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i OA 2 THE SUNDAY RECORD, MARCH 22, 1970 Wilson Dumps East Orange us pa of shots but also allowed Dennis Mottley and Wayne Groves some uncontested layups. Offensively, he hit on just four of 12 from the floor and was seven of nine at the foul line. He led Wilson with 10 rebounds, but Mottley. a 6-foot-4 jumping jack, had 12 for the Panthers. Brown finished with a game high 26 points while Smith had 18 on six-of-10 shooting, and Mike added 12.

Mottlev and Groves had 20 and 17 repectively. By RON DROGO Staff Writer ATLANTIC CITY Wood-row Wilson star Harold Sullin-ger was upon his teammate's shoulders ready to take down the net in Convention Hall Saturday night when the Hall security force intervened. It was one of the few times all night the Tigers did not get what they wanted. Woodrow Wilson East Oranw (71) with Smith's replacement, Walt Udsinski, getting four. East Orang kept battling and cut the gap to five, 60-55, when the quarter ended, but their lack of defense allowed Wilson to open up again in the fourth quarter.

The Tigers had no trouble with East Orange's man-to-man press as Brown broke it 'with some smooth ball handling. Sullinger. meanwhile, looked great defensively at times and in another world at others. The center blocked a number East Orange's supposedly tight defense was hardly in evidence as Wilson rolled to a Group 4 State title, 82 71. The win was the 27th in a row for the undefeated Tigers and East Orange, the defending champ, had its 30-game winning streak ended.

Sullinger, a highly touted 6-foot-7 senior, was a big disappointment to the 10,002 spectators. He scored just 15 points and showed long stretches of laziness. But the Tigers were hitting from the outside and the Panthers did nothing to challenge them. Barry Smith and Little Rick Brown did the bombing in the first quarter as the Camden club took a 24-13 lead. East Orange appeared to.

be making a comeback at the start of the second half when it closed to within 44-4L With Smith going to the bench with his fourth personal foul, it-looked good for the Panthers. But the Tigers just put their attack back into high gear and ripped off nine straight points 0 ft pft fftr1 Staff Photo I 4 nOME FREE Six-foot-ten Les Cason nses ton's Scott Wetzel (21) and Ken Stutsman, height to advantage to score against Burling- right. Cason tallied 45 in East Rutherford win. But He'll Take Title Hall Doesn't Suit Les HIGH FLYING DONS Chuck Harris (13) and Dave Ulrlch (33) score layups in Don Bosco's Harris One Up G. F.

P. F. P. Medley Brown Sul linger Smith Rocobaldo Udzinski WiUiami 2 2 6 Butler 7 12 26 Jefferson 4 7 15' Motley a a 18 Thomaa 5 2 1 1 0 2 2'Dabney IGregory INeals 0 0 0 3 0 6 1 4 20 1 1 3 1 I 3 7 3 17 7 7 6 8 0 16 0 0 0 Totals 32 Total? 30 11 71 SCORE BY PERIODS EastOranse 13 21 21 16-71 Woodrow Wilson 24 17 2282 Tournament Sidelights ATLANTIC CITY-A1-though East Rutherford and Don Bosco were the only Bergen-Passaic teams in the 52nd State basketball tournament, the area was well represented in Atlantic City. Hackensack coach Jim Kay was among the first in town along with Comet freshman coach Mike Fratello.

College coaches also flocked to AC with Seton Hall's Bill Raftery and his new assistant Tom Puglise, Don Kennedy and Bernie Ockene of St. Peter's, Montclair State assistant Bob Elder, and Bill Boy-Ian of Monmouth in attendance. East Rutherford's Les Cason was not the biggest eager in town. Hawthorne's. Joe Colardci was here to root for his friend Les in the Group 1 final.

