Banner Graphic, Volume 19, Number 36, Greencastle, Putnam County, 17 October 1988 — Page 7
Hershiser gives Dodgers 2-0 lead on A’s
LOS ANGELES (AP) Put up another “0” for Orel Hershiser. And put up two for the Oakland Athletics. Hershiser pitched a three-hit shutout Sunday night, and the Los Angeles Dodgers beat Oakland 6-0 to lead the best-of-seven World Series two games to none. HERSHISER did everything, including sweep up, and the heavily favored A’s now go back to Oakland a lot less favored. “I never thought we could beat a team that won over 100 games in the first two games of the Series,” Dodgers Manager Tom Lasorda said. The only hits Hershiser allowed were three singles by Dave Parker, while he had three hits himself, including two doubles, an RBI and a
DePauw passes over Taylor to end streak
By STEVE FIELDS Banner-Graphic Sports Editor Now that’s DePauw University football. Quarterback Jeff Voris completed 18-26 passes for 321 yards and five touchdowns and tight end Greg Werner caught nine passes for 152 yards and three touchdowns, as the Tigers snapped a four-game losing streak with a 42-20 Old Gold victory over Taylor University. THE OFFENSE THAT had coughed and sputtered through the first five games operated with the precision of a Swiss watch, pulling away from a 7-7 first quarter tie to a 35-7 halftime lead with 28 second-quarter points. “We made the big plays today,” coach a happy and relieved coach Nick Mourouzis said. “Jeff was really sharpe and Greg had and outstanding day.” Voris threw scoring strikes of 36, 20, 2, 11 and 14 to tie a DePauw University record for touchdown passes in a game. The five touchdown passes tied a record set by Tony de Nicola against Kenyon, Taylor and Oberlin during the 1985 season. Werner caught the 36-yard touchdown pass, the 2-yard score and the 14-yardcr, which also tied a DePauw record. The three TD receptions ties a record set by Tim Weaver in 1984 against Kenyon and tied again in 1985 by Tom Evans against Dayton. FROM THE BEGINNING it was different kind of DePauw team, especially the offense. Instead of conservative and indecisive, the Tigers were wide open and exciting, mixing the backfield dancing of freshman Terry Dickey’s 27- and 22-yard runs with short and long passes to Werner and wide receiver Todd Cleveland. “Basically that’s the first time (this season) we’ve had 10 out of 11 starters since the first game of the year,” coach Mourouzis said. “The protection was great, the (offensive) line did a great job.
South Putnam wins cross country sectional
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South Putnam won the Greencastle-IHSAA -'c_o country sectional for the first time ever Saturday at Windy Hill Country Club. The Eagles had four runners among the top 10 to beat
run scored. He went from first-to-third on a single in the Dodgers five-run third inning, and, despite a rare fall heat wave, worked a complete game on three days’ rest. “I was extremely tired,” said Hershiser, who asked for ammonia salts and wet towels in the dugout in the third and fourth innings. “It wasn’t like I had a tired arm. I was winded from running the bases so much.” HE RAN THE A’s right out of town with consecutive losses and Oakland now faces a must-win situation in its first game at home Tuesday night Oakland will send former Dodger Bob Welch, 17-9, against left-hander John Tudor, 108, after the day off. “I told the guys to be disappointed but not discouraged,” A’s
