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Monday, December 23, 1968

The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Indiana

Page 5

Tiger Cubs claw out hard-fought cage decision over Plainfield, 66-61

By MIKE CHRON PLAINFIELD—Floor general David Hurst poured through 20-

points and teammate Dennis Losin added 19 of his own to lift Greencastle High School to a

victory here Saturday

senior guard,

MAD SCRAMBLE UNDffiWAY-Doug Smith isn't doing any version of the "Nutcracker's Suite'*, but he is battling for a crurebound in Saturday night's clash with PI iir field on the latters floor. Ready to

assist Smith are, Dennis Losin (25), Dave Hurst (23), and Darryl Pierce (45). The Tiger Cubs won in the final minutes of play, 66-61, for their fifth victory against only one defeat. Photo-Mike Chron.

normally isn’t in the 20-point bracket, rather he’s the sparkplug of the Tiger Cubs runnin’ and explosive offensive attack. Saturday night, however, the 5-foot 9-inch sparkplug tossed the book of basketball guidelines out the door and took the scoring duties into his own hands when the situation arose. Junior letter man Bill Lear who dumped in 25-points Friday night in GHS’s 88-77 slug-fest over Spencer couldn’t come up with a repeat performance at the Hendricks County School Saturday. Hurst, working the ball around in one of the Cubs’ typical offensive setups, constantly found himself being dared by the aggressive quintet to shoot the ball. Their “acts of kindness” to their visitors — Hurst especially —backfired on them as Hurst found his range, thus taking away num erous chances for a rebound Plainfield had hoped for. Both clubs played to a 13-13 standoff in the first quarter, but by halftime, Coach Dave McCracken’s cagers had the edgeby the teeth, though- 33-32. In the third stanza, things really started happening and for the slim following of Greencastle rooters that made the short trip, it looked as if the Tiger Cubs might be out of the “happening” altogether when the Quakers grabbed a 43-37 lead as Phil Nysewander scored from underneath with 4:31 to go. That was it! The Tiger Cubs then sharpened their claws and dusted off their bread, butter and jelly slambang style of ball and tied the score within 16-seconds. Plainfield, having about as much luck bringing the ball in play as Custer did with fighting the injuns, saw their six-point lead go down the drain as (from the top down, please) Dennis Losin, Darryl Pierce and Bill Lear took turns of playing “takeaway and score” to quickley erase the deficit and tie the score at 43- all with 3:34 still left in the third quarter.

Nothing hard about Colts’ ‘secret formula’ for wins

By VITO STELLINO UPI Sports Writer BALTIMORE (UPI)- There’s nothing really very complicated about the Baltimore Colts’ formula for success. The Colts send their defensive team charging in wave after wave like an invading army— until the other team either cracks, or the Colts’ offensivp

unit finally gets around to scoring some points. All the teams, or at least all but Cleveland have eventually cracked under the pounding of the defensive unit paced by Mike Curtis, Bubba Smith, Dennis Gaubatz, and their cohorts. That’s just what happened Sunday when the Colts man-

24-14 to win the Western Conference crown and advance to the National Football League title game against the Cleveland

Browns.

The Browns are the only team which didn’t crack in the 15 games the Colts have played this season. The Colts are determined to avenge the 30-20 defeat at the hands of the Browns in the regular season,

handled the Minnesota Vikings

Banner scoreboard

BCV/LINC

League: IGA FOODLINER

Team * Won Lost 1. A& S Salvage 80 56 2. Amo Milling 73 63 3. Mick’s Appliance 72 64 4. Morrison’s Good Year 71 65 5. Mason’s Jewelry 70 66 6. Stoner Insurance 66 70 7. Adlers 60 76 8. Catalina Beauty Shop 52 84 HIGH TEAM GAME—Adlers,955 HIGH TEAM SERIES—Mack’s Appliance,2664. HIGH IND. GAME—Sandy Skelton, 214. high ind. series—Joyce Cavin, 533. WOMEN’S HIGH SERIES 1. Joyce Cavin, 533 2. Kay Braden, 517 3. Ruby Hampton 516 4. Sandy Skelton 498 5. Janet Lease 493 6. Dorothy Edwarss 493 7. Marilyn Wood 488 8. Eva Spurr 482 9. Beth Hurst 473

AHL

West

East

Pet.