Asked whom he was rooting for in the Union Hill-Haddon Heights Group 2 game, the 7-foot-1 Dayton-bound senior replied, "I guess I'm for Union Hill all they're the ones that beat us the only ones." Dribbling a basketball to AC seemed to be the thing. "The Dribbling Nuts" of Gloucester Catholic arrived just before game time Friday night and received a noisy ovation as they oi te the GC Ram mascot, who proceeded to dunk a basketball. Saturday it was St. Joseph's of Toms River's turn to dribble to Convention Hall. A group of about a dozen students arrived a half hour before the opening tap.

Former St. John's University star and captain Carmine Calzonetti was on hand Fiiday night to see his brother Dennis help lead Glouster Catholic to the Parochial title. Convention Hall sported a new look with 16 rows of chairs replacing the bleachers at both ends of the court. The new setup reduced the seating capacity to just under 10,000. Englewood's Dick Stahlber-ger again served as press director for the tourney with Lyle Cherbonneau of River Edge his chief aide.

Cliffside Park coach Bait Talamini was also at Convention Hall. "(Steve) Dolecki should be my center," quipped Talamini after watching the fi-foot-4 St. Joseph's of West New York star. "He lives in Fairview." St Joseph's of Toms River set a record of sorts by showing up with 30 cheerleaders. Don Bosco's rooting delegation wasn't the largest of the weekend but was by far the loudest, thanks to firecrackers set off intermittantly behind the press table.

Hudson county, which leads in the number of State titles won (45), found itself shut out with both St. Joseph's and Union Hill getting beat. The wins by East Rutherford and Don Bosc moved second-place Bergen County within four titles of Hudson. MARK RUSKIE Cason then came up with the defensive play of the game, stuffing a shot by Ken Stutsmen to give the Cats the ball with 41 seconds to plav. BECKER MISSED a "foul shot one second later, but Cason got the rebound and was fouled himself.

The big man again came through under pressure with a pair of free throws with 0:37 seconds left that made it 67-64. Monaco almost got a chance to play hero for Burlington with a jumper with 28 seconds left and then a steal 22 seconds later. But he threw away the ball trying to heave a half-court piss, to Stutsman, the end especially after they got within eight." he commented. "But once we got our momentum going again, we were okay." Adr ion's 'Victory Dunk9 Technically Worth It Dick Vitale. "Not the greatest in New Jersey, the greatest in the country." "We talked about the pressure before the game and he told me he was a little scared," said Vitale, who had left St.

Mary's Hospital Friday apparently recovered from his ulcer attack. "I was a little nervous, but we'd bepn here before and we just had to bring it home this time," said Cason, who was thinking about his 13-point performance in a 50-49 loss to South Brunswick in 1968. "But I have more confidence in myself and the team now. I knew we were ready to win it all." Cason -was surely ready, playing what he termed "by far my best game ever." Although he was quick to praise his teammates, everyone in the hall knew it was a one-man victory. The sight of the big.

lanky 17-year-olcL coming up to midcourt to meet the ball and break Burlington's press and then weaving his way to the basket to score on twisting layups and jumpers had the crowd roaring and the college scouts and coaches thinking of ways to woo the young super star. "The real keys were rebounding and defense." Cason said, trying to discount his scoring heroics. Perhaps he didn't realize he had pulled in 30 rebounds and blocked at least a dozen shots. When informed that he had broken Brian Taylor's (Perth Amboy) record of 40 points. Cason calmly said, "Records are made to be broken.

Somebody else will probably break mine." That somebody could be a 6-foot-ll senior playing for East Rutherford next year. By RON DROGO Stiff Writr ATLANTIC CITY Les Cason put on the greatest one-man show in Convention Hall basketball history Saturday, but he does not like the big arena. "I don't want to knock it because it's great to play here, but the court itself is terrible," said Big Les after leading East Rutherford to the State Group 1 title with a tourney-record 45 points. The flaws in the playing surface nearly cost the Wildcats the game and almost made Cason the goat. With East Rutherford leading Burlington, 67-66, and eight seconds left to play, Tony Monaco stole the, ball from Cason.

