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Tiger Cubs daw into tourney "Sweet Sixteen" Topple Wainwright in finals; trip Crawfordsville in afternoon

By FRANK PUCKETT, JR. Banner Sports Editor

played contests the local hoop- line against Wainwright while sters have turned In this sea-! the Mustangs tabulated with son. All that separated the two 24 of 64 from out and 18 of 24

from the line. Errors In that

Tiger | teams at the final buzzer was

‘sweet

Greencastle's rallying

Cubs joined the elite «w C «l , & free throW( the same differ sixteen ’ of Indiana s top high ence that p Ut Greencastle in the 16-15. school basketball teams Satur- j %vin co i unin over the Montgom-

ery County foes during the 1 nal game with a win over Lebanon’s Tigers in the second

day night by scrambling to an

88-66 victory over Wainwright j seaS o n .

in the IHSAA Frankfort Reg-; ional championship game. The finals win topped off a brilliant afternoon performance the local team turned in during the semifinal afternoon round when they toppled tough Crawfordsville.

81-80.

contest were in the Cubs’ favor.

Wainwright made it to the fi-

Greencastle started the contest off in real trouble as the Athenians flooded their zone defense and dropped in six buckets from less than ten feet and took a first quarter comI mand, 20-13. Things looked

The regional crown gave Cubs a berth in the Lafaj Semi-State next Saturday

ternoon against former Putnam County player and coach Jerry Lewis’ North Miami Warriors.

Gary Roosevelt and Attica are the other two teams in the fayette semi-state tourney. Wainwright’s Mustangs were

in the final game just about as long as it took Greencastle coach Dave McCracken to slap

exchanged buckets and it 10-10 with 2:40 on the clock in the first period when McCracken made the manuever and be fore the eight minute perio( was over Greencastle had thrown in 13 more points and Wainwright had accumula four. And that’s the way Went through just about

entire contest.

Greencastle breezed t o easy twenty-point margin i held it until Wainwright hustled out onto the floor in the third period and chopped the lead to 14 points, 54-40, with a man to-man defense. McCracken call-

even worse when the second

afternoon semi-final game. The Mustangs took a 17-15 first quarter lead, kept a steady pace and rambled to a 35-33 lead, jaunted to a 54-51 third quarter score, and finally emerged victor Individual summaries:

All Tourney Team Larry Grimes, Crawfordsville Jay Frye, Greencastle Bob Fultz, Wainwright Terry Ross, Greencastle Pete Norris, Greencastle Jack Damall, Lebanon John New, Greencastle Bob Hodges, Crawfordsville Steve Lewis, Lebanon Gerald Deboy, Wainwright

stanza got underway and the

Greencastle (88) FG

Athenians used the same stra-

Norris

tegy to leap into a 29-20 lead,

J. New

but not to be denied a little

Dunn

strategy of their own Green-

Ross

castle called a time out in the

Invin

proceedings and came back onto

Frye

the floor with their fired up

Monnett

full court press.

R. New

It took three minutes for the

Lear

Cubs to tie it up as David Dunn came off the bench and sank

Totals Wainwright (66)

a short hook shot through the

hoop to make it 30-30 at the

Wickes

2:27 mark. Crawfordsville miss-

Cornel

ed an opportunity and Terry

Deboy

Ross tipped in a rebound shot

Fbreshman

on the trip down the floor and

Fultz

the Cubs went into command

Kennedy

for the first time, 32-30.

Rasher

Crawfordsville hustled back

Rover

on the hot-handed shooting of

Sweeney

6-2 forward Larrv Grimes and

1 Sixhey

commanded 37-34 at the end of

Bol

the half, but the contest was a long way from being over. Pete Norris bombed in two

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quick ones at the 5:48 mark

Greencastle (81) FG

in the third quarter and put

Irwin

the Cubs ahead 41-39 and forced

Monnett

2 ,

C-ville into a time out. The

Frye

halt in the game didn’t hurt

Norris

Greencastle any as they kept up

Dunn

their pressing ways and closed

Ross

the third period ahead, 56-54.

J. New

The press showed Crawfords-

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ville the way home in the final

C’ville (80)

stanza as the Cubs stole the first

Frederick

7 I

two inbound passes the Athen-

Hodges ••••••••••••••

16'

ians made and Dunn and Norris

Cochrane

converted, putting Greencastle

Grimes

in command with their biggest

Kitts

margin 60-54. C-ville got a couple more on the next ex-

Totals ...»

