Banner Graphic, Volume 17, Number 76, Greencastle, Putnam County, 29 November 1986 — Page 4

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THE BANNERGRAPHIC. November 29,1986

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No. 2 Louisville falls in overtime

By The Associated Press Louisville Coach Denny Crum tried to make people listen. “I kept saying we weren’t a very good basketball team,” Crum said. “Everybody thought we’d win with Pervis Ellison back, but when you have to replace three starters, you’re in trouble.” Friday night, the second-ranked Cardinals, defending NCAA champions, lost 88-84 in overtime to unheralded Northeastern in the first round of the ninth annual Great Alaska Shootout college basketball tournament. Reggie Lewis scored four of his 32 points in overtime for the Huskies. Kenny Payne hit a three-point goal

Balanced attack keys Purdue win

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) Purdue Coach Gene Keady felt a little bit better about his fourth-ranked Boilermakers after their seasonopening 97-65 thrashing of Stetson. “I was pretty anxious about (the game),” he said after Friday night’s game. “I really didn’t know how good they were. I think our older kids, who know how to win on the road made the difference. “I thought they (the Stetson players) were really aggressive, they were fast, but we were able to wear them down with our reserves.” Troy Lewis scored 19 points and Todd Mitchell added 14 for Purdue. The balanced Boilermakers also got 13 points from Everette Stephens and 12 from Melvin McCants, who grabbed a team-high 10 rebounds. Stetson, 0-1, was led by Randy Anderson with 17 points and 11 rebounds. Charles Stevenson added 12 points and Gary Coachman had 10 for the Hatters. Purdue never was threatened,

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with 48 seconds left to tie the score 76-76, sending it into overtime. Louisville committed 25 turnovers in the game, 21 in the first half. In the other Shootout games, 10thranked lowa beat Alaska-Anchorage 91-81, No. 17 North Carolina State defeated Texas 69-68 and Utah State beat Washington 81-72. Top-ranked North Carolina got its season under way with a 98-78 win over Hawaii. In other games involving ranked teams, fourth-ranked Purdue defeated Stetson 97-65, No. 12 Auburn downed AlabamaBirmingham 68-58 and 13th-ranked Alabahia defeated Northeast Lousiana 82-56.

jumping out to a 7-3 lead after just over a minute of play and stretching it to 24-12 with 11:38 left in the half. The Boilermakers were up 48-33 at intermission. Purdue kept the heat on in the second half, while the Hatters cooled considerably. With the Boilermakers up 70-47 with 10:50 to play, the Hatters began a seven-minute spell where they didn’t hit a field goal. When the drought was over, Purdue led 88-56. “They did a great job on defense and ran us out of any type of offensive play,” said Stetson Coach Glenn Wilkes. “We didn’t get any offense going at all.” The Hatters made only 22 of 69 shots from the field, while the Boilermakers connected on 41 of 74 shots, including four of seven from 3-point range. The only statistic where the Boilermakers didn’t totally dominate was rebounds, where they had only a 4844 edge.

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Title caps 11-3 Eagle season

