The Kokomo Tribune from Kokomo, Indiana • Page 22

Sunday, March 9, 1980 Kokomo (Ind.) Tribune 21 Joe Barry leads Purdue over No. 13 St. John's By Bob Ford Tribune sports editor WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. Purdue got something rivaling a effort from All-American center Joe Barry Carrell to whip St. John's, 87-72, and Duke pulled away from upstart Penn for a 52-42 victory In NCAA tourney second round games in Mackey Arena here Saturday afternoon.

The 7-1 Carroll was a one-man gang for the Boilermakers with a ame-high 36 points and 12 re- ounds as the Purdues advanced to the Mideast Regional where they hope to knock heads with old state and Big Ten rival Indiana. Duke, which won the Atlantic Coast Conference tourney last week, is expected to deal with Kentucky in the other game in Rupp Arena at Lexington, Thursday. In order for Indiana and Kentucky to make that setup a reality, they must come up with victories today at Bowling Green, where Indiana takes on Virginia Tech and Kentucky meets Florida State. Indiana and Purdue split a pair of Big Ten games during the regular season, each winning at home, and Duke needed and overtime to nose out Kentucky, 82-76, in the opening game of the season. Kentucky beat Purdue, 61-60, in the final game of the Kentucky Invitational back in December.

The winner in the Rupp Arena will advance to the NCAA semifinals at Indianapolis' Market Square Arena the following Saturday. Box score lEl Sports Big block WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. Purdue's Joe Barry Carroll blocks a shot by St. John's Wayne McKoy. Carroll controlled the ball and the game as Purdue advanced the the Mideast finals with a victory.

(AP photo) Missouri stuns Irish in overtime LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) Mark Dressier pumped in 32 points, six in overtime, and triggered a Missouri comeback as the Tigers surged past ninth-rated Notre Dame 87-84 Saturday in the second round of the NCAA Midwest Regional. In the first game, No.2 Louisville's Tony Branch hit an off balance jumper with one second remaining in overtime to lift the Cardinals past Kansas State, 71-69. Missouri and Louisville-move now to the Midwest Regional semifinals in Houston. Missouri will meet the winner of today's game between Alcorn St.

and Louisiana while Louisville will take on the winner of the Texas Carolina game. Missouri, now 25-5, erased a six-point halftime deficit behind Dressler's deadly inside touch and went ahead of the Irish, 76-74 on a layup by Steve Stipanovich with 30 seconds left in regulation time. Orlando Woolridge, on a feed from Kelly Tripucka, made it 76-76 with one second left in regulation. Tracy Jackson, who led the Irish with points, scored all eight of Notre Dame's overtime points. Jackson's jumpers tied it in overtime at 78-78 and 80-80.

Then Missouri, the regular season Big Eight champion, took an 84-80 lead on a bucket by Ricky Frazier and a pair of Dressier free throws. A Jackson bucket pulled Notre Dame within two, then Stipanovich hit a free throw with 14 seconds left to give the Tigers a three-point cushion. Dressier, who burst into prominence late in the season when he replaced All-Conference forward Curtis Berry, cooly canned two more free throws to make it 87-82 before Jackson's final jumper accounted for the final score. Notre Dame, the No. 4 seed in the Midwest Regional, ends its season with a 22-6 mark.

Tripucka, who scored 22 for the Irish, fouled out 22 seconds into the overtime. Louisville, now 29-3, got possession of the ball with 2:20 left in re- gualtion after Rolondo Blackman's two free throws knotted the score at 69-69. With All-American guard Darrell Griffith on the bench with five fouls, the Cardinals played for the last shot, winding down the clock to set up Branch's winning shot. Blackman sent the game into overtime with a followup shot with one second left in regulation to make it 67-67. Griffith, who wound up with 18 points, hit the only other overtime bucket.

