Banner Graphic, Volume 18, Number 186, Greencastle, Putnam County, 14 April 1988 — Page 7

Pacers fall further into trouble with loss to Knicks

NEW YORK (AP) Mark Jackson said his role changes according to who is playing well for the New York Knicks, and right now the rookie star’s role is to get the ball to Patrick Ewing. Box in scoreboard ; Jackson had 17 assists Wednesday night, many of them on passes to Ewing, who hit 18-of-24 shots and scored 41 points in a 127-107 rout of the Indiana Pacers. It was the fourth time in his last six games that Ewing scored 36 or more points. • “Any time Patrick has it going like this, he has to get the ball,” said Jackson, who has an NBA

Lewis fires one-hitter for Eagles in win

Tege Lewis was in complete control on the mound Wednesday, allowing only one hit in five innings of work, as the South Putnam High School baseball team won its first game of the season by whipping host Turkey Run 12-1. The one hit off Lewis was his only mistake of the game as Arch Livesey smacked a home run in the bottom of the fourth inning to account for the Warriors’ only run. Other than that, Lewis faced the minimum number of batters as only 16 Turkey Run hitters stepped to the plate in the five-inning game, shortened because of the 10-run Yule. “TEGE WAS just super,” said SPHS coach Jeff Giesting. “He pitched very well and continually kept their hitters off balance. He 1 'never got behind the hitters and just really looked sharp.” In the only other game Wednesday involving a Putnam County team, Cloverdale was beaten by Edgewood, 7-6. While Lewis was unflappable on the mound, the Eagles’ offense was coming through with 15 hits including seven for extra bases in leveling their season record at 1-1. Mark Flora provided the big punch with the bat by clobbering a tworun homer in the top of the second, then also ripped a triple in the third

Kentucky looks into possible infraction

LOS ANGELES (AP) The University of Kentucky is investigating a published report that a package sent by an assistant coach to the father of a Los Angeles high school basketball star accidentally opened, revealing SI,OOO in cash. The Daily News of Los Angeles, in a copyright story in today’s editions, said it learned of the package and it contents from employees of a delivery service. I The player, Chris Mills of Fairfax High School, signed a letter of intent Nov. 11 to accept a basketball scholarship to Kentucky, which was reprimanded last month by the NCAA for minor violations after a lengthy investigation of charges that substantial payments were made to players. Mills, his father and university officials denied knowledge of the money, the newspaper reported. But university President David P. Roselle issued the following statement Wednesday night: “There is going to be a morning story in the L.A. Daily News about possible new violations of NCAA rules in our basketball program. We first heard about the matter on last Friday evening as a result of a telephone inquiry by a reporter from the newspaper. “He gave us only enough information to indicate the possibility of a serious rule infraction. We immediately began an investigation and in very short order informed the NCAA enforcement staff. “Within a day, we confirmed • enough of the information given to • us by the reporter to be seriously • concerned. At that point, we re- • quested the NCAA staff to join us • in a further investigation. ... It is ; our intention to find out what hap- ; pened, to report everything we find ;to the NCAA, to take full responsibility for whatever is proved to ;have occurred.” ; A shipment record obtained by the newspaper showed the package was sent March 30 via Emery Final signup Tryouts and final signup for youngsters interested in playing in the Greencastle Youth Baseball League this summer will be held on Saturday, April 16 at the armory. Beginning at 1 p.m., 12-year-olds will report. At 1:30, it will be the 11-year-olds’ turn with 10-year-working out at 2. Nine-year-blds will be next at 2:30 with the eight-year-olds to follow at 3.

rookie record 817 assists this season, 15 shy of Micheal Ray Richardson’s team mark with five games remaining. “That’s my role on this team right now.” “I feel unstoppable,” said Ewing, who played only 26 minutes against the Pacers. “Every shot I shoot, I feel is going in.” “You got to take off your hat to the big fella,” Jackson said. “He passing when he’s double-teamed and he’s taking advantage of the guy guarding him when he’s not double-teamed.” Ewing’s six consecutive points early in the second quarter gave him 20 in a 12-minute span and gave New York a 44-25 lead. The Pacers, who fell into eighth place in

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inning that led to a run. “WE CAME through with a lot of hits and that was good to see,” Giesting said. “This was a good win for us.” Flora finished with a 2-for-3 day at the plate as did teammate Travis Nichols. Jason Haltom and Lewis both also chipped in with two hits, but in four at-bats. After scoring a run in the top of the first, South erupted for five in the second, the first two of which came on a Nichols double and the round-tripper by Flora. Haltom,

