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Chinle HS wins consolation prizeThe Chinle Wildcats travelled to the far country over the Christmas holidays to participate in the Copper Cities Christinas Invitational Tournament in Globe. Arizona. vChinle opened the tournamenh playing against Safford in the first game. Safford had a fine ball team and stayed close to the Wildcats throughout the first half of the game, trailing 32-30 at the half-time. In, the second half*, the Wildcats went sour and allowed Safford to overtake them. Safford kept on capitalizing on Wildcat mistakes and with five minutes remaining m the final period, led by sixteen points. With a last bit of fine n effort and ball handling, the Wildcats closed the gap fast trailing . oply by one basket as the final whistle Sounded. Safford went on to*, win the tournament while theRICHARDSON CASH PAWNTV’s—Diamonds—Watches Indian Jewelry—Dead Pawn222W. 66 Gallup, N.M.Wildcats went into the consolation bracket.In the second game in the consolation bracket. Chinle played Miami, who were rated No. 2 in “AA Conference play. At the game progressed. Chinle fell behind the much bigger Miami team and were trailing by nine points at the end of the first half. In the second half the Wildcats fired up and lied the ball game at fifty all alt;f the end of the third period of play. In the final quarter, both teams were fired up until Chinle dunked in .three baskets in a row to go ahead and win the game with a score of 69-64.The Wildcats did not want to return home empty handed and showed their desire for a trophy in the final game with an easy victory over Ray. defeating them by a score of 72-40 and winning the Consolation Trophy. Out of the ten AI-Tourney selections. Chinle placed Terry Smith “and Tsosic Brown Jr. on the All-Tourncy team. Both Brown and Smith had fine games throughout the tournament. Wayne Durand was the high point scorer for the tournament, scoring 34 points in one.game, followed by Terry Smith with 23 points and Tsosie 'Brown with 22 in two different games.
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Navajo Times
Window Rock, Arizona, US
Thu, Jan 15, 1970
Page 19
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