Kansas State, ending its season at 22-9, was led by Blackman with 19 points and Glenn Marshall with 16. Derek Smith had 20 for the Cardinals. Mluourl (87) Omtlw 13 6-8 32, Frailer 6 2-2 14, Stipanovich 5-8 15, Sundvold 4 2-2 10, Draw 6 3-3 15, Foster 0 CM) 0, Amoi O-O Dora 1-3 1. Totalt 34 19-26 87. Notre (M) Jackion 13 1-4 27, Tripucka 9 4-6 22, 6 4-7 16, Brannlng 0 O-O Hanillk 4 5-6 13, Paiton 2 2-3 6, Andrn 0-0 0, 0.

Total! 34 16-26 64. Halftime Score 42, Mluourl 36. Fouled out Tripucka, Hanillk. Total MIs- 21, 24. Mluourl Coach Stewart.

A 14,658. Regional pairings Flrtt-round Saturday In tha 70th Indiana high tchool tournament at 11 a.m. and 12:30 p.m., local time, with meet- Ing at 8:16 p.m. lor championship): Ancereon Carmel Andenon Highland Kokomo Delta Gary Hammond Noll vt Andrean Lake Central Gary Wallace Indian Creek iloomlngton North S.Dearborn Milan Connertvllle Greeniburg Wartaw Elkhart Memorial vt Mencheiter Evantvllle North vi Princeton Heritage Port Weyne Lakeland DeKelb Ft.Wayn* Northrop Ft.Wayn* South PlainlleM Clinton Central N-Montgomaiy ZlomvlUe Franklin Central Manual Indpla Washington Broad Hippie Lafayette Lafayette Jell Kankakee Valley Twin Attica Marian Marlon Homeitead Norwell Michigan City S.Bend LaSalle Oregon-Davit Mlch.Clty Valparalto Mew Winchester Richmond Central New Palestine keymeur Floyd Central Jennings Co. New Albany vi Sliver Creek Heula BloomNeld vt Terre Haute South Van Buren vi Brazil We Rencher nuneu Redding Jackion Carter Gllroy McKoy Totali Edmoudson S.

Walker B. Walker Carroll Scearc 1 Kltchel Barnea Mailman Totals: St. John's Purdue St. John's (72) FG FT PF RB TO A TP 6-10 O-O 4 3 3 6 12 3-7 O-O 1-2 7-16 O-O 7-17 3-10 6-15 33-78 O-2 5 3 0 O-O 000 3 1 4 6 O-O 3-4 O-O 0 0 0 3-55422 OX) 2 3 0 0 O-1 4 11 6 1 6-12 27 34 14 11 0 17 0 17 6 12 72 Purdue (87) FG FT PF RB TO A TP 8r12 5-5 2 9 2 4 21 1-1 3-3130 O-2 14-21 OX) OX) 8-15 OX) O-1 O-O 1-6 OX) 8-10 OX) 0 OX) 3-8 3 2-2 OX) OX) 2-3 5 4 1 12 0 00 0 3 634 0 0 0000 8 6 32-58 23-31 14 44 21 20 Score by halves 30 42 37 5O 72 87 Officials: Tom Flncken, Dale Kelley, Bob Wortman Technical Foul: McKoy Attendance: 12,532 Carroll was simply superb for the second game in a row. He scored 33 points and got 13 rebounds as the Boilermakers ousted LaSalle Thursday night, then hit 14 of 21 field goal attempts and eight of 10 from the line here Saturday to demoralize St.

John's, which came into this tourney with a 24-2 record. His performance prompted St. John's veteran coach, Lou Carnesecca, to comment: "That guy will need a Brinks Truck." referring to Joe Barry's expected dealings with a National Basketball Association team'. Duke got its usual sterling performance from 6-11 Mike Gminski, runnerup to Carroll in balloting for first team All-America center. Big Mike poured in 19 points, including six-for-nine field goal shooting as the Blue Devils hit .606 from the field and finally got away from Penn, which upset Washington State Thursday niglt.

The Blue Devils held a 25-23 halftime lead, and were clinging to a 41-36 lead with 7:30 left in the game before finally eliminating the Ivy League champions. Television committments caused the Purdue-St. John's game to be moved up, and a national TV audience got a look at Carroll for the second time this year. "This was a heck of a game for Joe Barry," said a thoroughly pleased Purdue coach Lee Rose. "It was especially nice since it was on national TV.

