The Independent-News, Volume 101, Number 32, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 13 March 1975 — Page 9

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ON TO SEMI-STATE ACTION. So moves the Indiana High School state t< umey play and now there are 16 t* mis left after the reg.on. al we ding out. Play Saturday will be at Ft. Wayne, Evansville. Indianapolis and West Lafayette as the seml-finalists battle for that covt ted trip to Indianapolis March 22 and the thrill of playing in the finals. THE REGIONAL AT ELK. hart Saturday, the one that the local sectional feeds, produced in all probability, the best action in the state. Probably only the Gary action provided nearly as many thrills tor the three game set as did th* Elkhart participants. It was a meet that was pre-judged as well balanced aid "anyone’s” tourney of the four cambatants. Despitt the fact that weren’t sea. tur.ng anj state contender, they did feature good exciting besk. ctb;i 11. THE FIRST GAME PITTED a "people’s choice" team, the smaller school, Northridge, and Plymouth, the local sectional win. ner. This turned out to be as exciting a game as could bo found anywhere as throughout 41 minutes of action in all (three over, times i the tw’o teams were never

more than four points apart, the score was tied and changed hands ao often that the game hid to go into extra periods to be decided. THE THREE EXTRA PERL ods <or.summed about 40 total minutes with time outs, changing strategy, clutch free threw shouting and everything else that could add to the excitement. The man of the hour was Steve Kring, a 6’6’’ junior center who many Plymouth fans are "down” on tut one who appeal's to really want to play ball and ha. overcome more than most fans want to admit with back problems and no* the greatest of coordination H* really bailed out the Pilgrims, es. pecially after starters Bob Alb. ertson and Bryant Chipman had fouled out. Kerry Weidner wh tjrillmrt for the Pilgrims and it was ju t two teams givjig "everything" and a game that is too bad sumeone had to lose, much like the two Friday night games in the LaVille sectional. THEN CAME THE SECOND game that at first had a gym. full of emotionally drained fans Bort <1 recovering from the three overtun-s, but one which .soon pro. duced all the thrills and egeit. ment of its own that fans could expect Thia game was a little more streaky than the first as the teams would have brief good and bad streaks, not necessarily as tight all the way as the first con. test. It wxs obvious that Columbia C.ty had the better ball club on pa;<-r but that unrecorded el. <m» nt of desire and guts contin. ued to keep the Zebras of Roches, ter alive. A little turn mound jumpet with :03 left turned the tflf les to the Enges’ favor as it truly looked like more extra per. iods were forthcoming THEN CAME THE FINALS of the Regional, one that again on ptper looked Jike the Eagles’ gam* . However, the continued character of the Plymouth team kept them alive until the final minutes. Maybe they just ran out ot gas or maybe the size and talent of Columbia City finally aweited itself, but whatever, it finally broke open in the final ittanx.i, giving the Eagles a hard fought, but deserved victory and 20 mile trip to Ft. Wasne next Satuiday. THIS WAS CERTAINLY NOT the only nail-biting action around but couldn’t have teen topped by anyone. Certainly the final game at Suyth B» - nd. the 71-67 double overtime Michigan City Elston wm over Mishawaka, had to b»nothing but thrills for the fans present as well as a good television crowd of Michiana. Thn WR'. another case of one team having Ju lose that deserved a better fate, but that is H^ms-cr Hysteria at its best (or worst • dependn g on your favorite team.

Another heart-stopper had to be Hammond’s afternoon double overtime win over East Chicago Washington and then the upset 7*2-71 win of Gary Emerson over Hammond at night. This eliminated the mythical number one team in the final polls. ANOTHER REAL THRILLER also featured the climad of the high school career of very possibly Indiana's Mr. Basketball for 1975, Kyle Macy as he and his Peru teammates were edged by a single point ty Huntington. According to most who seen him. he alone was worth a trip to see play as not only is he a great scorer, but rebounder and team man as well. THE PAIRINGS ARE SET and it looks like Lafayette has the top attraction in the state Saturday. A combined record of S 9-10 will be battling it out with IA anon (22-2) meeting Michigan City i 23-2) in the first game and the host Lafayette Jefferson Bron, cos (20-4) meeting Gary Emer, son (24.2) in the second contest. At Fort Wayne, where yours truly will attend, Fort, Wayne North (19-6) and Anderson Madison Heights (20-5) will start the ac.

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tion and Columbia City (19-5) will battle highly touted Marion (24-1) In the second contest. The Marion team is tied with Loo. gootee for the be>t record in the state of the 16 remaining teams. ONE ASPECT OF THE PLAY’ at Elkhart Saturday was the officiating . . . which many will admitt was very questionable. An official isn’t partial, despite what fans think, but the main trouble is inconsistency. At Elkhart it seemed time and time again calls were made by officials out of po. sition, calls would be made one way one time and just the opposite the next. In fact, jn the two afternoun games, the pressure seemed to get to the officials more than the 16, 17 and IS year old boys. On the reverse side of things, according to others opinions, play at Notre Dame was in deed very well offic.ated. At the two Fites, different styles of games were witnessed and the play of the game can still have much to do ab >ut the quality of the officials' work. A fast, ragged game can and will lead to a much more questionable officiated contest. THE COLLEGES ALSO ARE at tourney time and as sad as it is, North Carolina State, one of the better teams in the country and the defending national champion, won't get a chance to defend their title this year. In the very strong Atlantic Coast Conference they suffered too many defe its in both season play and their elimination tourney. They certainly

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are better than most of the clubs from other parts of th* 4 nation but will have to set this one out. QUITE CONTRASTING, OUR neighbors to the N uth, Notre Dame, not their best team of recent years, is going a. an at large entry. Their eight losses is as many as alm st any of the teams and with the except. >n of the upset win ovr UCLA n tw<> meet, ings, their vector} list is not impressive. However, through the constant "reminding” that they have lost to four of the top teams in the country, Digger has got an invitation on hi.- ".osse- more than his wins." It ,s too bid that some confen i.< e teams that were not winners or runners-up such as NCS can't get in a well but this is one of the disadvantages of being in a conference and an extra strong one at that.

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B Kunkle 502 , 210; C. Erdelyi 213. Suburban I>-agne Baker's Standard 25 15 Dave &• Ray's 24 16 Mercer's . Lakeville 24 16 Mercer's . Walkerton 21 19 Dad & Lad's 20 1 2 19'j Rutland Raiders 1 s ’ j 21 ! j Pizza Place 16 21 Precision Pallet 11 29 High t* am series and game: Baker s Standard 2566, 912; Mer. Ger’s - Likev.He 2565, Sss. bs2; Dad Ar Lad's 2440. High individual series 4- game: Roy Freeman 67* 307; R. Nebe. lung 667; A. J. Kennedy 632 Wil. lard Bak* r 652' 261; Bernard Williams 252. Roy Freeman eamen an ARC Century’ Award for b-wimg a 266 game, 100 pins over his average Shop at home. IS YOUR PET STARVING S TO DEATH? No matter how mui’h you feed your pet, he may be starving t > death right in fr< ’ <,f your eyes. What can you do? Serve Sergeant’s' Yitapet * Tablets regularly. \itapet Tablets contain vitamins and minerals essential to g" 'd health and good looks. And they taste like treats’ Get Sergeant’s Vitapet Tablets f?r your dog or cat.

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