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easant Hill, Coquille Vie Tonight
B .CK HALL
RegftferGuard Correspondent
COOS BAY (Spec Un
pleasant .Hill meets Coquille
and Madras goes against Eagle
Point tonight in the semifinals
of the Class A-2 basketball
tournament.
Defending champion Mad-
ras opened the tourney with a
65-59 win over scrappy Hood
River Monday afternoon. Ea
gle Point followed with a 57
43 victory over Mapleton.
In the evening session,
Pleasant Hill's speed and re
bounding were good enough
for a 63-42 drubbing of Nes
tucca and Coquille got into
the round of four in a last '
second 48-46 win over Serra
Catholic of Salem.
An estimated 2,000 specta
tors a record watched the
afternoon session, while over
3.500 fans jammed into the
Marshfield High School gym
for the evening action.
Hood River and Mapleton
met in the first of Tuesday's
two consolation games with
Serra Catholic taking on Nes
tucca in the second.
The semifinals opens to
night with the Eagle Point
Madras fray and with the two
teams evenly matched in
height. Madras' double-barrelled
scoring duo of Gerry
Gailbraith and sophomore
Predicting a winner in the
Pleasant Hill-Coquille contest
presents more of a problem.
The game could be decided
by Pleasant Hill's speed and
its willingness to use It. Both
clubs have good rebounding
power. Coquille's George
Stonecypher and Ron Stein
with 19 and 15 rebounds, re
spectively, will pit their skills
against those of Pleasant Hill's
Don Moran, who had 13 cap
tures and 6 foot 8 Charlie
Roberts, who had 11 in Mon
day's gains.
If the two teams are evenly
matched in backboard power
tonight, look for Pleasant
Hill's speed to provide the
edge.
mine Clements could give the
White Buffaloes the edge
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Mapleton Falls to Eagle Point, 57-43
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Long
Reach
Tourney Opens Tonight
South
The sportswriters and sports
casters have tabbed South Sa
lem as the favorite as the 44th
annual state A-l basketball tour
nament openi tonight at Mc
Arthur Court.
South Salem, top-ranked team
In the final regular season polls,
Prep Highlights mimmmmmmmmmmmimitif
Billies Quiet
Following Win
By PAUL HARVEY III
Of the Register-Guard
COOS BAY (Special) It was
8 morgue-like Pleasant Hill
dressing room no victory
cheers and an apology from the
coach.
Yet the Billies had just
whipped Nestucca 63-42 in the
opening round of the state A-2
basketball tournament.
To Bruce Bradshaw and
Charlie Roberts from coach Jack
Walton:
"Forget tonight and get ready
for tomorrow night." Then the
Billies face Coquille in what
may well be the game that de
cides the 1962 champion.
"I hope this was our bad
night," said Walton whose 1961
club virtually the same as this
year's highly rated team lost
two straight in this same tourna
ment. Bradshaw was far from his
best. The junior scoring star
spent the day in bed with what
apparently was the flu. Walton
used him only when needed.
"We just didn't look like the
name club," the Billie coach
said in comparing the perform
ance with the regular season
14 straight to finish off the
leason with a 16-2 mark.
Only two members of the first
unit drew praise from Walton
forward Don Moran and guard
Jerry Franklin. Franklin fin
ished with 25 points and Moran,
who scored six points, picked
nff 15 rebounds nearly half the
Billie total of 37.
It was a different story with
the second unit as far as Wal
ton was concerned. "They came
In their and played ball," he
said. Jon Jones was the spear
head of that unit, finishing with
11 points.
It was violations that shook
Walton. "We lost 13 points on
violations." he said. "Think of
that." They ranged from foul
line violations to too long in the
key.
The key to the Billie victory
actually was the fast break that
helped them produce an aver
age of 7tf.9 points game best
in the sUte during the regular
leason.
"And we can do that the
whole game,'" said Walton.
The shoe was on the other
foot as far as the running
game for Maplcton which
Nestucca's Dennis Yocom (23) and Pleasant Hill's Charlie Roberts
(31) reach high for a rebound in their first-round game of the state
A-2 basketball tournament at Coos Bay Monday night. Pleasant Hill's
Don Moran (45) looks ready in case the ball slips free. Pleasant Hill
won the game 62-42 to gain tonight semifinals against Coquille.
Salem A-l Pick
got tht nod in an Associated
Press poll picking how the 44th
classic will wind up.
The No. 2 team in the final
polls Cleveland of Portland
was not rated among the top
five.
Instead, it was North Eugene,
dropped a 57-43 decision to top
ranked Eagle Point.
