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The Independent Record, Helena, Montana, Sunday, March 5, 1967 Fa a Seve NAIA Playoffs, State Class Tourney This Week Basketball Heiqmis P9 obi IHIeieracB tournament champion Southern Colorado blasted the Saints 105-86. That was on Dec. 29 The District 5 winner advances to the NAIA tournament in Kansas City, March 13-18. Last year Carroll represented the district, winning from Bethune-Cookman (Florida) 91-88 but losing to Grambhng of Louisiana 95 86. Grambhng eventually placed third in the national meet.

The Carroll College Fighting Saints basketball team, one of the best in the school's history, ranked among the nation's 40 best small college teams according to statistics released by the NAIA. Winston Salem State of Winston Salem, N.C., took the top spot, receiving 12 of 20 first place votes and 243 points. Tony Sapit. Carroll's leading scorer and rebounder, is ranked tenth in the NAIA small college rebounding poll. Sapit has played in 22 games this season, hauling down 385 rebounds for a 17.5 take-down average per game.

In the scoring department, Sapit has scored an even 500 points in 22 games for a 22.7 average per game, ranking 57th in the nation. Sapit broke the school's all-time scoring record this season, when he dropped in his 1.240th point against Western in January. ship for the Saints, who have a 20-6 overall record. A near-capacity crowd can be expected for Tuesday's college engagement at the 3.800-seat Helena High gym. Helping fill the seats will be an Anaconda aggregation of Carroll boosters, who sponsor the Carroll Holi-d a Invitational Tournament each December in the Smelter City.

Joe Riley, chairman for the Anaconda group making the trip to Helena, said 3040 fans from his city will charter a bus to (get to Helena. "We hope this can be a victory celebration," Riley said. Carroll's last loss was at Anaconda in the holiday event when through the championship tilt Saturday night. Eastern's Yellowjackets, who lost twice to Carroll during the regular season. 79-71 and 108-90, tripped Rocky Mountain College 100-C8 in Billings Tuesday night, breaking a second-place tie in the Frontier Conference and elevating EMC to the NAIA playoff series against the Saints.

Rocky and Eastern had finished the normal league season with identical 7-3 records. Carroll travels to Billings next Monday riding a 15-game win skein that goes back two months and produced a 10-0 conference mark and the league champion Over 20.000 basketball fans are expected to witness plenty of exciting basketball, both college and high school, this week at the the Helena High gym. Thirteen games are on tap on the Bengal hardwood, 12 in the State Class Tournament and at least one in the NAIA District 5 playoffs. Carroll College and Eastern Montana return here Tuesday for the second clash in the best-of-three NAIA playoffs, a third game, if necessary, set for the Helena High floor Wednesday night. The state tourney starts Thursday at 2 p.m.

and runs A 1 SPORTS SECTION Helena, Montana, Sunday, March 5, 1967 Columbia Falls Beaten, 71-60 Sentinel Division 4 King KALISPELL (AP) Missoula Missoula Sentinel had little paced the champions with 18. Sentinel captured the Division lltrouble in downing Columbia Missoula Hellgate beat Great Class A basketball crown. de- Falls in the title game. Falls Central 88-78 in the morn- feating Columbia Falls 71-60 Sentinel was ahead from the ing's consolation semifinals, Saturday night after Missoula start with the only challenge scoring 34 points in the final pe-Hellgate downed Whitefish in from Columbia Falls coming riod. Hellgate was ied by Fred the consolation game for third late in the second quarter.

The; Green with 20 and Pat Mans-place. first half ended with Sentinel in field scored the same for Great There wiil be no challenge fron' 23 22 but from that point Falls Central, came since second-place 't was Sentinel all the way.j Whitefish slipped past Libby hia FalU and Helleatp met nre- Jerry Hill tallied 24 points for in the other morning Sink Anaconda, 72-62 viouslv in the tournament with! Columbia Falls. Greg Burhamjgame. Hawks Advance to State COMING TO BLOWS Abe Mikons, left, of the Kicking Horse Job Corps and Joe Crazy Boy of Havre square off in their bout Saturday night in the Lou Fontana Memorial Tournament at the Civic Center. Mikons won a split decision.

