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Gloucester Catholic Wearin ate Crown Overcomes Delay and St. Joe 71-59 7, created when refore Walt manre. They all niaved treat created when referee Walt mane. They all played great Courier-Post Stajf COURIER-POST ATLANTIC CITY When Gloucester Catholic High School won Its first state basketball championship In 1964. it experienced a 20-min-ute delay during the game caused by a scoreboard malfunction.

The Rams experienced a 50-minute delay in their cham Zuber. after protests from Gloucester Catholic's Billy Ulbin, discovered the baskets weren't extending far enough beyond the baselines. Hence, the players were shooting 17-foot foul shots instead of the regulation 15 foolers and players grabbing rebounds under the baskets were stepping on the endline as they came down. 23 CAMDEN, N. SATURDAY, MARCH 21, 1970 Catholic trailing 14-12 at the St.

Joseph's had trouble quarter, seemed to ienite with the Rams' nressiire-ivne pionship game againt St. Joseph's of West New York coach Ralnh Saauella's defense nartirularlv after ih Our kids really kept their here last night and the out- charges. They roared to a early delay was straightened poise after the delay," Saquel- come was similar to that of 71-59 victory and the Group out. la said. "They were especially 1964.

championship before a crowd tough in the second half. The delay, with Gloucester of 7,762 in Convention Hall. THE 50-MINUTE WAIT was "It was a fabulous perfor- t1" iii'Jt, wtmmammmmmm vmcmit-i mx Miliar me -v-tt wsfr 3r lit: 41 wi 1 I- JUdrt Mb i-ttt ksJ fiSv vXff, "mi. jS Ux 6" 4J 4 if 1 lot? jl ii.iii.iii i-ii defense, especially on Steve Dolccki, St. Joe's highly-regarded scorer.

"WE FRONTED HIM and had him guarded from behind," Saquella explained. "Dave Rumaker and Denny Flaherty kept him to one of his lowest games of the year." Doleckl finished with eight points. Juan Jimenez hurt the Rams more than Doleckl. The 6-7 center hooped 23 points, but was handled well while the South Jersey champs were breaking open the game. "He hurt us, though," Saquella said of Jimenez.

"We did a little adjusting and Flaherty and Rumaker hit the boards hard in the second half. I think that took some of the starch out of him." Jimenez finished with a game high 20 rebounds, but most came in the first half. The Blue Jays outrebounded Gloucester Catholic, 39-38, but managed to shoot only 28-for-67 against the dogged Ram defense. GLOUCESTER CATHOLIC clocked at a 28-for-50 clip, with Joe Kain hitting 6-for-10 and Flaherty, a sparkling sophomore, coming through with 7for-12. Gloucester Catholic had many heroes, including 5-5 Pete Carrera, who came off the bench in the second period to give the team life when playmaker Ulbin picked up two quick fouls.

"He did a fine job while he was in there," Saquella said of Carrera. "It's been this way all season. Somebody has always come through with that little extra effort when it has been needed most." Saquella also was high In praise of Ulbin, the only seasoned veteran back from last year'i team. "BILLY SET UP our offense well," the coach said. "He was especially impressive in the second half.

They tried to break his dribble in the backcourt, but he was too tough for them." It was Ulbin who broke a 35-35 tie early in the third period with a jumper. Gloucester never trailed after that as Bill canned another and Flaherty converted one of two free throws for a 40-35 Catholic lead. Ulbin hit a 20-footer to make it 43-35, before Jimenez put in a rebound goal for the Blue Jays. Flaherty and Dennis Calzonetti maintained Gloucester Catholic's lead at 46-43 after three periods. Flaherty hit a short jumper, Ulbin fed Calzonetti for a layup and Flaherty stuck in a rebound to give Catholic a 52-45 lead with 4:55 remaining.

CATHOLIC methodically built its lead to 16 points and its cheering section began to chant: "Let's go state champs." It was a fitting climax to a season of hustle and determination for the new champs. "Those kids worked hard, especially Ulbin and Kain (the two seniors)," Saquella said. "We started slowly this year, but you could see the kids were coming with each game." THE DETERMINATION of Gloucester Catholic's state champions is shown here as all five players battle for a rebound in last night's game. Fighting for the ball are (from left) Dennis Calzonetti, Dennis Flaherty, Dave Rumaker, Bill Ulbin and Joe Kain. Cotuitr-Post Photo by Jmes Stewart state Parochial basketball championship last night.

