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rtrrv (Thicarjo (Tribune Wednesday, March 20, 1974 Section 3 i 0 mwm 214 it a f' 1- V- t- I i I rl i -ft' i 4 tfi -V fl -r Iff 'V' 'p 5 1 Corzine baskets in last period ignite Huskies By Jerry Shnay HERSEY, A TEAM sometimes mistaken for a candy bar, tasted its sweetest success yesterday afternoon. You pronounce it Hersey without the in the middle, but that's OK. The Huskies have been beating the out of more distinguished foes this season, and added the Waukegan Bulldogs to their list of victims in the Northwestern University Supersectional. Some 7,274 roaring fans saw Hersey, powered by 6-foot, 11-inch Dave Corzine, move to the Class AA state basketball quarterfinals with a 39-31 triumph. NOW HERSEY 19-9 meets Bloom winners of last night's Joliet Supersectional in the 12:15 p.

m. game Friday in Champaign's Assembly Hall. That final score doesn't indicate the intensity of the game for the fans, altho it -might underline the weak shooting of both teams in the first "half and Waukegan's inability to do anything at all in a furious final period. And Corzine played down his own stirring performance after being slapped with a technical foul with 6:15 left in the game a technical that resulted in a free throw that gave Waukegan a 23-25 lead. CORZINE, WHO SCORED 20 points and took down 11 rebounds, charged back from that call to pump in two baskets to give Hersey a 29-28 lead it never lost.

Junior Tim Conard quickly tallied a three-point play to shove Hersey farther ahead 32-28 with 4:09 left. And it was the Corzine-Conard combo that erased a six-point 24-18 Waukegan lead in the third jriod, big Dave scoring twice in the flurry. Corzine didn't think that technical foul call goaded him to greater heights. "I just got disturbed, but I don't like to do things like that. I really don't think it made me angry," he said.

BUT HE DID react well, and Waukegan 21-8 found itself unable lo catch up. Jerome Whitehead, Waukegan's 6-8 center, was matched against Corzine and scored 16 points while drifting thru the 2-3 zone defense that has carried the Huskies from third place in a division of the Mid-Suburban League t6 the state finals. But Whitehead couldn't score a point the last quarter while Ralph Sims, a 6-5 forward who had been averaging 21 points a game, netted all of Waukegan's points and all his points for the game in the final eight minutes five of them. Sims missed his first 10 shots of the game. Waukegan managed only 13 field goals in 53 attempts, a woeful 24 per cent.

Yet even that poiftt-a-minute performance might have been good enough to win had the Bulldogs hit their free throws. They were five of 16 from the line, three of 13 the C3ntiaucd on page 9, col. 3 5 AtS ft Hersey's Dave Corzine beefing with ref over foul call that earned him a technical. 0 swego revenge: Tnbune Pnoto by Ry Gor For every winner iri last night's high school action, there was a loser. Elgin cheerleader Jodi Johnson shows anguish of being on losing side.

Top-rated Bloom going downstate Crystal Lake WD JL from Maass, the Olympians back. However, this time they got no closer than 11 at 56-45. The 20-point bulge came just before the end of the third quarter on Matthews' three-point play. Matthews, perhaps the most sought-after player in the state, led a 43-26 Bloom domination of the boards. He had 13 rebounds while McCoy and Hardy nabbed eight and six.

There were 40 fouls in the game 10 in the first minutes, which put the clamps on Rich. University of Illinois camrjus. Heading downstate with a 22-5 record, Oswego will meet the Carbondale Super-sectional winner Breese Mater Dei, in one of Friday's four quarterfinal matches. CRYSTAL LAKE had whipped Oswego 76-64 in a holiday tourney last December, but Oswego seized a 6-5 lead in the early going this time and was never headed. The Panthers led by 13 at halftime and the best Crystal Lake could do thereafter was to close within nine.

