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6 B Fossil Hoop Cougars Defeat Huntington Bend - Wheeler County'i hard flvine Falcons broke from a third quarter deadlock vesterdav afternoon to tip the Prospect high Cougars 56 to 52 in the consolation final and claim fourth place In the Oregon Class B High school basketball tournament. ' The Falcons from the town of Fossil, a running team, and their District 5 adversaries were knotted 46-all going into the final period. Wheeler fought on top 53 to 48 with about 2V4 minutes left to play then slowed the pace and hung on. Prospect pulled up 54 to 52 with 50 seconds left. But, Jim Slinkard swished a clincher goal for Wheeler. Prospect's Cougars, behind through the entire first half, gave it the old high school try and, utilizing a pressing de fense blazed into strong con tention in the third period, taking the lead twice. How ever, with Craig Gardner limping on an ailing ankle, Prospect couldn't maintain the power to hold command. Fast Pace Attack Fossil employed a fast pace attack, warm shooting spurred by Bill Potter and a margin on the boards to garner its fourth spot trophy. Better firing at the free line gave the Wheeler County club the game. The Falcons put in 12 of their 16 gift attempts. Pros pect made only six of 15. Al though Fossil had the warmer field gunning, .423 to .383, the Cougars had the edge in goals 23 to 22. Three straight missed free shots hurt Prospect in the early moment of the final panel. In the meantime, Jim Slinkard put Wheeler ahead NOSE MUFFLERS $V50 and Up INSTALLED WHILE-U-WAIT OPEN SUNDAYS THE STORE WITH 10,000 ITEMS THRIFT AUTO SUPPLY Medford 801 N. Rlvaraide-Grantt linn in ywsnpii ft m Ww r; OUR BEST WAY-OF-LIFE INSURANCE THE CITIZEN SOLDIER OF THE NATIONAL GUARD YOUR COUNTRY ... IN YOUR COMMUNITY . . . IN THE NATIONAL GUARD MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNI SUNDAY, MARCH 12. 1961 Tips Prospect for B Consolations Laurels; for keeps with a couple of eifleis. A rebound shot by Pot ter then made it 50 to 46. Stan Payne hit from the corner for Prospect but Dave Ostrander countered from the field and Slinkard put in another free point for 53 to 48. Craig Gardner sank a bas ket from the corner with two minutes to go. Slinkard swish ed his fourth point of the quarter from the free stripe, A Bob Fitch jumper then was the last score for Prospect, making it 54 to 52. After Slinkard added his eoal for 56 to 52 with a half- minute to play, Dick Wood had a free shot chance for the Cougars. He missed but a Fal con was in the lane too soon Wood got another chance but the ball again failed to go through the hoop and time ran out. Ahead By Nin Tom Gilliam, Dave Prindle and Potter scored successive goals as the tilt's second quar ter got underway. That gave Fossil a nine point bulge, its biggest, at 18 to 9. The quar ter had ended 12 to 9. Hobbled Craig Gardner then began hitting from the corners for the Cougars. He hit four buckets at this stage for Prospect. His brother, Terry got one goal and Chuck Poole connected. As they were added to the Cougar total Prindle and Potter goal ed for Fossil and Gilliam got a free heave but the Wheeler County gap had been reduced to 23 to 21. Potter gave his club a 27 to 21 spread and the Falcons headed again at 29 to 23. Pros pect, nevertheless reduced the Pats, 237 Hlway 99S difference to three points, 31 to 28, at halflime. Paynt Gats Points Turning to the pressing game as the second half be gan, the Prospect club got on the move. Payne fired In three buckets and Terry Gard ner one while Potter was goal ing twice for Fossil. And, Prospect went on lop 36 to 35. Harvey Blank put the Fal cons back in front 37 to 36. Terry Gardner tied the fray at the free stripe. Then Gilliam gave Wheeler 39 to 37 lead. Fitch tied the tangle for the Cougars but Gilliam hit again for 41 to 39 Fossil. Fitch sank a driver for Prospect and Terry Gardner goaled for 43 to 41 with the upper Rogue team leading. Gilliam con nected for the third time from the right of the key to knot the match. Terry Gardner brought the Cougars the upper hand again and Craig's gifter made it 46 to 43. Slinkard got a free toss for Wheeler County and Pot ter a rebound for 46-all. Potter had 22 points in the game. For Prospect Craig and Terry Gardner and Bob Fitch each had 13 points. Terry was the rebound leader of the game with 12 retrieves. Potter and Slinkard had 11 each for the Falcons. COUGARS WIN FRIDAY Bend - Prospect high's Cougars cut off the steam of the Huntington Locomotives In the fourth quarter here Fri day afternoon and romped