The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 6 February 1968 — Page 4

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Tuesday, February 6, 1967

Indiana toppled by Ohio State heroics Indiana’s defending Big Ten, off forced by an injury, and basketball co-champions were Vern Payne had 18. Bill Hosket

considered out of the title chase today, the -victims of their own mistakes coupled with some Ohio State heroics The Hoosiers lost their second conference game at home Monday night, 78-77 to Ohio State, which increased its hold on first place in the standings with a

5-1 record.

Although Indiana dominated moat of the game, sophomore Dan Andreas, a 6 2 southpaw, hit the second of his two fielders at the final gun to hand the Hoosiers their fourth conference loss against two victories. Indiana led 76-71 with 1:17 left and appeared "in,” but the Buckeyes tied the score with 2S seconds left, courtesy of some

Hooaier errors.

Still, Indiana had a chance to win when Butch Joyner hit a free throw with 11 seconds left, but the Buckeyes weren’t fin-

and Steve Howell topped the Buckeye scoring with 18 points

apiece.

Indiana twice led by 11 points in the first half but OSU cut tho margin to three points. 3633, at the intermission. It was a see-saw thriller most of the second half, ended only when Andreas pumped in the winning

goal at the final gun.

Intra-state action tonight features Hoosier Conference play, with front-running Earlham favored to extend its record to 9-1 by turning back Anderson. In other HCC games, Hanover is

DPU, St. Joe spring ICC upsets

Evansville hurled to top of loop

By FRANK PUCKETT Jr., BANNER SPORTS EDITOR

There’s a possibility we might have two conference winners in the county and again there's a chance we won’t have any. Greencastle. the only undefeated team in the Western Indiana Conference up until last Friday night, leads their conference race but has to win against Gerstmeyer Friday night in order to claim their championship and then again that claim isn’t a valid one

if Linton wins their next three conference

games.

Bainbridge. repeating for the second year in a row’ with an undefeated 7-0 Big Four Conference record, claims the cham-

at Manchester and Indiana Cen- pj ons hjp e f that loop but has to sit back and wait for Darlington

to finish out their schedule before a winner can be determined. Darlington has w’on 6 and lost 0. but plays two more games that

could propel them into an 8-0 conference record.

The Tiger Cubs, who play eight conference games, are at the disadvantage simply because Linton plays one more game than

DETROIT UPI — Harry they do. So if Linton finishes out the season by wiiipping their Hairston, recently acquired by next three opponents, West Vigo, Brazil, and Honey Creek, they the Detroit Pistons in a trade will claim a one-half game lead over the Cubs with an 8-1 record,

tahed. They called time to talk I with the Cincinnati Royals, will Of course this applies only if Greencastle beats Gerstmeyer Fri-

DePauw and St. Joseph's tossed a few new wrinkles into the Indiana Collegiate Conference basketball race much to the pleasure of Evansville's Aces. In a week that saw the complexion of the flag race alter considerably, Evansville, after ! starting a half-game behind. ! now finds itself a game and | one-half ahead. By maintaining its present pace. Evansville could finish on top with much less trouble than it anticipated, and Indiana

State, the pre-season favorite, could find itself scrambling to fight off at least three other clubs — notably DePauw, Ball State and Butler. Evansville, now’ 6-1, must go to Butler and DePauw while it hosts Ball State. St. Joseph’s and Indiana State. By winning its three home games it would not matter what happens to the Aces on the road, for they could do no worse than a cochampionship. DePauw, meantime, looms as a new threat, having used last

tral at Franklin.

Notre Dame entertains

Paul of Chicago.

Hairston sidelined

Bowling results

ever the strategy' .then worked the ball to Andreas, who popped a 15-foot jumper from the Bide and it was all over. Joyner led the scoring with tS points, his best game since he yejolned the team after a lay-

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be sidelined for tonight’* game day night and wands up with a 7-1 record.

with San Diego in New York J Up north, Bainbridge can do better than becoming runnersbecause of a knee injury. ' up in the Big Four loop if Darlington betters their 7-0 mark with Terry Dischinger, who missed j an 8-0 slate. The conference constitution says that the championSunday’s game with Philadel- ship Is decided on winning percentage. Consequently if Darlingphia due to a dislocated finger, ton does finish 8-0, both teams will get duplicate championship

will play against the Rockets, trophies writh 1.000 winning percentages. Ordinarily Greencastle would play nine games, but the Sullivan game was dropped at an early scheduling date so Indianap-

olis Howe could be added.

