Banner Graphic, Volume 18, Number 189, Greencastle, Putnam County, 18 April 1988 — Page 6

THE BANNERGRAPHIC April 18,1988

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DePauw suffers two key losses

NORTH MANCHESTER The DePauw University baseball team took it on the chin twice on Saturday, suffering two key Indiana College Athletic Conference losses to host Manchester, 11-8 and 5-2. The setbacks leave the Tigers with a 12-10 overall record and with a 3-3 ICAC mark. Hanover is 6-0 in league play. GREG WERNER was shelled in the opener after posting a 5-0 record and a 3.99 earned run average in his first five games. He was charged with all 11 Spartan runs in 416 innings of work. Manchester scored its runs against Werner in bunches as four runners crossed the plate in the bottom of the second, three in the third and another four in the fifth. Todd Bess came on in relief and slammed the door, but the damage had already been done. Brad Bumgardner did his best to keep DePauw in the thick of the battle as he had two hits in four atbats with five RBI. He socked a three-run home run in the top of the second inning, added an RBI single in the third and picked up another RBI on a groundout in the seventh. IN THE DPU fifth, Terry Hoermann who also was 2-for-4 at the plate stroked a two RBI

Thompson, Kemp join Austin on all-star team INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Chandler Thompson of state champion Muncie Central and Shawn Kemp of Concord, opponents in the state championship game, will be teammates when the 1988 Indiana All-Star boys’ squad has its annual two-game series with Kentucky. The two were named to the team Saturday, joining Mr. Basketball Woody Austin of Richmond, Austin, the Richmond sharpshooter who has signed with Purdue, was the state’s scoring leader with a 33.2 average. His Red Devils were upset in the Indianapolis semistate. Kemp, bound for Kentucky, averaged 23 points and 12 rebounds leading Concord to the Final Four. And Thompson, the high-jumping, 6-3 Muncie Central forward bound for Ball State, helped the Bearcats break out of a sectional slump to capture a record eighth state crown. Shooting 55 percent from the field and 73 percent from the free-throw line, Thompson took a 22.4 scoring average into the Final Four and was his team’s leading rebounder. Austin, Thompson and Kemp are considered “The Big Three’ of the squad that will be coached by Ron Heflin of Gary Roosevelt and his assistant Jim Miller of New Albany. The remainder of the 12-member team, as selected by The Indianapolis Star’s game committee, represents some of the most talented players from all parts of the state. In alphabetical order they are: Scott Blum of Oregon-Davis, Eric Dolezal of LaPorte, Brian Hogan of Kokomo, Matt Nover of Chesterton, Craig Riley of Fort Wayne Harding, David Scott of Graceland Christian, Derwin Webb of Lawrence North, Henry Williams of Indianapolis Ben Davis and Terry Woods of Indianapolis Cathedral. “I think they are a bunch of outstanding athlettes and I think they will be a fine representation from Indiana,’’ Heflin said. ‘“We have an excellent group here, but they are all coming from situation where they were the star. “So I think the first priority is just a matter of geting them to think of themselves as a unit”

Pacers bust out of slump with big win

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - ndiana's Reggie Miller will gladly trade his NBA record as the league’s most prolific rookie 3point shooter for a playoff appearance. The former UCLA star moved past Larry Bird in the NBA record book while scoring 18 of his season-high 31 points in the second quarter of Saturday’s 126-92 victory over Philadelphia. The triumph kept Indiana’s playoff hopes alive heading into tonight’s game at Cleveland. The Pacers are currently on the outside of the playoff picture with four games to play, holding the ninth spot in the Eastern Conference one half-game behind both New York and Washington. And the path they’ll need to travel to reach the playoffs is a hazardous one with road games in Atlanta and Detroit before Saturday’s finale to the regular season here with New York. The thing that concerns me now is helping us make the playoffs,” Miller said after making 10-of-15 shots, including 4-of-7 from beyond the 3-point mark Saturday.

