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B-4 Mattoon, (II.) Journal Gaiette Saturday, December 13, 1966 FMdlay. falls toy two in toeraey Mtle game Sullivan 65, Areola 56 I- CA missed two crucial 1-1 situations; down the stretch. Kinmundy's victory denied Findlay its eight title in the 27-year history of the holiday The Falcons have won more noli' day tournament titles than any of. UM svlsrKt Oaowio ThiircHnv'S Findlay (52) Name FG-FGA FT-FTA RB PF TP Dean. 7-17 14 16 Johnson 0- (Ml 3 4 0 Bragg t-19 2-4 15 1 20 Creviston 0-4 1 4 0 Davis S- 7 0-1 .3 1 10 Brown 0-1 04 0 1 0 Grant 3-5 04 3 4 6 Totals 24-51 14-10 31 19 52 Klnmundy-Alma (54) Name FG-FGA FT-FTA RB PF TP Alberson 6-16 6-7 12 4 18 McCarty 0- 5 3-4 2 2 3 Robnett 4-16 3-7 8 3 11 Jones 0- '5 2-2 8 2 2 Seeley 9-13 2-3 3 3 20 Beard 0-0 0 0 0 Totals 19-55 16-23 33 14 54 against Areola's 12.

Both teams hit 22 field goals. Sullivan improves to 3-3 overall, 1-0 In the LOVC, while Areola slips to 1-5 overall, 0-1 in league play. The Redskins will sit out until next Friday, when they host Atwood-Hammond. The Purple Riders will host Tucola on Tuesday. Areola 15161213-56 Sullivan 10 23 13 19 65 Arocla: Gordon 3-2-8, Har-shberger 4-4-12, Tabb 5-4-14, Bushu 2-0-2, Hopkins 2-2-6, Rankin 7-0-14.

Totals: 22-12-56. Sullivan: Atchison 2-4-8, Mitchell 6-8-20, Cordell 6-2-14, Monroe 3-1-7, Mosier 0-0-0, Frederick 2-0-4, Phelps 1-6-8, Miller 2-0-4. Totals: 22-21-65. victory also kept a 27-year jint-alive for the host Eagles, who have; never won their own tournament. St.

Elmo came back from; mi I t. a tttA lliuraudy luaa its win Dlace eame 83-53 over Ramsey. I a i ilia uauivi v. ti Mitchell, Tabb points. Senior guard Chet Har-shberger added 12.

The difference in the contest came at the charity stripe as Sullivan dropped 21 free throws ueecner tiiy ior me consuiauun u-. tie. The Hornets' Mark Seeley and Findlay's Bragg led all scorers with 20 points each. Seeley proved 1 11 (nnm SULLIVAN Sparked by a 20-polnt effort by Jason Mit-' chell, Sullivan rolled past Areola 65-56 Friday night in a Little Okaw Valley Conference opener for both teams. The Purple Riders raced out to a 15-10 lead after one period, but the Redskins rallied to take a 33-31 margin at the end of the half.

Sullivan led 46-43 after three periods before pulling away 19-13 in the final stanza. Mitchell, a 5-8 senior guard hit six field goals and eight free thows for 20 points. Senior guard Mark Cordell added 14 points. For the Riders, 6-1 senior Andy Tabb and 6-2 sophomore Jason Rankin each-tallied 14 Atwood ARTHUR It was a close contest all the way through, but Atwood-Hammond ended up topping Arthur 43-40 in the Knight's Little Okaw Valley Conference opener. The loss drops Arthur to 0-4 overall, 0-1 in the LOVC.

Senior Daren Godfrey led the Knights with six field goals and five charity tosses for 17 points, while senior Scott Schable added 12. The Knights and the Rajahs imnressive. caiiiiuiK ui id tiuiu. i ine nuor. di agg was i.

43, Arthur 40 the all-tournament's second team, along with Lance Wills of Beecher city, ureg eezei ui 01. uuiiv jamie uzgeraia ui lsuiuvc. A berson and KODneti irom fv inmnnn v-m i ma iiKauiiiieu uic Neoga 74, Louisville 58 By PAUL BLACK Staff Writer ST. ELMO Findlay found out charity doesn't begin on the road. Although the Falcons outscored Kinmundy-Alma 48-38 from the field, the Hornets sank 16 of 23 free throws to capture the St.