• • • •

You might call it Hoosier hysteria, but 1 called it run for your life! There were no less than fifty ball players, coaches, managers, officials, and fans exchanging blow’s on the floor of the DePauw Bowman Gymnasium Saturday night during a tussle that started when a couple of players lost their cool and exchanged & knuckled fist or two. ” It took officials no less than five minutes to clear the floor and it took about that long for the players to shoot the personal foul free throws and technical foul tosses. After the free-for-all someone asked me if I got some good pictures. I told him the only pictures I got were the ones I snapped of the bleacher seats as I was running away from the fight.

Area action last weekend didn’t accomplish much except draw the county teams one week closer to the sectionals. Greencastle dropped their first conference game when Linton beat them, Cloverdale ran their record to 17-1 with a win over Russellville, Bainbridge pushed their conference record to 7-0 with a Saturday night win over North Salem and beat Reelsville on Friday night, Fillmore won two over the period by heating Pittsboro and Waveland, Reelsville lost to the Pointers and beat Staunton, and Roachdale upset Granville Wells on Friday night then lost

to Darlington Saturday night

Mentionable items .... big John Tharp, a hustling Fillmore Junior, held Waveland's Mike Mitchell to six points in the first half of their game the other night and coach Moser said he did a remarkable job .... Russellville held Cloverdale's Rick Ford below thirty points once more .... Roachdale trailed highly touted Granville Wells for thirty minutes and then rallied 1 to beat them 77-73 on Junior Joe Hutchins’ 25 points .... and Terry Ross peppered the buckets for 28 against Linton, making his third straight game where he scored 24 or more points.

PUTNAM COUNTY LEAGUE February I, 1968 W. L. Dewey’s Barber Shop 92 46 Bob’s Body Shop 86 52 Edmunds 84 54 Tipstar 82 56 Pepsi Cola 76 62 Atkins & Sons 75 63 Ron & Ken’s Barber Shop 68 70 Crawley Carpets 66 72 Hutchison Shell 63 75 Harper’s Trucking 61 77 Cash Concrete 60 78 j American Zinc 57 81 National Foods 50 88 Bombers 46 92 High Individual Game: C. Brewster, 232; High Individual Series: B. Belasco, 608. 200 Game: R. Fisher 200. V. Atkins. 208-206: L. Haltom, 211-218; D. Bond, 200-225; L. Tippin, 201; B. Belasco, 209-201; D. Buis, 205: C. Stites. 202; J. Walker, 209; Hewlett, 209.; M. Brewster. 200-201; Partin, 217; C. Brewster, 232; J. Edmonds, 205. 500 Series: Sharp 542; Hoffa, 523; C. Alex, 526; C. Brewster, 587; J. Edmonds, 564: G. Bry-j ant. 519; B. Pettit. 522: R. Crawley, 549; K. Spencer, 506; Hewlett, 552; M. Brewster, 592; Partin, 587; Langdon, 557; D. Buis. 518; C. Stites. 539; J. Walker. 541; B. Taylor, 516; D. Bond. 579: B. Belasco, 608; V. Atkins. f^93; L. Haltom, 589; E. May, 506; R. Fisher. 524; P. Buechler, 521; K. Finchum, 544.

418; S. Skelton 408. GREENCASTLE GAA 2-5-68 Juniors: Carolyn Torr 122; Linda New 118. Sophomores: Marsha Brattain 113; Josie Jones 109; Lee Ann Gray 109. Freshman: Betty Cromer 133; Beverly Sims 116 JAYCE BANTAM MIXED 2-3-68 W L Atkins & Sons No 2 26 12 U Shop 24^ 13ti Marsh Employees 20 18 Atkins & Sons No. 1 19% 18% Larkin Insurance 19 19 Slim’s Shell Service ..18% 19% Ernie’s Open Air Mkt. 18 20 Cloverdale IGA 37 21 Dairy Queen 17 21 Toney’s Well Drilling 10% 27% Hi team 2 games: Atkins & Sons No. 2 1213 Hi team game: Atkins & Sons No. 2 648 Hi ind. 2 games: Boy, Kirk Fredrick 297; Girl, Patty Brewster 227. Hi ind. game: Boy, Kirk Fredrick 171; Girl, Patty Brewster 133.