"They killed us with that fast
break," said Mapleton coach
Gordon Carrigan. "And we pre
pared for that. We just didn't
hustle in the first half."
Carrigan said it was "five on
two" as Eagle Point raced down
the floor. "They just ran us out
of the gym."
The bright spot in the Maple
ton effort was reserve John Ad
dleman, who came in and scored
nine points. "I wish I had put
him in sooner," remarked Car
rigan. k Dale Bates, the ex-Creswell
athlete now coaching Eagle
Point, said his team now 23-1
played good ball in the first
half. "Then we were ragged in
the second."
Eagle Point had a 41-23 edge
on the backboards against a
team that, during the regular
season, had dominated the back
boards. Only once against Illi
nois Valley was Eagle Point
outrcbounded.
k Notes from the tournament:
The tournament was a finan
cial success before it even start
ed. More than 800 season re
served seats were sold in ad
vance and only 50 reserved seats
remain. It was the best ticket
sale ever. . .
Joe Piedmont, the all-slater a
year ago on the champion Mad
ras team, is recovering from a
boating mishap that almost cost
him his arm. He underwent
surgery again several weeks
ago. . .-
Lew Whipple, a starter on the
Eagle Point team, turned out
for basketball for the first time
this year. He's a senior, too. . .
In the early stages of the
Pleasant Hill-Nestucca game, a
rousing ovation suddenly began
when nothing was happening on
the floor. It was the Coquille
team making an appearance. . .
Jim Norwood, the Maplcton
center, played very little. Car
rigan said Norwood asked to be
removed from the game. . .
A seldom seen call was costly
to Serra in the final moments
of Coquille's 48-46 win over the
Salem crew.
Serra was stalling, one of the
guards dribbling the ball near
mid-court. He didn't get back
into the scoring zone in the
alloted five seconds and jump
ball was called.
defending champion Klamath
Falls, Marshfield and Milwaukie
in that order behind South Sa
lem. Last year the tournament poll
picked three of the top five
places and the previous year it
was the first three. But the
consensus this year is that it
will be a wide open tournament.
No less than a half dozen
teams are given a chance to
take home the crown. Klamath
Falls is given a chance to re
peat while South Salem, North
Eugene, Marshfield, Cleveland
and Milwaukie get strong back
ing. It's the North Eugene team
many say could be the surprise
of the tournament.
Ranked eighth in the final
Associated Press poll, the High-
A-l Tournament
TUESDAY'S SCHEDULE
Championship First Round
Corvallls-Molalla. 7:30 p.m.
Grant-Astoria, 8:45 p.m.
WEDNESDAY'S SCHEDULE
Championship First Round
Grants Pass-Baker, 9 a.m.
McMlnnvlUe-North Eugene, 10:15
l.m.
South Salem-Sandy, 1:45 p.m.
Cleveland-Mllwaukle, 3 p.m.
Klamath Falls-Hermlston, 7:30 p.m.
Newberg-Marshfield, 8:45 p.m.
landers were the 16th and last
team to qualify. They had to
win a two-game playoff over
South Eugene and Roseburg.
But the pressure of the play
off the the weaker bracket
may give the Highlanders a big
boost in their first tournament
appearance.
Of the six teams mentioned
most often as a title threat,
North Eugene is the lone team
in the upper bracket.
Corvallis and Molalla kick off
the tournament tonight at 7:30
p.m. with Grant, third place
winner a year ago, taking to the
court again Astoria at 8:45 p.m.
Then it's six games Wednes
day in the wind-up of the open
ing round. Morning games send
Grants Pass against Baker at
9 a.m. and North Eugene against
McMinnville at 10:15 a.m.
Tournament officials are pre
dicting record crowds for the
five-day classic. More than 81,
000 a new record watched
the 1961 tournament.
College
Basketball
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Missouri Valley Playoff
Cincinnati 61. Bradley 4
NCAA Regional Playoffs
First round
Eastern at Philadelphia
NYU 70, Massachusetts 50
Vlllanova 0, West Virginia 75
Wake Forest 92, Yale 82 loti
Mideast at Lexinaton.aKy.
Butler 56, Bowling Green 55
Western Kv. 90, Detroit 81
Midwest at Dallas
Crelghton 87, Memphis State 83
Texas Tech 68, Air Force 66
NAIA at Kansas City
First round
Savannah 84. Pacific Lutheran 75
Fight Results
Bt THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK Antonio Marctlla
148, Chicago, outpointed Vftce Sho
mo. H?'i. New York, 10.
SAN FRANCISCO Mike Galo.
