The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 13 March 1967 — Page 4

Th« Dally Bannar, Oraaneattla, Indiana

Monday, March 13, 1967

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Jeff Outlasts Pointer Rally To Capture Semi-State Crown

All-Tourney Team

Almost, but not quite enough. That Is what Bainbridge’s fans are thinking today, as the valiant Pointers ripped, dawed, and fought from a 20-point last quarter deficit, only to see the clock tick away with Jeff in front, 75-72. Had there been thirty seconds more in the game, Bainbridge High School would have captured their first semistate title in the history of the school. But down 73-72 with only .09 to go and Jeff with the ball, Norman Steele did the only thing he could do, foul John Van Kurin. Kurin, as champions do, sank the one and one to ice the game. With :02 left, Larry Steele tried a 30-footer, but the ball hit the iron as the buzzer sounded. Up to the 7:32 point of the last quarter, the game was going like the script said it was supposed to. Jeff, the No. 2 team in the state, and favorite of 84 sportewriters to claim it all, was cruising along with a 61-41 margin. But then the near-unbelieva-ble happened. Tired of being the footsies for the hot-shoot-ing and well-oiled Jeff squad, the game and gallant Pointers came alive and completely tore apart the well-coached and poised Jeff machine. With the capacity crowd on their feet cheering the under-

dogs on, the Pointers completely dominated the last seven minutes, forcing the Bronchos to come apart at the seams and outscored the winners 31-16. And the best player on the floor led the charge. Larry Steele, magnificent as always, hit for 21 points in the final quarter, but his splendid work on defense and rebounding cannot be measured in points. And Ron Rossok, playing like a demon, added eight points in the final surge. It all started at 5:46 of the last quarter. Trailing 66-48, L. Steele hit a drive-in, Rossok followed with two successive baskets, and L. Steele came right back with two 10-foot jumpers to cut the gap to ten at 4:00. Bob Dickson put the Bronchos back up by twelve with 3:47 remaining. But L. Steele was fouled intercepting a pass and with 3:29 left, the Pointers were down 68-58. Norman Steele clipped Van Kurin on his drive to the goal, but his charity toss missed and with 3:06 remaining the Pointers were still down twelve. Larry Steele connected on two fee throws, and Rossok hit underneath with 2:13 on the clock but the Pointers still trailed 70-62. Then some of the fans started to leave as Rossok fouled Steve Reash for one point and an errant pass was

picked off by Ernest Haupt for two and with 1:27 left, the Pointers were down 73-62. But the Pointers started picking off Jeff bad passes like picking apples from a tree. Rossok was bumped by Haupt for two charity tosses, L. Steele drove the baseline for a basket, and on the next play, Jeff ace passer, Doug Sheets, who had the task of guarding L. Steele, was caught holding. Steele promptly dropped in the one and one. With :40 remaining, the Pointers were within five. Marvin Price found a loose Jeff pass and connected from the foul circle to make it 73-70 with :30 on the clock. L. Steele, every place at once, stole the inbound pass and sank a layin with :09 to go. (73-72). The bid for an upset was locked out as Van Kurin dropped in two big free tosses at the two second mark. The first three quarters, the Pointers looked real sluggish as the afternoon tussle with Logansport tired them out. Erik Jacobson took advantage of the feet weary Pointers as he popped in 15 field goals in 28 attempts over the Bainbridge zone. At the start it seemed the Pointers were going to match basket for basket with the disciplined Jeff chargers. But then down 7-6 with five minutes left in the first quarter, the Point-

ers couldn’t adjust to the hole in the zone, and the left-handed Jacobson promptly connected on four of six tries to shoot the Bronchos into a 19-8 first quarter lead. During the second quarter, three buckets by Larry Steele, two from Ron Rossok, three in five tries by Jim Hanks and two from Gary Martin, kept the Pointers within striking distance at halftime, 38-29. Jacobson had four more fielders in nine attempts during the second stanza and at the intermission had 16 points. The Pointers tallied two more buckets than the winners, but Jeff sank four free throws to keep the 9 point edge. The third quarter was the downfall for the Pointers. L. Steele didn’t score and the Jeff crew went on a rampage with that man Jacobson again tallying five more baskets and reserve center Haupt picking up three. Jeff outscored the Pointers 21-12 for a 59-41 cushion. As a team, the Pointers were way below par in their shooting. They attempted 79 shots and hit 29 for a .367 percentage. Meanwhile Jeff shot a fantastic .533 on 32 of 60. Jeff had the edge at the foul line also converting 11 of 14 for .786. Bainbridge sank 14 of 20 for .700. In rebounding, the Pointers had a 50-41 edge with Ron Ros-

