Banner Graphic, Volume 20, Number 115, Greencastle, Putnam County, 19 January 1990 — Page 8

THE BANNERGRAPHIC January 19,1990

Cubs hold off Clovers’ charge

By STEVE FIELDS Banner-Graphic Sports Editor CLOVERDALE Greencastle can win a girls basketball game without Laura Ledbetter, but having her on the court makes it a whole lot easier. While Ledbetter sat on the bench with four fouls, Greencastle withstood Cloverdale’s third quarter charge and led by two going into the final period. AND WITH LEDBETTER scoring 12 of her game-high 32 points in the fourth quarter Greencastle pulled away for a 61-54 West Centrad Conference victory Thursday night. The 5-11 sophomore, exceeded her 24.3 points per game scoring average despite sitting out 10 minutes in foul trouble. Ledbetter sat out the final 4:17 of the first half with three fouls and was whistled for a her fourth with 5:53 left in the third quarter. “We had a couple of opportunities to draw a charge and didn’t get the job done,” Cloverdale coach Greg Hammond said. WITH TEAMMATES getting her the ball inside, plus a few offensive rebounds, Ledbetter, the state’s 13th leading scorer, hit 13-of-20 shots from the floor and 6-of--8 free throws en route to her fourth 30-point performance of the season. She also pulled down a team leading 13 rebounds and

Unbeaten teams collide in WCC tourney

Monrovia favored over Clovers

By STEVE HELDS Banner-Graphic Sports Editor Undefeated Monrovia has been established as a solid favorite to repeat as West Central Conference Wrestling Tournament champion over undefeated Cloverdale Saturday at Edgewood High School. Led by the state’s No. 1 ranked 135-pounder, Toby Turner with a 19-0 record, the Bulldogs have undefeated, top seeds at 152 pounds, 160 pounds and 171 pounds. THE 10-TEAM tournament gets under way at 9:30 a.m. with action on three mats. All-day admission is $4 for adults and $3 for students, or $2.50 for the consolation and final rounds. The WCC Tournament has been expanded this year. The three mats are necessary into the consolation and championship rounds because wrestlebacks to sixth place have been added. This will also create more scoring opportunities and keep the champion undecided until late in the meet. Cloverdale’s Dean Williams and Greencastle’s Sam Ray enter the West Central Conference tournament as Putnam County’s only No. 1 seeds. They head a list of 19 Putnam County wrestlers among the four top seeds in each of the 13 weight classes. WILLIAMS’ 17-3 record makes him No. 1 at 125 pounds over TriWest’s 11-1 Jamie Bumicle. Greencastle’s Shawn Glover, 10-3, is seeded third and Owen Valley’s Aaron Abshire fourth. Ray is the defending champion as well as the top seed at 119 pounds. The junior takes a 13-0 record in the conference tournament with his archrival, Cloverdale’s Steve Carrell, 18-2, at the other end of the bracket as the No. 2 seed. Ray won a 16-3 superior decision over Carrell in last year’s WCC finale. In December’s Putnam County Tournament, Ray pinned Carrell with 10 seconds left in the first-round match and went on to win the match.

DePauw needs victory Saturday

By STEVE HELDS Banner-Graphic Sports Editor Royce Waltman rarely talks about individuals. The DePauw coach speaks in terms of team success and team goals. At the same time, Waltman knows team success leads to individual honors. That concerns him when it comes to guard Brett Crist “He’s a good a guard as their there around, but until we improve as a team he may not receive the recognition he deserves,” Waltman said at Tiger Talk Tuesday. THAT MEANS DePauw can little afford a loss going into Saturday afternoon’s 3 p.m. game at Lilly Center contest with Manchester College. Crist is having an All-America kind of the season. The DePauw Invitational MVP leads the Tigers in scoring at 18.5 points per game, has scored 25 points in each of the last two games and his shooting just under 53 percent from the floor.

