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TEW MTOrOBD (OREGOIT1 MAIL TRIBUHE Sunday, March 20, 1S55 4 Yoouuad IBeos. Moots, Cfiimehes- Him Spot Off-Form MHS Team Scrambles Back After Trailing Cleveland By DICK JEWETT Mail Tribune Seort. Editor McArthur Court, University of Oregon, Eugene Tha Madford High Black Tornado batkatball team cama back from tha brink of dafaat in tha fourth quarter hera Friday night to defeat Cleveland ef Portland, 42 to 37. Tha victory put Madford into tha finals of tha 37th annual Oregon Class A high school basketball tournament against Eu gene's Axemen. For Medford, it was tha third victory of tha season over tha Indians and their ace, Dick Jolley. However, tha Tornado team was far off tha form which earned them Oregon's No. 1 prep rat ing weak after week in pre-tourney polls. Lacked Sharp Edge Of Earlier Contests The Black Tornado did show ome of the hustle, drive and ag gressiveness of its finest and most successful season in 10 years. But Friday it lacked the sharp edge and zip that marked many of its contests. Medford made three fourths of its field goals on close-in tosses, but only a couple of them came on real fast breaks. The Medford cagers won the opportunity to encounter the "bridesmaid" Eugene Axemen in the Saturday finals. Eugene, runner-up for the state's top prep hoop glory in both 1953 and 1954, gave the Central Catholic Rams a severe 73 to 46 chopping in the other round-of-four conflict Friday. Medford gained the finals for the first time since 1939, 16 long years ago. Neither Glitter Neither team was "glittering" Friday as Medford rang up its 25th consecutive victory of the season and its 26th in 27 games. But the Tornado overcame a seven-point Indian lead in a hectic, heart palpitating finish which had Medford Coach Frank Hoelandt sniffing the smelling alts. And Cleveland the little Indians defensed the taller Tor nado players effectively and fought on almost even terms for the rebounds. Utilizing a slow deliberate offense, the Cleveland ers had the' Medf ordites playing the type of game they wanted, and took the whoosh out of the usual hard-running Tornado at tack. And, Jolley, a marksman from all angles, but particularly deadly on long shots, enabled the Indians offensively to make a stirring game of it. Medford was tough on defense but, pestered by the scalp-mind ed Indians and plagued by its own failure to connect on shot after shot, had to fight a desper ate struggle. Fight in 3rd Quarter The tense, dramatic portion of the fracas began with Med ford lagging 19 to 26 and less than 2,4 minutes remaining in the third quarter. The Tornado quint had been missing free hots all evening, but suddenly found the net for five plus a field goal to cut their deficit to 26 to 28 at the quarter's end Bud Kastner and Jerry Kalapus each swished a brace of gifters and Frank Rector got one after a successful bucket from the field. Jay Bashor picked up a goal for Cleveland Kalapus tied up the count at 28-all with a hook shot as the fourth panel began. Jolley count ered immediately with a jump pitch and 1V minutes later Rec tor retaliated in kind. The score was 30-all. Jolley got a bucket and a free throw for a 33 to 30 Tribe advantage. Glenn Peter son tipped in his own rebound for Medford and Jolley etted a longie for a 35 to 32 Cleveland margin. Kastner hooked in shot from under the hoop for the Tornado. Then Rector drib bled the full length of the floor and flipped in a basket. Many in the crowd thought he took steps wun tne ball but Referees Len Patterson and Bill Williams didn't see that way and Medford had a 36 to 35 count. It was the first Tornado lead since a 10 to spread in the first quarter. HEY KIDS! - STILL TIME TO WIN DAVIS TRANSFER & STORAGE CO.'S DRAWING CONTEST! For Rules, Come to . . . Davis Transfer Ashland Moving 8 Storage Go. & Storage Go. 40 S. Fir St. Medford Rector continued as the man of the hour with a close in jump er and a free shot for 39 to 35, with three minutes yet to" play, and Medford hung on for dear life. With 2Vi minutes left Jolley dunked in a shot from under the basket. Larry Copple with Wi minutes to play pushed in one free toss and missed his second. Harvey Jones missed one long try