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111111 Journal Fridav Mflrph 19 DEFENSE? Campus' 5-8 guard Tom Ward (right) stands on his tip-toes while guarding Salina South's 6-4 center James Knight in the Journal Photo by Tom Dorsey Class 5A State Tournament in Emporia. South won the first- round game, 48-40, Thursday night. SOUTH (Continued from Page 13) three days, now. That's a nice feeling." Carmichael was the only Cougar in double figures with 10, but Knight and Foster had nine points each and Kennedy had eight. Knight also had a good game on the boards with 12 rebounds.

"I thought that was James' best board effort of the year," Johnson said. "He was all over the boards, but he had a lot of help from Harvey (Tony), Foster and Kennedy." On the girls' side, McPherson overcame a first-half deficit to score a 52-50 victory over Stanley-Blue Valley. Blue Valley led by as many as seven points in the first half, but the Bullpups rallied and took a 50-44 lead with 2:35 left in the game. McPherson then went into a four-corners offense, but the strategy backfired. The Bullpups committed three turnovers and the Tigers tied the game at 50-50 with 25 seconds left on two free throws by Candi Huggins.

But Debbie Flood delivered the victory when she banked in an eight-footer with 11 seconds left. Flood finished with 16 points for McPherson while Sheryl Pfalzgraf added 14. Maggie LeValley led Blue Valley with 29 points, 18 of them in the first half. The victory, the 100th for coach John Hoffman at McPherson, puts the defending champion Bullpups into the semifinals against Shawnee MLssion- Miege Friday at 6:30 p.m. Miege defeated Winfield in the first round, 71-48.

The other semifinal matches Haysville-Campus, a 44-42 winner over Altamont-Labette County, against Newton, a 43-41 winner over Topeka-Washburn Rural. CAMPUS (40) Stroud Buss Hall London Meyer Ward Gruenbacher Cotton TOTAIS SOUTH (48) Kennedy Smith Knight Carmichael Harvey Foster Decker Collins TOTAIS FG 5-19 0-6 3-10 1-2 7-11 0-0 1-3 FT 1-2 0-0 3-5 2-2 0-0 0-0 0-2 0-1 0-0 17-52 6-11 5 2 11 4 4 0 3 29 16 FG 4-6 2-8 4-7 4-5 0-3 3-4 2-5 1-1 FT 0-0 2-2 1-2 2-5 0-0 3-5 0-0 0-0 3 1 12 0 3 4 0 1 20-39 8-14 24 14 TP II 0 9 4 14 0 2 0 40 TP 6 9 10 0 9 4 2 48 Haysville-Campus 8 10 7 15 40 Salina South 10 12 10 16 48 TURNOVERS Campus 10, South 15. TEAM REBOUNDS Campus 3, South 5. FOULED OUT Myer (HC). TECHNICAL FOULS None.

Stanley-Blue Volley 16 12 II McPherson 13 14 14 11 52 Blue Valley LeValley 11 7-8 29, Carney 2 0-3 4, Edgar 1 2-2 4, Oslerkamp 3 0-2 6, Ready 1 1-2 3, Huggins 1 2-3 4. Totals 19 12-20 50. McPherson Flood 0-0 16, Pfalzgraf 5 4-7 14, Owens 3 3-4 9, Steffes 2 3-4 7, Heidebrecht 3 0-0 6, Torum 0 0-1 0. Totals 21 10-16 52. truckers carft be wrong.

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The Lindsborg-Norton battle failed to produce the thrills the other quarterfinal matchups provided. In the preceding boys' games, Erie surprised No. 2-seeded Wellsville, 59-56, in overtime; Yates Center rallied to trim a banged- up Oakley club, 44-41; and Silver Lake also needed a comeback to edge Hesston, 56-54. But the Vikings refused to be involved in a nailbiter. Lindsborg flexed its muscle early to squash any upset thoughts the Blue Jays might have entertained.

Lindsborg connected on 11 of its first 12 shots from the field and were never threatened the rest of the way. The Vikings opened up a 6-0 margin with the help of two Jay Tolle baskets. Norton pulled within 8-4 midway through the quarter, but Lindsborg went on a scoring spree the rest of the period. The No. 1-ranked Vikings reeled off the next nine points and then outscored their Mid-Continent League foes 8-4 the remainder of the period to take a commanding 25-7 advantage at the end of the first quarter.

