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Nazareth headed foranother state titleAUSTIN (AP) — Look over the list of Class 5A state champions for the past six years in Texas schoolgirl basketball, and you can just about call the roll at this year’s schoolgirl state basketball tournament.All four teams are recent state champs.Victoria, a perennial SouthTexas power, won in 1979; South Oak Cliff won in 1980; Lubbock Monterey took the title in 1981; and Houston Yates captured the championship in 1982.South Oak Cliff (32-2) and Monterey (27-3) clash at 4 p.m. today in the Frank Erwin Center in Austin in one 5A semifinal, with Yates (27-0) and Victoria (29-6) clashing at 8 p.m. The two winners will battle at 7:15 p.m. Saturday for the championship.In today’s other state tournament games, both in Class 2A, Abernathy and Honey Grove were scheduled to meet in one semifinal at 9:30 a.m., followed at 11 a.m. by Seymour and Troy. Abernathy won the 3A state championship last year, but was dropped to 2A this season.In Thursday’s first day of action in the tournament, Nazareth and Priddy advanced to the Class A title match. Nazareth marched closer to its seventh state title in eight years by beating Snook 50-32 for its 68th straight victory. Priddy advanced to the state finals for theBriefsnge scheduleJer with Bee County in Beeville this use of rain.■hise Junior College, Ariz. in a three-awk Field. A double-header will be A single game starting at 1 p.m. willsecond straight year by edging Petty West Lamar, 53-51, in overtime.In the Class 3A semifinals, Vernon rallied from a five-point deficit in the fourth quarter to defeat Midlothian 59-54, while Sweeny led from the start in beating Boerne 63-41.Defending state champ Waco Richfield and Sweetwater advanced to the Class 4A finals. Richfield extended its winning streak to 63 games by waltzing past Fredericksburg 56-32, while Sweetwater eliminated Livingston, 49-42.Not counting their recent state championships, the four Class 5A tournament teams have other similarities, says South Oak Cliff’s first-year coach, Garry Beveridge.“Yates is the only one with real size. The rest of us depend on the press and defense.”The Monterey-South Oak Cliffmatch-up will pair teams with similar full-court pressing defenses.Monterey has created an average of 29 turnovers in four playoff games. Two juniors, 5-8 Laura Supak and 5-9 Kira Morgan, and 5-8 senior Allison Taylor have led the attack. Supak has averaged 18 points a game, Morgan 11.8 and Taylor 11.4SOC’s Lady Bears have a balanced 10-deep roster headed by senior Rhonda Biggs and sophomore Chandra Dismuke.Victoria lost to South Oak Cliff earlier in the season, but Beveridge noted “it was so close, it never got more than five points apart either way. I don’t think it will give either team an advantage now.”Beveridge added, “We feel good about our chances. Yates is the only team with height, at 6-2 and 6-0 inside. But we ve learned to play against that. There isn’t any reason why we aren’t in as good a shape as anyone to win it.”
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Fri, Mar 01, 1985
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