LAURA LEDBETTER 13 points, 13 rebounds blocked five shots. But Greencastle did not win on a one-player show. Jenny Black and Natalie Ward kept Greencastle in the lead or close to it with Ledbetter on the bench. Black had 10 points and 11 rebounds and Ward scored eight points and had 11 rebounds. “You have to give credit to Nicole Peters. Monica Koosman got 20 points on us in the county tourney and she scored three tonight,” Greencastle coach Glenn Hile said. “AND YOU’VE GOT to go

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South Putnam goes into the WCC Wrestling Tournament Saturday at Edgewood after an 8-8 dual meet record. Members of the South Putnam squad are (front row, from left): manager Ryan Callahan, Kris Starks, Andy Singleton, manager Jayme Showalter and (second row, from left) Mike Harris, Jeff Stinson. Donnie

NORTH PUTNAM’S Benny Ault, with a 10-8-1 record, is seeded fourth at 119 pounds. Cloverdale’s Kevin Shew and South Putnam’s Jeff Stinson are seeded second in their respective classes, but only one will wrestle. Shew takes a 17-2 record into the 145-pound class, where, should he reach the finale, would probably Monrovia’s top-ranked Turner. Stinson’s 145-pound season came to a close Monday when he suffered a separated shoulder during a practice session scrimmage. He finishsed with a 16-3 record. That injury could move Cloverdale’s Mark Canull, 14-3, from No. 3 to No. 2 seed. SEEDED THIRD FOR Cloverdale are Mark Canull, Scott Hol-

DePauw Tigers Won 10, Lost 5 Tigers G-S FGM FGA PcL FTM-FTA Pct R ATO TP AVG Brett Crist 15-15 104-197 .528 53-73 .726 47 45 50 278 18.5 Troy Greenlee 15-15 66-146 .452 18-24 .750 32 23 14 200 13.3 Brett Hecko 15-15 85-144 .590 31-42 .738 130 29 32 204 13.3 David Ferrell 14-14 44-94 .468 31-47 .660 76 9 21 119 8.5 Anthony Clay 1-0 4-6 .667 0-0 .000 5 1 1 8 8.0 Brad Brownell 15-14 31-68 .456 29-35 .829 38 59 21 95 6.3 Todd Snoeyinlt 15-1 21-37 .568 25-28 .893 28 10 11 67 4.5 Marie Burgher 2-0 2-6 .333 2-2 1.000 5 1 0 6 3.0 Todd Seifferlein 10-0 14-19 .737 4-4 1.000 3 5 9 36 3.6 Neal Watson 15-0 17-33 .515 1-4 .259 10 4 4 37 2.5 Mike Daniel 15-0 12-21 .571 6-10 .600 18 18 7 31 21 Tee Powell 6-0 5-12 .417 1-2 .500 9 0 2 11 1.8 Travis Nelson 7-0 5-9 .556 2-4 .500 4 0 2 12 1.7 Ericßruksch 8-0 3-7 .429 6-7 .857 1 5 3 12 1.5 Scott Allison 3-0 1-4 .250 1-3 .333 3 2 3 3 1.0 Scott Thompson 9-0 1-5 .200 3-7 .429 15 4 0 5 0.6 TroyNoard 1-0 0-0 .000 04) .000 0 0 0 0 0.0 Team Rebounds 10 0-0 .000 0-0 .000 33 0 0 0.0 DePauw 15 415-808 .514 216-297 .727 457 215 180 1124 74.9 Opponents IS 384-810 .474 131-189 .693 269 194 217 969 64.6 Three-Point FG DePauw 78-177, .441 (Greenlee 50-106, .472; Crist 17-44, .386, Brownell 4-11, .364; Seifferlein 4-8, .500; Watson 2-3, .667; Daniel 1-2 .500; Burgher O-3, .000); Opponents 70-171, .409. , Steals DePauw 102 (Brownell 24, Crist 16, Hecko 17, Bruksch 10, Greenlee 8, Seifferlein 6, Daniel 6, Ferrell 4, Watson 3, Snoeyink 2, Nelson 2 Thompson 1); Opponents 75.

