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District 'A' play begins; Morton passes first test The Daily Chronicle, 98531, Saturday, February 23,1974 By STEVE KELLEY Chronicle Sports Writer The South Central League teams failed to play follow the leader, but everything else went according to plan as the Southwest Washington Class tournament opened at four sites, Friday. Morton, South Central champion and number four rated team in the state, survived a shaky first half to defeat Stevenson 80-48, but Winlock lost 52-44 to Kalama, Rochester was edged by Woodland 57-55 and the state's number one school, Washougal, flexed its muscles with an 81-40 win over Toledo. In other first round matches, Ocosta had to go five extra minutes before taking St. Martin's 43-39 in overtime, South Bend routed Eatonville, 8048, Raymond handled Cathlamet, 67-55 and Yelm tripped Montesano, 55-47. Four doubleheaders are slated tonight, with the classiest matchup figuring to be South Bend and Morton in the 8:30 nightcap at Chehalis.

Losers, Montesano and Rochester will play in the 7 p.m. opener. Washougal and Ocosta will meet in the highlight game at Mark Morris tonight. A match between Winlock and Cathlamet will precede that game. St.

Martin's Capital "Pavillion will welcome Yelm and Woodland in its featured battle after Stevenson and Eatonville have at it. Montesano will be the site of the Raymond--Kalama and Toledo--St. Martin's tiffs. KALAMA 52, WINLOCK 44 As they entered the Chehalis gym, Winlock fans were reminising about the last time the Cardinals had been in a district tournament. It had been 16 years, and then the school was only in the division.

This was Winlock's first trip to the playoffs. Unfortunately the return to the playoffs was not a happy one, as poor Rams edge Tigers LACEY--Doug Engle finally threw off the shackles that had plagued him all evening and scored six points in overtime to power North Thurston to a 69-63 win over Centralia in Friday's Black Hills basketball test. With Rick Dahl and Tom Alderson blanketing him throughout most of the game, the Rams' 6-7 center was held to 14 points during regulation time. In the extra period, however, Engle was able to break away for two field goals and two fouls. He was aided by reserve John Logue who was a workhorse under the basket.

Bob Blanchard forced the game into overtime by hitting the second of two fouls shots with 58 seconds left to tie the game. Centralia had a chance to win it all when it regained possession of the ball with 18 seconds remaining, but after stalling the ball down to two seconds Blanchard missed a jumper from the top of the key. The big gun all evening for the Tigers was senior forward Dahl. In addition to helping to shadow Engle, Dahl scored 25 points and grabbed 10 rebounds. After finishing the first quarter knotted at 17, Centralia, behind the shooting of Dahl went to a 32-26 halftime lead.

Taking no bad shots, and scoring almost totally in and around the basket, Dahl paced the Tigers through three quarters. Centralia held a 46-42 lead going into the final eight minutes. The loss pushed Centralia deeper into the Black Hills basement with a 3-13 record. The Tigers have yet to win away from home. After controlling the rebounds in the first half, Centralia gave way to Engle and Logue in the second half and lost the final count 32-31.

Mike DeBruler helped Dahl with 14 points, but was the only other Tiger in double figures. Blanchard was held to five points in his lowest point production of the season. Engle was ably assisted by Mike Shaw (16), Jim Mailhott (12) and Logue (10). The Tigers' junior varsity took it on the chin, 57-44 in the preliminary game. Centralia moves into its final week of the season with a game at Elma, Tuesday, before returning home Thursday to close the campaign against Hoquiam.

The Hoquiam game has been moved to Thursday because of the tournament action that will take place all weekend in the Hub City. Score by quarters: North Thurston 17 26 42 55 69 Centralia 17 32 46 55 63 North THurston scoring (69)--Shaw 16, Mailhott 12, Olivera 7, Logue 10, Engle 20, Kcikhaufer 1, Kramer 3. FG: 31 of FT: 7 of Centralia scoring 5, Denham 4, Dahl 25, LeBaron 2, Alderson 8, DC Buhler 14, Eberle 4, Moore 1, FG: 26 of FT: 11 of ball handling and a pair of tall Chinooks took their toll on the Cardinals. The Kalama duo of 6-4 Fred Neiman and 6-3 Randy LeRoy moved the Chinooks to' a 29-21 halftime lead and stretched that margin to 45-31 with 6:11 to play. Cardinal coach Doug McLean called a time out and put Winlock in a full court press.

