'Dudz07fiac&& By Jerry Claussen Cmmld Co-Sports Editor w^m A lot went on in the sports world in the last three weeks with the end of basketball and wrestling and the beginning of track and baseball but the OHSAA basketball tournament at McArthur court was the big event around the state. The high spots were the record-breaking attendance and Eugene high winning the title after two frustrating years of being runner up. Out of 26 games however, only four could be classed as anything but routine. The big one that really settled the tournament came in the first round where Eugene edged defending Milwaukie, 53-52. Cleveland figured in all three of the other thrillers. The Cinderella Indians won two games in overtime, 65-62 over St. Helens and 47-46 over Central Catholic for third place, and barely were beaten by Med ford in the semi-finals, 42-37. The rest of the games reflected the wide difference in com petition with such scores as 67-33, 70-37, 62-29 and 73-46 dot ting the scoreboard. Eugene and Milwaukie were in a class by themselves with few of the other entrants even looking like district champions. It’s likely that even with the new A-2 tourney next year, many of the 16 teams in the A-l champion ship will still be weak. Axemen Top Shooters Statistically Eugene was far and away the top offensive team with a 68.8 points-per-game average with a shooting average of .480. Milwaukie allowed only 40.3 points per game for the best defensive average. Albany was the most Powerful team off the boards with 15 rebounds per game more than its opponents. Although no other team came close to Eugene in shoot ing, Albany’s average of .360 being second, both St. Helens and Milwaukie outshot the champion Axemen from the free throw line. The well-balanced Lions, the only unbeaten team going into the tourney but too little for top A-l com petition, posted a .648 average for charity tosses for the best record in a tournament filled with poor free throw shooting. Individual performances were by far the most interesting part of the tournament with hotshots like Eugene's Mike Moran and Mihvaukie’s Ted Miller among several outstand ing players showing their wares to packed houses. Moran’s fabulous shooting, including 10 for 14 and 10 for 12 from the field against Milwaukie and Albany, gave the 6'8” poker-face a .722 average for the four games. His 104 points was pressed only by the 101 of Albany’s Don Stamps. Altenhofen Rebounds Red Bloedel of Milwaukie and Jim Altenhofen of Central Catholic, the latter the third of a state tourney dynasty, topped indivadual rebounders with 86, or 21.5 per game. Stamps’ 19.3 was close behind. Little Pete King of Eugene topped the free throw shooters with 12 for 15, an .800 average. Some of the major disappointments were the inconsistent refereeing, the collapse of North Bend, the injury to 6’ 9” Bjarne Jensen of Franklin, the post-final mobbing of the Eugene team that injured two girls and Eugene getting the sportsmanship award. But there was one thing that peeved the sportswriters plenty. When the all-state; team chosen by the 16 team coaches was announced, it was quite a shock to find that Stamps had been put on the second team with Copple getting a first-team berth. Apparently the coaches, who likely didn’t see Stamps play much since Albany’s games were during the day, felt that Medford just had to have a player on the first team since it made the finals. Stamps Ignored The coaches also put Frank Rector of Medford, another so-so performer, on the second team and forgot about Oliver McCord, fourth in rebounding and sixth in points for the tournament, but ignored with the seventh-place Baker team. The coaches did put Moran and Axeman Leighton Tuttle on the first team along with Miller and Cleveland’s Dick Jolly. Tuttle, although overshadowed by Moran in point-produc tion, was really the backbone of the powerul champions from Eugene. He gave the club the spirit and drive it needed and, as one woman fan put it, he is “the sweetest thing I have ever seen.” Cod bless women sports fans. ND Scoring Topped By Loscutoff. Beavers Oregon's Jim Loscutoff topped individual performers for the 1955 Northern Division basket ball season scoring to final con ference statistics which showed 15 single-game and season rec ords broken during the final year of split-division play. Loscutoff topped the league in both point-making and rebound ing