St. Louis Post-Dispatch from St. Louis, Missouri • Page 75

Sports SILOUIS POST-DISPATCH Jan. 1, 1984 7F I 'if 1 11 a 1 I I 4 )f- St. jCouis Wreilling Clul J(iel 4uJitorium NEXT FRIDAY, JAM. 6th p.m. )f i i 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 it High school report I Selta mm For the World Heavyweight Championship RIC KING FLAIR KONG Champion BRODY In our December 31, 1983 "Clip Save" circular, the front page states "Your Local Kmart Stores Will be Open Sunday, January 1, 1984." This applies only to the Illinois Kmart Stores.

The Missouri Kmart Stores will start the sale on Monday, January 2, 1984. We regret any inconvenience this may have caused our customers. DAVID VON ERICH For the Missouri State Title Mo Stat Champion VS. Chofnptow Former HARLEY RACE World TICKETS: At KM HuHttrim, AN Fomwi Mrr StofM, 1 JT 1m, Togi 4 Ikktti, ItQUj Spwti (644-1700) Telephone 241-1010or 361-6870 Four Former Missouri State Title Holders meet in a Tag Team PATERA DICK THE BRUISER BLACKWElt vs DIBIASE PORT FUNK JR. i.

BOB ORTON JR. Plus Three More Exciting Matches yL- -Jluppy flew tfear to all our loyal fans from the St. Jtouii Wrestling Ctu an Pat Connor 58-47. Reggie Banks, one of four Madison players In double figures, scored 16 points. Madison advanced to the final by beating Homewood-Flossmoor in a semifinal game, 52-36.

East St Louis (8-2) advanced with a semifinal victory over Centralia, 69-64. Ted Spraggins, with 22 points, led the Flyers against Centralia. Belleville West lost its consolation semifinal to Jeffersontown 59-51. Normal Lincoln High of East SL Louis advanced to the championship final before bowing to Galesburg, 93-80. Galesburg, which averaged 92 points in the four tournament games, was led by Byron Thierry, with 32.

Mike Owens added 23 points, and Bill Patterson 21 for Galesburg. Freddie Towns had 26 for the Tigers (7-3). Lincoln advanced to the title game by shading Mount Carmel, 67-66, in double overtime. Towns tallied 27 points and Freddie Jones 22 for Lincoln. Carbondale Carbondale won the Class AA title, beating Champaign Centennial, 51-49.

The Class A crown went to Meridian on a 67-63 victory over Cairo. For the overall tournament title, Carbondale bombed Meridian, 65-42. Collinsville (2-7), the only local team alive on the final day, fell before Herrin, 58-51, in the consolation final. Mike Hunter had 17 points for the Kahoks. Pontiac Alton bowed to Aurora West, 59-37, in a championship semifinal on Friday, but bounced back later in the day to defeat Providence-SL Mel In the third-place game, 62-59.

Alton was down after one quarter, 17-5. Darold Randol had 23 points for Alton against St. Mel. Peoria Manual beat Aurora West, 55-44, in the championship game. If Soldan High Coach Marvin Neals believes in omens, he'll like this one.

His basketball team defeated CBC, 63-56," Friday night to win the Normandy Christmas Tournament. The last time Soldan won was in 1980 and that season the Tigers went on to captnre the Missouri Class 4A championship. It wasn't easy for the 12-0 Tigers against CBC (10-2). The game was tied at halfttme, 38-38, and after three quarters, 48-48. But Soldan, the Post-Dispatch No.

1-ranked large school, outscored CBC in the final quarter, 15-8. Reco Weddington scored 18 points for the Tigers, Darryl Barnes had 16 and Damon Wilson added 12. Dan Cordia, who helped CBC handle Soldan's press, finished with 18. "I think the game helped us a lot," said Neals, whose team has been winning easliy in the early season. "It was a great test of our character We were tested the whole ballgame." Normandy took the consolation title by edging Riverview Gardens, 48- 5 In other high school tournament actipn Friday: Meramec To celebrate his 17th birthday, DeSmefs Brad Stallings held his breath and then, with one blast, blew out 'any flickering chance that St.

