The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 22 January 1968 — Page 3

Monday January 22, 1968

Tho Daily Banner, Graancastla, Indiana

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Cloverdale wins second straight county title

by Frank Puckett Jr., Banner Sports Editor Cloverdale emerged winner and champion of the Putnam County Basketball tournament for the second straight year Saturday night by defeating Russellville, 84-69, in the final before an almost capacity crowd in the Greencastle uptown gymnasium, but the taking of the

crown wasn't so easy.

The Clovers traveled the long- of them coming just when the est route of any of the six coun- Clovers needed them most. The ty teams that participated and 5-10 guard put the Clovers In the roughest. They whipped j command for the first time Reelsville in a Thursday night early in the second period when tussle after being handed a first he deposited five in a row and period scare, 78-60, nipped rival made it 22-21 at the 6:35 mark. Bainbridge in the most precari- He came through again with ously fought battle of the tour- two straight in the third period ney, 89-85, in a Saturday after- and made it 58.58, then put his noon game, and finally came team ahead once more — this back with a third period rally time for good — 71-69 at the and defeated upset-minded Rus- 5:50 mark in the final period,

aellville after trailing for two

quarters. Bainbridge took command of Amidst It all stood Clover the early part of the contest and pivotman Rick Ford who broke closed the first quarter with a an all-time county tournament 2 °- 16 margin, but the Clovers Individual scoring record with out-paced them in the second 40. 42. and 26 point perform- quarter and closed the half leadances in leading his team to the *ng 42-40. It was a toss-up in the title. Overall the spectacular 6-4 third period when both squads senior hit 35 of 74 attempts threw in 23 points, even as Bainfrom the floor for 48 percent— bridge lost the sendees of foreven though he was sometimes vvard Hanks who picked defended by two or three de- U P fourth foul a t the 5:30 fensive men—and connected on mar ^ and "as sidelined, a fantastic 38 of 43 tries from The final fourth period of acthe free throw line for 89 per- tion was no different from the cent accuracy. earlier stages of the game ex-

cept that Cloverdale commanded

There were no resting moments for the champs at any

when the buzzer sounded. The Clovers held a two point edge

RECEIVE GAME BALL.—Russellville co-captains Mike Simpson and Kim Miller accept the game ball as runner-up trophy from IHSAA member Kenneth Miller at the county tourney Saturday night after Cloverdale beat them in the final. Coach John Hutchinson stands by. Tigers batter Valparaiso, 103-89

A funny thing happened to DePauw'a basketball Tigers on ths way to Valparaiso. They resolved to be unbeatable. And they were. Tiger coach Elmer McCall Sunday called the Tigers’ 10389 pasting of the Crusaders Saturday night ''one of the finest ball games we’ve played in a long, long time. Certainly the best we’ve played this year.” DePauw led from start to finish in the game that evened Sielr ICC mark at 2-2 and left Valparaiso 1-4 In the league and 817 for the campaign. Wednesday night at 8 pm. DePauw entertains a talented Rose Poly team that has won 12 of 10 games and averaged 90+ polnts. •It’s hard to explain," McCall said of the Tigers’ effort at Valpo. “For the first time at Valpo everybody clicked without exception. Individually each man played well and collectively, well, all you have to do is look at the score and the way ws dominated the ball game.” The 103 points w'as a Tiger high for the season (in regulation time) and the DePauw T total w r as also the most scored against the Crusaders this season. Junior forward Tom McCormick had an unbelievable night.

potting 38 points from all directions. His effort was just three points shy of tying the all-time Tiger scoring mark. The 6-5 Dayton, O., product, whose previous best had been 23 points, jammed In 16 in the first half and 22 more in the final 20 minutes. He hit 14 of 23 from the field and had a perfect night at the line on 10 tries. He also grabbed 12 rebounds. And there was Jim Jackson who McCall said, “looked like he was never coming down when he went up.” Jackson led both teams with 17 rebounds and had 14 points. Typical of Jackson’s all out effort was had volleyball-like slam of the second half tipoff. It was a perfectly aimed strike to streaking McCormick who took it behind the surprised Valpo defense for an easy layup. After that the some 3,000 fans somehow knew the Tigers weren’t to be denied. McCall showered prase too on tireless Tom McGurk, Dale Barrett, Dave Browning and Dick Tharp. McGurk had 16 rebounds and 21 points. Barrett scored nine points and set up many baskets with clever assists. Browning, saddled with four fouls and defensed appropriate to his second place among ICC scoring leaders, finished with

