Banner Graphic, Volume 19, Number 271, Greencastle, Putnam County, 24 July 1989 — Page 8

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THE BANNERGRAPHIC July 24,1989

Lewis South defensive back

Bowl an opportunity to play one side of ball

By STEVE HELDS Banner-Graphic Sports Editor BLOOMINGTON What might have been, will not be. But, what will be has begun. This week will be Tege Lewis’ last opportunity to play on Indiana University’s football facilities. He has passed up lU’s invitation to try to walk on. Instead, Lewis will be playing his college football for coach Nick Mourouzis at DePauw University, which brings about another beginning. THE NORTH-SOUTH Shrine Bowl at the Hoosier Dome this Saturday at 2 p.m. could be the first of many where Lewis plays strictly one position defensive back. After two seasons of playing both quarterback and defensive back for South Putnam, Lewis lined up at safety Saturday morning when the South All-Star defense put the pads on the first time at the Indiana University practice facility. “It’ll give me a chance to see what it’s like to go one way the whole time, to be able to concentrate on one side of the ball,” Lewis said after walking through the scouting report for the first time. AFTER LEADING South Putnam to two straight sectional and regional championships, Lewis is looking forward to concentrating on defense. “I think it will be a lot of fun. I like defense a lot better anyway. I get to play where I like to play ” According to coach Mourouzis, Lewis will be DePauw’s only recruit in this talent loaded game. There are players on both squads headed for national powers like Notre Dame, Michigan, Indiana and Illinois. Lewis will face some talent this week better than what he will see at DePauw. “Some of it might not be

Camp gives players showcase

RENSSELAER, Ind. (AP) Although a steamy, sweaty gym isn’t a popular shopping location on a humid summer day, it’s the only marketplace for college basketball recruiters in search of future superstars. “If you come here and have a good week, it’s an opportunity for a scholarship. If you have a bad week, it’s a chance to lose one,” said Stan Hardin, director of the BC basketball camp in this city midway between Indianapolis and Chicago. AT THE B-C camp, 480 high school juniors and seniors paid S3OO each to jump, shoot and score in front of more than 200 coaches from such college powerhouses as NCAA champion Michigan, Indiana, DePaul, Arizona and Seton HaU. Similar action began Sunday at All three Colt QBs may play ANDERSON, Ind. (AP) Faced with a three-way battle for the No. 1 quarterback job, Coach Ron Meyer says he’s considering giving each man some playing time in the Indianapolis Colts* preseason opener. “I can see Jack Trudeau and Chris Chandler each getting about 35 percent of the time,” Meyer said. “Tom Ramsey could get the other 30 percent.” THE COLTS VISIT New Orleans Aug. 12 for their first preseason contest. Trudeau and Chandler will battle for the No. 1 job during the Colts* training camp, which started its first full week Sunday. Ramsey, waived by New England last year and signed by Indianapolis during the offseason, has been an NFL starter but is expected to be the No. 3 man with the Colts. MEYER SAID HE also likes the early progress of rookie quarterback Wayne Johnson, an 11 th-round pick from Georgia. Johnson had his finest performance in his last college game, hitting 15 of 27 passes for 227 yards and three touchdowns in Georgia’s 3427 Gator Bowl victory over Michigan State. “He throws it very well,” said Meyer. “He knows the game. I like his presence.”

