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Overtimes For Faint-Hearted/, • -V . -•it* *••• ; • , jr.' .•' •• Vr. • ■ • • . :- -«*•?r -*• * V- .* :iin• ..JfV'Vr /*•' F;* *m* v• ;• *ft* *«•*Bv GAVIN DANCE«v%£•** ' » 'j! •'f-t , ’ *V.,*-v.It was a day for centers—and cardiac patients. Those with weak hearts were tested to the utmost in a “dry run=*■* ,C- * Qr ^ Vji-R'1n c#r •* -,*• ^ “'a* ' %.• * * •* 1 ’ ; ° «*'at XU - Field 'House. ’t' 14: %: % ■* ***$While the pivotmen hogged all the glory, a screaming crowd got their first taste of tournament play, weeks in advance, in a hectic Sunday in the Greater Cincinnatibadly sprained ankle suffered Friday at practice.Bron Bacevich had cause to rejoice later about Deadens' doings, when Gary Alrichs, another center, tipped in a re*rsne ofTepe and Tom Moeliering Purcell, and Roger Sullivan and Terry Toepker of St, Xavier were whistled to the sidelines with five personals in the foul-infestdd opener, bound as the gun went off, I Bob Wiesenhahit outscored thwarting another sudden ;Holy Cross Sunday. 36-29, asdeath battle.McNicholas dumped the vis-Alrichs* tip gave Elder a itors. 80-29. Wiesedhahn isIt was hilled as Racer from where Don Heller had - ,It was mnea as■ ****/'. p1irrpl, . 66-64 decision over Roger Ba- the citys top scorer.clinch the h off. It gave I urieil a ___ ._____ ,k... ...wu., a,n s*75-73 verdict.Bacon s day toGCL title, and clinch it they did. But not before a pair ofHook-shootingcon in overtime, thus enabling Bacevich's boys to “back inAnderson had all it could handle with upset - minded■ found to the GCL cage title with a Amelia Saturday.,before32-minute chillers that found ‘h* basket for 38 Purcell 4-1 mark.everyone all even. /ST. XAVIER’S ehanee for a co-championship was deadened, oddly enough, by a reserve center named Deddens —Bob Deddens.Deddens, a Purcell junior, sunk a pair of free throws with 1:39 to go in sudden-death overtime, to pick uppoints, including the last fourdumping the Barons,, 82-51, Roger Bacon had a seem- or the Redskin s fourteenthwith time running out, butthat fouled outin regulation time, before thewith eight seconds remaining. _A pi®iof free throws byONE OF the saddest centers Elder’s Jerry Drew were in the place was Jack Tbobe. matched by Bacon’s Terry Thobe, St. Xavier’s mainstay Monahan before the climactic all year, watched proceedings tip by Alrichs.from the stands, nursing a In addition to Heller,ingly safe 62-80 advantage straight in an unbeaiw cam-K- Ill — *l- , - *» u #i aras*.,J - *p»»nElsewhere SaturdJ$y Taylor spanked Glendale, 9*-47. and Milford whipped Warns-burg, 70412. Jay Galbraith’a 21 markers helped Woodward to a 76-75 win ewer htrd-iuck Central, and Deer Ark bat* tered Lockland, 72-49A.
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Cincinnati Times Star
Cincinnati, Ohio, US
Mon, Feb 11, 1957
Page 12
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