Banner Graphic, Volume 19, Number 25, Greencastle, Putnam County, 4 October 1988 — Page 6
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Eagles battle way back into AP top 10
From staff and wire reports Four years ago being ranked among the state’s top 10 Class A programs by the Associated Press writers was a goal for South Putnam. That has changed. “It’s more of a reward now,” coach Mark Wildman said Tuesday morning. SOUTH PUTNAM’S reward for back to back wins over Greencastle and Monrovia is a No. 8 ranking in the Associated Presss Class A poll. The Eagles, 4-2 going into this week’s conference game at Owen Valley, downed Greencastle 24-13 last Friday and Monrovia 156 the week before. South Putnam returns to the top 10 after being out two weeks. The 15-13 loss to Culver Military Academy, a Class 4A school, cost the Eagles votes. “I don’t think we ever really dropped out of consideration because we were always
Razorbacks in 20th spot It’s hardly news for Arkansas to be ranked among the top 20 college football teams in the land. So Coach Ken Hatfield wasn’t about to get excited when this edition of the Razorbacks became the 36th in the 53-year history of the poll to be rated among the elite. “Being No. 20 is nice, but it just means we’re one step away from being No. 21,” Hatfield said. ARKANSAS RAN its record to 4-0 with a 53-10 thumping of Texas Christian last Saturday. The Top Twenty teams in the Associated Press college football poll, with fust-place votes in parentheses, season record through games of Oct I,total points based on 20-19-18-17-16-15-14-13-12-1110-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 and previous ranking: Record Pts Pvs 1. Miami, R (53) 4-0-0 1,153 1 2. UCLA (3) 4-0-0 1,088 2 3. Southern Cal (2) 4-0-0 1,037 3 4. Auburn 4-0-0 959 4 5. Notre Dame 4-0-0 910 5 6. Florida State 4-1-0 778 6 7. West Virginia 5-0-0 758 7 8. South Carolina 5-0-0 732 8 9. Nebraska 4-1-0 692 9 10. Oklahoma 3-1-0 606 10 11. Chanson 3-1-0 574 11 12. Alabama 3-0-0 501 12 13. Oklahoma Sut 3-0-0 485 13 14. Florida 5-0-0 424 17 15. Georgia 4-1-0 395 15 16. Wyoming 5-0-0 237 18 17. Michigan 2-2-0 196 19 18. Oregon 4-0-0 132 20 19. Washington 3-1-0 128 16 20. Arkansas 4-0-0 82 Other receiving votes: Colorado 68, LSU 55, Hawaii 42, Duke 35, Houston 24, Rutgers 24, Indiana 15, Washington State 12, Penn State 11, Brigham Young 6, Western Michigan 6, Syracuse 5, Texas 5, Pitt 2, Southwestern Louisiana 2, Ball State 1.
Cubs win Danville Invitational crown
DANVILLE Anyone who feared the Greencastle volleyball team would take a nose dive after last week’s loss at North Putnam can relax. The Tiger Cubs won four matches Saturday to capture the Danville Invitational championship. It’s their second title of the season, as they captured the Putnam County Tournament in September. GREENCASTLE downed Danville 15-12, 6-15, 15-10 in the championship game, but the key contest might have been the first, an 8-15, 15-10, 16-14 victory over Avon, a strong squad. “Avon was an extremely good team,” coach Trish Arthur said of the 9 a.m. match ‘They (Avon) hit
Storey helping out Vincennes
By STEVE FIELDS Banner-Graphic Sports Editor Thoughts while unloading boxes: FORMER GREENCASTLE High School football player Steve Storey is starting at tailback for the Vincennes Lincoln Alices. Story has rushed for 366 yards and four touchdowns in just 57 carries. He’s averaging 6.42 yards per carry, according to statistics provided by WAOV Sports Director Dave Hunter. Story picked up 164 of those yards and two touchdowns on two carries in the first half of the season opener against Princeton. He suffered a sprained ankle at the end of the first half of that game and just recently showed signs of being healthy again. ****** GREENCASTLE’S VOLLEYBALL program will be in the spotlight Thursday night when Butler University goes to Franklin College for a 7 p.m. match. Butler is coached by Jona Braden, a setter on Greencastle’s legendary 1973 state finalist team. Braden’s Bulldogs are 13-3 after beating lUPU-Fl Wayne and Valparaiso and losing to Notre Dame. The Butler squad includes Jona’s youngest sister, Carol Braden, a member of Greencastle’s 1986
By The Associated Press Class 2A 1. Rochester (11), 6-0,302 2. Tell City (4), 6-0, 292 3. Tri-West (1), 6-0.258 4. Weste, 5-1,214 5. Triton Central, 5-1,169 6. Danville, 5-1,167 7. Monrovia, 5-1,150 8. South Spencer, 5-1,79 9. Ft. Wayne Luers, 3-3,74 10. Seeger, 5-1,72 Others with 10 or more rating points: Frank ton 57, Delphi 43, Evansville Mater Dei 21. Class A 1. Sheridan (15), 6-0, 300 2. North Vermillion, 6-0, 240 3. Springs Valley, 6-0, 236 4. Eastern Hancock, 5-1, 222 5. Linton, 5-1,175 6. Dugger, 5-1, 139 7. Bremen, 4-2, 104 8. South Putnam, 4-2,87 9. Jimtown, 4-2, 82 10. Winamac, 4-2,62 Others with 10 or more rating points: Wes-Del 55, Rockville 36, Easiside 24, N.Miami 18, N. White 14.