sok snagging 17 and L. Steele

10.

The usually errorless Jeff squad was guilty of 25 turnovers, 12 of them in the last quarter when Bainbridge turned the pressure on. The Pointers were counted on 17 miscues. Larry Steele’s 32 points against Jeff gave him 54 points and 24 rebounds for the two games. Rossok tallied 16 against Jeff to go along with 25 against Logansport. He also had a two game total of 31 rebounds. High for the team. Jeff, scheduled to meet Fort Wayne South in Hinkle Fieldhouse Saturday afternoon, is a member of the final four for the 14th time. Crawley is after

Larry Steele Cornelius McFerson Dough Sheets Ron Rossok Jim Nelson Erik Jacobson Bill Buskirk John Van Kurin

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Bainbridge Gary Roosevelt Lafayette Bainbridge Gary Roosevelt Lafayete Logansport Lafayette

No. 5, Jeff No. 4. Bainbridge (72)

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L. Steele

Hanks

N. Steele

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Price

R. Rossok

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Jeff (75)

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Dickson

Sheets

Reash .„

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Bainbridge 8

Jeff 19

Pointer Larry Steele is poised for a shot in Saturday’s final game with the Lafayette Bronchos. Behind Steele is Jeff’s Ernst Haupt. Ron Rossok (40) and Brancho Bob Dickson wait for the results. Steele was a one man gang the last quarter as he led a Pointer assault to narrow a 20 point Jeff lead to one with 21 points. Rossok added eight to the rally that fell 3 short. Banner Photo—Frank Puckett, Jr.

POINTERS DOWN LOGANSPORT

The Pointers did what they were not supposed to do — pick th« Berries (71-67). But they had to hold off a late Logansport rally to earn the right to play favored Lafayette Jeff fqr the semi-state championship. With the crowd of 9,640 cheering for the “people’s choice,” the Pointers’ Ron Rossok and Larry Steele led Bainbridge’s charge that catapulted them into a 16point spread (62-46) with 5:24 remaining in the contest. Rossok finished the game with 25 points. Most of his buckets were the twisting, turning, underhanded shots which the Logan defense vainly tried to stop. Steele chipped in with 22 points, nine coming in the first quarter as the teams fought to a 15-15 deadlock. Starting the second stanza, Rossok dumped in six straight points to shoot the Pointers in front 21-18 with 5:25 to go. But the Berries were not to be denied. With center Mark Riggle playing on the wing and shooting over the Pointer zone, the Berries managed ties at 22, 24, 26, and 28. On a twister by Rossok and two free tosses by L. Steele, the Pointers went up by four with 1:52 remaining. Hershberger narrowed the gap to two, but Marvin Price, subbing for Martin, canned one at the 1:20 mark, and then Terry Jones fouled Hanks once and Rossok twice, but the Pointers couldn’t capitalize. Larry Steele made the margin six with 10 seconds remaining, but Bill Buskirk

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Pointer Marvin Price (42) snags a loose ball in the Bainbridge-Logansport afternoon name of the Lafayette semi-state. Price came off the bench to score 7 points and spark the Pointers to a 71-67 win over the favored Berries. Ready to dive on the ball is Berry Make Riggle (34) who tried a one m an assault on the Pointers with 20 points. Banner Photo—Frank Puckett, Jr.

