Banner Graphic, Volume 21, Number 29, Greencastle, Putnam County, 6 October 1990 — Page 4
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THE BANNERGRAPHIC October 6,1990
Mustangs outlast Greencastle in 34-27 WCC battle
By GARY HAZLETT Banner-Graphic Sports Writer ELLETTSVILLE The Greencastle Tiger Cubs came up short, 34-27, Friday night against the Edgewood Mustangs in a West Central Conference high school football game. Edgewood, now 3-4 overall and 3-2 in the WCC, rolled up 405 yards in total offense. Greencastle, 5-2 overall and 2-2 in conference play, also moved the ball well, gaining 301 total yards. THE MUSTANGS wishbone attack gained most of the yardage. Led by Eric Mobley with 122 yards rushing and Craig Jackson with 98 Edgewood ground out 316 yards rushing. “We’ve got to play better defense,” Greencastle coach John Fallis said. Edgewood took the opening kickoff and drove 64 yards, mixing in both the run and the pass to score the game’s first touchdown. Craig Jackson carried the ball on a nineyard scoring run to give the Mustangs an early 6-0 lead. “THEY (EDGEWOOD) could do about what they wanted to,” Fallis said. The Tiger Cubs turned the ball over on its second play from scrimmage. Edgewood’s Jim Hornick intercepted a Resner pass at midfield. Two plays later the Mustangs’ Eric Mobley busted up the middle for a 31-yard run for a touchdown. Craig Jackson carried the ball in for the two-point conversion for a Mustang 14-0 lead. Greencastle finally got its offense untracked in the second quarter. The Tiger Cubs drove 55 yards with Resner scoring from the 1-yard line. The kick failed and Edgewood led 14-6. EDGEWOOD CAME right back. Highlighted by a Jim Schoonover 42-yard run, the Mustangs drove 75 yards and Mobley scored the second of his four touchdowns on the evening on a two-yard run, giving the Mustangs a 21-6 lead Greencastle got back into the ball game late in the first half. Brad Resner hit Justin Homier with a 73yard bomb for a touchdown. Resner scored the two-point conversion and the Mustang lead was cut to 21-14. Resner threw for 208 yards on 8-of-18 passing and the touchdown, while Homier gathered in four of those passes for 123 yards. THE TIGER CUBS took the second-half kickoff and drove 80 yards in 10 plays to tie the game at 21 all. Resner capped the drive with his second touchdown of the game on a six-yard option keeper.
North freshmen now 7-5 after volleyball victories
ROACHDALE The North Putnam freshman volleyball team is 7-5 at two Wednesday night victories in a doubleheader with county rivals South Putnam and Cloverdale. North defeated Cloverdale 6-
GMS, Cloverdale split in volleyball action
CLOVERDALE Greencastle and Cloverdale split a pair of junior high girls volleyball matches at Cloverdale Thursday night. Greencastle’s seventh grade stands 8-3 after defeating Cloverdale 15-11,16-14.
Missed opportunities costly for Eagles at Owen Valley
By TONY KEHOE Banner-Graphic Sports Writer SPENCER Coach Mark Wildman’s South Putnam Eagles dropped another tough game Friday night, 21-8 to the Owen Valley Patriots. However, the game was much closer than the score indicates. The teams were locked in a scoreless tie at halftime and the Patriots led 13-0 going into the fourth quarter. Owen Valley coach Dick Ranard felt the Eagles outplayed the Patriots. “South Putnam came to play. It wasn’t very pretty, but we will take the win,” Ranard said. WILDMAN ALSO FELT the Eagles let a victory get away. “We felt like we outplayed them. We had our chances. We had great field
Greencastle at Edgewood statistics Greencastle 0 14 7 627 Edgewood 14 7 7 634 First Quarter EHS C. Jackson, 9 run (kick failed), 6-0, 6:45. EHS Mobley, 31 run (C. Jackson run), 14-0, 4:27 Second Quarter GHS —Resner, 1 run (kick failed), 14-6, 8:00. EHS Mobley, 2 run (Campbell kick), 21-6, 4:21. GHS Homier, 73 pass from Resner (Resner run), 21-14, 1:20. Third Quarter GHS Resner, 6 run (Heavin kick), 21-21, 8:03. EHS Mobley, 2 run (Campbell kick), 28-21, 4:31. Fourth Quarter GHS Thomas, 6 run (kick failed), 28-27, 11:00. EHS Mobley, 1 run (kick blocked), 34-27, 0:47. GHS EHS First downs 12 20 Rushes-yds 32-93 49-316 Passing-yds 208 89 Cmp-Att-Int 8-18-1 8-16-1 Total offense 50-301 65-405 Return yds 125 54 Punts-Avg. 5-29.4 3-37.7 Fumbles-Lost 2-0 3-0 Penalties-Yrds 2-30 5-44 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING Greencastle: Berry 10-47, Resner 13-21, Pitcock 7-18, Thomas 2-7; Edgewood: Mobley 21-122, C. Jackson 14-98, Schoonover 858, Helton 5-12, Whaley 1-26. PASSING Greencastle: Resner 8-18-I—2oß, Edgewood: