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I' vl -t, tr I 1 it" I u. The Doily JournafpFranklin Greenwood, Indiana, Monday, March 2, 1970 .11 0 I 1 I 1 mm 11 II II 1 I m-M 111 1 1-1 i 1 I II I 1 I 1 1 I I I 1 mm m-r- I I 1 I i II I i i ii ii ill iiii-71 ii iiii ill 1 1 11 nil 11 it it i Oust Hawks in semis Top Whiteland 70-43 i after sizzling the nets with their It took a' while for the Woodmen to get started against the Decatur Central Hawks. But after a slow start, the Woodmen of Greenwood finally got all the gears meshing and defeated the Hawks 67-52 to win themselves a berth in the championship game of the Franklin Sectionals. 16-31 shooting in the first half, a .518 mark. Whiteland took 69 attempts and netted but 19 for a .275 night from the fleld.zrrrpr-:..

In the battle of the boards, led By CLIFF MELVIN Sports Editor The Greenwood Woodmen won the championship of the Franklin Sectional Saturday night by defeating the Cinderella team of the tourney 70-43. Whiteland earned the Cinderella title as they pulled off one of the biggest upsets in recent years by sidelining defending champion and co-favorite Franklin in the afternoon. by Nichols' 18 grabs, Greenwood won by a 34-26 margin. Led by Dave Timmons and Jeff Nichols led all scorers with 19 Jay, the Hawks jumped off to a For the quarter, the Woodmen missed but three of their 14 tries from the field as they tallied 28 points. The Hawks had a 7-18 quarter, netting but 15 points for the final score of 67-52.

Greenwood also won the board battle 38-23 led by Nichols, Mo Clain and Dilk. Leading the scoring was Nichols with 18 points, two more than Jay of the Hawks. Hensley had 15 for Greenwood and McClain 13, while Timmons tallied 14 for Decatur Central. The loss closed the Hawk season at 6-14 under the first year mentor Jim Lucas. "14-10 lead at the first stop.

points, although only hitting one-third of his 24 attempts from the field. Greenwood couldn't find the -range-a-Jerry-Nichols-missed 8-16 from the field and added a fielder with 4:36 to pW in the half and added two more before intermission. Phil Mize of the Woodmen hit his only field goal of the game at the 2:55 mark to tie the score at 18-all and Nichols' charity toss gave the Woodmen the lead a second 19-18. Decatur Central had its But the championship game belonged to Greenwood from the til Mize and Bill Hensley also his first six shots and Bill Hen sley missed four straight after pair of charity tosses to win the quarter 18-15 and increase their lead to 36-25 at halftime. With both teams starting to show signs of weariness, the canning his initial effort.

were in double figures with 12 and 10 points respectively. Greenwood's defense kept Whiteland from placing a player The Woodmen jumped off to a lead before Whiteland found the range, and closed the gap to 6- Nichols' first attempt was so far off mark that he probably wondered if the ball was lop- second half was just a matter of in double figures. 1 problems in that second period, much in the manner of their sided. After Greenwood scored again, Whiteland countered with a pair regular season meeting. how wide would be the margin The closest being Dale Barnett and what would be the final and Dan Whitaker with nine score.

points each and Fleming had Neither team set the goals afire eight. of two-pointers to knot the score But the Woodmen who hit only 3-18 in that first period while the Hawks connected on 6-14 weren't In the regular season game be atW. tween the teams Greenwood won the second quarter 28-9, with the to be The Woodmen then outscored the Warriors 10-2 the remainder after intermission, with Greenwood's next opponent Whiteland being the coldest of the will be host Columbus in the two. --i- 7 second same of next Saturday's Hawks winning the other three of the period and the issue was all periods only to see the Woodmen Coach Jack Nay inserted Tim Dilk into the lineup and the 6-2 junior responded with three field In the third stanza, Whiteland Columbus Regional. but decided.

take an 82-69 victory. tallied but six points as only two The first game will pit' Whiteland was never able to The Hawks connected on only goals without a miss in the of their 14 field attempts found defending champion Silver Creek get closer than the eight point one field goal in that second second quarter. the range. against Shelbyville. deficit the rest of the way.

quarter out of eight attempts. Nichols finally got his first Meanwhile Greenwood fired Led by Jerry Nichols9 who Greenwood hit 8-17 to take a 27 (15-7) 70 1(14-7) 67 43 22 lead at intermission. Dm CmI. (6-14)33 Ft Fl Tp away 18 times and netted but five to finish the quarter with 14 ft tp Fg Ft Tp Fg Ft Ff Tp 13-3 3 4 7 o-o 3 it The Hawks cut a point off the 3-3 Mil 3 13 4 0-0 m. 1 3 Snoddy Morritoft 3 points and a 50-31 lead.