With Mike Davis' leading the spurt, Winlock cut the lead to 47-44, but a costly Cardinal turnover and five consecutive foul shots gave Kalama the game. LaRoy had 19 points and Neiman 13 to lead the Chinooks. Danny Rigdon, who had 10 points in the first quarter, finished with 20. MORTON 69, STEVENSON 52 "We were a little bit nervous and tight in the first quarter," Husky coach Ron Nilson said, "but we got going in the second half." That succinctly tells the story of Morton's 20th win in 21 starts. As Nilson admitted after the game, "we were trying to get it inside too much in the first quarter." Doug Coleman and Mike Herron were missing their early inside shots, but it still just seemed like a matter of time before Morton would open a comfortable lead.

Rod Ryan scored 10 second-period points to open the Bulldog defense and allow Coleman to frolic in the second half. Although at 6-4 Coleman was an inch shorter that Jon McKee, the man guarding him, he was able to move into position easily for his soft, roundhouse hook shots. The defending district champions were led by Coleman's 23 points while Ryan had 20. Herron followed with 14. McKee had 20 points to lead the Bulldogs.

Dan Berge contributed 12. Morton enjoyed a 59-50 rebound edge, with Coleman pulling down 20. WOODLAND 57, ROCHESTER 55 Ken Carlson, Ron Leischner and Scott Miller led a board assault that saw Rochester take an 18-10 lead after the first eight minutes. Jack Whitmire's shooting and a full court press brought Woodland back, but the Beavers didn't take the lead until seven minutes remained On a bucket by Dave Orth. It remained close the rest of the way, with a field goal by Kelly Woodward at 1:25 giving Woodland a 53-49 lead.

"I am proud of the way the kids played," losing coach Bill Martin said afterward. Carlson finished as Rochester's high scorer with 15 points. Carlson had replaced Ron McKinney, who was relegated to a reserve role because of a sprained ankle. WASHOUGAL81, TOLED040 The score was 10-2 Washougal's favor. It moved to 24-8, 28-9, 38-14, up and up and up.

Tim Wysaske, Tim Hagensen and Jeff Kinard all looked smooth and and dominant as the state's top rated club sailed through its district opener. Washougal shot 61 per cent in the first half, with Wysaske garnering 18 points. A Toledo sign read "Defeat the Panthers," but April-Fool's Day is still over a month away. Wysaske finished with 26 points. Hagensen notched 17 and Kinard tallied 14.

Bob Amrine had 11 for Toledo. SOUTH BEND 80, EATONVILLE 48 South Bend coach Don Koplitz said he was, "real pleased" with his team's performance Friday and well he should be. After a slow start that saw the Indians take a 16-12 lead, Dan Cearns from the inside and Steve Koplitz from the oustside started riddling the Cruiser defense. When the smoke had cleared Koplitz had 26 points and Cearns 21 and South Bend had a date Saturday night with Morton. "We had 'a good night, but now it's over and we have to think about our next game," Koplitz said.

Tim Bloom scored 15 to pace the Cruisers. YELM 55, MONTESANO 47 Yelm let Mark Backstrom run wild for 16 minutes and the 6-4 junior responded with 16 points and Montesano took a 30-24 halftime lead. The Tornados kept the ball away from Backstrom in the second half, and Mark Olson and Dan Lee controlled the boards, to lead a Yelm rally. Yelm pulled in 30 rebounds in the second half and held the Bulldogs to two third-quarter points, in winning going away. OCOSTA 43, ST.

