Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, March 11, 1963, Image 12

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Newspaper Page TextMEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON MONDAY. MARCH 11. 19S3 Black Tornado Beats Comets 84-63, Shares Conference Hoop Banner With GP's Cavemen -2 B MHS Will Face Lebanon in A-l Tourney Opener ROUTIIF.RN ORKGON CONFERENCE STANII1NGS W. I.. Medford II Grants Pass ..... 11 9 Crater 0 7 Klamath Falla 7 9 Ashland 2 14 Pet. .688 .688 .563 .438 .1113 It's' a Southern Oregon conference basketball co- championshlp for the Mod ford Black Tornado and back to the Oregon Class A-l high school tournament after an absence of one season. The Medford Twister of the tnaplccourt, which rumbled through the last half of its conference slate without loss, wrote finis to the regular 1962-1963 campaign Saturday night with its eighth victory in a row 84 to 63 over the Crater Comets of Central Point; It was a thunderous blue flame rendition by the Whirl wind. And, Crater, in conten tion for league laurels right up to the circuit's final night, was almost as hot. The Fire balls, still within range after three sizzling, fast moving periods, however, could col lect only seven markers in the final chapter, Medford kept up the scoring tempo of pre vious quarters with 20. Medford shares the confer ence and District 6 A-l man tle with the Cavemen of Grants Pass. Each concluded 11-5 in the loop. Crater took third place .with 9-7. Drawing Held Lebanon will be the open ing round rival of the Tor nadoes at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 19, in the state tourney at Eugene. Grants Pass will take on South Salem at 2 2 p.m. on March 20. That was settled at noon yesterday when Principal Lester Harris and Lee Ragsdale of the Med ford faculty met with Jeff Loiter of the GP school staff for a drawing at Gold Hill. South Salem and Lebanon are the District 8 (Valley league) representatives In the tournament. The Black Tornad oes scared the hoop nets Saturday by pouring through 36 field goals at a .554 firing rale. They got their heavy scoring from Jack Fordo, Rich Bon ner and driving Mike Neath amer and were bulwarked be neath the board by the tall combination of Jim Hill, forde and Bcnner. Ford Scorn 24 Medford grabbed the lead for keeps near the end of a fiery back and fourtli first quarter. The Tornadoes of Coach Frank Roclandt headed 20 to 17, 40 to 33 and 64 to 58 at the intermissions. Howard Tomlinson's free throw cut the margi nto 64 to 37 but that was the last Comet point for about 4'i minutes while Medford upped to 72 before the Central Pointers swished the net again. Fordo had 24 points, Bcn ner 20 and Ncathamer IS for Medford and Tomlinson 23 and Pat Pepper 15 for the Comets. Bcnner's points were on 10 field buckets in 15 trios. Hill glommcd 12 rebounds, Fordo 10 and Bcnner nine. For Crater Tomlinson snag ged 10 and Paul Bransom 11. The Medfords had their high field average on 63 at tempts. Crater shot less, aver aging an even .300 on 27 goals in 54 shots. Rebounds, exclud ing several not recorded at the finish, favored Medford 3D to 20. Comets Pull Up Tornado cagcrs zipped off to an 8 to 0 lead on a long pusher and a tipln by Benner and Forde's jumper and his goal on a feed by Hill. Coach Lloyd Hoffine's Crater club pulled right up to 8 to 7 Bransom scored off a Mike Glincs pass from oulof bounds, Pepper hit a free shot and a long pusher and Glincs put In a driver bucket. Forde made It 10 to 7 with free throws. Glincs Jumpered from behind a screen. Then