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Southeast Gains Revenge, 6 1-34 The Lincoln Star long range shots after they got used to it." McWilliams missed his first five shots while Woods had an unenviable string of seven in a row going before both broke the ice. McWilliams shot 50 after that (four of eight, while Woods did the same (two of four). The sophomores weren't the only ones affected from the field as senior Charlie Metzger managed just one of 11 tries and Russ Shepard one of 14. The Links as a team connected on 15 of 69 tries for 22 for the game. The Knights, led by Mike Carroll (eight of 15) with 19 points and Griffin (seven of 13) were played on somewhat even terms, but a fourth quarter spree where Southeast notched 13 straight points, buried Lincoln High.

"You just never expect to win a game like this by that kind of McNaught noted. "We felt we could play a more aggressive offensive ballgame than we did in the tournament. We still showed we need a lot of work on some aspects, but we were definitely more aggressive." We really didn't play that bad of ball game," Johnson said, "and they didn't play that well. We just couldn't get the ball in the hoop. with 17 points shot 35 from the field hitting 20 of 56 tries.

"The difference in our game tonight," McNaught said, "was we were finding the open spot and open man instead of just thinking about it." Southeast, after hiking its record to 6-1, will have little time to savor its win as the Knights travel to Omaha Saturday night to tangle with Omaha North. "I look at all the Omaha McNaught said, "and I think North has the best personnel in the city. I'm glad we're playing at North. It should make us a better ball club." Lincoln High, now 4-3, also travels to Omaha. The Links will meet the defending state class A champions, Omaha Central, at Norris Junior High.

"We had a bad game tonight," Johnson said. "But we'll be back. This is a good group of Northeast Guards Aid Rockets Past Hastings a Itlilllf" Woods 0 0 0 Balm Teams Fouls LHS 21 Fouled Out None 11 ID 14 12-47 7 12 6 20-45 12, Molaskey 7, Alexander 15. Lincoln H.gh 6, Fuller 4 3 iger McClavrme Johnson Sughroue 3 STAFF PHOTO 3Y FRANK VAftGA Southeast's Dave Griffin towers above Lincoln High's Charlie Metzger (14) and Ralph McWilliams (34) during the Knights' 61-34 win over the Links. Griffin had 17 points to spark Southeast.

Lex Throttles Pius 62 56 By DAVE SUTLER A note to any basketball coach whose book on Northeast might suggest that the Rocket guards can't shoot: Forget it. Until Friday's game against Hastings, the most publicized facet of Northeast's basketball team, was the poor shooting performance thus far this season by guards Doug Berka and Joe Prai. Berka and Prai took a giant step toward laying those reports to rest as the junior tandem burned Hastings' zone defense and led coach Ed Johnson's Rockets to a 63-57 victory at Johnson Gym "We always knew they could Johnson said after the win which was the fifth straight for the Rockets after a season-opening loss to McCook. "It was just a question of when things were going to break loose for them." Hot Hands Entering the contest against the Tigers, both Berka and Prai were shooting around 25 per cent from the floor. But the 5-10 speed merchants each drilled the bucket at a 50 per cent clip against Hastings in a game that wasn't as close as the final score might indicate.

Berka. who led Northeast with 20 points scoring, broke out of his slump in the second quarter as his sidekick, Prai, was sitting on the beneh after picking up three quick fouls. As the fans started to leave Pius points started falling in. Scott Krause hit a long jumper with 32 seconds left, Bob Navratil added another two-pointer and Krause sank a technical free throw for abusive language called on Lexington's Stuckey. With nine seconds left, Pius trailed 60-56 with the ball out.

Krause's running hook with four seconds left missed, however, and Holtmeier was fouled at the final horn. He sank both free throws for the final 62-56 outcome-While Lexington's blazing 57 per cent shooting and 16 of 28 free throws made the difference, Pius shot a respectable 42 per cent from the field and out- By CHUCK SINCLAIR iwp Sports Writer If it was revenge Lincoln Southeast was after, the Knights got it with a capital Friday night at Pershing Auditorium. When Lincoln High upset Southeast in the finals of the Eastern 1-80 Holiday Tournament, Dec. 30, the bitter taste of defeat must have remained in the mouths of coach Wally McNaught 's squad. Even with thoughts of revenge in mind, the wildest of dreamers wouldn't have expected a 61-34 thrashing of the Links less than two weeks following Lincoln High five point tourney triumph.