"I was kind of sweating it out, as close as the first three games were," said Lindsborg coach Bill Engstrom after his team's victory. "The kids were fairly loose before the game and they were determined they weren't going to go home after the first night." The Blue Jays, who made their first trip to the final eight since 1966, were their own worst enemy. "We put a little too much pressure on ourselves," said first-year Norton coach Don Bechard, whose team turned the ball over 24 times. "We made too many mental errors to play with a team like Lindsborg." The Blue Jays further hindered their cause by connecting on just 9-of-21 free-throw attempts. Engstrom began substituting in the second quarter and then shuffled players in-and-out like a deck of cards the rest of the way.

Lindsborg led by 20 points throughout most of the second half. The Blue Jays outscored Lindsborg 14-7 in the final period to close the gap at the end to 13 points. Norton finished the season with a 16-7 overall record. "I can't fault the kids for being nervous but a lot of our errors were unforced," Bechard said. "They (Lindsborg) do the things a good team does Wildcats open in NCAA Tournament tonight DALLAS (UPI) Jack Hartman has taken his teams to enough NCAA tournaments so that it has almost become a habit, but the veteran coach of the Kansas State Wildcats wants to make sure his players realize the importance of the game they will play Friday night.

"I've told my freshmen that they should stop and think that this time last year they were in high school and now they are in the NCAA tournament," Hartman said Thursday on the eve of the Wildcats' meeting with Northern Illinois. "This should be the thrill of a lifetime for them, at least up to this point. "And I've told my seniors that they should consider themselves fortunate that they have been to three in a row, but that this is the last one and they should give the best they have." San Francisco coach Pete Barry puts it all a little simpler. "It's like trimming the top of the Christmas tree," says Barry. The opening round of the NCAA's Midwest regional, which began Thursday night in Tulsa, concludes this evening with Hartman's Wildcats taking on Northern Illinois in the first game of the doubleheader and Barry's San Francisco Dons meeting Boston College in the late game.

The K-State game, which begins at 7:08 p.m., will be televised on Kansas City's channel 41 (7). The winner of the Northern Illinois- Kansas State game will move on to the second round Sunday against No. 13 Arkansas and second-ranked DePaul will be awaiting the survivor of the San Francisco-Boston College game. This will be Hartman's seventh trip to the NCAA tournament and it will be Kansas State's 16th. Only Kentucky (26 trips), UCLA (22) and Notre Dame (18) have been to the NCAA tourney more times than has Kansas State.

to defeat you." Steve Malm, who, pushed his career scoring total to 999 points, paced the Vikings' attack with 17 points and 12 rebounds. Tolle tossed in 14 before fouling out while John Bellah added 10. Scott Wiltfong led Norton with 15 points but sank just 5-of-13 attempts from the charity strip. John Bullock was the only other Blue Jay player in double figures with 11. Plainsmen fall In the only other boys' game involving an area team, the Oakley Plainsmen watched a lead they held the entire game evaporate in the closing minutes before dropping a 44-41 decision to Yates Center.

Yates Center displayed one of the most impatient offenses ever to hit a basketball court, but the Wildcats somehow managed to come back and win. Despite injuries to two key players, Oakley was on top from the start and retained its lead until the 2:31 mark of the fourth quarter when Brian Simmers hit a pair of charities to give Yates Center a 40-39 edge. Shoot-em' up Simmers and his back- court mate Shane Laidlaw combined to put up 52 shots. But the Wildcat guards connected just five times each. The Yates Center strategy was to put the ball in the air as quick as possible and hope for the best.

The Wildcats' backcourt tandem tossed up 17 more shots than the entire Oakley squad. Chris Newton nailed a couple of free throws with 12 seconds left to give the Wildcats a 42-39 lead. Tim Hubert rebounded his own shot and scored with three seconds remaining to cut the Yates Center lead to one, 42-41. Laidlaw then sank two more free throws with one second showing on the clock to account for the final score. Oakley's leading scorer, John Kuh- Iman, was hampered with a dislocated shoulder and was ineffective, while guard Kyle Hemmert was slowed with a broken thumb.

