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Tod Ulrey of North Putnam comes up for air as he pushes through the water en route to a first-place finish in the 100-yard

Eagles beaten in three-way meet

Cougar swimmers rally to earn Ist win

Coming from behind during the last half of the meet Thursday, the North Putnam High School boys’ swim team earned its first win of the season, an 88-77 triumph over Crawfordsville. Results in scoreboard Through the diving competition, the fifth event out of 11, the Cougars trailed, 42-35, and were still behind after the next event the 100-yard butterfly by a 5042 count. But, the hosts then made their move, taking first place in four of the last five events and backing that with one second- and three third-place finishes to claim the victory. IN OTHERI swim action in the county Thursday, South Putnam played host to a three-way meet. Cascade finished on top with 111 points, Edgewood took second with 98 and the Eagles placed third with 73 points. Tod Ulrey, Denny Leeke, Scott Spencer and the 400-yard freestyle relay team of Colby Strausburger, Scott Croan, John Strohl and Ulrey all came through with top efforts for North in the latter stages of its meet to pull the win out of the pool. The first lead for the Cougars came after the 500 freestyle (the eighth event) as Leeke posted a winning time of 6:34.92 and was backed by a third-place effort by Mike

South wins, Greencastle loses

North gals upset Owen Valley

Sophomore Susan Games and her North Putnam High School girls’ basketball team saved their best games of the regular season for last as the Cougars posted a 59-47 upset win over Owen Valley Thursday. The triumph sends the Blue and Orange into next week’s Western Boone Sectional with a 611 overall record. Boxes in scoreboard In other action involving Putnam County teams Thursday, South Putnam ended its season with a 66-52 win at Rockville, while host Greencastle was defeated by Edgewood, 57-51. The county’s regular season will conclude on Saturday when the Cloverdale girls travel to South Vermillion. GAMES DELIVERED a tripledouble for North Putnam as the petit guard scored 13 points, grabbed 12 rebounds and dished out 10 assists. The school-record 10 assists gave her 75 on the season to also establish a single-season mark at NPHS. “The play of Susan Games was the difference,” said North coach Doug Rose. “This was her best game of the year and the team’s best game of the year. The keys were our shooting, our rebounding and the play of Susan Games.” The Cougars sizzled from the floor, sinking 27-of-48 shots for 56 percent. A 5-for-7 effort from the free-throw line also did not hurt, while the hosts snatched 44 rebounds to Owen Valley’s 25. Alison Phipps who also led the way scoring-wise with 19 points for the winners caromed 15 rebounds. THE COUGARS never trailed as Jill Carter hit the opening basket of the game. The scores at the stops were 14-8, 24-16 and 44-33. 'James just seemed to motivate the whole team,” Rose said. “She was all over the court. It was a

freestyle Thursday In the NPHS pool. Ulrey posted a 57.52 time and helped lead the Cougars to their first win of the season, an

Hazelett and a fourth-place finish by Brian Cole. That boosted the hosts to a 64-59 advantage that was never lost the rest of the wav. “I’M VERY happy,” said North coach Ken Boruff. “We had a lot of best times and it was a very exciting meet. We keep improving and it’s starting to show in the results.” Ulrey won the 100 freestyle with a 57.52 before Leeke came through in the 500 freestyle. Spencer’s 1:15.45 clocking took top honors in the 100 breaststroke before the four relay swimmers combined for a 4:34.86 time in the 400 freestyle. Before the diving, the best North could do was a second-place finish by its 200 medley relay team (Leeke, Darren Hazelett, Spencer, Jim Miller), a No. 2 finish by Ulrey in the 200 freestyle, a second-place effort by Spencer in the individual medley, and a runner-up showing by Leeke in the 50 freestyle. DARREN HAZELETT then touched the wall second in the butterfly and Miller did the same in the 100 freestyle. Placing third for the Cougars were their No. 2 medley relay team, Darren Hazelett in the 200 freestyle, Strohl in the 50 freestyle, Brian Cole in the diving competition, Croan in the butterfly, Mike Hazelett in the 500 freestyle, Jason Wehrman in the backstroke and a second 400 freestyle relay team.

