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Gilbert boys win, 73-56Radcliffe defense too much for Gilbert girlsBy J ACK BR WSCOM*'Too much defense. Just too muchdefense.” Gilbert coach Dwayne•*Betterton said after watching Radcliffe defeat his girls 54-37 in an Iowa River Valley Conference battle Tuesday night at Gilbert That's what I attribute it to,” Radcliffe coach Lou Luiken agreed. 1 thought our kids did a heckeva job.” Betterton said his girls connected on only 21 per cent of their field goal attempts, adding we missed a lot of good shots, but you have to credit their • Radcliffet defense, too.”I^ed by Sue Lorenzen, the Radcliffe defense grabbed a 22-8 bulge midway-through the second quarter and were never seriouslv threatened thereafter Lorenzen nabbed 17 rebounds, was credited with eight steals, and blocked a fistful of shots against the shorter Gilbert forwards It was all over at the half. Betterton commented 1 Radcliffe held a 28-18 lead1 Our forwards didn't haveany confidence in their shooting Yougotta expect it to go in. but we didn't think that way tonight.”Radcliffe. which is now 3-0 in conference play (its other two wins were 76-75 squeakers over Neseo andllllllllHllllimilMlllllliliiiilHHIIIIIIIIIIHHItllHIIHHIIIAm** Daily Tribune14Wed., Dec. 12. 1973MiiiimmiiiiiimiiimiiiiMiiiiMiiiiiiiHitHMniiiiiiiiiiiHubbard', didn't exactly burn up the nets, either, canning only 33 per centof its shots.Kris McCartney led all scorers with 27 points, but Betterton was not unhappy with that figure. We would have been happy to hold her below 40 points. That was our plan, to holdMcCartney under 40 and shut the other forwards off.”However, even though guard Sue Pepper did force McCartney 11 points under her season's average of 38 points a game. Juli Wicks popped in 19 points to bolster the Radcliffe attack Pepper does as good a job as anybody in the conference on Kris. Luiken remarked when asked about the mini-battle between Pepper andMcCartnev.PjfPf;Those two are real good friends, but when they get out on the court they go at each other tooth and nail. Betterton said. Luiken said McCartney. who holds nearly all the Radcliffe scoring records, forced a lot ofshots while hitting 12 of 35 shots from the fieldIn addition to her standout defensive performance against McCartney. Pepper also grabbed 10 rebounds Cheryl Ricker! led the Gilbert rebounders with 12.Krin Eggers paced the Gilbert offense with 21 points, sinking half (7) of the team's field goals. Gilbert is now 3-2 for the season and I-I in the conferenceThere was another 54-37 score at Gilbert Tuesday night, only this time it was the Tigers holding the upper hand That was the score at the end of three quarters in a game the Tigers went on to win 73-56.Radcliffe. which slumped to 1-4 for the season and 1-2 in the conference, held a 14-13 lead at the end of the opening quarter, but Gilbert outscored the Cardinals 41-23 during the next 16 minutes to wrap up the victory.Rick Solomon pumped in 21 points to lead the Tigers, who are 3-1 overallRadcliffe ($4)Kris McCartney Juli Wicksfg126ft-a3 5 7 8pf13tp2719and 2-0 in the conference. Scott Myers, added 18 points and Greg Jensen had 16.Sophomore Jay Foster rammed in 22 points for Radcliffe. He was followed by Greg Wicks, who had 14 points.“We started slow, Gilbert coach David Squiers commented, “but this was the first game all year we've put together a real consistent offense and defense We had three real good quarters in a row.The Tigers, who have already won twice as many games in conference play this year as they did all last season (they were 1-13) , also pleased Squiers with their rebounding Squiers said he thought Solomon played his best game of the year even though he didn't score as many points as he has in other games It was his best defensive game, by far.Radcliffe (56)fgft aP*tpJay Foster102 6422Greg Wicks70 3114Kevin Wykle10032Matt Topp20334Gary Ellwood30 026Rick Martinson10012Bill Wheeler20 214Denny Wagner10 102272 151556
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Wed, Dec 12, 1973
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