for Cleveland in the final minute. Time was running out fast as Rector rifled a pass to Kastner under the basket. Kastner flip ped the ball in the hoop with 2 seconds to play for Medford's final 42 total. Lead Changes The lead changed hands four times in the first quarter. Cleve land led at the buzzer 14 to 10. Jolley picked up 10 of those points. - A weird second quarter saw only six points scored. Peterson and Copple got field goals for Medford and Bob Hevener col lected one for the Tribe. Cleve land led 16 to 14 at half time. Both had other opportunities for goals and each muffed three free toss opportunities. More than 4 minutes had been played in the period before Peterson broke the scoring freeze. Long shots by Jolley made it 20 to 14 early in the third canto. Kalapus put in three gift tries to narrow the score to 20 to 17. After Jolley got two free ones and Copple a goal in close on a feed, the standing was 22 to 19. Bashore dropped in counters twice from the free line and Jolley flicked a fielder for the 26 to 19 gap. While Jolley got more than two-thirds of his team's points, Medford's scoring was more evenly divided. Kalapus had 11 and Kastner and Rector each 10. Medford hit 16 out of 52 fi goal attempts for a .308 average, poor for the Tornado. Cleve land was under that with 15 for 53 and .283. Medford made seven out of 31 field attempts for a .226 average in the first half. Cleveland did little better with seven for 27 and .259. At the free throw lane Med ford recorded 10 for 22 and the Indians seven for 15. Medford outscored Cleveland 16 points to nine in the last stanza. In rebounding, the Black Tor nado had a slim 40 to 37 edge. Jolley again was leader of the Tribe with 12 and Hevener had nine. Kalapus plucked nine and Peterson and Copple eight each for Medford. Earlier Games Medford beat the Indians 58 to 48 and 56 to 40 in December encounters. The championship scrap last night also was the Tornado's third meeting of the season with Eugene. The Axe men took one mix 58 to 50 and Medford won the other 51 to 50, also in December. Medford Peterson, f Kastner, f ... Kalapus. e ft 0 2 S 1 3 0 0 10 ft pf 2 2 4 3 3 4 0 0 Copple. g Rector, g roust McCullough 16 ft ...10 ... 3 1 1 ... 0 11 42 pf tp 4 25 3 8 3 2 2 2 4 0 Cleveland Jolley. f .... Bashor. f Hevener. c Jones, g E Petersen, g 256 Fourth St. Ashland 1 ittt mum imiii TWO FOR MEDFORD Jerry Kalapus, 6 foot 4 inch center, is shown above dunking in two points for the Black Tornado as Medford piled up a 60 to 51 victory over Franklin of Port land Wednesday night in the opening round of the state prep tournament at Eugene. Wait ing for a rebound which failed to materialize Albany EDrutes St. Mens For Fourth Place Tourney ertSi Eugene, Ore. U.R) Albany High school rode over St. Helens 62 to 29, Saturday with a smash ing attack that gave them fourth place in the State Class "A" High school basketball tourna ment here. In another afternoon consola tion game, Milwaukie drubbed Baker 58 to 38 to give last year's Bosking 0 0 0 0 TOTALS 15 1 15 37 Eugene ; l ft pf tp Myers, f 10 2 2 Tuttle, f 4 7 1 lo Moran. c 6 9 2 21 Kvkendall. g 5 O 0 10 King, g 1 2 'f Hughes 0 12 1 Powell 112 3 Lawrence 2 0 0 4 Anderson 3 3 0 9 OUen 1 0 3 J8 24 25 13 73 Central fg ft pf tp McWirter. f 2 0 5 4 Hopman. f 2 14 5 Altenhofen, c 6 3 4 14 Santangelo. g 3 0 4 6 Bernhardt 13 5 5 Petersen 0 0 0 0 Kane 3 0 16 Df-aney 0 0 0 0 Lewis .. 0 2 12 Farrell 2 0 2 4 TOTALS 19 8 28 46 local Agant tor EMUHfiMJI.THt" PIE MEDF0RD(TBIBUHS siPODimrs Slate champion Milwaukie team fifth place in tourney standings. Milwaukie led all the way Eugene U.R) Mike Moran, big Eugene center, led indirid ual scoring at the end of tha third round of the state high school basketball tournament with 71 points. He was fol lowed by Don Stamps of Al bany with 68, Dick Jolley of Cleveland with 61 and Ted Miller of Milwaukie with 59. against the Eastern Oregonians, spearheaded by Guard Ted Mil ler who scored high for the game with 22 points. The largest! crowd in state tournament history 9141 saw the Axemen and the Black Tor nado advance to the finals Fri day night in a pair of games that provided plenty of contrast. Eugene, rolling in high gear since its narrow squeak over Milwaukie Wednesday, crushed Central Catholic 73-46. But Med ford, top-ranked team in the TOURNEY AT A GLANCE By UNITED PRESS Friday'. Result. Championship Bracket Medford 42. Cleveland 37 Eugene 73, Central Catholic 46 CONSOLATION Milwaukit 70, Redmond 37 Baker 69, North Bend 59 Albany 47, South Salem 35 St. Helen. 