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pionship. ' : 'nS the Teamsters 12-3 and Ojib- iThe win bv the Rotary was ! way Hotel took a one game lead a onlv the second of the season i in their final bantam series with ; tr! STPershing Emerging Asb.IIITj ourney Cinderella TeamtisLBy FREDERICK C. GRAY Associated Press WriterBasketball’s Prince Charming has come to Pershing High School with a glass slipper — and it fits?Pershing’s Cinderella team, after finishing the season with a so-so 8-4 record, has turned pumpkins into chariots during the Michigan high school basketball tournament during the past two weeks, upsetting highlySo Robinson, who’s been ; coaching for 35 years, has made ; some friends who might now j -j wish he was less of an extro-vert. Like Boy Burkhart, coach ; g of the stymied Ferndale team. ] .“Roy and I have been long - j time friends and understand j i each other's style,” says Robin- j ] son. “We often give each other i c advice on. how to play and for t that reason I felt a big chagrin- i, ed when we won Saturday.” | * Another friend of Robinson! ] who may wish he hadn’t seen 1placed teams including second- j (jurino tournament play is rated Ferndale, 72-71 last Sat- Detroit Kettering's coach Walter Jenkins. Jenkins is one ofurday.What’s the secret? Coach Will -Robinson thinks it’s the fellows replacing three starters who graduated last semester. He says Calvin Harper, Tony Adderly and John Jeter have improved “remarkably fast in such a short time — more so than I thought they would.”Robinson has another reason in 6-foot four Bob HawMns, who didn’t quit Saturday until he had piled up 39 points against Ferndale.“He’s got a chance to be every bit as good as Ralph Simpson,” Robinson says, alluding to one of the stars of his 1967 champion team who has recently played outstanding ball with Michigan State University.U Of M ToOpen Spring Drills TodayANN ARBOR (AP) — Michigan’s Bo SchembecMer, college football’s “Coach of the Year” in 1969, was expected to be onRobinson's former players — i : and for that reason, says Robin- j i son-he fears Kettering, most of j i all the teams he may end up playing in Friday’s semi-finals in Lansing.Another good reason he would rather not play Kettering is that fact that Kettering swamped Pershing in regular season play by 17 points.But Robinson may well be more worried about another spoiler, Dearborn Fordson, scheduled to play Pershing in Wednesday’s quarter - finals, j Fordson upset eighth - ranked Detroit King Friday.And it’s a toss-up which team’s the underdog.“They’re not underdogs,” says Robinson. “We’re both opportun- i ists. But if anybody’s an under-j dog, it’s us. We only finished | fourth in our league, while they j are conference champion.”Yet Fordson coach John Mein- \ tyre, disputes Robinson’s humil-;ity. “I saw them play when1 they knocked off Ferndale and . I feel we are again the under-.. dog. We’re so small that any j time a 6-foot seven center and a 6-foot four forward come at j you, you’re in trouble.”i;Despite McIntyre’s insistence ■:hand today to greet 77 players, that lack of height is debili-: invited to spring football prae-j fating, Fordson’s Wank Zion has i tice by the Big Ten’s cochampi-j surmounted that obstacle with on Wolverines. j style. The 5-foot seven guard iSchembechler returns to duty j averaged 19 points a game dur-j for the first time since suffer- jing season play and was una-; in* a heart attack on the eve of mously named an All - League!the Rose Bowl game, which Michigan lost to Southern Californiaplayer.And starting guard Jim Pavle,10-3, last New Year’s Day at; at only 5-foot eleven, was good: Pasadena. Calif. enough to be named to one of;The Wolverines will climax thc Detroit area’s honor teams, j spring drills April 18 with an in- j Evfn forward Steve Burke, j tra-squad game that also winds;sma]I at 6-foot 3V2, rose above up a two-day Ann Arbor clinic his handicap and was named! for high school football coaches.! an all-stater, fourth team.Quarterback Don Moorhead ofi But Fordson is the underdog!South Haven, Mich., and tail; because it’s small, and Pershing back Billy Taylor of Barberton, ■ is the underdog because it play-Ohio, head a five-member, cx-jed unspectacular ball before perienced offensive unit return- trampling its tournament compe-1ing.Two other offensive regulars,fiti on. jThose arguments may not betailback Glenn Doughty of De- i convincing, but nobody doubts ; troit and wide end Billy Harris | that Wednesday’s game be-, of Mount Clemens, Mich., will: tween the spoilers, Pershing j be held out of spring practice and Fordson, is going to can-. to recover from knee surgery, fure the hearts of all small un-: Both are expected back in the dcrdog lovers throughout the fall. ;state!
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Sault Ste Marie Evening News
Sault Ste Marie, Michigan, US
Tue, Mar 17, 1970
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