(Staff photo by Bill Roberts) Division 2 Champs Hellgate losing. Missoula Hellgate beat White-fish 69-67 in an overtime thriller to take third place. Whitefish led 17-16 at the end of the first quarter and 37-33 at the half but Hellgate bounced BUTTE (AP) The Bozeman Hawks advanced to the state second shot by Jim Meredith of i Anaconda Central fell short. Butte Public beat Dillon 59-44 Central 73-72 in morning consolation semifinal play. Butte Central held a one-point edge for the last two minutes and a last- basketball tournament by winning the Division 3 Class A title the other morning game.

in with a 72-62 victory over the Russell Wins Third West Defeats ironcs 83-76 Anaconda Copperheads Satur back and took a 5846 margin into the fourth quarter before Whitefish knotted the score at day night after Butte won third Class Tourney 63-63 at the end of regulation place. Butte has challenged Anacon play. Tom Boydson was high scor da and that game will be played Vinrl lift la at 8 p.m. Ivionuay in Butte. er tor Heittaie un id pmi.ii.i MiLhJa Liii Ai me uu Locomotives Derail Livingston, 48-42 in defeating Billings Senior Whitefish, playing without the lines West Golden Bears defeat- ible Bozeman jumped to an early 5-0 lead and held the edge services of its leading scorer ed Billings Senior 83-76 for the I DuUiuei wpeuS Against Dutton through the first half.

The Division 2 Class A basketball title Saturday night. Garreth Bruckner, was paced by Ryan Robison with 24. Bruckner was out with a back injury. Glendive downed Miles city Hawks then pulled to a 21-point lead in the third quarter and coasted home to victory behind to relinquish it to the Locomo in the foul-filled championship game. The Bears were in front 17-11 at the end of the first quarter, 39-30 at the half and 6644 at the end of three periods of play.

West and Senior each had 26 fouls called on them during the game. Dean Kratovil, who fouled in the consolation game and will meet Billings Senior in a chal the 21-point shooting of junior Eight hot basketball teams challenge game to make the Lonnie Keeter. tives, who were in front 28-27 at the half. Both teams started playing state trio, beating Medicine The Butte High Bulldogs gar lenge match Monday for tne right to compete in the state Class A tournament in Bozeman March 16-18. Lake, 84-65.

Terry had lost to nered third place by virtue ot a control ball in the third period Montana Basketball Sacred Heart of Miles City, 57- 60-47 victory over Butte Cen and each club tallied only four points. out, paced Billings West with 25 Glendive slipped by the Cus tral. from little schools open one of Montana's most colorful sports events Thursday the Class state high school basketball tournament. The favorite is unbeaten Boulder, which swept to its district and divisional titles and comes 52, for the tournament crown. Boulder nipped Seeley-Swan, HAVRE (AP) The Laurel Locomotives slipped by the Park County Rangers of Livingston 48-42 to take the Division 1 Class A basketball crown Saturday night.

Laurel and Livingston now advance to the state Class A tournament in Bozeman which gets under way in two weeks. Great Falls Russell and Lew-istown fought to the wire in the consolation game with Russell downing the Eagles 64-54. ter County Cowboys of Miles; points. Tom Welton and Gary The Bulldogs turned cold mid City 5545 following a close first way through the first period and Fox each added 17. For Billings Senior it was Ron Hunter with 4941, for the Western Divisional throne, St.

Labre dumped Laurel got its fast break going in the final frame and ran to the victory behind the shooting of Darrell Erhlick who half. trailed bv three points at the High School Class A Divisional Tournaments Division 1 at Havre Final Laurel 48, Livingston 42 Consolation Dawson led 19-13 at the end of 25 points and Pete Lazetich with Boradview, 81-58, in the South- close of the quarter. They bat into the tournament with a 26-0 ern Division title game, and tled back in the second frame the first period but trailed 28-22 20. at the half. I Miles City beat Wolf Point 60- Great Falls Russell 4, Lewistown 54 1 scored 16 points.

High scorer for Livingston was Jim Walker with 12. behind the shooting of Monty Severs and led from that point The Red Devils put together a 51 in the morning consolation 20-point third quarter while (semifinals as Jim Schreiber record. (Stanford copped top honors in Boulder faces Dutton, which the Northern Division with a 49-has a 21-3 record, in the first 44 victory over Dutton. round at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, on.

Lewistown beat Billings Cen- The game was close through- holding Miles City to 12 points 1 scored 16 points for Miles City John Dawson was high scorer out with Russell in front 17-13 tral 69-53 in morning consolation and Steve Dethman netted 12 for the Bulldogs with 16 points. semifinal play. Great Falls Rus Stanford (23-2) takes on Broadview (18-8) in the opening Tom O'Neill of Butte Central sell beat Great Falls Public 54-45 in the other consolation had 12. in their drive to victory. Paul Dufner led Glendive with 13 poit.u whik Gordie Nation and Dar Fisher each tallied 11 for the Cowboys.

for Wolf Point. Glendive beat Glasgow 67-22 in the other semifinal consolation game. game at 2 p.m. Miles City Sacred Heart (21-5) plays Seeley- Butte Central beat Anaconda at the end of the first quarter and Lewistown ahead 27-24 at the half. It was 37-36 in favor of Russell at the end of the third period.

