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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1968
Page
4
In a chaotic affair the Muscatine Muskies edge Town City Regina 68 to 66 as Scott Ingstad seals victory with a 25 foot one hand set shot in the final seconds. Regina trims big deficit, Muskies rally behind Hatton and Ziegenhorn as coach Ware questions lineup.
Roosevelt and Storm Lake share the top spot in the first Associated Press Iowa high school basketball poll of the season. Storm Lake leads with a 10-0 record and big front line, while Roosevelt averages 78.7 points per game and drew 90 points overall.
Muscatine tops three divisions in the first Little Six basketball statistics with 44.7 percent field goal shooting. Scott Ings tad leads league free throws at 79.2 percent, Steve Ziegenhorn grabs 13.6 rebounds, and Steve Hutton scores 15.6 per game. Ingstad, Hathaway, and Hutton rank high in field goals and free throws. Muskies also place well in rebounding and team efficiency.
New York AP reports ABC signs a two year, 20 million dollar college football TV package with the NCAA for 1968 and 1969. Eighteen games per season, two more than last year, plus two Saturday night telecasts and one game selectable on five days notice.
Tuesday night ABA action saw Oakland crush Anaheim 141 121 and Dallas top Minnesota 112 109 while Denver beat Indiana 98 80 and New Orleans edged New Jersey 97 95. Pittsburgh defeated Kentucky 105 97 as Indiana faced Anaheim and Denver met Houston with Kentucky hosting New Jersey the next day.
Detroit edged Baltimore 114 to 113 and Cincinnati defeated New York 125 to 119 while Chicago beat Boston 95 to 84 and San Francisco topped Los Angeles 119 to 118. Chicago plays Baltimore and New York visits Philadelphia with Boston at Los Angeles and St Louis at San Diego. Thursday features St Louis versus San Francisco in Oakland.
Muscatine High School continued its perfect season with an 58-41 win over Iowa City Regina. Coach John Bock's sophomores built an early lead, then pulled away in the second half with a 15-point fourth-quarter run. Gantenbein led MHS with 22 points in the final two quarters while Noll and Anderson added nine and eight. Regina, without its top scorer, was limited by cold shooting at 22.6 percent.
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