119, ban Francisco, knocked out Wll
Ue Kee. 119. Reno. Nev., 1.
TOKYO Teruo Kosaka. 1344, J a
pan, outpointed Kenzo Shtmamura,
l.tj',, japan, 10.
Billies
By JACK HALL
Register-Guard Correspondent
COOS BAY (Special) Pleas
ant Hill's on again, off again
but nevertheless effective fast
break carried it to a 63-42 vic
tory over a game, but out
manned Nestucca.
Led by Jerry Franklin's 25
point performance high thus
far in the tournament the
Billies got their points in chunks
often enough to have a safe
margin at the end of the third
quarter.
But Pleasant Hill coach Jack
Walton while not satisfied with
the efforts of his starting five,
was optimistic.
"We'll be on tomorrow (Tues
day) night, though." Then, re
flecting, he added, "We'd bet
ter be."
Although Nestucca occasion
ally made threatening moves at
the Billies, it never could cope
successfully with the Emerald
League champions' blazing fast
break.
And the man who was usu
ally down the floor taking his
teammates swift, accurate passes
was Franklin.
Pleasant Hill trailed 3-2 with
two minutes gone in the game,
but then broke loose for 12
points, while Nestucca's Bobcats
could manage only Wayne Han
cock's gift toss. A seven-point
flurry by the Bobcats in the
final minute of the quarter
brought them within three
points at the stop, 14-11.
The Billies answered that
surge with one of their own
mostly off the fast break to
open up a 23-11 gap halfway
through the second frame. Nes
tucca's seven points in the per
iod all came in the final four
minutes to make it 25-18 at the
half.
After the Intermission, Nes
tucca climbed to within five
points of the Billies at 29-24 be
fore Pleasant Hill unleashed
its running game again for 11
points and a substantial lead
with a quarter left.
With four minutes to go in
the game and a 50-33 lead Wal
ton sent the reserves in. The
Billie subs continued to pour
points through the hoop to com
plete the rout.
Eagle Point, 57-43
"They just ran us out of the
gym."
These were the words of
Mapleton coach Gordon Carri
Tourney Debut Wednesday
North Guest at Oregon Club
The North Eugene High
landers, making their state A-l
tournament debut against Mc
Minnville Wednesday morning,
were honored by the Oregon
Club at the Eugene Hotel Mon
day noon.
, Coach Mel Krause of the
Highlanders said that his squad
was not tournament-wise, but
should be used to crowds after
paying three games at Mc
Arthur Court this season. He
said that his team had shown
steady improvement during the
season and hopes the present
winning momentum will con
tinue. Krause said he feels that
the success of the team has not
only been the result of fine
team play, but a sound admin
istration and the cooperation of
the faculty and the student
body.
Eleven members of the var
sity squad, managers, statisti
cian and assistant coach Cece
Hodges were introduced by
Krause. One player, Ron John
son, starting guard, was missing.
He is confined with blood poi
soning but is expected to he
ready for action by Wednesday.
Ray Hcndrickson, North Eu
gene principal, said he was
happy and proud of the players
and coaches. He also mentioned
that Eugene was the best place
in the state for hosting the state
tournament because of the ideal
atmosphere in Eugene.
Mike R a i 1 e y, tournament
chairman for the Active Club,
told about his club's responsi-
'Whole-of-a-deol'
DUNHAM'S
Belt N estucca Five,
gan commenting on his team's
57-43 loss to Eagle Point.
And that was about it.
"A good defense will do it,"
Carrigan had said before the
game, but the Sailors' defense
didn't jell until after the half
and by then Mapleton faced an
IB-point deficit.
Eagle Point's fast break set
up by its almost complete con
trol of the backboards paid
off in points time after time. -
Mapleton s board game was
hurt seriously when illness
hampered Jim Norwood. The 6-
Jump
Shot
bilitics in the tournament dur
ing the 16 times Eugene has
been host. He said that the en
tire membership is required to
work on the tournament and
the cooperation with local busi
ness and professional people in
Eugene has been important in
the success.
Ed Ryan, assistant secretary
of the Oregon School Activities
Assn. (OSAA), said that the
work of the OSAA is very little
because of the organizational
work here and the coordinating
work done by Norv Ritchcy,
University of Oregon adminis
trative assistant.
Don Kirsch, before telling the
Club members about his base
ball program, made a report on
the final Oregon-OSU games for
Steve Belko, who was in Coos
Bay to watch the state A-2
tournament. He said that, while
Charlie Warren had a frustrat
ing experience in Friday's game
because of the fine defensive
work done by the Beavers, he
came back with a good per
formance Saturday. He men
tioned Joii..ny Mack, in par
ticular, for having played well
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foot-4 center sat out the entire
second half, but his services
were missed mostly in the first
half while Eagle Point was
constructing a big halftime
lead.
