The Independent-News, Volume 93, Number 41, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 7 March 1968 — Page 2

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THE INDEPENDENT-NEWS — MARCH 7. 1963

INDIANA HIGH SCHOOL Basketball championship tourney lay moves into th<- semistate this Saturday and to say the least. this has been a year of •urprises. Saturday s action at 16 nters produced more upsets uid heartbieak as the play for the second straight week end ■und favorite after favorite by he wayside. ONLY 16 TEAMS ARE NOW est in action as the four semistates. Ft Wavne. Evansville, i^afayette and Indianapolis. This will trim the swe< t sixteen down o the final four. The following Saturday. one of the greatest spectacles in amateur sports concludes the f iur-week grind b.\ determining the 1968 state utie holder. SATURDAY’S PLAY ELTMTNd Ik more teams. At Elkhart. M chigan City. on< of the highly . ’ed teams in the state, was si »pos -d t>> hav< another breeze. However, thre. other entries. St. ••• ■. Akron and Michigan had other ideas. In the opening g -me. City moved to the front easily, gaining a first p riod 18-8 i> >d hut despite the fact they n- id safe leads through the final penod, with just a mere eight seconds remained when the usuaL high scoring Keen put in two free throws to chinch the win. The last half of the final pcri.xi w is filled with thrills and spills as this gimp was one of the slopP*”^ games witnessed in a long tune. However one mistake alii ist balanced out another and despite the loose play, thrilling action wasn’t missing. THE SECOND GAME FOUND on> of the sentimental favorites, Akron, tangle with the Penn Learn. This game followed similar patterns in some respects, Akron moving to a lead in the g une when Penn came back with avengence. However. Akron was up to the test and the emotionFlyers continued to fight back to win. Their style of play was different than during the tegular season as they displayed a more deliberate style, but still displayed that fantastic shooting and passing that makes them a inreat anytime they are in the offensive zone. THIS REALLY PITTED THE David I Akron > against a Goliath (Michigan Cityi. The Michigan City five, with two real big boys at 66” and 6’5", plus speed.

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shooting and everything else. was meeting the much smaller Akron team with shooting, shooting and more shooting. It didn’t take long to display some fancy shooting by both teams. Michigan City moved to a 23 17 first period lead, but not before Akron proved to everyone how they got where they were. However, it became apparent in the game as it progressed, that Akron s defense wasn’t going to h. capable to hold the big team from Michigan City. In several occasions for example, the Red Devils got easy lay-ins on tip-offs as the Flyers simply didn’t get the dfvnsive job dm. Combine with their size advantage, a red hot K«-en who had ls*en ice cold in the afternoon, a terrific fast break. and a sticky, hard-working defense, and you have Michigan Ci tv winning 94-77. Akron had n »thing to be ashamed of as they looked like the best bng range bombers since the B-52. AT LOGANSPORT. ACTION lacked something that was available at sc viral other centers, that being ch se, exciting ball games. A stumbling, fumbling Knox team simply gave up the ball too many times (251 to stay in contention with North Miami. After gaining a 13-12 first p-riod lead, they slowly started to fade. They surrendered the lead by halftime by 26-23. and the second half was complete frustration forth« big Redskin tram. They finally lost by 20 points, 61-41, giving North Miami a 1212 record and an advancement to the final game. THE SECOND CONTEST had LaVille, the third St. Joseph County team in action on this given day of regional play. However, they weren't able to fare any better as they lost by a big margin to Chesterton, despite the fact that their fine senior star. Carl Herbster, totaled 39 points in the losing cause. Cold shooting was basically the entire story. LaVille started off very cold and never did reach fever pitch as they missed as many shots as Chesterton attempted. A 32 per cent, just doesn't win against a 49 per cent especially when you are doubled in points from the free throw line as well. Chesterton seemed to be content to let Herbster get points as he is going to anyway. but they did contain the rest of the team to a very meager 29 points between them.

THE NIGHT GAME DID create a lot more enthusiasm with a much closer, exciting contest. The game was <ne of streaks in the first half with North Miami first gaining the lead and then Chesterton c< nlr 1ling the play. By halftime, each had enjoyed their moments but things were almost where they were at the start as only one point separated the two teams with Chesterton leading. However the second half was something else. North Miami slowly moved to the lead and went on to win 72-65 in this championship contest. THREE OF THE TOURNEY favorites that were <!iminat-d were, first, and m^st str prising, Lafavetu Jiff The R- —os fell to Attica and it will be real strange next week to n< t have the Broncos in their own semlstate. Indianapolis Washington, another strong favorite in Indiana baskethall circles, was dump d hy citv rival In T’napolis Shortridge. Thiid on tb^ list was the Eat Chicago Washington crew of J-hnnv Barott \ Despit« the fad th v weren’t t< n ’anked this year at t< urnev time the Senators are always tough. AT FT. WAYNE. CENTRAL was the favorite over a strong Ft. Wayne Catholic team, but were dropped in their bid to make it to the semi-state. Jac-On-Dvl was a winn; r at Connersville an I at Bloomington, the host school came out on top. Other than this, things w«nt prettv much as expected. Evansville Reitz advanced on as expected as did Richmond and Marion. Other winners were Columbus, even though they had a real squeaker over Shelbvvdle. Garv Roosevelt, the team that dumped East Chicago, Greencastle, Kokomo, Vincennes and Jeffersonville. At Huntingburg, where Jefferson came out on top. two more sentimental favorites. Oolitic and Holland bit the dust. These small schools were unbeaten, and in head to head competition. Holland extended their streak with a twopoint wan before falling at night. ACTION THIS WEEK PUTS It right on the line as the do-or-die battle continues. Batting very poorly in predictions last week, this week should be a little easier simly because feu’er centers are left. At Ft Wayne It looks like Michigan Citv over Marion for the title. Evansville Reitz should advance with Vincennes falling in the night game. At Indianapolis, we could almost pull one out of the hat again except for Jac-Cen-Del. Our choice will be Richmond over Shortridre at night, thus eliminating the hiehlv ranked Columbus in the afternoon. At Lafayette. Gara - Roosevelt Is our choice over Greencastle at night. NFO NFWS Bv Edith 11. Snyder The NFO held a meeting on Saturday evening. March 2. at the Winamac High School for all the rounHes in Northwest Indiana. There were 16 counties represented and there were 84 such meetings all thru the midwest A Major Breakthrough: the contracts have been signed with substantial packers and are being signed for 332.00 p«r hunderdweight live cattle and $23.00 per hundredweight on hogs. There are minimum prices. It's •FARM BUREAU! | INSURANCE j AU Types Os: 2 ■ Life Insurance ■ Retirement Annuities 2 Hospitalization 2 Fire - Anto - Liability ACIt) - Farm And Commercial J | Fred Bullinger ■ I Phone .586-3339 1101 Monroe Walkerton! \ o2«tf 2

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