among the honorable mention,” coach Wildman said. True, last week the Eagles were just two voting points out of the top
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North Putnam’s cross country will run in the Putnam County Meet at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday at Cloverdale High School. The meet begins and ends on the football field. Members of the Cougar team are (front row, from left): Russ
well. That was one of the hardest hitting teams we’ve played. And once the Cubs lost the first game it would have been easy to fold-up and go home. “I was impressed with their determination,” Arthur said. JUST AS SHE would all day, Alison Spencer led the Cubs past the Orioles. Spencer was 66-68 setting and served five points. Katherine Emery was 19-19 hitting with one kill and one unreturned spike and three service points. Mindy Nicholson led the Cubs’ serving with 10 points, followed by Kim Archer with eight, Natalie Ward six, Jenny Black three, Melanie Marlie two and Kim Irwin and Nancv Claar served one point each.
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semistate team. Kim Sheldon, a 1985 Greencastle graduate, will be starting at middle hitter for Franklin College against Butler. Sheldon, also a basketball player and high jumper for Franklin’s track team, was named NAIA District 21 Player of the Week last week. The Grizzlies were 11-6 after Sheldon’s outstanding performances. ****** THE WORD FROM Indiana State University is that South Putnam graduates Brian and Bruce Bridgewater will be redshirted at the end of the current season like most NCAA Division I freshmen football plauers... Chris Arnold, who quarterbacked South Putnam’s 1986 IHSAA Class A state championship team, is playing football at Rose-Hulman... Hugh Martin, North Putnam graduate is a kicker on the Wabash College football team... Tony Meyer, a 1988
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10. The victory, coupled with losses by Jimtown, Winamac and North Miami attracted voters. “It’s satisfying enough to beat those two teams anyway,” Wildman said. SHERIDAN, ONE of three undefeated Class A teams, remained the unanimous choice for No. 1. Undefeated teams North Vermillion
Evans, Brent Fowler, Roger Busch, Tyler Ritz, Nate Hammond and (back row, from left) coach Tom Roach, Tom Boiler, Becky Gierke, Brian Spear, Matt Hazlett and Jeremy Windmiller. (Banner-Graphic photo by Gary Goodman)
Spencer and Emery were again keys in the title match win over Danville. Spencer served 11 points, was 19-20 hitting with three unretumed spikes and one kill. Emery was 18-21 hitting with one kill, five unretumed spikes and one service point. LIKE SPENCER, Nicholson had 11 service points, Black six, Ward three, Kim Archer two and Irwin and Marley joined Emery with one point each. Between beating Avon and the title match, Greencastle downed Northview and Crawfordsville. The four wins brings the Cubs’ record to 13-5. Greencastle downed Northview 15-7,15-9. Ward led the Cubs with 11-11
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Greencastle graduate and son of DePauw baseball coach Ed Meyer, is a freshman catcher at Wabash College no joke. ****** DOUG MILLER, Greencastle boys’ basketball, was one of the featured speaker last Saturday at the annual North Montgomery Basketball Clinic, one of the state’s best... Greencastle native Gary Kersey is the new head basketball coach at Frankfort.. Former Cloverdale boy’ basketball coach Mark Bamhizer is now the head coach at Eastern Greene, located near Bloomfield... ****** PRESS BOX OBERSERVATIONS Have you ever noticed Class A schools with good football programs have small high school bands... South Putnam is probably the best unranked cross
and Springs Valley are No. 2 and No. 3, respectively. North Vermillion is in sectioinal 39 with South Putnam. South Putnam is one of four West Central Conference teams ranked in the AP poll. Tri-West, 60, remained No. 3 in Class 2A followed by Danville at No. 6 and Monrovia at No. 7.
hitting with one kill and one unretumed serve. Emery was 10-10 hitting with two unretumed spikes. Emery paced the service scoring with seven points, Archer had six, Nicholson five, Spencer four, Ward three, Black two and Irwin and Terri Lancaster had one point each. THE CUBS HANDLED Crawfordsville in 15-12, 15-12 sets. Once again Emery and Spencer led the hitting. Emery was 19-21 hitting with two kills and two unretumed spikes. Spencer was 16-16 hitting with three kills and an unretumed spike. Nicholson led Greencastle with seven service points followed by Emery and Claar with six each, Archer four, Black and Ward three and Spencer one.
