Banner Graphic, Volume 20, Number 291, Greencastle, Putnam County, 15 August 1990 — Page 8

THE BANNERGRAPHIC August 15,1990

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sports

Tiger Cub soccer team ready for first scrimmage

The Greencastle High School soccer program, entering its second year, will preview the 1990 season with a “Purple and Gray Scrimmage” at 5:30 p.m. Thursday at Big Walnut Sports Park. Admission is free. Greencastle will play its eight-game home schedule at Big Walnut Sports Park. The season and home schedule opens Aug. 21 with a 4:30 p.m., varsity-JV games against Bloomington North. The Tiger Cubs will be home Aug. 29 against Indianapolis Roncalli, Sept. 5 against North Putnam, Sept. 11 against West Vigo,

North soccer team opens in Bloomington tourney

ROACHDALE The North Putnam High School will open its first fall soccer season Friday and Saturday in the Hoosier Cup Soccer Tournament in Bloomington. North Putnam was the first Putnam County high school to adopt soccer, but until this school-year it has been a spring sport with a schedule of club teams. Central Indiana schools play varsity soccer in the fall, which prompted North Putnam’s change. Over half of all IHS AA member schools have soccer as a varsity sport, but do not play it in the same season. Many schools in northern and southern Indiana still play in the spring, which is one of the reasons the IHSAA has not adopted the sport. The Cougars’ will play two games Friday and two Saturday in the Hoosier Cup Soccer Tournament. North coach Steve Doll said he did not have exact starting times yet. Other teams in the Hoosier

Girls softball league will end year with pool party

The Putnam County Girls Softball League will hold a yearending pool party 7 to 9 p.m. Friday at the Greencastle City swimming pool in Robe-Ann Park. A girls playing in the league and their families are welcome to the pool party. Girls that have not turned in

Cloverdale selling tickets for home athletic events

CLOVERDALE Cloverdale Junior-Senior High School “All-Sports Passes” and “Ten Event Passes” will go on sale Monday in the principal’s office, noon to 3 p.m. each day through Aug. 24. The tickets will also be sold at home volleyball matches Aug. 21 and 23 and the opening football game Aug. 24. The “All-Sports Pass” is valid for all home athletic events except tournament. The ticket can be perchased for SBO per family, $35 for an individual adult or S2O for the individual students. These tickets are nontransferable. The “Ten Event Pass” is valid

Putnam County Sports Thursday Greencastle girls at McCutcheon Invitational, 8 a.m., golf. Greencastle “Purple and Gray Scrimmage,” at Big Walnut Sports Park, 5:30 p.m., soccer. Greencastle Men’s Softball League at Robe-Ann Park; Games at 6,7,8 p.m. Friday High School Football Jamborees: 7:30 p.m. at Danville High School (admission $2.50): Davnille vs. North Putnam; Tri-West vs. Greencastle; Tri-West vs. North Putnam; Danville vs. Greencastle. 7 p.m. at Cascade High School (admission $3): South Putnam vs. Cascade; Cloverdale vs. Owen Valley; Edgewood vs. Owen Valley; South Putnam vs. Monrovia; Cloverdale vs. Cascade; Edgewood vs. Monrovia. North Putnam vs. Castle at Hoosier Cup Soccer Tournament at Bloomington, Feelane Field (located just north of IU football stadium), 5:45 p.m.; North Putnam vs. Noblesville, 8:15 p.m., soccer.

Sept. 18 against Terre Haute South, Sept. 25 against Terre Haute North, Sept. 27 against Danville and Oct 4 in the regular-season finale against Plainfield. GREENCASTLE HIGH SCHOOL SOCCER SCHEDULE Date Place-Opp. Time Aug. 21 Bloomington North 4:30 pjn. Aug. 23 at Lafayette Jeff 7 p.m. Aug. 29 Roncalli 4:30 p.m. Sept. 5 North Putnam 5 p.m. Sept. 11 West Vigo 5 p .m. Sept 15 Harrison Tourney 9 am. Sept. 18 Terre Haute South 4:30 pm. Sept. 20 at Edgewood 4:30 pm. Sept. 22 at Chatard (Indianapolis) 7 pm. Sept. 25 Terre Haute North 4:30 pm. Sept. 27 Danville 4:30 pm. Sept 29 at McCutcheon 11a.m. Oct 2 at North Putnam 4:30 pm. Oct 4 Plainfield 5 pm.