Game One Manchester 11, DePauw 8 DePauw 030 121 1— 8 102 Manchester 043 040 x —ll 82 Werner, Bess (5) and Klupchak; Csenar and Mann. WP Csenar. LP Werner. HR Bumgardner (D); Conrad (M). 3B Polk (M). 2B Land, Te.Hoermann (D); Polk (M). Game Two Manchester 5, DePauw 2 DePauw 000 020 0— 2 71 Manchester 000 212 x—s 124 Morgan, Lenz (5). Wainwright (5) and Klupchak; Fehlinger, Stolz (5) and Mann. WP Stolz. LP Lenz. 3B Maim (M). 2B Te.Hoermann, Adams (D); Mann (M).

single. Mike Ottsen had an RBI single in the sixth. In the second game, it was Hoermann again that picked up a two-RBI hit, this time on a double, that pulled DePauw even at 2-2 in the fifth inning. However, Kevin Lenz came on in relief of starter Derek Morgan and couldn’t hold down the Spartan attack in the bottom half of the inning and was charged with the loss, his first in three decisions. The Tigers are at Rose-Hulman for a 1 p.m. twinbill on Tuesday before playing three doubleheaders in a row at home after that. On Friday, Calvin comes to town while Illinois Wesleyan visits on Sunday and Earlham the following Wednesday. Starting times at Walker Field are 1 p.m.

Miller, who has made 61 threepointers in 170 attempts, tied Bird’s mark of 58 early in the second period and set the mark in the closing seconds of the same quarter. Indiana made 50-of-86 shots and outrebounded the 76ers 38-32 in recording its largest victory over the 76ers since joining the NBA in 1976.

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Members of the South Putnam High School baseball team this spring are from left, front row: Manager Bob Burton, Aaron Hacker, Harold Sims, Brad Toney, Matt

Eagles, Tiger Cubs earn splits

A pair of Putnam County high school baseball teams traveled west on Saturday for double-headers and both came back with splits on the day. South Putnam lost the first game of its twinbill at South Vermillion 7-2 then won the nightcap 11-3 while Greencastle was beaten 4-3 before winning 4-3. At South Vermillion, the Eagle bats will held in check for most of the first game by Wildcats’ pitcher Mike Frazier as he limited his opponents to a two-run fourth inning while only giving up four hits. He struck out seven and walked just one. “THE BIG story with this game was Frazier,” said South coach Jeff Giesting. “He kept us off balance almost the entire game and had good control with all his pitches. He pitched a great game.” The South tuns came via a pair of Wildcat errors, a pair of stolen bases and a single. Tege Lewis reached base chi an error then stole second before Dave Peterson singled Lewis to third and then stole second himself. The second error of the inning coming off a batted ball by Wayion Walton scored the two runners. The losing pitcher was Lewis, taking the mound on only two days rest after his 12-1 win over Turkey Run on Wednesday. He surrendered all seven South Vermillion runs. “HE WAS tired,” Giesting said of Lewis. “He pitched well at the start but just wore out. We were in the game until the fifth inning where they scored three runs.” The Wildcats scored three times in the second and once in the third to take a 4-0 lead before the Eagles scored their pair. In the nightcap, South Putnam came to life offensively and

Assistant coach may sue Kentucky

LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) An attorney for University of Kentucky assistant basketball coach Dwane Casey says he may sue the school and Emery Worldwide air freight if the controversy over an alleged recruiting violation adversely affects his client. The Los Angeles Daily News reported last week that Casey sent a package to the father of Kentucky recruit Chris Mills on March 30 that popped open during handling. Several Emery employees in the company’s Los Angeles office said they saw SI,OOO in SSO bills inside the package, along with a videotape. Mills, his father, Claud Mills, and Casey have all said there was no money involved in the shipment of the tape. “Dwane won’t become a scapegoat or a sacrificial lamb just because UK got embarrassed by its last investigation,” Joe B. Campbell said Sunday in a telephone interview with the Louisville Courier-Journal from his Bowling Green home. “I’ve made that very clear to UK. I have absolutely no reservations about suing them if we don’t think Dwane receives justice.” The NCAA reprimanded Kentucky on March 3 for its handling of the investigation of previous allegations that a number of basketball players had received money and other gifts while attending the school. That probe resulted in no NCAA sanctions. Campbell said he thought that