the back and forth bcaan Pepper put Crater on ton 11 to 10 with a Jumper from be side the circle. Hill hit for Medford from the base line. Bransom bagged a turning shot from the circle. Larry Vowcll's push from the cor ner was matched by Bran som's tipln. Forde came back with a turning shot from the circle but Tomlinson retali ated from close range. Score favored Crater 17 to 18. Lend For Good With 37 second remaining in the quarter, Brenner's Jumper from the ba.vcline gave Medford the lead for good at 18 to 17. Hilt plunked a tipper Just before the buzzer for the 20 to 17 score. Two buckets by Brenner and one by Vowell while Pep per uoltcd a push for the Corn el made the Tornadoes a 28 tr '9 lead, Glincs on a drive of a Lou Alvarez intercep tion and Alvarez on a break from a Tomlinson rebound sssaaaamAsaaaiafcasssaawit OSU Trims UO 71-65 FORD REBOUNDS Jack Fordo (40), Med ford high, lakes a rebound under the Cratch basket in Saturday night Southern Oregon conference basketball game here. Going up high with him is Crater's Mike Glincs (13). At left are Medford Dan Miles (24) and Jim Hill and at right Crater's Howard Tom linson (33) and Mcdford's Rich Benner (34). Medford won 84-63 to earn a tie with Grants Pass for the conference crown. W w : W mm tf " a iJtli:i'iT-r':4 am w I fi-'i A....... ..... v.. - MroFORDvTRIBUNB regular season with a 19-7 record. Corvallis - lUPII Oregon State's Beavers held off a closing Oregon rally to post 71-85 victory over we Ducks before 7,390 basketball fans Saturday night. Seven-foot Mel Counts sparked the Beavers with 28 points and 18 rebounds. Oregon was bemnd BJ-oa with 2:47 left in the game but cut the margin to 64-62 in the next minute and 15 seconds after Oregon State took out its starters. The Beavers pulled away when their start ers went back into the contest. Steve Pauly scored 16 points and Terry Baker tallied 14 points for the Ore gon Staters, who ended their MAC SCORES 152 Eugene - IUPD - Multnomah Athletic Club of Portland wrapped up the Oregon Asso ciation age group girls' swim mnig championship here Sun day. MAC scored 152 points in the two-day meet. Aero Club of Portland was second with 129 points. Oregon's Jim Johnson and Steve Jones collected 25 and 16 points, respectively. The Ducks ended their season with an 11-15 record. The crowd gave Oregon State a season's attendance record of 96,004 in 12 home games. The previous high was 91,778 in 13 games In the 1953-54 season. SCORING: Oregon S3 Jonea IS. Johnson 25. Moore . MacK 0. uieason 6, Yates. Hanson 2, Cooley 2. Oregon State 71 Pauly IS Counts 28. Baker 14. Peters S. Jar- vis 2, Campbell 2. Rossi 2, Hay- wara i. Phone 772-4534 Arnold Palmer Wins Pensacola Pensacola, Fla. - (UPC - Ar nold Palmer no longer puts birthday and. trophies to gether. Starting the winter tour at Los Angeles in January, Pal mer was 33 years old and had 33 PGA tournament wins. Flying to Palm Beach today in his six-seater, he's still 33 but he has 36 victories after taking the 8th annual Pensa cola PGA Open with a 15- under par 273 for $3,500. Harold Kneece and Gary Player, the winter tour's top cash collector, shot 13-under- par 275s to deadlock for sec ond. Tommy Bolt, winner here in 1961, took fourth with a 276. Crater High Banquet on Thursday Central Point - Alan Holmes. Jackson county dis trict attorney, will be speak er at the Crater High school basketball banquet on Thurs day night. March 14. at the high school. The dinner at 7 p.m. will honor the Comet varsity and junior varsity teams and the yell leaders. Oddfellow and Rebekah lodges are sponsors. The banquet is open to the public and tickets are en sale at the high school. Awards and honors will be announced. GOSH, I'M All OUT OF SMOKES. HERE TRY A PINCH OF Y COPENHAGEN. t i BOY. I SURE YEP.' AND COPE LIKE THAT GIVES ME A REAL MAN-SIZE TOBACCO LIFT TOBACCO WHEN I WANT IT. TASTE. Jbyi -1 HOCKEY United Press International WESTERN LEAGUE Southern Division ' W LIFU.Gr GA PorUand 3 20 S 78 23S 1S7 San Francisco 38 22 1 77 249 103 Lo. Ameles .... 