Cup tournament include Bloomington North, Noblesville, Castle (located near Evansville), Edgewood, Columbus East, Evansville Mater Dei, Indianapolis Pike, Bloomington South, Evansville Reitz, Indianapolis North Central, Jennings County, Bedford North Lawrence, Columbus North, Indianapolis Chatard and Evansville Harrison. North Putnam will play in the Edgewood High School Soccer Jamboree Aug. 25. The starting time will be announced later. North opens the regular season Aug. 27 with a 5 p.m. home match against Bethesda Baptist. The Cougar schedule is as follows: Date Piace-Opp. Time Aug. 17 Hooaier Cup atßloomington Aug. 18 Hooaier Cup atßloomington Aug. 25 Edgewood Jamboree TBA Aug 27 Bethesda Baptist 5 pm. Aug 30 at Edgewood 5 pm. Sept. 1 at Benton Central 11am. Sept. 4 Danville 5 pm. Sept 5 at Greencastle 5 pm. Sept 13 West Vigo 5:30 p.m. Sept. 18 Edgewood 5 p.m. Sept. 20 at West Vigo 6 pm. Sept. 25 at Danville 5 pm. Sept 29 at Bethesda Baptist 5 p.m. Oct 2 Greencastle 4:30 pm.

their uniforms should do so at the pool party. A short meeting will also be held to elect officers. The leagues standings, as well as names of the girls making the league all-star squads will be published at a later date.

for any ten home events, except tournaments. The ticket may be purchased at any time, sls for adults and $lO for students. These tickets are also nontransferable. Admission prices to Cloverdale Junior-Senior High School athletic events remains the same ast last year. Admission to Cloverdale varsity football and boys basketball games remains at $2.50. Admission for varsity volleyball, girls basketball and wrestling is still $1.50 for adults, $1 for students grades K through 12. As in past years, admission to cross country meets and all spring sports will be free.

Colts want to examine Eric

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) The doctor treating Erie Dickerson for a hamstring injury said the running back will probably miss the season opener, but Indianapolis Colts general manager Jim Irsay wants a second opinion. Orthopedic surgeon Dr. Tom Parr Parr said Dickerson will likely return to the Colts in three to four weeks. The Colts open their season on Sept. 9 at Buffalo. “WE HOPE IT changes for the shorter. I could be off two weeks either way,” Parr said in a telephone interview from Houston. Irsay said Tuesday that the team’s physician, Dr. K. Donald Shelboume, plans to examine Dickerson’s injury. “We’ll be getting a hold of Eric’s agent, Leigh Steinberg, to set that up, but I think we’d like to have Bic come in sometime in the next four or five days,” Irsay said. “Until our people have had a chance to examine his progress, we won’t know what Eric’s situation is.” IRSAY SAID Shelboume will determine when Dickerson is ready to return. “It’s a day-to-day situation and we’ll monitor it from there. But it’s really in our team physician’s

Yankees looking for leader CLEVELAND (AP) Baseball has no intention of pushing back its Aug. 20 deadline for George Steinbrenner’s resignation, whether or not New York Yankees partners can agree on his successor at a scheduled meeting today. “Mr. Steinbrenner will resign on Monday. I would expect before Monday the Yankee partnership will announce whom their nominee for general partner is,” Deputy Commissioner Steve Greenberg said Tuesday. THE 18 LIMITED partners are scheduled to meet today in Cleveland to vote on a replacement for Steinbrenner, who was ordered out of baseball by Commissioner Fay Vincent because of his dealings with gambler Howard Spira. Steinbrenner was accused of giving $40,000 to Spira for information damaging to Dave Winfield. Steinbrenner wanted his 33-year-old son, Hank, to succeed him as general partner, an arrangement Vincent found palatable. But some partners say Hank may prefer to continue running the family horse farm in Florida. “I had a feeling he didn’t want the job, from various things I heard,” limited partner Charlotte Witkind said from her home in Columbus, Ohio. “But maybe he will change his mind. If he doesn’t, that makes it more confusing.” SEVERAL PARTNERS have said they were inclined to give the benefit of the doubt to anyone George Steinbrenner nominates, whether it’s Hank or another candidate. But there also has been speculation that Marvin Goldklang, a limited partner who owns five minor-league teams, might take over. Goldklang declined to comment Tuesday. “As I look at this thing, although George Steinbrenner is no longer going to be general partner, he still has the say-so,” Witkind said. “He still has the biggest financial interest”

