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Elkhart AmongFinal FoursomeArley Andrews AmongTop Pointers InSemifinals.AerBv Dale Burgess.INDIANAPOLIS, March 15.—CP* Elkhart’s Blue Blazers willcompete for the first time in the Indiana high school basketballtourney’s “round of four Saturday, and they’ll probably feel like strangers in Paradise. Milan’s inimitable Indians andTerre Haute Gerstmeyer’s Black Cats will be in the finals for thesecond straight year.Muncie’s Bearcats aren t repeaters but they weren’t gone long—just one year after grabbing the MLS.A.A. trophy in 1951 and 1952. There have been Bearcats in the final foursome 10 of the 44 years and they’ve won thetitle four times.None of the other three hasever been state hardwood champion.In “Paradise.”Elkhart may be a “stranger in Paradise” but it doesn’t needanybody to hold its hand. Itknocked off South Bend Central’sdefending state champions in regional play, then fought its waythrough the rugged Lafayette semifinals last Saturday.The Blue Blazers defeatedLafayette, up to its usual peak for tourney play, 47-43, and then whipped a big Hammond club‘at night, 63-53. Forward Ray Ball got 16 points in the afternoon and 18 against Hammond.Elkhart also got a 20-point performance from Erich Barnes, astar halfback, at night.Hammond defeated Logansport in the other afternoon game at Purdue, 58-46. Hammond jumped into a 17-2 lead, lost all but one point of it in the second quarterand then ripped off 19 points to the Berries’ 9 in the third.Frank Radovich, 6-foot-8 Hammond center, scored 20 points in that afternoon game. He was crippled by a charley horse at night but made 15.Muncie Central, meeting Elkhart in the first game at Butler Fieldhouse next Saturday, avenged a 10-point regular season loss by beating Fort Wayne North Side in the afternoon atFort Wayne Coliseum, 62-48. North was ranked the state’s No.1 team for the regular season, followed by Elkhart, Gerstmeyer and the Bearcats.The Bearcats ended a 27-gamewinning string for Mississinewa Saturday night, 63-48, after trailing 19-14 at the end of the first quarter. Sub Bob Crawford went into the Central lineup and his rebounding was a big help in Muncie’s winning rally.Jim Hinds scored 21 points against North Side and 25 against Mississinewa for the high total of the semifinals.Gerstmeyer was the favorite inthe Bloomington semifinals but got arguments from both Jeffersonville and Evansville Central.Come From Behind.The Black Cats came fromseven points hack to defeat Jeffersonville, 49-46. They trailed Evansville Central by one point at the half, 27-26, but pulled away, 55-44.Gerstmeyer proved it wasn’t a one-man team. Arley Andrews scored 31 points against Jeffersonville but he was only fourth-high at night with 9. Jim Smith tallied 33, Bill Bolk 12 and “UncleHarold” Andrews 11.And then there is Milan. WhenContinued On Page 9, Column 3.
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Mon, Mar 15, 1954
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