31 JS 3 SS 204 199 Spokane . - 27 30 2 56 1B7 19 Northern Division Seattle 30 29 2 62 209 211 Vancouver w iva Edmonton - 20 39 2 42 108 277 Sunday's Results Seattle 6. Los Anjeles 1 San Francisco 3. Spokane 1 NATIONAL LEAGUE W L TPta.GF GA Chicago 30 18 16 76 1S1 139 Toronto 33 21 10 76 207 16S Montreal 27 18 19 73 208 1S3 Detroit 27 24 13 67 174 179 New York 20 34 11 51 194 219 Boston .... 14 36 19 43 190 266 Sunday's Results Montreal 3. New York 1 Detroit 4. Boston 3 Chicago 1, Toronto 1 DATED FOR FRESHNESS TRY A PINCH OF REAL TOBACCO TASTE Step-O-Marlc Brake Lining In stalled en all 4 Wheels WHILI YOU WAIT! Easy farms. Irake Specialist tar 23 years. Phone 779-1966 NATIONAL 11 BRAKE CENTER 1214 North Court DRAWING HELD Slate tournament posi tions of Medford and Grants Pass high basketball teams were determined yester day noon by this drawing at Gold Hill. Lester Harris, Medford principal, holds cof fee can while Jess Loffcr, left, Grants Poss athletic director, looks at capsule he has pulled from can. Hand over can is Lee Ragsdale, right, Medford school's supervisor of physical education. Loffcr drew the con ference No. 1 spot for Grants Pass putting the Cavemen in the lower bracket. Med ford will be in the upper bracket in the tourney's opening game on March 10 against Lebanon. (UP1) narrowed the lead to 26 to 23. The Medford club expand ed on a Vowell driver and a Hill shot on assist from Vowoll and the home club headed by five to nine points through the rest of the second panel. Ncathamer entered the game at this stiige to give Med ford some added spark. He tallied two snaking drivers and a push shut from the cor ner. Extend To 13 With Ncathamer, Forde, Bcnner and Vowell gelling points for the Medfords while Tomlinson, Alvarez and Pep per gnalcd for Crater, I h e Tornado built a i:i-point third quarter lead of 51! to 3D. Aft- 58 to 45, the Fireball whacked their deficit down to seven points before the half. G linos and Tomlinson hit from the gift mark and Pepper and Tomlinson from the field while Hill and Miles Ron led and Ncathamer and Forde got Medford free shots. Score was 83 to 56 before Forde's gifler. In the final canto Medford put in seven field shots to Crater's two. Two by Ucnncr were on long passes by Hill who had rebounded the ball off the Crater board. Reserves flooded into the game w t h 71 seconds lefl lo play. Medford scored 20 points in each of three quarters and 24 on the third. Crater had 23 in the third along with 17, 16 and seven in the others. Thc'Black Tornado will en ter the slate tournament with a 16-6 full season record. Cra ter, which had its finest sea son as contender in Class A-l, wound up 15-7. MIX! Cnilrr Ftl H Pepper 11-7 nmn.-iom 4-3 Tomlinson 13-9 AIvhicz ,...14-3 (Jlincs 7-3 FU'linrr 0-0 ntvenhurg 3-0 Jones . . .. 0-0 Stimnieriield (.0 Milliter 0-0 Gardner 0-0 FT nil. I'F TP I 3 13 1-1 9-3 1- 0 2- 2 0-0 0-0 0.0 0-0 0-0 0-0 3 7 3 23 2 10 1 R Tnll 54-iT 14-9 1 0 0 39 Ti S3 Modlord M. Bi-nner 13-10 lllll !I-S tordc 17-8 Mllrs 4-1 Vowt'll 0-4 Dclilrv . .. 0-0 Nfttlhmner .. 