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~wSellards, Hawkins RatedvanceTheBake]stronjrepel!AreaCoacheslUnSellards is aBy LARRY FARLEY Post-Herald Sports Writer j player and highly thought of Sophia opened its tournament!by area coaches but Hawkins,-! trail earlier this week and came up with three victories. The Bluehawks may have found outa diamond in the rough, has been overlooked by some coaches while others marvel atwell-polished, 15 rebounds against Stoco injthe opening game and came back to pull down' seven in a slow-down game with Trap Hill. HE He showed his worth in the | excel last game by collecting 23 re- j halfat * _ * « ^ l ’ - ,something else—who to rely on! his team work, hussle and | bounds. and throwing intwhen points are needed.Billy Sellards and Johnny Hawkins played a giant role in the Hawks victories over Stoco, Trap Hill and Marsh Fork. These two sharp-shooters accounted for more than halfscoring ability.The two players scored 86points.ISiwith ilastHawkins, on the other hand, [the points against their tourney op- L Bluehawks a good crow:_ n. _______ ^ . J t o'* ‘ -position and both were named gCoring attack but he gave the j Thtto the all-tournament team, gophia combine an even better j QuartGary Lovell, who led the Hawks investment on defense. jtionin their final game, was also The 541 redhead has shown;camp of Sophia’s 161 points in the [put on the elite squad. 'many teams how defense is J yearthree outings. 1 The 6-3^ Sellards picked off j supposed to he played. Hawkins j. 0™nwho played for the Bluehawks when they went to the AA statetoumev in 1967.is the brother of Neal Hawkins imPr(seascFoifiguriMsrvSome of the area coaches had j ^ack this to say about the two SophiaI ^ ^players! addelt;UniEarl Arbaugh, Stoco headjcoach, “We knew about Sellardsand his rebounding and shooting I jv ability but Hawkins sort of;mThicame out of the woodwork. In. _my opinion he (Hawkins) is the £sparkplug for the Sophia team.”i-in 27BILLY SELLARDS ‘Good College Prospect*JOHNNY HAWKINS •Key To Sophia Club*McGlocklinCarl Bawgus, Marsh Fork’s j mentor, “I thought Sellards [gave more than deserved the trophy jhalft he won. He has been a great! TaJ asset to Sophia and he hurtj^^- 4 us a lot under the boards. !S,Var' I’ve been impressed within1® Hawkins all year. If I had to |^. pick any player from their teamp^;0!(Sophia) I’d pick him. He is* great on defense and a real good boy from what I’ve seen of him.”DevS in si finalup vTaan-Sand1-:din13to[eie' ■Only one more Milwaukee vie-J*tory or Baltimore defeat will se-cure the nmnerup spot for the Bucks.ieiew •mtoidAfter a 61-56 halftime.lead, Al-cindor and McGlocklin took command and within five minutes of the third period, Milwaukee led 75-60. The Bucks led by as many as 23 points and finished the period with a 93-73 edge.The Pistons staged a comeback with the sharpshooting of. Kenny Ward, coach at Trapicontt Hill, “Those two, (Sellards andlt; Joi!Hawkins), hurt us quite a bit [point We knew we had to make then bothcome out on us but they didn’t Hawkins made several steals against us which hurt and, Sellards was too much under j of tl the boards. He is one of the Dave Bing and Jimmy Walker [finest big men I’ve seen, to pull within 117-116 of a tie , L . .. «*with 24 seconds to go. Then two rliw* “Soiiarii’Jfree throws by Guy Rodgers and ^S.cy t, KSS» thP^.»u a basket by Don Smith provided ?f? JT th_ the Bucks with their insurance imPre^sed me and I Meed theway he played on offense. IAlcindor who finished with 38 he’|‘ a g collegepoints, got 13 in the third quar- Prospect* _ ,ter while McGlocklin got 8 of his Of Hawkins, Coach CookTfi -nninfs In the third neriod commented, “He really hussies 16 points, in the tmrfl period, ^ ^ ^ abiiity t0 do ^the Bucks hit on 15, of 4 shots Light thing on offense. in fact from the floor while Detroit got j consider him the key that!^^ only C of 5 from the field. ’ | holds Sophia together.” Tcmlt;BanB. BJohe Keat Man: S. B PainToBelc B. J Bost Dav: M. ;JenrLemCoxHay. -Tti
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