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FORD (OREGOIC) MAIL TRIBUNE Monday, February 7. IS5S TORNADO STORMS FROM BEHIND TO OVERPOWER PIRATES 79-68 Medford's Black Tornado un leashed its devastating power late in the third quarter and through the fourth period at Coos Bay Saturday night to record its second successsive triumph over the rugged, ag gressive Marshfield Pirates of Coos Bay. The Tornado spurred by the high scoring of Larry Copple and Bud Kataer, the point producing and hustle of Frank Rector and the defensive work of Jerry Kalapus and Glenn Peterson, came from behind in the third stanza and with its usual relentless force whirled to a 79 to 68 non-league triumph. The win coupled with a 67 to 62 trfmming handed the Pir ates on Friday gave Medford its 14th straight win and a standing of 15 victories against a single loss as it turned its at tention back on the second half of Southern Oregon conference competition. Led at Quarter Medford, somewhat listless in the first half and starting out with a zone defense instead of its usual man-to-man, headed 18 to 17 at the end of the first quarter. Then,' Marshfield, with a tight screening offense which troubled the Tornado when it went back to man-to-man, edged to a 35 to 31 halfway lead. In the third quarter Medford closed the deficit to 39 to 40. Then tall Glenn Peterson plunk ed in a lay-in to put the Tor nado on top 41 to 40. Marsh field, roughest club under the backboards Medford 'has . met this year knotted up the count at 54 all. But the Tornado, begin ning to click like the power it is while the Pirates seemed to tire to the pace, fought on top 58 to 54 by the end of the period and in the fourth canto built up a comfortable 72 to 57 margin. Drive Through Final portion of the .fracas found the Medford tempo and pressure enabling it to drive through before the Marshfield defense could get set. That gave the Tornado a lot of good shots Sure-shooting Copple, the Medford scoring leader, and Kastner had their best point getting night of the year Satur day. Copple, who paced the fi nal quarter scoring assault with 12 counters, had 28 for the evening. Kastner, his jump shot effective, frequently - at long range, had 2 points for the evening. Rector, impressing Coos; Bay fans with his hustle and .drive all night, had 17 tal lies. I - " .' againsi uie no. i team in me state, was paced in scoring by Ted Fischer with1 21, Sandy Fra ser with 15 and Roger Johnson with 13. , Pirates At Best Medford's fired up pace In the final portion of the fray helped it to a .454 scoring av erage from the field with 30 out of 66 shots for the night. Tornado figures gave Medford the rebound ege 28 to 20 de spite, the rugged rivalry under the boards and Peterson and Kalapus were big factors. It was to Medford's credit that it beat a Pirate crew play ing its best series of the year. That's what head man Bruce Hoff ine and Pete Susick of the Marshfield coaching staff re ported. Aggressive play mark ed both games, officiating in the bay area apparently allow ing a greater degree of rough ness. Coach Frank Roelandt said that the Tornada would take it rather easy today. It . plays Grants Pass there Friday and here Saturday in conference ac tion. BOX! Medford f; ft pf tp jr-eierson, t 3 2 4 8 Kastner. f . 9 2 2 20 Kalapus. c 0 5 5 Rector, g 6 5 5 17 Copple. g 12 4 1 28 Foust 0 0 1 McLaughlin . 0 0 1 Tisdel 0 0.0 Cearley . 0 1 "" 0 Cochran ....... .. 0 0 0 ' 30 ' 19 19 79 Marshfield Fischer, f Fraser, f Tankersley, c . R. Johnson, g Baker, g .. Carlile J. Johnson Bullard Childers fs 7 3 3 4 3 1 1 0 0, ft pf tp 7 3 21 5 2 3 1 1 1 0 0 15 9 13 22 24 16 68 High School Scores By UNITED PHESS SATURDAY GAMES Condon 50, Rufus 33 Madras 54, Bend 41 M osier 62. Culver 56 Astoria 54, Tillamook 42 (overtime) naisey bb, nuomatn 37 Alsea 45. Siletz 44 . Seaside 44, Warrenton 24 Lexington 59, Stanfield 53 Myrtle Point 64, Bandon 31 Powers 70. Glendale 47 Moro 80, Cascade Locks 58 Hood River 66. The Dalles 51 Crater 70. Eagle Point 43 Phoenix 69. Illinois Valley 32 North Bend 87, Coquille 53 Medford 79. Marshfield 