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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1976
Page
10
The night action across southern Illinois features Marion and Carbondale in a 76 74 finish with Carbondale leading 68 57 in prelims. Benton tops Herrin 80 56 while Centralia edges Harrisburg 64 59 in another close tally.
Regionals and sectionals listed for multiple brackets across southern Illinois. Schools named include Du Quoin Carterville Elverado Waltonville Zeigler Royalton McLeansboro Enfield Johnston City Thompsonville Wayne City Woodlawn Marissa New Athens Red Bud Waterloo Gibault Waterloo Metropolis Cave-In-Rock Goreville Joppa Vienna Meridian Anna Jonesboro Cairo Caldwell Meridian Egyptian Shawnee Nashville Aviston Central Breese Mater Dei Carme Nashville Odin Cranville Sancoval Norris City Carrier Mills El Dorado Equality Galatia Crab Orchard Norris City Pinckneyville Trico Chester Gorham Sparta Steele Mille Tamaroa Eldorado Alton Bethalto Jerseyville Belleville East Althoff Belleville West Cahokia Mascoulah O Fallon Collinsville Edwardsville Roxana Wood River Centralia Greenville Highland Salem Granite City South East St Louis Lincoln Granite City North Herrin Carbondale Marion Murphysboro Newton Effingham Mt. Carmel Newton Olney West Frankfort Benton Harrisburg Mt. Vernon West Frankfort Olney Herrin Centralia Newton West Frankfort East St Louis Carbondale Winners of Olney and East St Louis sectionals
A jumble of college scores shows Drake routing St. Cloud 192 to 55 while Minnesota thrashed Vermont 94 to 61. Providence posted 107 in a blowout of Brown 82. Kansas beat North Dakota 94 to 57. Cal and others posted varied results across multiple conferences.
Ricky Gallon hit a short hook shot with 10 seconds left in overtime to lift 17th ranked Louisville to a 78 75 upset of second ranked Marquette in Milwaukee.
The Oakland Raiders beat the New England Patriots 24 to 21 to advance to their fourth straight American Conference championship. Ken Stabler passed for 233 yards and four sacks, while Gene Upshaw and Art Shell commented on improvements and effort. Madden praised the team’s resilience as they await their next opponent, with Stabler noting Pittsburgh or Baltimore as potential rivals.
Three Murphysboro wrestlers earned podium finishes at the Mascoutah invitational. Sophomore Danny Schnautz took 105 pounds, Ken Meadows finished fourth at 119, and Bill Terry was fifth at 50. Coach Rich Weber noted the team stood seventh with 58 percent points as Carbondale led. Carbondale Park District beat Bethalto 19 9 and remains undefeated with Tony Warner at 85 pounds and Bryan Brown at 112 pounds, with a return set for Jan 8 against Belleville.
Gordon Welch grabbed a miss at the horn and scored the winning basket for Carbondale to upset Marion 76 74 in a South Seven clash. Welch led with 21 points while Da vid Schreimann added 16 as Carbondale snapped Marion’s 14 home win streak and moved to 3 6 in league play. Marion’s Monty Boatright poured in 27 points as Orr and Pickens were held to eight and tenth respectively.
Illinois held off Arizona State 80 74 as freshman Rob Judson hit four free throws in the final 12 seconds. Levi Cobb led Illinois with 17 points while Tony Zeno topped ASU with 20. Illinois improves to 7 1. Arizona State falls to 3 4.
Murphysboro with 29 points in the fourth quarter defeats Sparta 67-49 to move to 6-0 overall and 4-0 in Southwest Egyptian Conference. Dan Edwards leads with 20 points, Lewis Kerrens 16, David Kellum 12 as Anna Jonesboro upsets Pinckneyville in overtime.
Benton rallied from a slow start to beat Herrin 68 56 Saturday night. Red Shurtz scored 16 Joe Durham 13 Rod Herrin 14 for the Rangers who improve to 1-1 in league play and 4-1 overall while Herrin drops to 1-3 and 2-4. Carl Marcinkowski led Herrin with 16 points along with 11 from Von LeQuatte and 10 from Brad Payne and Mark Hazel.
The Volunteer Classic at John A. Logan College begins Monday with Wabash Valley versus Southeastern Illinois in the 6:30 p.m. opener. Jackson State visits the host Volunteers in the second game. The losers meet for third place Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. followed by the final between Monday night winners. Trophies go to the top three teams.
Kelly Moon led with a first and two seconds plus a fifth and an all around second. Kelli Tinsley earned a third and three fourth places with a tie for third in all around. Linda Payne won a first and several top placements, while Jeannie Eicholz posted a fifth and a sixth. Coach Larry Moon led the team in coach Jeff Crackel’s absence.
The Sparta frosh soph basketball tournament opened Saturday with Murphysboro 53 Chester 48 and Sparta 60 Carlyle 50. Nashville 59 Anna-Jonesboro. Pinckneyville 68 New Athens 46. Monday Murphysboro faces Sparta at 6 p.m. and Nashville meets Pinckneyville. Finals set for Tuesday.
The Illinois High School Association sets 1977 two class regional assignments with 474 Class A schools at 64 sites and 255 Class AA teams at 56 sites. Mt. Pulaski won Class A and Morgan Park claimed Class AA last year as seeding meetings prepare pairings for regionals February 21 to March 2 and finals in Champaign March 11 to 19.
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