0-1 I 6 t-10 4 16 I 4 1 1 4 lead in the third period and Greenwood held a slim 41-37 lead 1 4 1-1 2 9 3-4 1 It 6 3-4 3 15 The final quarter was for the Joy, J. Tldd 1-3 I 3 I 3 I 1 0 going into the final eight minutes. Tkhanor 1 SmMwy 0 lorrwtt 4 WhUokm 4 Starcy 3 McElmki I Folawl 3 Cm 0 Cwtor 1 Longston 3 MeCWn 5 3-3 3 13 OHk 3 3-5 3 1 DtVara 0 0-3 0 0 Souvenir A block 0-0 3-6 0-0 3-3 3-J 3-3 3-3 0- 0 1- 0-0 drilled 4-6 from all over the court, Greenwood bad an MS shooting mark during that first eight minutes. Whiteland took one more shot, but connected on only four, for a JSO mark. The only Warriors to score from the field in the first period were Rusty Fleming and Dale Barnett with a pair of fielders But the Woodmen really turned 1-3 0- 3 1- 3 l-S 3-3 0-1 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-3 McOoin Dilk SlMl koran D.Vor taiUy most part a battle of the benches as both Greenwood coach Jack Nay and Warrior mentor Larry Bledsoe let their substitutes get their names into the cham 3 0 3 0 on in the last quarter as tney realized that Decatur Central 1968 CHEVY meant business.

Joy 0 Impila 4-Door Sedan. Tur- 0 0 Totoli. 3713-31 1367 TotoUi31 10-151553 pionship box score. Greenwood's Jerry Nichols at left cuts down the net after leading his team to the Sectional title. At rights Nichols blocks a shot attempt by Whitelahd's Dan Whitaker.

The balance of the Woodmen, a quoiae, Radio, Heater, V-8 En- Totoli, 1 3-1 8 1443 Greenwood won the period 20- gine, fower Glide, Power Steer trademark all season, showed Totali, 33M-3013 70 GREENWOOD WHITELAND 10 17 14 36-67 14 I 15 15-53 OMENWOOD DECATUR CENTRAL I) 10 14 20-70 10 15 6 13-43 12 to present coach Nay with his ing, Tinted Glut, Factory Air. itself in the last stanza. fifth Sectional title and the first Hensley-and -Mike McClain M995 since 1966 when he also defeated each hit three fielders without a each. Whiteland came up with their best quarter of the championship game in the second period as they dropped in 15 points on 7-19 firing. But the Woodmen connected on Whiteland on this same court.

miss in the final quarter and Nichols was 3-5. 1968 CHEVEILE Greenwood cooled off to a .418 shooting percentage on 28-67 XJPSE SS396, 2 door hard top, dark Greg Morrison, who had hit two of Greenwood's three first period fielders also had two-for-two blue, radio and heater, turbo- hydromatic, power steering, like from the field in the last stanza. new, one owner. 11995 Whiteland beats Franklin for berth in tourney finals mik It can only happen at tournament time and the Andy Findley led all scorers with 18 points, with Feyerabend 1968 BUICK happening came Saturday afternoon in the second semi-final game of the Franklin Sectional. and Mike Eads each adding 14, Skylark, 4 door, Gray, Radio' Off Cliff's Cuff By Cliff Mlvin Sporti Editor SCORES and Heater, hydromatic, power Four of Whiteland's five Whiteland's Warriors, having Meenng, locally owned.

starters were in double figures, won but three (regular season) 5 1995 By United Press International East Fleming totaled 16, Smithey 14 games, pulled off one of the charged with three starters, Feyerabend, Luke Wrenn and Jeff Brown all fouling out along with Keith Searcy of Whiteland. Whiteland's biggest lead in the final stanza was 10 points, 62-52 at the 3:22 mark. Another surprise was Whiteland's domination of the backboards which they controlled 35-19, with Tichenor, Fleming and Rickey Smithey hauling in the major share. The Warrior zone defense held W. Pet.