L. T. Pts.

Los Angeles

.706

Hershey

10 3 33

Atlanta

.559

Providence

11 3 33

5an Diego

.441

Baltimore

13 4 26

San Francisco

.400

101/2

Springfield

14 6 22

Chicago

.371

11V2

West

Seattle

.351

12V2

L. T. Pts.

Phoenix

.235

Buffalo

5 6 36

Cleveland

12 3 29

Quebec

16 6 24

Rochester

Boston Montreal Toronto Chicago New York Detroit

9 14 5 23 NHL East W. L. T. Pts. 18 7 6 42

17 16 17

Sunday’s Results Los Angeles 102 Philadelphia 99 Milwaukee 127 Phoenix 116 (Only games scheduled)

7 8

7 6 2

41 38 36

San Francisco at San Diego (Only game scheduled)

ABA

17 14

West W. L. T. Pts. 13 9 9 35

15 18 18 18 19

11 10

9 9 6

St. Louis Los Angeles

Oakland

Minnesota Phi lade fohia Pittsburgh

Sunday’s Results Boston 7 Montreal 5 Detroit 3 Toronto 2 New York 4 Minnesota 2 Chicago 3 Pittsburgh 1 Oakland 2 Philadelphia 1 (Only games scheduled) Monday’s Games (No Games scheduled)

NBA

25 25 23 23 18

East W. L. Pet.

Minnesota

18 8 .692

• ••

Kentucky

13 14 .481

5V2

Indiana

12 17 .414

7V2

New York

10 17 .370

8V2

Miami

10 17 .370

8V2

West W. L. Pet.

Oakland

23 5 .821

• ••

Denver

16 11 .593

6V2

Dallas

13 10 .565

7V:

New Orleans

12 15 .444

101/2

Los Angeles

11 13 .438

Houston

6 17 .261

141/2

U. 11. Carolyn Flint

Baltimore

East W. L. 26 7

Pet. .780

12. Clara Justus

470

Philadelphia

.719

21/2

13. Devona Beamon

470

Boston

.677

.4 Georgia Porter

468

Cincinnati

.625

15. Pat Husford

468

New York

.541

16. Alice Cantomyine

458

Detroit

.355

17. Barbara Ashworth

457

Milwaukee

’7

.286

Sunday’s Results Dallas 111 Houston 105 Indiana 125 New York 110 Denver 122 New Orleans 96 Kentucky at Minnesota, ppd, snow (Only games scheduled) Monday’s Games Houston at New Orleans Indiana at Miami (Only games scheduled)

and go on to the Super Bowl. Cleveland is 11-4. Different This Time “It’ll be different this time,” vowed Curtis, whose 60-yard dash with a recovered fumble with 5:19 left in the third period broke the game wide open. Curtis’ run made it 21-0 and up to that point, the underdog Vikings hadn’t penetrated the Colts 30-yard-line. End Ordell Braase summed up the game well with the comment: “We knew it was going to be a vicious defensive game. It was as hard hitting as we expected because they played like that when they were here earlier in the year.” The Colts tied the NFL record this year by allowing only 144 points in 14 regular season games. While the Colt defense was holding the Vikings in check, the Viking defense was almost as tough in the mud before 60,238 fans huddled under umbrellas in the steady drizzle that fell throughout the game. Earl Morrall, who runs the Colts in the absence of the ailing John Unitas, played his usual game. He wasn't spectacular while completing 13 of 22 passes for 245 yards but he got the Colts a pair of touchdowns with the help of fine receptions by Willie Richardson and John Mackey. Defense Takes Over And then the Colt defense finally tore the game apart. Ciifrtis’ run came just two minutes and one second after Mackey caught a pass over the middle that floated above the outstretcked hands of linebacker Roy Winston. Mackey then blew past the two safeties, Karl Kassulke and Paul Krause, and dashed into the end zone to complete a 49-yard play. Three plays later, quarter, back Joe Kapp went back to pass and ends Bubba Smith and Braase led the charge. Bubba hit him from the left side just as Braase was tearing in from the right and Billy Ray Smith was coming in straight on. The Colts, who are now 64-18-3 in six years under Shula including two Western Confer, ence crowns, will now try to win the NFL crown for the first time since 1959 and avenge the 1964 title game loss (27-0) to the Browns.

The GHS hardwood cagers were finally showing signs of running off with the game, but Friday’s meeting with Spencer was still very evident of the wear and tear McCracken’s guys had taken. The breaks were few and far between in Saturday’s contest. In fact, there were none. Every bucket, basket, turnover and what have you, were earned. Greencastle didn’t have one thing given to them. They worked. And hard. The closest Plainfield came to catching the Putnam County team after this was one-point, 51-50, when Brian Phillips canned two charity tosses after Pierce was whistled for the personal. It was still anybody’s game in the final eight-minutes of play, but with continuing drive and teamwork, GHS chalked up victory number five the hard way, 66-61. The Tiger Cubs, with but one loss on their record, are idle this week but will be back on the hardwood in McNally Gymnasium

for their Holiday Tourney Jan. 3-4 with Bainbridge, Madison and Warsaw. In the B-Team game, Greencastle was again victorious, 5142.