Schoonover 8-16-I—B9. RECEIVING Greencastle: Homier 4-123, Jellison 3-55, Amis 1-30; Edgewood: M. Jackson 4-63, C. Jackson 2-8, Herndon 1-11, Schippnick 17. Edgewood jumped right back on top with its next possession. The Mustang wishbone offense ground out 65 yards with Mobley scoring again from two yards out. Mike Campbell kicked the extra-point and Edgewood led 28-21. Greencastle’s Troy Durham intercepted a Schoonover pass and returned it 21 yards to the Mustang 20-yard line on the final play of the third quarter. Three plays later sophomore Shane Thomas scored from six yards out. A fumbled snap on the PAT, however, left the Tiger Cubs trailing by one 28-27 with 11 minutes left. “Four touchdowns ought to be enough to win a ball game,” Fallis said. AFTER A TRADE OF punts, the Mustangs got the ball back with about eight minutes to play and proceeded use up almost seven of those minutes on an 80-yard touchdown drive. Passing the ball only once and using the option attack, the Mustangs picked up five first downs before Mobley scored from the 1yard line. Edgewood led by their final 34-27 margin. Greencastle’s last-ditch attempt came up short with Homier was tackled at midfield as time expired. “We got outplayed and didn’t deserve to win,” Fallis said. THE TIGER CUBS play host to county and conference rival North Putnam next week in the final regular season game.
15, 15-11, 15-4 and downed South Putnam 15-8,15-7 The North Putnam freshmen are not scheduled to play again, but coach Toni Beck said a match or more could be added.
Cloverdale won the eighth grade contest in three game, 6-14,15-2,15-9. Greencastle will host Plainfield Oct. 11 in a 6 p.m. match and Cloverdale travels to Monrovia Monday.
position in the first half, but we missed opportunities,” Wildman said. “We had a chance if we could have had a big play.” The missed opportunities came in the first half. The Eagles were unable to score on two consecutive series inside the OV 10-yard line during the first quarter. The Eagles’ first opportunity to score came on a third-down pass completion in the first quarter. Quarterback Robert Priest found wide receiver Jim Collins downfield for a 64-yard gain to the Patriots’ 16-yard line. AFTER A 10-YARD run by Mark McKay to the 6-yard line, the Eagles’ drive stalled. South turned the ball over on downs three plays later.
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Brushing aside the attempted tackle of Cloverdale’s Joe Zimmerman, Chad Wehrman scores North Putnam's first touchdown of the night in Friday’s Putnam County high school football showdown.
Six Cloverdale turnovers aid cause Cougars grind out 42-15 victory
By STEVE HELDS Banner-Graphic Sports Editor ROACHDALE The North Putnam Cougars used six Cloverdale Clover turnovers and 200-yard rushing game to retain possession of the Putnam County Bucket and improve their record to 6-1 Friday night with a 42-15 “Senior Night” victory. With the offensive linemen Kevin Mendenhall, Scott Richardson, Jason Schubert, Dale Lucas, J.R. Hilburn and Chris Hites opening huge holes, the Cougars ran the ball on 34 of their 56 plays for 200 yards and four touchdowns. COUGAR FULLBACK Glen Runnells racked up 91 yards and two touchdowns and Chad Wehrman ran for 81 yards and two touchdowns in just eight carries. “They knew we could run the ball on them. We knew we could run the ball on them. We did,” Herb King said after his 10th victory as North Putnam’s head coach. The loss snapped Cloverdale’s three-game winning streak and left them 0-4 against West Central Conference schools and 3-0 against non-conference teams. “What the kids weren’t able to do was control the line of scrimmage enough to give us some time to work on offense,” Parks said. “We got under pressure, then we made some bad decisions.” THOSE DECISIONS resulted in six pass interceptions by North’s secondary. Pat Payton intercepted two of Ryan Ford’s passes, Wehrman picked off another and returned it 23 yards to give the Cougars a 28-7 halftime lead and Michael Johnson, Eric Pipes and Jason Schubert picked off secondhalf passes. Pipes, who booted five of his seven kickoffs to the back of or beyond the end zone, nearly made the final margin much wider, but had to settle for a perfect five-for-five on PAT kicks. His 50-yard return of an interception was nullified by a penalty. He attempted field goals of 31 yards (into the wind) and 49 yards, but was wide on the first and short on the second. But Cloverdale’s second-quarter turnovers changed this from a competitive 7-7 game into a rout by halftime.