Greencastle Tiger Cubs, Frankfort Regional Champs

Tigers beat Evansville—shares ICC crown Staid Bowman Gymnasium for a championship picture, i at 80-80 with with 1:36 to play, lunged in for a layup with three (McCormick and McGurkl that erupted into delirium Saturday shot to the chant of “We’re DePauw took time out at 1:34 seconds left. That cut the count helped turn the tide and give

moments after DePauw's dark- number one!’’ and McCall apparently called to 84-82 and Evansville asked DePauw its ninth straight vichorse Tigers beat Evansville, The decision that wasn’t as- for a cautious stall. for time out. When action re- tory. McGurk was fouled seven 84-82, to claim a share of the 1 sured until the final 12 seconds After 60 seconds elapsed sumed under the Ace basket times. He hit 10 chances withIndiana Collegiate Conference i hoisted DePauw into a final 9-3 guard Dave Browning, who had Barrett whisked the ball out to out a miss. McCormick waa basketball championship. | ICC mark, the same as Indiana played the entire game, drib- McCormick who oubscrambled fouled eight times and made 12 Most of the 2.000 in the State’s. It also pushed DePauw bled from the top of the key Tom Niemeier for it. Niemeier of 14 including 10 in a row. bleachers joined nearly 300 to a 16-6 season reading and straight down the Aces’ throat imm«uiately fouled McCormick Barrett and Browning, the only students sitting along the side- put the Old Gold into the right for a layup with 34 seconds to with one second left. McCor- Tigers to go all 40 minutes, lines to swarm Coach Elmer frame of mind as they prepare play. DePauw led, 82-80. When miek missed it but by the time each hit six of seven as th# McCall and his jubilant 10- to enter the NCAA tourney Evansville came back down the Pratt got his hand* on it the pressing Aces, the ICC’s most man squad. It took a full 10 March 8-9 at Normal, 111. De- floor 6-5 Ace Mike Owens, who horn sounded and the all-time foul inclined club, committed 27 minutes to satisfy the stu- Pauw last won the ICC in 1956- had already hit three of five record Bowman throng of 2.273 personals. The Tigers converted dent paraders that they had 57. shots in the last half, fired with was surging onto the hard- 34 to 40, 17 in each half, carried the smiling mentor and The victory number also en- 15 seconds left. He missed and wood. Both over-stimulated clubs most of his performers suffi- i abled McCall’s gutty young Tom McCormick grabbed the McCall used only six men had their periods of domination cient mileage to assure their club to tie the 16-win mark of rebound for the Tigers. i against the Aces' rotating at- before the dramatic windup, appreciation for the comeback 1946-47. Now, with more sue- As he whirled to dribble free, j tack. Three of the six scored Evansville quickly jumped out victory. Sometime during the cesses, the squad can surpass a Layne Holmes was there to foul 20 or more points. McCormick front before DePauw managed

ended up with 26. McGurk add- to tie it at 9 and 11. But that ed 20, and Dave Browning was the last time the Tiger* scored 22. Pratt was high for were that close until near half-

Evansville with 24. : time.

It was the beating of the With Pratt, Holmes and 6-9 Aces on DePauw's Tom-Tom's Niemeier hitting well insida

j and out, the Aces ran up a 27lg j ea(j with 11:10 to go in tha half. Finally, McCormick, McGurk and Browning, who had 12, 14 and 9 respectively in tha i first 20 minutes, began to warm j up. Mike O’Connell, who filled

bit | pie's choice” hopefuls took their j battled back from the brink of in for nearly 12 minutes as Mc-

^Call rested his three front lin-

demonstration someone cut the : 46-year-old record of 17 vie- him with 12 seconds left. Mcnets and draped them on Me- tories by the 1921-22 club. Cormick obliged to hit De-

Call’s firemen.

The undulating mob of young

DePauw, as it turned out, ■ Pauw’s 18th and 19th consecmoved into the driver’s seat i utive free throws for an 84-80

scholars finally delivered the | after Ace Howard Pratt used lead. Pratt came right back Tigers to the middle of the floor j two free throws to tie the game ! down the floor though and

change, but the Tiger Cubs moved out In front by seven points when Don Irwin and John New struck back with a 1-2 : punch at the 4:58 mark. The! Athenians made one more j

strike back, or at least forward j INDIANAPOLIS UPI—Who- , velt, Marion and Kokomo, the guess we were looking a

Larry Grimes anyway. Grimes! ever said Indiana’s high school ! “also-rans” in the “Second 10.” ahead. In our first meeting we lumps. Unbeatens Holland and defeat to catch Shelbyville. 83 blistered the nets with eight: basketball tourney is a big-city Five regional champs repeat- had them down by six points; Oolitic were both eliminated at SO; Michigan City rolled over ers. helped too.