Worldwide air freight, from Kentucky assistant basketball coach Dwane Casey to Mills’ father, Claud. Casey, interviewed in Pittsburgh at a national high school all-star game last Friday, denied he put money in the package. Said head coach Eddie Sutton: “I can promise you it didn’t occur. I feel very confident in my assistant coaches. I don’t believe it.” NCAA officials said serious penalties could be imposed if the allegation is substantiated. “It’s called improper inducement,” David Berst, NCAA director of enforcement, said in a telephone interview from NCAA headquarters in Mission, Kan. On March 4, the NCAA said it failed to uncover any proof of wrongdoing after investigating charges that Kentucky had violated several NCAA rules, including cash payments to players. The 6-foot-7 Mills, who averaged 28.3 points per game as a senior, was intensely recruited by some of the nation’s powerhouse programs. In a series of interviews during the last week, employees of Emery told the newspaper they noticed cash when a package broke open during handling March 31 at their Los Angeles shipment center. Casey said the package he sent contained Claud Mills’ videotape of his son playing basketball. Schools routinely obtain videotapes to review athletes’ progress and determine whether to recruit them. Enc Osborn, the Emery employee who found an opened pactage when it arrived, said he looked inside and saw money sticking out of a videocassette box. His supervisor, Paul Perry, said he called over several employees as witnesses and counted out the SI,OOO in SSO bills and had the package sealed for delivery. Perry said he counted the money in front of other employees because it is against company policy to accept currency, precious stones or guns for shipment “I’m just the one who happened to see it because it popped open,” Perry said. Claud Mills, who said he was interviewed by the NCAA, acknowledged that he received a videotape from Casey. He said he talked by telephone March 31 with a man who identified himself as an Emery employee and was told there

the Eastern Conference, a halfgame behind the Knicks and a halfgame ahead of Washington, got no closer than 12 the rest of the way. “I’m getting the ball more than I was in the middle of the season,” Ewing said. “I’ve been getting the ball in better position and more plays are getting called for me because I’m moving better without the ball, and I’m passing the ball out when I’m double-teamed.” The victory was the sixth in the last seven games for the Knicks, but they have yet to win more than three straight all season. “This is the way I’ve wanted to feel the whole time I’ve been in New York,” said Ewing, now in his third NBA season. “It’s the way I

Lewis and Dave Peterson followed with back-to-back-to-back doubles to score two more runs before Troy McDonald singled home Peterson to make it a 6-0 game. IN THE third, Flora sewed on a passed ball after hitting his triple before the Eagles scored five more runs in the top of the fifth. Haltom had a two-RBI single in the frame while two more runs were scored thanks to a pair of passed balls. Another scored on an error. Also encouraging to Giesting was the South Putnam defense, which committed 14 errors in the season opener against Mooresville. Wednesday, the Eagles only booted the ball once and that runner was then thrown out by McDonald trying to steal. “Everyone contributed in one way or another,” Giesting said. “This was an encouraging game for us.” THE EAGLES play host to West Vigo today. At Edgewood, Cloverdale lost the game in the bottom of the seventh inning when pitcher David Kempf made his first appearance of the spring on the mound and gave up three runs to suffer the loss. Kempf walked four batters to start the inning before a passed ball and an error allowed the Mustangs to

was a package containing SI,OOO addressed to him. Claud Mills said Chris Mills signed for the package and that when he got home he found the videotape, but no cash. “I didn’t receive no money from Dwane Casey,” Claud Mills said. “Nobody from Kentucky gave me no money. They sent me a tape, but I don’t know nothing about no money.” Chris Mills said after the all-star game in Pittsburgh that he knew nothing about any money from the university.

DePauw sweeps pair from Engineers

The DePauw University baseball team improved its season record to 11-7 Wednesday by sweeping a twinbill from visiting Rose-Hul-man. The ligers won the first game 7-5 and captured the nightcap 6-2. The hitting hero in Game One was Jim Sandgren, who delivered a mammoth, two-run home run in the bottom of the seventh inning to snap a 5-5 tie and produce the win. Mike Ottsen had singled in front of Sandgren, who from his cleanup spot in the order did exactly that THE WINNER on the mound was Greg Werner, now 4-0 for DPU this spring. He struck out five and walked five to go along with the seven hits Rose-Hulman registered. Sandgren’s homer was one of six extra-base hits the Black and Gold clobbered over the course of the game. Terry Hoerman hit a triple while Matt Moodhe, Ottsen and Pat Meyer all contributed with doubles. Moodhe had a pair of two-baggers. Moodhe and Ottsen smacked doubles in the bottom of the first to give DPU a 1-0 lead before Hoerman tripled home Troy Adams in the fourth. Hoerman also scored in the frame as the ligers pulled to within 4-3 after the Engineers came through with four runs in the top half of the inning. ROSE ADDED a single tally in the fifth, as did DePauw when Meyer doubled home Sandgren. The Tigers tied the game at 5-all in the sixth when Moodhe came through with his second double, scoring Hoerman. Moodhe finished 3-for-4 at the plate while Hoerman was 2-for-2. Ottsen and Sandgren also chipped in with two hits apiece. In the nightcap, the Tigers struck