MARTIN'S 39 With less than one minute to play in Seattle loses WAC lead RENO, Nev. (AP) The Seattle University Chieftains, their share of the West Coast Athletic Conference basketball lost, gamble their standing further Saturday when they meet Nevada-Las Vegas. The Chiefs were upset 84-72 by cellar- dwelling Nevada-Reno Friday night despite the 32 points of Frank Oleynick, the conference's leading scorer. Seattle trailed only 31-30 with just under five minutes to go in the first half but David Webber scored a pair of quick baskets to key the Wolfpack to a 40-32 advantage at intermission. The Chiefs, who committed 23 fouls to 15 for the Wolfpack, lost Reggie Green and Ron Howard to the referee's whistle.

regulation Al Brockoff scored a three- point play to give Ocosta a 37-34 lead. A Mike Griffus foul shot and a field goal by Drake Eisinger with 16 seconds left forced an extra period. Reserves Galen Freed, Broekoff, and starter Doug Merino scored consecutive points to give the Wildcats a six-point lead in the overtime. St. Martin's was able to counter with only a Bill Griffus field goal.

RAYMOND 67, CATHLAMET 55 Denny Freeman scored 24 points and Mike Little added 22 and 12 rebounds as Raymond won easily. The Seagulls never trailed, although the game was tied three times in the early going. Raymond did not take a shot from over 10 feet away in the first half as their tall men, Little and Freeman shot over tiny Cathlamet. Scoring by quarters: Winlock 13 21 31 44 Kalama 19 29 38 52 Winlock scoring (44)--McGraw 11, Olson 0, Wilber 4, F. Bowen 2, Rigdon 20, M.

Davis 7, Wood 0, R. Davis 0. FG: 21 of 2 of Kalama scoring (52)-- Nelson 6, Bannister 2, Palmer 8, LaRoy 19, Neiman 13, Johnson 2, M. Sinkler 2. FG: 20 of FT: 11 of Scoring by quarters: Morton 12 35 53 69 Stevenson 12 24 39 52 Morton scoring--Vinup 2, Ryan 20, G.

Coleman 6, Cournyer 4, Herron 14, Coleman 23. FG: 31 of FT: Stevenson scoring (52)--Presley 2, Stump 7, Ferguson 2, McKee 20, Berge 12, Muhly 5. FG: 19 of FT: 14 of Woodland scoring (57)--Woodward 16, Whitmire 10, Hannon 12, Stuart 8, Gary 4, Orth 9. FG: 25 of FT: 15 of Rochester scoring (55)--Leischner 10, Hailey 6, Carlson 15, Miller 10, Streigal 13, McKinney 1. FG: 20 of FT: 9 of Washougal scoring (81)--Kinard 14, Frosh 4, Tipton 6, Wysaske 26, Hagensen 17, Davis 2, Cox 2, Green 2, DeVaney 2, Evans 3, Halvorson 3.

FG: 33 of FT: 13 of Toledo scoring (40)--Rakoz 5, Binion 2, Cox 4, Eutsler 4, McEwen 4, Steensland 1, Young: 2, M. Amrine 2, B. Amrine 11, Mark 1. FG: FT: 8 of 19--47 Scoring by quarters: Raymond 14 28 51 67 Cathlamet 10 17 36 55 Raymond scoring (67)--Frod 11, Little 22, Freeman 24, Meek 6, Buchanan 2, Fuller 2. Cathlamet scoring (55)--Kuhrli 2, Olsone 13, Wika 11, Douglas 8, Anderson 10, Avalon 4, Grasseth 5, Halfmoon 2.

FG: 23 of FT: 9 of Scoring by quarters: Eatonville 12 21 36 48 South Bend 16 38 62 80 Eatonville scoring (48)-- Bushnell 8, Bloom 15, Benneste, CraigS, Haueter 1, Skevington 2, Anderson 4, Lams 2, McCormick 1. FG: 21 of FT: 9 of South Bend scoring (80)-Getchell 0, Da. Ceanres 21, T. Taylor 5, Lee 4, S. Koplitz 26, Doktor 8, B.

Koplitz 6, De. Cearnes 4, D. Taylor 2, 5. FG: 32 of FT: 16 of Scoring by quarters: Montesano 8 30 32 47 Yelm 8 24 40 55 Montesano scoring (47)--Elaine 14, M. Bender 4, G.

