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Greencastle loses first baseball game at Jasper
JASPER The opening high school baseball game of the season goes into Greeneastle’s seme book as a 10-0 loss to Jasper in five innings. It goes into coach Stan Ward’s book as a series of near misses. Jasper, coached by Greencastle High School graduate and farther DePauw University assistant Terry Gobert, made the most of five hits against three Tiger Cub pitchers. The Wildcats took a 6-0 lead in the first three innings, but the Cubs were just an out away from leaving those potential runs on base. Greencastle’s pitchers allowed just five hits and struck out four, but walked 12. “The score was certainly not indicative of the game,” Ward said. ’Terry Gobert and the Jasper Wildcats have an outstanding program. “We simply have not been on the field enough.” Greencastle put its lineup together for the first time in the opener. Due to illness and other
North Putnam qualifies two for track sectional
DANVILLE North Putnam’s boys track and field team has two sectional entries and another on the verge of qualifying after just one meet More Cougars will attempt to qualify today (Monday) in a 4:30 p.m. meet at Cloverdale. Rick McPherson qualified for the sectional while winning the high jump and North’s 400meter relay team qualified in a third place finish, according to coach Jeff Mendenhall. Danville won the meet with 89 points, followed by Lebanon with 57 and North Putnam with 12. Other than the final score, the Cougars were close in every event except the pole vault, which they forfeited the school does not have vaulting facilities. McPherson cleared six feet in the high jump and wasn’t pushed to go any higher. McPherson, Brian Cole, Paul Clodfelter and John Strohl were picked third in the 400-relay with a sectional qualifying time
Sports schedule TUESDAY Wabash College at DePauw University, 1 p.m., baseball. South Putnam at Mooresville, 4:30 p.m., baseball. South Putnam at Owen Valley (Pinewood G.C., Spencer), 4:30 p.m., golf. North Putnam and Eminence boys at Cascade, 4:30 p.m., track. Cloverdale at Eminence, 4:30 p.m., baseball.
Damp weekend for Pacers’ Smits, DPU’s Tigers
By STEVE FIELDS Banner-Graphic Sports Editor INDIANAPOLIS Rik Smits may have a degree from Marist College, but he’s a long way from being in the fraternity of NBA centers. 1b put it bluntly, ageless Moses Malone took the 7-4 rookie to school Sunday while leading the Atlanta Hawks to a 132-109 rout of the Indiana Pacers. MALONE SCORED 25 points and grabbed 13 rebounds. Where was Smits? Part of the time he was on the bench in foul trouble. M lf you’re a rookie in this league and weigh 240 pounds and Moses weighs 270 pounds and he wants to throw you away... Moses has never fouled out of a game in his career, there has to be a reason for that,” Pacer coach Dick Versace said. The reason, of course, is the NBA’s unwritten rule that rookies must prove themselves before they are treated the same by officials. As Smits did, rookies foul out of games just trying to hold their ground against the likes of Malone. “HE HAS TO establish very early in the game that he is going to
committments, the Tiger Cubs have not all been together at practice for over a week. “I think all the negative things we’ve been going through in practice came out,” Ward said. Scott Rehlander had Greencastle’s only hit, a single. The Tiger Cubs struck out six times in the game and walked once. Ward wasn’t too upset with the seven errors, noting Jasper didn’t score off most of them, but did move the runners up off them. Ward did have praise for Chris Hutchings’ defense. The senior had five assists in his first game at third base. Greencastle returns to action Wednesday with a 4:30 p.m. game at Mooresville. At Jasper Greencastle 666 66 *-1-7 Jasper 222 13-16-5-1 WP Bishop and Weisman. LP Baker, Rehlander (4), Twigg (5) and Oreenawald. 2B SeiderL Junior Varsity Game Jasper 11, Oreencastlel.