GB 45 17 biggest upsets, surprises or what ever phrase you would care to use, by defeating the Franklin Dale Barnett 11 and Whitaker 10. For the game Whiteland had a .533 field goal percentage on 24-45 while Franklin shot at a .379 clip 1968 VOLKSWAGEN Whiteland sophomore Eddie Tichenor matched him to lead Whiteland. But the Cubs were far from dead. Whatever coach Harmening told his charges at halftime, was the right thing, because the Cubs came back to score the first eight points of the second half and knot the score at 39-all, as they forced y' Indiana Kentucky New York Carolina Pittsburgh Miami .726 .525 12 .485 15 .468 16 .355 23 .281 28 Grizzly Cubs, 69-62. 32 33 29 22 18 29 35 33 40 46 2-Door sedan, Light Blue, Ra- on 25-66.

The Whiteland victory snapped aio, neater, New Tires. a string or two also. The loss closed Franklin' Congratulations to coach Jack Nay and the Greenwood Woodmen on their victory and championship of the Franklin Sectional tournament And as tourney host principal Bill Breck of Franklin said -at rhe-4rophy- All-of-Johnson-County-will be- 1495 This was the 19th game against season at 10-12 while Whiteland Pet. GB West W. 36 25 3526- county opponents by the Cubs now stood 5-17 going into the Wrenn to only eight points, two ,590 7574 t- theWarriors lntothree errorsr under the guidance of coach Dick championship game.

behind you the rest of the way." 3 Denver -Dallas Washington New Orleans Los Angeles 1967 CAMARO Franklin finally grabbed the at Harmening. more than he scored in their regular season meeting, won by the Cubs 65-55. 30 29 35 35 31 29 .538 .517 .435 As representatives of the county news media, we echo And it could only happen tournament time and did. 4'2 8Vi And the defeat was the first in these 19 encounters suffered by those sentiments. lead at 44-43 on a Feyerabend fielder, but the Warriors refused to wilt and came back to hold a Rally Sport, 2-Door Hardtop, Red, Radio, Heater, 327 V-8 And to the folk at Franklin Community High School we'd Harmening.

It also marked the first defeat like to congratulate you and thank you for a very well run engine, Automatic. A Steal slim 53-50 Jead at the end of the quarter. tJAr in mt0'mjmmmmmmmmmmmmmammmmmammmmmmimaimmmmmml Mm 7 For any we might have missed in the large crowd, we also VT L. r. Regional "I07J Due to Franklin's defense three years as a varsity coach in would like to say, "Sorry 'bout that, it was purely accidental." And for those who didn't win, just remember what we've been telling you all along.

BETTER DAYS ARE COMING. pairings 1967 CHEVY causing 10 turnovers by the Warriors, Whiteland took but seven shots in the third stanza, but netted four. INDIANAPOLIS (UPD Pair ImpaJ 2-Door Hardtoo. Tur ings for Saturday's Indiana high Franklin's defense was causing sectional play. This was Whiteland's second sectional victory, only one less than they had won throughout the 1-o-n-g regular season.

With Rusty Fleming popping in 5-7 from the field and all five starters collecting at least one field goal, Whiteland grabbed a quoise, Black Vinyl Top, V-8 Engine, Power Glide. school basketball regional tour neys: steering, rower Brakes, W.SJkV. fouls to be assessed against them as seven fouls were called on the Cubs including Feyerabend's ANDERSON Madison Heights vs Carmel, Blackford vs Ma M795 rion. BL00MI NGTON Blooming- One of the hardest jobs, other than going in the losing team's dressing roortuat the end of the sectional is picking an all-tourney team, based strictly on play in the tournament itself. We've decided this year to pick a first and second team and then a list of honorable mention players, who could well be on either the first or second teams.

Here are our choices for all-tourney: FIRST TEAM JERRY NICHOLS and MIKE McCLAIN, Greenwood; third and fourth, while Whiteland had but two personals charged in the period. ton vs Terre Haute Wiley, 1967 RAMBLER Brazil vs Seymour. COLUMBUS Shelbyville vs Whiteland tallied the first six Silver Creek, Columbus vs 4-Door, 440 Station Wagon, White, 6-Cylinder. Automatic Greenwood. points of the final period for a 59-50 lead as Franklin scored their first fielder of the period at the 27-23 lead at the first stop.