felt for four years at Georgetown. “I couldn’t wait for this much winning to start happening here, and it’s making me very happy. Winning heals all wounds. All I want is to make the playoffs and be the best pro I can be." Knicks coach Rick Pitino said the key to Ewing’s recent outburst is that “he’s no longer making the same move over and over. He’s driving the baseline, going to the middle and finding the open man. He’s very difficult to guard right now.” Indiana was led by reserve forward Ron Anderson with 25 points, 17 of them in the fourth quarter when the game was already

record their first win of the season. Both clubs are now 1-2 on the year. “THIS WASN’T a very good performance for Cloverdale,” said CHS coach Ken Williams. “We have to do better in a lot of areas if we want to be successful.” The Clovers were in control during the early stages of the contest as they scored two runs in the top of the second and tacked on three in the third to lead 5-2 at the time. In the second, Dwayne Lowes doubled, Brad Fritz singled and Scott Stansbery walked to load the bases before Mark Garrett delivered an RBI sacrifice fly. Eddie Hornaday followed with an RBI single. IN THE third, Fritz provided the punch with a three-run homer. Edgewood tallied single runs in both the fifth and sixth to pull it to within 5-4, but Cloverdale used a Darin Price single and an EHS error to push home its sixth run in the seventh. Kempf then came on to pitch the bottom half of the inning and suffered the loss. “I’m not very happy with our pitching,” Williams said. “Edgewood had five hits, yet they had 18 baserunners. We won’t be able to do much this season if we continue to have those kind of performances.” IN ALL, three CHS pitchers walked 10 batters. Offensively for the Clovers, Fritz was 2-for-3 at the plate with the homer while Lowes was 2-for-4. Cloverdale takes on Plainfield Friday. Wednesday’s linescores At Marshall South Putnam 15, Turkey Run 1 South Putnam 151 05 10101 Turkey Run QOO 10-01015 Lewis and McDonald; Milliken, Livesey (2) and Ktunm. WP Lewi*. LP Milliken. HR Hora (SP); Livesey (TR). 3B Hora (SP). 2B Haltom, Lewi*, Peterson, Walton, Nichol* (SP). At Ellettsville Edgewood 7, Cloverdale 4 Cloverdale 023 000 I—6 7 3 Edgewood no 011 3 Stansbery, Lowe* (6), Kempf (7) and Nee*; Harmon and Stine. WP Harrison. LP Kempf. HR Fritz (C); Glasscock (E). 2B Lowes (Q.

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DePauw’s Greg Werner won his fourth game of the season without a loss Wednesday as the Tigers defeated visiting Rose-Hulman 7-5 in the first game of a double-header at for two runs in three different innings to make a winner of Derek Morgan. He struck out five and walked five in his five innings or work before giving way to Todd Bess in the sixth. MEYER POPPED a two-RBI double in the bottom of the first for DePauw before he singled home another run in the third. Ottsen had reached on an error earlier in that inning that scored Pete Land, giving the Black and Gold a 4-0 lead. In the fourth, both teams scored twice with DePauw’s coming on an

decided. No Indiana starter scored more than 14 points. “We just couldn’t handle Ewing,” Pacers coach Jack Ramsay said. “We tried double-teaming him and he just passed it out At times, he went right through the double-team and powered the ball in.” The Pacers, who trailed by as many as 22 points in the first half, cut the deficit to 64-49 at halftime and to 72-60 with 7:53 left in the third quarter. New York, which got 24 points from reserve forward Johnny Newman, responded with seven consecutive points and the Pacers never got close again.

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N. Putnam thinclads again find success

ROACHDALE Confident from its first dual meet win in three seasons the day before, the North Putnam High School boys’ track team won its second meet in a row Wednesday by defeating Eminence,76-45. The North gals were also successful and also won their second in as many days over the Eels 88-30. “The kids were confident after winning (74-44 at Riverton Parke) on Tuesday and that held over to this meet,” said NPHS boys’ coach Doug Gilliam. ‘JOur field event people all came through with per-sonal-best efforts and that set the tone for the rest of the meet.” THE COUGARS won 10 events on the boys side and 12 on the girls. Paul Clodfelter, Rick McPherson and Brian Cole were all double individual winners as were Denee Winings, Stephanie Barker, Christy Ragsdale and Becky Gierke. “This was the second meet in a row we ran exceptionally well,” said NPHS girls’ coach Phil Myers. “We improved in many areas and did a good job.” The highlight for the Cougar girls was the performance turned in by Gierke in the 3200-meter run. She lapped the oval eight times in 13 minutes, 49 seconds to almost qualify for sectional competition. That time also bettered her winning performance against Riverton Parke on Tuesday by 19 seconds. GIERKE’S OTHER No. 1