10 points and nifty ball handling around Valpo’s press. Brown(Continued On Page 6)

Tourney summaries

(FINAL)

CLOVERDALE (84)

time during the tournament and until 6 . 9 Fred Cox dumped ln Russellville made no exceptions twQ of his 37 points and Ued at

to the rule. The Bees backed gg.gg them up against the wall with a

13-11 first period lead and then in a <5 uick s P urt Ford poured it on just a little harder and McCullough bombed in six in the second period to end the P oints to put their team in cornhalf with a 35-32 lead that mand b y as man y- The lead brought nothing less than a tested no more than three minstanding ovation from the u t es wben Bainbridge s Norman crowd. Cloverdale coach A1 Steele drov e to the right side Tucker said after the game. “I of the floor and dropped in a figured this might happen, but 10-footer to make it 83-83. From I had no idea they could hold on there Dave Nees let go of one,

; Barker and Ford both missed

ACCEPT CHAMPIONSHIP TROPHY—Cloverdale co-captains Rick Ford, Ron Barker, and Dave Nees proudly accept the County Tourney Championship trophy from IHSAA member Kenneth Miller Saturday night. Standing by is Cloverdale coach A1 Tucker,

Greencastle takes possession of WIC lead; Garfield bows in barn-burner, 75-69

that long.”

I free throw opportunities, and

'jc 'Jc COUNTY TOURNEY ALL-STARS

Norman Steele

Bainbridge}

Dave Walton

Fillmore}

Jerry McCullough

Cloverdale! 1

Rick Ford

Cloverdale!

Ron Wallace

Reelsville}

Fred Cox

Bainbridge}

Mike Simpson

Russellville!

Mark Smith

Roachdale!

Kim Miller

Russellville}

Mike Miller

Bainbridge}

Honorable Mention: Mike Chism, Reelsville; Ron 5 Barker, Cloverdale; Earl Harvey, Roachdale; Daryl} Williamson, Fillmore; Rick Carrington and Dave} Carrington, Russellville; Steve Brown and Dave)

Nees, Cloverdale.

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FG FT PF

Barker

Steele

Monnett

Nees

Coon

McKamey

Ford

Brown

McCulluogh

Nickerson

Staley

Walker

Totals

RUSSELLVILLE (69)

Miller

Everman

Higgins

Simpson

R. Carrington

Cushman

D. Carrington

Totals

CLOVERDALE (89)

Barker

Steele

Monnett

Nees

Coon

McKamey

Ford

Brown

McCullough

Nickerson

Staley

Walker

Totals

BAINBRIDGE

(85)

Judy

Summers

Hanks

Lasley

Cox

English

Steele

Richard

Miller

Totals 35 15 FILLMORE (76)

Phillips

Clark

Miller

Tharp

Robinson

Kendall

Walton

Cox

Williamson

Puckett

Custis

Rowland

Totals

RUSSELLVn.LE (88)

Miller

D. Carrington

Lieske

Goff

Simpson

Everman

Cushman

Lyons

R. Carrington

Jackson

Higgins

Totals

When the Clovers came back the score stood at 85-83, Cloveronto the floor in the third period da ie, with 30 seconds left to they slapped a mid-court press play. Pointer Gary Judy was against the Bees and for a cou- whistled on the rebound and pie of minutes It looked like Ford made sure with two quick Russellville might break it free throws to make it 87-83. apart, but Cloverdale shattered Steele equalled him on the retheir hopes and dumped in 15 turn trip down the floor, but points to their two and finally guard Gary Richard shoved ended the quarter outscoring Ford underneath. The big centhe Bees 33-13. Russellville made ter dropped in two more free a desperate attempt to get back throws and it was all over, into the running in the fourth Both teams hit 35 shots from period by picking th« Clovers thp floort cloverdale taking 82 up all over the floor, but Clover- and Bainbridge 78. The onlv difdale had their sights set on the ferencp from the frep championship trophy and out-did fji row |j ne where Cloverdale hit them once more 30-21. j 19 and Bainbridge hit 15. Both

