Banner Graphic, Volume 17, Number 238, Greencastle, Putnam County, 10 June 1987 — Page 9

L. A. Lakers

BOSTON (AP) Larry Bird may have missed the game’s final shot, but he was right on target afterward. “We have our backs completely against the wall,” the Boston Celtics star said. Most of the time, the Celtics do all the right things to pull out close games. But this time, they made the mistakes and the Los Angeles Lakers made the shots. And now time is running out on Boston’s struggle to become the first NBA team since the 1969 Celtics to repeat as champions. “We have to beat the Lakers three times in a row, two on their home court,” Boston guard Danny Ainge

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Sandra Palmar - defending champion of the Mayflower Classic -- watches her tee shot fly down the fairway on one of the holes on the back nine of the Country

Palmer, Stephenson both claim victories

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Jan Stephenson is claiming victory even before she tees it up for the $350,000 LPGA Mayflower Classic. Stephenson fractured two ribs in a St. Petersburg, Fla., auto accident on May 2 and wasn’t expected to play competitive golf until July. She announced last week that she would play here and was the first golfer on the practice range at the Country Club of Indianapolis on Monday. Tuesday the 36-year-old played in the $25,000 Ameritech Skins Game, a preliminary nine-hole event to the Mayflower, and declared herself ready. “It was a little tender,” Stephenson said of the left side she was protecting with a brace. “I was favoring it in some situations because of the pain.” A girl who ran a red light struck Stephenson’s car, forcing her to withdraw from the S&H Golf Classic while holding the lead. “It was scary,” she said Tuesday, “and I still find it bothering me when I drive. I go much slower and I’m looking for cars to hit me.” Doctors said it would be more than two months before she

Arnold, Timm continue football careers at Rose-Hulman

TERRE HAUTE - Chris Arnold of Cloverdale and Ron Timm of Fillmore, recent graduates of South Putnam High School, have announced their intentions to attend Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology next fall and play football for the Fightin’ Engineers. ARNOLD, A 6-0 165-pound quarjrU»ek, was a four-year varsity letterman for South Putnam. As a senior, he threw for 1,490 yards and

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said. “We have a tough road ahead of us, but I know nobody will give up.” Los Angeles, which is 79-19 in the regular season and playoffs, didn’t give up Tuesday night when the Lakers trailed by 16 points with 4:54 left in the third quarter and eight with 3:20 left in the game. The determination paid off as Magic Johnson hit a 12-foot hook shot in the lane with two seconds left. When Larry Bird’s shot at the buzzer from the left corner hit the back of the rim and bounced away, the Lakers had a 107-106 victory and a 31 lead in the best-of-seven championship series. “We haven’t been a good road

would be able to swing a golf club. “I’m feeling great, so I decided to give myself a test,” Stephenson said. “The short game, even if you practice at home, it’s not the same thing. It’s much easier at the tournament atmosphere to get out and chip and putt. I think my short game is the part I want to get back into.” Stephenson won only $3,000 in the skin game. Defending Mayflower champion Sandra Palmer was the big winner, earning $14,000 from the $25,000 purse. Tour rookie Martha Palmer won $5,000 and Betsy King, the leading money-winner this year, claimed $3,000. Palmer earned $12,000 in a chipoff, leaving her 50-yard shot 6 feet past the cup. Palmer announced after the 9hole event that she was donating her prize money to the Indiana University Riley Hospital for Children in Indianapolis the major charity for the Mayflower Classic. The “skin” game awarded the winner of a hole a specific amount, ranging from SI,OOO for the first hole to $5,000 for the final hole, with the money carried over to the next hole in the event of a tie.

18 touchdowns in leading South Putnam to the Class A state championship. For his efforts last season, he earned All-Putnam-County, and honorable mention All-State honors. Timm, 6-3, 205 pounds, was an offensive and defensive tackle for South Putnam’s state championship squad. “I’m very pleased Chris and Ron have selected Rose-Hulman to further their education,” said Scott

Club of Indianapolis during the Ameritech Skins Game competition Tuesday. Palmer - and then Riley Children's Hospital - were the big winners on the day. Palmer

team all year,” Bird said. “I thought we had to win all three at home. Now we really have our work cut out for us.” The Lakers can wrap up their 10th NBA title and foil the Celtics’ bid for their 17th by winning Thursday night at Boston Garden. If the Celtics’ survive that, they must go back to Inglewood, Calif., for Game 6 Sunday and, if necessary, Game 7 Tuesday night. Boston has lost its last six road games by an average of 15.7 points. “If any team is capable of beating us three straight, it’s the Celtics,” Los Angeles center Kareem AbdulJabbar said. “We have to continue to work hard.”