This adds credibility to all of you people who voted for him as an All-American." Then he added, "This was a great win for Purdue. It does one thing for the overall picture of the NCAA. When they (the selection committee) dips down into conferences to take third and fourth place teams it causes controversy. But we've beaten two teams (LaSalle and St. John's) who earned the right to be here.

I think they should expand the tourney to 64 teams." Concerning the task of playing at Lexington, his home town, Rose olfered: "My mother lives there. The last I was there, 23,000 people booed me when I presented the trophy (for the Kentucky Invitational) to the Kentucky Wildcats. That cut the umbilical cord real fast." But his Boilermakers pretty well proved they deserved this return trip. For after a slump that saw them stagger to a third-place finish in the Big Ten after leading for two weeks, the Purdues got the ship righted with two impressive victories here. Not only did Joe Barry return to normal, but his supporting cast sparkled in this two-game sweep.

Keith Edmondson scored 21 points and Drake Morris added 19 to support Carroll's 36 from the inside. The Boilermakers, who had been having trouble at the free throw line through the latter part of the season, hit nine in a row in the first half to build a 37-30 halftime lead. Edmondson and Morris triggered a Purdue surge to a 46-34 lead in the first four minutes of the second half, and the lead ballooned to 54-36 on Carroll's bucket with 13:17 left in the game. It was still an 18-point Purdue lead (57-39) at 11:02 when Morris hit one of two free throws. But Curt Redding, David Russell and former Notre Dame guard Bernard Rencher started pulling the trigger, and with 8:19 left in the contest, St.

John's had the lead whittled to six, 59-53. That was about the time Rose figured he'd better have a little chat with his guys. "I wanted to remind them to go to Joe Barry 'cause he was the guy who got us here and we wanted to go back to him." During that span when St. John's cut into the lead, the Boilermakers hesitated to hunt for Carroll. "We went back to Carroll and got it going again," Rose pointed out.

"The big man's hungry now. I don't think anyone can stop him," said Morris in a post-game inter- view. "I don't know if I'm the key. but I'm something in the offense. lr I can hit some shots, they have to play me honest and that opens it up inside for Joe Barry.

We have as good a chance to win this tourney as anyone." And after being outscorcd 14-2 from the 10:50 mark to the 8:19 mark in the second half, the Boilers went back to work. The lead was back to 16 at 77-61 on Edmondson's shot with 3:13 left, and a pair of free throws by Steve Walker at :26 put the Boilers up, 87-69, and they were home free. It was the worst licking St. John's has taken this year, prompting Carnesecca to say: "You hate to play a team on the way up (referring to Purdue). "We were 19-1 and since then we've been 5-4.

We were in a slump, but 1 felt we were getting warmed up. Now I guess we can take all summer to get warmed up." Reggie Carter and Redding finished as the top guns for St. John's, each with 17. Rencher finished with 12 points. Purdue won the board battle, 44-34, with Carroll's 12 and Edmondson's nine doing the most damage.

Duke appeared sluggish, perhaps looking ahead to next week's anticipated showdown with Kentucky. The Blue Devils struggled to a two-point halftime lead, in spite of the fact they hit 10 of 14 field goal attempts in the first half. They didn't get away Penn until four minutes remained in the game. Box score Salters Flick Little Reynolds Ross Rawllngs Hall Lelfsen Brown Noon Totals: Taylor Engelland Banks Bender Emma Suddath Tissaw Dennard Williams Gminski Totals: Penn. Duke Penn (421 FG FT PF 'RB TO 4-13 1-2416 O-O 1 0 OX) 2-2 4-8 3-7 2-4 t-1 1-5 0-1 2-3 0-1 19-45 1010 4311 O-O 0 0 0 0 1-23832 OX) 0 2 0-0 2 1 0-0 2-2 O-O 0 0 0 0 0000 2140 A TP 4 9 4 8 6 5 4-6 21 22 18 8 42 Duke (52) FG FT PF RB TO 3-4 2-3 3-8 2-2 2-3 0-1 0-0 1-2 1-1 6-9 2-4 3 1 O-O 0 0 0 2-5165 O-O 0 0 3 O-O 2 0 1 O-O 0 1 0 0-0000 1-3 0-0 7-8 000 245 20-33 12-20 12 19 19 12 Score by halves 23 19 42 25 27 52 0 0 3 2 19 52 Officials: James Harvey.