Walter Field. DPU then came back and won the nightcap 62, pushing the season record to 11-7. (Banner-Graphic photo by Gary Goodman) RBI double by Chris Koch and an error that allowed Koch to also cross the plate. Meyer was 2-for-3 at the plate. The Tigers face Wabash today. Game One DePauw 7, Rose-Huhnan 5 Rose-Hulman 000 410 0— 5 071 DePauw 100 211 2 Witukki and Cox; Werner and Klupchak, Fix (7)- WP Werner. LP Witulskr HR Sandgren (D). 3B Hoeman (D). 2B Gill (RY Moodhe 2, Ottsen, Meyer (D). GamelWo DePauw 4, Rose-Hulman 2 Rose-Hulman 000 200 o—2 9 2 DePauw 202 200 x—66l _ H^' ncr “d Duondcr, Morgan, beat (6) and lp - h — 26

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finish was in the 1600 with a 6:36.7 time. Winings took top honors in both hurdle events, recording a 19.1 time in the 100 and a 58.5 time in the 300. Ragsdale was a winner in the long jump with a 131M effort and in the 800 with a 2:52 time. Barker won the 100- and 200-meter dashes, in 14.2 and 31.0 seconds, respectively. Clodfelter earned blue ribbons in the long jump with a best leap of 18-2!4 and in the 200-meter dash with a 26.1 time. McPherson won the high jump with a 6-foot hurdle then lapped the oval once in 61.1 to win the 400. Cole wot 110 high hurdles and the 300 low hurdles with 20.0 and 49.7 efforts. Steve Lindley was another winner for the North boys with a 36-1 put in the shot. Kevin Smith won the 800 with a 2:23.7 time and Russ Evans won the 3200 with a 12:14 clocking. Clodfelter, Evans, Lindley and McPherson teamed to win the 400-meter relay in 51.8 ALISON PHIPPS leaped 4-10 to win the high jump for the Cougar girls. Kay Phipps tossed the discus 81-4 to win that event. Barker, Alison Phipps, Jamie Rose and heather Kiger needed 59.3 seconds to claim the 400 relay while Wendy Martin, Chris Martin, Tina Rose and Ragsdale needed 4 minutes and 54 seconds to win the 1600 relay. Finishing with second-place efforts for the NPHS girls were Kiger in the high jump, Chris Martin in the long jump, Kay Phipps in the shot put, Wendy Martin in the 1600, Jamie Rose in the 400, Chris Martin in the 300 low hurdles, and Wendy Martin in the 800. For the boys, Cole was a runner-up in the long jump, Eddie Robinson was a runner-up in the discus, Evans was second in the 110 high hurdles and in the 1600 and Tom Boiler was second in the 300 low hurdles. Next action for North is at Greencastle on Tuesday.

At Roachdale BOYS North Putnam 74, Eminence 45 High jump (E); 3. Clodfelter (NP) Long jump (NP); 3. McPherson (NP) Discus 3. Eaton (E) Shot Richardson (NP) Pole vault No competition 110 HH Saucerman (E) 100 Lindley (NP) 1600 Smith (NP) 400 relay Evans, Lindley, McPherson) 51.8 400 (E); 3. Robinson (NP) 300 LH —l. Cole (NP) 49.7; Z Boiler (NP); 3. Vize (E) 800 Robinson (NP) 200—1. Clodfelter (NP) 26.1; 2. Sykes (E); 3. Holley (E) 3200 (E); 3. Boiler (NP) 1600 relay GIRLS North Putnam 88, Eminence 30 High jump Kiger (NP); 2. (tie) Alexander (E) Long jump C.Martin (NP); 3. Walters (E) Discus (E); 3. Foley (NP) Shot 3. Foley (NP) 100 LH 3. Ragsdale (NP) 100 A.Phipps (NP) 1600 (NP); 3. Benge (E) 400 relay —-1. North Putnam (Barker, A.Phipps, J.Rose, Kiger) 59.3 400 Foley (NP) 300 LH (NP); 3. Walters (E) 800 (NP); 3. Everts (NP) 200 A.Phipps (NP) 3200 (E); 3. Smeelink (NP) 1600 relay C.Martin, T.Rose, Ragsdale) 4:54.0

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