great performance.” In all, Games sank six of her seven shots and tacked on a free throw to arrive at her 13 points. Joining her and Alison Phipps in double figures in the scoring department was Carter, who had 10. Jody Marsteller added nine. NORTH OPENS sectional play at Western Boone with the host Stars, Wednesday at 8 p.m. At Rockville, bench play helped key the Eagles’ 14-point win as three regulars rode the bench for most or all of the second half for various reasons. However, the catalysts were Kim Van Horn and Rene McKinney the two remaining starters even though coach Jim Huter received some solid play from substitutes Tina Husk, Julie Lairmore and Kellie Whitaker. “VANHORN CONTROLLED the team the whole second half while McKinney shot well throughout the game,” Huter said. “But, the play of Husk, Lairmore and Whitaker off the bench were big factors as well.” Julee Hassler injured a knee and sat the entire second half after ripping the nets for 14 points in the first. Stacy Broadstreet battled a stomach virus and missed most of the second half, while Lisa Bright was in foul trouble and rode the bench the majority of the time. “I was very happy with our play off the bench,” Huter said. “The team was enthusiastic as we played with as good intensity as we’ve had all year.” THE EAGLES sank nine of their 14 shots in the first quarter to race to a 22-10 lead at the stop. McKinney and Hassler combined to hit the first six shots for South and the visitors were never headed the rest of the way. At halftime, the score stood 36-18 while at the end of the third period it was 52-3 r McKinney netted 23 points on a 10-for-17 perormance from the

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Next action for NPHS is Saturday at home against North Montgomery. The first event is scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. At South Putnam, the Eagles could not muster a first-place finish and only picked up five seconds as they were outswam by both Cascade and Edgewood. BOTH RELAY teams, Matt Leach and Anthony Boswell picked up the runner-up finishes while Leach and Mark Timm touched the wall in the third position. “I was very satisfied with individual times,” said SPHS coach Paula Birt. “We just couldn’t add up enough team points. We are still improving.” The Eagles brought up the rear almost throughout the entire meet after the Mustangs took over second place in the team totals during the individual medley. Cascade led throughout as the Cadets picked up seven first places, four

field that included two threepointers. Van Hom matched Hassler’s effort with 14 points of her own on 4-of-6 shooting that featured one three-pointer. In all, the Eagles canned 52 percent of their shots as a team, hitting 27-of-52 from the floor. NEXT ACTION for the 13-5 Eagles is Thursday in the Cloverdale Sectional against county foe Greencastle. Tipoff is set for 6:30 p.m. The Tiger Cubs, playing without the presence of coach Glenn Hile, almost pulled off the big win against Edgewood. Hile was in Indianapolis with his hospitalized wife and new baby daughter. “The girls worked hard under the adverse conditions of not having Glenn there,” said GHS assistant coach Trish Arthur. “But, Glenn has these girls well-coached and they played well and did the best they could as a unit” THE TIGER Cubs led by one point, 15-14, after the first quarter but fell behind at halftime, 30-26. The tally at the end of three was 46-40, Mustangs. Tracy Gorham, Melissa Dean and Alison Spencer turned in fine performances for GHS, which closed its regular season with a 9-9 slate. Gorham tallied 18 points and grabbed 10 rebounds, Dean netted 14 points and dished out 10 assists, while Spencer scored 12 points and was 4-of-4 from the free-throw line. Good shooting by Edgewood during the first half led to the win. In all, the Mustangs were 26-for-60 from the floor. “THEIR GUARDS (Kristi Moore with 20 points and Shelly Weaver with 15) were the difference,” Arthur said. “There’s 35 points right there and they hit from the outside. We just didn’t recover fast enough to get a hand in their faces when they shot”

88-77 conquest of Crawfordsville. (BannerGraphic photo by Keith E. Domke)

seconds and two thirds. Edgewood won four events, placed second in another two and ended up third in seven. LEACH’S I.M. effort was 2:33.50, about eight seconds slower than the winning time. Boswell placed second in both the 50- and 100-yard freestyles with 27.16 and 1:00.91 times. The 200 medley relay team consisting of Timm, Andy Costin, Leach and Boswell were clocked in 2:06.42. The run-ner-up 400 free relay squad of Brian Sanders, Clint Galloway, Travis Branch and Wayne Teipen swam to a 4:34.71 time. Next action for the Eagles comes Monday at home against Tri-West.