Ifcylor at DePauw Statistic* Taylor 7 0 6 720 DePauw 7 28 7 0— 42 First Quarter DFU Werner, 36 pass from Voris (Kelly kick), 7-0, 3:57. TU Clark, 2 nut (Knapp kick), 7-7, :44. Second Quarter DPU Cleveland, 20 pass from Voris (Kelly kick), 14-7,13:35. DPU Werner, 2 pass from Voris (Kelly kick), 21-7,4:31. DPU McAuliffe, 11 pass from Vans (Kelly kick), 28-7,2:25. DPU Stadler, 1 run (Kelly kick), 35-7, :09. Third Quarter TU Woods, 2 run (kick failed), 35-13,9:55. DPU Werner, 14 pass from Voris (Kelly kick), 42-13,6:48. Fourth Quarter TU Clark, 2 run (Oliver kick), 42-20,6:18. TU DPU First downs 20 26 Rushes-yards 42-168 42-ls9 Passing-yards 196 377 Cmp-Att-lnt 17-33-0 24-40-1 Total offense 75-364 82-536 Return yards 16 15 Punts 6-34 3-36.6 Fumbles-Lost 3-2 3-0 Penalties-Yards 5-42 6-70 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSinNG— Taylor Woods 21-141, Krabbe 1- Clark 9-22, Moore 1-3; DePauw Dickey 12-89, Voris 3-21, McAuliffe 3-14, Crist 4-(-36), Stadler 6-21, Wilkins 3-16, Sumida 4-5, dander 26, Gardner 4-18, Filas 1 -5. PASSING—TayIor dark 17-33-0—196; DePauw Voris 18-26-0—321, Crist 6-13-1—56, Toone 0-1-o—o. RECEIVING—TayIor Booth 4-56, Heitzler 5-66, Krabbe 3-25, Wintamute 3-20, Woods 0-16 (pitch on flea flicker). Love 1 -2; DePauw Werner 9-157, Cleveland 6-81, McAuliffe 2-20, Blrani 2- Laaksonen 2-56, Pindell 1-48, Wilkins 1-1, Dickey l-(-4). Everything just gelled.” The return of fullback Mark McAuliffe, offensive tackle Mike Kotloski and tight end Pete Baroni appeared to put tick and tock togehter again. “I think our injuries on the line have hurt us all year long,” Werner said, while noting Voris had time to throw the ball. Voris, the leader of a parade of quarterback Mourouzis used while calling off the cats in the second half, was not sacked once. “We’re still missing (senior center) Dan Kirby, but that looked like the old DePauw Tigers out there the moving the football and the defense rising to the occasion,” Mourouzis said. YES, THE DEFENSE, almost hidden in DePauw’s best offensive performance of the year, can not be forgotten. Taylor came into Blackstock Stadium with a 4-1 record and a
second place North Vermillion by 22 points. South now goes to the Terre Haute-IHSAA regional wt Rea Park this Saturday at 11:15 a.m. (Banner-Graphic photo by Steve Fields)
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Manager Tony Laßussa said. “Nobody said it was going to be easy.” The A’s lost the first game 5-4 when Kirk Gibson hit a two-out, two-strike pinch homer in the ninth inning to erase a 4-3 A’s lead. Gibson, hobbled by a bad hamstring
balanced offense that averaged 27.2 points per game. The Troians bent the Hger defense with an impressive 141-yard rushing performance from fullback Mike Wood and the outstanding option performance of freshman quarterback James Clark, who completed 17 of 33 passes for 196 yards. But when it came crunch time DePauw’s defense delivered. It was Doug Lowery’s quarterback sack that forced Taylor to attempt a 19yard field on into the wind on its first possession. It was Sean Steele’s fumble recovery at the Taylor 32-yard line that set up DePauw’s third touchdown for a 21-7 lead in the second quarter. DEPAUW SCORED JUST threfc plays after Steele’s fumble reovery. Dickey ran for 11 yards, then Werner pulled in a Voris pass over the middle and muscled his way for another five or six yards on a 19-yard play to the Taylor two. The Trojans never knew what hit them. Werner had Voris’ flip and Mike Kelly the third of his six PAT kicks before Taylor spell defeat. Werner’s third touchdown pass reception capped DePauw’s scoring. The 6-4, 235-pound tight end grabbed a 14-yard pass that put the Tigers on top 42-13 in the third period. “We just tried a little bit harder to get me the ball today,” Werner said. “Overall though it was the (quarterback) protection. Jeff was a lot sharper and he was a lot sharper due to the protection. I would have gotten the ball all year, just like this game, but... I think it all comes down to protection.” TAYLOR’S UNUSUAL 5-3 defense also helped, according to Voris. “We knew we could throw against them all week because they ran a 5-3 defense, which left only three (line)backers covering the underneath area. “They just came out and they played a lot of man under (the secondary). You can’t do that when you have Greg Werner, Todd