to take both titles from Ore gon State’s Wade Halbrook, win ner in those departments in 1954. The Beaver giant finished second in rebounds and third in scoring this season after missing utmost two full games. Parsons Kdged The scoring race went down to the finul games of the season before Loscutoff bested Dean Parsons of Washington, 314-313. for the crown. Both averaged 19.6 points per game as did Hal brook. who had 294 points in 15 contests. Loscutoff set a new record for the ND season in winning the rebound title. The 6’ 5” Duck center snared 282 re bounds to break the old stand ard of 229 set by Oregon’s Chet Noe in 1953. Holbrook’s run ner-up totul of 212 and Par sons’ 19? all beat Ilalbrook’s 1954 total of 188. Another record set by Los cutoff was in the field goal at tempts department where his 358 tries from the field easily eclips ed Noe’s 1953 mark of 294. the former league record. As a team Oregon set a new ND rebound record with 794 , 37 more than the former record set by the Oregon team of 1951. Among the leaders in other de partments. Halbrook led shoot ing averages for the second year in a row by averaging 47.8 per cent with 110 field goals in 226 Emerald Sports Staffers to Meet All Emerald sports staff members are requested to at tend a meeting today at 1 p.in. in the Emerald office in Allen hall to discuss coverage of spring sports. All desk editors, varsity and freshman sports writers and intramural sports writers should attend. New assign ments will be given. Sports Staff Desk Editor: Buzz Nelson. Staff: Jerry Claussen. Quote from pre-season bas ketball dope book from Oregon State—“The 1954-55 basketball season at Oregon State should be one of the most interesting In years.” Dick Wilkins of the 1945 team holds the Oregon record for points in a season, getting 544. \ \ ' \ reigning everywhere \ AFTER SIX for \ mals are king on campuses! "Nat ural fit, "stain shy” finish. Princely values at pauper prices. Have lots more fun—go tries. Ron Bennink, Washington State star forward, set a free throw record for both number and marksmanship in sinking 140 out of 172 shots for an 81.4 per cent average. Beavers Top Scoring In team shooting NT) and Coast Champion Oregon State set a new field goal percentage record by sinking S8.8 per cent of Ita shots to break Washington's 1953 mark of 38.7 per cent. The Bea vers also led the division in re bound margin with 179 more than their opponents, tied with Washington for the most points scored with 1021 and allowed their opponents the fewest points, 879. Washington State had the best free throw mark. 68.8 per cent. Other team records were set by Washington State with few est fouls In the season, 2S5; Idaho, most free throws made in one game, 38; Idaho, best field goal percentage in one game, 63.3 per cent; Oregon State, most rebounds In one game, 73; Washington State, fewest fouls In one game, five; Idaho-Washlngton, most points in one game for troth teams, 159, and Idaho-Oregon and Washington State-Washlngton, fewest fouls in one game for both teams, 19. Two individual single-game records were set during the 1955 campaign. Bennink sank 17 out of 20 free throw attempts in a game against Washington to top teammate Bill Rehder's 1954 rec ord of 16. Halbrook broke the re bound record twice before estab lishing a standard of 36 in a game against Idaho. The race for the ND's "hatchet man" trophy was close all the way with Idaho’s Harlan Melton narrowly winning the title with 58 infractions. Fellow Vandal Bob Falash was second with 57 with two WSC hoopers, Bill Reh der and Larry Beck, totaling 54 OSC's Tony Vlastelica got only 116 fouls for the low mark among conference regulars. Parsons, Loseutoff, Halbrook and Bennlnk were unanimous choices for the division all-star team chosen by the coaches with Melton getting the fifth spot. Parsons, Halbrook and Bennlnk were repeaters from 1954. Ore gon's Max Anderson and How ard Page were given honorable mention. Individual statistics: Point* ' PUyer O TP PPO Ui«cwtufl. Oregon 16 .114 19.6 Parnon*. Wa*hington 16 .313 19 o Halbrook, OSC 15 294 10 & Bennlnk, WSC . 16 2** IK 9 Holder, Mali- 16 220 U K Melton. Idaho 16 201 U 2 Rehder. WSC 16 ion 12 4 lUtnchrr, Idaho 16 172 10 H VU.telka. OSC 16 |6» I0.J Sather. Idaho 16 l6K 10.3 — - — • Rebound* PUyer O RB RBPG Urvcutnff, Oregon 16 2K2 17.6 liallnook. 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