68 Reediport 62. Toledo 48 W ' " n ' 'Inn imii iii FINGERING THE JOB University of San Francisco's Bill Russell (6) uses every inch of his six feet, 10 inches to get rebound off fingertips of Loyola's Forward Tom Salvine during game in San Francisco's Cow Palace. The Dons had to come from behind in the second half to beat Loyola, 65-55. Fifteen is Stand Buchanan and 22 is Robert Cox. Collegiate Cage Circuits Schedule Showdown Frays BASKETBALL SATURDAY COLLEGE SCORES: East iLaSaHe 74, Georgetown 48 Temple 83, St. Joseph's (Pa) 82 Niagara 72. Holy Cross 68 Canisius 71 Boston College 52 Army 84. Yale 72 St. Bonaventure 63, Siena 61 Connecticut 93 Colgate 85 Columbia 76 Harvard 71 Pennsyvania 84. Cornell 78 Dartmouth 66. Princeton 56 Villanova 79 Ford ham 69 Penn State 78. Lehigh 37 Seton Hall 67 John Carroll 62 Navy 77 Pittsburgh 65 South Maryland 67, William and Mary 62 ou. uar. oj. xviianu (.rial 77 Alabama 76, Georgia Tech 72 VanriwMlt 70 AitKura VA. N. C. State 119 Clemson 85 Davidson 68. VMI 65 Duke 115. West Virginia 73 Western Ky. 98. Eastern Ky. 76 Tennessee 102 Florida 75 Kentucy 84. Mississippi 66 -Tulane 81 LSU 57 Midwest Michigan State 73. Wisconsin 70 Michigan 92 Los Angeles St. 39 Missouri 96, Oklahoma 61 No. Dak. 68. So. Dak. 60 St. Louis 69, Tulsa 51 Notre Dame 91, Loyola (m 83 . Duquesne 64 Bowling Green 54 Colorado 86, Iowa State 70 Oklahoma A&M 75. Detroit 69 Marquette 64. Drake 60 Illinois 104. Northwestern 89 flMn Stat Oli TnHi.n. RT Iowa 76, Purdue 67 Kansas State 79. Nebraska 62 Southwest Texas Tech 107. Ariz. (Temne) St 81 W. Tex. State 82, Arizona 66 Texas 76. Arkansas 73 Tex. Christian 77. Baylor 73 Houston 65. Bradley 35 West Colorado A&M 55. Wyoming 49 ' Utah State 65, Denver 64 Oregon State 69. Idaho 63 Occidental 89. Westmont 64 Oregon 64. Washington 63 --' Utah 87. Montana State 60 Colorado St. 71, Colo. Mines 58 Idaho St. 85. Colo. College 37 , Stanford 76. Southern California 60. UCLA 84, California 63 Montana 66, New Mexico 60. Fresno St. 54, California Poly 52 Humboldt St. 69. Calif. Aggies 66 iLoyola (Calif) 74. Santa Clara 65 San F. 69. St. Mary's (Calif.) 48 San Diego St. 79. Pepperdine 75 Chico State 85. Nevada 80 Pacific 75. Willamette 58 ' Iinfield 93, Lewis and Clark 86 -Portland State 65. So. Oregon 58 -. St. Martins 63. Oregon Tech 61 last. Ore. 104. NW Nazarene 82 By JOHN GRIFFIN United Press Sports Writer You can call this "showdown week" in college basketball, be cause it features meetings be tween the leading title contend ers in no less than eight major conferences. This week's action could en a long way toward deciding the. races in tne ivy, Big seven, Southern, Pacific Coast, Rocky Mountain, Southwest, Border, and Skyline leagues. What's more, the leaders In every other major loop are fac ing games that jeopardize their hold on first place. This important schedule fol lows a week end that was played pretty close to the form sheet, with the surprises few and far between.. Kentucky, the nation's No. 1 team, walloped Mississip pi, 84-66, and San Francisco, the team that could succeed to the No. 1 mantle this week, crushed St. Mary's Calif., 69-48, to set the pace. Other notable triumnhs were scored by such high-ranked teams as Utah, La Salle, Duquesne, North Carolina State, UCLA, Illinois and Niagara , this last in pne of the week end's most thrilling games, a 72-68 decision over Holy Cross, last year's Na tional Invitation Tournament champion, that was marred by two list-swinging fights. Showdowns between the ton contenders are due in these conferences: Ivy: Pennsylvania (6-1). whirh seized the lead by beatine Cor nell Saturday, 84-76. tackles second-place Columbia (5-1) Tues day. Each also has a came sched uled this week against Dart mouth. Cabbies Schedule Corvallis Quint Yellow Cab of Medford !will bring another ton indeDendent basketball club to Medford next Saturday. The Cabbies will be host to Alsea ' Lumber company oi corvallis. - ' - The tussle will be at the St. Mary's school gym.' , , Alsea Lumber is unbeaten" so far this season and has downed Martin Brother's Signs of Eu-. gene