12-7 Mih'hrll 0-0 It.nnrs 0-0 Stockton 0-0 Houston 1-1 l.ovvnv 0-0 Silvers 0-0 PrtHsnfHs ... . 0-0 Rent ... 1-0 FT Bh. IF TP 0-0 0-0 !-R 1- 0 0.0 2- 2 .1-1 0-0 2-1 0-0 0-0 0-0 n-o fl-0 o-o I mi 3 to 3 24 I 2 I S Tornado JV, Soph Fives Take Tiffs Medford high basketball junior varsity, applying a full court press to garner a wide first half advanlage, trim med Crater 68 to 46 here on Saturday night in prelimin ary to the varsity session. The Junior Tornado push ed to 10 to 4 and 45 to 11 quarter and half differences. Medford led 53 to 27 after three periods. Ron Edmonds had 15 points and Rich Knight 12 for Med ford. Larry Pepper, Rt ss Burd and Vern Swanson each had nine for Crater. Medford also took the soph omore hassle played at the same lime on another court. Score was 45 to 33. Tornado quarter margins were 10 to 2, 10 to 8 and 20 to 16. Seven poinls was Individ ual high on each team. Tiilsls 17-1! 19 to 4 Hefrrers ford and Slrvens. 3071 in Tourney Van Lines Rolls Buffalo. N. Y. - lUril - The Morris Meat Market team of Isclin, N, J., compiled 2098 lo move into eighth plate Sun day night in the regular learn division of the American Bowling Congress t o u r n a ment. Albert Arlington paced the New Jersey leain with a lliree game 671, followed by Rich ard Knapp with 6';i. In the classic team division. United Van Lines o( St. Louis rolled a 3071 series, which means the team must compile 30RB tonight to overtake pace setting Helm Tackcle til De troit. The Helm team leads with BI57. In minor events. Guy St. John of South Bend, lud., took first place in the classic singles with 684. He replaced Dick Cochran of Chicago, who dropped to second with 682 rolled Saturday. In the regular division all- events Ken Head of South gate. Mich., moved inlo lOlh place with a nine-game 1021. Still In first Is Andy lludoha of Yiningstown, Ohio, with 1034, compiled last Tuesday. Terry Uselman Bowling Victor Terry Uselman. Salem, lopped a field of 89 bowl ers here Saturday and Sun day in the finals ot the 171 and over division of the Oregon Slate Bowling Pro prietors association tour ney. He rolled i 1311 at Med ford Lanes, Bill Talley, Salem. 12S4. was second. JV linkups: I'ratrr IS B. Turner 4. M Tur. nrr 2. Stroh. I'.lawp S. 1.. Pepper 9. Ilnrri 9. Twcdcll, Kwnnson 9, Ryer ou 3. White. Anhorn. Medford SS Kn.varl 7. Krnsla 4. KiilBhl 12. Fdmonds 13. Allen 8. Mullen 4. Wehriy. IJnvls 6. Ilin- man. i orpin 4. Anders a, Olson. Ilrown S, Root 2. SOPIIOMtlltK I.INF.I'PS: ruler 33 I. Branch 2. Mil kouski 2. Murthnll 7. Harper 4. t'Hllrron 7. (.811. Hope, Tsvlor. Kellty 2. Collry 4. VauKhn 2, ttldfe. Lees '.. Tatr I Medlord 13 Flanders 7. Bilk, ler 4. Birnortn . Cot 7. Rupp 7. Wallnce. Wooton. Foshurs- 7. New lnd 2. Root 1. Nnu-h. Watrud 2. llassinan 2 Pro Basketball I'nltfi. !r lnltrnrinrut NATIONAL AKMtLlATlON tAMrrn niviiion x Boston S rrti!K" Cttu-inimt. . New York Wot tern PiiUton x Lok AnfHfs Si loiu Drttotl San F'mncwco .. . Chirac" x rhm-htH div u 3d i.. '22 ... M 2 3.1 4. . .. 2 1 3. M iMonal title. ret 714 .RIB 23 two 433 .31 3.19 IlilhfUv'i RcmiIU Pmtpn HT CincinnMll 117 Svrtu-iisc iw sn KruticiM-fi 14 Detroit r.4 Lo Ancrlf lid bt. Loui U3. Ntw York 130 If REACH Your Advertising in Newspapers Reaches Far More People. Every day 9 out of 10 of the nation's families get one or more newspapers. This means your news paper advertisement can be seen by far more people than can be reached through any other advertising medium. If you want to sell people you have to reach them. Newspapers give your advertising the longest reach of all. MedfordJTribune 9 V