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TWOBECKLEY POST-HERALD, BECKLEY, W. VA„ FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 17,1967War woodBy MIKE BROWN Post Herald Sports EditorMORGANTOWN — Sophia’s Blue Hawks rode the scoring of big Jim Stone and a tennacious defense to a smashing 83-60 win over Error-plagued Parsons team here Thursday night in the 54th annual state basketball tournament. The Hawks upped their record to 24-1 before a crowd of 4100.T The victory moves Sophia into the Class AA finals against the War wood Vikings who got a clutch performance from BillKennedy to nip Ceredo Kenova 38-37 in the first game of the tournament. The two will now meet for the double A championship at 1:00 p.m. on Saturday.The Bluehawks never trailed in the contest as they dominated the game from start to finish in routing the Tucker County Ca-gers,Playing in their first tournament game ever the Bluehawks of Coach Bob Douglas looked like veteran tournament team as they shot well* ran well, controlled the boards and justBoston Wins OverPiston Hoop Tearngenerally dominated the game in all aspects.The Sophia team jumped out to a 4-0 lead before the Panthers could score with 5:42 left to play in the first half.Forcing the Parsons offense into mistake after mistake and led by the ball-hawking of guards Dudley Lovell and Mike Allen the Bluehawks wasted little time in increasing their lead to 20-7 against the struggling Panther combine.Sophia doubled the score when Denny Benfield drove in for a layup to make it 22*11 with 0:19 left in the first period. The quar-Wins InT ourneyter ended with Sophia on top22-13.Douglas played all his reserves in the first half and it made little difference as guys like Joe Goddard. Benfield, Kent Martin and Neal Hawkins looked as impressive as the varsity at times.The Bluehawks started the second quarter just like they ended the first quarter as they increased their lead to 28-13 for the bewildered Parsons team could score.The Hawks maintained this lead throughout the second period as it was obvious to everyone in the West Virginia University Fieldhouse that the scrappy Raleigh County cagers were the superior team on the floor.With Douglas using a total of ten players in the first half and all of the scoring Sophia went to the dressing room carrying a very comfortable 45-26 lead.Aware of what had happened to Ceredo Kenova in the third period of its game with War-wood the veteran Sophia coach ordered his team to come out running in the secon! half and that it did as it scored eight quick points to up its lead to53-28 with 6:21 left in the thirdperiod. Although Parsons cut the lead to 53-36 it was all oyer but the shouting.The Blue Hawks continued to pour it on in the fourth quarter as Douglas gave every boy on his squad the opportunity to be able to say that he had played in a state tournament game.Stone, following his fine performance over Mullens in the Regional finals when he canned 30 points, got 13 of his game high 27 points in the fourth period when he was 6-6 from the floor.Coach Douglas’ star performer hauled down 15 rebounds as heteamed with Aaron Jones tocontrol the boards. Although heonly scored four points Jones picked off rebounds.Lovell* who had several steals and a total of five assists, was the only other Blue Hawk in double figures as he scored 14 points. Eleven of the 12 Sophia players used scored with Benfield and Goddard getting eight points each.Sophia shot a fine 48.4 per cent from the floor while Parsons could manage to hit on but 33.9 per cent of its shots. Sophia held a 57-48 edge on the boards.EaglesPostNAIAVietryDETROIT (AP) — The Boston, boston Detroit1 JL J ____ OFT OFTKANSAS CITY (AP) — Morris Harvey of Charleston, West Va., overcame a 9-point half-Mexico met Central Washington I had to be,” Coach Rick in other games. Meckfessel commented with aMorris Harvey caught Ten- shake of the head following the5 of 7 field goals and 1 of 1 free throws) and when they began to cover him* he moved to thelike that every night.”Though 5-foot-9, Hart tied 6-foot-2 Jim Haves and 6-foot-4JIM STONE Sparks Hawks
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Beckley Post Herald
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Fri, Mar 17, 1967
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