week advantageously. The 4-3 Tigers disposed of Butler and Indiana State and have four of their remaining five IOC games at home. The lone hooker is a Feb. 10 date at St. Joseph's whose phenomenal team shooting could no longer be denied what it's all about—a victory. The Pumas whipped Ball State, 93-84, and climbed into contention for better things. The sizzling shooting propelled them into first in this category in the league with a .489 mark, .011 points ahead of Butler. Six games are on tap this week in the conference. Ball State goes to DePauw and Butler; Valpo has Butler at home and goes to Indiana State Saturday: and St. Joe is at Evansville Wednesday before entertaining DePauw Saturday. Little juggling occurred in the ICC stats during the week despite the jostling that went on from top to bottom in the standings. Indiana State's Jerry Newsom jammed in 62 point* in two games to remain well ahead in scoring. His 27.6 average keeps him ahead of DePauw’s Tom McGurk (19.3) and Tom McCormick (18.7) and Valpo's Dick Jones (18.3), Doug Wininger of Butler boosted his shooting percentage from .581 to .583 to keep his sharpshooter lead. St. Joe’s John McGladdery (.575), Frank

Pohlgeers (.560). and Steve Scharf (.556) acooted into 2-3-5 spots. Evansville's Jerry Mattingly jumped out of nowhere into fourth with .558. DePauw's McCormick took over the free throw lead with a .920 average on 23 of 25. He's trailed by Butler * Gary Cox (21-23 for .913) and Ball State's John Miller (19-21 for .905), Rich Mason of Indiana State climbed all the way from fifth to first with 31 rebounds in two games to replace DePauw’* Jim Jackson at the top. Mason has 114 per game. Jackson has 11.1 and Tom Niemeier. Evag^ville, has 10.3. Evansville retained its leadership as the league's top scoring (89.7) and rebounding unit (51.1) and it also added the dubious distinction of being the most foul prone (23.7 per game). Butler replaced Indiana State tas the best defensive team, yielding 76.3 per game, W’hile St. Joe moved from fourth to first to take over team shooting. Butler also is the least foulinclined, committing 18.3 per game. Ball State and Butler are with corresponding .758 marks. Ironically, Indiana State and Valpo, who are 13th and 14th In national free throw’ *tats. are 3 and 4 with .753 and .751.

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COMMERCIAL LEAGUE 2-1-68

Brewster Repair

W 120

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Sutherlln TV

106

Phillips ’‘66”

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Fathers Auxiliary

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Farm Bureau Co-op

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HI team series: Pihillips "66” 2611 Hi team series: Phillips "66” 926 Hi ind. series: Norman Hill 597 Hi Ind. game: Robert Pettit 231 500 series: D. Flint 503; R. Minnick 548; D. Lewis 502; E. Hdl 518: N. Hill 597; K. Justus 510; R. Pettit 577; F. Brewster 507; M. Brewster 529; C. Brewster 513; D. Rogers 534; J. Frazier 533; G. Baker 526; G. Crawley 534; R. Cooprider 533; D. Howlett 577; R. Hampton 544. 200 games: D. How’lett 208; D. Rogers 204; G. Crawley 203; R. Pettit 231; N. Hill 219, 214; R. Shoemaker 203.

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First-Citizens Bank ...

... 123

Coca-Cola

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Hillman's Greenhouse Hammond Watch Sr

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Trophv

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Putnam Motors

... 74

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Hassler’s Trucking ....

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Donna Nursing Home

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175 games: A. Cantonwine 211; L. Mark 211; J. Leer 200, 178; D. Edwards 198, 178; E. Shinn 193; J. Cavin 192, 182; B. Nelson 191; G. Ford 178; B Douglas 176. 400 series: L. Mark 545; J. Cavin 539; A. Cantonwdne 532; J. Leer 518; D. Edwards 505; B. Nelson 503; J. Murray 471; S. Perry 462: E. Shinn 452; G. Ford 450: R. Hampton 441; C. Justus 438; H. Bennington 434; B. Douglas 133; S. Harris. 424; J. Alex 423; B. Alexander!

BIRCH BAYH Birthday Celebration Will Be Held Saturday February 10 AT 8:00 pm At The Indiana State Fairgrounds In The Coliseum A Real Big Show With BOBBY DARIN and Many Other TV and Movie Stars Tickets May Be Purchased From Our License Branch In Greencastle.