The Independent-News, Volume 96, Number 40, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 26 February 1970 — Page 2

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ITS TOURNEY TIME AGAIN and in Indiana, that is one of th- most enjoyabh times of the wm as this year 413 teams are either already in action or will b- by Saturday in an effort to grab tin ci"\vn as champion of tlu date. Two big powers are mill iten as they head into the a ti n and have been ranked at th" top of the heap all season, th t being East Chicago Roosevelt and Seymor. They have ii, I it through s heduled play with >nt a loss, something that is 1 nd to do in this present d v LAST WEDNESDAY. THE 413 lames were drawn from the p>t n their 64 sectionals. The dr iv. is pften important in a < .b u’ett^ig off to a good start as mmy Sectionals have a lot of < em| titidn while others annually h n one fleam that stands head an i ■ -houbb rs above the others. Th t wo^t lie the case in this ate- this*year as just about all the me Cb have several clubs t pv le ij winning the title. A ( bo 1 kk at the area sectionals t > th sc lyes look like this: AT LaJ’ILLE - PLYMOUTH is t 1 ■ cilice of most, however, rem cibei? back to last year and you > tvey the same picture. A go >d M ‘fean team got the job don< mdlreturns this year with font f ti< same first five back. Th Dealt of the draw here puts th- । r.v> r in one bracket. Wedn - night finds the host team an i Marian meeting right away. L.Vita )<#Tt the team they have beet’ tie past couple of years, bi ’ (i d give Marian all they co । handle three weeks ago as the I- nights won a scant three p >in* victory over the Lancers uh> ('"finitely are an up and d l ' i’ < 1 :b. Marian has suffered th- . h several injuries this season i it should be in good shape for toe tourney. P ■ MOUTH WILL OPEN IN th ■ ond Wednesday game with Bn :’, n the competition. Plyri' 1 - features Steve Phillips, a ' e fine complete ball player as . junior. They have adeq' size to assist the STO” g < i as well and several boys " ■ c m get the points also. A ♦ 4—

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look at the lower bracket finds four teams with losing records as actually six of the eight are below the even mark in this tunrney. South B< nd Jackson has a psl'.v hustling Argos team as their opponents In the first Thursday game The Tigers arc not an impressive team record wise, but do have players who could fill the bill should they get hot. This then moves the action to the Glenn and North Lit rty contest. Glenn with a total of eight wins is capable of good hall and also < apal le of rather loose play. Th' y aren't big but do have alm ,"t an entire team around the six foot mark North Liberty, a winner just twice in 19 games, plays their best against a man-to man def< nse. but doesn't seem to find many of these. So far this season they haven't found that one needed sh'Miter to break up a zone and also is a team that gets into a lot of trouble through fouls and errors. DESPITE THE FACT THE lowet bracket could have a real dark horse entry, we see the Marian and Plymouth teams advancing to what should be the key game Saturday afternoon and despite past records, think the Pilgrims can get the job done to go all the way Marian's kev lies under the basket as in season play their guards have seemed to be the ones to dominate the action as opposed to last year. In the bottom bracket wo choose Jackson and Glenn in first round play and think it will ho the Tigers over the Falcons Saturday. Glenn could do the job. hut will have to have good board play and move the better than normal for an entire game. Their habit of playing a good half will have to expand to a full 32 minutes to win. THE LAVILLE WINNER IS bound for Elkhart to meet the Warsaw winner the following week end. At Warsaw, a six team meet features a couple of real good clubs in the host Tigers and Rochester. The Triton. Akron and Mentone teams are good small school teams, but it looks like Warsaw, with a first round bye with Akron should emerge from the top bracket and Rochester should handle Triton and then our pick of Wawasee o en Mentone to get into the finals Despite the fact that a good Rochester club has size and is coming into its own under Coach Powers. Warsaw still has thost Esscnburg brothers at 6'7" and 6 6 and the home court advantage Warsaw is our pick in this one. THE OTHER TWO TEAMS that will advance to the Elkhart Regional will come from Elkhart s and Columbia City’s Sectionals. At Columbia City, ver;, little is known about these teams due to the distance away and few opponents in this area. Our cho. e would be Pierceton to lose to Man. heater and South Whitley to win over Churubusco on Thursday night and Columbia City to top first Northfield