The 5-11 junior needs just three points to become DePauw 18th alltime leading scorer. He has 890 career points, just two points behind former DePauw teammate

mention Beth Behle. In the fourth quarter when we were breaking their press open, it was her passing.” Coach Hammond knew the difference in the game before he looked in the scorebook. “Another thing that killed us, we put them at the free throw line too many times. And we didn’t hit free throws tonight. True, for the Clovers outscored the Tiger Cubs 45-44 from the floor. Cloverdale, shooting over 60 percent from the line on the year, hit just 9-of-25 free throws (36 percent) while Greencastle hit 17-of--28 (61 percent). “Kim Irwin hit big, big free throws for us,” Hile said of Greencastle’s final two points. CLOVERDALE RALLIED from the 11-point deficit behind the perimeter shooting of Mendy Parker and the offensive rebounding of Coleen Janssen to trail just 59-54 with 26 seconds left Irwin’s two free throws gave Greencastle cushion enough to improve its overall record to 9-6 and WCC record to 6-2. Denise Atkins led Cloverdale with 14 points, followed by a big 13-point night from Rachel Pennington off the bench. Cloverdale also got six points and a game-high 14 rebounds from Janssen off the

Schilling, Jason McCullough and (back row, from left) assistant coach Brian Meredith, Mark Fox, Bryan Stevens, Rob Brown, Sam Williams and coach Matt Griswold. Not pictured is heavyweight Bob Burton. (Banner-Graphic photo by Steve Fields)

mes, Chris Phelps and Steve Kaufman. Canull is 14-4, Holmes 17-3 and Phelps 14-2-1.

Kaufman, 16-4, has been victimized by his skill and success this season. Many opponents have moved wrestlers down to 171 pounds or up to heavyweight, banking on winning those matches rather than try to take on Kaufman. Cloverdale heavyweight Jason Whitaker, 10-8, is seeded fourth and Jeremiah Lavoine stands 15-4 at No. 4 seed in the 140-pound class. Greencastle’s Shane Thomas is seeded third at 140 pounds and Chris Trivett fourth at 152. Thomas, a freshman, has a 10-3 record and Trivett 3-2. SOUTH’S MIKE HARRIS is

Dan Falotico. Crist is fifth in the ICAC in scoring and seventh in assists per game. BUT AFTER BEING named MVP of the DePauw Tournament,

bench. Greencastle’s returns to action Monday at home against Terre Haute South, a rematch from the Greencastle Invitational. Cloverdale’s next game is Monday at Danville. At Cloverdale Greencastle Tiger Cubs 61, Cloverdale Clovers 54 Tiger Cubs FG-FGA FT-FTA PF R TP Ward 3-8 2-6 3 11 8 Black 4-11 2-3 4 11 10 Ledbetter 13-20 6-8 4 13 32 Peters 0-1 3-4 2 1 3 Behle 0-3 0-111 0 Irwin 0-1 4-6 0 3 4 Lancaster 0-0 0-0 1 2 0 Weaver 1-2 0-0 0 1 2 Harmless 1-5 0-0 4 5 2 Team 0-0 0-0 0 5 0 Totals 22-51 17-28 19 53 61 Clovers FG-FGA FT-FTA PF R TP Atkins 5-22 4-10 4 10 14 Burcham 2-7 1-2 3 3 5 Smith 2-5 0-0 5 5 4 Koosman 1-3 1-3 4 3 3 Parker 3-14 2-4 0 5 9 Janssen 3-10 0-3 2 14 6 Pennington 5-10 1-3 2 2 13 Team 0-0 0-0 0 4 0 Totals 21-71 9-25 20 46 54 SCORE BY QUARTERS GREENCASTLE 10 23 41 61 CLOVERDALE 13 21 39 54 3-Point FG: Greencastle 0-0, Cloverdale 3-9 (Pennington 2-5, Parker 1-4). Turnovers: Greencastle 27, Cloverdale 19. JUNIOR VARSITY Greencastle 25, Cloverdale 23 Greencastle Emberton 7, Gacsko 5, Statk 4, Billman 4, Covert 4, Moore 1. Cloverdale Lewis 9, Kirby 6, Simpson 6, Powell 2.

seeded third at 171 pounds with a 18-4 record. He will face unseeded Jason Bayer of Cloverdale in the first round. Also for South, Mark Fox and Donnie Schilling are seeded fourth. Fox has a 14-6-1 record at 130 pounds. Schilling takes a 15-7 record into the 135-pound competition. North’s David Chambers has a 94 record, which makes him the No. 4 seed at 171 pounds. FOLLOWING THE WCC meet, wrestlers will begin final preparations for state tournament competition. The Greencastle-IH-SAA sectional is Jan. 27 at McAnally Center with Greencastle, North Putnam, South Putnam, Cloverdale and Rockville entered.