While the Little Seven By John Leusch Chicago Tribune Press Senile DEKALB, March 19 Oswego High School's basketball team, after whipping its last opponent from these parts here this afternoon, is packing for its first trip to Champaign and the Illinois Class AA tournament. The Kendall County school, with an enrollment of 1,100, was a 64-47 victor over Crystal Lake in the DeKalb Supersectional last stop before Assembly Hall on the 0 0 Proviso tops Elgin 67-57 By Mike Conklin PROVISO EAST broke its Elgin "jinx" last night with Conference champions got a total of 43 points and 32 rebounds from the front line of 6-6 Randy Carroll, 6-4 Mike Guyer, and 6-4 Jay Miller, their 5-5 and 5-7 guards Steve Borman and John Bahl were highly instrumental ii turning around the decision of last December. Bahl was on target in the early going, one of his baskets effecting that 6-5 lead which the Panthers never relinquished. And, in the waning moments of the first half, Dorman penetrated for a layup and then hit a 17-foot-er in rapid succession to balloon the Oswego lead to 30-17. GUYER scored six field goals in succession in one stretch overlapping the third and fourth quarters and finished with a game-high of 18 points, occasionally dropping in easy layups after accepting high, arching passes from Dorman a la U.

C. L. Carroll was the game rebound leader with 14 in between collecting 16 points. Crystal Lake, which got 16 points from 6-4 Rich Sexton, bowed out with a 13-14 record. Steve Goers, in his second season as Oswego's head coach and a former assistant to Sherill Hanks at Quincy, said, "One of our main objectives was to keep them Crystal Lake off the offensive backboards.

They hurt us there the last added, "our shot selection has improved in tournament play." Oswego's shot was impressive todayj' too. The Panthers shot .509 against Crystal Lake's .277. State final pairings At Champaign Friday 12:15 p. m. Bloom 28-2 vs.

Hersey 19-9. 1:45 p. m. Danville 26-4 vs. Peoria Central 21-5.

7 p. m. Proviso East 26-4 vs. Morgan Park 24-7. 8:30 p.

m. Oswego 22-5 vs. Breese Mater Dei 29-1, By John Husar TOP-RANKED Bloom breezed into the Elite Eight for the first time in history last night with an 83-69 victory over Rich Central in the Joliet Supersectional. Led by Audie Matthews' 23 points, the Trojans pulled away to a 20-point lead in the third quarter and coasted in. Rich, which wound up with a 22-6 mark, got into early foul trouble when Forwards Karl Maass and Dave Porter both picked up three in the first quarter.

BLOOM, meanwhile, added to the pressure with a tight man-to-man defense that shut off the inside. Maass, who fouled out with 5:32 to go, led the Olympians with 17 points but didn't get going until he threw caution to the winds in the second half, when he got 12. It was a steady scoring effort by Bloom, which takes a 28-2 record into the quarterfinals against Hersey, winner of the Evanston playoff. EMIR HARDY and Derrick Smith added 15 apiece for the Trojans, while Alvin Higgins and Bob McCoy each had 12 to put all five starters in double figures. McCoy, who had a shaky start, was the one who gave Bloom its first bulging 13-point lead at 27-14 in the second quarter.

But Steve Calhoun hit 10 of the next 14 Rich points from the outside to bring it back to 36-31 just before the half. McCoy again was the man who put Bloom back into a 17-point margin at 50-33 and again Calhoun, with help 0 vast, "a 7 Vw a 67-57 victory in the Aurora East Supersectional that qualified the Pirates for this weekend's Class AA quarterfinals in Champaign. The Maywood school, which will be making its first trip to Assembly Hall since the 1969 championship season, edged its way to a 31-27 half-time lead against Elgin, extended its advantage to 14 points in the third quarter, and then withstood a Maroon charge in the final stanza. For a while, it looked like it would never be close. PROVISO EAST, sinking six of its first seven shots from the field, raced to a 12-4 lead on Doron Dobbins' hot hand.