which tipped the Cab quint. Yellow Cab will keen in tune for its Thursday city, loop fray with Andy's Jewelers by op posing Camp's Electric tonight at Grants Pass. ; :- Fernandes Loggers of Lone- view,, which the Cabbies thrash ed last Sunday, have won the southwest Washington - AAU crown again this year. - Biff Seven: Colorado (5-01 risks undisputed possession of the lead tonignt against JNeorasKa, then collides with second-place Mis souri (5-1),, on Saturday. Southern: Three teams have lost only one game each: Rich mond (8) wins, West Virginia (6), and George Washington (4). Richmond, after meeting weak VMI, Wednesday, collides with ueorge wasnington on Friday, Pacific Coast: Southern Divis ion uuijA and Stanford are tied for the lead at (5-1V fhev meet in big two-game series Fri day ana Saturday. Rocky Mountain? ParemaTHner Idaho State (7-0) and second-place Colorado Western (3-1) meet in a two-game series tonight and Tuesday. Southwest: Texas Christian (6-1) and Southern Methodist (4-2) clash Wednesday. Border: West Texas State (7-1) and Texas Tech (4-1) meet on Saturday, after Tech faces Ari zona tonight. Skyline: Utah (7-0) and Brig ham Young (4-2) play a two game home-and-home series Fri day and Saturday. - There is just a chance that Oregon State 100 could clinch at least a tie for the northern division title of the Pacific Coast Conference this week.' aUhmioY, idle. That would, ihannen if second-place Oregon 6-4, lost to Idaho on both Friday and Satur day. . . Here's the situation in other major conferences: Big Ten: Minnesota, co-leader at 5-2. bids for a slight lead tonight against Ohio State and then meets Illinois Saturday. Iowa, also 5-2, plavs only Indiana Saturday. Illinois (4-2) meets Michigan tonight before Minne sota Saturday. Missouri Valley: Tulsa risks 4-1 majk twice, against Detroit tonight and Hardin-Simmons Saturday. St. Louis (3-1) plays only one league game, against Detroit Saturday. Yankee: Connecticut risks 3-0 mark against New Hampshire Friday and Maine Saturday, but Massachusetts (2-0) plays only outside games. AUantic Coast: Four teams have lost On IV hvn nmH Aanh lv4.,lnMj to .wins). North Carolina State (7). Duke w. ana xMortn Carolina (7). Busy week could produce anything with Maryland-North Carolina ftlsch fiBtii.rfn wnku . a.w.unj the top game. Southeastern: Two games each this week for four tightly-packed con tenders Alabama (5-1). Tennessee (4-1), Kentucky (6-2), and Vanderbilt (5-2). with tonight's Alabama-Vanderbilt meeting the highlight. MedfordJTribunb SIPODIFirS Crater Blasts EP, Phoenix V Whips IV In Rogue League ROGUE LEAGUE STANDINGS W It Crater 6 7 Phoenix 6 2 Eagle Point 3 5 Illinois Valley 1 7 Pet .800 .800 .375 .125 Crater will be host io Ash land Tuesday night in a non league high school basketball ruckus at Central Point. It will be the second meeting of the year between the Comets and ; Grizzlies. Ashland won the January engagement 57 io 54. Crater's steadier, surer and sharpshooting Comets smashed the uphill surge of Eagle Point high Saturday night while Phoe nix high kept pace in the Rogue league basketball scramble by completing' a series sweep .over Illinois Valley. The Comets, winning with sur prising ease, drubbed the Eagles 70 to 43 at Central Point. Phoe nix won just as handily, trounc ing the Cougars at Phoenix 69 to 32. Crater victory came on the heels of a Friday night loss. The Eagles on Saturday just didn't have the drive, zip and fine edge that carried them to a 50 to 44 triumph over the Comets the night before. Phoenix added its Saturday success , to a 62 to 5d Friday count over the Cougars and thereby remained tied with Crater for lead of the circuit. Higinbotham Shines , Eaele Point after a rougn start in the loop had won three straight before bowing to Crater. The Comets utilized hot snoot- ji i 1 j ing and oacKDoaxa conuui w accomplishing the Saturday win. They shot at a .467 average from the field and at .625 from the gift stripe. On the boards they out rebounded Eagle Point 43 to 19. Jim Higinbotham had 23 xetrieves, more than the entire Eagle team. After two knots of z-ali ana 4-all in the scuffle, Crater went top for good. The Comets on Vikes Bounce SOC Again OCC STANDINGS Portland State SOCE EOCE OTI OCE W .. 