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HAYFIELD SPIRIT HIGH; BEMIDJI BACK FOR 25TH TIME-PAGE TWO SPORTS PEACH rumne MINNEAPOLIS, SUNDAY, MARCH 12, 1967 pm MMijByj I 'Time Righf; Grant Takes Wins; I I Si Cento I I Fidd Stat CnraiO) Post Miking Duluth and will be Luverne's opponent at 7:30 p.m. Thursday. That game matches teams with identical By TED PETERSON Minneapolis Tribune Staff Writer St. Paul Central, Duluth Central, Walnut Grove T-TovfiolH oe cmolloct rnm- 22-1 records. Vvincr fnr linnnrc until regional championships Sat- and Moorhead flashed to urday to complete the field annual state high school basketball tournament.

The Wamut Grove which drubbed Montevideo 67-37 at tournament opens for a three-day run Thursday in Montevideo in Region Three finals with 6-foot-9 Tom Williams Arena. Masterson showing the way. Powerful St. Paul Central, Twin Cities champion, ran its season record to 22-1 by defeating Spring Lake Walnut Grove will meet Moorhead, the new Re-Park 79-55 in the Region Four final in Williams Arena Slx kingpin in Thursday's windup at 9 p.m. Moor-yesterday afternoon.

nead won lts championship at Concordia College of That pits the St. Paul team against Edina's unde- Moorhead when it stopped Osakis 64-52. Walnut Grove feated defending champions in the first round Thursday 20-4, Moorhead 19-4. at 3:30 p.m. The opening game Thursday at 2 o.m.

will have of eight teams for the 55th victory Kegion beven at IllililiSiii Mm llliBiiif Duluth Central survived a final-period surge by Hayfield, 22-3, playing Bemidji, 17-6. Both won their regionais earlier in the week. By BOB FOWLER Minneapolis Tribune Staff Writer Bud Grant, the Vikings' new head coach, ordered a bowl of cream of mushroom soup, a ham and cheese sandwich (with mustard) and a glass of milk and talked of opportunities. Earlier, at a press conference, it had been announced that the 39-year-old Grant, a former three-sport star at the University of Minnesota, had signed a three-year contract. His salary has been estimated at $35,000 per year.

Thus, Grant became the Vikings' head coach exactly one month after Norm Van Brocklin resigned (Feb. 11). It was the second time Grant had been offered the Minnesota position. The first offer was made in 1961 when the team originated. Grant was asked why he accepted in 1967 and not in 1961.

"The time and opportunity is right fo: me now," he answered. (Vikings will save college draft bonus pick until 1968 News report, page three.) In 1961, Grant was coaching the Winnipeg Blue Bombers in the Canadian Football League. In 1959 and 1960 the club was the league champion and in 1959 won the Grey Cup. "It was a young team and I felt it would be a. winner for some time," Grant added.

"But the Vikings were just starting. It was an expansion club Grant Continued on Page Four Loves Me Virginia to score a da-w 17 Nobody Minneapolis Tribune Photo by Donald Black VIKINGS COACH BUD GRANT Signed three-year contract Returns to Form arplyJ 1' i I i It Li UV HtfeVyjiVt A 'V. 4- r. i fs 1 1 a i LOSE AGAIN Homers Boswell. coach Early Wynn tells me I was pitching too high, but I thought I had good stuff.

My control was faulty." In the fourth inning, Bos-well's first, Jay Campbell, a bonus first baseman from the University of Michigan, teed off on a fast ball and Central Will Face Edina in State Tourney By TED PETERSON Minneapolis Tribune Staff Writer Uncovering a hot-handed performance from the very beginning, St. Paul Central powered its way to the Region Four high school basketball championship with a 79-55 defeat of Spring Lake Park before 4,050 fans in Williams Arena Saturday, afternoon. The result sends the St. Paul and Twin City champion into the 55th annual state tournament, also at Williams Arena, to Edina's potent, undefeated champions at 3:30 p.m. Thursday.