“I visited the hospital when I was here for a news conference (earlier this year) and I was really impressed with the enthusiasm of all the workers and the doctors,” said Palmer, who begins defending her Mayflower crown Thursday when the 72-hole tournament begins. “I wasn’t looking for publicity. I was just so appreciative of the people and seeing all the little tots,” Palmer said. “This is the fun part of being on the tour, being able to give something back.” The game was played over the back nine at the Country Club of Indianapolis. Palmer and Stephenson tied for the first hole with pars, while Stephenson and King tied on the second hole. Foyer, a three-time Indiana high school champion and a former runner-up in the NCAA tournament, took the first piece of the purse with a birdie on the 322yard, par-4 No. 12. The two-time All American at Southern Methodist, who now lives in Dallas, chipped in an 8iron for the birdie. Palmer left a 4-iron shot about 45 feet from the cup on the next hole, a 160-foot par 3, and made the putt for a birdie and $2,000. Then it was King’s turn for a

Duncan, head football coach at the engineering and science college. “We feel they will fit in very well academically and athletically.” ARNOLD’S INTENDED major at Rose-Hulman is electrical engineering. Timm plans on majoring in chemical engineering. Rose-Hulman is noted for its rigorous academic curriculum in ten engineering and science fields. The Fightin’ Engineer football

Boston has been an exceptional home team. It is 85-3 in its last 88 games at the Garden. But two of those losses have been to the Lakers, who stopped the Celtics’ 48-game Garden winning streak last Dec. 12. “This was big because we never really won the close games here,” Johnson said. “Legend has it we can’t do that here,” Abdul-Jabbar said. “I think the leprechauns will have a headache tomorrow. ’ ’ The Celtics’ heads could be throbbing if they think too much about how they let the game slip away. They had three turnovers and just one field goal after Bird’s long jumper ended an eight-point Celtics’

will officially begin defense of her 1986 title Thursday when the 72-hole tournament begins. (Banner-Graphic photo by Keith E. Domke).

birdie as her a 9-iron shot stopped about 3 feet of the cup and she tapped it in on the 384-yard, par-4 No. 14. Stephenson won her $3,000 on the 158-yard, par-3 No. 15. “I don’t think I hit the ball as hard as I usually do. I was conscious of the pain,” she said. “Hitting out of the rough really hurts. Stephenson hit a 4-iron shot 12 feet from the pin and made the putt for her birdie. On the 16th hole, Palmer just missed a 10-footer for a birdie and the $2,000 prize carried over to the 17th hole. All four women had pars on the 17th, creating the $12,000 prize for the final hole. Palmer and Stephenson both missed by less than 3 feet to set the stage for the 50-yard chip-off. King, hitting first, left the ball about 25 feet from the fringe. Foyer, cheered on by a hometown delegation, smiled and then sailed the ball well past the cup. Palmer hit next and left the ball about 6 feet behind the cup and when Stephenson’s shot went about 20 feet past the hole, Palmer had her victory. The women will play in a proam today with a full field of 144 scheduled to compete in the 11th Mayflower on Thursday.

team finished last season with an 8-2 record that included a 4-0 mark for first place in the College Athletic Conference. Rose-Hulman has had 11 All-America selections and eight Academic All-American picks on the gridiron. Arnold is the son of J. David and Sue Ann Arnold, R.R. 1, Box 128, Cloverdale. Timm is the son of Larry and Ruth Timm, Box 20AA, Fillmore.

surge and gave them a 103-95 lead with 3:29 remaining. “We had this game. We played great for 46 minutes. We threw it away,” Ainge said. “The Lakers beat us in the first two games but we beat ourselves in this one.” Johnson led the Lakers with 29 points and James Worthy added 21. The Celtics, who led 55-47 at half-

sports

Walden/Putnam Inn stays in first place

Walden/Putnam Inn secured its spot on top of the lower division standings in the Greencastle Men’s Softball League Tuesday night by turning back one of its closest followers. In the upper division, S & S Raiders kept rolling along and posted its seventh win of the season in as many tries. WALDEN/PUTNAM INN defeated K & K, 7-3, behind the pitching of Roy Clark and the hitting of Keith Hanly, Rick Schrock, Brad Gilliam and Jay Anderson. That quartet of players all had multi-hit games at the plate for the winners while Clark only surrendered the three runs while on the mound. The triumph Moved W/P to 4-1 on the season while K & K - needing a win Tuesday to move into a firstplace tie in the division - slipped to 23, tied for third place with Brown’s Nursery, a 13-11 winner over Lone Star Tuesday. Walden/Putnam trailed, 1-0, after the first inning, but tied the game in the top of the third and went ahead in the fourth by tacking on three runs for a 4-1 lead. K & K closed the gap to 4-3 in the bottom of the fifth, before the winners added insurance runs in both the sixth and seventh. S & S RAIDERS only pushed home runs in three innings, but the run output was more than enough to send Hopkins-Rector down to defeat in only six frames, 14-2. Jeff Mace, Roger Zimmerman, Tracy Pitts, Craig Sibbitt and John Scobee led the way offensively for undefeated S & S as all five men recorded multi-hit games at the plate. The big inning came in the top of the sixth, when the Raiders turned a relatively close, 6-2 affair into the 14-2 final tally with a hitting barrage that netted an eight-run frame. Randy Zimmerman was the winner for S & S, and sent HopkinsRector to its third loss in six games to level the record. BROWN’S NURSERY earned its second win of the season in five games to move into the tie for third place with a wild, come-from-behind win over Lone Star, which dropped to 1-3. The final tally was 13-11, but eight of those 13 runs were put on the

