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EaUk# thee gap to quarters always■*»tlU.Kimball Downs Mt Vernon ISTo Win CBH Championship^needed! PLANKINTON — The Kimball, And although they were troub-. at front, Kiotos, rated a darkhorse going] led with fouls throughout the con*, in thele hit a 343 and stole theto give of thers hadopeninginto an evenly - matched Custer{test those four men, along with Battlefield Highway Conference junior started Larry Svoboda and tourney, emerged the champion | reserves Ole Olson and Ed Svobo* here Saturday night when Coach, da, played important parts inhe man he Gov-e bench I scored dded a 1. Larry p shoot-l while sistentty U.tal In?D Ofquart* jut of .SCOT*mper* v only nettedfor the le Gene ling out ie. Rob* ty foiilslet half, oarkers. n place tee, did ler the die Bob the ball 1 defen*seconds ance to n Ober* ; throw coming, ft, How-rebound ftot, but the ball ran outd get it99gameas high ' pointswith 20.i jump* toe adit of theDon Betitlen’s crew upended the Mt. Vernon Mustangs 48*34 In the championship battle. i The Kiotes (vent Into the tournament with four losses to their credit, Including a 58 • 50 setback at the hands of the Mustangs Jan. 5.But there was no stopping the determined Kiotes In the tournament as they k n o c k e d off Puk-wana 38 * 34 in first round action and then handed Reliance a 5242 defeat in the semifinals.In other games Saturday Reliance downed Gann Valley# 56 - 52 for third place.- Plank-fnton defeated Pukwana 40 - 30 for fifth place, and Stickney edged White Lake 35 * 33 for seventh place.Winning a conference tournament was nothing new for four seniors In Kimball’s starting lineup. Pour years ago Ed Havlik, Don Stanek, Lee Lelferman and Ken Sebcsta were members of an eighth grade quintet which won the conference tourney.★ A ★winning a conference trophy a* gain.Although Kimball led by eight points, 29 * 21, at halftime; things did not look too rosy for the Kiotes who had both starting guards, Lei-ferman and S e b e s fc a, with four fouls. And defensive star. Ed Havlik had three fouls at the intermission break.guard picked up three quick Infractions in the first quarter and was then benched until (he start of the second period when the other starting guard was also charged with three fouls.But when he returned to the lineup Lelferman scored seven straight points to pull the Kiotes from a 12-11 deficit to a 17-1? deadlock with 4:15 left In the half. And that seemed to be all the spark the champions needed as the rest of the players started tothrough seven straight points.HtJ , an T 1 to to Tues ing 8 Seal! colieSchindler, a 5*9 senior forward,' ed hthen pushed through 11 points In the last period when the winners fought off a desperate rally by Gann Valley which was led by high-scoring Roland Zastrow. The Gann Valley ace pushed through eight points in the final quarter which saw the Buffaloes pull up from a 41-35 deficit at the end of the third frame to a 4846 deficit with 2:45 left in the game.But then Schltnder and McManus went back to work to ice theHowever, Bentien got a lot of work out of two reserve guards, Olson and Ed Svoboda, and noneof the Kiotes fouled out as a result.A balanced scoring attack, led by Stanek and Larry Svoboda, and a strong team defense, paced by Havlik, led the Kiotes to victory. Stanek picked up 15 pointscatch fire and they steadily.me for Coach Don Screes’ out-pulled away for