as good and some of it might be better,” the honor student said. THIS SHOULD BE a memorable game for Lewis. In his first full-time assignment at defensive back, Lewis will looking at the nation’s top high school quarterback, Goshen’s Rick Mirer. The 6-3, 207-pound Mirer is no Jeff George, the no-hit pure-passer who came out of Warren Central three years ago, then transferred from Purdue University to Illinois. Bob Clayton, the South All-Star defensive coordinator from Heritage Hills High School, told the defense, “the guy is no primadonna.” Bound for defending national champion Notre Dame, Mirer completed 64 percent (259 of 420) of his passes for 3,973 yards and 30 touchdowns last fall while leading 14-0 Goshen to the Class 4A championship. That is the second most yards ever by a high school player in a single season, second only to the 4,098 by Jimmy Jordan Tallahassee in 1975. MIRER THREW ONLY 10 interceptions all year, or one every 42 passes, which makes Lewis’ goal on Mirer” pretty tough to achieve. Football is only part of the North-South Shrine Bowl. Proceeds from the contest go to the Shriner Hospitals for Crippled Children. Lewis, Mirer and the rest of the All-Stars, North and South, were not scheduled to be on the field Monday. They visited the Shriner Hospital in Lexington, Ky., and where honored with a banquet at Clarksville on the return trip. The annual North-South Shrine Bowl Banquet will be held at 5:30 p.m. Friday at the Murat Shrine in Indianapolis. Tickets are sl2 and

another B-C camp in Tifton, Ga., and the Blue-Chip camp in Highland Heights, Ky. Other camps will be held in California, Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Virginia through August. The continuous action on five courts is basketball heaven for recruiters: a chance to see some of the nation’s top prospects face each other at the same time. ALTHOUGH NCAA rules prohibit contact between coaches and players at the camp, recruiters make their presence known in obvious ways. “The kids know you’re interested in them by being here,” said Ohio State assistant Paul Brazeau, whose shirt provided silent advertising with its Buckeye emblem. For their money, the players get a chance to hoop it up for six days without the distraction of classes

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and the public is invited. ON SATURDAY, game day, the Shrine Bowl Parade, featuring high school bands, Shrine units, floats and the players will begin at Michigan and Pennsylvania Streets, following the same route as the In-

and homework. Unlike the prestigious NikeABCD camp in Princeton, NJ., which invites only about 125 players, pays their expenses and provides academic preparation for college, the B-C camp concentrates solely on basketball from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. each day. PLAYERS ARE divided into 48 teams which competed throughout the week, culminating in a championship tournament and an all-star game featuring the top 20 players. “There are some kids who can’t play college basketball and shouldn’t be here,” said Leonard Drake of Mid-American Conference champion Ball State. “This camp is no guarantee for a majority of the kids here.” But that doesn’t deter Earl Smith, a junior point guard from Gary Wallace High School.

day. Calcavecchia shot 68 in the final three rounds for his first British Open title. (AP wirephoto)

dianapolis 500 Parade. Tickets for the 2 p.m. NorthSouth Shrine Bowl can still be purchased at South Putnam High School or from South Putnam coach Mark Wildman for $6. Tickets at the door will be SB.

“Hopefully, I can just show them what I can do,” he said. “You just try to outwork the other guy.” THAT’S THE BEST approach for unknowns such as Smith, who are battling hundreds of other players for a recruiter’s attention, Drake said. “You see the little guards dominating these games. That’s where the ball starts. If you see more than two passes before a ball goes up, it’s a rarity,” he said. “The marginal guys get noticed by playing with the really good players.” Critics have labeled these so-cal-led exposure camps as nothing more than high-pressure meat markets, but few of the playws or coaches agree. “I’m not going to be disappointed if I don’t make the all-star team,” said Smith. “My dad told me just to work as hard as I can.”

Calcavecchia ends U.S. drought in British Open

TROON, Scotland (AP) An American has won the British Open at last All that was missing was the apple pie. THE FLAG WAS there on Sunday, the Stars and Stripes hanging proudly beside the silva claret jug that goes to the winner of the oldest of all golf tournaments. Motherhood was even in the offing, as new champion Mark Calcavecchia talked about his pregnant wife back in West Palm Beach, Fla. “I called ha right after the final hole and she was crying up a storm,” the 29-year-old Calcavecchia said. “I was just about ready to ask, and she said, ‘No, I haven’t had the baby yet’ I thought, ‘lf I sent ha into labor with this.’ But it could happen any minute. It’s time to get home.” THE HOME HOLE of Royal Troon was where Calcavecchia added his name to the list of Open champions by beating Australians Greg Norman and Wayne Grady in a four-hole playoff afta they had finished four rounds tied at 13-un-der-par 275. With Norman picking up afta hitting out of bounds to finish another near miss in a major, and Grady bogeying three of the playoff holes after leading the tournament for almost two rounds, Calcavecchia became the first American