connected on a 25-footer at the buzzer to make the halftime score 36-32, Pointers. In the third quarter, L. Steele and Rossok went to work. With the Bainbridge zone forcing the Berries to shoot from out, Steele and Rossok controlled the boards. Even though the Pointers managed only 8-21 shooting wise, they increased their fourpoint halftime edge to a 54-41 third quarter lead. Heading into the final eight minutes, it looked like an easy Pointer victory, but the Berries had other ideas. Norman Steele made his fourth field goal for a 62-46 advantage with 5:24 remaining in the game. Then the roof almost fell in for the Pointers. During the next 3 minutes and 8 seconds, Logan outscored the Pointers 14 to 2 to cut the gap to four, (64-60). At this point, L. Steele and Ron Rossok decided this was going too far and punched in five fast points to ice the game, and placed the Pointers in the final eight of the state tournament. Leading scorer for the Berries was Mike Riggle with 20 points, most of his field goals coming from shooting over the Pointer zone. Backing him was Bill Buskirk with 17. For the game, the Pointers connected on 27-62 for .435, Lo-

gan canned 26-68, good for .382. Bainbridge converted 17-29 free throws for .586, while the Berries did better, 15-23 for .652. The winners made 21 errors, nine in the first quarter, while the losers lost the ball 14 times on miscues. However, the Pointers won the battle of the boards, 51-41, with L. Steele and Ron Rossok each hauling in 14. Bainbridge (71) fg ft pf L. Steele 8 6 5 R. Rossok 10 5 3 Martin 0 12 Hanks 3 0 4 N. Steele ‘ 4 2 1 Coffman 0 0 0 Price 2 3 4 Judy 0 0 0 Cox 000 Richard 000 D, Rossok 0 0 0

Totals Logansport (67) Farrer Blom Buskirk Jones Riggle Muehlhausen Patty Hershberger Jones Crispen Thrall

27 17 19 fg ft pf 0 0 2 6 1 1 4 0 0 3 0 0 0

Totals 26 15 18 Bainbridge 15 36 54 71 Logansport 15 32 41 67

JEFF BEATS GARY

Favored Lafayette Jeff almost watched the final game from the sidelines as big, strong Gary Roosevelt almost pulled it out, but Jeff threw a zone press against their taller rivals in the la3t two minutes of the second quarter to take the lead and hang on for a 65-59 win. Jeff trailed at the end of the first stanza, 20-17, but quickly rallied in the second to forge ahead, 28-24. On the strong shoulders of 6-5 Jim Nelson and 6-4 Cornelius McFerson, the Panthers rattled oft eight consecutive points for a 32-28 edge. Marion Crawley called a time out and ordered a zone press with two minutes remaining. When the smoke cleared, the Bronchos reeled off 12 points before the Panthers could even feel the ball. (42-36). After the intermission, the Bronchos tallied four quick ones to the Panthers* one to register their longest lead of the evening. (46-37). Plagued by cold shooting, but jumping like deer, the Roosevelt team played volleyball the rest of the quarter. Only the cool, tenacious, Jeff defense maintained their three point margin at the end of the third stanza. (54-51). Holding their superiority on the boards and sometimes tipping the ball four or five times, the Panthers narrowed the gap to 57-56 with 3:02 remaining in the game, but Broncho Mark Strader sank a pair of free

throws and Jacobson flipped in a 20 footer to clinch it Jacobson’s basket broke a string of 10 straight misses for him. But he led the Jeff team with 18 points. John Van Kurin got 15, Steve Reash 13 and reserve center Ernest Haupt 10. Juniors James Nelson and Cornelius McFerson led the Panthers’ attack with 21 and 10 points respectively. Only the 17 free throws in 25 attempts saved Jeff as the losers outscored them from the field, 25-24. Jeff sank 24 in 60 tries for .400 while the cold shooting Panthers suffered under a .305 percentage, 25-82. (If the official scorer counted all the missed tips. At one time, Gary tipped the ball nine times, and it still didn’t go in.) Roosevelt had a 66 to 40 edge in rebounding. Roosevelt (59) FG FT PF

Session Hiller . Smith Reed Irving Nelson McFerson - Totals .... Jeff (65) Jacobson Van Kurin Dickson Sheets Strader Reash . Haupt Totals —»• ••• ■ Roosevelt Jeff