But Owen Valley was forced to punt the ball on its next possession. McKay returned Campbell’s kick 44 yards to the nine-yard line. However the Eagles again were unable to put points on the board. South was called for holding and gave up a sack on consecutive plays. DEFENSIVELY, THE Eagles kept Owen Valley and running back, Eric Gooch, the state’ No. 1 ball carrier, tied up. On all five first-half possessions, the Patriots were forced to punt But with no score at halftime, the game was to be decided in the second half. “We came out with intensity in the second half,” Ranard said. “We were reaching down for pride.”
The 30-yard run capped an opening eightplay drive in which the Cougars kept the ball on the ground against the Clovers. On the night, Wehrman scored three
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NORTH TOOK THE opening kickoff and ran the football seven straight plays. Wehrman broke free for a 30-yard touchdown run at 8:26 in the opening quarter. Cloverdale tied the. score 7-7 with 7:08 left in the second quarter when Ford completed five straight passes on a drive that started from North’s 35-yard line. On fourth-and-one though, the Clovers got some help when the Cougars were flagged for being off-side. Two plays later Ford scored on a oneyard quarterback keeper and Jason Jordan kicked the tying point. Things like that penalty and Cloverdale’s ability to drive in the second half justified coach King’s unhappiness. “I see a lot more, and what you see, some times you don’t always get,” King said of the errors. HOWEVER, IT TOOK North just five plays to regain the lead for good. Daniel Johnson, who completed 11-of-21 passes for 157 yards, went to Brock Barnhart for a 45-yard pick-up and found brother Michael on the next snap for 13 yards. Three carries by Runnells and the Cougars were in the end zone and ahead 14-7 with 5:13 to play in the half. Anyone who went for popcorn may have missed the next Cougar two touchdowns, both coming off Cloverdale turnovers. Cloverdale fumbled the ball on its first play from scrimmage and Scott Richardson recovered it for North at the Clovers’ 21-yard line. Daniel Johnson was given plenty of time by his offensive line to throw and went to Pay ton for gains of 21 and 8 yards to put the Cougars on the Clovers’ 1-yard line. Payton got the call and the touchdown, putting the Cougars up 21-7 with 3:42 to
The Patriots stopped South on its first possession of the second half. The Eagles were forced to punt. OWEN VALLEY’S FIRST offensive play in the second half resulted in a 40-yard race to the end zone by Gooch. Owen Valley took a 7-0 lead after Travis Cheeseman’s extra point On the Eagles’ next possession they fumbled the ball on their own 40-yard line. Six minutes later Tom Winders scampered 10 yards for the Patriots’ second score in the quarter. The Eagles moved down the field on their next possession, trying to stay in the game. Priest capped the drive off with a 25-yard touchdown pass to Jim Collins. South was successful on the two-
play. JUST 46 SECONDS later North led 28-7. Wehrman, in a different pass defense than what North showed in Cloverdale’s touchdown drive, looked more like the intended receiver than the defensive back when he intercepted the pass and raced down the sideline for a 23-yard touchdown. “I don’t think it was so much North Putnam changed pass coverage, it was just that whatever pass coverage they ran, they did it well,” Cloverdale’s Parks said. Cloverdale’s last touchdown came off the special team early in the third quarter. Brian Spence raced in untouched to block a Wehrman punt, the first of only two punts for the evening. The ball hit Spence’s upper torso and he picked it up at approximately North’s 40yard line and ran into the end zone. THE CLOVERS FAKED a PAT kick and Brent Branneman, who made three catches for 30 yards as a slotback, took the snap, rolled right, then threw left to a wide open Scott Davis for the twopoint conversion. North countered Cloverdale again with the running attack. The Cougars pounded the ball up the middle of the field, going from their own 42-yard line to the Clover 21-yard line in just four plays. At the 21, Wehrman went off-tackle and cut back behind Cloverdale’s pursuit for a 35-15 North Putnam lead with 6:26 to play. Coach King was not pleased with the Cougar defense, noting the Clovers moved the football too easily in the second half. When Cloverdale’s drive reached North’s 28-yard line, defensive coordinator Wade Boyce used a timeout to give the Cougar defense some words of
point conversion to cut Owen Valley’s lead to 13-8 with over eight minutes to go in the game. FINALLY, WITH A 1:30 to play, South began its final drive toward. However, Priest’s pass was intercepted by Mike Campbell, who returned the ball for a touchdown. The two-point conversion was also completed to Campbell. The Eagles’ last three opponents South Putnam at Owen Valley statistics Owen Valley 0 0 13 8— 21 South Putnam 0 0 0 8— 8 Third Quarter OV Gooch, 40 run (Cheeseman kick), 7-0, 7:56. OV —•' Winders, 10 run (kick failed), 13-0, 1:52. Fourth Quarter SP Collins, 10 pass from Priest (Furby run), 13-8, 8:23. OV Campbell, 35 interception return (Campbell from Stogsdill), 21-8, 1:08.