Lew Whipple's seven points
in the first frame and eight
point performances by Steve
Geren and Charles Pomeroy in
the second quarter paced the
Eagles to a 36-18 bulge at inter
mission. Mapleton fared belter in the
second half, outscoring Eagle
Point 25-21. Even so, the Sail-
m 1
Pleasant Hill's Mike Hill (11) runs,
jumps and shoots all at once in the
Billies' first-round A-2 tournament
basketball game against Nestucca at
Coos Bay Monday night. Attempting
to block the shot is Nestucca's Tom
Patterson (43). Pleasant Hill won the
game 63-42.
in both games. "They tried hard
and did the best they could,"
Kirsch said.
"As an alumnus of the Uni
versity of Oregon, I hope we
don't lose Steve Belko," Kirsch
said, "and there is no doubt in
my mind that we have a fine
basketball coach at the Uni
versity of Oregon." He pointed
out that Belko has had two Na
tional Collegiate Athletic Assn.
(NCAA) teams at Oregon and
predicted he will have more.
Kirsch feels that Oregon will
have a good baseball team, de
pending on how six sophomore
pitchers develop. He named two
experienced pitchers and a solid
infield and outfield. Said he be
lieves there will be good team
speed but may be lacking a bit
in hitting. "But we will have an
interesting team," Kirsch said.
He mentioned that, while the
squad is in good physical con
dtion, the Wcbfoots have had
little or no opportunity for out
side work. Oregon plays the first
of four games against Arizona at
Tucson next Monday and will
play one other game at San
Diego before returning home.
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ors got no closer than 14 points
midway through the last stanza
when John Addleman's field
goal made it 52-38.
The only Sailor able to score
consistently was Gordon Dog
gctt who finished with 14 points,
second behind the Eagles' Ger
en who had 20 counters.
Coquille, 48-46
Coquille's Ron Stein ended
the first day's action at the
Class A-2 tournament in dra
matic fashion when he dropped
in a 25-foot jump shot as the
final horn sounded to give Co-
S Box Scores j
M. Hill 1-H 1-3 J 0
Krankiln 919 7-9 2 5 25
Roberta 1-8 0-1 2 11 2
Hammltt 1-5 0-0 0 0 S
Moran 2-12 2-5 4 13 6
Ivcv 0-3 00 1 0 0
D. Hill 2-12 0-0 T J 4
Jones 5-10 1-2 4 2 11
Wlllton 1-4 2-3 114
Bradshaw 3-8 0-2 4 1
Total 25-79 13-25 20 37 63
Nestucca (42) ra FT PF RB TP
Patterson 0-3 0-0 13 0
Porter 4-12 4-5 a 7 12
Hancock 2-7 7-8 5 4 11
Yocom 0-4 1-4 4 8 1
Walts 1-8 3-5 13 5
Denson 0-3 0-0 10 0
Lylsoll 0-3 2-3 112
Gaim 0-3 0-110 0
Kuff a-5 3-4 2 1 9
Parka 1-4 0-0 0 0 2
Totals 11-54 20-30 18 27 42
Pleasant Hill
Nesucca
... 14 11 15 23 S3
... 11 7 7 1742
Mapleton (43)
Gould
Tlmpe
Norwood
Dunn . ...
Doggett
ra
2-6
2-11
1- 8
2- 11
7-14
1-3
0-5
4-7
0-1
. 0-2
FT PK RH TP
0-3,3 9
Long --
Hess
Addleman
Kllfoy
Bear .