Crist said he would rather have the team success. Manchester comes to DePauw with a 7-9 record and the league’s No. 3 scorer. The most recent conference statistics, excluding games played this week, shows Manchester’s Ricky Miller averaging 18.4 points per game. ICAC Basketball Indiana Collegiate Athletic Conference Men’a Basketball at a Glance School ICAC Pct Total PcL Franklin** 4-0 1.000 10-4 .714 Hanover 3-0 1.000 11-5 .688 Taylor 2-1 .667 17-2 .895 DePauw 2-1 .667 10-5 .667 Rose-Hulman 2-2 .500 11-5 .688 Manchester 0-3 .000 7-9 .437 Anderson 0-3 .000 5-8 .385 Wabash 0-3 .000 4-10 .286 Thursday games Anderson 103. IU-Kokomo 69 Saturday games Manchester at DePauw, 3 pm.* Anderson at Wabash* Taylor at Franklin* Hanover at Rose-Hulman* • ICAC games •• Defending league champion

sports

Sharks’ streak stopped

BLOOMINGTON Greencastle’s four-meet winning streak came to an end Thursday night, as the Bloomington North swimming team scored a 111-66 victory. The loss leaves the Tiger Sharks with a 7-4 dual meet record. Greencastle took only three firsts. Craig Christiansen won the 500-freestyle, Michael Brown won the 100-backstroke and the team of Ryan Pitcock, Stacey Baird, Brandt Modlin and Kyle Christiansen won the 400-freestyle relay. “We swam very well,” Greencastle coach Paul Bretscher said. “They are just a very good team.” Greencastle’s next meet is

Greencastle wins 10th

The Greencastle freshman basketball team ran its record to 10-2 Wednesday night with its second victory of the season against Owen Valley. The Tiger Cubs posted a 4937 victory over the Patriots with Mark Hiemenz scoring 20 points, Reid Snellenbarger 12, Jerrad Duff 7, Jim Ensley and Brian Branagin 4 each and Emery Phillips 2.

DPU women set record

The DePauw women’s basketball team is just over the halfway point of its season and has already set a school record for victories in a season. With a 75-69 win at Indiana Wesleyan Thursday night, the Tigers earned their 11th win in 15 tries, breaking the old school mark of 10 victories. The Tigers raced to a 42-30 halftime lead on the strength of 62 percent shooting from the field. DePauw canned 11 of its first 16 shots, including a 5-of-5 performance from Carla Weaver, to take an early 13-point lead. DePauw led by nine, 63-54, following a Suzie Carlson bas-

South adds meet and win

ROCKVILLE South Putnam’s wrestling team got a surprise Wednesday afternoon and a victory Wednesday in a 39-29 verdict against Rockville. Rockville called South looking for a dual meet. Since the Eagles had not wrestled in over a week, coach Matt Griswold gladly packed his team in a bus. “It was great,” Griswold said. “It was a nice suprise just to get to wrestle.” Kris Starks, Jason McCullough, Mike Harris, Rob Brown and Bob Burton all picked up victories on the mat. South also received one forfeit from Rockville. Brown, a junior, had the fastest pin of the night, ending the 189-pound match in just 16 seconds by putting Bill Bettis on his back. Burton came close to Brown’s fast pin, but it took him 36 seconds seconds to pin Rockville’s Dave Handley in the heavyweight match.