Doug Peterson, 6-foot-7 Russell center, and guard Warren Consolation Semifinals Great Falls Russell 54, Great Falls Public 45 Lewistown 69, Billings Central 53 Division 2 at Milts City Final Billings West 83, Billings Senior 76 Consolation Glendive 55, Miles City 45 Consolation Semifinals Glendive 67, Glasgow 62 Miles City 60, Wolf Point 51 Division 3 at Buttt Final Bozeman 72, Anaconda 62 Consolation Butte Public 60, Butte Central 47 Consolation Semifinals Swan (24-2) at 3:30. The final first round game pits St. La-bre's Mission of Ashland (224) against Terry (16-12) at 9 p.m. Storm Nets 44 Wrestling Crown Kottke broke the game open Boulder was the top-ranked UM Swimmers Big Sky Champs SPOKANE (AP) Idaho State cleaned up on records and first places but Montana had the depth to win a second straight Big Sky Conference Swimming Championship Saturday at Gon-zaga University's Kennedy Pavilion pool. Montana finished with 149 points to 120 for Idaho State.

It was a wider margin than the Montana win last year, although Idaho State had most of the individual standouts in the three-day midway in the fourth period and sparked Russell to the win. Peterson and Kottke had 23 team in The Associated Press' final Class poll. Stanford was obcats Defeat third, Seeley-Swan fourth, Dut Sentinel Captures 9th Straight Title ton fifth, Miles City Sacred Butte Central 73, Anaconda Central 72 Butte Public 59, Dillon 44 Division 4 at Kalispell Final Missoula Sentinel 71, Columbia Falls 60 and 18 points respectively. Glen Wysel had 24 for Lewis-town. In the championship game the Heart sixth and St.

Labre's seventh. Other ranked teams were ortland State eliminated in the divisional Rangers from Livingston pulled to a 16-10 first quarter lead only Consolation Missoula Hellgate 69, Whitefish 67 (overtime) Consolation Semifinals Missoula Hellgate 88, Great Falls 78 Eastern Division runnerup BOZEMAN (AP)-Tom Storm Terry was the only team to i i. i Whitefish 65, Libby 60 closed out his college basketball nave 10 survive a uivisiunai'meei. i meet. San Diego.

The Vikings were led in scoring by Bill Wilkerson with 24 points. 3:58 QEQ IWUII career at Montana State Uni- a a versiiy aaiuiuay wuii a ii-yumi PORTLAND STATE MONTANA STATE Four Helena wrestlers placed in the top four of their division to advance to the state tournament at Great Falls. Bob Huppe, 127, lost a consolation decision to Hellgate's Mark Barrett, 8-2. Ron Incoronato, 133, won third with a 2-0 overtime decision over Harvey Hen-drickson of Kalispell. Mike Meyer, 165, was decisioned 9-0 in the MISSOULA Missoula Sentinel won seven of 12 individual championships to pile up 133 points and walk off with the Western Divisional wrestling title which completed a two-day run Saturday.

Missoula Hellgate finished second with 79, followed by Flathead of Kalispell with 76 and Helena with 42 in the Class AA division. effort to pace the Bobcats to a 104-85 victory over Portland Mile Paces Big 8 Meet State. 8 2-2 18 17 10-12 44 11 1-4 23 3 2-3 8 1 1-1 3 1 0-0 2 2 0-0 4 1 0-0 2 Storm hit 17 of 36 shots in es- 7 3-3 17 BGillspie 4 1-1 9 Storm 10 4-5 24 JGillspie 3 1-2 7 Moftitt 3 5-9 11 Daniels 4 3-7 11 Harris 1 0-0 2 Furan 2 0-0 4- Walter 34 17-27 15 Totals Dohling Ness Wilkrson Gorman Suloft G'Gara Stanley Whelan Totals tahlkhintr a npw MSTI Pvm rPC- KANSAS CITY (AP)-r aDu-iord. The Great Falls athlete lous Jim Ryun of Kansas ran a broke tne 4i-point record set by Columbia Falls topped Class A finals by Hellgate Monty Pear- 44 14-22 104 43 42 85 54 50104 3:58.8 mile, fastest in the world Don Rae of Butte during the Portland State Montana State with 59. Butte Central second son.

Heavyweight Steve Czehura 1964-65 season. The scoring with 39, Dillon third with 33, and dropped a 4-2 match consolation 21. Powell of Deer to Butte Central's Rick Forcelia. Hamilton Fouled Out: Portland State, Ness. Montana State, none.

Total Fouls: Portland State, 18; State 18. and Missoula Loyola this year and best ever on a 12-lap track, moving Kansas into the lead in the 39th Big Eight Indoor track championships Saturday night. Ryun, the world record hold Lodge 15 spree raised Storm career total to 1,096 points. The Bobcats were in control of the game from the start. 21.