But with the aid of an invisible lid on the Lincoln High end of the basketball floor, the 3,500 spectators watched the Knights jumped out to an early 8-0 lead, blinked once, and saw the lead extended to 20-2. It didn't happen quite that fast, but it may have seemed like it to the youthful Links after missing the first 11 shots from the field and finishing the first quarter one for 18. "You might say we had a little trouble shooting at the start," Lincoln High coach Aldy Johnson said sarcastically. "If we could have gotten a couple of nearly ones, the kids would have gained a little confidence." While the Links were struggling to find the hoop, Southeast got eight first quarter points from 6-7 pivot Dave Griffin on four of six attempts, and two uncontested lay ups from Tom Taylor and Mike Carroll after Lincoln High turnovers. The second and third quarters Spartans Trample Kearney Kearney Lincoln East 'jumped to an early first quarter lead and never trailed in rolling to a 61-42 victory over Kearney here Friday night.

Utilizing fast break backets and the outside shootmg of senior forward Mickey Hayes, East outscored Kearney by a combined total of 31-14 in the first and third quarters enroute to victory. After taking a 30-21 half time lead, the Spartans salted the game away by outscoring Kearney 15-6 to take a 45-27 lead into the final stanza. Using an alternating zone and man-to-man defense and working the boards, East was able to throttle the Kearney scoring attack, maintaining a 15-point lead through most of the second half. East was paced by Hayes' 15 points, 'aided by Corey Joekel's 12. Joekel hit a perfect 8 for 8 from the foul line, as East was 13 of 17 at the line.

Pacing the Kearney attack was sophomore center Dan Reiners with 10 points, the only Kearney player to reach double 'figures. Chris Lahm and Kevin Adam-son added nine pointsapiece to jid Reiners. In the reserve game, East out-scored Kearney 22-2 in the second quarter enroute to a 73-42 win. Tom Vergith paced East with 16 points, followed by Russ Reaglean with 15. OFT CfT 0 2 Samuelum 3D 6 Cfiandr 2 7 Cutiss 20 4 Hfr I 0 2 Lhm 3 3-1 9 Hayw 7 1-2 15 AiJamson 1-3 9 AllauMt 2 0 4 Lewis to 2 Hh 4 0 Grjjmyr 0 2-2 2 Lnert 3 Semen 4 2-3 10 East 16 4 15 16-41 kwner I 13 6 15-42 Fouled Out Lanm.

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rUS 5 CvftenZ. Hiffl-mtim3, Killtjn2 AtirfftJ Lincoln Teams Play at Omaha Omaha Lincoln's four Class A high school basketball teams all play Metro Conference top i Orated teams here Saturday night. Lincoln East plays at Omaha Burke at 122nd and Dodge Sts Lincoln High and Omaha Central plav at Norm Junior High at 43rd and Center Sts Lincoln Northeast challenges Omaha Benson in a game at Northwest High school at 82nd St and Crown Point Lmcota Southeast sad Omaha North collide hi a game at McMillan Junior High School at ttta and RedkkSb. Sports Saturday, January 10, 1976 11 "Some of the younger kids might have been affected playing their first game in this place," he said of Pershing. "It's not anything like a high school gym." ''That may be true," McNaught added.

"But those sophomores, (Nathan Woods and Ralph McWilliams), hit some With Northeast holding a 13-7 first quarter advantage, Berka drilled in 5 of 6 second quarter field goals attempts in addition to four-of-four free throws as the Rockets moved to a 37-25 half-time lead. "I practiced this week on shooting from out front because I figured teams would start using the zone against us," Berka said. "And I was able to penetrate Hastings' zone and get a couple of 3 to 5-feet jumpers when I couldn't pass off to the open man." Prai. who finished with 10 points, reentered the contest at the start of the third period and promptly canned three quick buckets from long range as the Rockets moved to their biggest lead of the evening, a 43-25 bulge with 6:37 left. "I think our guards played the veteran Johnson said.

"For sure they played well offensively." Hastings, which slipped to 2-3, made a late charge on Northeast behind the shooting of all-state candidate Mark McVicker. McVicker Tough McVicker, a 6-7 senior center, who led all scoring with 26 points, hit a hook with 5 24 left to slice Northeast's lead to 52-47. But back came Berka with a 20-footer and two free throws and a Prai free throw with seconds remaining sealed the win. "In the second half we just relaxed too much." Berka said. fired his five previous field goal tries He a much better shooter than that." Seward coach Rod Fetasaid "He was a little coW, but he was the one we wanted to go to at the end Central City never led the game, but drew even at 42-42 when 5-11 sophomore guard Mice Maun deposited a 10-foot jump shot from the ngbt side with 56 seconds left DMta't Force It Seward, having seen a 41-34 lead evaporate in less than three mumtes.

refused to buckle when it got tense down the stretch. me Giants Moving To Toronto? rallv by the 'Bolts as the hometown crowd came to life. The 6-3 senior guard popped in a jumper from the corner for a 49-48 Pius edge. Not to be outdone, the Lexington charge was forthcoming. Guard Mike Kitz-miller hit from the side, followed by a Stuckey jumper for a 52-49 "Muiuteman lead The roof fell in for Pius just after Tom Doggett's iayup made it a one-point game again at 52-51.