and a sprained knee, wasn’t in the starting lineup for Game 2 either, but the Dodgers didn’t need him this time. Mike Marshall hit a three-run homer in Los Angeles’ five-run third inning, and Hershiser didn’t need any more support
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DePauw’s Doug Lowery (92) almost sacked sured Clark the entire Old Old Day football game Taylor quarterback James Clark on this play, and for the first time this season had plenty of However, Clark got the ball away before Lowery points to defend. (Banner-Graphic photo by and Sean Steel (95) put him on the ground. Gary Goodman) Lowery, Steel and the DePauw defense pres-
Cleveland and Joe Pindell and these type of guys” When the Trojans tried to cut down on the underneath area, Werner went deep, pulling pass for a 48-yard play. Taylor then got overly concerned with the tight end, opening the door for Cleveland. Voris went to Cleveland on three out of the next four downs, the third pass a 20-yard touchdown play over the middle that put DePauw ahead 14-7. If Taylor was staggered when DePauw went ahead 21-7, it knocked out in the final 3:33 of the first half. The Tigers scored 14 points for a 35-7 halftime lead that gave every player and even a few alumni hopes of playing in the game. TAKING POSSESSION ON
By STEVE FIELDS Banner-Graphic Sports Editor The South Putnam cross country team quit practicing Saturday morning. Instead the Eagles set out to win a meet. “This is the first meet they’ve really peaked for and have been excited about because they’ve done everything else,” coach Kieth Puckett said. NOW THE EAGLES have won the Greencastle-IHSAA Cross Country Sectional championship. Led, as usual, by Todd Messer, South Putnam ran away with the title by 22 points over second place North Vermillion, 39-61. Defending champion Southmont finished third with 83 points, just two ahead of fourth place Mooresville with 85. Cascade won the fifth and final regional team berth with 132 points. Cloverdale took eighth place in the 11-team meet with 182 points and Greencastle finished ninth with 252 points. North Putnam entered only two runners because of the sectional was in conflict with a band contest MESSER RAN the rolling, wind swept course in 16:31, a little slower than he would have liked, but still 36 seconds ahead of second place Jerald Hollingsworth of North Vermillion. ‘Two years ago or last year I never thought I had a chance at
‘T DIDN’T WANT to let the club down and come out with a split. That was my burden,” Hershiser said. “If I get more than three runs, I really feel like I should win.” Since Aug. 30, Hershiser has allowed only three runs, and those came in Games 1 and 4 in the NL playoffs. “To continue that kind of pitching for so long, under so much pressure is just unreal,” Lasorda said. “When you think of the length of time and what he has done, it just makes you stop and wonder.” THE A’S SCORED all four of their opening-game runs in the second inning on a Jose Canseco grand slam, and they now have gone 16 innings in the World Series
their own 49-yard line, the Tigers scored in just three plays. The drive started with a four-yard loss, but David Laaksonen made up that and more with a diving catch for 43 yards to put DePauw on Taylor’s 11. McAuliffe, the returning captain playing his first game since the victory over Hope, caught Voris’ strike for an 11-yard score. When linebacker Bill Bonaccori and safety Ken Holland sacked Woods for a loss and the defense stopped Taylor on fourth-and-one, DePauw got the ball back with 45 seconds on the clock and two timeouts remaining. As an offensive coach in the press box told the sideline coach, “plenty of time.” DEPAUW NEVER HAD to use