Seeley-Swan won the com btorm and 6-9 sophomore cen- bined Class and division with 15. Poison took second with er at 3:51.3. smasnea nis own eu Ilia riniocnio cot tho nane Kfi 7 Ill i- I If 4 fi 11. Stevensville was third with 6 and Corvallis and Arlee failed Friday's Results Division 1 at Havre Consolation Lewistown 71, Helena 41 Gonzaga Shares Cage Title SPOKANE (AP) Gonzaga, led by Gary Lechman's 41 points and 15 rebounds, defeated Idaho State to 81 here Saturday night to grab a share of the Big Sky Conference Basketball championship. The Bulldogs finished their season with a 7-3 record, tying Montana State in the standings.

12-lap record of 3:59.6 set The Bobcn Ae first SaTf as a freshman last year. The world indoor mark is 3:56.4 6 Tom O'Hara of Chicago Loyola, "'y- The 19 -year -old Sullivan The 'Cats closed out the half award winner stayed on the with a comfortable 54-43 lead, heels of Kansas State's Conrad Montana State ended its sea-Nightingale through the first! son with a 13-11 record, half in 2:00.7, took the lead at Portland State Vikings, 19-7 the start of the eighth lap, for the season, is an NCAA at-turned the three-quarter mark; large selection to compete in in 3:01.3 and sped the last quar- the college division playoffs ter in 57.5 seconds. 'next Friday and Saturday in Great Falls Russell 56, Havre to score. Sentinel's Rod Jones, a 95-pounder, was the outstanding wrestler of the meet. Flathead's Rick Jacobson won the quickest pin award, nailed four of five opponents in the tournament.

There were no pins in the finals or consolation. 53 SEMIFINALS Laurel 76, Great Falls Public Livingston 65, Billings Central 63 I 57 Libby Wins, 66-63 Division 2 at Miles City Consolation Miles City 74, Sidney 52 Glendive 80, Hardin 76 SEMIFINALS Billings West 90, Glasgow 69 Billings Senior 78, Wolf Point Division 1 Tourney Fergus Eliminates Bengals, 71-41 HAVRE Fergus of Lewis-the top effort for the Bangals as town got a hot hand from Glen he was the only man in double Cougars Ousted In Overtime Loss KALISPELL Libby camej John Waylett topped all scor-from behind to tie Helena Cen-; ers with 24 for Libby. with Cou-tral late in the fourth quarter, srge Massman pacing then went on to defeat the Cou-j lg li on the Wvsel and steamed to a 1-41 figures. it 1 IT' a virfnrv over rteiena nign 10 Helena High finished with a 7-17 overall mark. 56 Division 3 at Butte Consolation Butte Public 66, Hamilton 51 Anaconda Central 84, Deer Lodge 60 SEMIFINALS Bozeman 60, Butte Central 52 Anaconda 70, Dillon 64 Division 4 at Kalispell Consolation Libby 66, Helena Central 63 (ot) Great Falls Central 80, Kalispell 56 SEMIFINALS Columbia Falls 69, Missoula Hellgate 59 Missoula Sentinel 62, White- 11 Ulll lilt nampnt here FridaV.

Helena Central Libby FG FT Tf FT TP Helena High FG FT TP Johnson 2 2 6 Fergus Wysel FG FT TP Waylett 10 Vanaghan 3 Phillips 4 Bertelson 7 Mackenzie 2 Williams 0 Loveless 0 The Loggers rallied from a BuIZJS 4744 third quarter deficit tO Foiev knot it 57-all at the end of regu- man lation plav. Libby never trailed Dickey Ribmson 2 the overtime. 4 TIolonQ rontral had iuniDed to Wea nman 0 FG Smith Moncur Ward McQuinn Kootas oust the Bengals from the Division 1 Class A tournament here Friday afternoon. The Eagles jumped to an 18-10 quarter lead and maintained it to a 36-27 halftime advantage. They outscored the Cougars 2-6 in the final frame after posting a 49-36 lead in three quarters.

Wysell, hitting on 11 attempts from the field, topped all scorers with 27. Joe Spoja's 19 were in World Figure Skating Championships Saturday in Vienna. Girls hold medals received for their finish. (AP Spoia 7 Walzcak 2 Knudson 0 Voiies 1 Cottingh'm 0 Olson 1 Burr 0 Janey 0 Morrow 1 Totals 14 Oldenburg WINNING SMILES Peggy Fleming, 18, right of Colorado Springs, flashes smile for photographer along with runnerup Cabriele Seyfert of East Germany after capturing women's title Loendort Totals a 20-17 quarter lead and it was Totals 2 13 Apple Tresch Fries Totals 10 II for the Cougars at half- 31-27 17 17 Helena Central i 11 Libby time. Helena High Fergus 7i 'fish 55.