7 . 8 5 2 2 Pet. .875 .666 .500 .250 .200 State Portland Portland college strengthened its Oregon Collegiate conference basketball lead Saturday night by downing Southern Oreeon college, the second nlace team. 68 ' to 58 here. V Victory made it two straight fnr tho VilHnsrs river the Raid ers. Portland State won Friday night 75 to 63. The Portlanders compiled good lead at the start and had 29 to 17 spread 15 minutes into the first half. They headed 37 to 29 at the half. Then South ern Oregon started the second half with a rush with seven straight points to cut their defi cit to 36 to 37. By the 10flinute mark of the half they had knot ted the game at 45-all. Fast-breaking ability of Syl Hannon and Jim Perkin enabled the Vikes to go ahead again. Lloyd Hoffine and Bob Smith of the Raiders with 21 and 15 points, respectively, led scoring, Viskov had 15 for Portland. Wildlife Group Asks Derby Ban jorvajiis uj.w The Oregon Wildlife Federation has eone on record favoring the nassaee in the state legislature of a bill banning fish derbies. At the closing session of its annual mid-winter meeting here Saturday, the group also voted approval of a bill to prohibit the carry mg of loaded firearms m cars. The federation said it favors adoption in Oregon of the National Rifle Assn. hunter safety training program. Sieelhead Proposed .. A third resolution called for the classification of steelhead in the Columbia river as a game fish. Most of the Saturdav session was devoted to a review by the state game commission of its program for the past five years. Director Phil Schneider told delegates the commission budget for, next year calls for more emphasis on land acquisition and development, habitat improve ment and, information and education. The Hawaiian islands contain about 500,000 persons. WARD NINE? You got ir wrong, mister. It's Paul Ward; at nine Wednesday on television. Barker's "Let's Kick It Around" is coming back! jumped to an 11 to 4 advantage, saw their margin slip to 13 to 10 then pushed to 21 to 10 by the end of the initial quarter. 17-Point Leads In the second quarter 17-point leads, 31 to 14 and 35 to 18, were manufactured by Crater. At halftone the clubs were . 15 points apart, 39 to 24. Crater's spread after three quarters was 54 to 31 and the Comets had two bulges of 28 , points, 65 to 37 and 67 to 39. The . Comets played , without substitution until only 2V4 min utes remained in the game. Coach Jerry Mosby made use of Eagle reserves in attempt to stem the tide. Big Bob Gray was high scorer with 20 points all on field goals. Vern Parents got 15 and Harvey Tonn 13 for the Comets while Harvey Nelson was tops for the Eagles with 13. Crater made 21 out of 45 field goal tries and hit 25 out of 40 in free attempts. Close In Shots Ability to get close in shots paid off for Phoenix against Illi nois Valley. Almost all of its goals were from within foul line range. The Pirates took the lead early and kept it. Quarter scores were 15 to 8, 29 to 15 and 49 to 24 for Phoenix which keeps looking better all the time. Ron Vreeken turned in an outstanding performance for the Pirates. He scored 19 points and Jim Korth got 17 for their best efforts yet this season. Larry Maurer, who has a keen eye for long range, got 14 points for IV. Ron Bean of the Pirates, out of action since an earlier IV se ries in which he suffered a shoulder separation, saw a few minutes of duty and his shoulder appeared okeh. LINE-UPS: I Crater 70 . 43 Eagle Point Hogue 10 f 2 Christian Higinbotham 9 f t 13 Nelson Gray 20 e 3 Caldwell Parent 15 g 8 Greb Tonn 13 g 9 Reich Substitutions For Crater: Kelley 2, Douthit, Johnson, Shama. Tidwell 1; for Eagle Point: Bitterling. Cave 2, Tuttle 4, Friend 2, Wyatt, Mason, Abernathy. Phoenix 69 Madden 10 Korth 17 Vreeken 19 Wall 6 Dahl 4 f f c g 32 III. Valley 14 Maurer 4 Pickle 6 Krauss Sams 8 Harrison St. Marys Victor Over Sacred Heart - - .... .. , Stellar work" under the boards by Bob Bobbe'tt and pointmaking by Tim , Dugan made up for passing deficiencies yesterday afternoon" as St. Mary's high defeated Sacred Heart of- Klamath Falls basket ball quintet 47 to 40 in a tilt played here. It was the second win this season for the Crusaders over the Trojans. St. Mary's took the mix at Klamath Falls 45 to . 