away from the District 6 ag gregation 70 to 47 in the con solation round of the Oregon Class B prep basketball tour nament. The Cougars, who were spurred by the 27-polnt scor ing of Bob Fitch, moved into the S a t u r day consolation finals for fourth place against Wheeler County of Fossil. Wheeler bounced Perrydale 76 to 51 also Friday after noon. Prospect shot at a blazing .500 clip from the field and kept the Locomotives off bal ance with a tough man-to-man defense. The District 5 champ from the upper Rogue area fought ahead at 16 to 14 In the second panel and never relinquished the front position after that. Strong Bid Halted Cougar players, who had trailed 10 to 14 just after the second canto began, were on top 32 to 23 at halflime. They rambled to an 18 point gap of 44 to 26. Third quarter spread was 47 to 31. Huntington bid strong at the start of the fourth session with an eight-point surge which hacked the Prospect difference down to eight markers at 47 to 39. But It was just about all Prospect after that. Cliff Chapman followed Fitch in scoring for the Cou gars with 12 points. Craig Gardner, the Prospect scoring leBder for the season, suffered a turned ankle in a collision with a teammate In the pre game warm-up. Playing with his ankle taped up, the hob bled Gardner managed just eight counters, but he did head the Cougars in rebounds with eight. Jim Armstrong of the Loco motives paced his club with 19 points and 12 rebounds. Fait Brcjalc Goes Prospect, somewhat baffled by a Huntington onc-thrce-onc zone defense, started slow. The Cougars began to solve the Locomotive strategy In the second quarter. In the late part of that period, the Engines switched to mnn-to-man and kept up that defense the rest of the way. The Cou gars were able to score strong ngainst this man-to-mnn with Fitch and Chapman tabu lating well on the fast break and contributing to the 50 per cent shooting. Huntington apparently was caught' unprepared for the Prospect man-for-man. Carl Mason of the Locomotives, who had put In 25 points the day before against lone, was held to Just one field bucket Friday by the efforts of Pros pect's Terry Gardner and Stan Payne. Coach Duane Payne's Cou gars opened the fourth quar ter with Craig and Terry Gardner resting on the bench. Don Armstrong's tip In and Jim Armstrong's two buckets and two glftcrs for the Kn gines cut the spread to the 47 to 39 count. Poola Gives Lead Then, Fitch put In two free losses and Chapman one. To these Fitch added I field goal for 52 to 39. Jim Armstrong got a basket for Huntington but Fitch put In a jumper I and Chapman went the length of the floor to score for 56 to 41. There was no Huntington bid after that. After a 60 to 47 gao, Prospect closed out with five straight field scores. Huntington led 12 to 10 at the end of the first stanza. Dick Cummlngt cava the Locomotives the 14 to 10 edge. Two buckets by Fitch tied up the fray and Chuck Poole's lone field goal of the after noon gave the Cougars the lead for good at 16 to 14. At the tail end of the opening half Prospect pulled away from a 26 to 23 margin to 32 to 23 on goals by Chapman and Fitch and two free heaves by Terry Gardner. The Locomotives hit only .254 from the field. FKIDAY nox: Prmiiect FG C. Gardn'r 11- 4 FT 2- 0 5- 3 9- 2 5- 3 4- 3 0- 0 3- 3 0- 0 0- 0 0- 0 T. Gnrdn'r 4- 2 Chnpman.. 10- S FlU-h 17-12 Payne .... 10- 3 Wood 0- 0 Poole 2- 0 Nye 0- 0 Rojier 1- 0 Bean 1- 1 Totall S6-28 24-14 39 IS 70 Huntington FO FT Rub. vr TP House 2-11-1 0 2 3 Mason .... Ill- 15-4 B 3 6 J. Armstrong 15- 6 10- 7 12 1 19 Smllh 13- 3 2- 1 6 5 7 Cummlngs 7- 2 2- 2 2 4 6 Wiley 4- 0 0- 0 0 0 0 Lannley .. 3- 1 0- 0 0 0 2 D, Armstrong 4-2-0-0 4 1 4 Totals (3-16 20-15 32 16 47 iswft&ktlll V eieMssitoirfc. - , NEAR TUMBLE FOR BEAVER Bill Wold, Oregon Slate, nearly fulls to the floor while dribbling around University of Oregon's Linfield Will Face Grambling Kansas City-IUI'D - Linfield I Westminster of Pennsyl wlll meet Grambling of Lou- vania, with a 20-3 record, is isiana in its first game in the top-seeded. Northern Mir-hiuan NAIA national basketball tournament here next week. The Wildcats, who gained the tourney by beating Eas tern Oregon Tuesday night for the NAIA district 2 title, will meet Grambling Monday at 10 a.m. PST in the 16-team meet's second game. Linfield, which captured the Northwest Conference championship this year, has an 18-10 record. Grambling Is 27-4. NOTICE! To All Our Customers, Old and New MEDFORD MUFFLER CO. Has NOT Changed Owners! 