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Greencastle All-Stars tournament champions

Never let it be said the Greencastle 11-and-12-year-old AllStars were a down and out team. Greencastle came out of the loser’s bracket Saturday to defeat Happy Valley twice, 7-0 and 13-3, and won the Clyde Gorham All-Star Baseball Tournament at the Greencastle Youth Baseball League diamond. After beating North Putnam 7-0 Friday, Greencastle defeated Happy Valley 7-0 in the first game Saturday, forcing a second title contest in the doubleelimination tournament Greencastle then captured the championship by a 10-run-rule 13-3 score. Pitching was the key for Greencastle. Andrew Davies and Randy Brown combined to pitch back-to-back one-hit shutouts against North Putnam and Happy Valley. Davies and Andrew Williams split the pitching duties in the final game. Davies was swinging a hot and powerful bat. He was three-for-three with a home run, double and single in Greencastle’s victory over North

Bob Kinser wins second feature at Lincoln Park

PUTNAMVILLE Bob Kinser does not win at Lincoln Park Speedway every week, it just seems that way. Kinser’s victory in the 25-lap feature Saturday night was only his second of the season, but it came on one of the fastest night’s of the year. Three sprint cars broke Randy Kinsa’s 1985 record qualification time. Brad Marvel, of former USAC driver Billy Marvel Jr., finished with the newest standard at 13.055 seconds. The time means the drivers were turning the track around 86 miles an hour, going even faster down the straight-away considering the cars nearly stop while siding through the turns. Russ Freeland improved his qualification time in the Modified Stocks by nearly a second, but it was Frank Nichols’ night. The Spencer driver won his first feature of the year. Joe Holtsclaw also won his first feature of the season at Lincoln Park in the Thunder Cark competition. The Plainfield driver had to hold off a field of Lincoln Park veterans like Harry

British Open, Graded Scons TROON, Scotland (AP) Graded scores and prize money Sunday after the final round of the British Open Golf Championship on the par-72, 7,097-yard Royal Troon Golf Club course (adenotes amateur, x-won a four hole playoff): x-M. Clcvcch, $128,000 71-68-68-68—275 Greg Norman, SBB,OOO 69-70-72-64—275 Wayne Grady, SBB,OOO 68-67-69-71—275 Tom Watson, $64,000 69-68-68-72—277 Jodie Mudd, $48,000 73-67-68-70—278 Fred Couples, $41,600 68-71-68-72—279 David Fenerty, $41,600 71-67-69-72—279 Paul Azinger, $33,600 68-73-67-72—280 Payne Stewart, $33,600 72-65-69-74—280 Eduardo Romer, $33,600 68-70-75-67—280 Mark McNulty, $27,200 75-70-70-66—281 Nick Faldo, $27,200 71-71-70-69—281 Roger Chapman, $20,800 76-68-67-71—282 Howard Clark, $20,800 72-68-72-70-282 Mark James, $20,800 69-70-71-72—282 Steve Pate, $20,800 69-70-70-73—282 Craig Stadler, $20,800 73-69-69-71—282 Philip Walton, $20,800 69-74-69-70—282 Derrick Cooper, $13,720 69-70-76-68—283 Tom Kite, $13,720 7 074-67-72—283 Larry Mize, $13,720 71-74-66-72—283 Don Pooley, $13,720 73-7069-71—283 Vijay Singh, $10,773 71-73-69-71—284 Davia Love DI, $10,773 72-7073-69—284 J.-Maria Olzbl, $10,773 68-72-69-75—284

winner of the Open since Tom Watson in 1983. He said he was proud to end the losing streak. “I THOUGHT ABOUT it quite a bit,” Calcavecchia said. “Practicing before the playoff started, I said to myself, ‘Man, it’s been a long time since an American won it’ I had to get an American name back on that trophy. I had to do it for our Tour. “I know there are a lot of happy people back in the U.S.” Calcavecchia started the day three strokes behind Grady, with five players between him and the

