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Dan Benfield Sparks Blue HawksTo Section 3 Tournament Victory* ♦ ’ * \ A■- ■ .•/ *■■■■■ B 3*DANNY BENFIELDPaces Sophia WinBy LARRY FARLEY a 93 margin before the In Sophia jumped out to an ear dians, led by Jerome Smyre, ly lead and went on to down the scored five points while the Stoco Indians 69-42 in the finals Blue Hawks could get only one of the Region III Section 3 tour- point to tighten the score, 108 nament held at the Raleigh The Hawks hit on two of their County Armory. next three shots to put theThe Blue Hawks will now go score at 14-9 as the first quarto Princeton to play the winner ter came to an end. of the Section 1 tournament next Smyre opened the second pe Friday. riod for the Stoco club with twoThe Sophia team went out to markers to close the gap to 14-an early lead on goals by Pete 11 but the Blue Hawks came Milano. Danny Benfield and a back with four straight points foul shot by Joe Goddard. to lead. 18 11.With the score 5-0. Stoco’s Ed In the next 2:16 the Sophiadie Jenkins scored from five combine scored six points whilefeet out to put the Indians on holding the Stoco cagers to two the scoreboard for the first time on a shot by Smvre.with 5:12 remaining in the first In the last seconds of theperiod game, Smyre acored four quickSophia moved their lead out to points on long jumpers to close --------- the Blue Hawks* lead to nine.PMarlinton Stops FrankfordFor Tournament CrownWHITE SULPHUR - TheMarlinton Copperheads trounced Frankford 81-61 to win the ClassA, Region 1, Section 1, basketball title.The Copperheads held a slim one point lead at 18-17 at the end of the first half of play.With the combined scoring of Ivan Withers and Jim Irvin thestrong In the fourth period to outacore the Bulldogs 27-19 forthe victory.Withers and Irvin paced the Copperheads with 25 and 23 inta respectively. Ted Dun-eck contributed 17 while Harry McCloud added 12.Lewis Baker paced the Frankford attack with 17 points onrv\r»nf»rhralt;tc miilpft nut tn lpad; seven field goals and 3-3 fromi Sophia's little guard, Goddard. Scollected a foul shot and Gary Simpson tossed in a short jumper to give the Hawks a tenpoint, 27-17, halftime advantage.The Sophia team took up where they left off in the second half as they tallied 12 markers in the latter half and holding {the Indians to only 25.Stoco was held to six points in the third period while the Blue Hawks of Sophia were tallying25.Jenkins put the Indians on the board for the first time in the third stanza but Benfield came back to toss one in for the So-EBHISHTC
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Beckley Post Herald and Raleigh Register
Beckley, West Virginia, US
Sun, Mar 03, 1968
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