. 2 . 2 3 5 0 8 5 25

5 2 2 4 3 3 1 20

FG FT PF .821 . 4 . 0 . 2 0 6 4 .24

Semi-State Scores

HIGH SCHOOL Semi-State Tourneys At Evansville Evansville North 66, New Albany 58 Terre Haute Garfield 66, Washington 58 Evansville North 59, Terre Haute Garfield 58 At Fort Wayne Fort Wayne South 47, Michigan City 43 Marion 78, Kokomo'51 Fort Wayne South 68, Marion 51 At Indianapolis Indianapolis Shortridge 73, Greensburg 53 New Castle 88, Liberty 61 New Castle 51, Indianapolis Shortridge 49 At Lafayette Bainbridge 71, Logansport 67 Lafayette 65, Gary Roosevelt 59 Lafayette 75, Bainbridge 72

Steele, Rossok In Top 10 Scorers INDIANAPOLIS UPI — The top scorers in Saturday’s Indiana high school basketball semi-state tourneys: fg ft tp R. Ford, North 27 12 66 L. Steele, B’bridge —. 20 14 54 W. Long, South 19 12 50 E. Jacobson, Lafayette 23 2 48 R. Rossok, B’bridge ...... 17 7 41 M. Turner, Garfield 17 4 38 J. Sutter, Marion 12 10 34 D. Peden, Marion 14 4 32 O. Evans, Shortridge ._ 15 1 31 G. Pillow, Shortridge ... 15 1 31

College Indiana 95, Purdue 82 Valparaiso 80, Indiana State 77 final, Great Lakes NCAA college tourney at Terre Haute

Announce State Final Pairings INDIANAPOLIS UPI—Pairings for next Saturday’s Indiana high school basketball tournament finals at Hinkle Fieldhouse: Evansville North vs. New Castle: Lafayette vs. Fort Wayne South. Winners clash at night for the title vacated by Michigan City in Saturday’s Fort Wayne semi-state tournament.

Bowling News

PLEASURE TIME MIXED LEAGUE W L Bond & Leer 68 28 Four Aces 62 34 Owls 60 36 Shoemaker & Frazier 58 38 LBJ’s 56 40 Duncan & McCammack 54 42 Country Bumpkins 48 48 B A M’s r 46 50 McCullough & Myers 42 54 Very Wells 42 54 Sweetrilis 36 60 Po-Dunks 34 62 L & M’s 34 62 Estes & Ratcliff 32 64 Hi team game: Sweetrilis 840 Hi team series: Bond & Leer 2401 600 series (men): H. Schoman 609 500 series (men): D. Bond 591 ;K. Justus 531; T. Swope 519; L. Wells 513; R. McCammack 505; C. Brewster 502; L. Leer 500. 600 series (women) I. Myers 442; R. Brewster 435; C. Schoman 427; J. Lease 412. \ IGA Foodliner League March 8, 1967 Catalina Beauty Shop 141 91 A&S Junk Yard 132 100 Morrison’s Tire 128 104 Mack’s Appliance 125 107 Nunzio’s 110 122 Shetrone Real Estate 106 126 Stoner’s Insurance 97 135 Adler’s 89 143 Handicap High Individual Game — E. Spun* 250. High Individual Series — E. Spurr 625. High Team Game — Adler’s 1014. High Team Series — Adler’s 2854. Series 425 and over: G. Porter 477, D. Atwell 437, A. Cantonwine 439, A. Long, 563, M. Buis 470, R. Hampton 473, D. Beaman 437, J. Girton 453, C. Clines 472,

S. Whitley 492, B. Hurst 479, J. Murray 430, L. Mark 487, L. Evens 455, E. Spurr 535, W. Gooch 444, J. Clifford 457, G. Lancaster 453, D. Minnick 444, L. Jones 519. K. Braden 552, P. Huxford 469, C. Flint 462, M. Templeman 476, D. Wilson 471, P. Jones 470, B. Ashworth 484, J. Cavin 587, W. Pelfrey 449.

Prize money on the Professional Bowlers Association tour during 1967 is expected to amount to nearly $1.5 million.

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