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Page 10 February 26,1982 Spilyay Tymoo SPORTS - Madras girl's team defeated at state tourney The Madras White Buffaloes made it to state but were defeated Tuesday night 54-46 by Central High School in the first round of the class AA high sc h o o l g i r l ’s b a s k e tb a ll tournament held in Salem. Their consolation game played the following day also resulted in defeat. They lost to Gold Beach 41-35. The Madras White Buffaloes ■ / took the Greater Oregon League championship with a league score of 9-1. The one loss went to Burns at Burns on Janaury 22. The Madras team lost by four points. The team is made up of both varsity and JV players. “All of us are a team,” affirmed coach Bonnie Souers. According to Souers there are eight solid varsity players. The other five players go back a n d f o r t h . “ S k ill a n d experience is what counts,” Souers explains. During the week preceding the state tournament games Souers said the team was doing much better than she had expected. “I thought it would take us two years to get where we a re.” Playing organized basketball takes practice. A young team would, start out by practicing defense or set plays and after mastering one skill would go on Madras High School girl’s Basketball team took the championship in the Greater Oregon League. Team members include: (from left to right) Lana Shike, freshman; Ashley Thorpe, freshman; Kris Conner, sophomore; Lorraine Suppah, senior; Erin Olson, senior; Karen Linder, sophomore; Lisa Linder, freshman; Allyson Kendall, junior; Sandra Shike, senior; Sandra Tanewasha, sophomore; Cami Clowers. junior; Anita Bryant, sophomore. Spilyay Tymoo photo by Shewcxyk to the next, Souers com team has done well in most The team’s captain, Lorraine mented. areas of play. She emphasized, Suppah, is invaluable Souers Souers feels the Madras though, “We have a long way to estimated. “Well hate to lose High school girl’s basketball go. I know it and they know it.” her.” Suppah is a senior and will be graduating this year. “ She has the quality of leadership,” Souers adds. Warm Springs Tribes takes tourney trophy The Warm Springs Tribes team walked away with the first place trophy at the 6 foot and Under Basketball tournament held February 19-21 at the Warm Springs Community Center. The tournament was sponsored by the Warm Springs Athletic Association. It was necessary to play a se c o n d gam e a f te r th e ' Warm Springs Tribes lost the first championship game. Their having lost only one game throughout the tournament made it necessary to rules of the double elimination tourna ment. They made a strong come back and defeated the White Swan Chief 88-70. White Swan placed second in the tournament. Third place went to the Warm Springs Magpies and the Northwest Indians from Warm Springs took fourth. Teams and scores for the 15 games played over the three day period, are as follows: 1. Magpies (81) vs Tygh Valley (53). 2. Wapato (81) vs Warm Springs Teen .Club (51); 3. Northwest Indians (67) vs White Swan (65); 4. Medicine Valley (didn’t show) vs Warm Springs Tribes (automatically won); 5. Warm Springs Teen Club (63) vs Tygh Valley (57); 6. White Swan (69) vs Medicine Valley (49); 7. Magpies (112) vs Wapato (99); 8. Warm Springs Tribes (77; vs Northwest Indians (70); 9. White Swan Chiefs (92) vs Wapato; 10. Northwest Indians (63) vs Tygh Valley (57); 11 White swan Chiefs (86) vs Northwest Indians (59); 12. Warm Springs Tribes (83) vs Magpies (75); 13. L oser g am e-W hite Sw an Chiefs (67) vs Magpies (50); 14. C ham pionship game-W hite Swan chiefs (73) vs Warm Springs Tribe (58); Champion ship gam e-W arm Springs Tribes (88) vs White Swan Chiefs (70). The all-stars consisted of: James “ Buckwheat” Scott, Warm Springs Teen Club; Farley Eaglespeaker, North west Indians; Al Estimo, Northwest Indians; Whitney M iller, M agpies; A ustin G r e e n e , M a g p ie s ; V ic Sampson, White Swan; Mike Tulee, White Swan, John Katchia, Warm Springs Tribes; Ken Billingsly, Warm Springs Tribes; and Max Mitchell, Warm Springs Tribes. Ken Billingsly was selected as Most Valuable Player and high scorer was Austin Greene who scored 28 points over four games. The sportsmanship award Ken Billingsly helped the Warm Springs Tribes team win their first place trophy during the 6 Foot went to the White Swan and Under Basketball Tournament. Billingsly was also named to the all-stars. Spilyay Tymoo photo by Shewcxyk Chiefs.