At the start Central could do no wrong, Spring Lake Park no right and for all practical purposes the game was decided then and there. WITH LESS than three minutes of the first period remaining the St. Paul team had rolled into a 22-4 lead. Spring Lake Park finally marshalled its offensive forces but trailed 26-10 at the end of the first period. It Region Four Continued on Page Four INDIANA, MSU TIE FOR CROWN Indiana and Michigan State tied for the Big Ten basketball champions i Saturday when both teams posted victories on the final day of the conference season.

Indiana defeated Purdue 95-82 and Michigan State beat Northwestern 79-66. The triumph earned Indiana a berth in the National Collegiate Athletic Association ament. (BIG TEN roundup, box scores Page seven.) Hopkins, Fridley Tie for Mat Title BUT TWINS Harmon TOM BRIERE Minneapolis Tribune Staff Writer ORLANDO, Fla. Harmon Killebrew officially launched his 1967 home-run season with a typical, 400-foot hom er Saturday. For that reason, the Twins could not call the day a com plete loss, even though they dropped their second straight Grapefruit League exhibition baseball game, 6-1 to Detroit.

"The first home-run of any spring feels as good or better than any that went before it," said the right-handed slugger, after yesterday's fourth-inning smasn off right handed Joe Sparma. "Until you hit the first one each spring, you're never certain whether the next home run will ever come," added the 30-year-old Killebrew. The home run was one of four Twins' hits off Detroit starter and winner Earl Wilson, Sparma and rookie George Korincc Dave Boswell, who pitched in the middle innings behind Twin starter Jim Kaat and ahead of Charlie Murray and Al Worthington, was the loser. He yielded fivp runs and seven hits. "My arm felt good," said I 1 I ,1 1 1 4.

I I 1 1 ing aspects of yesterday's game was the introduction of manager Sam Mele's experiment with 21 -year -old Rod Carew at second' base. INFIELD COACH Billy Martin pronounced Carew, Twins Continued on Page Three Moorhead Tops Osakis in Region Six Special to the Minneapolis Tribune MOORHEAD, Minn. Dick Isaman, a 6-foot-4, 215-pound center used only intermittently as a starter, moved into the lineup with a vengeance here Saturday night in carrying Moorhead to a 64-52 Victory over scrappy Osakis in the finals of the Region Six hight school basketball tournament. Osakis, District 22 champion, held a 13-12 lead at the first quarter, 28-27 at the half and 44-42 going into the last period. The score became tied for a fifth time at 52-52 when Marck Boche of Moor-: head hit a tip-in shot that i Region Six Continued on Page Four lapses both offensively and defensively during the third period and could produce only four points during that eight-minute stretch.

With seven minutes to go Central still had a 42-29 lead, but suddenly Virginia caught fire behind the long-range shooting of Gary Kober and Jack Yurick. It was 46-36 for Central with four minutes remaining, 47-40 with three to go. With 1:40 left, Anderson's two free throws appeared to put Central out of trouble with a 49-42 margin. Kober and Yurick combined for five straight Vir- ginia points, Yurick getting a three-point play, to pull Virginia within 49-47 with 40 seconds to go. JIM HART'S free throw boosted Central ahead 50-47 Region Seven Continued on Page Ft)ur I 4 1 By NOLAN ZAVORAL Minneapolis Tribune Staff Writer sent it over the left-field fence.

It became 3-0 on doubles by Gates Brown, Orlando McFarlane and Ray Oyler. Detroit added single runs in the fifth and sixth before Jake Wood homered in the seventh off Murray for the sixth run. 1 One of the more interest ley. But Fridley's Mike Good tied it witn b-0 win over Hutchinson's Phil Mohler in the 127-pound consolation finals. Hopkins' Alex Saric, 103-pounder, and Jim Sorvick, 120, won in the finals, lijt-ing Hopkins into a 36-30 lead.

