The Independent-News, Volume 101, Number 33, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 20 March 1975 — Page 8

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THREE DOWN AND ONE TO go . . . the b.g one. 'Die Indiana High School state tourney wiTT wrap it up this week end as the four remaining teams head tor the new Maiket Square Arena to fight it out for the champion cd Indiana basketball 1975. A three game schedule for Saturday will end the baskttbal] until next October 15 when it starts all over again. THE FIELD OF FOUR MAY st.ll present some surprises as it has b?en that kind of a year in Hoosier land. No one t« am all season has really gone to the top of the heap and classed itself as the favorite. It seems that cv. ery time a team gained t«-p rat. ing it would get knocked off to further cloud the picture. Only a very fine Marion team has been ranked real h.gh all season and stayed alive in the tourney. Lebanon has been ranked well in most of the weekly polls and is still going strong. Loogootee is basically undefeated, only a forfeit mars their record, but as is usually the case with a smaller school, they receive more support as the unbeaten list dwindles in season play. Columbus North did get a lot of early season at ten. t:on but then slipped as they suf. sered some mid.season losses. IT IS AWFUL HARD FOR A t am to ke< p it going for four months and with the continual dwindling list of schools, there are fewer small schools and const quently fewer schools that are really "patsies" as size and talent are more abundant for the schools to choose from now. Th.s year’s starting field was only 41] in tourney play and it shrinks just a little more every year. This makes a four month grind really hard as a letdown almost has to ( me .sometime. VISITING FORT WAYNE ON Saturday was again the usual fine treatment given by very gra. cious hosts. And as usual, some fine ball was d.splayed although not all games were tight from start to finish However, the representative from the semi, state will be probably the most j pular pick of the writers for the title although anything can happen at this level. No flukes are around at the fins’, four level. THE FIRST GAME WAS A dandy w.th some real streaks the b.g factor in this game. Mail, son Heights, the biggest of the four teams and surprisingly the only one with a box taller than 6 5 , looked early like they could blow it open against Fort Wayne North Side, but just didn't get the ball in the basket with any consistency. After assuming a fn t quartfr 14-12 lead on only 29 per cent shooting, they had mi»«ed several "pportunities to get well ah aj The j-econd quart-

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i er found much worse shooting by the Pirates, jhst 4 ot 18 foi 1 22 per cent whffb North really began to put it all together. At halftime it was 35-33, North, but only 15 of 18 free throws had i kept Madison Heights alive. In the first half these two teams displayed as furious a competitive rebounding game as these eyes have ever witnessed in high school ball. The contact, fighting for position and actual jumping and fight.ng on the boards can only be described as brutal. It clearly showed the other brand of basketball from what local fans ever see. The competition would put most to shame. THE PIRATES DID PUT ON a real drive in the final period with 6'7" sophomore center Ray Tolbert putting on quite a show all over the floor. Fort Wayne did hang on for the four point margin of victory. Although a loser Saturday, Madison Heights will make their presence known next year with eight of their 12 boys back including three starters. THE SECOND GAME PITTED Manon and Columbia Cty and it didn’t take long to see how this one was going to conn- out. Columbia City just wasn’t a fair competitor for the Giants especially with their 63" lead.ng scorer. Mark Rethlake, on the sidelines. The Eagles' play, very poor at times, didn’t really force Marion to their best play and by midway into the second quarter, all Mari< n Waiters had been rested for some time. It was just a case cf too much against not enough and some pretty lops.ded statistics came out of this one no offensive rebounds in the ontire first half and some real h >t sh" tirg m different streaks by the winners Th FINAL GAME STARTED off to be a dandy as two fine teams, loth with the red ability to have hot streaks, meet.ng. It was a nip and tuck first quarter, both team* shooting well ami an IS all tie resulted. Marion gained only a slight advantage in the second period, moving ahead 3'>35 at halftime and shooting < ver 50 per cent in the process. The rt bounds were about even and each team had missed only one free throw. North d-d a fascinating job handling the ball having only two turnovers at halftime, th it with nine of 10 free throw’ shooting keeping them in the con. test. THEN IT HAPPENED! THE classy Giants came out m the second half with what has to be as close to a perfect qquarter of basketball as you will ever see at any level of competit.on. Net only did they catch fire on shoot, mg 12 of 15 from the floor and 4 out of 4 from the line, they

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outrebounded North 10-2, commuted only three errors and two ptrscnal fouls. This opened up a 21 point margin, 66-45, and put the game out of reach. Junior guard Dave Colescott ami senior center Kevin Pearson were noth*, mg short of sensational in pacing th.s drive. This clearly earned Manon another trip to Indianap. 1 <hs, their first since 1969 when their one point loss in the after, noon was the famous game with the scoreboard failure against the eventual winner Indianapolis I Washington with George McGin. i n.s and Steve Downing, coached by the same 8.1 l Green, now at ■ the Marion helm. AT THE OTHER SITES THE games featured a few upsets and some expected winners. Biggest of the so called upsets was the Rushville victory over Muncie North in an afternoon game at Indianapolis. The* 68-60 win side, lined the high fly*ng North team featuring Sam Drummer, probably the best individual player left in competition Saturday and a real contender for Mr. Basketball in Indiana this year. Excitement at the capitol was h.gh in the afternoon as Columbus North top. pled Indianapolis Washington in overtime, the later a real hot team since January. Play in the evening cooled down as North completely dominated the second half in elim.nating Rushville by a 62-43 score. THE LAST AREA TEAM, Michigan City Elston, was edged by red hot Lebanon in a real ex. citing game 59-56 in a contest that Michigan City coach Doug Adams wa- very upset about. He felt the official.ng turned against him in the closeness of the calls late in the game to “take it away" from his boys. The other afternoon game, Lafayette Jeff’s 71-69 victory over Gary Emerson was a real nail bitter and then Lebanon pulled away in the final quarter for their surprising 59-50 conquest of Lafayette. This had probably the four best combined t( ams of the four meets which has to give Lebanon a lot of good credential-; for their Saturday ap. pearance at M irket Square. AT EVANSVILLE, THE TWO semintal favorites on size. Loo. g tee and Gibson Southern, were half of the field and Loogootee emerged the victor to make the.r

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second apeparance in the finals in recent years. They topped Ter. re Haute North in the afternoon by five, 58.53, and Seymour put an ind to GUson Southern’s title h >pes wdh a 64-56 win. Loogootee then handled Seymour rather easily jumping off to a 17-6 first quarter lead and really putting it away m the third stanza after S ymour fought back within Dv at halftime. Loogixitee's only loss in their 26-1 record was a forfeit to Shoals after trouble had erupted between the two schools earl.er this year and.the Ixxigootee of. ficials refused, to play a second time, fearing more problems, especially from the fans. IT CAN BE ANYONE'S TO w.n Saturday and the match-ups for the afternoon are terrific as Marion and Lebanon squaie off at noon and Loogootee and Colum, bis North at 1:30 The finals, at "8:15 pm.. will of course be carried on local TV for all to see the new champion crowned.

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