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by PAUL LOGANwill bebeen established this season at HarperIwith a fine record of 22-5,the pride of wearing the maroon and gold.Hawks displayed it more than ever beforeCollegetime in theHawksinto tourney play and drew ateamter’s second number waschanged to a ‘5’.ON WEDNESDAY night, afterrecord of 17-4. When having earned the Cinderellathe 40 minutes of action wereberHarper’s first numbe-Hawks were askedPADDOCK PUBLICATIONSFBI., FEB. 28, 1969WELEASESERVICENOTWright College.The odds were heavily in thehosting Rams’ favor — they hadfinished high in the Eastern Di-vision standings while theHawks had been near the bottom, they had easily beatenHarper earlier in the season(108-84), and they were playingin their mini gym before a highly pro-Wright crowd.Defeating the Wright cagersin a situation like this would bea very difficult task for the bestHISTCARSFORDS - CHRYSLER - CADILLAC • GENERAL MOTORS - LINCOLNjunior college team in Illinois.Only Wilson College, a teamhighly ranked in the nation, wasable to knock off the Rams athome and it took an overtime todo it.Only a perfect ball game byHarper could pull off such anupset. All eight of the Hawksgave 150 per cent in this semifinal game but it proved to bethe final contest for Harper.THE RAMS captured their23rd victory in 28 starts, 92-60,the RamscolumnHowever, the Hawks had onedistinctionthey registeredthe first two points on the score-20-footertookoutscored11-0 over the next five minutes.thisHarper’s Don Duffy finallyended the drought with arebound shot but the damagehad been done. For the nextthe half, 41-21.The second 20 minutes sawRams’ offense becomerid. Thev hit on 23 of 34 fieldfive minutes the Hawks man-1 goal attempts for a phenomenalaged to stay within a dozen ofpertheir hosts on the firing of j ashes of the Hawks’ upsetWilly, Bill Keehan, Dick Helmer dreamsand Duffy.could have kept pretty eventhreeandandWright finished with a 53 perBUT IN THE last seven min- cent reading for the night comutes of the first half the Ramscoolcaught fire and raced out to aper cent mark although39-17 bulge before the Hawks got off seven more shots thancould cut the margin to 20 atSix Area Athletes Awaittheir hosts.E1 i Slaughter paced theWright attack with 20 followedby Jim Edwards and NateState Meet CompetitionBrown with 13 each.HarperKeehan (15), Helmer (12) and Duffy (10).TheThe goal for every athlete, i meet included wins over GaryIITHE goal, is to reach the state Stumpf of Arlington, Darnellchampionships.Taylor of DeKalb and JimThousands of athletes try ev-prv vear tn rpnrh the stateHarder of East Leyden. And asall wrest 1 infJ huffs know —start Friday at 7 p.m. and willcontinue Saturday at 1 p.m. andthe finals will be held at 7 p.m.at Evanston High.40-34KeehanwithEven though the Hawks weredowntheir prideful play late in thecontest drew cheers from theWright following. And, in handing Coach John Gelch a .5)0 post-game record, the Hawksleft the impression that there will be many tourney wins tocome.WRIGHT (92)FG FT PF TPSlaughter ..............10 0-0 1 2lt;iGeier .............. 2 1-2 2 5Edwards ............ 6 1-2 1 12Fahey ________ 3 0-0 16Brvja .................... 3 3-3 2 9Brown ________ 6 1-2 3 13Keehn .................... 3 0-0 0 6Swieki .................... 2 1-1 0 5Clarke .................... 1 1-2 0 3Weinstein ............ 1 4-9 3 6Watson .................. 10-0 0 2Gac ........................ 2 0-11440 12-22 14 92HARPER (60)FG FT PF TPCoduto .................. 0 0-0 1 0Druding .............. 0 3-3 4 3Willy ...................... 8 2-3 2 18Spore .................... 0 2-2 0 2Helmer .................. 5 2-2 3 12Duffy .............. 4 2-3 0 10Keehan ............. 7 1-2 3 15MeAndrews ........0 0-0 1024 12-5 14 60Halftime Score: Wright 41. Harper21
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Itasca, Illinois, US
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