43. The Crusaders yesterday stay ed ahead after getting a 14 to 12 lead in the second quarter but they didn't build up a safe mar gin until the third stanza was closing out. Half time score was 24 to 18 and after three periods the spread was 35 to 26, St. Mary's ran up a 47 to 34 advantage in the final quarter. Four free shots and a field goal by the Trojans cut the margin at the finish. . 7 Score Deadlocked ' . Score was tied four times in tha first canto. Lead switched on three occasions. Sacred Heart once had a 10 to 6 spread. A long shot by Dugan and a fol low shot by Bobbett knotted the fray a lay-in by Bobbett gave the Crusaders 12 to 10 edge at the quarter.! Ddno Reginato hit from far out for 12-all standing as the second quarter got . underway. A jump shot by Bobbett made the 14 and .12 score. Sacred Heart cut the St. Mary's lead to 28 to 26 in the third chukker with Reginato and Dick Wick line doing the bucketing. But Dick Paup sank a long shot, Du gan a free shot and a fielder from the side and John Walsh two gifters to help the Crusad ers pull away. Bobbett hauled in a big share of the rebounds and contributed four field goals at close range. Dugan, hitting both in and out, had 15 points, to lead scoring. Dean Michaelis had 13 for the Trojans. St. Mary's won the jayvee tus sle 45 to 43. LINE-UPS: St. Mary's 47 Bobbett 8 Walsh 4 -Miksche 6 Dugan 15 Meunier 4 f f c g g 40 Sacred Heart 8 Wickline 2 Thill 6 Siebert 10 Reginato 13 Michaelis Substitutions For St. Marv's: Hass ler, Paup 10, Darland, Elberts, Mur phy; for Sacred Heart: DePuy. Substitutions For Phoenix: Kelsoe 4, Bean 5, Oldham 2, James 2. Wel lace, Simmonds: for Illinois Valley: Piersall, Camp, Hemingway 1. King 1. FELLOWS WINS Twin Bridges, Calif. (U.PJ Lewis Fellows, 17 - year -old Olympic hopeful from Tahoe City, Calif, won the Far West Ski Association's junior division giant slalom championship yesterday. Gene Littler Cops PKoenix Golf Open by One Stroke No information was available today on how George Harring ton, Medford amateur, fared in the Phoenix' Open Golf tourney. Phoenix (U.R) Young Gene Littler, who ignores galleries with the calculation arid deliber ation of a .Hogan or Mangrum, was the marked man of golfs winter trail today following his victory in the $15,000 Phoenix Open. " The touring professionals move on to Tucson for the next major tournament starting Tuesday.- ' ' ' : : I...:',. r::a Littler, leading money winner for 1955, won a narrow one stroke triumph Sunday over Johnny Palmer, Charlotte, N.C., and Billy Maxwell, Odessa,. Tex. with a 72-hole score of 275, five under par. Palmer and Jay Hebert, Wood mere, N.Y., entered "the final round of play tied with Littler at 204. But the Los Angeles Open champ came on to sink a crucial two-foot putt on the 18th hole before a gallery of 6,000 that provided him with top tour nament money. Could Have Tied Palmer could have tied for th lead with a 70-foot putt from the edge of. the green on 18, but the ball was three feet short. Maxwell, who was National Amateur champ in 1915, narrow ly missed a first-place tie with Littler when he also had a chance for an eagle on the last hole. But his try from about 80 feet out was short of the cup and he too settled for a birdie. Ed '(Porky) Oliver, Lemont, HI., who trailed only two strokes after 54 holes, : was four over for. a final score of 280. Hebert, in trouble constantly on the front nine, finished in fifth place with a 75 that gave him 279 for the tournament. 7 Dr. Cary Middlecoff, Kiame sha Lake, N.Y., Kroll and Jerry Barber, Los Angeles, finished in a three-way tie three strokes be hind Littler with scores of 278. Ed Furgol, Clayton, Mo.r de fending Phoenix Open champ, finished wfth 283. 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