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Frostburg Win Streak Hits 16By 3, BUTER KEGG Sunday limes Sports Editor Frostburg State's .howling Bobcats, with visions of Kansas City dancing in their heads; closed their home basketball season in a blaze of glory last night at Coppin Hail by winning the. Potomac Intercollegiate Conference laurn anient.In adding the tournament jewel to their league championship, the slow-shooting Cats mowed down Coppin State cl Baltimore for the third time Ibis year, taking last night’s feature attraction by a 74-60 score.*‘A typical team victory,” smiled teach Kurt Wolfe as he sat In the winner's circle” prior to the awarding of prises. Mora* (George) was great, and Maddox (Bob) was tdugb again,”Those assigned to pick the all'corns Kiancli ...... 1-7TX-UNO- ..... 5-8DasacB ....... 2- 1Watson ...... 9-77Johnson 1-aIFammDJifi {■ iCHAMPIONSHIPe ’ y rr€-'• -5- I5- 8 J S6- 1 2- 1balls of fire on the part of bolli teaih^ as St, Mary's held off the DC Teachers in i 92-89 shootout.The Bobcats, notching their 16th straight victory and advancing their season's record to a 24-3, were not to be denied, They got off to a 2-0 lead on a Kevin Murphy basket and were never headed, pulling away to sizeable bulges in the second half after being on lop by only seven 130-23) at intermission..Murphy, scoring 21 points' before fouling oat with 4:02 remaining, was given a' standing ovation as he fret*; ted to the bench, th]$ being’ the final home game In a four-year brilliant career for the McKeesport Irishman,The same acclaim was reserv-V ' ■ - - - V ” * DS.V8U4H1 WflJ A L JV1 t'tbuu 21:a? « ^ «[*? for “Gorgeous George’A*itit*-. (lt;| — Diiie*. Damoo, Wjuoe. Mora* W’ficn Wolfe waved him 1 to the sideline moments laterrrsrtCOSTBVRB . BMurphy ...... nFictru ....... J- 3StaSdo* ...... 8- 8Mnrat ........7-18L«-*ii ........ 1-6SlcWacar ..... 1-2Slundy ....... 6-0Tlt;Xt1i ..... 51-39 ..Asslils! (ltt — HurpSiy 6. Plrlm, IImj-dy, Moral $, Uwla 5, MadOitrs-u 2- I S- 7 I- 45- 1J- 4 o- o 56-1677 71HALFTIME: FTIOSTBUBG M. COPPIN 53 TURNOVERS! COPPIN' 15. FRQJIBUEG IICOSSOMTIOSST. HART'S GAlfa mi ....... U-*Mil!«r ....... 6-jfiSimmonjt»- 7 1- 3JF Rbj. Til6-19 10-11Brvaa ........ 515Bibo ........ 3- RLin# ........ 2-jTeals ..... 53-97 ,,AssUls: mi _ Artami 5, MU»r 3, Sim mu 5, Bryan 2, n;bo j4- 9ty 6 0- 0 16-5544134euMora* closed his home careei with a 15-poiot effort and dk his usual brilliant job of quar lerbaefcing the Bobcat attack Maddox, a junior, canned n points and bad’eight rebounds.’Frostburg next takes its bob tailed express to Indiana, Pa, where the PIC double-crowi winners will play Monday in thi NAIA District IS playoffs am the right to go to Kansas Cit.lt; next month for the nationa tourney.Watson’s gosling kept Coppii in last night’s battle, taUyini32 9so as I* 23 points for game honors.' Be the control-minded Bobcats wer really ncvc-r in trouble.4 4T? 925f«:i —Bro*aHoblrjs:*Harris Urnar3TF EM. Tot-12-71o-»*12219-29J- 4a9500- 3S- 83S57-114- 539It’ !- J27I3- 52- Ii4. 13- 4«- aS«I37-8715-20.264465_ V. ---' »wv« t, -UUJS t, DiOWJl I,RoSiwoa t liWeJOha j, Jfirrfjtoa 1, B-jtlor 3.TSIEA'OCERS;ST. SI ART’S It: B.C. TEACHERS It HALFTTME:ST. MART'S 47, B.C. TEACHERS 42tournament team thought along the same lines because they tabbed ’ both Mora* , and Maddox for the.honor. Chosen with them wore Richard Damon and Alex Watson, both of Coppin, and Steve Foster of DC Teachers. Walt Simmons of St. ..Mary’s received the outs landing-player trophy.While Frosthurg played its usual “don’i-shoot-untif-you-soe-the-whites-of-their-eyes type of-game, firing away at a 61 per —.............cent clip (24 of 39), the battle ton trailed by as many asA couple of former stars from Gwynn Park HJgb class C state champion ships • School winners of three in a row, sparked St. Slary’a to Its victory in the- consolation,Dale Adams, a slx-foot-lou sophomore, was all'hands, bot as a shooter and rebounder. H jammed 27 points through th .hoops and pulled down 32 n bounds. Walt Simmons, wh stands 6-7, accounted for I points and 29 retrieves.It .was Simni.ons who broke. 32-all deadlockwith 4:45 to 'g in. the first half, his pair lt;free throws putting the Sain! from Southern Maryland on to to stay. The Teachers, hov ever, didn't roll over and -pla dead just because they ha lost twice to the Saints durin the regular season,The Cougars from Washinjlor third place was the exact points in. the second half b opposite. It was a case of “great] fConttn»ed ’On Page 37)
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