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Bv JOHN CHAPPLE%*Crete-Monee’s Warriors split a pair of week-end games, falling to Wilmington Friday in their conference opener 59-43,then springing back to defeat ! Grant Park 47-37 Saturdayi i. * inight. ;A suprisingly strong Wilmington quintet jumped to an early lead, burned the meshes with a torrid .458 shooting average andhanded Crete-Monee a 59-48 Wil-Ro-Kce conference loss. The' i Warriors showed the effects of i the two week layoff since their win over Rich November 20 and | couldn’t begin to find the range until the second half.Main cogs in the Wildcat offense were forward Don Keeley and Tom Burton, a guard. TheTaylor OutpointsOhl in NIBL TiltRoger Taylor led San Francisco to a National Industrial basketball league victory over Peoria 123 to 97 Friday at San Francisco.The former Rich high all-stater counted 27 points to outscore former University of Illinois teammate Don Ohl. who had 15for Peoria. Bob Boo/er. two-time all-American from Kansas State, paced the losers with 19.Illinois Varsity Whips FreshmenFormer Bloom star Jerry Col-winners played a deliberatei brand cf ball featuring snappy | passing enabling Keeley to takeplenty of time on set shots from the corner. The flashv forward bucketed six of 10mostly from outside the circle, 5 about. Glasow paced a third took 14 shots and connected on quarter rally that closed the gapto 38-33 with 3l/2 minutes left inhalf of themRESERVE FORWARD Chuckthe period. The 6-3 jump shot artist scored 13 of his 16 points in the second half and tied withangelo scored 11 pointsattempts: Glasow gave disappointed War-from the field. Burton scored rior fans something to cheer! Keeley for scoring honors.Guard Dale Peters and pivot Rich Stawicki were also in double figures with 11 and 10 points, respectively. Stawicki played much of the game at forward and h i s reboundingability was missed w hen hemoved from under the boards.| Coach Jim Bonney’s Warriors moved back into the win column ! on their home court by handing 1 the Grant Park Dragons a 47-37 I setback. Crete-Monee took over the lead late in the first quarter,and remained in front from that point.Although the Warriors shot ata lukewarm .284 clip they controlled the boards and got 20 more chances from the field than! Grant Park. * *STAWICKI REGAINED h i si touch and captured scoring honors with 16 points. Four of hisbaskets came in the third periodand helped stave off a Dragonrally.The onlv otherfor double figures was Grant Park forward John Hamann with 11. Althuogh Hamann's 11 points was high for his club itwas his lowest offensive outputin six games.Grant Park narrowed t\ * Ato 36-34 in the final quarterwhen the Warriors were unable to find the range for the first 4 minutes of the period. Guardthe ice withlong set shot and Crete .Mor.eeA bit of ballet spiced basketball at Homev.ood-Flossmoor andSatur-idav in the Illinois varsity tri-w *umph over the freshmen, 89 to ;70. the grace of the high school athlete is not to be denied. The ball?Bill Small, all-stater from Ray Brower, Viking guard in air at left has it.west Aurora, tallied 25to lead the frosh.apointsCrete-Monee’s freshman-soph-more team lost to Wilmington61-46 and dropped a 45-38 decision to Grant Park.
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Chicago Heights Star
Chicago Heights, Illinois, US
Tue, Dec 08, 1959
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