Elgin finally came to life behind the work of Terry Drake, aj-foot, 8-inch center, who led" the losers with 22 points. The Maroons pulled ahead 15-14 on two free throws by Randy Ollis, and the two Mater Dei topples Belleville W. 66-60 Box scores on page 4 schools battled until another surge by the Pirates, keyed by the inside efforts of Joe Ponsetto, a stocky 6-5 forward, sparked the eventual winners to their halftime lead. Proviso then started inching ahead' in the third quarter on some more baskets by Ponsetto, who finished with 23 points many coming on second efforts underneath the bucket. A LAYUP by Proviso's Michael Stockdale finally put his team up 49-35 with 1:14 left in the third period.

Proviso continued to stay ahead by a healthy margin until Elgin, sparked by Drake, who had been contained in the previous quarter, started making up ground. Elgin' pulled to within 59-53 deficit with 1:45 left on a shot by Drake, but the Pirates put it away on some clutch free throws by Jerry Montgomery. "It's good to finally beat them," admitted Coach Glenn Wittenberg. Elgin had nipped the Pirates in a close supersectional last year and also beat them in a holiday tournament this season. I -IK If nois State Class AA High School basketball tournament.

The Lions, who previously upset Peoria Richwoods, ended Freeport's winning streak at 25 games the longest in the state-and forced the Pretzels out of the playoffs with a 28-2 record. Tribune Photos by Phil Matclont Corzine resting on his laurels as Waukegan's Ralph Sims 45 sinks free throw, a result of technical on Corzine. mber uSable's year to reme CARBONDALE, March 19 UPI Lance Reilmann, 6-foot, 6-inch center for the Breese Mater Dei Knights, scored 21 of his game-high 29 points in the second half to pace a 66-60 victory over Belleville West tonight in the Carbondale Class AA Super-sectional. Danville trips Quincy 66-60 NORMAL, 111., March 19 AP Ray Watson and Ed Crowder combined their scoring talents tonight to lead Danville to a 66-60 victory over Quincy in the first round of the Illinois Class AA basketball tournament. Peoria Central upsets Frceport PEORIA, 111., March 19 AP Peoria Central's Lions, giant killers in the Class AA tournament, did it again tonight and upset highly ranked Frceport 54-51 to advance to thd-'quartcrfinals of the Illi By Jerry Shnay "They said it was only run and gun basketball.

Hell, it was more than that. For years Illinois had been playing a sleepy-time gal kind of game. We came in and woke it up." Jim Brown, DuSable coach. IT WAS 20 years ago this month that the DuSable Panthers, the first great modern-day Chicago high school basketball cam, lost aging 82 points a game on an incredible 95 shots a contest. That streak ended against Mt.

Vernon in the state title game as the Rams won in the final 79 seconds of play. Both the players and the coach became instant heroes in Chicago. Crowds flocked to the homecoming parade; 10,000 were turned away in the rain at Chicago Stadium when the Panthers played and lost to St. Mel beforo close to 30,000 fans; and They called those kids from 49th Street the Wonder Five. And under tho watchful eye of their young coach Jim Brown, they terrorized Chicago teams for two seasons with a combination of a zone press and a running attack two things coaches of that day thought were impossible to intertwine into a winning formula.

DURING THE 1953-54 season, DuSable ran off a 31-fiame winning streak, aver Brown was named "Man of the Year" by one local magazine. Now the basketball supervisor for the Chicago Public League, Brown recalls those days when his exuberant team was smashing both scoring records and racial barriers. IT IS DIFFICULT to Imag-Jne, 20 years later, what with four all-bVjck teams from Golden Basket Awards See page 8 a championship but began an era. It was 240 months ago, in March, 1954, that Du.lable, the first all-black squad to represent any community in the state tournament, reached the championship game and changed tho concept of the sport in Illinois. Chicago winning state titles since then, that there was incredible pressures upon DuSable.

In all the years an Illinois high school championship has been conducted, seldom has the losing team been so fondly romcmbered. Small wonder. The team has been called the greatest ever to come out of the city and included "Sweet" Char-Continued on col. 1 Cubs trade Rudolph Richard Dozer on rage 5.