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and then Manchester Saturday. AT ELKHART. YOU USUALh have only one name to say. that being Elkhart. Not only do they have a fine club with a real s iper star in Garvin Roberson. but they aren’t in the habit of losing in Elkhart. They also have the easiest path of the powers in that tourney. In the top bracket, they should top the Concord team easily Wednesday night and Jimtown Saturday afternoon The bottom bracket play should have some fine contests and we see Penn over the Norihwo'xl team in the opener an l Goshen taking care of the .Northridge team Thursday. The Penn - Gosh, n game Saturday, should it (level p. should be a dandy, as both teams s-am to hive gained a lot of stnt ”e as the season progressed. We expert to see the ol 1 rivals. Elkhart and Goshen Saturday night with Elkhart advan u^g on to their own Regional. THE SOUTH REND RFGIONaI is made up of Sectionals winners from of course South Bend, Michigan City, Chesterton and Knox. Knox still is kind of the mop-up tourney of the area. A few years ago 10 teams from no less than seven counties met there and now that it is down to six teams, four counties are still represented. Action opens Thursday nigth with the host, team meeting LaCrosse. The LaCrosse team takes a fine record into play, but we would have to go along with Knox mainlv on the strength of their big 6'5" center Ikmnis Garland LaCrosse will have more than their hands full trying to stop him. Culver swings into action in the second contest and the Culver club of this year, will not be any match for the hustling, pressing Blue Jays. Saturday afternoon Winamac and Oregon-Davis will put in their first action and this should be a good game. Even though they are down some this year, we pick Winamac to ad\ance to the finals. Speaking of rivalries, the second contest between Knox and North Judson. is the ultimate in rivalries. Should this game develop*. one of the highest contested games in the state will develop*. THE JUDSON TEAM HAS tools to get the job done, but they didn't do it in the regulai season. Both coaches. Hoover and Khston. are demanding of their plavers and the sky will be the limit. The success of this contest is in the Knox floor game and we think that playing at home, they will get the jot done in a real donneybrook At any rate, the second afternoon game winner Saturday will he in South Bend the next week CHESTERTON IS USUALLY little more than a practice area for Valparaiso and we see it no different th’s vear. Valpo should move past Wheeler and Chesterton to gain the finals and then eliminate Portage who topped th* Washington Twp team and then Kouts in first round action MICHIGAN CITY IS ABOUT the same. It has been many a year since the Red Devils of Elston High have lost a sectional contest and it will be at least one more w«re sure Westville and Marquette open the action Wednesday and even though the Blackhawks can bent Marquette we will go along with the Mi higan Citv team this week New Prairie would have to have a whole lot of Jim Noel's and more to boot to stop the Red Devil exnress in the second con test Saturday South Cent~al will meet Laporte in what looks to be a fine game, but we will choose LaPorte to move to the Michigan Citv meat grinder it night and come out showing just where they have been. WE SAVED THE SOUTH Rend tournrv until list as th sho Id !«■ a thro - * ack to the old da’ • whe the So th Ben i m< • ' was on»- of tt fines! am i E. < ,-i '1" d’ r c . if yo i i . Hd" ’ 1 ■ ? • • »! ’Ue b . - an । V