of 47.7 seconds. It was tight race that was decided by the judges at the finishline. Cole finished third in the 100meter dash, just three tenths of a second off the sectional standard. Kevin Smith was second in the 1600, but needs to knock quite a bit of time off to make the sectional. At Danville Danville 89, Lebanon 37, North Putnam 12 SP D; Adams, L Mscus Mood, D, Dos ton, D. LJ Polendo, L; I washige, L. HJ 6-0, Rick McPherson, NP; Hendricks, D; Dostin, D; Metcalf, D. PV NP forfeit. 1M Strohl, NP; Cravens, L. 2M Cravens, L; Edmondson, D. 4 M Newsome, L; Staffer, L. 8M Duff, L; Wood rum, L. 116-HH Famsley, D; Brian Cole, NP (:18.33). 360- LH Famsley, D; Brian Cole, NP. 1466 NP; Lindsey, D; Royal, L. 3266 Royal, L; Mount, L 466-relay North Putnam. 1466-relay North Putnam.
make his stand and he didn’t do that,” Versace said. “But my guy has got to stand up to him, that’s all. He teams to do that, then he’s going to arrive in this league. If he doesn’t team to do it, he’ll never arrive.” Until recently Smits has been having an outstanding rookie year. He went into Sunday unusal 2:30 p.m. contest averaging 11.2 points and 6.1 rebounds per game. He stood 10th in the league in blocked shots at 1.87 per game. Offense has not been a big problem for Smits. Defensively though, his inexperience led to a lot of pine time during the early games. IT APPEARED HE had overcome this problem. Smit was playing good, aggressive basketball on both ends of the floor. His excellent mobility was giving his counterparts trouble. Now though, his minutes are way down, as well as his numbers. He played just 24 minutes, eight in the second half, against Dallas on Friday. After blocking at least one shot for 18 straight games, Smits has not blocked a shot in the last two.
Unlikely pair in NCAA final
SEATTLE (AP) Ten years ago, Steve Fisher was coaching high school basketball in Illinois, and P.J. Carlesimo was at a tiny Division I college in New York that might not have been much better. Neither could see far enough into the future to imagine where they would be or what they would be doing a decade later. “I DON’T THINK anybody thinks he’s going to be coaching in a national championship game when he starts out,” Carlesimo said. But that’s exactly what they will be doing tonight (8 p.m., CBS), and nothing could seem farther away than Rich East High School in Park Forest, 111., or Wagner College on New York’s Staten Island. Fisher, in fact, probably could not have envisioned his situation even a month ago. He became Michigan’s interim coach just before the NCAA tournament after seven years as an assistant to Bill Frieder, who left to go to Arizona State. “TIMING IS EVERYTHING, and I jumped in at the right time, no doubt about it,’’ Fisher said. Carlesimo, on the other hand, took over the Big East Conference’s worst basketball program, Seton Hall, seven years ago. 1982 was definitely the wrong time for the Pirates, who went 6-20 that year. But the Pirates’ record has improved every season under Carlesimo, who took them to their first
Rady to coach Indiana All-Stars
From staff and wire reports Pat Rady, a Putnam County native who led Bainbridge to the Lafayette semistate in 1966, has little left to achieve in the coaching profession. Being named coach of the 1989 Indiana All-Star boys basketball team is like a dream come true for the Terre Haute South coach and athletic director. “THAT’S THE BEST feeling, being mentioned by your peers,” Rady said. “I feel honored that other coaches selected me. “Having the opportunity to coach the Indiana All-Star team is something you dream about as a high school coach. I feel like all my current and past players and assistant coaches also have a stake in this. I will be coaching on behalf of all of them.” The selection of Rady, who led Terre Haute South to a 23-2 record and a three-week stay atop the Associated