touchdowns and rushed for 81 yards on eight carries as North cruised to a 42-15 Senior Night victory (Banner-Graphic photo by Gary Goodman).
inspiration. IT WORKED BECAUSE the Cougars sacked the Clovers behind the line of scrimmage on three of the next four plays to set up North’s final touchdown. A quarterback sack by Schubert 12-yards behind the line of scrimmage gave North the football at its 47-yard line. Two runs by Paul Lindley and a quarterback sneak gave everyone the impression the Cougars weren’t going to throw, just eat up the clock. But on third and four, Johnson went to the air. Scrambling away from a strong outside blitz by Cloverdale’s Larry Hall and Michael Nees, Johnson flipped a 30-yard pass to Barnhart, to put the Cougars at the Clover 2-yard line. Runnells scored his seventh touchdown of the season on the next play and Pipes’ PAT kick set the final score. NORTH PUTNAM WILL be trying to secure no less than a share of the West Central Conference championship next Friday in a 7:30 p.m. game at Greencastle High School Stadium. Cloverdale, now 3-4, will take the short bus ride to South Putnam for a 7:30 p.m. contest. Cloverdale at North Putnam statistics Cloverdale 0 7 7 o—ls North Putnam 7 21 7 742 First Quarter NP Wehrman, 30 run (Pipes kick), 7-0, 8:26. Second Quarter CHS Ford, 1 run (Jordan kick), 7-7,7:08. NP G. Runnells, 1 run (Pipes kick), 14-7, 5:13. NP Payton, 1 run (Pipes kick), 21-7, 3:42. NP Wehrman, 23 interception return (Pipes kick), 28-7, 2:56. Third Quarter CHS Spence, blocked punt and return (Davis from Branneman), 28-15, 8:35. NP Wehrman, 21 run (Pipes kick), 35-15, 6:26. Fourth Quarter NP G. Runnells, 2 run (Pipes kick), 42-15, 5:08. CHS NP First downs 10 16 Rushes-yds 27-29 34-200 Passing-yds 108 157 Cmp-Att-Int 11-22-6 11-22-2 Total offense 49-137 56-357 Return yds 92 179 Punts-Avg. 1-47 2-18.0 Fumbles-Lost 2-1 0-0 Penalties-Yrds 6-36 8-88 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING Cloverdale: Lewis 10-25, Branneman 2-14, Spence 6-5, Nees 1-2, Ford 8-(-17); North Putnam: G. Runnells 15-91, Wehrman 881, Lindley 4-19, D. Johnson 4-15, Payton 2-0, J. Mendenhall l-(-6). PASSING Cloverdale: Ford 11-22-6108; North Putnam: D. Johnson 11-21-1—157; P. Schubert 0-1-1 —0. RECEIVING Cloverdale: Lewis 4-36, Branneman 3-30, Spence 2-18, Davis 1-15, Hall 19; North Putnam: Barnhart 3-100, Payton 2-20, M. Johnson 1-13, G. Runnells 2-9, Wehrman 2-8, Lindley 1-7.
have a combined record of 13-4. South received an outstanding performance from Collins, who had five receptions for 115 yards. The Eagles play host to county rival Cloverdale next Friday night. sp ov First downs 24 15 Rushes-yds 35-105 32-175 Passing-yds 202 19 Cmp-Att-Int 14-31-1 5-9-0 Total offense 66-307 41-194 Return yds 72 54 Punts-Avg. 3-29.0 8-32.4 Fumbles-Lost 3-1 0-0 Penalties-Yrds 4-35 3-45 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING South Putnam: McKay 17-75, Williams 5-25, C. Robinson 3-11, Furby 4-4, Macy 2-4, Wells 1-0, Priest 3-(-14); Owen Valley: Gooch 14-109, Winders 13-48, Monroe 4-6, Stogsdill 1-12. PASSING South Putnam: Priest 14-30-1 202, Glaze 0-1-0-fr, Owen Valley: Stogsdill 5-9-o—l 9. RECEIVING South Putnam: Collins 5115, C. Robinson 5-38, McKay 2-38, Gregory 113, Macy l-(-l); Owen Valley: Gooch 2-8, Cheeseman 1-4, Moore 1-4, Campbell 1-3.