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rLAreaCoaches!By LARRY FARLEY Post-Herald Sports Writer j player and highly thought of Sophia opened its tournament i by area coaches but Hawkins,Sellards is a well-polished, 15 rebounds against Stoco in;■ ! 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 atthe opening game and came back to pull down' seven in a slow-down game with Trap Hill.He showed his worth in the | ex last game by collecting 23 re-|hssomething 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.15lwillaHawkins, on the other hand,|th points against their tourney op- „ ^ Bluehawks a good crw. _ 1Y. ^ . J »'position and both wore named gcQ^jug attack but he gave the!to the all-tournament team, gQpj^ combine an even better j Q1tieI investment on defense. in their tmal game, was also, 5.^2 redhead has shownicsof Sophia’s 161 points in the [put on the elite squad. imany teams how defensethree outings. 1 The 6-3^ Sellards picked °^j supposed to he played. Hawkinsis the brother of Neal Hawkinsisylt;awho played for the Bluehawks when they went to the AA statetoumev in 1967.inseSome of the area coaches had \Mip;this to say about the two Sophiaj players: |a(Earl Arbaugh, Stoco headj^coach, “We knew about Sellards I and his rebounding and shooting jcc ability but Hawkins sort of j™ came out of the woodwork. In121my opinion he (Hawkins) is the it sparkplug for the Sophia team.” j?:BILLY SELLARDS ‘Good College Prospect*JOHNNY HAWKINS •Key To Sophia Club*McGlocklinCarl Bawgns, Marsh Fork’s jh( mentor, “I thought Sellards I more than deserved the trophy !: he won. He has been a great! asset to Sophia and he hurt jm us a lot under the boards. ® I’ve been impressed with!™ Hawkins all year. If I had to|^ pick any player from their teamp(Sophia) I’d pick him. He is great on defense and a real good boy from what I’ve seen of him.”Dinfiu]. Kenny Ward, coach at Trap; clt; Hill, “Those two, (Sellards and* Hawkins), hurt us quite a bitjp We knew we had to make them bcome out on us but they didn’t Hawkins made several steals against ns which hurt and, Sellards was too much under lt;aS1-dn13;o:eile' .Only one more Milwaukee vie-tory or Baltimore defeat will se-*cure the runnerup spot for the Bucks.leie1 • •in10idAfter 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 shafDshootinc ofthe boards. He is one of the Dave Bing and Jimmy Walker [finest big men Fve seen, to pull within 117-116 of a tie, _ ~ , .with 24 seconds to go. Then two L riliifree throws by Guy Rodgers and M. Allege,a basket by Don Smith provided ^mty “the Bucks with their insurance unpressed m andcoach at“Sellard’s handle the bailI liked theway he played on offense. I^Alcindor who finished with 38 j he’J1 a collegepoints, got 13 in the third quar- Prospect11jiIlt;]Of Hawkins, Coach Cookter while McGlocklin got 8 of hisis -nninfs In the third neriod commented, “He really hussies16 points, in the tnirfl period, ^ ^ ^ abimy tQ do thethe Bucks hit on 15, of 4 shots right thing on offense. in factfrom the floor while Detroit got j consider him the key thatonly I of 5 from the field. * holds Sophia together/11]111*11
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Sat, Mar 07, 1970
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