Pius, snakebitin early-season play, tightened up offensively and couldn't make another shot fall for the next four minutes. Meanwhile Lexington, thanks largely to six free throws, moved into its biggest lead of the game, 60-51, with 56 seconds left to play. Osborne Nixes Pay Hike Nebraska football coach Tom Osborne was recommended for a $3,078 'extraordinary merit" salary increase, but the raises for the NU coach and his staff were tabled at the Board of Regents meeting last month. Osborne is said to have requested his salary boost be eliminated. A new salary schedule will be studied by the regents this Saturday.

Osborne is now expected to receive an increase of five per cent plus $468. the same boost scheduled for all university personnel That would make his pav. effective Jan. 1 from a year to $30,918 Because of a similar request, defensive coordinator Monte Kiffin is not expected to receive an extra merit raise of $1,062. His pay will go up from $21,400 to $22,938.

the same as recommended for most other veteran members of the staff-Other salary adjustments recommended were the same as the earlier figures From $21,400 to S22.938 -Mike Corgan. Cletiis Fischer, Jim Ross. Warren Powers. John Melton From $19,852 to $21,313 -Jerry Moore. Rick Duval "But when they (Hastings) got it down to five points we started playing basketball again." Johnson felt his youthful Rockets all five starters are juniors didn't play as alert as he would have liked, but he was still pleased with the Trans-Nebraska Conference victory.

"We figured we had three tough games in a Johnson said. "Now we ve won two of them (Lincoln East in their last outing) and have Omaha Benson left. We figure if we can play well against those three teams we will be able to play with most people." Benson, Northeast's Saturday night foe in an 8 p.m. contest at Omaha Northwest High School, should prove to be a tough test for Johnson's club. The Bunnies upset No.

1 rated Creighton Prep 66-64 Friday night. TP i 3 7 Donahue 7-7 2 1 74 4 21 15-33 57 Butrtier 0-2 4 Lowe Sodgcrs 0 05 0 Totals Having-; 7 18 Tam Fouls Hastings 17, Fouled Out Rorabaugh, Norl Reserve Game Hastings Karloff 3 Mvorsi. Obom Sob -sor 4 Mevefi i Northeast Damkroger into their delay game for 16 seconds before calling timeout with 40 seconds remaining They relumed to the delay and consumed 29 seconds more before calling another timeout with 11 seconds remaining thought Central City would pick us up on the half-court inbound pass." Felix said. "Winter was supposed to be a fuller and we were going to try and get him a she down close But Central City fell back on def ens, biockmg the middle and hoping for a massed shot to send the contest into overtime. Wisely.

Seward didn't force the ball into the collapsing defense and Winter worked rebounded Lexington much of the game. Holtmeier topped ail scorers with 22. Stuckey added 18 for the 5-2 winners while Tlamka had 18 and Krause 16 to lead Pius. Totals 2316-28 42 TKln.cal Fc pv ngton 5 Sage I. Gaston 5.

5oundy i. Anderson 1. Bonme 12. Man-delko 2 ScuMey 10 Pius Bruckner 6, Murphy Bathe home since it moved from New York in 1958. Both Ruppert and Godfrey said approval of theale and transfer of the franchise would be sought at the major league meetings in Phoenix, which begin next Wednesday.

In order for the deal to go through, nine of the other 11 National League club owners, must vote approval. The new owners are hoping that current Giant president Horace Stone-ham will use his influence to obtain this approval. Godfrey indicated that if the deal goes through the team would be called the Toronto Giants. They would play in the 42.000-seat Canadian National Exhibition (CNfci stadium, which is now being renovated lor baseball Labatt has been actively seeking the Giants since the baseball winter meetings in Florida last month. At that time, they reportedly made the best offer for the team but were unable to consummate a deal.

This time they joined with the Canadian Imperial Bank ol Commerce and Vulcan Assets Dominion reportedly headed by Howard Webster, chairman of the Toronto Globe and Mail, to come up with a winning offer Stoneham. owner of the Giants, has been trying to unload his team, which has been in nous tinancial difficulty for the past two years The San Francisco Bav area has not proven capable oi supporting two major league teanK with neither the Giants nor the world champion 19T2-74- Oakland A getting a profitable share of the sports dollar Toronto, meanwhile, with a metropolitan area of 2 7 million persons and five million within a radius, has been craving major league baseball since anada's largest city Montreal coi the expansion Expos in The move to Toronto could give the Gunts a built in rivalry with the Expos, one the new owners bctpe will approach the GiantviJoagers nvairy dating Mck decades. By TOM VINT Lincoln Pius Xf struggling through a rough start, took another right to the chin Friday night. The Lexington Minutemen stroUed into the Pius gym to out-gun the 1-6 Thunderbolts, 62-56, in a game closer than the final score would indicate. Lexington shot 57 per cent from the field in assuming six-point leads four times.