Greencastle-IHSAA Boys Cross Country Sectional (5,000-meters at Windy Hill Country Club) Team scores Top five teams advance to Terre Haute-IHSAA Regional at Rea Park, 11 a.m., Oct. 22. 1. South Putnam 39; 2. North Vermillion 61; 3. Southmont 83; 4. Mooresville 85; 5. Cascade 132. 6. Monrovia 160; 7. Rockville 175; 8. Cloverdale 182; 9. Greencastle 252; 10. Crawfordsville 288; 11. Riverton Parke 324. Individual Results Top 10 runners receive automatic regional berths. TOP 10 RUNNERS 16:31; 2. Jerald Hollingsworth. NV, 17:07; 3. Zac Clark, SP, 17:16; 4. Greg Givans, S, 17:23; 5. David Stephens, NV, 17:41; 6. Bryan Doty, R, 17:42; 7. Christopher McLeod, R, 17:44; 8. Steve Blaydes, SP, 17:48; 9. John Glaze, SP, 17:52; 10. Mark Purcell, S, 17:53. County and Area Teams SOUTH PUTNAM 18:28; 35. Artie Dwigans 19:16; 38. Brian Pershing 19:25. CLOVERDALE 28. Tim Bean 18:54; 32 Jeff Bell 19:06; 50. Glen Furr 19:47; 52. Brian McCammon 19:48; 64. Jud Huber 20:35. GREENC ASTLE 37. Paul Harris 19:20; 40. Marty Hanks 19:29; 78. Amos Batio 24:32; 79. Chris Buis 24:43. NORTH PUTNAM 47. Tom Boiler 19:38. CASCADE Marty Malberg 18:31; 26. matt Dugan 18:48; 36. Chris Fisher 19:17; 39. Jayson McCammack 19:27; 51. Aaron Reynolds 19:47; 61. Jeff Woodall 20:20.
(winning this meet),” Messer said. Messer sprinted to the front of the pack and never trailed. Southmont’s Greg Givans was expected to be a contender, but before the midway point of the meet Messer was well ahead. Zac Clark became Givans’ competition and Hollingworth outfoxed diem both. Clark learned he could beat the highly respected Givans during South Putnam’s dual meet
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without a run. Canseco was 0-for-4 with a strikeout against Hershiser. The Dodgers started their big third inning against Storm Davis with one out when Hershiser lined a two-strike pitch up the middle for a single. Hershiser then ran all the way to third on Steve Sax’s single to right and scored on a single by Franklin Stubbs, sending Sax to third. A single by Mickey Hatcher scored Sax, and Stubbs went to third. Hatcher went to second on the play when Oakland center fielder Dave Henderson tried to throw out Stubbs at third. DAVIS GOT two strikes on Marshall, and his intent was to throw a fastball high and tight. Instead, it was over the plate, and Marshall sent it over the wall.
the timeouts. Voris ran 11 yards and got out of bounds. Cleveland caught passes of 18 and 19 yards to put DePauw on Taylor’s three and got out of bounds on both plays. A penalty moved the ball closer. The offensive line’s surge paved a runway for Jayson Stadler and the freshman leaped into the air and landed untouched in the end job. The win stopped the losing streak at four, but the Tigers are only 2-4 and play their remaining three game on the road at MacMurray Oct. 22, at Wittenberg Oct. 29 and at Wabash Nov. 12. “We’ve got to win them for ourselves and coach Nick,” Werner said. “He’s never had a losing season here.”
with Southmont “ZAC RAN A great tactical race,” coach Puckett praised. Clark and Givans settled into what appeared to be a race for second place. Clark caught and passed Givans, then Givans returned the favor and the two went back and forth for most of the race. It looked like Clark was going to pull out to a clear second place. “I got Givans, I should have gotten Hollingsworth,” Clark said. “I was concentrating on him and when Hollingsworth came up at the corner it surprised me.” Clark still took third place, followed by teammates Steve Blaydes in eighth place and John Glaze in ninth. That’s right four Eagles finished among the top 10 and would have advanced to the regional as individuals if not as a team. No other Putnam County runners advanced. Russ Evans took 12th place for North Putnam in 18:02, just nine seconds out of 10th place. Jerrad Kendall was Greene as tie’s first runner, taking 25th place in 18:48. Jamie Sanders led Cloverdale’s effort with a 27th place run in 18:51. The girls IHSAA cross country series begins next Saturday in Terre Haute at Rea Park just before the the boys regional race.
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