The final Warrior goal was scored as the buzzer sounded on a looper just inside the 10-second line by Dan Mike Eads and Steve Feyerabend led Franklin's early firing with eight and seven points respectively. transmission, Clean Car. CONNERSVILLE South Ripley vs North Decatur, Law- M095 renceburg vs Connersville. 05 mark on the scoreboard. The Cubs were forced to foul in ELKHART Northfield vs Elk hart, Plymouth vs Warsaw.

1966 CHEVY EVANSvlLLE Tell City vs an effort to get the ball in the final quarter and 11 fouls were RUSTY FLEMING, Whiteland; KENNY WEDDLE, Indian Creek and ANDY FIND LEY, Franklin. SECOND TEAM RUSS TEETERS, Indian Creek; DAVE TIMMONS, Decatur Central; MIKE EADS and STEVE FEYERABEND, Franklin and EDDIE TICHENOR, Whiteland. HONORABLE MENTION -LUKE MIKE-COFFEY, -Center- Oakland -City, South Knox vs Impala, 2-Dr. Hardtop, Green, Evansville Memorial. For the quarter Whiteland hit 12-16 for 75 per cent and Franklin dropped in 10-17 for 59 per cent.

Whiteland's zone-defense DiacK vinyl loo. V-8 Ennine. FORT WAYNE Fort Wayne 63 Ff Tp Franklin (10-13) Fg Fl Powerglide, Power Steering. North vs DeKalb, Lakeland vs 69 ft Fl Ff Tp Pl.mlii0"-r-3-4 H6- Ln .0 Wrun 3 3 Fort Wayne Central. Fav'bwid 5 4-4 5 14 (jAPY Hammond Clark vs itely-bottled up the Cubs in Grove; JEFF JAY, Decatur CentraltJIMJIANDLEl Lake Central, Gary Roosevelt vs East Chicago Roosevelt.

3-5 1-3 0- 3 1- 3 314 ne 1-5 5 3 1 1 Eodi, M. 6 FindUr track 3 Irown 0 to, P. 0 Smiltwr 4 6-10 4 14 tanwlt 4 3-4 I tl WhrtoUr i 6-10 3 10 Storey 3 1-15 5 Mcfiwaift 3 3-3 0 6 Creek; BOX HENSLEY, TIM DILK and GREG MORRISON, Greenwood; DALE BARNETT and DAN WHITAKER, Whiteland. GREENCASTLE Lebanon vs 1966 NOVA North Putnam, Waynetown vs the second period as Franklin netted but 2-12 from the field, while Whiteland dropped in 5-11 to win the quarter 12-8 and take a 39-31 lead into the halftime break. -Feyerabend scoredbothrCub fielders in the quarter, and Rossville.

Thomofr 0 0-0 1 0 McMillin 0 00 0 0 ToMl35 13-3334 63 HUNTINGBURG North Har- eniors who played their final high school basketball game Totol.i 34 21-33166? Chevy II, 4-Dr. Sedan, Light ral the-toiiTneyt-conchjded-werirriz uiuc, ivuio. neater. v-H Enc ville vs Milltown. 33 1 13-63 37 13 14 16-49 FIANKUN WHITELAND fine, Powerglide.

NDIANAPOL1S Plainfield vs FRANKLIN Phil Eads, Mike Brown, Steve Northwest, Southport vs Indian Feyerabend, Jack Brown and Steve Thomson. M195 apol is Atlucks. KOKOMO Kokomo Haworth vs Huntington, Biuttton LAFAYETTE South Newton 1966 CHEVY vs Lafayette, DeMotte vs Cov ington. impaia, Z-Dr. Hardtop, Blue, NEW CASTLE Shenandoah II vs Union, Richmond vs Munciei Power Steeril Central.

SOUTH BEND Michigan City 5 1495 vs South Bend Lasane, vaipa raiso vs Winamac. WASHINGTON Loogootee vsi 1965 MUSTANG Mitchell, Bloomfield vs Spencer Ticket information Greenwood will receive an allotment of 1,281 tickets to Saturday's regional at Columbus. Ticket sales at Greenwood will be handled In the following manner, starting at 7:30 a.m. Tuesday, March 3. Parents of players and cheerleaders will get first choice, starting Tuesday morning.

