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Height9Factors In 84-51 WinBy Johnny Siewart Defending, ch ampion Beckley rrtel and passed its first tournament lest in flying colors and won the right to, compete for the championship of the Section 19, Glass A Basketball Tournament tonight at the Recreation building against Shady Spring* * $Height and dead eye shooting were the deciding factors as-tbc Flying Eagles captured their 36th straight sectional victory by downing a scrappy hut on (classed Sophia High I6anv84 to 51, last night in the semi-final round which sent them into the title game they hope to*defend successfully at 8 p.m. thisevening.Brilliant shooting by Howard Hurt'and Danny Williams and sensational rebounding by center John Lemons paved the way for -the locals as they shot intp an earlylead and never let up in downing the Blue Hawks who gained the semi-finals by whipping Stoco in the opening round on Wednesday.There was no doubt as to the outcome once Walt, Rapp old gave Beckley a 3-2 lead on a free throw after Lemons tied the game at 2-2. From there on the Eagles were never in danger, piling up as much as 254 points leads during the last half.The Hawks scrapped all the way, but the height advantage of the locals was too much- for them to overshadow. Lemons was outstanding on defense, likewise on offense, and took 14 rebounds from the smaller Sophias of Bob Douglas.-Sophfa Svasu't up to its game which it played against Stoco inthe quarter-final contest, but even if it had, the Eagles wouldn't have experienced too much trouble ‘ for the height they held was tod much difference.And, too, thd Eagles were up to their old game of field'goal accuracy. They hit on better than 50 percent of their shots, getting 34 of 65 attempts.Hurt and Williams again were the sparkplugs on the offense, getting 50 points between them. Hurt, held to 10 points during the first half, came back strong in the last half, although not up to his usual game, arid finished the evening with 26 markers. Williams made his driving • shots count and completed the night with 24 points,Sopliia drew first blood on a field goal by Basham, the only hope the Blue Hawks had as far as scoring was concerned, it it looked as though they might give peck ley a good battle. Lemons struck back with a basket and .Rappold added a free try which got Beeley into high gear and before Sophia could counter the score was 11-2. Lloyd Coskey broke .the silence for the Raleigh County league team, but it was too late.Beckley held a 19-10 first quarter margin before Williams got his sights on the basket and started pouring in the points. Eight points by Williams and six by Hurt engineered the locals to a 40-25 intermission advantage and Sophia’s only hopes for a win were gone down the drain.The Eagles continued to mount the score as fhe game we tit into the third quarter and Hurt began to get his shooting eye. By that time Sophia was nil but gone, failing to penetrhte the pressing used all over the floor.. The only Sophia player able to hit consistently against Beckley was Bashnm, but even he was unable to do that in the last half.Basham did three-quarters of his scoring in the first half, getting 12 points to be tied with Williams at intermission; All eight '/( Basham’s points in the second quarter came in succession and narrowed the gap at one time to nine points. But that was as far as they got.Lemons, besides getting 14 rebounds, had one of his best nights in scoring. The 6-3 senior pitched in 17 points to help Hurt and Williams. •SophiaA. Bashom, f 8-20 4-6 4 20Mike Griffith, f 3-10 2-3.2 8Clear Fork Gains FinalIn Defeating Marsh Fork.COLCORD, March 2—Clear Fork High took rival Marsh Fork into camp here tbmghi! as the Section 24-B tournament got under way.The score was 73 to 61 as the local Panthers moved into the final roujjd Saturday night against Mark Twain's Authors.Clear Fork was a goocHsaltdub tonight and moved out front early as it' took a 13-8 lead in the first eight painutes. It kept increasing the bulge in the second and third quarters, and then fought off the Bulldogs in the last quarter.Marsh Fork closed with a 25-point splurge in the final eight minutes but the damage had already been done.Clear Fork showed excellent balance on its club with four players hitting,In double figures. BYeddy Stover with 20 and Tex Williams with 21 were the high boys. Carl Bradford was high man for die losing Marsh Fork team with 22 markers. Tomorrow's final gamewill'get under way at 8/Clear Fork gFreddy Stover, I Tex