Press high school basketball poll, was announced Saturday by game director Pat Aikman of The Indianapolis Star, which sponsors the Indiana portion of the annual All-Star series with Kentucky. RADY WILL BE assisted by Ed Siegel of Indianapolis Pike. Aikman, of Greencastle, chose the two coaches after checking a number of sources. He asked for coaching recommendations on the 618 all-star ballots mailed to media and coaches statewide, and Rady and Siegel were mentioned numerous times. The Star will announce the 1989 Mr. Basketball on Saturday and the full 12-man roster the following
By his own admission, Smits isn’t playing aggressive enough at either end of the floor. “You got to find out what (the officials will allow) you can do,” Smits said. “I’m just playing hoping it will be a fair game.” THE OFFICIALS determine the kind of game needed with their whistles, not their words. In Sunday’s game, for instance, the officials told the team captains they were going to call it tight. Maybe the Pacer captains didn’t hear it right. Maybe the officials said, “We’re going to call it tight on everyone, but Moses Malone.” The Pacers took the officials at their word. “Atlanta didn’t back off an inch,” Versace said. “What do they have to back off for. We back off a little bit and they got five bas-
NCAA tournament last year and to their first Final Four this year. THOUGH VARYING IN background, these coaches and teams are quite similar in many ways. Michigan has the hot shooter in Glen Rice, averaging 30.6 points in the tournament and shooting 59.5 percent from 3-point range. Seton Hall has a player sometimes called the hired gun, Australian Olympian Andrew Gaze, who came to the Hall as a junior just last October and has since made a schoolrecord 93 3-pointers. “I’m not certain yet what we’ll do with Rice,” Carlesimo said during a Sunday news conference. “We’ll have Andrew or John (Morton) or Michael Cooper off the bench on him. He’s a big, mobile player. ... We’re not going to stop Glen Rice, but we can make him work harder." AS FOR GAZE, Carlesimo said: “We didn’t how he would fit in. We knew he was a scorer. I didn’t know he was a basketball player, too. Andrew would fit on any team.” Both teams are led by solid, although unheralded, point guards: Rumeal Robinson of Michigan and Gerald Greene of Seton Hall, who are not unaware of each other. They first met in the 1985 Boston Shootout, a summer tournament. “All the years that me and Gerald Greene have met, it’s been a strong competition,” Robinson said. AND MICHIGAN and Seton
week. RADY, A ROACHDALE High School graduate, now a consolidation of North Putnam, has had varsity basketball coaching stints at Bainbridge (also part of North Putnam), Winchester, Southmont, Shelbyville and Tene Haute South. His career coaching record is 409-182, including 163-53 in nine years at Tene Haute. He has coached 15 sectional champions, seven regional winners and led his teams to three semistate championship games. Larry Steele, a Bainbridge High School graduate and member of the 1977 NBA champion Portland Trailblazers, is just one of the former Indiana all-stars Rady has coached. HE HAS NEVER broken ties to Putnam County. Rady’s father, Charles, still lives in Roachdale and his wife’s family resides in Cloverdale. Siegel just completed the 27th season of his coaching career, his 19th at Pike. His overall record is 383-232. He is a 1950 graduate of New Albany and played on the Bulldogs’ state finalist team as a senior under Gordon Raney. “I FEEL THIS is a great honor to be selected,” said Siegel. “And I’m looking forward to working with Pat. I have the highest regard for him as a coach and a person.” Indiana and Kentucky will renew the two states’ annual summer basketball rivalry Saturday, June 17, in Indianapolis’ Market Square Arena and on Saturday, June 24, in Louisville’s Freedom Hall.