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Central Bears will get that 900th victory they ate seeking in the final season of the school. Riley plays St. Joseph in the second game and despite the fact that Riley can score points, they do not seem to be able to stop them. St. Joe is one of the best clubs around for disciplined basketball and despite the fact they don't have that one big star, they are a winner with team play and desire. St. Joe should get past the Wildcats without serious trouble. Thursday, the favorite of most. John Adams, will play Mishawaka. Adams, the winner of the Northern Indiana Conference with sinh teams as Michigan City and Elkhart in it. will add one more victory in the first Thursday game. LaSalle, a school that is our choice to eventually carry the past Central dominance, although maybe not under their present set-up should move past Washington in a breather. Their record suffered by forfeiture of seven games this season, but don't pay any attention to records at tourney time. This sets up a whing ding of a Saturday. Upsets could be the order of the day. The sentiment here has to go wtht a Central team ending a grand and glorious term in basketball, but common sense says that is just what will happen . . .it will end in a battle with St. Joe. This will move Adams and La Salle onto the hardwood and in this one we would go with the Adams team, but not before a real battle is held. That brings it down to the night game and our pick is St. Joe to make it three in a row. NOW WE DON’T RECCOM mend you go out and risk a bundle on these choices, but possibly we think this is the wav it may turn out in a busy week end of that great Indiana sport, baskball at tourney time. Hot LaVille Five Eli'zss Shamrocks Friday Night A red hot LaVille ‘cam that started out with 12 of their first 15 field goal attempts successful. was more than the Shamrocks could handle Fnd. v night as a 90-53 loss was pinned on North Liberty in their final Northern State Conference game. Despite the fact that the Shamrocks started off playing good ball, they couldn't keep pace in the first period with the hothanded Lancers. John Zook opened the scoring with a jump shot but the Lancers went right to work with a long bomb from the side by Vic Thacker. Marty Dittmar hit a lay in only to have Steve Cox and Thacker come right back with baskets and Thacker was fouled on his to make a three point play Dittmar hit again

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from in tight, but Kent Bunch ripped the nets with a jumper. Craig Anderson wiggled free for a close in shot but once again it was Bunch as the Visitors just weren't missing anything. Jim Boarman cut the lead to a single point again 11-10 as only two and a half minutes had passed in this free scoring game. But LaVille, not to be denied, came back with four consecutive baskets to grab a 19-11 lead and move ahead to never be caught again. Zook broke the streak, but it was almost to no avail as the Lancers continued to hit from every angle and moved to a very impressive 27-17 lead by the end of the first quarter. The Lancers did cool off in the second period somewhat A quick four points in the opening minute made It a 14 point lead and a little Later it was Increased to 16 before the Shamrocks were able to gain some ground. The Lancers were not going to be caught and managed to hold a 4 5-30 halftime margin. From here on out. 10 points was the closest the Shamrocks could get. They picked up a fast five points to do this in the opening minute of the second half, only to have LaVille. led by Thackers 11 point period, advance to a 70-42 three-quarters lead It was now just a matter of time and they moved easily to the victory. Thinker Hits 31 Vic Thacker led all scorers in the game with 31 points as he piled up this total on nine baskets and 13 of 15 from the charity line. Ho had double figure help from Rowe with 16. but in all. 11 Lmcers shared the points. A 13 point effort by Boarman was high for the Shamrocks with Dittmar adding 10. The Shamrocks had nine of their 10 boys share in their scoring also. Box Score LiMlle f g ft f|a p Rowe 8 0 0 0 Cox 10 0 0 Thacker 9 13 15 o Bunch 2 2 2 3 Shirley 4 0 0 1 Schutz 2003 Pittmen 2 0 14 Rouch 2111 Ihech 10 0 2 Kulsrar 0 0 0 1 Bottonf 3 2 12 Johnson 2000 North IJtN'rty Zook 4110 Boarman 6 1 4 ■» Dittmar 3 ] J J M alls 2 11] Anderson 2 13 3 Falr I 0 0 0 Holderread 1 0 1 o Halt 112 1 Flora 0 0 2 ] Hostetler 2 0 0 0 Score By Quarters ^ Vil lc 27 45 70 90 North Liberty 17 30 42 53

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