65, Mae-Hi 47 state, had to go all out to down Cleveland, the Portland cham pion, 42-37. Albany downed South Salem for the third time this year, 47 35, to go into the fourth place finals against St Helens, which took Mac-Hi 63-47. Baker upset North Bend BB SS and Milwaukie crushed Red mond 70-37 as all-stater Ted Mil ler hit 30. points. THIRD TOURNAMENT TALKED BY OSAA Eugene (U.R) The Oregon School Activities Association gave tentative approval early today to a plan to have a third high school basketball tourna are Medford Forward Glenn Peterson, and Bjarne Jensen, Franklin's 6 foot 10 inch soph omore center. Kalapus tallied 20 points against Franklin to take second high scoring honors as Larry Copple picked up 24 for Med ford. Jensen topped Quaker scorers with 16. (Brainerd Photo by Kenn Knackstedt) ment next year. The OSAA's plan would have a 16-team A-l tournament and eight-team A-2 and B tourna ments. At present there are 16 team class A and eight-team class B tourneys, with A-2 schools playing in class A. ATTEHTIOH Loggers & Contractors! 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The Knickerbockers lost their opener to the Celtics in Boston but bounced back for a 102-95 triumph at the Garden last Wednesday. They hold a 9-5 edge over the Celtics in playoff games the last few years and are in perfect physical condition. The Royals squared their se ries at 1-1 Friday night when they eked out a 94-92 victory over the Lakers at Rochester. Arnie Risen scored 10 points and Odie Spears 17 to lead the Royals while Clyde Lovellette tossed in 19 for the Lakers although han dicapped by four personal fouls throughout the entire second half. Idaho Pugilists Lead Tourney Sacramento, Calif. (U.R) The Idaho State boxing team held a strong lead over 10 other west ern colleges Saturday as the Pacific Coast Intercollegiate Boxing tournament entered its final day. Going into the finals, the Idaho State team had a total of 23 points, followed by Washingr ton State with 18 and San Jose State with 16. Other teams in the scoring column include Cal Poly 10, Santa Clara 9, Nevada 3, and Chico State and Stanford 2 each. Tonight's finals in the nine weight divisions will be worth five points each. Friday night, heavyweight Mike McMurtre, last year's na ed the list of five voctorious tional collegiate champion, head Idaho State fighters. His cham pionship style showed, as he de feated tough John Rehder of Cal Poly. Andrea Lawrence Slalom Winner Stowe, Vt. (U.R) Andrea Mead Lawrence of Parshall, Colo., swept to her second win in two days today as she captured the giant slalom event at the second annual American-International ski races. The 21-year-old Mrs. Lawrence displayed perfect form as she cut through 36 gates on the three-quarter mile course in 1:53.4. Catherine Rodolph of Reno, Nev., was second in 1:54.8 and Skeeter Werner of Steam boat Springs, Colo., was third in 1:55.8. J PHONE 2-5278 3L44 Pros, Amateurs, (Q)n Open Entry List One hundred forty-four of an expected 170 entries for the an nual Oregon Open Golf tourna ment had entered up to Saturday afternoon, the Rogue Valley Country club reported. The annual links event will make Medford the focal point of northwest golf enthusiasts this week. The tourney gets under way with the professional-ama teur rounds Thursday, with the actual tournament starting Fri day and concluding vith 36 holes Sunday. The entry list includes 95 amateurs, 35 professionals and 14 seniors. Pro. Enter Among the new entries in the ranks of the professional players are Ray Honsberger, Ranier Country club, Seattle, who holds the record for the most consecu tive birdies in a row (seven, in the 1953 Oregon Open); Joe Greer, Yakima Country club, Pacific Northwest Professional Golf association champion; George Buzzini, Diabolo Country club, San Francisco, Northern California Open champion. 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