Flora, Mark Flora, Travis Nichols, Jason Haltom, Brent Williams, manager Kevin Wells. Back row: Coach Jeff Giesting, Anthony Heavin, Mark Dunlap, Jerry Teipen,

pounded 15 hits, 13 of which came off the bats of four players. The Eagles scored three runs in the top of the first, two in the fourth, one in the fifth and five in the seventh to make a winner of Jerry Teipen, who went the distance in his first start of the season. “WE JUMPED on them early and were able to get the hits,” Giesting said. “And Teipen did a good job for us pitching. He struggled early, then came around and only allowed one baserunner from the fourth inning on.” Teipen struck out four and walked three to go along with the three runs and five hits South Vermillion managed. Two of the Eagles’ three runs in the first were scored chi passed balls while Peterson collected an RBI with one of his three doubles smacked in the game. Jason Haltom and Lewis set the stage for the inning by leading off with singles. IN THE fourth, Haltom picked up an RBI on a triple before scoring on an RBI single by Troy McDonald. Brad Toney got into the offensive act in the fifth by knocking home McDonald, who singled earlier in the inning. In the seventh, Matt Flora singled and Teipen was walked before Haltom, Lewis, Peterson, McDonald and Toney all picked up consecutive RBI to account for the five runs. For the game, Haltom was 4-for--5 at the plate while Toney was 3-for-3. Both Peterson and McDonald were 3-for-4. THE SPLIT gives South Putnam a 3-2 record heading into today’s scheduled West Central Conference opener at Edgewood. At Rockville, Kent Flint was the hitting hero for the Tiger Cubs as

reprimand would put more pressure on the current university investigators to take very strong action this time, perhaps at Casey’s expense. University President David Roselle has hired James Park Jr., a former Kentucky Court of Appeals judge, to find out whether the airfreight package contained the cash. Park said he was given open-ended authority to investigate university athletics and recruitment policies, according to a report in Sunday’s Daily News. He was also ordered to investigate whether the school is otherwise complying with NCAA rules, Park said. Roselle has said the university’s intent “is to find out everything that has happened.” Park said he was hired by the University of Kentucky Athletic Association, rather than the university itself, and will report his findings to association officials. Roselle is chairman of the association, which oversees athletic programs but is separate from the university administration. Campbell said he was going to mail a letter today to Emery Worldwide attorney Mike Bartley at the company’s headquarters in Wilton, Conn. In the letter, Campbell asks the company to: —ldentify by name and address all Emery employees who had access to the package Casey sent Provide personnel files on all those employees. Ask those employees to take a

he smacked a home run in both games and finished the day with a 3-for-7 performance at the plate that included four RBI. “Flint had an outstanding day,” said Greencastle coach Glenn Hile. “You just can’t ask for more than what he did for us.” HOWEVER, FLINT’S solo homer in the first game was not enough to pull the win out for the Cubs as Rockville scored in the bottom half of every inning after Greencastle did in the top. The Rox also tallied a run in the third when GHS did not, pushing pitcher Joe Staggs’ record this spring to 4-0. Flint hit his round-tripper in the top of the first while teammate Tony Meyer matched that effort with a home run of his own for GHS in the sixth that made it a 3-3 game at the time. In the fifth frame, Greencastle picked up a run on a Mike Watts single, a sacrifice, a stolen base and a passed ball. Both Watts and Flint had two hits for Greencastle in the game to pace the offense. IN THE top of the seventh, with Rockville ahead 4-3, Watts made it to third base with no outs after leading off the inning with a double. But, he was stranded there as Staggs proceeded to strike out three Cub batters in a row to end the game. “We could have won the first game,” Hile said. “We probably should have won that first game. Then, I was afraid we wouldn’t be able to come back in the second game after how that first one ended. But, we showed a lot of character and did what we needed to do to win it.” Flint provided the majority of the fireworks in the nightcap as his homer was a three-run shot in the