Hubert and Brian Rose each scored 12 points to pace Oakley, which ended the season with a 20-3 record. Norton girls win The Norton girls helped to take away some of the sting from the boys' loss as the Blue Jay girls rolled to a 62-44 victory over Lindsborg. In other first-round girls' matchups, Hesston ripped Prairie View, 57-37; Central Heights nipped Remington, 5049; and St. Marys pounded Oberlin, 5935. Norton cruised to its victory behind the strong offensive play of LaNell Cox and a swarming defense which stymied Lindsborg's leading scorer, Sherd Stoecker.

Cox scored 30 points on 11 field goals and 8-of-8 free-throw shooting. The Blue Jays swarmed all over Stoecker, who could manage just four field-goal attempts and six points. Norton jumped out to a 34-24 halftime lead and then increased that margin to 13 points at the end of the third period, 48-35. Amy Bullock was the only other Blue Jay player in double figures with 10 points. Dawn Seymour paced Lindsborg, which finished the season with an 11-11 record, with 14 points.

Angle Pettay scored 16 points and Kathy Kinderknecht added 12 to pace St. Marys' victory over Oberlin. The Bears are now 22-0, while Oberlin dropped to 10-13. The Red Devils were patfed by Tina Jones and Mary Nemeth with 10 points each. Lindsborg 25 10 16 7 58 Norton 7 11 13 14 45 Lindsborg Malm 7 3-3 17, Tolle 7 0-0 fellah 3 4-5 10, Nelson 30-1 6, Hawk 4 0-2 8, Streu- lerl 0 1-2 1, Gelman I 0-1 2.

Totals 25 8-14 58. Norton Bullock 5 1-2 II, Cox 3 0-0 6, Barnard 4 0-2 8, D.Wiltlong 1 3-4 5, S.WMllong 5 5-13 15. Totals 189-21 45. Oakley 11 10 14 6 41 Yates Center 11 4 13 16 44 Oakley Hemmert 3 0-0 6, Hubert 4 4-6 12, Turner 2 4-4 8, Soucle 0 0-2 0, Rose 5 2-3 12, Kuh- Iman 0 3-4 3. Totals 14 13-19 41.

Vales Center Newton 3 2-4 8, Baker 2 2-4 6, Laidlaw 5 4-4 14, Motile 1 0-0 2, Simmers 5 2-2 12, Kuestersteffen 0 2-4 2. Totals 16 12-18 44. Girls At Buhler High School Lindsborg 11 13 11 9 44 Norton 18 16 14 14 62 Lindsborg Oborg 0 0-1 0, Ahlstedt 1 5-8 7, Dohlsten 01-21, Stoecker 2 2-6 6, Sundqulst 2 0-1 4, Rodlne 1 0-0 2, Seymour 5 4-7 14, Johnson 4 00 8, Nelson 0 0-1 0, Gammell 1 0-0 2. Totals 16 12-26 44. Norton Bullock 4 2-2 10, Nelson 2 0-2 4, Blacklm 1 2-5 4, R.

Cox 2 0-2 4, L.Cox 11 8-8 30, McClelland 3 0-0 6, Myers 1 0-0 2, Wolf 1 0-0 2. Totals 25 12-1962. Oberlin 6 10 11 8 35, St. Marys 10 16 14 19 59 Oberlin Jones 5 0-0 10, Sullivan 0 2-2 2, i Parker 0 0-0 0, Nichols 2 5-6 9, Miller 2 0-2 4, Ne- i meth 5 0-0 10. Totals 14 7-10 35.

St. Marys Lenherr 5 0-0 10, Devader 2 2-2 6, Boumchen 4 1-2 9, Schumaker 2 0-0 4, Kind- erknecht 60-1 12, Pettay 8 0-3 16, Oberhelman 1 0-0 2. Totals 28 3-8 59. Send your news tip to The Salina Journal, $45 in prizes every week. Picture Frame Sale WIDE WOODEN FRAMES WITH LINEN LINERS VARIOUS SIZES AND DESIGNS AT WHOLESALE PRICES Monday, March 15 9 am-5 pm Red Coach West Restaurant West Crawford 1-35 Salina, Ks.

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