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pions will begin bidding for a berth in the state tourney Friday in Howard Payne's Yellow Jacket Gymnasium as the Region II basketball tournamentgets underway.All of the teams in this year's matches are newcomers to the regional toumev. with Avoca coming back after a year s absence to take up its battle for a fourth regional title in fiveseasonsThe first game of the toumev will begin at 3 pm. when Gus-tine 25-B, takes on Wall 20-R Centennial. 22-B. and Olden, 32-R, will tie up at 4 30 pm while Abbott. 30-B and \voca will clash in the fir*t night gameat 7 p.m.Lingleville. 24-B. will battle8:30 pm 1 he winner oi a ana 28-B was not certified throughthe office of Regional Director Z T Huff until this morning.Avoca took its bi-district clash Tuesday from Eula 1R-Bb\ a 61-58 margin, with 5-5 Booger Hughes taking the lead in the Avoca win by throwingin 25 points Teaising up with Roocer in the Eula game was brother Gene Hughes, who swished thenets for 20The hot Avoca Mustang* wonthe tourney title in 1954-55-56, and carried the state championship trophy home in 55Wall upped its season record to 31-4 in its bi-district game by blasting Forsan of 19-B 56-44 Wall s Hawks racked up a 17-5LopezOptimisticAsEverforRaceBv LEO H. PETERSENT nitoH ^nnrU I- HitnrYankees as badly as I do. Youhpt ?h.at for rvrrv Yankee*inon ciampni iiuvwi u*i ucicuacto end the Buff’s seasonTop scorers for Wall are Kenneth Holubeck. Dennis Olsovsky. Kenenth Dierschke. and FrankieKvapil.Six-six Eddie Munn, who ha* gathered over 600 points this season, teamed up w ith Jerry Hilliard and J T Horn to push Olden over the hump for a 59-57 victors* over Early Tuesdaynight in May.Munn wa* high scorer in thegame with 19. while Horn dumped in 18 and Hilliard 17.Centennial slapped a 54-36 loss on Eden for its regional chair in Brady by using a strong second half suree to overcome a 19-19 halftime score.Abbott reached the Howard Payne floor chance by sneaking past China Springs 37-34The price of admission for each two-game session will be 50 cent* for adult* and 25 cents forstudents.Howard Pavne Athletic Director Bennie Williams is in charge of the tournament Two games will be played Saturday morning and finals will come off Saturday night.
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Brownwood Bulletin
Brownwood, Texas, US
Thu, Feb 27, 1958
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