Each time, however, the pesky 'Bolts came back. The first Lexington attempt to leave Pius behind came aerly. Juniors Doug Holtmeier and Ed Stuckey pumped the visitors to an 8-2 advantage only to have Pius rally. Trailing 29-23 with just under two minutes remaining in the half the "never-give-up" club of Don Kelley pulled the stops out once again. Paul Tlamka hit on a pair of shots, followed by a tip-in bv Jerry Kobza for a9-all draw at the half.

Holtmeier wasn't to be outdone to open the third quarter, however. The 6-3 forward connected on his first four shots for another six-point lead before Pius could untrack its long howitzers over the stubborn "match-up" defense of Lexington. Maurie Higgins gave Pius its only lead at the start of the final quarter. Higgins capped a mini- Durocher To Manage In Japan LOS ANGELES UP1) The owner of the Taiiieiyo Lions of the Pacific League in Japan announced Friday night that he has signed former major league skipper Leo Durocher. 69.

to manage his team next season. Durocher. who resigned as manager of the Houston Astros two seasons ago and retired to a life of golf and tennis at Palm Springs. Calif, could not be reached lor comment. "I wanted to get somebody who knew baseball and I wanted to get somebody with a lot of fight." said Nagayoshi Nakamura Since Leo is known as Leo The Lion, he fit my picture as a Durocher was more widely known as "Leo the Lip." but it's not known whether his tongue flows rapidly in Japanese.

Central himself free at the right side of the key to give the Biuejay? their sixth straight win since a season-opening loss at Nebraska City Relatively mistake-free ball control and an impressive defensive job on Central City's Jeff SchoU put Seward command. Turnover-Free The Bluejays weren charged with a turnover during the first 12 minutes of the first half and went without a turnover during the first 12 minutes of the second half They fmtshed with onfv sw Feta gave equal credit to 6-4 junior twins Jerry and Tom Bosak for helping check ScnoD toHpomts, TORONTO (UPL The San Francisco Giants were sold for to a group of Toronto investors Friday and, pending final approval by the National League and the team's current board of directors, are expected to start the 1976 season in Canada's second largest city. The group, headed by Labatt Breweries of Canada, said the "agreement in was completed late Friday afternoon. Metropolitan Toronto Chairman Paul V. Godfrey, cautioned that "bringing the team here is still subject to a number of conditions, some of which must obviously remain "I do want to emphasize that these conditions exist, and we are still some distance from having a ball team in Metro.

But the agreement in principle reached today means that we are visibly closer to major league baseball. In San Francisco, Charles B. Kuppert. executive nee president of the National Exhibition Co which owns the Giants, said after a board of directors meeting that $5 25 million of the purchase pnee would be kept in a holding company to meet possible obligations on the Giants" iong-term lease of Candlestick Park, the team ball player and a good senior leader he added But he ran do it all He realizes it We ve just got to shoot better. Central City rebounded to hit 9 of 20 second half shots after a fngid Mot-31 first half shooting performance Seward finished at 39 per cent, hitting 19 of 49.

1 guess we stole another one. Felix said We had a kid hit from mid-court in the last second to win by two at Central City last year Swro si 6 0-tra Northeast's Doug Berka (32) drives past Hastings' Join Donahue (31) en route to a bucket as the Rockets defeated the Tigers, 63-57. Seward Nudges Past City, 44-42 By RANDY YORK Pie Sports Editor Srard The statistic sheet will read 13 shots attempted, four made Trouble with slat sheets is they don't say anything about pressure and Dave Winter deserves credit for staring it in the face and beating it The 6-1 Seward senior drilled a 12-foot jump shot with four seconds remaining here Friday mght to boost Class eighth-rated Bhiejays to a 44-12 Central 10 Conference basketball victory aver Central City-Winter was a cool 9 per cent marksman before dehvermg the Central City's 3-2 December start SchoU hit only 5 of 13 field goal attempts, but Central City coach Jerry Ramf orth was mote concerned with SchoU supporting cast They conceded us so much in that first quarter, mixing their defense against SchoU." Ramf orth noted, but we didn't take advantage Every starter out there had at least one wide open shot the first quarter when they were working on Jeff and we didn hit any. Ramforth said. Needs Help "Jeff is an outstanding basket in tact, lie a ma- PAPERfi fi 0 I EWSPAPERl ARCHIVE.