****** QUICK FIX South Putnam fans will be happy to know Monrovia tackle Matt Everett did not break his ankle after all. While Everett was being loaded into the ambulance, coaches on the field told us in the press box that the ankle was broken. It turned out to be a dislocated ankle and was accidentally popped back into place en route to the hospital. He was on crutches a couple of days, but started in last Friday night’s victory over Edgewood. Also, Monrovia quarterback Tim Pridemore is expected to play in this week’s game against Tri-West at the Hoosier Dome. Pridemore suffered a strained ligament while fighting to keep from being pulled down by South Putnam’s Brad Toney. ****** PLEASE CALL The BannerGraphic would like to begin publishing the little league football and soccer league results again. Would the people running those leagues please write down the scores of their next games and put them in the mail box by the front door. Please include a telephone number so we can contact you if there are any questions.
Monrovia and Tri-West play Friday night at the Hoosier Dome in Indianapolis. It’s a conference game for Tri-West, but a non-con-ference game for Monrovia. The Bulldogs have finished their conference schedule with a 4-1 record. Tri-West has two conference games remaining Monrovia Friday and at Danville the final weekend of the regular season. UNBEATEN COLUMBUS NORTH and Sullivan were among the five new teams voted into the AP polls. The leaders in each of the five classes remained unchanged from a week ago. Columbus North joined the Class 5A ranking at No. 10 and Sullivan, with a 6-0 record, was voted No. 10 in Class 2A. Also new this week in Class 2A were South Spencer at No. 8 and
Cloverdale runs past Northview and Clay City
CLOVERDALE Led by Brian McCammon’s second place finish, five Cloverdale cross country runners finished in the top 10 Friday in a victory over Northview and Clay City. The Clovers scored 28 points, Northview 38 and Clay City 55. Only a freshman, McCammon ran the 5,000-meter course in 17:53. Although McCammon has been coming on of late, even coach Vince Faulkner was a little surprised by the run. “It was can excellent time for McCammon,” Faulkner said. Jeff Bell took third and Tim Bean fourth for Cloverdale. Jamie Sanders finished seventh and Miah Lavoine rounded out
Curry only Tiger Cub still playing in tennis tourney
CRAWFORDS VILLE The season ended for the Greencastle High School tennis team Saturday afternoon, but Brent Curry still has a shot at a title in the rain hampered Crawfordsville sectional. Greencastle was eliminated by Brownsburg 4-1 on the indoor courts at Wabash College. However, there are only three indoor courts at Wabash College, forcing the tournament semifinals to be delayed untion Monday. CURRY DEFEATED Brownsburg’s Eric Richert 2-6, 6-4, 6-3 in the No. 1 singles match. Each team’s No. 1 singles player is automatically entered in the state singles tournament and continues to play until he is beaten reguardless of what his team does. “Brent played hard and kept a positive attitude through all three sets,” coach Brad Hayes said. “Coming back to win the second set after losing the first
Eagles beat defending sectional champions
South Putnam and Todd Messer firmly established themselves as favorites in the Green-castle-IHSAA cross country sectional by running away from defending champion Southmont, 23-36, Monday in a dual meet. The victory not only kept South undefeated in dual competition, was its first win over Southmont in five years and ended the Mounties’ dual-meet winning streak at 49 straight. “It was a big one today to beat them by that margin,” a happy coach Kieth Puckett said. As usual Messer led South Putnam’s victory, completing the 5,000-meter course in 15:31, four seconds off his school record, a time slower than some expected, as he was actually challenged for part of the race. Southmont’s Greg Givans was in contention for over a mile of the meet. When Messer reached crest of the up-hill grade Givans was right with him. “It surprised me a lot,” Messer said. “But he was breathing pretty hard, so I tried to take advantage of it on the back that’s where I lost him.” Even Messer was a little disappointed he didn’t run faster in
Seeger 10th. Ben Davis remained No. 1 in Class SA, South Bend St. Joseph’s No. 1 in 4A, Zionsville in 3A, Rochester in 2A and Sheridan in A. Sullivan joined the 3A poll in place of Indianapolis Cathedral, whose Irish were ninth last week, but dropped out after losing their third game of the season.. In 2A, newcomers South Spencer and Seeger replaced Frankton, which was sixth last week, and Evansville Mater Dei, which was ninth. Western Boone, in the sectional No. 28 with Grencastle and North Putnam, moved up to fourth after beating West Vigo 12-7. Pairing for the 16th annual IHSAA Football Tournament will be announced Wednesday morning.
