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End of an Era)!I1*For Central BasketballVIOt82-4[son i leat ides j den Isoni By NED SWEET il; One thing this team proved, r [Central Catholic coach Joe Cor-jtez laughed after his Buttons •won a state championship San-j i day, and that is you don’t have o I to lose to build character.”(lied'maIsultto go at top speed, it was left: . to the 230-pound Bowden to tear SlX, Noian to pieces from underneath *0c the backboards. He did justimi;won—but they had that glassyeyed look. It was as if the winning streak alone was enoughto keep them up and then when use uauuuarus. tie aio just!.....it ended it suddenly seemed like:that, scoring on deft passes:1131a long season.” ifrom teammates on some oc-bo!r Cortez said he knew the But-1casions and gathering in re-po5nWtnn?\h™£h h.adn,t been plaW goodjbounds to stuff in two-pointers onlaiButtons through 36 victories in ball the past two weeks I!others j na 37 starts was in a philosophical gave them five days off - noj Bowden’s 34 points were the!’™theoimood as he surveyed the record j practices at all-and we didn't-most scored by a Central Cath- -|10f hls team- . jwork out until Wednesday, twoloiic player in the last three of!-• Three consecutive state cham-jdays before the tournament,”wears, Cortez said, We don’t!”rk’...... :he said* |generally let one man snoot!do:“But I saw it coming backj Cbiat much,” the Button coach ie‘i when we played St, Thomas Sat-=rer^arked, but Bowden was;!making his own shots. I’ve never: Saipionships, each seemingly more ” [effortless than the one before; '-'a string of 46 consecutive vic-e; tories, longest in history for a1i-’San Antonio schoolboy basket-j ‘ball team; only the narrowest! •.•of margins from completing an! r;undefeated season, losing only to: | Lee 62-60, and through it all Car-* dez’ corps kept its head and-played team basketball.si WENT ABOUT BUSINESS I. More iniDortan; from the Cen-! s ira! Catholic coach’s viewpint! The Buttons played gentlemanly1 s basketball There was never a; j:gesture to bring discredit upon! e the team, the school or the, i-igame officials,” Cortez mar-1 veled. His pride in his fcovsl j.;was obvious.’ No matter what' a|the breaks of the game might: have been, they just went about: n I their business,” Cortez said.-I What Cortez didn’t predict pwas, when he expected to cornel I iupon such a team again. A!-: a’ways when such a team breaks lt;rup, there is the empty-seen Roger move that well.” Itelt;► rADJUSTS WELL;wiCortez has praised his team;INoall season for its remarkable!brith;|ability to adjust to changing cir-ilj icumstances. And the way the|H! j tournament went was solid proof:co [for his arguments. j ■; When the coaches came in; [for the TCIL meeting,” Cortez;0p [said, “ail the talk was about! [Henckel and Conrad and how to t!C :stoo them.”Central Catholic’s opponents-coide ^ r f HO ry.tried but when they defensed the! .• two high scorers, the Buttons!; th:broke somebody else into the|qu |open. In the three toumament‘ou;games, Henckel and Conradjs^ [scored steadily but never oneejI paced the team. In the first!caROGER BOV/DEN Big gun in finals.[game it was Bowden with 18% • « itw[in the second unsung Jim Bisch-:^1 I offberger with 31 and in the fi-j - - — - j nale it 'was Bowden again this'stomached feeling that an era urdav,” Cortez added. 1 knew’tirn8 with 34. ’mas ended; that when these boys.we were all right then. I slept! So uniform was Central Cath-j22 _go their separate ways, these real well Saturday night.” °bc’s scoring spread that four th-, days never will be recaptured ; If Cortez had known how his Buttons averaged 15 or more’-i TEAM LET DOWN .Buttons would perform Sunday -P°jDts a 8ame. For the three-jin: i: Cortez felt that way Sunday, he could have sl*pt the sleep of g3me tournamer}t, Bowden net-lth. slit showed in his voice and in,Rip Van Winkle. His bail club:ted 60 points’ Conrad 46’ Bisch-jva nis gestures. He spoke briefly, methodically tore Fort Worthi?^er^er 4®’ Benckei 45 and1 in-but wistfully, of the night Jiis:Nolan to ribbons in the cham- 5ke ErsPa^er 23. team lost to Lee and the once-'pionship finale to produce the^ CLASch in-a-lifetime chance for an un-ninth state championship for1 hSc?'S80^cBowdcn defeated_season_ slithered out Central Catholic. .w cr1|f3Cr ?*i.th: from under the Buttons.The lean ipr rinwn aftpr l^c MADE IT LOOK EASY :3.Fcgf :^olon lt;531—w. Thompson'me icam set ao^n alter los* rup Rmtnnc ^ /J7, Fcf,ncr Dciy z, Rodrtcn:;■ ing to Lee,” Cortez said. “Thev’um •! ° it look easy a cudoy 2. ship™ 2, o. Thomp- s,::*!:but Jt wasn’t in terms of ohvsi- '[Mmgcz, Noll, Cress.nc'went ahead and played - and , ’ lt T r » 1 piiysl p. p CoT^on- ........... -■ -- cal output. Two Button starterslmSLf®?? coth^jroi w)~Az0r is, HCr-lt; ...... — thp rpam\ tiuAhi ______j!E™“ ^5°rr?SC0 14' Spencer-s. wen.!iofb Soda)? t * j * **i *w—a ^ar, — tne team s two highest scorers £,ozo Oor?io . i Houston SI.ring the regular season - were'zi^.^ToSt sT «|!1.held in check by after effects,' eshclasT AA2'omsioN°WQn : of the flue and the wav was I56Championshipmvpd for Pnoor V' 5t- Clover lt;?0)-Clarcnce,paveo ior KOger Bolden S great- 29, Anderson I?, Chorres Johnson I estdav I r^K,n3 Lcw,s 7' benzoles A, Ctly,McDodc, Mosley, SferJInc.‘ With flu-stricken fhltrh Itcrr oh.°fed0 SV. -,0.5CJ5h's tiS “ ClorVe 15,!isu ,.U iLKki. i.nucn 11enc-. Rcdrlsuar II, Morfincz ViUorr-’of i,lt;aitel and Leonard Conrad unable!Acosiof5Gorra0rtJ0!ei 2' Gwrr0' L’oorlt;:,*'s
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San Antonio Light
San Antonio, Texas, US
Mon, Feb 14, 1966
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