Louis University High had of winning its fifth consecutive Meramec Holiday Festival. Stallings has huffed and puffed so far. In fact, in the early season he's been light years from being a star. But finally, with five seconds left in overtime against SLUH, he sparkled. Stallings took a pass, cut from the left side of the court to the foul line and hit an off-balance jump shot to beat SLUH, 31-29.

Victories never come easily when SLUH (6-4) and DeSmet (9-2) clash, although DeSmet already is 3-0 against the Junior Bills this season. The game was tied, 21-21, after three quarters and tied again, 29-29, when SLUH's Jim Ott hit a 15-foot shot to force the game into overtime. SLUH failed to score on either of two possessions in overtime. First came a missed shot and then SLUH's hulking 6-4 forward, Jeff Hummel, was called for charging with 46 seconds left. DeSmet took over, called time with 17 seconds left, and set the stage for Stallings.

This time, there was no stage fright. Jtevin Suiter led DeSmet with 13 points and Stallings had eight. Hummel led SLUH with 12. In 1981-82, when DeSmet went on to win the state title, the Spartans came out of the Meramec tournament with an 8-3 record. DeSmet plays host to Webster Groves on Friday.

Webster (10-1) defeated Kirkwood in the third-place game, 67-37. Sam Ivy led Webster with 18 points and 13 rebounds. Anthony Vaughn had 16 points for Kirkwood (3-5). Parkway Central (4-4) took the fifth-place game over DuBourg, 63-35, and Fox (8-2) beat Mehlville in the 'consolation final, 45-39. Mehlville slipped to 6-5 and DuBourg fell to 6-4.

Centralia It was a Metro East final as Madison (8-2) dropped East St. Louis, Targtt stores So Atom and Fo fl pen 5 5VlwY( Mater Dei Mater Dei won Its own tournament, spanking Springfield Griffin, 50-28, in the title game. Mater Del (10-0) was led by Mark Etter, Ron Schadegg and Phil Boeckman with 11 points each. Granite City took third place, beating Chatham-Glenwood, 67-50. Jeff Gray hit 14 of 18 shots from the field and finished with 32 points to lead the Warriors (4-8).

In the fifth-place garni Nashvile beat O'Fallon, 45-43, and in the consolation final, Mascoutah niped Breese Central, 42-37. Scott Hesse led O'Fallon with 23 points. Elsewhere Francis Howell (5-4) lost to Lee's Summit 84-75, in the third-place game of the Patterson Division of the 16-team William Jewell tournament at Liberty. Howell was led by Mike Potthoff with 25 points. Kansas City Central won the Patterson Division, topping Raytown South, 55-48.

The Nelson Division was won by Lincoln Southeast, 55-52, over Hickman Mills. Flora defeated Newton, 44-33, for the Vandalia Tournament title. retirement, he had a daily program called "Fan In the Stands" for two years on radio station KCFM. The show focused on the baseball Cardinals. Long active in sports programs in St Barbara's parish, he was at one time one of the top amateur tennis players in the area.

He is survived by his wife, Dolores, and nine children Karen, Crystal, Kenneth and Kerry Echert, all of Florissant; Carolyn Steen of Pembroke Pines, Kay Burnett of Lake Forest Carla Eckert of Creve Coeur, and Candy Perelra of Fenton. 15 mm to 6 pm 11 Roy Eckert Services Tuesday At St. Pius A funeral mass for Roy Eckert, a radio sports commentator who was active in sports programs in the St. Louis area, will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday at St.

Plus Catholic Church, 335 Shepley Glasgow Village. Burial will be in Calvary Cemetery. Mr. Eckert died Friday at SL Mary's Medical Center after a long illness. He was 67.

Before his retirement four years ago due to ill health, he was a production supervisor at Wagner Electric where he had worked for more than 40 years. After his FORD CITY'S Shop and save on exercise wear, athletic equipment, sheets, towels, car battery, everyday essentials during our storewide sale starting Sunday, Jan. 1 Look for clearance bargains throughout the store too. Stores open regular weekday hours, Monday, Jan. 2.

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