Jerry Yarborough, Dennis Bishop Somebody, or something, is watching over those Wildcats vi Southrldge Crawford Co- By Bob Walters Tribune sports writer Kokomo fans went away from Memorial Gym Saturday reaffirmed in their beliefs in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, four leaf clovers and the tooth fairy. Eastern boosters meanwhile trudged back to Greentown, no doubt consumed with visions of flood, fire, famine and pestilence, the Grinch Who Stole Christmas, and maybe the Wicked Witch of the West for good measure. You've got to think that Memorial Gym has its own elf, gremlin, fairy or sprite something that hangs out for the sole purpose of making life miserable for county teams who look like they are going to knock off the Kats. And he must have been sitting on the Eastern rim with 10 seconds left in Saturday night's sectional final. Because there is just no way the Comets' Scott Mugg is going to miss that one-and-one free throw opportunity that would likely broken a 23-year lockout of county teams from the sectional title.

Kokomo is up 42-41, Mugg goes to the line with the best shot motion in town at 10, and skips the ball off the front of the rim. That little Memorial Gym troll just sat their grinning. For Pete's sake, folks. The Comets had the Wildcats whipped. Kokomo was down 37-28 going into the fourth quarter, and the Kats looked about as comfortable as Bert Lance at income tax time.

Kokomo was playing scared. It was playing not to lose. The Kats were not playing that ethereal basketball that helped them beat the likes of Anderson and win the state's No.ll ranking, Eastern had the bull by the horns. Green and Gold Passion was running through most of the Memorial Gym crowd. Afterall, the Kats have hogged the hardware eight straight years now.

Practically everyone who wasn't wearing Red and Blue and that included a lot of people was pulling for Greentown's wunderkinds. But doggone if that little troll didn't come out and spoil Eastern's party. Of course Kokomo didn't exactly sit back and take the gas, either. Don't get the idea that Eastern just gave the game away, but also don't think for a minute that the Kats believed they were finished when the fourth quarter started. Kokomo went into a 1-3-1 half court trap defense that rattled the rampaging Comets.

Of the first six times Eastern touched the ball in the fourth quarter, they gave it away five times on two charging fouls, a travel, a steal and a double dribble. Mugg managed a bucket on the fifth possession, but the Kats had the moxy to score after all five Eastern turnovers. That's pretty impressive, especially when you've been playing like a gun was pointed at your head all night. So it turned into a nail-biter, and a couple of free throws one way or the other could have changed everything. But that doesn't explain that free throw.

Scott Mugg at the free throw line is like the "truth." A coach afterward said something about mechanics and a hitch in Mugg's arm when he released the errant freebie. But I've gotta' what an incredible shooter Scott Memorial Gym's own good luck witch put its own special whammy on that final free throw. Eastern coach Tom Dubois was right back where he was a year ago, proud of his team for its effort, but bitter at the second-place finish. Sitting in the corrider outside the Comet lockerroom in the bowels of Memorial Gym, Dubois said, "There is something basically unfair about a school of 480 coming over here and playing in the home gym of a school with 1600 students," Dubois groused. "The thing about a county school coming here in playing the llth-ranked team in the state really hurts us psychologically.

"Two years now we've been beaten by Kokomo by one and two points on their home court, all in the name of Hoosier Hysteria. Every year I have to shake McNulty's hand as the loser. I jusl don't understand it. Winning is where it's at. What's the fun in this?" Dubois however gave credit to the Kats for keeping their composure in a difficult spot.

"We just couldn't get the penetration against their halfcourt trap," he said. "And you've got to hand it to Kokomo. They didn't quit. We thought we would beat them if we held (Steve) Purcell to 20 points or less. He got 12 and they still beat us." And while Eastern suffered the unbearable pangs of disappointment, it was just another happy net- cutting party for the Wildcats.

"Compared to last year when 1 Please see Somebody, Kokomo's Kyle DeFur (left) challenges Ron Sumner (Tribune staff photo).