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Newspaper
Mexico Ledger
Location
Mexico, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1977
Page
5
Fragmentary crossword clues reference Dax and Saratoga, cem cuttings, obituaries, receipts and animals. Entries mix Greek letters, footwear, legal terms, with scattered names like Megan and Ireland, while stray phrases hint at items such as traffic tickets and bird beaks.
Seedings held in the Montgomery Co. R-2 Invitational as top seed Montgomery faces Rock Bridge for first, Moberly meets Hermann for third, and consolation games feature Warrenton versus Louisiana and Wellsville-Middletown A-l against New Haven. Rock Bridge beat Moberly 68-55, Louisiana defeated Wellsville 62-55 with Wells ville trailing 41-31 at halftime. Womack led Louisiana with 22, Pearl 15, Chatman 10, Wallace 10. Frerking led Rock Bridge with 13, Smith scored 23 for Moberly. Final score Wellsville 55 Louisiana 82.
Community R-6 teams closed 1977 schedule with losses to Mark Twain. Boys fell 32-18 as Mark Twain used stingy defense. Burton led the winners with 10 points and Marty Maxwell had eight for R-6. Girls lost 29-15 as Patty Harris suffered a broken nose. Julie Dye led Twain with 14 and Sheryl Lovelace added eight for R-6.
The World Championship Tennis circuit will hold a $175000 event at the Checkerdome in St Louis February 6 to 12 as part of a 32 event tour. A 32 player field is planned with entrants including John Alexander Il Nastase Dick Stockton Roscoe Tanner Cliff Drysdale and Mark Cox. The 42 player field will be completed by December.
A compact scoreboard roundup lists results across basketball football hockey and baseball. Notable items include Mexico Ladies and First National Bank 3 to 4 in a baseball style tally, Central Loan and Wonneman's high marks, and Barbara Sapp topping with 223 single and 590 series.
The Pacers trades six weeks into the 1977-78 season show Adrian Dantley Mike Bantam and Ricky Sobers thriving in Indiana while Don Buse and Billy Knight find new fit with Phoenix and Buffalo. Sobers emerges as a playmaker in Indiana alongside John Williamson. Buse earns praise for team play, defense and passing. Knight’s move to Buffalo yields a strong scorer for the Nets, while Indiana gains two starters for one star.
New York AP report ranks North Carolina's Dean Smith as the top active college basketball coach with a 940-113 record and .751 winning percentage over 16 seasons at UNC. Ray Mears, Bill van Breda Kolff, and others fill the rest of the top twenty list based on career marks.
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