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EIGHT MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Sunday, February 28, I95S iedford Ends IKIome Schedule :h 72-52 Caveman Meat SOUTHER! OREGON CONFERENCE STANDINGS W. L. Med ford Klamath Falls Grants Pass Ashland ..10 7 3 .. 2 Pet. .809 .636 .273 .182 Medford high's Southern Ore gon Conference and i District 6 A-l champions wound up their 1958 home basketball slate in appropriately impressive . and glittering style on the Hedrick court Friday night. The Black Tornado combined torrid shoot ing with fine floor play and aggressive defense to overpower the Grants Pass Cavemen 72 to 52. ' It was the 10th victory in 11 conference scrambles for the Tornado and its 16th successful maplecourt venture in 21 games this season. Sizzling during three quarters of the fracas, Medford fired at a scorching .595 average from the field, its best shooting of 'the season. The Medfordites took control of the skirmish when it was ,three minutes old. They whirled to a 25 to 9 first quart er bulge. Tornado lead was nev er less than 12 points after that although the Cavemen showed streaks of strength. Zone Gives Trouble Grants Pass gave Medford trouble with its zone defense in the second canto and that session ended 31 to 18.'The Cave men then tussled on even terms through most' of the third chuck er but by the end of the stanza the Medford crew had upped its advantage to 50 to 33. Medford had several 23-point margins in the final quarter. The Tornado flicked in 10 field shots in 13 tries in the first quarter with Lloyd Cearley sink ing four for four. And Cearley and his mates, Dick Copple, Dick McLaughlin, Bob Tisdel and Neil Plumley, all had a hand in ballhawking defense which en abled Medford to establish its command. Medford interceptions and steals cut down the GP shooting chances and Tornado pressing gave the Cavemen few good opportunities. Grants Pass got only two field goals in the stanza. ' I- . The Cavemen came back with its stiff zone in the second panel to limit Medford to only two goals in 10t tries., Two stalls by the Tornado in an attempt to break up the zone, resulted in some of the dearth of scoring in the quartern Grants Pass switched to man-to-man " defense in fairly short order on the first occasion and Medford got one bucket, by John Foust. But the Cavemen were more reluctant to come out and try for the ball moments later and Ed Reink ing stood and held the ball for almost 1 minutes. 28 of 47 From Field That was all of the real slow down tactics of the night and the Medford offense clicked for eight field goals in 12 tries each in the third and fourth quarters to give the Tornado a 28 out of 47 tabulation for night. - There were three ties of 2 all, 4-all and 6-all in the open ing minutes and the Tornado went ahead for keeps , on Cear ley's long cast at 8 to 6. Individual scoring was well distributed on both squads. Plumley got 14, McLaughlin 13, Cearley 12 and Tisdel 11 for Medford and Chuck Nevi 13 and Allan Drews 12 to lead the Cave men. While the Cavemen were kept from having a big night from the field, they were impressive from the gift line with 21 free shots in 26 chances. Medford did well, too, with 16 for 21. Grants Pass had the rebound ing edge 14 to eight in the first half and Medford 13 to eight in the second half. The Tornado's success from the field and its frequent busting of the GP at tack before shots were fired, however, took away some of the significance of backboard work on the outcome of the game. Copple was Medford's top re triever with seven and Larry Henderson and Tom Bernet each had six for Grants Pass. Many Reserves Played After the Tornado took wide control in the fourth quarter, Coach Frank Roelandt began filtering reserves into the fray. Twelve Medford players saw duty. GP also finished up with substitutes and .11 Cavemen played. ' It was the final home basket ball appearance in the prep hoop careers of five Medford seniors, Tisdel, Cearley, Foust, Ed Retak ing and Larry Gobef . For Gober it was the first action since the Eugene series at the start of the season. First a cold then an ankle sprain sidelined him. Gob er was in the mix during the final 5Vi minutes and did well in that time. Medford was without the ser vices of Tisdel through the sec ond quarter and for five minutes of the third because of his third and fourth fouls. He played 3Vi minutes of the last ' quarter. In another conference game at Ashland, Klamath Falls al most duplicated the Medford score, trimming the Grizzlies 72 to 51. BOX: Medford Copple, f McLaughlin, f ' Plumley. c Tisdel, g . Cearley, g Foust Reinklne Perkins Stearns Puhl Slessler Gober . FG FT PF TP 8 13 14 11 12 5 2 0 2 0 1 . 4 Totals Grants Pass Bernet. f ... Walker, f - Henderson, o Nevi, g 28 18 17 72 FG FT PF TP . 2 3 3 7 Drews, g Slaven Weller .. Winger Taylor Smith . Tompkins Totals 0 2 .... 3 5 .. 0 .. 0 ... 3 0 0 . 0 0 2 2 . 1 ' 1 - 2 . 