MEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON
MONDAY. MARCH 11. 19S3
Black Tornado Beats Comets 84-63, Shares
Conference Hoop Banner With GP's Cavemen
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MHS Will Face
Lebanon in A-l
Tourney Opener
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Crater 0 7
Klamath Falla 7 9
Ashland 2 14
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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
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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.
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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.
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WESTERN LEAGUE
Southern Division '
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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9-3
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2- 2
0-0
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0-0
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3 23
2 10
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Tnll 54-iT 14-9
1 0 0
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Modlord M.
Bi-nner 13-10
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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
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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.
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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
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