Easter 0, B. Bender 2, Backstrom 20, Johnson 5, Pasic 2. FG: 21 of FT: 5 of Yelm scoring (55)--Olson 18, Lee 15, Hartzell 15, Ranger 4, McCloud 3, Raphael 0, Skewis 0. FG: 22 of FT: 11 of Scoring by quarters: St. Martin's 4 19 29 37 39 Ocosta 7 15 27 37 43 St Martin's scoring (39)--A.

Fitzpatrick 4, Eisinger 16, J. Fitzpatrick 2, Hiller 7, B. Griffus 4, M. Griffus 6. FG: 15 of FT: 9 of Ocosta scoring (43)--Coverdale 2, Walkowski 10, Bearden 7, Merino 9, Colard 8, Broskhoff 4, Freed 3.

FG: 15 of FT: 13 of Windshields in stock for all American, many foreign cars We bill inturance companies A SOS Main, 7M-31U Two more Doing what he does best, Morton's 6-4 center Doug Coleman scores two on a jump shot over Stevenson's Jon McKee (25). Coleman finished the evening with 23 points to leqd all scorers. Husky Tim Cournyer (25) and Bulldog Dan Mesford (45) are also pictured. Chronicle Sports Photo by Steve Kelley. Olympic problems pondered: where, who's an amateur? ByKAROLSTONGER AP Sports Writer NEW YORK (AP) The Olympic Games, as conceived in Greece sometime around the 10th century B.C., were banned in the third century A.D.

because they were deteriorating and the athletes had become professionals. The modern Olympics aren't in the throes of being abandoned, but some of the same problems are pressing Lord Killanin of Ireland, overseer of the renewed international test of athletic skill. There's been a paucity of cities interested in staging the Games and there's been a running controversy over what constitutes an amateur athlete. "A year ago we were very depressed," Killanin said Friday in discussing the small number of cities bidding to stage the 1980 and 1984 Games. And he denied that Moscow would get the 1980 Summer Games in a "walkover," especially in view of the fact that Los Angeles is in the running.

Philip Krumm, president of the U.S. Olympic Committee, announced at a luncheon attended by Lord Killanin, that bids by Los Angeles and Lake Placid, N.Y., would be submitted to the IOC by the March 31 deadline for consideration as hosts for the 1980 Games. Lake Placid, site of the 1932 Winter Olympics, had sought to succeed Denver as the 1976 host after Colorado residents rejected a referendum that would have allocated bond money to stage the games. However, Innsbruck, Austria, won the final nod. Although only bids by Moscow and Los Angeles have been received by the IOC to date for the Summer Games, Killanin said that in addition to Lake Placid, Chamonix, France; the Vancouver-Garibaldi area of Canada and possibly two other sites were interested in the Winter Games.

However, he wasn't discounting the possibility that because of the high finance involved in awarding the Games to a different city each would quadrennial, they eventually have a semi-permanent home. "Long after you and I are under our tombstones, I think we will revert to the original concept," he said, referring to the early Greek contests. As for what constitutes an amateur, Killanin said he hoped to have a code ready in June which would be applicable to the 1976 Summer Games. Slammin' Sam nears Gleason golf lead By BOBGREEN AP Golf Writer FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) "We just shake our heads about Sam," Kermit Zarley said.

"Everything you can say about him has been said. "He's absolutely amazing. He still wants to play. Most guys start losing that desire to play, to win, when they get in their late 30s. "But Sam is like a kid.

He wants to beat you every day." And the 61-year-old Sam 'Snead, a living legend from another golfing era, fired a foururider-par 68 in the second round of the $260,000 Jackie Gleason Inverrary Golf Classic Friday and closed to within a single shot of the leading Zarley. Zarley, a journeyman pro who has won twice in his 10 years on the tour, had a second-round 70 and a 139 total, five under par for two trips over the Inverrary Country Club course. Just off his shoulder, however, was the brisk-striding, sweet-swinging figure of the incredible Snead, still wearing the jaunty Panama straw hat that was his trademark when he dominated the game back in the dark depression days of the late 1930s. Snead, who won the last of his record 84 tour titles in 1965, was tied with defending champion Lee Trevino, who had a second consecutive 70, for the No. 2 spot in this tournament that offers a $52,000 first prize.

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