IHSAA tourney long way from big city affair

ed the Cubs into the huddle and when they returned to the floor It took less than three minutes to move into a twenty point lead once more, 65-45. Everyone got into the act in the final period and eight of

points in less than two minutes J monopoly ?

and brought his team to within • jt couldn’t be—not as long as gan City, Shortridge and Koko- go but they scored four points, 77-73. Ross bombed, th e Atticas, Jac-Cen-Dels and mo, which ran its regional title straight points to win.

away with a couple after that | jsjorth Miamis battle their way string to five—but the real and time ran out on the losers, ‘'s wee t Sixteen.” glory of barging into the nextNorris netted 23 points, Ross i Attica became the latest to - last round of the 58th antossed in 21, and John New giant-killer in the colorful an- nua ^ Hoopla belonged to Attica came through with a 14 point i nals of the March Madness, and to th ree brand-new Sweet

ed—Marion, Roosevelt, Michi- ! with less than two minutes to Huntingburg, where Jefferson- Akron, 94-77, and Reitz had to

the Cubs made the scoring j performance for the Cubs, hauling down powerful Lafay- Sixteen members Jac-Cen-

Grimes took high game honors ette in a stunning 69-59 upset 1 - )e ^ ^ ortl1 Miami, and Fort

column, three of them in double figures. Fast moving and hard hitting Pete Norris led the squad with 27 points, Terry Ross chucked away for 19, and rugged John New unloaded for 12 points. Four players were In double figures for Wainwright. Deboy notched 12, Rasher had 11, and Kennedy and Sweeney both posted 10 points each. In the highlight of the tourney. the Cubs came hustling back from a trailing halftime score and knocked off highlytouted Crawfordsville’s Athenians in one of the most well

with 34 markers. Hodges had 16, Kitts 13, and Cochrane 11 points. The Tiger Cubs hit 33 of 74 (43 per cent) from the field

at Purdue Saturday night. i Wayne Catholic.

Second-ranked Lafayette, the Unranked and unheralded, top choice for the title vacated Attica exploded the “bombshell by Evansville North in the sec- special” of two weeks of tour-

, tionals; No. 3 Washington and

seven ville emerged victoriously, and spurt in the second half to previously one-beaten Clover- down Dale. 65-53.

A sticky 1-3-1 zone defense j dale was clobbered by Southern and height advantage did the Conference champion Vincennes trick as Attica led at every in the Washington regional fi-

stop.

Jac-Cen-Del. winner at Con-

That's how the “big-shots” fared—not exactly in over-

, „ __ \ whelming fashion—adding only nale, 8<-57. ......... more uncertainty to the final , ft 4=45 at intprmi^inn

Holland rallied brilliantly to len ‘ 43 4a ‘ at ml ermission.

A basket and four straight free throws by McCormick finally tied the score. 43-all with 2:05 left in the half. Holmes put Evansville back on top by two. but Browning's fourth fielder tied it with 32 seconds

two sessions of the March Mad-

nersville, remained the smallest edge Oolitic in a real barnburn- ncs;; school still battling with 291 i er. 61-59, but had its 24-game

students. Attica is the second winning streak snapped by The longest live string was smallest with 366, North Miami j Jeff's Red Devils. 72-70, in an-1 clipped at 15 when Columbus third with 456. The largest is other cliff-hanger. overpowered late-rallying Michigan City with nearly Shortridge. beaten twice by Franklin, 87-80. and Vincennes’ Indianapolis ney warfare in Purdue's new 3,700. Washington during the season, eighth-rated Arena Saturday night, leaving Despite the presence of the took the Indianapolis city

and Crawfordsville made £ 0(xl Southport a j] f e u i,y the way- three-time state champ Lafay- three small schools, the ‘peo- champions, 72-60; Columbus

with 33 of 69 attempts (48 per gide ^ the re gj ona j s> leaving ette hanging on the ropes.

cent), but the difference in the game was at the free throw line. Greencastle hit 15 of IS (83 per cent) and the Athenians connected on 14 of 25 (56 per cent). Errors were in Craw-

fordsville’s favor, 12-6.

i just eight of the top 20 teams it was sweet revenge for the in the final regular-season poll Ramblers of second-year coach j to do battle in this Saturday's Don Andrews who lost the sea-

last

semi-state tourneys. son opener at Lafayette Columbus, Vincennes, Michi- November. 65-64.

gan City, Evansville Reitz and “We had this in mind all seaIndianapolis Shortridge are the son,” he said. “We almost blew

The Cubs hit 29 of 61 from UPI “Big 10” members still our chance In the afternoon the field and 30 of 42 from the firing, along with Gary Roose- 1 against Frontier (52-50), I

GHS Junior High wins County Tournament

When the second half opened DePauw took the tip and Immediately picked up a 46-45 lead on McGurk’s free throw. Browning took over and hit a layup on Barrett’s mid-court theft for a 48-45 edge. Pratt returned with a layup but Browning added a free throw

Others in the “Sweet Six- and another basket when Jackteen” are Marion, Bloomington, son rebounded and whipped a Greencastle. and Richmond. full court pass to the Anderson

junior. He sneaked behind the

15-game string now is the long-

est.

