John Nees and Price received ribees when they walked with the bases

loaded. The Cadets committed three errors in the inning which greatly aided the Clovers’ cause. Whitaker singled to lead off the Cloverdale fifth and later trotted home with CHS’s llth run when Dwayne Lowes reached on an error before all heck broke loose in the top of the sixth. Seven hits, four errors and five walks were responsible for the 13-run inning. Whitaker, Fritz, Nees, Price and Allee picked up RBI in the inning with Price getting two on a single and Allee’s coming on a sacrifice fly. The others were all oneRBI singles. In all, 17 men came to the plate in the scoring spree. “IT’S HARD TO figure out what this game will do for us on Friday,” Williams said. “The kids were a little tight beforehand today but were relaxed as the game went on. Hopefully, this game’s outcome will have a lot of positive effects on us for Friday.” All nine Cloverdale starters knocked out at least one hit in the game with Price and Whitaker leading the way with threehit performances. Whitaker ended up 3-for-4 while Price was 3-for-5. Kempf, Fritz and Lowes all had two hits apiece. Price also led the RBI parade with three while Nees, Kempf, Whitaker, Allee, and Fritz all collected two apiece. The rout made a winner of Allee, who came on in the second in relief of Kempf, who gave up all four Cascade runs. Allee went 3 2/3 innings and allowed only five hits before Jerry Minnick pitched a scoreless sixth to end the game. IN THE FIELD, Cloverdale committed only two errors with both of those coming in the first frame. “There are three factors in baseball - hitting, pitching and fielding,” Williams said. “And in order for us to have a shot at South Putnam, we will need to be at least decent in all three areas. If one falls short, we’re in trouble. “But one thing we have going for us is our attitude. Our kids have such a good outlook on the game of baseball and they don’t get rattled or upset. They just play the game hard.” DURING THE REGULAR season, back on April 24, South Putnam defeated Cloverdale, 8-2.

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Celtics take 3-1 lead in NBA championship

HOUSTON (AP) Last season when Boston center Robert Parish got tired, he often had to ignore his fatigue and continue playing. But this season Coach K.C. Jones learned that relief is spelled B-I-L-L W-A-L-T-O-N. Parish hit 10 of 15 shots, scored 22 points and contained Ralph Sampson in the second half to put the Celtics in position to win Game Four Tuesday night in their NBA playoff against the Houston Rockets. But it took a relief performance by Walton in the final three minutes and a crucial three-point basket by Larry Bird to preserve a 106-103 Boston victory. Walton’s performance allowed the Celtics to take a 3-1 lead in the best-of-secen series. They can win their 16th NBA title with a victory in The Summit Thursday night. But Parish isn’t the only tired Celtics player ready for vacation time and forward Kevin McHale likes Boston’s position. “Three-one is a good place to be,” McHale said. “Everyone knows how close we are, and we don’t want to extend it any more than necessary. ” After a tight struggle throughout the fourth quarter, Bird took a feed from Walton and sank a three-point basket with 2:27 to play that broke a 101-101 tie and gave the Celtics the lead for good. With 1:40 to go, Walton’s tip-in made it

Rose says Cincinnati is developing 1 -2-3 punch

CINCINNATI (AP) - Playermanager Pete Rose says his Cincinnati Reds are showing signs of developing a one-two-three punch in the bullpen. Rose referred to right-handers Ted Power and Ron Robinson and lefthander John Franco. Tuesday night, Franco pitched the final inning and collected his ninth save, in relief of Power, who got the victory in a comeback triumph over the Chicago Cubs to improve his record to 3-3. “I’m not going to say who the closeer is and who the close-er isn’t,” Rose told reporters after Nick Esasky belted a two-run, eighth-inning home run to defeat the Cubs, 5-3. “I like to have all three of them. A lot of teams have just one ... Power got the win, Franco got the save and Robby was down there if we needed him. ” With the score tied 3-3, Esasky

