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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 12, 1962
Page
6
Cincinnati and Bradley square off in Evansville to decide the MVC title game and the NCAA berth as the winner advances to the NCAA Tournament while the loser goes to the NIT. The event kicks off the college postseason with the national tourneys set for later dates.
Unbeaten Fort Frye rides a 24 game win streak to meet rugged Fairland (23-1) in the Athens Class A Regional Tournament finals. Paint Valley and Logan Elm loom as potential challengers after advancing through sectional and district rounds.
Sixteen Class AA and sixteen Class A squads enter weekend regional tournaments in Ohio with a 631 101 record overall. Eight teams, four per class, will advance to the state finals next week at St John Arena. East Tech leads the Class AA field after two consecutive state titles.
The exhibition season opened with Santo Hart knocked from the field after a rib bruise from a Banks knee blow during a Cubs loss to the Red Sox in Scottsdale. Mack Jones homered twice for Milwaukee in a 10-6 win over Detroit, while Cincinnati’s Reds were swept by Chicago White Sox in two games. The Mets and Colts split, Yankees beat Baltimore, and several other spring results followed including San Francisco over Cleveland in ten innings.
Frank Budd of Villanova twice ran the 60 yard dash in 6 seconds, equalling the indoor mark and leading the Wildcats to the IC4A team title. Doug Sanders won the Pensacola Open by one stroke with 270 total. Lakewood claimed Ohio High School Swimming Championship, dethroning Canton McKinley. Olden Times won the San Juan Capistrano Handicap at Santa Anita with Willie Shoemaker aboard.
In Athens at the National Guard Armory Marietta beat New Lexington 69 to 50 while Logan defeated Athens 60 to 43. Athens top scorer Jim Sidwell had 18 and Ray Oliver 17. Logan’s Gene Morgan led with 33. Marietta’s George Offenberger had 20. New Lexington’s John Longstreth topped with 16. Next Sunday Athens faces Marietta with the winner advancing to play Logan in the semifinals.
Regional and division scores list for NCAA College Division Midest at Akron and AA at various sites including Athens Englewood Bowling Green and Toledo. Notable results include Wittenberg over Florida A and M 35 33 and Marquette 76 Xavier 67 with local teams such as St John s NYU Illinois Northwestern Oklahoma State and Ohio opponents.
Mixed roller bowling results show Dupler's Sportswear and Mathews Goodyear with high scores in early rounds. Teams include Sunnybank's Dee Coons Home Restaurant and Pendergrass Hardware posting lower tallies. Weekly results list Kerr-Hunter Hardware and Stephenson Acct among standings with several ties and losses.
Doug Sanders sealed his first win of the year at the Pensacola Open in Pensacola Florida with a three under par 69 to finish at 270 and win $2 800 while Don Fairfield finished second at 271 after a 67 Nicklaus tied for 16th at 280 with a 64 in the final round and Tom Aaron shared ninth with Don Finsterwald at 277 each earning $775
Ohio University's Harry Houska claimed first place in the 167-pound division at the Four-I meet in Cleveland. He defeated New England champion Eric Moyer 5-2 to improve to 20-1 on the season, after pinning Gary Weir, Joe Gustainis, and John Valentic. Coach Fred Schleicher praised his prospects for NCAA championships.
Three Ohioans Jerry Lucas and John Havlicek of Ohio State and Paul Hogue of Cincinnati were named to Look Magazine s 10 man All American team by the U S Basketball Writers Association. The list also includes Terry Dischinger Chet Walker Len Chappell Art Heyman Cotton Nash Jack Foley Bill McGill. Harry Ewing 74 Otterbein College athletic director from 1934 to 1958 died in his sleep at home after several weeks illness.
The standings show Boston 119 and Los Angeles 105 leading in the league with other teams Syracuse 148 Philadelphia 130 St Louis 126 Detroit 123. Monday games include New York vs Los Angeles Seattle Detroit vs Chicago Green Bay Syracuse Boston Chicago St Louis Cincinnati Los Angeles Cleveland New York Kansas City Hawaii. Sunday results Kansas City 100 Pittsburgh 91 Chicago 111 Hawaii 95 Hawaii Chicago Jacksonville Florida. Tuesday Hawaii New York Chicago Cleveland Ashtabula Ohio Montreal New York 1 Boston 2 Detroit 2 tie Toronto 3 Chicago 2 No games scheduled.
Marietta defeats Jackson 70 56 in the Athens AA District final at Grover Center to earn a spot in the Columbus AA Regional. Bill Whetsell scores 23 and Ron Sprague 17 as Sam Beckley leads Jackson, while Marietta faces Canton Lincoln in the semifinal.
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