Gloucester Catholic last won the state title in 1964. COACH RALPH SAQUELLA barks out mands and points instructions to his Gloucester Catholic Rams en route to winning the 76ers Lose to Bucks The $64 Question: Rams Put Coach in Clouds 9 Where Was Ramsay 'ATLANTIC CITY-Somewhere in Dublin today there is an airline stewardess who thinks people from Gloucester are crazy. Can't blame her. Sometime last night she got an emergency cable addressed to Mrs. Ralph Saquella, en route to Ireland.

It said that someone in the family had passed away. When Mrs. Saquella read the mes here in his three years as a head coach, says it creates movement in the offense and sets up options. "The opposition becomes very conscious of your picks after a while and begins to overplay, at which point you option in favor of other things you have set up to run off the pattern." Mulava says his boss began with the basic double jam and then tailored it to his which may explain why it worked as well last night when Saquella had three sophomores in action as it did when the Gloucester Catholic starters were on the floor. There was a time during the evening when Saquella had nobody on the floor.

After one period, it was discovered that the portable baskets had been set up two feet out of line. It seemed incredible to everyone but James Growney, the NJSIAA Executive Secretary, who is supposed to run this tournament. "Just one of those things," he said with a chuckle during the 50-minute delay required to set things right. "It could happen anytime." It should never happen, of course, in a state championship game. Not if the people in Growney's organization are sincere when they say they are striving to put on a class tournament.

The teams that play here spend a lot of time and energy planning their games and it's ridiculous for them to be faced with an equipment failure which could conceivably ruin those hours of planning. Fortunately for kids like Billy Ulbin, Ralph Saquella is a lot more thorough than the NJSIAA when it comes to preparing for the big games. sage, she and 17 others aboard the plane broke into rousing cheers. "We signed up for the trip quite a while ago," Ralph Saquella explained last night. "It's one of those things they sponsor for the kids a visit to religious shrines and things in Europe and my wife and I are chaperones.

"Then we got into the tournament and kept winning until we got down here which created a conflict. Our flight for Europe left late today (Friday). Well, of course I couldn't leave before the state championship game so I had to make some other arrangements." But Saquella's wife and the rest of the Gloucester Catholic contingent en route to Europe wanted to know how things had gone, so arrangements were Philadelphia. Flynn Robinson also played an outstanding game and the rest of the Bucks played extremely well as they won their fourth game here and took the series, 5-2. That should boost their stock in the playoffs, which begin Wednesday in Madison, since Philly didn't win a single game at home against the Bucks.

Of course, the 76ers played without center Darrall Imhoff, and guard Archie Clark last night, but it's doubtful they would have made much difference. Alcindor shot 1 6 1 8 made all nine of his foul shots, pulled down 15 rebounds had six assists, blocked more shots than usual and tallied 41 points. ROBINSON scored 22 on 11-of-14 shots, including several on cherrypicker plays that reminded one of Atlanta's Joe Caldwell. "That play's not part of our strategy," said winning coach Larry Costello, "but maybe it should be." Alcindor was hounded By PETE CAFONE Courier-Post Stajj PHILADELPHIA General manager Jack Ramsay of the Philadelphia 76ers has levied a $64 fine on coach Jack Ramsay of the 76ers. Coach Ramsay arrived at the next-to-last regular season pro basketball game of the year here last night at 8:29 p.m.

He was 64 minutes late for a team meeting and since a player is subject to a $1 fine for each minute he's late, the same goes for the coach. Ramsay was also late for the game. There was 11:34 to go in the first half and the 76ers were down, 32-26, when he arrived. Someone suggested Jack knew he couldn't take 48 minutes of the game because by the end of the evening, the 76ers had been clobbered by their first-round playoff foe, the Milwaukee Bucks, 138-112. LEW ALCINDOR withstood the pushing and shoving of George Wilson and Luke Jackson to play his best game of the season against BILL ULBIN SI.