Totals 19-68 8-18 15 23 43
Bugle Point (57) FG ' FT PK RB Tl
Wilson 2-9 3-3 4 10
Geron - 9-21 2-2 2 3 20
Whipple 310 5-7 1 9 11
Dusenberry 3-6 0-0 3 2
Pomeroy 5-16 3-5 0 8
Hudson 0-0 0-0 10
Meyer 0-0 00 1 2 0
Hoefft 0-3 0-0 15 0
Llnder 0-3 0-2 3 0 0
Charters 00 0-0 0 0 0
Totals 22-70 13-19 16 41 57
Mapleton 7 11 13 124.1
Eagle Point 16 20 IS 867
Serra (46)
FO FT rr RB TP
Alley
3-9 2-3 6 2 8
Neuberfer 2 10 33 2 5 7
P. KOIU 1-7 1-2 1 6 S
M. Kolb 8-17 0-0 2 12
Strobel 3-8 0-113 8
Wilson 3-3 0-0 1 2 8
P. Schrelner 0-0 0-0 0 0 0
S Schrelner 2-7 0-116 4
Yeaser 0-0 04 0 0 0
bpplnf 0-0 0-0 0 0 0
Totals
20-61 6-10 1 32 48
Coquille (48)
Mlddleton
FG FT PF RB TP
1-7 i-a i
Stein . ..J 8-20 1-2
13 17
19 15
Stonecypher 6-15 3-5
Sisk 4-12 2-3
Sllely 0-0 0-0
Dickey 0-0 0-0
E. Leatherwood . 1-3 1-2
Cullem 0-0 0-0
Ivarle 0-6 0-1
T. Leatherwood . 0-0 0-0
Totals
20-63 8-15 9 46 48
Serra 17 14 10 546
Coquille 12 13 9 1448
Madras (85) FG FT PF RB TP
Gailbraith 10-27 3-4 3 15 23
Clark 0-5 0-0 3 2 0
Stewart O-O 4-7 2 12 4
Stevenson 2-7 1-2 12 6
Smith 410 1-1 5 2 9
Clements . . 8-17 2-2 1 4 18
West 1-2 00 1 3 2
Harris 1-1 0-0 0 3 2
Ellison 1-3 0-0 2 1 2
Totals
27-78 11-16 18 45 65
Hood River (59) FO FT PF . B TP
Jernstcdt 4-10 3-4 1 8 11
Caddy 5-10 3-4 2 R 13
Flint 2-8 0-1 3 4 4
Smith 8-18 1-2 4 0 13
Kerr 312 6-12 1 6 12
Jubltl 2-2 2-2 0 0 6
Totals
12-60 15-25 11 26 59
Madras 13 18 19 15-6.1
Hood River 16 19 9 1559
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quille a up-hill 48-46 win over
Serra Catholic.
"We planned to have him
shoot it," said coach Paul Greig.
"I couldn't believe it," said
young Mr. Stein. And Coquille
got four clutch points by Mike
Sisk in the final flurry that tied
the game and set up Stein's
game-winning field goal.
Serra Catholic grabbed the
lead midway in the first period
and clung tenaciously to it
althoungh tied twice until
Stein's basket sent it into the
consolation round.
Serra Catholic leading 46-42
with 2:33 to go went into a stall.
However, a jump ball was called
when the Sabers' Wayne Neu
berger could not escape from
the guard of Coquille's Sisk in
the required five seconds.
Coquille controlled the jump
and called time to avoid bring
ing the ball down court against
the Sabers pressing defense.
Then Sisk tapped in a re
bound to bring Coquille within
two points at 46-44.
It was Sisk playing the role
of the hero again as he con
verted a pair of one-shot gift
A-2 Tournament
MONDAY'S RESULTS
Championship First Round
Madraa 65, Hood River 59
Eagle Point 57, Mapleton 43
Pleasant Hill 63, Nestucca 42
Coquille 48, Serra 46
TUESDAY'S SCHEDULE
Consolation Semifinals
Hood River Maplcton, 2 p.m.
Nestucca-Serra, 3:45 p.m.
Championship Semifinals
Madraa-Eagle Point, 7:30 p.m.
Pleasant HlU-Coqullle, 8:45 p.m.
tosses, the second coming with
only 37 seconds to play, and the
score was knotted at 46-all.
With 20 seconds to go Henry
Middleton intercepted an errant
Serra Catholic pass and again
Coquille called time.
Nineteen seconds later Stein's
basket sewed it up.
Madras, 65-59
Madras opened the 1962 Class
A-2 Basketball Tournament
with a 65-59 win over the Hood
River Dragons.
The big difference in the con
test was an 11 point spree by
Madras' Gerry Gailbraith mid
way through the third period.
Before Gailbraiths scoring
outburst, Madras trailed 37-35.
When it ended, the White Buf
faloes held a 48-37 margin and
although Hood River threatened
in the final period, the Blue
Dragons could never quite catch
up.
Hood Rivers Dennis Smith
collected eight points in the
fourth quarter to keep the
Dragons hopes alive, but three -
long jump shots by Madras'
Mike Clements kept the Buffa
loes just out of reach until the
final minute when they salted
the game on the free throw line.
Hood River had taken an 11-4
lead in the first quarter after a
brief Madras lead, but the Buaf-
faloea managed to gain a 24-23
lead in the second frame on.
Clements' field goal. Hood River
stormed back on the shooting of
Ken Jerstedt and Dave Jubitz
to move into a 35-31 halftime
edge.
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