Sweep puts Pirates back in hunt

By The Associated Press The next time the Pittsburgh Pirates start to slump, there’s an obvious solution: Play a doubleheader. So far in 1990, it has been very zi f-rp>z> tl VP* PITTSBURGH HAD NOT won both games of a doubleheader since 1986, but in 1990, playing two is not only encouraging, it’s downright necessary. On May 6, the Pirates took two from Atlanta, after losing two straight. Pittsburgh continued on to win six of its next seven. On Aug. 6, the Pirates won two against Philadelphia and were in the middle of six victories in seven games. THE LATEST SWEEP, 3-1 and 6-4, also over the Braves, moved Pittsburgh back into first in the NL East one-half game over the New York Mets who split their doubleheader with Los Angeles and came just two days after the

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hands at this point” he said. Dickerson reported to the Tom Williams Rehabilitation and Sports Center in Houston a week ago after failing his physical at the Colts’ training camp. He injured his left hamstring muscle while working out in the off-season, and it is considered a non-football injury. IRSAY SAID THE injured muscle tested 40 percent weaker than Dickerson’s right hamstring, which bothered the running back

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The Cloverdale High School cross country team will open the season Aug. 25 at the 10 a.m. Danville Hokum Karum. The Clovers are (front row, from left): Tim Bean, Brandon Fagin, Marc Whited, Monica Koosman, Glen Furr, Gary Cooper and (second row, from left) Steve Sum-

Becker wins with trademark

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Boris Becker relied on trademark serves and powerful groundstrokes to claim a second-round victory in the U.S. Men’s Hardcourt tennis championships. The top-seeded West German, rated No. 3 in the world, defeated Brian Garrow 6-2, 6-4 in just over an hour Tuesday. ANDRE AGASSI, seeded No. 2, also had little trouble advancing to the third round of the Indianapolis tourney. Agassi needed 57 minutes to dispatch fellow American Robert Seguso 6-2, 6-3. He broke Seguso twice in the opening set and getting an early service break in the second set to advance. “It felt pretty good, a lot better than last week,” said Agassi, referring to an early round loss in Cincinnati last week. “I didn’t have much of a strategy against Robert. I knew I would have to return well.” BECKER SAID HE had a good

Bucs three-game lost weekend to St. Louis. “I’m not going to get on that rollercoaster where you’re positive one day and negative the next, up one day and down on them the next,” Pittsburgh manager Jim Leyland said. BUT THE PITCHING of Doug Drabek and newly-acquired Zane Smith helped pump back some life, as did the hitting of Bobby Bonilla and Jeff King. In the first game Drabek (15-5) tied his career-high in victories and Bonilla hit the first of a pair of tworun homers. Drabek was two outs away from his second shutout in three games until Dave Justice’s eighth homer in 35 at-bats and 16th of the season. Mets 9, Dodgers 8 Dodgers 2, Mets 1 The pitching duel between Dwight Gooden and Ramon Martinez did not occur. But there was one between Mike Hartley and

most of last season and caused him to miss a game due to injury for the first time in his seven-year career. Parr predicted the running back’s injured left hamstring muscle would be near full recovery when he returned to the Colts and he would need less than a week of practice to regain his sharpness. PARR, WHO HAS examined Dickerson twice in the past week and will look at the left leg again later this week, said the six-time Pro Bowl running back was working out twice a day on a bicycle, hydraulic weight fitness machines and “the hill,” a 45-degree incline at the Williams clinic that Dickerson can climb backwards and sideways but not yet in a forward sprint. “He’ll be back before the season’s well underway,” Parr said. “The important thing is he’ll be able to go back and go back safely.” DICKERSON WILL return to Indianapolis close to game-playing fitness, the doctor said. “He’ll be in good shape, probably mid-camp shape, and he’ll need some fine-tuning before he can go in and contribute,” Parr