the victory.The biggest lead the Kiotes held was 15 points, 37 * 22, late in the third quarter.Mt. Vemoft Coach Marv Jira, who played his prep ball at Kimball, had his cagebs go into a futl-court press a midway through the third stanza but the Kiotes mentor tli© winners while Larry Svo-;aged to keep a comfortable lead.boda had 13. Meanwhile, Havlik was holding the usually high-scoring Jim Strbmbeek to eight points in the contest.Probably the “unsung hero’* of the game was Leiferman who sat out almost three-quarters of the game with four fouls. The little settlor ★ ★ ★Tournament Boxscores(Championship)KIMBALL (48) G F-M P T-M P T14t22I92 16 4 54 85 14 3 4 0 1 0 011 18 48E. HavlikStanekLeifermanSebestaOlsonE. Svoboda Munger Jensen DubaL. HavlikGuthmiller Totals MT, VERNON (34) Strombeck J. Greene Merkle Tollefson B. CampOakleyEspidalScheffieldLarsonGerlachTotalsKIMBALL MT. VERNON14-3 4 6 •55*1 1 15 0 1* 1 4 1 2 4-1482 0- 0 3 4 0 I- I t 1 0 0- 0 0 0 0 0- 0 0 0 0 0-000 0 0-0 0 0 0 0- 0 0 016 16- 7 22 48G F-M P T3 2- 5 5 8 3 1-2 2 7 0 0-3 0 0 0 1-1 5 13 7- 3 3 13 0 0-010 0 1-0 0 1 0 0- 0 0 0 10-012 10-142 1112-15 21 34U 29 40 48 12 21 27 34(Seventh Place)WHITE LAKE (33) G F-M P THettinger Bradwisch Safctenlee Whittecar Hagerty Vissta Dodds Hagerty Nelson Totals STICKNEY (35) Keizer BlllarsSehroederBarrowsHemeyerDewaardBruinsmaLarsen •Totals WHITE LAKE STICKNEY2613100004 75 142 21330O06400003- 0 2* 70- 5 0- 2 2- 3 0-, 2 0- 1 0-1 0- 213 7-23 18 33 G F-M P T 2 0-154 0- 2 8- 24- 01- 3 t- t 0- 1 1- 110 15*11 23 35 9 12 23 33 10 25 27 3512041002 2 4 12 3a050O(Third Place)GANN VALLEY. ($2) G F-M P TMinneapolis ManSoars To SkiThe Mustangs did manage to cut the gap to 40 - 30 in the firstminutes of the f|nai stanza, butthat Whs as close as they could come as Kimball pulled away a-gain.Guard Bill Camp, who sparked the Muitangs to a 12*11 lead at the end of the first quarter on a last - second shot, was high-point man for the losers with 13. Strombeck had eight, while rebounding ace Ji^n Greene had seven.Shortly after the second quarter the Mt. Vernon crew, paced by Camp and Strombeck, pulled into a 15 - 11 margin and it looked as though Mt. Vernon might start its move.However, Leiferman took up (he slack for Kimball to knot (he score 17 * 17, and then the winners pulled into a 23-17 advantage from which the Mustangs never recovered.The Kiotes jumped into that lead in less than two minutes. Leiferman scored three points, Havlik hit four, and Larry Svoboda notched two.Kimball won consolation honors a year ago.(Third Place)Sparked by Gary Schindler and’ Ronald. McManus the Reliance Longhorns led at all quarters stops to defeat Gann Valley 56*52 for third place.Although the Longhorns fell behind early in the first period they fought back and took a 13*9 advantage at the end of the initial stanza when Schindler pumpedSchindler ted all scorers with 25 points — 13 of which came on free throws. Teammate McManus notched 17 points, John Cosgrove, although he failed to score, contributed much to the cause with his rebounding Floor general' Dick Kirkie led the Gann Valley attack with 18 points, followed by Zastrow with 13. Kirkie led the defense while Roland Zastrow and Francis Thompson sparked the club off the boards.Behind 43-35 in the last quarter, the Buffs came back to pull within four points, 45-41, in four minutes. And that's about the way the margin remained although Gann Valley closed the gap toiwo points on three occasions—48-46,5048 and 52-50.