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But I guess you have to get hurt first before (the officials) will call a foul. I think Philly doesn't push any more than any other team but they just seem to be getting away with it more lhan any other team." "THE MAN IS 7-4 what are you going to do?" questioned Wilson. "Pushing's part of the game. The man is big he's got all the moves. You get position and if you don't get out of his way, you get called for the fouls, "But if he thinks I pushed him, he should 'have been here five years ago when big Wayne (Embry) was in there whew." Despite the physical brutality, Alcindor went to the basket frequently, fouled our Wilson and caused Jackson to commit five personals.

He also led the defense which forced Philly into a 35 per cent shooting night. By halftime, when the 76ers were behind, 70-53, the five starters had shot 26 per cent. "That game was probably the best any team's played against us this year," said Ramsay. "They're playing great now we have a big, big job to do but this should make us play harder." nV RAMSAY WAS LATE for the game because he got caught in a massive traffic jam on the Industrial Highway. "What usually takes 35 minutes, took two hours nothing moved in throe lanes.

It's a very frustrating situation. I was in one spot for 20 minutes couldn't go forward, back or across lanes. ''But my job is to be here from the beginning, not just the heginning of the game, but beiore a game. It's important I can't allow that to happen. I have to fine myself." Before Ramsay got there, captain Hal Gi'eer acted as "chairman of the board." He listened to what each player had to say, then made the decisions, Aftr the first period (which the 76crs trailed 30-26), owner Irv Ko.sloff Continued I'uKe 21 ol.

1 Flyers Can Hear Opportunity Call St. Jflnouli1! 14 1 1 5 Gloucester Clttiolle 11 7.1 11 15-71 Ordclals Walter Zuber Wilt Mlschler. and quickness a team similar Branch Oranae l-7) COLLEGE PARK, Md. (UPI) Coach John Wooden says he'll take quickness over size 8 rnwn I 1 ft I 7 1 IS 4 anytime. The architect of the PHILADELPHIA The Philadelphia Flyers have an excellent chance of moving into 4 3 II) Willums 13 ft 2 MsinU 1 ft 1 t.vn i 3 Baker Rail Walker Allen Williams Caraway Snrlnai Holmes Gray Thoma Malcomfc Mnrlon 2 8 been complicated by the loss of centers Bryan Hcxtall and Wally Boyer.

Hcxtall suffered a broken hand against St. Louis Thursday. Boyer sustained a groin injury Wednesday. The 2 4 5 23 1 ft 2 in second place in the Western Total" 31 14 74 11 1 10-99 411 1 Totala on Branch Division of the National Hockey League this weekend. It will take a combination of factors since the Fivers trail II 74 urante UCLA dynasty has a chance to test that theory today while bidding for a record sixth National Collegiate basketball championship.

Wooden's UCLA squad, relying on its quickness and exceptional balance to offset the height advantage of its opponent, faces tournament Ofticl ais Van" 'Afdsd ale Folsom made for a coded cable. "The only cables they'll accept when airborne are emergency notices," Saquella explained, "so we decided on a code that, would say someone had died one person if we lost and somebody else if we won." Saquella could have laid it on the line with something like "St. Joseph passed away this evening," but he figured nobody would buy that. He thought of using the nickname of the West New York team his Rams met in the tourney, but he figured the stewardess wouldn't deliver a cable that said something about a dead Blue Jay. Anyway, the state Parochial Class championship which Saquella's basketball team won last night cost him $275 for a personally financed ticket on this morning's 7:30 flight to Dublin and whatever it Is they charge for emergency cables to an airplane over the mid-Atlantic.

"Worth every cent," the young coach said with a grin. "You can't buy what I feel right now." Billy Ulbin understood that feeling. He'd wailed a long year for this victory. "For we this started a year ago, when we lost here and the peon, from Gloucester carried us back to the hotel on their ahmilders," the 6-2 senior guard explained. "ft was so great to know they appreciated how hard we had tried, but in a way it made it hurt even more.

We had lost and .1 had to feel it was pretty much my fault." Ulbln was the only non-scnlor starter on that team, which lost a two-point decision to St. Mary's of Jersey City. Billy missed a foul shot which might have won the game and then fouled a player whose two free throws locked up St. Mary's victory with five seconds to play. "People told me not to worry about it, but it hurt," Ulbin said.

