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Clary Ends Career With 23 Points, 12 Grabs —Tigers' Gffense Stumbles, Suffer Sectional Loss To B-C-L, 55-46CONRAD — The tournament trail was a short one for the Eldora Tigers as they suffered a 55-46 loss to Beaman-Conrad-Lisccmb here Monday night in first round sectional tournament action.The whole problem tonight, and in most games tills season, has been the lack of a balanced offense,” moaned George Maurer, Tiger mentor. People get good shots and can’t put them in.”Senior Tom Clary finished his career as he fired in 23 points and grabbed 12 rebounds for the Tigers. The only non-senior in the starting lineup, sophomore Rob Barnes, was the only other Tiger in double figures with 12 tallies, Senior Tom Donner added eight points and grabbed nine rebounds.Brad Smith, 6-3 sophomore, dumped in 18 points and grabbed 10 rebounds to lead the Comets. Jack Zem added 15 tallies and Scott Neff 14.When you hold a team to 55 points, you are playing tough: 40 remaining to put the game on ice.“Our girls got a little tight, but they had the poise to stay in there,” praised Hueser.HUBBARD Player FG-A FT-A TPKrueger 6-21 8-9 20Lavrenz 2-3 0-1 4Hindman 4-7 2-3 10Dixon 11-20 6-7 28Totals 23-57 16-20 62WM Totals 20-52 18-21 58Guards rebounding — T. Hue-ser 6, M. Hueser 9, Eilbeck 10.WM scoring — Brockman 52, Sharar 6.Score by Quarters West Marshall 12 28 38 58Hubbard 12 36 50 62fOW for'h Offon allMerchandise in Balconydefense. Our defense was good and we were going to the boards well,” Maurer said. “When you can’t score, you can’t win.” The Tigers held a 36-30 edge on the boards and committed only one more turnover than the Comets, 15-14. From the field, Eldora connected on 22 of 67 shots for a cool 33 percent. B-C-L hit on 22 of 59 shots for 37 percent. The point difference came at the charity stripe where Eldora converted two of three attempts while B-C-L hit on 11 of 17 shots. Clary’s two 20-foot jumpers from out front gave Eldora a brief 4-0 lead. A basket by Neff and two buckets by John Miller boosted the Comets to a 6-4 lead. Donner and Barnes each hit a fielder to give Eldora its last lead at 8-6. B-C-L outscored Eldora, 9-2, during the remainder of the first quarter to take a 15-10 lead.During the first seven minutes of the second period, the Comets outscored Eldora, 14-4, to open a 29-14 gap. A free throw by Gary Shortley and a corner shot by Barnes cut the gap to 12 points at halftime, 29-17.Clary rammed in eight points during the third stanza as the Tigers attempted to get a rally started. Eldora trailed going into the final quarter, 37-29. Clary’s 16-footer cut the gap to six points early in the fourth period, but B-€-L reeled off nine points to open a 15-point spread, 46-31.The Tigers were not ready to call it quits as they poured in 11 points to two for B-C-L to cut the gap to six points again, 48-42, with 2:43 left. Clary hit seven points during that streak with Barnes adding four. Zern and Donner traded baskets before Zern and .Smith put the game out of reach for the Comets.Eldora closed the season with a 4-14 record, its poorest mark since the 1965-66 campaign.ELDORA Flayer G FT-A PF 7PFClary 11 !-i 3 23Hoy 0 0-0 2 0Donner 4 0-0 4 8Barnes « o-o I 12Ridout 10-0 5 2Larson 0 0-0 1 0Shortley 0 0-0 1 0Totals 22 2-3 17 46B-C-L 22 11-17 8 55B-C-L scoring — Procsholdt 2, Smith 18, Miller fi, Neff 14,Zern 15.Score by Quarters Eldora 10 17 29 46Beaman-Conrad 15 29 37 55Schuneman Nets 20 As PiratesReinbeck, 59-57GRUNDY CENTER — Dwight Sehuneman tossed in 20 points as the Steamboat Rock Pirates nipped Reinbeck, 59-57, in first round sectional tournament action here Monday night.The Pirates pulled away from a one-point halftime deficit, 34-33, by outscoring Reinheck, 16-8, to grab a 49-42 lead at the end of the third quarter.E. J. Stupp added 17 points to the SR attack along with grabbing 14 rebounds. Jay Venenga and Dave Volkens each tallied 16 points for Reinbeck. The Pirates held a 30-29 margin on the boards. From the field, SR connected on 28 of 60 shots for 47 percent while Reinbeck was 28 of 58 for 48 percent.Keinbeek 14 34 42 57Steamboat Rock 14 33 49 59Reinbeck scoring—Venenga 16, Volkens 16, Dirks, 13, Riehert 8, Miller 2, Brandt 2.SK scoring — Sehuneman 20, Stupp 17, Luiken 12, Eitcn 6, Crosser 2, GastHawks Dumped ByB-C-L, 56-46CONRAD — The Hubbard Hawks suffered a cold-shooting night and, as a result, was sidelined from tournament action by Bea m a n-Con r ad -Liscom b, 56-46, here Wednesday night in the semi-finals of sectional tournament play.The Hawks battled through a 82 percent shooting night while the host team hit at a 45 percent clip. Greg Jensen was the leading Hawk scorer with 15 points with Greg Wilkie adding 14 points and 11 rebounds. John Miller paced B-C-L with’ 16 points with Jaek Zern adding if*.B-C-L held a 12-8 first quarter lead and opened a 22-17 halftime spread. The Comets managed to hold the five-point load through the third quarter. The Hawks close out the season with a 15-3 record.Hubbard 8 17 31 46B-C-L 12 22 36 56Hubbard scoring — Faust 2, Jensen 15, Wilkie 24, Bunte 7. Eilbeck 8.B-C-L scoring — Miller 16, Smith 14, Zern 15, Proeschokll 6, Zern 3, Curry 2.
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Hardin County Index
Eldora, Iowa, US
Fri, Mar 01, 1974
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