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From Star! Reports .The Ruckel Rams defeated the Lewis Falcons 54:38 Monday night at Lewis to move into a tie with Bruner Orange for first place in the county junior high school basket ball standings. Both teams are 92. They play each other Thursday night at Bruner. For the game, is this sim ple: the winner is the county cham pion, the loser isn’t In other girls’ junior high school action, Meigs won its sixth game in a row, beating Bruner Blue 47-37, and Richbourg took care of Pryor by a score of 40-38. ‘@RUCKEL took a 23-14 halftime ead and never stopped, handily defeating the Falcons, 2. Kathleen Zachem led the winn ing effort for Ruckel, scoring 21 points. She was followed by Jeryhl Little, who scored 17 points while Stallings ‘years coaching the Dallas Cowboys defensive backfield. He has been praised for his ability to take free ‘agents and low-round draft picks ‘and shape them into top-notch players. Under stamngs’ tutelage, free agent defensive backs Cliff Harris, Everson Walls and Michael Downs were named All-Pro. Charlie Waters, another Cowboy All-Pro, was a third-round draft choice. Stallings said his first order of business would be to assemble a staff. “I have several coaches in mind,” he said. “I can't say who they are but I will tell you that I want on-the-field coaches, someone who can help a player perform.” Junior Girls grabbing a phenomenal 2 re bounds for the Rams. Rucket coach Gail Walker said We'll have to play better than we did tonight (to beat Bruner Orange). We were sloppy and our concentration was off. We might have been looking ahead. ‘On Thursday's game for “all the marbles,” Walker said, We hope to be able to run our offense and play our kind of game .We'll need to establish the tem po of the game and try to play our control type of game, going inside to Little when we can .Ruchel and Orange have clashed once already this season, with the Spartans taking a 5%41 decision after Ruckel had taken a 27-18 halftime lead ‘Toni Southerland led Lewis with 4 points. She was followed by eammate Shannon Treadway who scored 13 points while hauling down seven boards ‘@MEIGS, #4 overall, extended is winning streak with the victory over Blue. 1-10, Lillien Jackson led the winning effort for the Lady Wildcats with 10 points and seven rebounds. Shi ps joined in double figures by teammate Maria Ortiz with 10 points .The game was fairy even after the first half, with the Wildcats holding a slim 1814 lead. Then ‘Meigs outscored the Spartans 12-6 to take their final lead, T was pleased with the win,” said Meigs coach John Susko. ‘This is six in a row for us, and we've knocked off both first-place teams (Bruner range and Ruckel), and now we've got to get ready for Ruckel The Spartans were led by Angie Allen with 13 points. Melissa Dor ‘man snagged seven rebounds for Bruner ‘*RICHBOURG shut down the Pryor offense in its win, which ‘moved the Roadrunners to 83 in the conference and 8-4 overall Behind 2015 at the half, the Pirates started a comeback in the third quarter, outscoring the Roadrunners 14-8 to take a slim 29-28 lead going into the final stan- But the comeback trail stopped there for the Pirates and began for Richbourg. The homestanding Roadrunners outscored Pryor 12-4 in the final frame to take the victory. Only one player managed to hit in double figures for Pryor. Lor raine Simmons scored 10 for the Pirates. Winning coach Diane Dove said, ‘We played pretty aggressive on defense.” ‘She added, “Until we last three ‘minutes of the game, it was close. ” The Roadrunners were led by Louise Bonner with 18 points and Louise Cox with 12 markers. Pryor fell to 38 with the loss.
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Fort Walton Beach Playground Daily News
Fort Walton Beach, Florida, US
Tue, Feb 11, 1986
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