Russellville played the most teams shot 27 *

effective defense in the tourney Bainbridge lost two players against Cloverdale s ace Rick with five fouls in the final peFord when they put 5-9 Rick jj m Hanks, who took the Carrington and 5-11 Kim Miller Ford assignment on defense, against him at different inter- picked up three early, a fourth vals. “We thought we could rat- midway in the final stanza and tie him by putting Ricky on then left the game late as did him and then having three other 6.9 Fred Cox. Cox got 37 points players converge on him when- before retiring to the bench in ever he got the ball and we did the most brilliant performance

it,” said Russellville’s first year 0 f his career,

coach John Hutchinson. Ford Barker was thft onlv clover _ scored his first field goal of the da , e player to leav# the game

game with only 2:00 left in the ^ fjve personalf .

second period.

The Bees worked the ball furiously against the Clover team and refused to fire until they had the good shot. They took 66 — one less than Cloverdale. and connected on 28—one more than Cloverdale. Unfortunately for the Bees, they committed 22 fouls and Cloverdale took a

Four Bainbridge players hit in double figures. Cox’s 37 led the team, Steele got 18. Miller 15, and Judy 11. Miller was the surprise substitute of the tourney who kept the Pointers alive on four different occasions with

buckets.

Staley got 12 for Cloverdale. complementing Ford's 42 and

solid advantage of the one and McCullough’s 24-point efforts. ons situation by hitting 30 of 37 charity stripe attempts. The To some it was just a mild Bees’ percentage was better, 83 upset, but to Rusellville it was to 81, but they shot only 18 and j us t par t of the tourney plan.

“We came down here to win,”

connected with 15.

Ford's 26 was high for the game, but four other Clovers made it in the double figure column. Ron Barker and Jerry McCullough each planted 12 through the hoop, Bill Steele netted 11, and Jim Staley hit for

10 points.

Mike Simpson led Russellville with 20 point*, Kim Miller fired in 17 long shooting markers, and Dave Carrington had 15 points

to his credit.

said coach John Hutchinson, “and we meant to do Just that.” The game in discussion was the Russellville - Fillmore tilt that found the Bees pasting the

Cardinals 88-76.

The Cardinals met defeat in the second Saturday afternoon game ironically enough the same way they knocked off Roachdale in a first round Thursday afternoon contest — at the free throw line. The Cards made a honey of a percentage

In the highlighted game of in connecting with 16 of 19, but the tourney a capacity crowd Russellville did them better by of 2.465 cheering fans watched tucking away 30 of 38. 32 minutes of superb basketball Russellville failed to get gowhen Cloverdale and awesome ing in the first period and the Rick Ford once again proved Cardinals moved to a 17-15 their dominance over challeng- lead. The Bees rambled to a 28ing Bainbridge by whipping 18 second quarter, then bettered them 89-85. the tead with a 28-18 third peFord unloaded for 16 field j riod. Fillmore came back with goal* and 10 free throws for 42 a 23-22 point final period, but points in leading his team to too late.

victory. It was the third consecutive performance that the agile 6-4 center had tossed in 42 or more points. But not all the glory or credit went to the big scoring ace as teammate Jerry McCullough dropped in IS field goals tw°

The Fillmore squad fired 80 times at the bucket and connected for 30, one more than Russellville, but the Bees hit a better percentage with 29 of 72 tries. Errors went to Fillmore

13-7.

(Continued on Fage 6)

By FRANK PUCKETT, JR. Banner Sports Editor It was a wild and wooly bam burner but Greencastle emerged the new leader of the hotlycontested Western Indiana Conference basketball race Friday night when they dropped in 31 ( free throws through the hoop and beat rival Terre Haute Garfield in the uptown gym, 75-69. Both WIC teams went into the contest as the only two undefeated crews in the loop. The Cubs came out with a 5-0 record and Garfield had to take a 5-1 slate home. Overall Greencastle Is 10-4 and the Terre Haute chib is 8-5. The Garfield team tried to make the game a slow and deliberate one and succeeded by holding the Tiger Cubs to only 50 shots, twenty less than they noramlly fire, but they had to pay the victory price when Greencastle forced them into 32 fouls. The Cubs converted on 31 of 47 attempts from the charity stripe, the place they secured their win. Garfield outscored them 54-44 from the field, but was able to connect on only 15 of 22 tries at the line. Greencastle secured a 17-12 first period margin, then w r ent ahead to a 35-28 halftime lead without too much trouble. But with the start of the third period the Cubs found themselves in trouble when forward John New left the game with four fouls. New had scored two three-point plays and thirteen points total. The Purple Eagles took advantage of the loss and romped to a 24-18 period, bringing the scoreboard to 53-52, Greencastle. Flaring without the services of hot-shot Jay Frye, who had also picked up his fourth personal during the third period, Greencastle went to the full