PLAINFIELD (61)

FG I

•T

Brinegar

Leech

Nys wander

M. Nellinger

L. Nellinger

Long •

Lovell

Phillips

Palaface

GREENCASTLE (66)

Harmless

D. Losin

D. Smith

Lear

Hurst

Swearingen

D. Pierce

K. Losin

Ballou

Rowland

Johnson

Clark

0 0 0

Tourneys, travel make up holiday

season for coach

By STEVE SMILANICH UPI Sports Writer It’s that time of the year when college basketball players get their geography lessons by visiting cities and towns across the country and coaches trade a happy holiday at home for the tortuous tournament trail. The merry whirl of Christmas holiday action gets underway Thursday with 29 tournaments luring players and coaches to big city sports centers and small town gymnasiums. UCLA, winner of 21 straight games, competes in the 17th Holiday Festival which starts Thursday in New York. In addition to the top-ranked Bruins, the New York tourney has second ranked North Carolina and seventh-rated Villanova in the field of eight teams. In Honolulu, the Rainbow Classic tourney includes 10th ranked Santa Clara, 12th rated Purdue and 17th ranked Columbia. Nation’s Oldest The nation’s oldest Christmas holiday tourney, the All-College meet, takes place at Oklahoma City with potent Wyoming and high scoring Louisiana State in the field. On the West Coast, the big tourney is the Far West Classic at Portland, Ore. The field in that meet includes Oregon, Brigham Young and Yale. UCLA, Villanova and North Carolina all come to New York with perfect records. Coach John Wooden’s Bruins, who have won 68 of their last 69 games, added two victories during the weekend. The Bruins beat Minnesota 90-51 Friday and walloped West Virginia 95-56 Saturday. Both wins came even though 7-2 center Lew Alcindor was nursing a pulled tendon in his foot. Alcindor played 31 minutes against the Mountaineers and scored 19 points. North Carolina, led by Charlie Scott, Rusty Clark and Bill Buntin, tuned up for its New York appearance with a pair of midweek victories. The Tar Heels downed Clemson 90-69 and Virginia 94-67. Celebrated Election Kentucky celebrated Coach Adelph Rupp’s election to the Basketball Hall of Fame as the fifth.ranked Wildcats won the Kentucky Invitational Tournament by downing previously unbeaten Army 80-65. It marked the 11th time in the 16 years of the tourney that the host Wildcats have won.

Sixth-ranked New Mexico also won its own tournament, Coach Bob King’s Lobos beat San Francisco 82-71 and stopped Temple 83-70. Earlier in the week the Lobos lost to Colorado 79-72 and beat St. Mary’s 77-55. In other games involving topranked teams, third rated Davidson beat Richmond 62-60 and South Carolina 62-55; fourth, rated Cincinnati lost to Southern California 83-68 then beat California 71-70 and Stanford 60-49. Seventh -ranked Villanova stopped Catholic U. 77-47 and No. 8 Notre Dame beat Minnesota 69-65 and Indiana 10494 while ninth-ranked Kansas scored three victories, beating Murray State 72-59, Utah State 67-61 and Stanford 76-67. Tenthranked Santa Clara stopped North Texas State 46-31. Several games are scheduled Monday night with Syracuse at Brigham Young, Southern California at Vanderbilt, Nebraska at Arizona, New Mexico at Texas El Paso, Utah at Michigan, Butler at Ohio State, and Gonzaga at Santa Clara. Stram a good loser

By GARY KALE UPI Sports Writer NEW YORK (UPI)—Hank Stram can lose graciously. Prior to Sunday’s losing playoff game with Oakland for the Western Division title, the Kansas City coach emphasized he was heading into the Raider game with the expectation “of his greatest confrontation” in the American Football League. Sports writers in the 10 league cities recognize dStram’s talents before the game on the basis of his comeback from a so-so season and today voted him United Press International AFL Coach of the Year for 1968. Stram Weeb edged Ewbank of the New York Jets 14-12 in the balloting of the 30 sports writers. Paul Brown, making his return to professional football with the expansion Cincinnati Bengals, drew three votes. The remaining vote went to Sid Gillman, whose San Diego Chargers made a run for the Western title until the Chiefs hammered them from contention during the next to last Sunday of the regular season. The 44-year-old Stram, a scholar-athlete at Purdue, has a reputation as one of the best innovators in pro football.

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