(Fifth Place)The host Plankinton Pirates pulled away hr the second half to down Pukwana 40-30 for consolation honors.A balanced scoring attack paced the winning Pirates who lost to Mt. Vernon in the opening round and then defeated Stickney in the consolation semifinals.Bob Bosworth and BohWelch each had 10 points for Plankinton, while John Wilson and Fritz Valder contributed nine points each.Wayne McGhee was the only Pukwana player in the double figures with 15 points.(Seventh Place)Although held to only two points in the third quarter the Stickney Raiders came back in the last stanza to win- 35-33 over White Lake. The Ices dropped the Indians from last year’s championship to eighth place.Bob Sehroeder led the Raiders with 12 points, followed by Gail Heimeyer with nine.Don Bradwisch’s 14 points sparked the White Lake crew.Th out t ond slste The tors Bens chanDa forw winn on n attei othei Tim scorl poiniRalpmar'Ei stanc the stani hold! Ron conti down boun an a lastChancehomloweandBobSealwhildefe:foifliTh7-5gOMed i poin holdl vant cereBfto -onders lt;wasandoneIng40 -mahquisTh etist to st 59 CiFIWeswiththenT Kirkie23U 0 0 ' 063 14 2 24 UR. Zastrow L. Zastrow KnipplingMebiusi 2j Thompson3 15 I 0 1-9 17 50 E 45 48 f 39 50r-M P T •1113 • 1 • 2 • 1 • 1 • 2 k 0 - 0 - 2 • 1 - 05 21 5 5 102 5202211181'0000o'SteppTotals RELIANCE (56) Briggs Schindler Cosgrove McManus Berg FlecherTotals GANN VALLEV RELIANCE8 2- 0 4 18 6 1-2 5 13 0 1-0 5 14 0- 0 3 80 1-4 2 13 0- 2 4 6 21-1 1 5 23 6- 9 24 52G F-M P T0 2-1 12 6 13- 4 3 25 0 0- 3 4 05 7- 2 0 172 1-1 2 53 1-1 0 7 16 24-12 10 569 21 35 52 13 27 41 56Jumping Record(Fifth Place) PLANKINTON (40) G F-M P T-13 22 34 F-M P T - 3 3 20- 4- 1 2- 4 k 0 t- 2 • 1 I- 11 142 702310023 04 3 2P18 12 55 20 28 34 i 33 39 55B. Bosworth R. Bosworth ValderWilsonWelchLaffeyTotalsPUKWANA (30) B. Priebe Cook Knutson D. Priebe McGhee Dixon TotalsPLANKINTONPUKWANA0- I 0- I 7- 2 1* 0 0- 2 0- 25 1 1 4 A 016 8- 8 17 40 G F-M P T3 10 1 24 9 3 9 3 10 3 002207011544- 4 3- 2 0- 1 0- 1 i- s 0* 0431147401 15 1 08*14 11 30 15 26 40WESTBY, Wis. (AP)—A highflying truck driver, who overcame a bad start to soar to a North American ski jumping record, will lead the United States team When it goes to Poland in quest of world honors next month.John Balfanz, 2t. of Minneapolis, leaped 317 feet—a foot over the old mark—in claiming his record Sunday and taking the top place on the four-man U.S. team. It will compete In the world ski jumping meet at Zakopane, Poland, Feb. 18-25.Others on the team, in their Jumping order, will be Robert Keck of Oeonomowoc, Wis.; Steve R e i s c h 1 of Steamboat Springs, Colo., and Jim Brennan of Edmonds, Wash.Balfanz* record came, on the first of six leaps, but his launching was imperfect. He sped into the takeoff with his skis a shade too far apart and took off the same way. However, he corrected in a split second, leaned into his effort and soared far out over the landing hill.The former mark was set It years ago at Steamboat Springs by Ansten Samuelstuen of Greeley. Colo., and equaled two years ago by Brennan on Pine Moun-1962 MEIWUim® Mercury COMET—smartly ahead of the cc13 19 30' tain at Iron Mountain. Mich.irmnia Plavs Revenae(2) Mercury METEOR—the beautiful bafance
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Mon, Jan 15, 1962
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