Fields’ Findings
kets before I could get a timeout” That 10-0 run aided greatly by two errors each from Chuck Person, Vem Fleming and Randy Wittman took the Hawks from a 6-2 deficit to a 12-6 lead. WRITTEN IN HURRIED fashion on the Pacer blackboard were the words, “Move on.” Good idea. Don’t dwell too long on the negative. The Pacers are still 11-10 since the trades that brought Detlef Schrempf from Dallas for Herb Williams and Randy Wittman and LaSalle Thompson from Sacramento for Wayman Tisdale. And Reggie Miller returned to the lineup Sunday after missing a couple of weeks worth of games. ***** DePauw's frustration
Hall both are big and deep under the basket. The Wolverines start 6-foot-9 Loy Vaught at center and 6-10 Terry Mills and the 6-7 Rice at forward, and substitute frequently with 6-9 Sean Higgins and 6-8 Marie Hughes. Seton Hall, on the other hand, starts 6-8 center Ramon Ramos, a 250-pounder, with 6-8 leaper Daryll Walker and the 6-7 Gaze at forwards. Off the bench, Carlesimo freely substitutes with 6-8 Frantz Volcy and 6-9 Anthony Avent THE 10TH-RANKED Wolverines, 29-7, led the nation by shooting 57.3 percent from the field this season, and they have shot 54.7 percent in the tournament. Their lowest shooting percentage of the tournament was the 46.8 percent they shot in beating Big Ten rival Illinois 83-81 in Saturday’s semifinal. The llth-ranked Pirates, 31-6, will counter with one of the nation’s toughest defenses, especially in the closing minutes of a game. In succession in the tournament, Seton Hall held Southwest Missouri State to 14 points in the final 13:48; Evansville to four points in the final 7:11; Indiana to two points in the final 2:17; Nevada-Las Vegas to 10 points in the final 8:06, and Duke to four points in the final 2:06. Seton Hall beat Duke 95-78 in Saturday’s other semifinal after trailing by as many as 18 in the first half.
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Pat Rady, a Roachdale High School graduate who coached Bainbridge High School to the 1966 semistate, will coach the boys Indiana High School AllStar team against Kentucky June 17 and June 24. Rady
Meyer has a bat in his hands, don’t ask how the season is going. He might do what the Tigers haven’t been able to do lately swing. Both of the weekend doubleheaders were rained out. North Park College brought the rain from Chicago Sunday. Coach Meyer even attempted to move the contest to Wabash College’s agrilimed infield in Crawfordsfordsville, but it was a “Mud Hollow” as well. Few things on or off the field are going right for the 5-6 Tigers. They came home from Florida with a 5-4 record, which is good. However, after stranding 17 runners in a doubleheader against Wabash last week the Tigers are 1-5 against NCAA Division 111 opponents 4-1 against Division II and Divsion I teams. ADDED TO THAT, both games were decided by an umpire’s call that allowed Wabash College to score. Saturday’s rainout was partially due to field problems. First, the tarps ordered over a month ago haven’t arrived. Second, it appears there is a leaking pipe near home plate in the underground sprinkler
Tennessee wins women’s NCAA crown TACOMA, Wash. (AP) Tennessee coach Pat Summitt said the best women’s basketball team in the country won the NCAA championship. Auburn coach Joe Ciampi agreed. “This is the most athletic team I’ve ever had,” Summitt said Sunday after her Lady Volunteers pulled away in the final nine minutes to beat Southeastern Conference rival Auburn 76-60 for Tennessee’s second NCAA title in three years. “I felt like this team was the best team in college basketball starting the year. I wanted to do everything I could to keep it motivated.” Ciampi’s Lady Tigers lost in the championship game for the second straight year in the Tacoma Dome. “If you look at that (Tennessee) roster, it’s a great roster,” Ciampi said. “It’s a ‘who’s who’ roster.” The best “who” for the Lady Volunteers was 6-foot senior forward Bridgette Gordon, who scored 27 points and pulled down 11 rebounds.
coached Terre Haute South to a 23-2 this season and has a 25-year record of 409-182, a winning percentage of .692. (Banner-Graphic photo by Monique Fields)
system. Third, when the griss was removed from the base paths this spring a lot of soil was taken out, creating a severe lip down the first and third base lines. The Tigers lose two tight games, then can’t get back on the field to turn things around. It all opens the door for a lot of distractions. IT BECOMES TOUGHER for Greg Werner. The 6-4 senior righthander is trying to keep his mind on baseball and deal with a developing career in the NFL. Werner, one of the top three tight ends during the NFL rookie and free agent combine in Indianapolis, expects to be taken between the fifth and eight rounds. He has already signed with an agent and on Friday a representative of the Pittsburgh Steelers put him through some drills. Added to all this, the guy is getting married in June. Todd Bess’s relief work has been the brightest spot for the Tigers so far. Bess hasn’t allowed an earned runs in six innings of relief. He has struck out four and walked once en route to a 1-0 record and one save. Don’t worry, be happy.