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drive. Arnold found receiver Chris Sullivan on the sideline for a 14-yard gain and the initial first down. Billy Scott and Bruce Bridgewater then carried for six and eight yards, respectively. FACING A THIRD-and-nine, Arnold again found Sullivan for an 11yard gain along the sideline. Bruce Bridgewater followed with a 14-yard first-down sweep left. Then from the 15, Arnold again went upstairs to Tim Porter. Porter had slipped past the defenders and found himself all alone at the five-yard line and went in for the touchdown. “I was yelling and screaming to Arnold to throw me the ball,” Porter said. “I was all alone -- in that Dome, it was doubly awesome.” BRIAN BRIDGEWATER ran for the two-point conversion and the Eagles led, 15-7. The top-ranked Bluejays came right back by moving 65 yards in 15 plays. Staying totally on the ground, the North Judson runners pounded out gains of four, five and six yards to the Eagle four at the end of the drive. Then, Pacilio went in for the score. ON THE TWO-POINT conversion attempt, however, Brad Toney and Vickrey stopped All-State running back Tom Zimmerman short to the goal line to maintain a 15-13 halftime lead. South Putnam took little time to start the scoring in the second half. Bruce Bridgewater returned the kickoff 37 yards to the Bluejay 47yard line. Three rushes of five, five and four yards placed the ball at the 30. Chris Sullivan recalled the next play: “We’d been running short stuff so this time I ran a slant out and cut back.” CHRIS ARNOLD THEN threw the long one to Sullivan at the two-yard line. Running backward, Sullivan crossed the goal line. “He’s the person I go to when the pressure’s on,” Arnold said. “All I had to do was lay it out there.” Filling in for the ill Brian Bridgewater, sophomore Troy Branson came in to kick the extra point, giving the Eagles a 22-13 lead. AT THIS POINT, the Eagle defense took control of the ball game. On the ensuing Bluejay drive, Vickrey sacked quarterback Vessely for a two-yard loss. Two plays later Vessely was sacked by Cash and Chris Bombei and another six-yard loss, giving the Bluejays a fourth-and-13 situation that forced a punt. The Eagles also were unable to move the ball and returned the punt four plays later. The Eagle defense held, and again the Bluejays punted. This time the Eagles had only two plays. Going for the long bomb, Arnold threw from the North Judson 45yard line. With Sullivan, the intended receiver, going down the right sideline, the pass traveled to the five where Bluejay Mark McCallum intercepted the pass at the end of the third quarter. BUT NORTH JUDSON again was unable to develop their ground game and was forced to punt for the third time in the second half. Bruce Bridgewater opened the

Fuzzy tabbed favorite in Skins Game

LA QUINTA, Calif. (AP) Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer and Lee Trevino agree that Fuzzy Zoeller is the man to beat in golf’s Skins Game. “That’s very nice of them. I thank them,” Zoeller said after completing preparations for today’s opening of the made-for-television event that, sponsors say, has the highest ratings of any golf show in the country. “But those three gentlemen don’t have to take a back seat to anybody,” Zoeller said. “I just want to have a chance to choke.” Zoeller won a record $255,000 last year in his first appearance in the Skins Game, which calls for the four men to play nine holes today and nine on Sunday with total prize money of $450,000. Each of the first six holes is worth $15,000, each of the next six carries a $25,000 value and each of the last six has a $35,000 prize. If there is not a clear-cut winner on a hole, the prize money is carried over to the next hole. “It’s a different kind of golf. It all comes down to making a birdie at the right time,” said Nicklaus, who had made $295,000 in three Skins appearances. “It’s entirely possible that you could shoot 78 or 80 and win all the money.” Some very high numbers can be expected on the new PGA West course at this desert playground. “The idea was to make it the toughest course

McEnroe, Noah, Lendl, Becker in AT&T semis

ATLANTA (AP) John McEnroe easily defeated Brad Gilbert 6-1, 6-2 and France’s Yannick Noah, who threatened to quit after a dispute over a line call, calmed down and trimmed Miloslav Mecir 6-4, 6-2 Friday to join Ivan Lendl and Boris Becker in the semifinals of the

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South Putnam fans let the world know who is No. 1 in their hearts Friday afternoon at the Hoosier Dome in Indianapolis. Their team respon-

series with an attempted tailback pass to Sullivan but a pass interference penalty broke up the play and resulted in a 15-yard markoff against the Bluejays. From the North Judson 23-yard line, it was five straight rushing plays for the Eagles to the 14-yard line. Going to the air again, Arnold found Sullivan wide open in the back left corner of the end zone. Brian Bridgewater returned to the game and kicked the extra point for a 29-13 lead with 7:37 remaining in the game. NORTH JUDSON LEFT its normal game plan at this point and started throwing the ball. The first pass went for 40 yards as Vessely hit Pacilio. Two plays later, Vessely attempted to hit Keith Power in the end zone but Arnold intercepted the pass at the one-yard line. “That was probably the most important interception I ever made,” Arnold said. When the Eagles were unable to move out of the deep position, they were forced to punt. Taking the ball on the Eagle 30, it took North Judson only two plays to score the touchdown pass from Vessley to Pacilio covering 30 yards. The two-point conversion by Pacilio put the Bluejays within eight points, 29-21. SOUTH WAS AGAIN forced to punt and the Bluejays had the ball on South Putnam’s 43-yard line with 2:36 remaining in the game. Trying to go to a passing offense, the Bluejays met nothing but covered receivers and three straight sacks. First it was Bruce Bridgewater. “THE PLAY BEFORE I backed off,” Bruce recalled. “Then I got his blindside and he didn’t see me coming as I jumped on him.” On the following play it was Ron Timm getting the sack. “He looked away and I jumped up and BAMM! ” he said. THEN BRUCE BRIDGEWATER got back into the act and closed out the Bluejay hopes with the third straight sack. As the South Putnam crowd roared its approval the Eagle football team received the state championship trophy for Class A. Junior Chris Bombei had nothing but praise for the North Judson team, “They are a heck of a ball club