0 0 0 1 0 5 6 13 12 0 0 9 0 0 0 15 22 11 52 Referees Bill Esselstyn and Clar ence Mellbye. Medfof JTribune SIP(1D TDHT JiQil Idaho Edges Oregon State 58-55 in Dreary Battle Corvallis (U.PJ Oregon State fell even deeper into the lower rungs of the Pacific Coast Con ference ladder here Friday night as the cellar-dwelling Vandals of Idaho poked out a 58-55 win over the Beavers in a slow un impressive display of basketball. Idaho took its final- game-winning lead with only 1:10 show ing on the clock as Oregon State failed to connect from the field since midway through the second period. . The Beavers took a 55-54 lead with two minutes to play, only tj see Gary Simmons connect with a 20-footer and ' put the Vandals in front, . 5 6-5 5. Oregon State got two. more chances to take the advantage but on the second miss, Idaho cleared the board and set the stage for a clincher by Jay Buhler in the waning seconds on a layin that ran the final to 59-55 Vandals Lead Early Idaho took the early lead in the ball game, stretching it into an 11 point advantage midway through the first period at 23-12. Oregon State rallied to knot the count at 27-all before the Vand als pounced back to go into intermission period with a 37-31 bulge. The second half was' little more inspiring for the 4496 fans than was the first until Oregon State finally caught up and took their first lead of the night, 44-45 for the Beavers. That go ahead basket was the last two-pointer that the Beavers collected for the night, although the lead alternated until the final minute. ' Bill Baucher paced the Vand als collecting 13. High for Ore gan State was Dave , Gambee with 16. The two clubs go into tonight's battle knotted with two-won and 11-lost records a tie for the conference cellar. MX! IdahOB . Buhler f . Jorgenson McEwan f aranon c Simmnnc Baucher g Thomson g FG FT PF TP .2 4-6 4 -8 g 5 :...-2 . 4 .. 4 .... 6 ... 0 0- 1 1- 4 3-6 3-4 1-2 0-0 Totals ' Oregon State Allord f Gambee f .... Paulus f Frederick f Moss c Carroll c Nanson g Haynes g Crimins g 23 12-23 18 58 FG FT PF TP 3 5 0 0 3 0 3 1 0 7-8 6-8 0-0 0-0 1- 3 2- 2 6-8 3- 4 0-0 Totals 15 25-33 13 35 TURNER WINS Daytona Beach, Fla. U.R) Curtis Turner of Roanoke, Vai whose car burned up in Friday's feature, yesterday won the first annual $13,450 Nation al Convertible championship race in a 1956 Ford. The 32-year-old sportsman- lumberman challenged by another Ford during .the first half of the race set a blistering pace over the 39 laps of the 4.1 mile beach and asphalt course. His time for the 160 miles was one hour, 39 minutes, and 53 seconds with an official average of 96.11 miles per hour. 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The "photo was snapped just after Bernet let fly for the basket. The shot failed but Ber net made one of his two free tries. Other Med fordites in the picture are Larry Gober (25), Larry Perkins and Mike Stearns (13). Medford won 72 to 52. (Brainerd photo) - : Walfonians Asking Support In Effort for Funds for Savage Rapids Screening Officials of the Jackson Coun- ty chapter of the Izaak Walton league made another big move Friday in their efforts to secure federal appropriation for turbine screening at Savage Rapids dam on Rogue river. They mailed copies of an. urg ent appeal for support and hehp to the IWL national headquarters which -is to relay them on to Waltonian division headquarters in the 47 other states. Appeals request the IWL leaders to com municate with their representa tives in Congress, especially those who are members of the House appropriations commit tee, urging support of the tur bine screening proposals Oregon Cong. Harris Ellsworth will make to the committee. The plea for immediate action by Waltonians states that due to failure of screen, turbine intake at Savage Rapids irrigation dam the spring chinook and summer steelhead runs on Rogue river are about to disappear. It points to -a decrease of 62 per cent since 1942 in spring run chinook and 77 per cent decrease in sum mer steelhead. Loss of fish when they are forced to pass through the tur bine and pumps on downstream migration is brought out. That 83 per cent of the flow of the .river must pass through the tur bine or pumps is also stated. Hedrick Eighth Downs CP 45-30 Hedrick Junior high won the eighth grade mix and Central Point the seventh grade tilt yes terday in basketball contention at Central Point. . The Hornet eighth trailed in the first half but went ahead to stay in the third quarter in. top pling the Pointers 45 to 30. Cen tral Point seventh grade estab lished a huge lead in the first half and surviyed a faltering de fense to beat Hedrick 36 to 23. Pointers led 13 to 11 at the quarter and 22 to, 21 at the half of the eighth grade hassle but. Hedrick gained a 35 to 25 edge in the third period. In , the seventh grade scrap Central Point went on top 15 to 2 in the first quarter and 23 to 2 by half time. Third quarter standing was 32 to 11. LINE-CPS: Hedrick 8th 45 30 Central Point Moore 13 f ' 4 Woods Frohnmayer 7 f 2 Cote McGill 10 c i 10 Michaels Olson 6 1 g , 6 Pfaff Anderson 5 g 8 G Bartley Substitutions For Hedrick, Cantrall 2, Parsons. Kliever, Deakins 2; for Central Point. Sharp, Warren, Arnold, Toner, B. Anhorn, J. Anhorn. Federal