Williams, fDelano Dillon, c Calude Stover. ?Paul Stover, g Gordon Lilly; sr't pf ptsTerry Wiseman, Don Mullens, s LaTry Dillon, s Toby Kinder, s Jessie Stover, a Totals78 4 7 0 1 0 06.115-75-52-20-2T-~r22511202113160T000270-00-00-00-00-019-2811010190000073Marsh Fork5 0 76 2Jim Midkiff, f -Larry Sarrett, f Carl Bradford, c Dennis JIughes, g Gary Barker, g Raymond Jarrell r s 2 R. Satterfield, s 2 Totals Clear Fork Marsh Fork240-20-18-120-00-11-44-613-26522234 0181002212456 6113 21 21 48—73 8 16 1225—61Referees: Nalley, Goodwin.Alders on HighScores SurpriseRONCEYERTE, March 2-The two pre-tourney underdogs—Lewis-burg and Alderson—who didn’t figure to get past the semi-finals will battle in the championship game of the Section 19, Class B basketball tournament here at the National Guard Armory tomorrow night.For the second straight night a near-capacity crowd witnessed an upset which found White Sulphur’s defending champions falling victim before a scrappy , Alderson quint, 80 to 64, in a lopsided contest. Last night; Lewisburg whipped co-favorite Roneeverte to gain the other final berth.Sophomore center David Shields was the spark needed for the Indians of Abe McLaughlin as he threw in 35 points and put the winners in the van to stay at 26-24 midway the second period. From there on out the Indians fought their way to as much as an 18-point margin and were never threatened.White Sulphur, which had eapJ tured two earlier regular season games over the Indians, could never get its attack under way and JtcadHy fell behind the devastating shooting pf the underdogs.They got as close as 10 points in the third quarter, but Shields then threw in successive field goals which put the game out of reach.Kenneth Ambrose, 6-3 sophomore, aided Shields in the scoring with 20 points and along with Paul Bland helped dominate the re-bouns. Shields got 14 of his points in thet hird quarter after the Indians had piled up a 40-32 half-time lead. ,BilV Craft took the scoring honors for the Green Devils with 24 markers and had. two mates in double figures, Fred Huffman with 14 and Bob Buckley with’13..Tomorrow night’s final game will be played at 8 p. m. No consolation game will be played.AldersongK. Ambrose, f Paul Bland, f David Shields, c Robert Ballard, g D. Highlander, g Jim Meadows, s Eddie Connor, s Totalsf pf pts94131410322-4 43-4 49-13 1 2-2 22C110-16-10-016-2541I-17White Sulphur Fred Huffman, f 7 0-1John Bolt, f Bill Craft, c Earl Neville, g Bob Buckley, g Tom Buckley, s Totals Alderson While Sulphur248I50i:5-6 8-142-33-4 0-023 18-28 14 26 22 1-8 18 14 16 16—613 24 4 1151-6Officials: Farmer and St. ClairWebster SpringsTopples CowenWEBSTER SPRINGS, March 2—Webster Spring’s Wildcatsnosed out Cowen High here tonight, 52 to 48, to earn the right to meet Richwood in the final round of the Section 17-A tournament here onD. Bowers, c 1-9 J. , Freeman, g 0-6 Lloyd Coskey, g 0-3 Jesse Ray, s 3-7 Jack McVey, .s * 0-010-110-05-70-00-05 12 1 00 51 G 0 0Totals15-55 *1-27 13, 51BeckleyHoward Hurt, f 11-21 4-6 3 26 Walt Rappold, t 4-7 1-2 5 9John Lemons, c 6-11 5-7 2 17D. Williams, g 11-21 2-3 1 24'B. Alexander, g 1-3 0-0 4 2Bob Young, s 1 -f 2-2 0 4Earl Gilbert, s 0-0 0-0 0 0R. Manning, s 0-0 2-2 0 2Totals 34-65 10-22 15 84Sophia , 10 15 15 11—51'Rebounds: Sophia (14) Basham 5, Griffith 1, Bowers 6, Freeman 1, Ray 1., Beckley (37) Hurt 12, Rappold 5, Lemons 14; Williams 1, Alexander 1, Young 2, Gilbert 1, Manning 1.Saturday night at 8.The two teams were nip ,and tuc all the way tonight, but with th home forces gathering enough of margin in the second and thir quarters to pull the contest out c the fire. The last time the gam was tied up was in the secon quarter at 23-all. . . ,Webster led at the half, 30-21 and it added two more points i the third and then held Cowe about \ even in the fijial stanzE Webster's biggest lea of Uie gam was at 49-^0 in the fourth perio without about 2.30 left to play. Webster’s biggest lead of the gam in the scoring column, getting 1 points. Eddie Flincham and Je rome Dean each had 10. High ma in the contest was Cowen’s Bill Crites with 21. Gene Goff had 1 for the losers.Wcbsfer SpringsFred Lipscomb, f Eddie Fineham, f Fred Cutlip; c J. Porterfield, g Jerome Bean, g Wayne Leee. ag34 1940f pf pts0-3 2-51-21-32-3 0-042061030 1910nof 2 Pin. sire• I►ver;spoiifO!Ivor !n tand elo fou; in *SO 3n’t 64 ;froiablliasspoproNo:Chireea c pon rec seh bysintimtheputad(aseelatasnuia fprcwitprGGusirHUneiba:da;ha:SUlha.caiforleaBaBo;aEuBilMaRaMilJin1WeCm
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