Big T golf tourney to be held later this month

The Big “I” Insurance Youth Golf Classic -- now in its 19th year - is nationally recognized as the largest tournament for junior golfers. It is sponsored by the Independent Insurance Agents of America, Inc., its affiliated state and local associations and a select group of property and casualty insurance companies. INDIANA’S SELECTION OF the tournament begins with 18-hole, local qualifying rounds. In Greencastle, that round will be played on Friday, June 26, at Windy Hill Country Club. The next step is the 36-hole state finals at Hoosier Links Golf Course, with the top players there advancing to the national tournament. The 60 national finalists will form threesomes to play a 36-hole tourney with a current Professional Golf Association professional. Among the list of pros that will make the threesomes into foursomes are Tom Kite, Craig Stadler, Tom Watson and Fuzzy Zoeller. APPLICATIONS FOR THE local qualifying event can be obtained at

June 10,1987 THE BANNERGRAPHIC

time, were paced by Kevin McHale with 25, Ainge with 23 and Bird with 21. Los Angeles, outrebounded 48-32 in losing Game 3 Sunday 109-103, won the battle of the boards 46-37 Tuesday night. “We won a very terrific game in a tough place to win,” Abdul-Jabbar said. “I guess we earned some respect by the way we came back. ”

scoreboard in the top of the seventh inning. Lone Star had built a 10-5 lead through six innings by scoring five runs in the first, two in both the second and fourth and one in the sixth innings, while Brown’s tacked two on the board in the third and fourth and one in the fifth. BUT, IN ITS last at bat, Brown’s found the groove at the plate and put the eight-spot on the board to move past Lone Star. Chuck Bellmore led the Brown’s hit parade with a four-hit game that included a home run and a double. Winning pitcher Charlie Brown added three hits to the attack while seven other BN players also had multi-hit games. The final game of the night was an upper division clash between Moose I and Tincher Construction, with the Moose boys coming out on top, 13-5. TERRY SUTHERLIN was the hitting hero for the winners with four hits, while Don Hopkins and Tracy Alspaugh recorded three-hit games. Randy Williams and winning pitcher Mike Owens chipped in with two hits apiece. Tincher Construction jumped on Owens for three runs in the first, but then fell victim to a six-run second and a one-run third, before coming back with a pair of tallies in the bottom of the third for a 7-5 deficit. Moose I then scored two runs in the fourth and four in the sixth, sandwiched around a two-run Tincher fifth. THE VICTORY PUT Moose I at 3-3 on the season - tied for third. Tincher’s is now 2-5. Action this week on the Robe-Ann Park diamond will conclude tonight with lower-division play dominating the schedule. After Rokicki State Farm Insurance and Moose II battle in an up-per-division confrontation at 6 p.m., the 7, 8 and 9 schedule games will take place between the lower seated clubs. AT 7, WALDEN/PUTNAM Inn will again try to strengthen its hold on first place with a contest against Video Heaven. Dixie Chopper and Brown’s Nursery will meet at 8, while Lone Star and K & K will tangle at 9.

Windy Hill. The event is open to amateur golfers who will not reach their 18th birthday before August 19 of this year. There is a $9 application fee. Legion tops Kiwanis The Legion scored six runs in the bottom of the sixth, then held Kiwanis scoreless in the top of the seventh Monday to post a 14-13 win in local Babe Ruth baseball action. JERRAD KENDALL was the winning pitcher for the Legion, striking out 10 along the way. He was victimized, however, by Kiwanis’ Howard Bess, who stroked a pair of home runs to lead the losers at the plate. Jamie Cox also smacked a four-bagger for Kiwanis. Kiwanis led, 1-0 after one inning and 4-0 after two before the third inning ended with Kiwanis ahead, 6-5. Four more runs were scored by Kiwanis in the top of the fourth and three more were added in the sixth, sandwiched around a three-spot by the Legion in the bottom of the €if?h, setting the stage for the exciting sixth.

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