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Kicking up an abundance of water in the process, South Putnam’s Mark Timm begins his trek back to the starting block after making a turn during the 100-yard backstroke competi-

DePauw looks for win on Saturday

By KEITH E. DOMKE Banner-Graphic Sports Editor Hoping that history does not repeat itself, the DePauw University men’s basketball team prepares for a Saturday night (7:30 p.m. tipoff) contest against Franklin College in the Lilly Center. It was just under one year ago when the Tigers went through a stretch of their schedule when they lost three of four games in February, continually dropping the Black and Gold down in the NCAA Division 111 rankings. Just recently this season, DePauw has lost two of its last three outings and has gone from first to third to eighth in the small-college poll compiled by the NCAA. LOSSES TO Anderson and Taylor universities on consecutive Saturday road trips have brought the Tigers’ record this winter to 124. A win over lUPUI in between was recorded as DPU picked up its 10th straight win in Neal Fieldhouse (ninth this season) after the Metros snapped the now in jepoardy, NCAA Division 111 win streak record of 61 in a row on Feb. 19 last year. North Park College of Illinois has won 60 in a row at home, but the 61st would have to come Saturday against third-ranked Illinois Wesleyan. The loss to the Metros last February was the second of those three losses suffered during the latter stages of the 1986-87 season. The Tigers had been beaten at Marian College eight days before, and ended up losing at Washington St. Louis two days later. A win at Rose-Hulman came between Marian and lUPUI. A loss to the Grizzlies on Saturday would place DePauw in the same boat as last season, although the overall record would be different The Tigers were 19-5 after the three-out-of-four loss string then and would be 12-5 now with nine games still on the schedule. DPU finished the regular season last winter at 21-5 and advanced to the Division 111 tournament for the fourth straight season, where it lost then won to finish the year 22-6. HOWEVER, DEPAUW dominated Franklin earlier this season on the road, winning 95-69 on Jan. 6. Senior frontliner Dan

tion Thursday in the SPHS pool. Timm placed third in the event, as did the Eagles in the threeway meet. (Banner-Graphic photo by Keith E. Domke)

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Falotico paced the Black and Gold with 23 points, while fellow forward Jim Sandgren pumped in 18. Center Mike Connor scored 15 while freshman guard Brett Crist netted 12. Brad Jones led the Grizzlies in that outing with 26 and has led FC in scoring the entire season. Mike Gibbs was good for 13 against DPU and led the way with eight rebounds. Franklin is coming off a 73-68 road win over Hanover and now stands at 9-6 on the year. Connor is tops on the DePauw scoring charts with a 14.4 average through the 16 games. Sandgren is next in line at 12.2 while Falotico is third with an 11.9 average. Fellow senior Randy Biederstedt and Crist are fourth and fifth with 8.8 and 8.6 averages, respectively. Sandgren is tops' in rebounding with a 7.1 average, while Connor and Falotico are grabbing 5.4 and 4.1 boards apiece. CONNOR NOW needs 69 points to catch three-year teammate David Galle, who graduated in 1987 after scoring 1,203 points in a DePauw uniform. Connor is eighth on the all-time DPU scoring chart, after beginning the season in the 16th position. Falotico started the year 48th, but has blazed his way into 22nd with 796 career points. At his current pace, Connor would finish the regular season 18 points shy of being the fifth best scorer in the institution’s history. The Tigers are connecting on 53 percent of their shots this winter, 49 percent of .their three-point tries, and on 72 percent of their free throws. They are scoring 77 points per game and giving up 62. After Franklin, three of the next four games to start February will be on the road as DePauw will visit Millikin on the third, Manchester on the sixth and Illinois Wesleyan on the 10th. Webster will come to Greencastle on Sunday, Feb. 7 for a 3 p.m. game. The rest of the month, the Tigers will play at home against Washington-St. Louis on the 13th, at lUPUI on the 17th, at home against Anderson on the 20th, at Huntington on the 23rd, and at Wabash on the 27th.

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