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The Beavers and Ducks, now bolh 14-11 for the year, close out their regular sched ules tonight at Corvallis. Warren and Glenn Moore paced the Oregon triumph. Warren hod 19 points and Moore turned in 17 points. Oregon State's Jay Carty also scored 19. Oregon led 32-25 at half time. The Ducks, outshot .357 to .305 from the floor, outre bounded the Oregon Staters is second seeded and George ranked third. Whitworth, which is the Washington district represent ative, will meet West Virginia Stale at 1 p.m. PST Monday. Both teams have 19-9 records. FRIDAY (MM K State II Tourney (Championship) v Lowell titi. Portland Christian 50 lone 07. Pqwers 34 (Consolation) Prospect 70. Huntington 4T Fosslll 78, Perrydale 31 DUALS DELIVERY FREE CHECKUP Guaranteed Satisfactory Installation and Materials or Your Money Back John J. Beaman Medford MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFOHD, ORE. 45-37. Warren led the Oregon rebounding with 11. mix: Oregon 8tata Jacobson Carty Anderson Wold Rossi Pauly Flynn Johnson ........ Woodland Baker Totals FT 3- 3 7- 9 1- 1 2- 2 1- 1 4- 7 2- 3 1- 2 1- 2 0- 0 Oregon FO Warren 7 Simmons 2 Moore 5 Strickland 1 Hayes 2 Jones 0 Mack 1 FT s- a 0- 2 7- 7 4- 4 0- 0 2- 3 0- 1 Total! 18 1K-23 54 Faculty Leads HC Hoop Race Happy Camp The Forest Service retained second place in the Happy Camp Recrea tion league last week with a 73-46 win over Seiad. The foresters now have a 6-2 rec ord and trail the league lead ing Faculty with a 7-0 mark, Joe Ragsdale paced the for esters against Seiad by pour ing in 21 points. Bill Calola had 19 for Seiad. The Community church pulled into third place by vir tue of a 69-21 win over the Firemen. Dave Harnden tal lied 19 for the church club. Newt Harnden had 18 for the winners. Leon Hayes (15) In first half of game Fri day night at Eugene. U of O won 54-52. (UPI Telephoto) WIN FENCING TOURNEY Warsaw, Poland - IUPD -George Worth of New York scored three victories in help ing the United States team defeat Russia, 9-7, Friday night in the opening round of the Warsaw international sabdr fencing tournament. ANGELS SIGN CATCHER Losn Angeles - (IIPI) - Jack Biatt, an 18-year-old catcher sought by six other major league teams, signed a con tract yesterday with the Los Angeles Angels. He will re port next week to Dallas-Fort Worth of the Acmrican associ ation. WELDING (Gas and 15 MINUTE INSTALLATION Ph. SP 3-4818 Lowell, lone State B Tourney Finalists Bend IUPD Lowell's tall Red Devils and scrappy lone gained the Saturday finals of the Oregon class B high school Prospect Aces All-Tourney Selections Bend - fl'PD - lone plac ed two players on the Oregon high school class B all - tournament first team announced Satur day night. John Swanson and Francis Rea made the first squad for lone. Other first earners were Al McDaniel of Lowell, Bob Filch of Prospect and Gary Browlee of Portland Christian. The learn was picked by sportswrilers. The second team was made up of Tim Blanch aid, Portland Christian; Rich Calbo, Powers; Ter ry Brainbridge, Lowell; Terry Gardiner, Prospect, and Bill Potter and Jim Slinkard, Fossil. FREE COFFEE ; BELL BOY BOATS - 17 Ft. and 20 Ft . . . Truly Luxury Afloat Try Them Johnson Outboards Trailerboat Inboards Complete Marine and Skin Diving Equipment DON'T MISS IT iC FOLLOW THE STATE A-l TOURNAMENT Over CCTJC 1230 RADIO Opening Round Games TUESDAY: 7:30 p.m.-Klamath Falls vs. St. Helens WEDNESDAY: 1 :4S p.m.-Medford vs. Tillamook 3:15 p.m.-South Salem vs. Bend 7:30 p.m.-Roseburg vs. David Douglas Listen to KYJC and basketball tournament with victories Friday night. Lowell, the tallest team in the eight -school tournament, rolled past previously - unde feated Portland Christian 66 50 and once - beaten lone scored its 22nd straight win by beating Powers 67-54 in semi-final action. In consolation play, Pros pect defeated Huntington 70 47 and Fossil unended Perry dale 76-51. John Swanson poured in a tournament high of 33 points to lead lone to its victory. From Low Post Swanson scored most of his points from the low post to run his two -game tourney total to 52 points. Frank Rea added 13 for Cardinals. In the Lowell victory, Al McDaniel was the offensive star. McDaniel scored 21 points, all in the crucial first three periods. The triumph was the 23rd in 25 starts this season for the Red Devils. Bill- Potter and Jim Slink ard combined to lead Fossil past Perrydale. Potter had 22 and Slinkard scored 20. REESE MARINE HIGHWAY 99 PHOENIX, OREGON ENDS TODAY, 9 P.M. the thrilling new 1961 boats, motors accessories... VALUABLE PRIZES! and POP ALL DAY! 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