"I was just trying to freeze it. but I hit a dead spot and the ball bounce up," said the 6-foot-ll junior who sometimes performs like a guard. "I thought I was going from hero to bum, but Eddie (Gray) saved me by stealing the pass." Gray may have kept Cason from becoming the goat, but nothing could dim the luster of Les' super performance. About the only thing Cason didn't do right was shoot fouls in the first half. But he had an explanation for his one-for-five effort.

"It looked like that rim was slanted. I only thought about it on my foul shots, but then I realized it wasn't the rim. It was me." Cason's realization was shown in the final two periods when he hit 12 of 14 free throws, most of them in pressure situations. "When it comes to pressure players, he's the greatest," said coach Stan Photo Bosro's Parochial victory. On Les It was that same, momem-tum tfiat again has carried the Dons to the top of the Parochial A ladder.

MARK RUSKIE They won the title in 1966 by beating CBA and sgain in '68 with a win over Trenton Cathedral. Gaylor Seeks World Crown OAKLAND Peter Gaylor of Oakland will represent the United States in the Junior World Fencing Championships at Minsk, U.S.S.R. The competition will be held during the Easter Holidays. Gaylor is a former lnter-scholastic foil fencing champion of New Jersey and placed second in the National under-19-championships i California last year. He compiled a 15-2 record this past season as a member of the New York University frosh.

Gaylor's older brother, Michael, represented the U. S. in the Under-20 world championships at Budapest, Hungary. The then Ramapo High student made the finals in sabre. Umpiring Classes FORT LEE Potential umpires who would like to become members of the Bergen County and New.

Jersey Baseball Umpires Associations should contact Hank Walsh, either by writing to him at 1646 Kaufer Lane, Fort Lee, or by phoning him at 947-4165. Applications a be obtained when the first meeting for cadets will be held Tuesday at 8 p.m. at Dumont High School. Other cadet meetings will on March 24, April 8 and 22, and May 6 and 19. game.

It was everything. That dunk at the end (by Bob Ad-rion) was the greatest," he laughed. The disallowed dunk with two seconds to play was termed by Don Bosco coach Richie O'Brien as our "Victory Despite the Dons being in front all the way, O'Brien wasn't able to flash his victory smile until. 1:44 to play when a jumper by Harris made it 81-67. "Maybe that will make us No.

1 in Bergen County now," he said, alluding to The Record's Top 10 poll which had Ridgewood on top last week. "I never saw CBA play," said O'Brien, "but we had scouted them against Bishop Eustace. They still surprised me. We had heard about (Pat) Mullin but (Bill) Koch surprised us. Was I glad to see him get those fouls.

"When he started scoring, we had to play both him and Mullin close." O'Brien refused to compare his three State title teams of the last five years. "They each did what the rest of them did," he said. "They won. I don't like to rate one team over another." This was a typical Don Bosco team, one which started strongly, hit a slight mid-season tailspin, and then came on strong, probably reaching its zenith in the lopsided semifinal win over Bergen Catholic. "I like to start strong," said O'Brien, "then taper off and lose a few if we have to, then come on again.

It's better to have a slump then than now." The game was not without its anxious, moments for O'Brien. "I got all sort of jitters at twnw mmmmmmmmmmmmummm GROUP 4 Woodrow Wilson 82 East Orange 71 CROUP Loo Branch Oramt 74 CROUP Haddon Heights 65 Union HIM CROUP 1 East Rutherford 47 Burllnfton PAROCHIAL A Don Bosco 13 Christian Bra. Acad 71 PAROCHIAL Gloucester Cath. 71 t. Jos.

(WNY) If PAROCHIAL OtV If. Joetph'e tTem'a Rlvtr) II ATLANTIC CITY Like East Rutherford's Les Cason. Don Bosco's Chuck Harris is a junior, but unlike the Wildcat giant, Harris is one up on Cason after three years of varsity basketball. Harris has been on two State championship teams and Cason one with one year to go for both. "Les is a real good friend of said Harris Saturday after helping lead Don Bosco to an 83-71 victory over CBA and the Parochial A State basketball championship.