Then Windom's Sheldon Parala decisioned Hopkins' Dave Comartin, 3-2 at 133 pounds. With its two finalists yet to wrestle, Fridley needed two wins one by pin to win. It got the wins, but not th pin. Steve Carlson, 138 pounds, beat Lee Carlson of Wrestling Continued on Page Four ST. CLOUD, Minn.

Fridley and Hopkins will share the 1967 Minnesota High School wrestling title. Both ended the two-day wrestling meet Saturdaywith 36 points. It was Fridley's first crown, while Hopkins won it in 1963. Faribault finished third with 24 points and Cooper fourth with 20. Defending champion Albert Lea had 19.

After yesterday afternoon's consolation rounds, Hoplins had a 30-28 lead and three finalists, one more than Frid- Minneapolis Tribune Photo by Pete Hohn HOWIE SCHULTZ, ST. PAUL CENTRAL CENTER, AWAITED ACTION He uas down court to prevent Park fast break after free throw Walnut Grove Crushes Montevideo to Gain State By JOHN WIEBUSCH Minneapolis Tribune Staff Writer Duluth Central Tips Virginia for Crown By DWAYNE NETLAND Minneapolis Tribune Staff Writer MONTEVIDEO, Minn. Walnut Grove laced Montevideo with, astounding accuracy from the field and finely designed precision of play in the Region Three high school basketball title game Saturday night. A crowd of over 4,000 at Montevideo High School's new gymnasium saw the Dis- UCLA FINISHES CAMPAIGN 26-0 LOS ANGELES, Calif. UP) The UCLA Bruins, sparked by Lew Alcindor's 26 points, raced to a perfect regular season by crushing the Southern California Trojans 83-55 Saturday afternoon in Pacific-Eight Conference basketball.

In gaining their 26th win of the year, the Bruins became the sixth team in major college history to post a perfect mark for the regular season. Alcindor, the 7-foot-l sophomore from New York, was, as usual, the dominant force. Southern California, playing a zone defense and, predictably, a stall offense, trailed only 14-11 after 11:50 of the first half. But then the Bruins' full-court press and aggressive play took charge. trict 10 champions seize the initiative at the start of the second quarter and frolic almost at will to a 67-37 victory.

The state tournament berth will be Walnut Grove's second in history. The 1957 Loggers represented Region Three. This year's edition has a 20-4 record. SHOOTING statistics revealed Walnut Grove's superiority last night. The Loggers were a mediocre 4-for-ll in the first quarter and the result was an 11-11 tie.

They were 5-for-8 in the second and the Logger advantage became 28-17. Third quarter figures were 7-for-12 and the lead soared to 44-23. Walnut Grove's starting five played the first five minutes of the fourth quarter and did not miss in eight attempts. The final figures were 25 of 41, a 61 per cent mark. Montevideo had 59 shots, but could hit only 13.

THE PRIME force behind Walnut Grove was Tom Masterson, who has been the big reason for its success all season. The center, smooth, intimidating and deadly from short range, totaled 26 points 15 of them Region Three Continued on1 Page Four DULUTH, Minn. Duluth Central survived a weird but effective Virginia surge in the final minutes Saturday night to win the Region Seven High school basketball championship 52-49. It was Central's first regional title since 1961, the year it won the state championship. One of the bulwarks on Central's 1961 team was Chet Anderson.

Last night his younger brother, Mel, was the anchor man for this victory. MEL SCORED 21 points, 15 of them in the second half, and was a cool, poised leader for the Trojans in the final hectic minutes. This one might have been an easy victory for Central. It led 37-26 with 1:10 left in the third period and appeared to have taken full control of the game. Virginia, after being tied 23-23 at halftimei went into ft h- rx 9 Minneapolis Tribune Photo by Donald Black ROBBINSDALE'S JACK WOODS (FRONT), MORRIS DAN GRIFFITH BATTLED IN CONSOLATIONS Griffith won 112-pound match 2-0 in slate prep meet at St.

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