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in the country,” Nicklaus said of the Pete Deydesigned layout that plays to more than 7,700 yards from the back tees. “If they play the tees all the way back, we could embarass ourselves,” the current Masters champion said. “One of the toughest, if not the toughest, I’ve seen,” added Zoeller, winner of three titles on the PGA Tour this year. “A very, very difficult course. It’s entirely possible that a bogey could win a skin,” said Palmer, who, along with Nicklaus, has played in

$500,000 AT&T Challenge tennis tournament. McEnroe and Noah won in afternoon matches, while No. l-ranked Lendl and No. 2 Becker won in the night session. Lendl needed only 53 minutes to down Sweden’s Mikael Pemfors 6-1,

ded by winning the IHSAA Class A state football championship. (Banner-Graphic photo by Carol Estes)

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Bruce Bridgewater (31) and Chris Sullivan react as the final second ticks away in Friday's 29-21 state championship win over North Judson. South Putnam finished the 1986 season

- big, strong, quick.” LINEMAN KEVIN RAISOR called them “the biggest line we faced all year.” But Vickrey, another senior, summed it all up best: “I’m on top of the world. It’s a miracle.” South Putnam athletic director James Huter praised his coaching staff: “State championships are not won on the field, it’s what happens before the game that wins them Coaches (Mark) Wildman, (Bob) Wasson, (Jeff) Giesting, and (David) Rarick deserve the credit.” THE EAGLES CAPPED an 11-3 season by accomplishing something no other Eagle football team, or any team in Putnam County, has ever ac-

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6-1. Becker beat third-ranked Mats Wilander of Sweden 7-6,6-3. Lendl will meet McEnroe in a 1 p.m. EST nationally televised (ABCTV) match. Becker will meet Noah in the night session. McEnroe, who came back from a seven-month layoff in August, was

with an 11-3 record on the way to claiming Putnam County's first-ever state football title. (Banner-Graphic photo by Carol Estes)

complished. The South Putnam Eagles are state champions. South Putnam 29, North Judson 21 North Judson 7 6 0 8-21 South Putnam 7 8 7 7-29 N.J.H.S. S.P.H.S. First downs 19 12 Rushes yards 59-149 29-110 Passing 5-12-1 8-13-2 Passing yards 90 105 Punts average 3-26 3-39 Fumbles times lost 4-1 o-0 Penalties Yards 4-50 1-5 Scoring Summary N.J. - Pacilio 1 run (Paciliokick) S.P. - Bruce Bridgewater 61 run (Brian Bridgewater kick) S.P. - Porter 15 pass from Arnold (Brian Bridgewater run) N.J. - Pacilio4 run (run failed) S.P. - Sullivan 30 pass from Arnold (Branson kick) S.P. - Sullivan 12 pass from Arnold (Brian Bridgewater kick) N.J. - Pacilio 30 pass from Vessely (Pacilio run)

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all four Skins Games. “A long, hard golf course. The premium is on length. And you have to hit the ball high. That makes it look good for Fuzzy,” said Trevino, who is making his first appearance in the Skins Game. “It’s exciting,” Trevino added. “There’s a tremendous amount of pressure. Not just to win money. The four players here don’t need the money. That’s not it. You just want to walk off with the most skins.” The event will be televised nationally by NBC.

back playing near his previous No. 1 form. He needed only 66 minutes tc dispose of Gilbert. Sunday’s title match, worth $150,000 to the winner, also will be televised by ABC, beginning at 4 p.m. EST.

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