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CATS POINTTO TITLEINNOAAThe Cheeotah Wildcats humiliated the Eufaula Ironheads 57 to 11 in I lt;the first conference basketball game of the season last Friday night.The Wildcats barely led at the end of the first quarter by a scoreOf 4 to 2* but they came back inttm second qjuarter tv up 2$ JtafaHB and hehf a 25 tor T lead «t| i ^ the halftime Mod. ?;Eufaula was^r^ddl^o 4. ^points in , the secondcontinued to plle lM’% ing score. I' Ledbetter vm ' bftlrf point mart ■^• for Checotafe^witl^Et: points foblowed by iFIMhtbhre^^nd^Eddy withpoints Mditp rled the Eufaulaattack with 4 -Cheeotah is faVbg^d to Win the * conference champldpship this year. ^ They have looked^^png in the first three ganfesai^fthe season, defeating the highly, ip^pected Vian Wolverines in a t\vd-game series.- They play Sallisaw here in an important conference game Friday night, but will not resume their conference schedule until January 8 when Stilwel! comes to Cheeotah.Harold Nicholson and Harry Jackson are coaches of the Wildcat team.The Cheeotah girls, coached by Perry Kennedy, appear to have one of the strongest teams in recent years.They defeated Vian 41 to 22 in t the first game of the season and were edged by Little Kansas 36 to 34 in the Tahlequah tournament. Scores of other games follow. Cheeotah 29, Morris 27; Cheeotah 37, Braggs 16; Cheeotah 25, Po-rum 36; Cheeotah 44, Hulbert 33; Cheeotah 38, Eufaula 21.Cieta Latta is star of the Cheeotah team having scored 122 points in the first Sfeven gaifces, Abbott and Scott are also high scoring forwards on the team.Other players on the team are Newton, Spears and Browning, center forwards; Hart, N. Grant and King, left forwards and Stone Creekmore and Smith, centerguards.n
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Checotah Democrat
Checotah, Oklahoma, US
Thu, Dec 20, 1956
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