"We both went to Willis Reed's basketball camp together." One of two veterans of Don Bosco's last State title team (Dave Ulrich is the other), Harris rates this years edition of the Dons as better than the team of two years ago. "Over all we're a lot better with a lot of balance," said Harris, a key sub on the 1968 team. "We can do more things." Ulrich, who hit 13 of 28 shots to take team scoring honors with 29 points, agreed. "We're definitely a better team now," he said. "It's a better all-around team." A starter for three straight, years, Ulrich got a bigger ihrill out of this title than the first.

"You know, senior, last year, going out a winner, last who then fouled Hall In the scramble for the ball. Hall missed the free throw with three seconds remaining but it didn't matter, East Rutherford had its first Group 1 championship. Burlington, which used a box and one on Cason and a UCLA trap press in the back-court, had used the press to jump off to a 21-11 lead in the first quarter. After East Rutherford moved out on top, 8-4, the Falcons turned the game around with 19 of the next 24 points. It was a lead they held until the frantic final minutes when Cason and company took turns playing hero.

Continued from Page 1 advantage and was never in any serious trouble. A 14-point run that bridged the first and second quarters upped the lead to 32 12. The Dons were up, 38-24 at half time, but went into a third quarter slump and allowed the Colts to draw within eight, 65-57, as the period ended. "We just slowed down in the third quarter," said O'Brien. "We just laid back in our slow and sit stuff and didn't do anything.

That got me a little jittery." But Dave Ulrich opened the fourth quarter by scoring eight points in a 10-2 spurt that secured the title. Ulrich's 29 Adrion's 21, and 17 by Harris were more than enough to offset Mullin's offensive display. "We were afraid of Mullin we'd heard a lot about him," said 'B i n. "But nobody told us anything about (Bill) Koch. If he didn't get those fouls we might have been in trouble." Koch did some hot shooting from the corners in tne first half, but incurred his fourth personal with 2:15 left in the second period.

He did not return until the final quarter but fouled out with 4:24 left. He finished with 14 points. Harris had been the key man in the first half but seemed to be in a fog in the third quarter. He started penetrating again in the final quarter and constantly passed off to Adrion and Ulrich for layups. The 6-foot junior had just two second half points.

Pete Cleef added 12 for the Dons and 13 rebounds, four less than Adrion. The win was Don Bosco's 21st in 26 games and the Dons are becoming even-years champions. Cason's 45 Snaps Tourney Record Combined from Page 1C "We just didn't think he couid shoot foul shots like he did," repeated a stunned Flan-nery after Cason sank 12 of 14 free throws in the second half. He had been one for five in the first half. Cason was brilliant in the first half when he scored 17 points to help keep the Wildcats within five points at the half S3(-28), but turned absolutely phenomenal following the intermission.

Still, things didn't look bright for East Rutherford. The underdog Falcons led at the three-quarter mirk, 52 42. It was then that Vital de cided jo try beating Burlington at its own game the pressure defense. Vitale inserted Bob Ferrell for Rocco Cavallo and went to the press. "We had been using a 2-3 matchup zone." said Vitale.

"But there was no one in the lane for Les and they were overloading other areas. "But I iiever thought the pressure would bother them like it did," Vitale continued. UNLIKE THE FALCONS, Cason, who finished the game with four fouls, thrived under the pressure. Cason scored 17 of East Rutherford's 25 points in th final eight minutes to send college scouts home drooling and the Falcons home with a bitter taste in their mouths. With Ferrell, Dwight Hall, and Eddie Gray leading the Wildcat press, the Cats kept nibbling away and finally caught up with 1:26 to play on a foul shot by Ferrell.

Tony Monaco regained the edge for Burlington one last time at 64-63 on a free throw with 1:19 to play, but he missed the second shot and Cason grabbed the rebound. Seventeen seconds later Cason missed a short jumper but Kim Becker was there for tbs rebouad and a 65-64 lead..