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LA City CollegeWins National\ .V.\ v-.-. Champion shipBy Fred MendeilThe Cubs of Los Angeles City College defeated the Northeast Mississippi Tigers, Booneville, Miss,, 67 to 63 here Saturday night to win the National Junior College basketball championship*Los Angeles held a 31-29 lead at halftime. The Booneville boys had trailed by nine points at 22-31 three minutes earlier.Los Angeles succeeds the Tyler,Tex., Apaches as national cham*pions. Mississippi, as runner-up in the finals takes second. Garden City, Kas., was third.The sensational set-shot shooting of Hal Uplingcr and the post point production of Al Rogers, center, were major factors in the vcitory.Uplinger chalked 28 points. He zeroed in from the corner , let from mid • court, worked around edges of the keyhole and rang the bell with 11 of 18 shots from the field. He hit 13 points in the first half, a like number after intermission.Rogers worked on tip-ins and pivot shots. His specialty was a fade-iway one-hander which the Booneville boys just couldn’t stop. Roges garnered five points in the first half and 18 during a red-hot final 20 minutes.Tourney ResultsLot Angela# City Collage §7 Northeaat Mississippi S3 (Lot Angelas wine champion* hip, Miiflaelppf takes second)Garden City 55, Weber college, Ogden, Utah, 37.(Garden City takes third, Weber sixth.)Tyier, Tex.. 95, Bremerton, Wash., 8S. (Tyler wiai fourth, Bremerton seventh).Msend Garden City into the lead and the Kansans were there tostay.Garden City led 25*20 at half-time, and clinched the victory in the next seven minutes on a rally sparked by Jay Roberson. Lawrence Stone, big Weber rebounder fouled out with the board showing a 47-24 count against his team and fans realized the Busters hadwon.TUG OIF WAJR between two I wresMd for the big trophy, sjm took the trophy home to Los Anirunner-tips.The Cubs played the Northeast team at its own rushing game, and turned it to their advantage. Rol-lin Hans and Ed Bartolomea, Cub guards, intercepted the long Booneville passes repeatedly and cashed the interceptions for drive-in points.Booneville made a terrific fight of it until the last five minutes of play. Gene Garrett, star scorer for the Tigers in earlier games, drew three quick fouls in the first half and set out most of the rest of it. Before leaving, however, he ♦ received a knee injury in a tumble, and his play in the second half was considerably below his earlier standards.Weber went far out in the courtto get the ball, and Roberson, Kutt- . a „ler and Horton streaked through Forward Jim Browning touched offfourth place in the 1950 tourney here Saturday night with a 65 to 58 victory over the Olympic Rangers of Bremerton, Wash.Cold at the start of the game, the Apaches fell behind by a 3-12 couni in the first five minutes, butthe weakened defense to pile up their commanding final margin.Roberson played his finest tournament game in driving to 19 points. Horton and Kinney contributed nine points each.a rally with a pair of long shota and when the game was eight minutes old the Texans were leading 13 to 12. At halftime Tyler had taken command 36 to 29.Keith Sewell, fleet-footed Wildcat forward, cann I 14 points to take high honors for Weber. No mate got more than 7.The Busters employed a checking zone defense under the basket and a man for man when the ball was well out on the floor.Darrell Tucker, great Wildcat guard who had averaged better^ , a , ,than 17 points per tournamentThe Tiger, last jmdI the lead at gam(j wga ab]e to glean but 7markers in this one. There was38-36 when Ken Robbins, center, hit four quick field goals.Big A 1 Rogers, returned compliments, however, firing the Cubs into a 48-40 lead when 12 minutes remained.Robbins hit one more zipping fielder and then fouled out.Booneville hopes got new live as Bud Jarvis and Bill Burks dunked fielders to make it 46-48 but Mississippi missed big Robbins under the basket and Roges and Uplinger were using their height to sweep the rebounds .and swish the net.simply no hole left big enough for his drive-in specialty shots.The Tigers challenged once again when about four minutes were left to play, Jarvis and Burks leading the way. It was 61-56 as the clock showed one minute left.The Los Angeles .team continued a cautious passing game, and the Tigers couldn't get the ball. Uplinger slipped under for a final goal as the gun sounded ending the game and the tournament.Huge gold trophies were presented the coaches of the five top teams. Special awards also went to individual players on the Cub and Tiger crews which met in the championship game. Certificates and Trophies also were given to players selected on the all-starHortonMcGilHvrayKellerKinneyRobersonStenielKuttierClaarLyle3 1 24902103131102003]UtahFgFtF41 Sewell54a3Stone0254Down*232•m iWallace1101
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