Top seeds struggle before emerging winners at Open

PARIS (AP) Having proven they are human, Ivan Lendl and Martina Navratilova want to prove they deserve their No. 1 seedings in the French Open. The top seeds both struggled a bit Tuesday before advancing to the semifinals. Lendl lost his first set of the tournament before rebounding to beat ninth-seeded Andres Gomez of Ecuador 6-7,7-6,6-0,6-0. Navratilova stumbled before maintaining her perfect record in the tournament with a 7-5,6-4 victory over seven-th-seeded Kathy Rinaldi of the United States. In the next round, Lendl, of Czechoslovakia, plays one of the biggest surprises of this surprise-filled tournament Johan Kriek, the only remaining American man, who upset 1977 French Open champion Guillermo Vilas 3-6, 7-6, 7-6, 7-6 in a match that lasted 4 hours, 16 minutes. A match that was over in just 1:06 advanced Czechoslovakia’s Helena Sukova, the sixth seed, into a semifinal match with Navratilova and ended 14-year-old American Mary Joe Fernandez’s upset string, 6-2,6-4. The last two semifinal berths were being filled today with men’s No. 3 seed Boris Becker of West Germany playing unseeded Mikael Pemfors of Sweden and another unseeded player, Andrei Chesnokov of the Soviet Union, up against No. 8 Henri Leconte of France. Fernandez, who still has three years of high school remaining back in Miami,

106-103. Neither team scored the rest of the way. Having Walton to come on in relief of Parish was a key strategy move for Jones in the closing minutes, and Parish agreed with the decision. “I ran out of gas with two minutes left, everyone could see that, I don’t think I coule have done it,” Parish said. “It was time for me to surface. I was almost invisible in Game 3.” Walton played poorly at the start of the game and said he was surprised that he got a second chance. “I was out of sync and Sampson had a hot hand in the first half,” Walton said. “I was surprised that K.C. put me back in the game.” The Rockets led 64-63 at the half, but trailed 86-85 going into the fourth period. Dennis Johnson, who scored 22 points, hit a pair of free throws with 3:07 to play to erase Houston’s final lead and set the stage for Bird’s go-ahead three-pointer. Bird scored 21 points for Boston. Sampson led the Rockets with 25 points, but had just four in the second half. Despite the frustrating loss, Houston Coach Bill Fitch doesn’t think all hope is gone. He’s been in this must-win situation before when his 1981 Boston Celtics recovered from a 3-1 deficit to Philadelphia in the Eastern Conference finals en route to the NBA title. “I look at this ring and remember that were were down 3-1 and came back to win it,” Fitch said.

fouled off an attempt to advance Dave Parker to second with a sacrifice bunt. Esasky then swung and fouled off another pitch before belting a 1-2 offering from reliever Jay Bailer into the left-field seats. “I got a kick out of Nick,” Rose said. “I said, ‘I thought you could bunt.’” Esasky’s homer ended the Reds’ three-game losing streak and Chicago’s two-game winning streak. “I think it was a hard slider,” Esasky said of the pitch he hit off Bailer, 1-3. “It broke pretty hard at the end. He got the pitch up, and I hit the ball out.” “One day we’ll score some runs, but can’t get the pitching. The next day it’s the other way,” Chicago third baseman Ron Cey said. “We’ll put it all together one day, just keep pounding away at it.”

had registered upsets over Helen Kelesi, Andrea Temesvari, Anne Hobbs and four th-seeded Claudia Kohde-Kilsch before falling to Sukova. The Florida teen-ager had a big chance right off. She had Sukova at break point three times in the second game, only to let the Czechoslovak hold serve and break back. In the second set, Fernandez fought off a match point and held serve on the fourth try to make it 4-5, but Sukova then served out the match at love. The match that ended Fernandez’s dream of a championship came before about 200 people on Court 1, where it was moved from center court because of a backup od matches there. Vilas is a clay-court master, his baseline game ideally suited for the slower surface. But Kriek, the No. 13 seed, took him apart with the serve-and-volley game he uses so well on hardcourts. Lendl said he was surprised to be meeting Kriek in the semifinals. Lendl’s words: “Everybody is, even him.” Open gym at GHS Greencastle High School is currently housing open gym recreational activities this month at McAnally Center. On Monday’s and Tuesday’s through June, the gym will be open from 7:30 to 9 p.m. for those interested. The cost is $1 for adults and 50 cents for students.