Elmo Holiday Tournament 54-52 Friday night. Despite the fine display at the line by Kinmundy, Coach Gary Shirley's team still had to pull it out when Doug Alberson canned a 20-foot jumper with just two seconds remaining. "We just couldn't board them," bemoaned Findlay coach Mike Reynolds, who saw his team to drop to 4-2 on the season. "We're a little more physical and we just couldn't get the boards, especially in the late going." Findlay walked on water for much of the game, when starters Jerry Dean and John Johnson each were whistled for their fourth personal fouls midway through the third quarter. "There's no question it hurt our effectiveness inside," Reynolds said.

"We had to' play a little more tentative and it really hurt us." The Hornets' last-minute rally C'land (Continued from Page Bl team can't celebrate too much yet. will help the kids to know they can be a good team, but they're not satisfied yet," Manuell said. "We were up by eight and Casey came back. We've still got a ways to go." Durham had the same to say about his 2-2 Casey team. "This is the first time we've had two losses in the conference this early in seven or eight years," he said.

"The conference is certainly important, but there are a lot of things to shoot for in the conference. You can react one way or the other." Casey hosts Neoga on Tuesday Casey-Westfield (54) Name McGiles Vernon Maulding Cummins Miller Finke Cochonour Husher Team Totals FG-FGA FT-FTA RB PF TP 3- 9 2 6 3-11 8-15 3- 6 6-15 2-3 0- 2 0-0 2541 0-2 3-7 0-0 0- 0 1- 3 04 04 6-15 10 3 12 4 0 0 1 42 12 5 0 0 Cumberland (55) Name Robbing Butler Matteson Jackson Oakley Wilson Sherwood Team Totals FG-FGA FT-FTA RB PF TP 2-6 8-10 11-18 0-5 4-9 0-3 0-0 2541 04 2-4 1- 4 2- 3 04 04 04 5-11 4 18 23 2 8 0 0 11 Score by Quarters Casey 15 11 9 19-54 Cumberland 12 17 12 14-55 Turnovers: Casey 10, Cumberland 13. Shooting percentages: Casey .393, Cumberland .490. Dead ball rebounds: Casey 2, Cumberland 2. Casey won the junior varsity game 59-51 LOUISVILLE Todd Jackson's dominating all-around play led Neoga to a convincing 74-58 basketball win over Louisville Friday night.

"(Jackson) played as good a ballgame as he has ever played in his basketball career," said Indians' coach Lyle Casper. "He really controlled the tempo of the game with his play. He was the dominating force for us tonight." Jackson pumped in 23 points for the Indians, whose season mark improved to 2-1. Louisville fell to 2-3. "We came out and within two minutes of the third quarter we Score by Quarters Findlay 9 12 16 15-52 Klnmundy-Alma 10 13 14 17-54 Turnovers: Findlay 12, Kinmundy-Alma 11.

Shooting Percentages: FG- Findlay .414, Kinmundy-Alma .364. FT- Findlay .400, Kinmundy-Alma .691. Assists: Findlay (Bragg 2, Creviston 2. Grant 2, Davis 1, Brown 1). Kinmundy-Alma (McCarty squelched a 52-48 Findlay lead.

Dean's turnaround jumper which turned into a three-point play seemed to be the icing on the cake with 1:08 remaining, but Findlay, who only went to the free throw line 10 times during the game. Cland's Todd Butler goes "The boys are pretty excited," Wildcat coach Dick Considine said. "It's their first win of the year. They've been working hard, but just haven't gotten the breaks." The win lifts the Wildcats to 1-7 on the year. Mattoon will host Effingham Central on Monday.

In the second game, Mattoon fell behind 8-4 in the first quarter, but took, an 18-16 margin at the half, then steamrolled Sullivan 12-6 and 17-6 in the second half. Willie High was high man for the Wildcats with 17 points. Mark' Aguilar added 12. Seventh Grade Sullivan 915 8134-49 tr Oakland 52, Kansas 45 Mi I first team. Other selections included Todd Moreland and Nick Casey of Ramsey and Kevin Maxey of St.

