Banner Graphic, Volume 20, Number 45, Greencastle, Putnam County, 26 October 1989 — Page 8

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Tigers in position to win ICAC, make tournament

An overtime victory over lUPUI Wednesday night kept the DePauw soccer team, in contention for an NCAA Division HI tournament berth. Pete Land’s penalty kick with six minutes left in the first overtime gave DePauw a 2-1 win over lUPUI at Kuntz Stadium in Indianapolis. After a scoreless first half, the Tigers got on the board first with

Putnam County Sports

FRIDAY High School Football Games: North Putnam at Cloverdale, 7:30 p.m. Sullivan at Greencastle, 7:30 pjn. North Vermillion at South Putnam, 7:30 p.m. SATURDAY IHSAA Cross Country Semistate at Bloomington (IU Golf Course), 11 aan. Wabash at DePauw, 11 aan., soccer. Wittenberg at DePauw, 2 pan., football North Putnam in West Vigo-IHSAA Volleyball Regional, 2 p.m.; championship, 7:30 pan.

Football sectional

They’ve got two multi-purpose backs who are able to run and receive both,” Wildman said. Halfback Mike Socha has caught 30 passes for 410 yards and two touchdowns. Quarterback Kenny Balding has thrown for 915 yards and seven. When the Falcons run halfback Jay Switzer usually has the ball. The 160-pound junior has rushed for 700 yards and 88. SuKvan at Greencastle If it weren’t for Sullivan, Greencastle coach John Fallis might have celebrated all week. The Tiger Cubs executed wen on offense and won Mg without two of its mainstays halfbacks Kevin Barnett and Trent Smaltz. Quarterback Brad Resner threw for 157 yards against North Central and Randy Pettit ran for his second 100-yard game of the season. “When you give him the ball he goes with it,” Fallis said of Pettit. As for the passing, Fallis was happy to see Resner and split end Joe Ticker hook up six times for those 157 yards. “In our offense, with the option, we’re always looking to go downtown,” Fallis said. "Over the years, whoever the player in that split end position has been, has averaged, I think, 20 yards a catch.” AND THINGS COULD improve for the Tiger Cub offense. Halfback Kevin Barnett received the doctor’s go-ahead to practice Wednesday and Smaltz’s bruised

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a second-half goal by Land. The Metros knotted the score with an unassisted goal 31:32 into the second half. The Tigers, 13-4-1 overall and 6-0 in the conference, play for the Indiana Collegiate Athletic Conference title and a possibly an NCAA Division ID tournament bid at 11 a.m. Saturday when they host Wabash at Boswell Field.

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knee should be better. The defense remains a concern. “Defensively we’re not making crucial plays. If we stick somebody and it gets to be third and six, we must stop somebody and we haven’t been doing a very good job of that,” Fallis said. And Greencastle’s defense has had more trouble with bigger teams. If you thought Edgewood and Northview were big football teams, wait until you look at Sullivan’s Golden Arrows. THE GOLDEN ARROWS’ offensive line averages 221 pounds, led by 252-pound Tim Cox and 230-pound Mark Thompson at tackles. And those huge linemen ate blocking for some quick backs, according to Fallis. The third wishbone offense Greencastle has faced this year is led by 154-pound halfback Mike Pirtle. The senior has carried the ball 65 times for 557 yards and 11 touchdowns and has caught 28 passes for 537 yards and six more touchdowns. He has 21 touchdowns and 130 points all totaled. AND QUARTERBACK Mark Nasser, a 6-5, 181-pound senior, has thrown for 952 yards and 10 touchdowns. Nasser has netted just 155 yards in 60 carries, but has scored six touchdowns. Once annual rivals in the now defunct WIC, Greencastle and Sullivan have not played since 1984 and the Tiger Cubs won that game.

