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o;3iC-K Boss Wonders How Wonders Won- IHUNTINGTON — Ceredo-Keno-But how? After all, the Wondersvo coach Dale Crayeraft was standing at the end of the court shaking hands and being slapped on the back as he accepted congratulations Saturday from well-wishers.Then an attractive lady walked iup smiling and kissed him on the | cheek. All of a sudden a question !eame to his mind.played an entire quarter without their two best players and they made only 36.5 per cent of their field goal attempts.But the answer to Craycraft’s question was simple. Pineville played even worse. The Minute-men made a disastrous 22.4 per cent of their shots.Regardless of how it came out,ri He toned to a fan and said, ftc championship was a special;*., one for Crayeraft. C-K becameV first Class AA school to wini$. ^It was a good question, CercdO';^wo straight titles as a goingo Kenova won its second straight; away present for its coach who is4 championship by a 48-44 score.1----ii D*1BasketballvScorest;U)|I9j1 2!619 76 STATE SCHOLASTIC ClftSS A Championship !lt;• Harts 54, Piedmc^f 54Class AA Championship Cer«kMlt;enova 48 Pinevillo *4 Class AAA Championship T Htnttaqton 75, Oak Hill 57 14 NCAAin Championshiptl UCLA 92i Purdue 72 14 Third Place3.Tennessee 64f Army 52 0 NITO' Championship0, T§mp!§ 17, Boston Collage 74 o' Thtrd Plac*OiDrafc* m, North Camiina M 0 NATIONAL JUNlOft COLLEGE 52 Fourth Plac*lt;52 Murray St at*, Okla. *5, San Jacinto, *4 TW, $*Fifth Pl#e#■ Phoenix, Arir, Moberfy, Wo. W■ thinking about leaving the game.! Class AAA Beckley last put back-to-back championships together when it won four straight from 1951 to 1854.The Wonders won the weird final game despite a fouled up'* performance. The game had a little bit of everything but mostly fouls.C-K’s bread-and-butter players, j Dick Stark and Tom Ferrell, sat lout the third quarter with four ; fouls apiece.I * * *j CKAYCRAFT AND his assist-! ant coach, Carl Ward, disagreed •on what strategy to follow after halftime.I “I decided to keep both boys | out,” Crayeraft related. “But 1 Carl wanted to kefp at least one of them in. But I was going ' to put them both in if we got i into trouble,” Crayeraft said*; The 29 fouls called in the game [caused several oddities. Pine-; viile's first 10 points of the gameI (Please Tom to Page 40
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Charleston, West Virginia, US
Sun, Mar 23, 1969
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