Elmo. Now 4-2, Findlay returns to regular season action Tuesday at Beecner uiy. Photo by Jay Khnba up for a shot Friday night. Mattoon 111114 96 51 MATTOON: Mark Phillips 7, Cor ey Buckley 11, Eric Michaels 19, Aaron Birdsong 10, Brian McDowell 2, Brett Parker 2, Sam SimmondsO. Eighth Grade Sullivan 8 8 6 6 28 Mattoon 4141217 47 MATTOON: Kevin Milam 2, Willie High 17, Scott Selvidge 4, Mark Aguilar 12, Chris Wetzel 4, Steve Runyon 6, Shane Diepholz 2, Scott Albright 0, Joe Dewey 0, Reggie Derixson 0, Troy Lee 0, Keith Lawson 0, Bret Honn 0, Jason War-field 0, Aaron Sinner 0.

Home Car LANO BLVD MATTOON, ILLINOIS 6193S '2 A 1 i i i i KANSAS Defense figured as the key to Oakland's 52-45 win over Kansas Friday night. "I thought we played on of our better games overall," Oaks coach Dale Hanner said. "I thought we played exceptional defense. We played very well as a team, but our downfall was in freethrow shooting. We were up by 12 at one point, but kept missing thefront ends of 1-1 situations.

That kept them in the game." At the line, Oakland was 10 of 27, while the Bulldogs collected seven of 12 shots. From the field, Kansas hit only 19 of 48 while the Oaks connected on 21 of 44. "Oakland gets a lot of credit," Kansas coach Mike Kirk said. "They came in and handled our full house. They played a pretty good defense against us." Oakland took a 13-12 lead at the end of the first period, then contest against the Bulldogs.

Atwood 8 91016-43 Arthur 8121010-40 Atwood: England 6-1-13, Wolter 0-0-0, Romine 4-7-15, Davis 2-3-7, Jones 0-2-2, Wildman 2-2-6, Postlewaite 0-0-0. Totals: 14-15-43. Arthur: Schable 4-4-12, Godfrey 6-5-17, Kirby 0-0-0, Gordon 1-1-3, Cole 1-4-6, Binion 1-0-2, Max-edon 0-0-0. Totals: 13-14-40. Atwood won the JV game 40-27.

Todd Jackson, Brummer and Pattin shot real well," Casper added. Louisville's Greg Ikemire led all scorers with 20 points. Neoga 16 212116-74 Louisville 14 17 12 15-58 Neoga: Tim Brummer 4-4-12, Tom Kimball 8-3-19, Todd Jackson 11-1-23, Larry Schwerdt 2-1-5, Dennis Pattin 7-1-15, Matt Dulin 0-0-0. Totals: 32-10-74. Louisville: Greg Ikemire 8-4-20, Darren Hout 5-1-11, Brant Fulfer 2-2-6, Brian Wattles 2-0-4, Randy Zimdars 5-5-15, David Wyatt 1-0-2.

Totals: 23-12-58. Louisville won the JV game 46-40. 19 points. He also led the Oaks with 10 rebounds. Lance Craft added 15 points and Mark Huffman 11.

Chad Motley led the Bulldogs with 16 points on six field goals and four free throws. Scott Lauher was also in double figures with 11 points. The win lifts Oakland to 4-2 overall, 2-0 in the East Okaw Conference. Kansas slips to 5-3, 1-1 in the league. Two of the Bulldog losses came from Oakland.