"On that ride down the boardwalk I promised myself we'd come back here and get the title." It couldn't have seemed a realistic goal at the time, because seven members of that team would graduate before another opportunity presented itself. And this season, when Saquella began practice with a bushel of sophomores on his roster, people said the Rams would do well to finish the season with a .500 record. "The coach began aiming for this a long time ago," assistant coach Gordon Mulava said. "Before our season opened for practice, I mean coach Saquella used to go over to Temple and watch the Owls practice from a seat in the bleachers. He took a lot of notes." Some of the notes were altout the "double Jam," an offense used by Temple assistant Don Casey and Glassboio Slate roach Jack Collins.

It's designed to provide a constant series of picks off which to shoot. Saquella, who, has made two trips to the championships the Pittsburgh Penguins by one point in the battle for the spot. Maryland Picks Power Twosome in many respects to the 1964 and 1965 championship squads which included Gail Goodrich. "I thing quickness is the greatest asset of any basketball team. It is also important for my players to be team oriented.

We prefer team players to individuals who get hungry for points," he noted. That's exactly the type of team Jacksonville will have to contend with in the showdown battle today. UCLA displayed that balance Thursday night in running past New Mexico State, 93-77 while Jacksonville, playing only hard enough to win, turned back inspired St. Bonaventure, 91-83. Wooden says his players aren't awed by Jacksonville's towering front line which included 7-foot-2 Artis Gilmore and 7-foot Penbrook Burrows.

Penguins have called 20-year-old Rick Kessell from their Baltimore Clippers farm club. The Flyers are not without problems. Defensemen Joe Watson, and Wayne Hillman, along with winger Gary Dornhoefer, remain sidelined. Expected Shortly All are expected to return shortly. "We want them to work out more before thev crt back into WASHINGTON (UPI)-Thc experience shy Jacksonville in the 1970 championship game at Cole Fieldhouse on the University of Maryland campus.

New Mexico State and St. Bonavcnturc tangle in the first University of Maryland yesterday announced Its first two picks from this spring crop of graduating high school basket game of the afternoon double-. ball players, both from Power Memorial Academy in New York, which produced Lew action," said coach Vic The coach isn't about to risk further harm to the trio, especially since Ralph Alcindor. header to determine third place. The championship contest will be carried on national television beginning at 4 p.m..

EST. The Flyers will have to win one of their two games tonight and tomorrow and the Penguins will have to lose twice. The chances of that happening appear good. The Philadelphians play the Montreal Canadiens, which have had trouble winning recently, in Montreal tonight, then tackle the Oakland Seals here in the Spectrum tomorrow night. The latter has had trouble winning all year.

Pittsburgh Hosts Hawks In contrast, the Penguins host the Chicago Black Hawks tonight, before traveling to Montreal tomorrow night. The Hawks have been one of the Eastern Division's hottest teams in recent weeks and are threatening to overtake first place Boston. The Penguins' problems have UCLA, winner of 27 out of 29: Jacksonville, a loser only once in 28 outings, is appearing The grants-in-aid went to Len Elmore, a 6-11, 235-pound center, and Japeth Trimble, a 6-4, 185-pound guard. Maryland coach Lefty Driesell described Trimble as "the best one-on-one high school guard in the games this season, was rated a three and a half point favorite to down the Dolphins and annex an unprecedented fourth straight NCAA crown. Although UCLA won the last in its first championship game and the Dolphins will be trying to become the first newcomer to the tournament to go all the way since San Francisco achieved a similar feat in 1955.

Joe Williams, the 36-year old country." MacSweyn has played brilliantly on defense since being recalled from the Quebec farm club on an emergency basis. The Flyers are awaiting the outcome of a hearing winger Earl Ileiskala had yesterday before league president Clarence Campbell. Ileiskala was called on the carpet as the result of hitting St. Louis Terry Gary with his stick last week. i Power Memorial had a 22-0 record the past season and was 64-9 for the years Elmore and Trimble were on the team three championships with a bigi man 7-foot 2 Lew Alcindor Wooden has built a title! contender this year out of I players with excellent speed' coach of the Dolphins who says he's adopted some of Wooden's Continued on Page 24 Col.

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