North sweeps Tri-West

ROACHDALE North Putnam swept two junior high basketball games from visiting TriWest Thursday night North’s seventh grade stands 6-5 after defeating Tri-West 3826. David Schubert led North with 14 points, Brandon McKinney scored 5, Bobby Butler, Ben Ritz and Jim Lister netted 4 each, Justin Judy scored 3 and Jeramy Davasher and James

North splits two games

MARSHALL North Putnam split a pair of basketball games at Turkey Run High School Thursday night. North’s Cougars won the C-Team contest 51-35, but lost 45-46 in the freshman game. Andrew Bums led North’s Cteam victory with 14 points, followed by Brent Fowler and

Monday at home against North Montgomery. Thursday at Bloomington Bloomington North 111, Greencastle6l 200-medley relay North; Greencastle; Bloomington North. 200-freestyle Bloomington North; Craig Christiansen, G. 200-IM BN; Michael Brown, G. 50-freestyle BN; Stewart, BN. Diving Nathan Lewis, G. 100-butterfly Modlin, G; Sueztekl, BN. 100-freestyle Hiemenz, G; Bowen, BN. 500-freestyle tiansen, G; Book waiter, BN; Drake, BN. 100-backstroke Brown, G; Atkinson, BN; Schcadinns, BN. 100-breaststroke Appelman, BN; Brett Hiemenz, G. 400-freestyle relay (Ryan Pitcock, Stacey Baird, Brandt Modlin, Kyle Christiansen); Bloomington North; Greencastle.

Greencastle also won the B game, pulling out a 33-32 overtime victory to stand 4-1. Eric Daugherty led Greencastle with 12 points, followed by Dustin King with 11, Ryan Bonebrake 7, Jon Blue 5 and scott Graham 1. Greencastle plays at home Tuesday night against Northview.

ket basket at the 7:34 mark of the second half, but the Wildcats rattled off the next six points to cut the lead to 63-60. DePauw’s lead was still three, 65-62, with just under four minutes to play before the Tigers scored the next six to put the game out of reach. Weaver led the Tigers with 23 points, followed by Carrie Magee with 14, Seana Murphy 13 points and nine rebounds and Carlson had 12 points. DePauw returns to action at Lilly Center in a Hoosier Conference for Women contest on Saturday at 1 p.m. against Goshen.

Griswold said he would like to keep Rockville on the schedule. “It was nice to get a chance to fix your injuries if you’re hurt, but we really needed last night to tunc up (for Saturday’s WCC Tournament),” Griswold said. “Plus, it was nice against Rockville. Now we’ve seen all of our sectional opponents.” Wednesday at Rockville South Putnam 39, Rockville 29 103 Double forfeit. 112 Kris Starks, SP, pin 3:02, Toby Soltermann, R. 119 —Andy Singleton, SP, by forfeit. 125 Chris Padan, R, by forfeit. 130 Double forfeit 135 Dan Mcllhenny, R, 6-1 dec., Mark Fox, SP. 140 Draw, 11-11, Donnie Schilling, SP, and Brad Gregg, R. 145 —Tom Sparks, R, by forfeit. 152 Jason McCullough, SP, pin 1:47, John Vauters, R. 160 George Clark, R, by forfeit. 171 Mike Haris, SP, pin 4:24, Jim Burdick, R. 189 Rob Brown, SP, pin :16, Bill Bettis, R. HWT Bob Burton, SP, pin :36, Dave Handley, R.

Oakley popped in 2 each. The Cougar eighth grade, with varsity coach Jim Brothers substituting for ailing coach Dan Nelson, defeated Tri-West 51-30 and now stands 8-2. Denny Stranger led North with 19 points, Paul Schubert scored 13, Cory Clark had 6, Andy Sutton and Justin Barker netted 5 each, Kris Howell three and Craig Robertson 2.

Kevin Smith with 10 each, Jeremy Butler had 9, A.J. Friars 4 and Jerry Robertson and Jeff Trent scored 2 each. Jason Mendenhall led North’s freshmen with 12 points, Greg Martin scored 10, Tyler Ritz 5, Robert Hodge 5, Jeff Trent 4, Jason Gerald 2 and Ryan Gruenholz 1.