lie-detector test Campbell said that Casey and Claud Mills were both willing to take the test to prove they had no knowledge of the money. handled the three letters of intent that Casey sent Mills in November through Emery Worldwide. Campbell said that Casey had to send three letters of intent to Mills rather than the usual one because two of the letters weren’t delivered to the Millses’ home. One was left at a neighbor’s door and another one was returned to the Kentucky basketball office without explanation, Campbell said. “I want to see if there is some kind of connection,” Campbell said. Depending on cooperation from the company, Campbell said he and Casey may sue it for “everything from negligence to defamation of character to invasion of privacy.” Bartley could not be reached Sunday at either his home or his office. Meanwhile, in an interview with the Lexington Herald-Leader after watching his son play Sunday in the McDonald’s All-American game in Albuquerque, N.M., Claud Mills said he told an NCAA investigator earlier this month that he would take a lie detector test to prove his innocence. Mills said he had received four other packages from Kentucky without incident, and none contained money.

Troy McDonald, Tege Lewis, Wayion Walton, David Wallace, Dave Peterson, assistant coach Mike McHugh. (Banner-Graphic photo by Keith E. Domke)

top of the third. Greencastle scored all four of its runs in that frame as Chad Remsburg the losing pitcher in the opener and Meyer, singled before Scott Rehlander also singled, driving in Remsburg for the fourth and eventual winning run. THE TIGER Cubs only had six hits in the game and all of them came in that third inning as Pete Huber and Chris Hutchings set the stage for Flint by earning singles after two were out. Kyle Finchum was the winning, pitcher while Eric Twigg came on. in the sixth to pick up a save. Finchum struck out eight and walked four and allowed two earned runs before Twigg worked out of a jam in both the sixth and seventh innings to earn the save. “I’m still tickled with our pitch: ing,” Hile said. “Last year, Rockville beat us 12-1 and 9-1 so both the pitching and the offense did better against virtually the same Rockville team. We had the chance to win both games, but I’ll take the split when it comes against a good team like Rockville.” ♦ ’ The 2-3 Tiger Cubs also openconference play today at Cascade. At Clinton Game One South Vermillion 7, South Putnam 2 South Putnam 000 200 0—24 5 South Vennillion 031 030 x— 77 2 Lewis, Haltom (7) and McDonald; Frazier, Maurice (7) and Perman. WP Frazier. LP Lewis. 2B Panagoulous, Grange, Perman (SV). Game Two South Putnam 11, South Vermillion 3 South Putnam 300 201 5 1 1 15 4, South Vennillion 201 000 0 Teipen and McDonald; Grange, Frazier (4) andPerman. WP Teipen. LP Grange. 3B Haltom (SP). 2B Peterson 3, McDonald (SP) >' At Rockville Game One »• f Rockville 4, Greencastle 3 Greencastle 100 011 0 Rockville 101 011 x— 4 51, Remsburg and Meyer; Staggs and Goggins. WP Staggs. LP Remsburg. HR Flint, Meyer (G); Goggins 2 (R). 2B Watts (G). , Game Two . » Greencastle 4, Rockville 3 Greencastle 004 000 0— 4 63’ Rockville 102 000 0 Finchum, Twigg (6) and Bottoms; Tucker and Eslinger. WP Finchum. LP Tucker. HR Flint (G); White (R). North kickers defeated, 3-2 LAFAYETTE The North Putnam High School soccer team rallied during the early portions of the second half Sunday to tie its game with Lafayette Harrison, then played lackluster soccer after that and lost 3-2. »; “Out of the 90 minutes, we only played good soccer for about 20 minutes,” said North coach Ron Price. “We played with intensity and as a team during that portion and dominated, but were sluggish and were dominated by them the rest of the game.” HARRISON TOOK a 2-0 ead in the first half before the Cougars began to strike. Five minutes into the second half, Denny Leeke took a crossing pass from left winger Paco Iracheta and scored North’s first goal. Ten minutes later, Jason Hartman tied the score from in front of the goal on an assist from Robert Hensley. Mark McPheron had thrown the ball inbounds to the penalty area setting up the score. Harrison put through the game winner with five minutes left to play. The Cougars, now 1-2, were outshot 20-10 with NPHS goalkeeper - Charlie Marcum making eight saves. They next play at Glendale in Indianapolis next Sunday.