Blaydes, Koosman runnin’ on

By STEVE FIELDS Banner-Graphic Sports Editor Putnam County’s two best high school cross country runners, Steve Blaydes of South Putnam and Monica Koosman of Cloverdale, have enjoyed similar seasons. Each cruised to first place in the Putnam County Meet without much trouble, each earned All-West Central Conference honors with a top 10 finish and each finished among the top 10 at the IHSAA meet at Terre Haute last Saturday, making them the only county runners still competing in the state series. THE SIMILARITIES END there. In fact, if they could exchange a few individual assets, both would be a better runner. For instance, Blaydes has four seasons of experience and Koosman one. Koosman knows she can run among the contenders and Blaydes isn’t so sure. Blaydes may be the ultimate team runner. In the West Central Conference Meet, he crossed the finish line second to Edgewood’s Greg Hottell and, without so much as stopping for a drink of water or picking up his sweatsuit, went straight to the final yards of the course to encourage teammates. After winning the county meet, while being congratulated few his victory and in a interview, he stopped everything to ask, “Did we win?” He’s a team player in an individual sport. He doesn’t have to look for a teammate breaking off a back pick, as he will as point-guard on South’s basketball team. THAT IN ITSELF WILL will make Saturday’s semistate at the Indiana University Golf Course a new experience for Blaydes. It will be the first time he has competed without teammates. “It can help him because the team hasn’t done very well the last two weeks and Steve is so concerned with that, it could have been a distraction,” coach Kieth Puckett said. Blaydes says running without teammates doesn’t change his race. “It’s not so much running, because I can run in the top 10,1 just got to believe I can get in the top 10,” the son of Steve and Sharon Blaydes said. The stopwatch shows he can run among the state’s best He’s running practice times only a second or two off the records former teammate Todd Messer set last year en route to a sixth place finish in the IHSAA state championship meet. “THE BIGGEST BATTLE for Steve right now is getting him to realize how good he is,” Puckett said. “His practice time is right there. He just needs to realize what everybody else realizes, that he’s a great talent” The competition at Bloomington will be stiff. The top 10 runners and first four teams from the

World Series resumes Friday night

A’s, Giants prepare to play ball

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) The Oakland A’s are going back to spring-training basics. The San Francisco Giants are going back to having fun. A day before the World Series resumes, which way will win? “The hardest thing is to sit down and figure out what’s best to get your players ready to play,” Giants manager Roger Craig said Wednesday. “I think every manager has to do what he thinks is right The Athletics did what they thought was best and we’re doing the same.” THE ATHLETICS, AFRAID of bad weather that never came, went to their spring training site in Phoenix. Under hazy skies that turned sunny, they played a simulated game and today planned to play against their instructional league team in Arizona. “I’m not worried about motivation. This is the World Series. This

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Terre Haute, Bloomington, Jasper and Madison regionals will be competing. The top 10 individuals and first four teams advance to the state meet Nov. 4 at South Grove Golf Course in Indianapolis. “Coach (Puckett) has been telling me I got to believe I can do it and I will make the top 10,” Blaydes said. Among his competition will be Terre Haute regional champion Jerald Hollingsworth of North Vermillion and second place T.G. Timberman of Northview. Those are people Puckett hopes to keep him away from Saturday. Instead the coach wants to keep him around the strongest runners. “I want him to realize he can do well this week, that he can do well in the stale meet and that he can run in college,” Puckett said. CLOVERDALE’S KOOSMAN DOES not lack confidence, she lacks experience in big meets. Until this year, the junior played volleyball. But when she won the 3200-meter run in the Putnam County and West Central Conference track meets and the North Vermillion-IHSAA sectional championship last spring, coaches and. friends began encouraging her to run cross country this fall. “My parents kept saying ‘lt’s your decision, it’s your decision,’” Koosman explained. “I kind of decided (to give up volleyball) at the last minute.”

is what you come to spring training thinking about,” Oakland manager Tony La Russa said. “We’re here to work.” The Athletics weren’t totally serious, but they were all business. They lead the series 2-0 and plan to keep going Friday evening in Game 3. THE GIANTS SEEMED to do as much joking as hitting, pitching and fielding at their practice at sunny Candlestick Park. “Like a bunch of kids on a sandloL That’s the kind of atmosphere I want, having fun,” Craig said. “If they’re mentally ready to play, the physical aspect will be there. If their hearts aren’t in it, it won’t matter.” The weather is expected to be fine for Friday. The teams are just hoping everything else is OK. For the second straight day, an aftershock bounced the Bay area.