appropriation of $208,- 000 to adequately screen the in take is needed. Starting with 1949 every effort to secure fed eral funds for screening has failed. Ellsworth is to appear before the appropriations com mittee on the matter by March The appeal stresses that the U. S. fish and wildlife service and the Oregon state game com mission urge immediate screen ing. About 45,000 angler days are spent annually in trying to take the two species of fish and about 45 per cent of the fishermen are from states outside of Oregon, according to Waltonian informa tion. .,' . ; Grants Pass Irrigation dis trict, for who the dam was re built or rehabilitated, will not screen the .intake at,. Savage Rapids. State law will not per mit the game commission to do the job. At the time of rebuild ing; Congress considered the pro ject as not eligible for nonre imbursable funds. ' - Ma I in, Chiloquin Klamath Victors Cavekids Top int One of Hedrick junior high ninth grade's best basketball performances of the season was not quite enough Friday.- The Hornets dropped a 45 to 39 ruck us with Grants -Pass. ' The Hedrick crew looked good in a losing battle which was close to the finish. Only one point separated the clubs with less than a minute to play Grants Pass extended its margin on free shots off three fouls iwo cavekid gifters were plunked in after the final buz zer. Grants Pass had quarterly leads of 14 to 9, 26 to 22 and 36 to 32. Jerry Putnam was .the big gun for GP. He had 16 points and his 6 feet 4 inches proved too much for Hedrick to con tend with. John Harvey was high scorer for the Hornets with 15. He had 13 in the first half but was held down by Johnny Olson in the last two quarters. LINE-UPS GP. 91h 45 Olson 8. . , Barrell Putnam 16 Leonard 4 Hays 7 39 Hed. 9th 10 Peek 4 Maurer 6 Rasmussen 15 J.. Harvey 2 T. Monroe Substitutions For Grants Pass, Wil son, Fox 10, Dean; for Hedrick, Wha- ley z, winctrout. Klamath Falls Chiloquin high defeated Sacred Heart 59 for the District 5B diadem to 52 and Malin - clubbed Bly 77 to 28 Friday night to go into the Saturday finale for the Kla math-Lake county B basketball tourney championship. Winner will face St. Mary's of Medford Med f o rd Wrestle rs Capture TwoTitles Medford high school captured i two individual championships, i placed four men in the state meet and won third place in team standings in the district wrestling tournament Friday and Saturday at Southern Oregon college gymnasium. Ron Lingren and Ray Hilton of the Black Tornado won titles in their respective weights and George Flanagan and Gordon Owsley got the other state ruckus spots for Medford. . Klamath Falls won the district laurels with 154 points ' and placed 13 men in state tourney spots, : seven of them area champs. Grants Pass scored 115 counters and six Cavemen earned trips to Corvallis. Medford had a score of 70, .Illinois Valley 43 and Glendale 39. . IV Places Two . Illinois Valley qualified two first place men and Glendale one second place grappler. Lingren decisioned George Flanagan, a Medford squad mate, for the 130-pound district toga. Flanagan defeated , Alley of Klamath Falls, consolation win ner, for the number two. spot in the weight. , Hilton decisioned Richie Con- dray of Grants Pass in the 136 pound field. Owsley won the 123-pound consolation and then trimmed Brown of Klamath Falls who ; had lost in ; championship finals. ' Champions included Bleek, Klamath, 98 pounds; Cramer, Klamath, 106; Stevens, Grants Pass, 115; Roberts, Klamath, 123; Cole, Illinois Valley, 141; Berg, Klamath, 148; Leeling, Klamath, 157; Peterson, Grants Pass, 168; Simons, KlamatU, 178; Swift, Illinois Valley, 191, and Barker, Grants Pass, unlimited. Medford Sure Medford high was sure of at least one area' winner and had six other entries still in the run ning for state tournament berths after Friday bouts..' Ron Lingren and George Flan agan of the Tornado reached the 130-pound class finals.' Losers were to meet the consolation bracket winner for a second state meet spot in the weight. In the -136-pound eliminations Ray Hilton won his way into a finals . engagement with Richie Condray of Grants Pass. Dennis Walker had similar success in the 141 grouping, winning the right to wrestle Cole of Illinbis Valley - in the ; : championship match. ' -' '' i , Gordon Owsley, 123, Larry Anderson, 168, and Bob Martin, 148, were all in the running in the consolation flights after Fri day scrapes. Results Listed In Friday matches Hilton de feated Leland Barrows of Grants Pass and Steiner of Klamath Falls. Walker subdued Smith of Glendale and Bob Fawcett of GP. Flanagan drew a bye in the first round then trimmed Alley of Klamath Falls. Lingren got by Cheney of GP and Tonelli of KF. .Owsley lost to Ivan Taylor of Grants Pass, pinned Coate of Glendale and beat Valle of GP. Anderson was winner over Larry Drake of GP but lost to Roy Ropp of Klamath. He then de feated Krauss of Illinois Valley. Martin was subdued by Flipse of GP and then beat Gary Heath of Medford. 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