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CATS ZOOMIro NOAACAGE LEADThe Checotah Wildcats zoomed to the top of the NOAA conference basketball .standings Tuesday |c night in a thrill-packed 58 to 51 victory over the Sallisaw Black Diamonds.The Wildcats jumped into a lead in the early moments of play and held- on until late In the second period when Sallisaw went ahead by 4 points for their only lead during the entire game, Ledbetter, the } star of the same with 29 points, connected with a field goal and *two free tosses to tie the count at27-27 at the half. The teams were tied 11-11 at the end of the first period.tc1t1IT}ILedbetter turned in his best game of the season hitting eight times from the field, 13 times from the free throw line andclearing the backboard time after time.Leon Dixon, who usually leads the scoring parade for the Wild cats, was held to ID points by the full-court press tactics of the Black Diamonds. Most of Dixon’s shots were spectacular ‘falling away* shots from far out.if1rr.The Cats lead the conference with eight wins and one loss compared to the nine and two record for the Black Diamonds.The game was tied 11 times during the contest the last time being a? 44-14 midway of the last period.Four Sallisaw players fouled out of the game in their frantic effortin hold the Checotah attack incheek.The outcome of the game wasbin doubt until the final two min tites when the Cats pulled out in f^ont by a comfortable margin. The Checotah girls team defeated Sallisaw 39 to 35 in a game which saw Cietta Latta hit -19 points from the floor for the Checotah team:- Dorothy Abbott and Joan Hollingshed had 10 points each. The girls have about a fifty-fifty record for the season.„ O ......'i(1rtf(TCI1({]
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McIntosh County Democrat
Checotah, Oklahoma, US
Thu, Feb 02, 1956
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