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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 22, 1953
Page
17
In a conference entry update, the Blue Devils defeated USC 82 69 to force a fourth place tie with the Wolfpack topping Carolina Bears. A Greensboro meeting decides North State Conference tourney seedings with possible matchups for HPC and Lenoir Rhyne.
Duke's Blue Devils shot 45.2 percent, their best this season, to crush South Carolina 98-68 at home. Bernie Janicki scored 30 points with 16 rebounds, Ronnie Mayer added 17, while Rudy D Emilio sat out with an ankle injury for the second straight game.
Allen Jay High School scores a 52 to 51 victory over Pleasant Garden at Guilford College to reach the Guilford County Conference finals. Kenneth Black nails the winning shot with seven seconds left, as Bobby Dunbar leads all scorers with 21 points and Black adds critical rebounding. Allen Jay meets Guilford for the championship at 8:30 p.m. Wednesday. girls final set for 7:30 p.m. between Monticello and Alamance.
Furman beat Davidson 89 to 54 as Frank Selvy scored 31 points to lift Furman. Selvy raised his season average to 28.3 per game, with Gordon and Deardorff adding key support. Elon defeated Guilford 76-71 to secure a second place tie with Western Carolina in the North State Conference standings, Dee Atkinson scoring 24 for Elon and Shoaf and Schmidt each 19 for Guilford.
LSU defeated Georgia Tech 76 to 52 in Baton Rouge before 6,000 fans, clinching at least a share of the Southeastern Conference title. The Tigers extended their winning streak to 14 and reached 19 victories for the season, both school records.
Churchland meets North Davidson at Lexington at 8 p m for the girls first round of the Davidson County Conference tournament. In-city leagues feature A B Club vs Civitan 7 p m Elks vs Mercury 8 p m Smith Flowers versus Prospectors 8 p m and Heritage against Highland 8 p m in semi final Y Industrial League playoffs at the YMCA and Junior High Gym.
A list of many college basketball results with team pairings and final scores, including Duke over Maryland 98 57 and West Virginia 110 over Virginia 84, plus numerous other early season outcomes across conferences and venues.
West Virginia basketball team overwhelmed Virginia 110 to 4 on Virginia’s court. Capt. Jim Sottile, Mack Isner, and Eddie Becker led the Mountaineers with high scorers Isner 26 and Sottile 25. Virginia’s Wilkinson poured in 32 to raise his season total to 441.
Boston Braves will depart for Bradenton Florida with only two players rookie pitchers Dick Kelly and Bob Giggie from Milton joining the morning trek. Manager Charlie Grimm has scheduled the first workout for next Tuesday with 18 of the 40 players still unsigned as many winter in Bradenton awaiting the GM John Quinn's arrival to finalize contracts.
Western Carolina catamounts beat Tusculum 109 to 72 as Ron ald Rogers scores 33 points to reach 637 for the season tying the North State Conference scoring record. Cecil McCormick and Jim Jordan add key first quarter baskets.
Lenoir Rhyne beat High Point 82 69 to secure fourth place in the North State Conference standings. Jim Hamilton’s Bears led 22 14 after the first quarter and 47 29 at halftime as Bob Ortmyer and Roland Barker each scored 18. The win sets up a coin toss to seed No 4 for the Greensboro Winston-Salem tournament.
State College rallied late to beat North Carolina 87 to 66 at Woollen Gymnasium Chapel Hill clinching first place in the Southern Conference for the seventh straight season. Eddie Morris Davey Gotkin and Danny Knapp led the Wolfpack while Carolina’s Vince Grinaldi top scored for the Tar Heels in a game marked by State’s bench depth and improved second-half shooting.
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