the scoring for the Clovers with 10th. Cloverdale is the host team for Wednesday’s Putnam County Cross Country Meet. The boys junior varsity (5,000-meters) and the girls junior varsity (4,000-meters) will start at 4:30 p.m. on the football field. The boys varsity meet starts at 5 p.m., also on the football field. Admission is free. At Cloverdale Cloverdale 28, Northview 38 Clay City 55 TOP 10 RUNNERS N. 17:22; 2. Brian McCammon, C, 17:53; 3. Fergeison, CC, 17:57; 4. Jeff Bell, C, 18:07; 5. Tim Bean. C. 18:10; 6. Atkinson, N, 18:15; 7. Jamie Sanders, C, 18:32; 8. McCullough, N, 18:33; 9. Osmaik, CC, 18:37; 10. Miah Lavoine, C, 18:50. OTHER CLOVERS 19:06; 20. Jim Fislar 20:40; 21. Mark Whited 20:44; 29. Steve Summedot 22:22; 32. Jamie Nees 23:46.
one so badly demonstrated his mental strengths. “Throughout the season we’ve tried to work on having a strong second set and Brent pulled it off.” BUT HE WAS the only one to do so, because the other four Greencastle entries were beaten in straight sets. “As a team we played a little under par, however, we had to wait until 4:30 p.m. to play since all eight teams had to play on the three indoor courts at Wabash due to the rain delay. Since we were scheduled to play at 10:30 a.m. the wait was fairly draining on the players’ energy,” coach Hayes said. “It just wasn’t the best beam play we’ve had this season.” IHSAA Tennis Sectional At Crawfordsville Brownsburg 4, Greencastle 1 SINGLES Brent Curry, G, def. Eric Richert, B, 2-6, 6-4, 6-3; Steve Gray, B, def. Rob Osborn, G, 6-1, 6-2; Steve Short, B, def. Steve Moell, G, 6-4, 6-1. DOUBLES Scott Grider and Jason Patterson, B, def. Duane Emery and Kevin Waltman, G, 6-1, 6-2; Tom Mclntosh and Jason Matthews, B, def. Jason Frisbie and Chad Daugherty, G, 6-3, 6-2.
his final home meet. “I was hoping to get it down a little farther for the next guy who comes along and tries to beat me,” the senior said. Coach Puckett was especially pleased with the performances of John Glaze, Brian Pershing, Travis Dorsett and Artie Dwigans. “Our four, five, six and seven runners ran their best times today,” the coach noted. South runs in the Putnam County Meet at Cloverdale Wednesday. The meet starts at 4:30 p.m. At South Putnam South Putnam 23, Southmont 36 TOP 10 RUNNERS 15:31; 2 Greg Given*, S, 16:21; 3. Mark Purcell, S, 16:32; 4. Zac Clark, SP. 16:48; 5. Steve Blaydes, SP, 16:59; 6. John Glare, SP. 17:07; 7. Brian Pershing, 17:11; 8. Travis Dorsett, SP. 17:23; 9. Chris Walden, S, 17:31; 10. Duane Myers, S, 18:05. OTHER EAGLES 18:13; 12. Kyle Zeronik 18:18; 13. Clay Gasway 18:20; 14. Brent Williams 18:3T; 18. Bill Gardner 19:36; 19. Shea Goodpaster 20:50; 20. Andy Singleton 21:11; 21. Jay Mutterspaugh 21:24; 22. Matt Hutcheson 21:45; 23. Matt Flora 21:59; 24. Boyd Goodsan 22:01. JUNIOR HIGH MEET Southmont 18, South Putnam 37 TOP 10 RUNNERS Pat Sering, S, tie, 10:55; 2 Tony Marshall, S, 11:15; 3. Braden Friend, S, 11:15; 4. Nathan Macy, SP, 11:43; 5. Brian Gardner, SP, 12:54; 6. Jerod Chew, SP, 13:04; 7. Jason Shaffner, S, 13:14; 8. Jason Fox*, SP, 13:20; 9. Lonny Barger, SP, 13:31; 10. Alex Truax, SP, 13:35. OTHER EAGLES 14:09; 13. Chris Williams 14:10; 14. Jason Clark 14:40.