It’s nice to go through a sea- [ Thomas

son undefeated, but it’s greater, points,

to wind up the basketball schedule with a 15-0 record and then ! win the coveted Putnam County j Junior High Basketball tourna-

ment.

That’s just exactly what

Greencastle’s hustling eighth Qrlosky 0 graders did as they finished off 0reen i ee j Cloverdale in the tourney finals French 5 held Friday night in the uptown 5 Thomas 0 gymnasium. 48-43. Buchanan 0 The Cublets trailed through- Totals 16

out the first half of the contest, :

13. and French 12

Columbus, Vincennes and Michigan City check in with j the best records, efteh having . lost but twice during the sea- ; son. North Miami and Bloomington are at the other extreme with records of 12-13 and 14-11,

respectively.

Individual summaries: Tiger Cublets (48)

FG FT PF

Ross 5 F. Thomas 5 Scott 1

5 3 1 3 0 2 0 0

4 3 2 3

1 1

TP 15 13 3 3 2 12 0 0 48

Ace defense for a layup that made it 57-47. Already near the breaking point with tension. Bowman went wild when McGurk and Barrett each added three points for an eventual SOSO DePauw lead. At this point, Niemeier. who had been resting

Six major conferences are momentarily on the bench, reStill in the running for the entered and the Aces cam* crown. The North Central and back to offensive life. MattingSouth Central each has three ly and Pratt cut the count to members left—Kokomo, Marion 60-54, but Browning dribbled and Richmnod of the NCC and the baseline and hit from under.

Bloomington. C o 1 u m bus Jeffersonville of the SCC.

and

down 14-13 at the first period end and 25-17 at the halftime intermission. When the third period rolled around the Cublets,

Cloverdale (43) FG FT PF TP Holsapple 13 4 5 Steele. J 5 3 4 13 Moore 5 4 4 14 Hankins 10 12

rallied and brought the score to p owell 10 0 2 29-29 at the 1:31 mark. Clover- Neeq ’ ' 2 14 5 dale called a time out, but Ross g uther ]i n 0 0 0 0 connected for three buckets be- i gt PC i P ^ 0 0 2 0 fore the quarter buzzer sounded Totals 15 11 19 43 and the Cubs were in command for good, 34-29. , . Robin Moore turned in an im- Champagne Winner pressive first half for the Clo- ; NEW YORK UPI — Jockey vers as he tossed in 14 points. Braulio Baeza has won the

The Southern has two left, Reitz and Vincdhnes. and the Western and Northwest one each, Greencastle and Roosevelt. respectively. Gone, too, is the season's

But that was all to be heard from the tiring Tigers for the next 3:51. The Aces reeled off nine Consecutive points by literally overpow’ering DePauw under the basket. Three of its 12 errors of the game didn't help the Tigers much either at this

most prolific shooter, Carmel's point. Darrell Adams' layup Billy Shepherd with a per-game from the left side finally put average of 33.6 points. He col- Evansville back on top 63-62 lected 38 in his team's 69-67 wiht 8:51 to play.

loss to Marion in the Anderson preliminaries. Although five ex-state champs are left, a new r “Fieldhouse Four” will vie for the crow r n March 16. Lafayette was runnerup last year and New r

Greencastle Junior High wins County Tourney

but failed to get into the scoring ; Champagne Stakes four sue- Castle was felled by Muncie i column the second half. He led | cessive years—in 1964 with Bold Central irt the regional afterClovers with his 14 while Lad. in 1965 with Buck passer. ] noon round. Fort Wayne South.

Mattingly's two personals, however, gave McCormick and Browning one-and-one chances. They made all four for a 66-63 advantage. The lead changed hands six more times until Evansville drove to a 77-74 margin with 3:32 left. DePauw called time. Again it was Evansville fouls

Jim Steele netted 13. Ross pock- in 1966 with Successor, and in j the other finalist last time, lost j that put the Tigers back into