INDIANA BASKETBALL CoUefe Ball State 91, Evansville 92 DePauw 103, Valparaiso 89 Earlham 104. Manchester 97 Franklin 93, Taylor 92 Hanover 92. Rose Polv 88 Indiana Central 81. Marian 79 Indiana Tech 77. Anderson 72 Vincennes 68. Mineral Area. Mo 67 St Francis 103. Indiana Northern 88 1 Concordia 110. Bethel 88 Hirh School Pntnam County Tourney Cloverdale 89. Balnbridee 85 Russellville 88. Fillmore 76 Cloverdale 84. Russellville 69 CP) Marion County Tourney North Central 71. Speedway 49 'F> Indianapolis City Tourney Washington 73. Tech 60. f F' Montgomery Countv Tourney Darlington 100. Coal Creek 78 (F) Vincennes 77. Evansville Central 61 East Chicago Washington 73. Muncle i Central 59 i South Bend Central 81 Penn 79 I Madison Heights 75. Anderson 72 j Phelbyvtlle 81. Elwood 68 I Windfall 68. Plainfield Charlton 44 i Terre Haute Schulte 75. Staunton 67 Bloomington 64. Terre Haute GarI field 45 Bloomington University 68, Van Buren 64 Frankfort 78. Rossville 68 Brazil 61. Plainfield 56 Danville 69 Avon 66 Bluffton 76. Hunting* on 71 Kokomo 63. Peru 41 Oak Hill 74, Northwestern 72 Bedford 67. Mitchell 54 Elkhart 67. Fort Wayne Central 49 Hammond Noll 76, Whiting 39 Gary Roosevelt 67, South Bend Adams 60 South Bend Washington 65. South Bend Clay 54 South Bend Jackson M. Wakarusa

court press and was able to stay in front by five points until late in the final period when Garfield’s Jeff Vaught capitalized on a Tiger Cub error and brought his team within two points, 67-69. Coach Dave McCracken sent Frye hack into the encounter at that point, 1:43 on the clock, and Frye promptly responded with two free throws, making it 71-67. Garfield’s Hunter let go one on the return trip down the floor seperating the teams by two points once more with :49 seconds lefl, but Frye unloaded with three more free throws along with one by David Dunn before the buzzer sounded to secure the Cub win. Greencastle hit a respectable 44 percent from out with 22 of 50 shots and Garfield netted 40 percent with 27 of 66 attempts. Errors honors went to the Purple Eagles, 20-16. Rambling 6-3 Greencastle forward Pete Norris took high : game scoring honors with a 22 point performance, five under his conference average, and three teammates also scored in double figures. Terry Ross had 14, John New got 13 before i

leaving in the third period, and Frye tabbed 11 markers, six in the last 1:40 of the gam*. Garfield had four men in double figures. Ron Hunter, who holds a 20 point plus average in the loop, scored 19, McCallum had 14, and Johnson and Vaught

had 10 each.

The Cubs are home again next Friday night when they are slated to protect the conference lead against tough Terre Haute Wiley. Individual sumarles: GREENCASTLE

FG FT PF

Irwin Monnett Frye Norris Dunn Ross New Totals

Johnson Caldw'ell Vaught McDonald Hunter Cherepkai McCallum Strange Totals

2 5 5

GARFIELD FG FT

5 2

2 6 1 6

0 27

0 3 9

2 4 3

0 2

.3 7

2 1

0 1 4 3 1 4 4 17 PF 4 5 4 8 5 3 5 3 32

TP 6

11 22 6 14 13 75 TP 10

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