Oakland 13 8 14 17 52 Kansas 12 61017-45 Oakland: Barker 7-5-19, Huffman 4-3-11, Whitling 1-0-2, Craft 7-1-15, Oberley 1-0-2, Simpson 1-1-3. Totals: 21-10-52. Kansas: Lauher 4-3-11, Motley 6-4-16, Cottle 1-0-2, Wright 3-0-6, Mitchell 2-0-4, Carreon 3-0-6. Totals: 19-7-45. Oakland won the JV game 55-35.

made 26 of 39 free throws to Windsor's 18 of 29. Stew-Stras plays at Ramsey Tuesday, while Windsor goes to Lovington in non-conference games. Stew-Stras 19 10 18 23 8 7 8 Windsor 12 17 22 19 4-74 Stew-Stras: Rincker 3-6-12, Vonderheide 5-7-17, Slifer 6-4-16, Schultz 4-2-10, Koester 5-7-17, Manhart 0-0-0, Verdeyen 3-0-6. Totals 26-26-78 Windsor: Taylor 1-0-2, Cole 1-3-5, Leasher 10-4-24, Brandenburg 2-0-4, Finley 3-2-8, Bennett 5-6-16, Kelly 5-3-13, Mathis Turner 0-0-0. Totals 28-18-74 Windsor won the jay vee game 51-46.

streak dan scored 41 points and Charles Okaley added 18 points and 16 rebounds Friday night to lead the Chicago Bulls to a 106-93 victory over Milwaukee, snapping the Bucks' nine-game home winning streak. Jordan has scored 40 or more points in nine consecutive games. He and Oakley had 13 of Chicago's final 20 points were tied at 8-8 after one period, then Arthur took a 20-17 margin at the half. The Knights maintained the three-point margin at 30-27 after three quarters before Atwood outscored Arthur 16-10 in the final period. While Atwood dumped in 14 field goals, Arthur only collected 13.

The Rajahs were 15-21 from the line while the Knights hit only 14 of 26 attmepts. Arthur will travel to Bement Friday night for a LOVC jumped out to an 11-point lead. They played the first half in a zone, and when they came out and tried to play us man-toman, we really opened things up. We pulled away and led by as many as 16 and 18 points," Casper said. Tom Kimball added 19 points and pulled down eight rebounds while Dennis Pattin tallied 15 and Tim Brummer added 12.

As a team, Neoga shot a siz-" zling 32 of 48 from the field and hit 10 of 19 free They outrebounded Louisville 28-17. "When they really started to overplay Tom Kimball and Barker, Motley made it a 21-18 margin at the intermission. The Oaks widened the margin 14-10 in the third stanza. The scoring was 17-17 in the fourth quarter. Dude Barker led the scoring for Oakland with seven field goals and five charity tosses for quarter deticit.

The Comets took a 70-68 lead but Windsor's Brian Bennett hit an 18-footer with three seconds left in regulation to force the overtime. "It surely had to be an enjoyable game to watch," Windsor coach Nik Groothuis said. "You hate to lose, but I still felt my kids played well and so did Stew-Stras." Vonderheide and Koester scored 17 points each for Stew-Stras, which is 2-4 overall and 1-lintheNTC. Troy Leasher had. 24 points and 18 rebounds to lead Windsor, which fell to 1-6 and 0-2.

The Blue Devils outscored Stew-Stras from the field hitting 28 of 59 shots compared to the Comets' 26 of 53. But Stew-Stras final 4:53. The Lakers limited their longtime rivals to just 2 points in the final 3: 11. "He's a lot stronger." said Celtics center Robert Parish, who could not stop the league's all-time leading scorer from backing into scoring position. Jordan leads Bulls MILWAUKEE Michael Jor MJMS sweeps Sullivan Stew-Stras 78, Windsor 74 WINDSOR Doug Vonderheide made a steal, basket and four free throws in the last 10 seconds to give Stew-ardson-Strasburg a 78-74 overtime basketball win over rival Windsor Friday night.

With the game tied 74-74 in the final minute Windsor tped to stall for a game-winning shot. But Vonderheide's steal and layup with eight seconds to go put Stew-Stras ahead. Windsor lost the ball again and Vonderheide's free throws clinched the National Trail win that avenged an earlier 68-64 defeat. Fred Koester scored 11 points in the fourth quarter to rally Stew-Stras from -a 51-47 third MATTOON Mattoon Junior High School won a pair from Sullivan Friday night. The seventh grade boys basketball team won their first game of the season Friday night when they topped Sullivan 51-49 in overtime.

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