Also on Tuesday, tickets may be purchased by teaching and non-teaching school personnel along with student season ticket holders and school board members. Starting Wednesday morning at 7:30, adult season ticket holders may purchase their tickets and any remaining will go on sale to the general public on Thursday morning. Tickets for the tourney are priced at $3.50 each. The other school's allotments are Columbus Silver Creek 1,161 and Shelbyville 1,534. WHITELAND: Dale Barnett, Mark Coe, Dan Whitaker Rusty Fleming, Gary Hudson and Rickey Smithey.

CENTER GROVE: Jeff Cline, David Ray, and Mike Bodine. INDIAN CREEK: J.W. Brewer, Rick Kean, Aaron Sanders, Gary Satter, Russ Teeters and Kenny Weddle. EDINBURG: Dale Bowers, Kirk Brotherton, Norman Bragg, Connie Burton, Gary Price and Steve Swinehart. DECATUR CENTRAL: Jeff Jay Jim Snoddy, Randy Strakis and Larry Tidd.

Congratulations to all for an outstanding career. And how about those underclassmen who saw action. There are some dandies coming up and we even saw one freshman, David Felix of Center Grove in action. You see, we haven't been kidding, because we saw it in action this past weekend. Better Days ARE Coming.

Although it's starting out on a damp notel have yourself a fine week. Aloha for now. Center Grove's Student Council will sponsor a Donkey Basketball game at 8 p.m. Tuesday (tomorrow) in the Trojan 2-Door Hardtop, Gold, Radio, neater, zo v-8 engine. 4- Two for Barney Dale Barnett of Whiteland scores a lay-in in the upset win over Franklin in the Sectional semifinals.

Other players shown are Dan Whitaker of Whiteland and Andy Findley of Franklin. Speed, W.S.W. 5895 COLLEGE CREDIT YOU WHO HA VI NEVER STARTED COLLEGE OR HAVE LESS THAN 60 SEMESTER HOURS Or CREDIT, CAN NOW BEGIN STUDY AT HOME. WRITE FOR FREE COLLEGE BROCHURE. 1964 CHEVY SS Impala Convertible, Red, Ra dio, Heater, 327 V-8 engine, Powerglide, W.S.W.

Bona-fide booster goaiery. 1 HIGH SCHOOL The teams competing will be the faculty versus the White There Is definite Interest ln luvci -3 county basketball. Advance sale tickets are priced at 75 cents for students and YOU ARE NOT A HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATE CHECK BELOW FOR FREE BROCHURE GET YOUR DIPLOMA $1 for adults. 1 At the door the price will be $1 for students and $1.25 for but was outscored in the final period, 30-23. LOS ANGELES (UPI) The Indiana Pacers, virtually invincible on the road early in the I See Sample Lessons ALEXANDER vl OIT TNI if 0fNUINI (JIM The Pacers had the top scorers in Mel Daniels and Bob Netolicky with 27 points each AMckHpAN U1UUt UOfX.

CO-46J season, bowed to ine us Angeles Stars in American Basketball Association play B50 E. 58tk ST. CHrCAGO, Hi. 60637 Sunday night at 8:30 p.m., athletic director Joe Fielden of Whiteland received a phone calL The caller wanted to know the results of the Whlteland-Greenwood final sectional game. Where did the call originate? From a Whiteland fan In Seattle, Washington.

How's that for being a true booster. while Roger Brown netted 23. Rick Barry scored 55 points, CHEVROLET U.S. 31 NORTH FRANKLIN HIGH SCHOOL COLLEGE jetting a record for the Denver Vrena, but the Denver Rockets Also on tap Tuesday is Whiteland's Winter Sports Banquet sponsored by the Letterman's Gub. This dinner honoring the wrestling and basketball teams will feature Bill Keller of the Indiana Pacers as speaker.

Tickets are priced at $2 each for the dinner starting at 6:30 pjn. in the cafeteria. You thought probably that the first Aloha ended today's column, but we promise not to say Aloha again today so we won't Sunday, 108-105, for their fifth loss in the last six games. Tom Washington scored twice on rebounds in the final 78 seconds to give the Stars their AGE NAME PHONE 736-5141 ThMisf-Socft Collar' TOILET TANK BALL Amnrkm't twtwtf Stfftr The Diclml Water MaiMr intfantly stop! Hie flow of wafor aftor ooch fluking. 7Sr AT HARDWAM STORIS offset Barry's performance by hitting 52.3 per cent of their ADDRESS.

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field goals and downed the 2N STATE third straight win Indiana led at the half, 58-54, 1 Washington Caps, 137-128..