Putnam and a home run and single in the first win ova Happy Valley. Greencastle scored two runs in the first inning and neva trailed North Putnam. Davies’ three hits led an eight-hit Greencastle attack. Derek Fox and Davies each hit home runs in Greencastle’s first win over Happy Valley. Andy Williams had a double and single and Wayne Barger a double. ' Again, Greencastle led all the way, taking the lead for good with a single run in the second inning. In the final game, Happy Valley took a 3-1 lead in the top of the second inning. Greencastle erupted for eight runs to take a 9-3 lead that grew into a 10-run-rule victory. Chad O’Hair and Brown led Greencastle with a home run each and Jay Ensley had two singles. The Greencastle All-Stars will take fair week off before beginning traveling to Brazil for their third tournament of the season.

Shepherd of Terre Haute (third) and Kenny Carmichael of Tbrre Haute (fourth) in that first victory. Brett Smedley, of Clayton, won a heat race. Lincoln Park Speedway Saturday Sprint Can (25-lap feature) 1. Bob Kinser, Bloomington (second of season); 2. Tim Bookmiller, Kokomo; 3. Brad Marvel. Indianapolis; 4. Scott Raber, Kokomo; 5. Kent Christian, Clayton. Semifeature Mike Helm. Indianapolis. Fastest Qualifier Brad Marvd, Indianapolis, 13.055 (new track record, old record Randy Kinser, 1985). Trophy Dash Dave Dariand, Lincoln. Heat Race Winners Kevin Thomas, Indianapolis; Kerry House, Chesterfield; Bill Rose, Plainfield. Modified Stocks (20-lap feature) 1. Frank Nichols, Gosport (first victory); 2. Don Dunoon, Brazil; 3. Steve Black, Indianapolis; 4. Jeff Martin, Kansas, DI; 5. Bob Stewart, Indianapolis. Fastest Qualifier Russ Freeland, North Salem, 14.967. Trophy Dash Dan Shoulder, Plainfield. Heat Race Winners Denny Schwartz, Ashmore, DI.; Steve Black, Indianapolis. Thunder Cars (15-lap feature) 1. Joe Holtsclaw, Plainfield (first victory); 2. James Shoulders, Danville; 3. Harry Shepherd, Terre Haute; 4. Kenny Carmichael, Terre Haute; 5. Jim Reynolds, Spencer Seml-feature Danny Newlin. Indianapolis. Fastest Qualifier Randy Beeler, Indianapolis, 17.766. Trophy Dash James Shoulders, Danville. Heat Race Winners Kenny Carmichael, Terre Haute; Rick Holtaclaw, Plainfield; Bob Hale, Lebanon; Brett Smedley, Claytan.

top of one of the most tightly bunched fields in recent Open history. He birdied the par-5 16th, and then rapped in a 5-foot putt for a final birdie at the 18th. He was tied with Norman, who finished early with a course-record 64. But both were one shot behind Grady, for the time being. “I WENT IN to sign my scorecard and I heard the crowd groan,” he said. Grady had just bogeyed the 17th, missing a par putt by inches. On the last playoff hole, Calcavecchia was tied for the lead. Norman, one of the biggest hitters in golf, sent his drive screaming down the right side of the fairway. It hit on ground left hard by weeks of sun and little rain and rolled 30-40 yards into a steeply banked fairway bunker. THE HE HIT the ball into another bunker. A desperation shot sailed through the green and out of bounds. Add Troon ’B9 to Augusta ’B7, Winged Foot ’B4 and so many other sites where Norman has been close, but not close enough. Grady bogeyed again, two-put-ting from four feet, and Calcavecchia, his approach shot resting six feet from the pin, was all but official.