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On Tuesday, it came shortly after 6 p.m., which would’ve been around the second inning if the World Series had resumed on the day baseball had originally hoped. ON WEDNESDAY, the stadium slightly shook around 3 p.m. The Giants had left by the time that happened. While the teams worked out, the Athletics tried to work out a compromise with the Rolling Stones. The two sides met Wednesday, but no resolution was announced. The Rolling Stones are scheduled to play at the Oakland Coliseum on Nov. 4-5, and their contract allows them to move into the stadium five days beforehand to set up. If the Giants can force the series back to Oakland, there would be a conflict for Games 6 and 7 on Oct. 31 and Nov. 1. CANDLESTICK PARK, meanwhile, is ready. As the Giants

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KOOSMAN KNEW SHE would be the only girl on the team and was a little afraid former volleyball teammates would not speak to her at school. Instead, the volleyball team became something of a pep club for her, talking coach Julie Hunter into allowing them to leave practice a little early to cheer for Koosman in the bigger meets held at Cloverdale. Because she is the only girl on Cloverdale’s team, more often than not, Koosman has run against the boys, the junior varsity. “I like running with the guys,” she said. “It’s easier, but it’s harder because I try to place in their race, so it helps me. “When I run with the boys they get ahead of me and I keep having to push myself to pass them. I think when you keep passing people your spirits are higher.” KOOSMAN LIKES HAVING somebody in front of her to chase, a habit developed running against boys. She only ran in three or four allgirts meets during the regular season, so the sectional was still a little different kind of meet to her. “It hasn’t been that bad. Like in the sectional, there were two girts (Hope Robins of Terre Haute North and Denise Pigg of West Vigo) in front of me, so I just had to keep pushing (to stay with them),” Koosman said. Because of her success in track though, Koosman has not been surprised by her success in cross country. “It didn’t come as that much of a shock to me I placed that high (in the sectional) because since I ran two miles (3200meters) last year in track and a half-mile isn’t that much further,” Koosman said. “I HOPE TO GET to state. I hope I do well,” she said of the semistate. It’s been a big week around the Koosman house and athletics have played second fiddle. Monica, her 214-year-old sister Kayla and 15-year-old brother Chad got a new running partner at 2:04 a.m. Tuesday when Ashley was born to David and Nancy Koosman. Put a stopwatch in the crib. •*•••• CAMPUS NOTES: Now two former Cloverdale high school football players are competing at the college level. John Nees, of course, is a sophomore at William Penn College. The 5-9,175-pound Nees lettered at quarterback last year, but broke his hand about three weeks before the season started, so he was moved to defensive back and hasn’t missed a game. Pat Kirby is a freshman offensive lineman at Manchester College and after football season plans to wrestle. Greencastle graduate Matt Bowen has decided against playing college basketball at Thylor. Bowen, a freshman end, is playing on the junior varsity football team.

practiced, maintenance crews cleaned the stadium. Once the ’Stick and Stones are set, all that remains is baseball. The Giants planned an easy practice today. “No simulated games. No intrasquad games. We tried that the first few days and some of the players were bitching, throwing bats,” Craig said. “With the earthquake, they had other things on their minds and didn’t want to being doing that “THEY DIDN’T REALLY enjoy iL You can’t force them to do things they don’t want to do,” he said. “Today, they were having fun and got something out of iL” First baseman Will Clark saw some benefits. “We were loosey-goosey today,” he said. “Maybe that’s a sign we’re relaxed. But we still have a big job ahead.”