merlot, Jamie Nees, Billy Byrd, Chad Koosman, Brian McCammon, Josh Whitt and (third row, from left) Taulbee Jackson, Daniel Burk, Brannon Leonard, Ryan Thompson, Darrin Greenwell, Ryan Cassell and coach Sonny Stoltz. (Banner-Graphic photo by Steve Fields)

match. “Usually, it is more difficult in the first round, but I had a good start and played two good sets.” Becker said the newly recoated courts at the Indianapolis Sports Center influenced his style of play. “It is much slower,” said Becker, who won the U.S. Hardcourt tournament two years ago. “The ball bounces higher and it is a bit rough. You have to play back more.” IN THE OPENING set, both players held serve through the first four games, but Becker gained the advantage by breaking at love in the fifth game after Garrow doublefaulted. Becker then held, broke again and took the set on a forehand winner that dipped under Garrow, a three-time All America from UCLA. Becker broke Garrow in the fifth game of the second set for a 3-2 lead, then served out the set and ended the match with an ace. Earlier in the day, four seeded

David Cone. Martinez and Gooden, one-two atop the NL strikeout leaders, were both hit hard and neither was around by the end of the sixth. In the first game, Howard Johnson drove in four runs with three hits, including his 18th homer. Mike Hartley (4-1) held the Mets to two hits in six innings and Lenny Harris, with four RBIs in the first game, had an run-scoring single in the nightcap, along with Rick Dempsey. Reds 9, Cardinals 4 Jack Armstrong won for the first time in five starts and Todd Benzinger had three RBIs. Armstrong (12-8) gave up two runs and five hits in six innings, while Rick Mahler worked three innings for his third save. Benzinger had a two-run double in the first and an RBI single in the fourth.

said. Three to five practices to check Dickerson’s timing and balance would probably bring him back to game shape, he added. Dickerson has worked out at the Houston clinic for six or seven years, and had been there last spring for work on his right knee, said Williams, a former coach and trainer. The clinic also has treated Washington Redskins cornerback, Darrell Green, Chicago Bears linebacker Mike Singletary and many players on various Houston professional sports teams, Williams said. DICKERSON, WHO rushed for 1,311 yards during a disappointing, 8-8 season for the Colts last year, said in the off-season he wanted a trade or a new contract with Indianapolis. He also threatened retirement. The stalemate between the back and the team was broken two weeks ago when Dickerson obtained the representation of Steinberg, who has a good working relationship with Irsay. Dickerson, who has gained 11,226 yards in seven season, needs just 11 more to move into sixth place on the NFL’s career rushing list.

players fell. Ninth-seeded Guy Forget of France was eliminated by Australia’s Jason Stoltenberg 4-6, 6-3, 6-2. Eleventh-seeded CarlUwe Steeb of West Germany lost to Australia’s Broderick Dyke 6-7, 6-4,6-0. SWEDEN’S PETER Lundgren beat seventh-seeded Martin Jaite of Argentina 4-6, 6-3, 6-3 in a secondround match, while 16th-seeded Gary Muller of South Africa was a first-round loser to Mexico’s Leonardo Lavalie 6-4,6-4. Forget appeared to be on his way to the second round after leading Stoltenberg 6-4, 3-0. He then lost the next seven games and his confidence. “I did not serve too well after that,” Forget said of the match’s midway point. “I got real tight instead of being loose. I wanted to end the match right away. It was like I was behind all of the time.

Cubs 5, Astros 2 Greg Maddux won for the sixth time in seven starts and Ryne Sandberg drove in three runs, including his NL leading 28th homer. Maddux (10-10) allowed seven hits, struck out four and walked three in 7 2-3 innings. Bill Long got two outs for his fourth save. Mike Scott (9-11) led 2-1 in the sixth when Doug Dascenzo beat out a bunt and Sandberg followed with his homer. Expos 8, Padres 3 Otis Nixon hit his first homer in nearly five years and Dennis Martinez pitched his second straight complete game. Nixon, whose first-inning blast was his first since Sept. 1985. Phillies 4, Giants 3,13 innings Steve Bedrosian’s wild pitch scored Rod Booker with two outs in the 13th inning as Philadelphia beat San Francisco. Dennis Cook (8-2) pitched one inning for the victory.