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Neligh Sinks Ord in Finals O'Neill High Knocked Out In Firt-t Round An underdog Neligh quintet Saturday night upset a favored Ord team in finals of district class “B" basketball tourney. Final score was Neligh 44, Ord 41. First Round— Neligh 44. Bassett 38 In the opening round of the tournament Thursday night de layed one day because of the storm. Neligh sped past Bas sett. 44-38. Coach Dick Fischer’s Warriors grabbed the lead in the open ing minutes and it was never relinquished. Francis paced the Neligh outfit in the first period as he rattled the hoop for 7 of the Warriors’ 12 - points. The scoreboard at the end of the initial period read: Neligh 12, Bassett 4 By the time the second per iod had ended Neligh had stretched its lead to 16 points, 26-8 the Warriors in the third. Coach Ray Westover s charges poked through 10 while the Antelope county quintet connected for 9. The fourth period “let-down" hit the Neligh lads as they al lowed the Bassett crew to rally and score 20 points. However, the rally was far short of the needed Victory margin as time ran out. Fischer, a Bassett forward, chalked up high scoring honors for the tilt. He rimmed 16 while Francis, of Neligh, dump ed in 11 points. Game number 2 on Thurs day night’s card pitted Plain view against Valentine. Some tournament observers believed the 42-36 victory garnered was the upset of the initial round. An ace point-making fresh man, Kokrda, of Plainview, was the big noise in the Plain view victory as his second per iod scoring spree kept his team on toe. Dick O’Neill’s Cherry county aggregation was on the short end of the 10-12 count as t|ie first period ended. Neverthe less, they moved out and kept pace with the Plainview Pi rates during the second frame as each club dropped in 15 points. The halftime score was: Pl ainview 27. Valentine 25. In the third period action, Valentine was co'd and could not find the range. Valentine tallied 5 third period points to 9 for Coach Bob Hauver’s Pi rates. At the outset of the final stanza the Cherry county boys attempted • to rally. They could not muster the shooting accur acy to carry through the quar ter and the rally died Ord 53, O’Neill 30 The tournament favorite, Ord, put on a scoring show for the slim crowd in the third contest of the first round as the Chan ticleers eased to a 53-30 verdict over the O’Neill high school Eagles. Smooth - working center for the Ord bunch. Richardson, was too much for tihe Eagles as he connected with his turn, hook and follow shot with perfect timing. Without pressure, the Ord crew worked smoothly and beautifully throughout the game. Diminutive Don Godel pep pered the hoop for 20 points for the Eagles in an effort to keep pace with the victory bound Ord outfit. The Eagles were limited to a pair of fielders in the firs! half as the Chanticleers reaped a harvest of baskets. Score as the teams went to the locker rooms for the halftime rest was: Ord 29, O’Neill 8. The bright light in the sec ond half for the Eagles focus ed on Godel as he went an a brief fourth period scoring rampage which netted 13 points. O'Neill tallied 14 points in the final stanza and the Ord boys hit for 13. Ord’s center, Richardson, rang the scoring bell for 23 points for game high point hon ; ors while Godel, of the Eagles, collected 20. O'NEILL (30. fg ft pf tp Godel _ 8 4- 5 2 20 Dick 0 1-0 3 1 Calkins _ 10-122 Eby 10-202 Lindberg _ 0 0- 0 5 0 Buck master -0 0-011 Wagnon -10-152 Porter __ 0 0- 0 0 0 Layih__1 1-3 5 3 Totals_12 6-12 23 30 ORD (53) fg ft pf tp Maurice . .30-0 1 6 Moore — 0 0- 0 0 0 Falter_ 3 2- 3 2 8 Severson 0 O- 0 0 0 Richardson -9 5-11 1 23 Heuch ........... 0 0- 0 0 0 Stoddard 1 1-443 Stones _ 0 0- 0 0 0 Pencas .. 5 3- 6 2 13 Dvorack_ 0 0- 0 0 0 Totals 21 11-21 10 53 Ainsworth 36. Burwell 16 Ainsworth mauled Burwell, 36-16, in the final gaime of the first round Thursday evening. The Ainsworth scoring was distributed through the team j as the Burwell club made 50 percent of its points at the free throw line The Brown county “5” man euvered into a 10-5 lead at the end of the first quarter and then stretched out in the sec ond canto with a 9-point lead. Beginning third quarter play, the Ainsworth cage crowd held an 18-9 advantage and when the final period got underway Bur well was snowed under by a 30-13 count. An Ainsworth forward, Hag erman, punched through 15 points, for game high scoring laurels. Best for the losing Bur well club was Newman with 5 points. Semifinals— Ord and Neligh gained the fi nals of the tournament Friday . n right by dropping Ainsworth ; and Plainview, respectively. Ord had a tough time down ing the spirited Ainsworth club 43-38. in the other semifinal event Friday evening. Neligh 45, Plaimv'ew 38 Neligh, in the opener on Fri day night's card, eased past a cold Plainview quintet, 45-38. Muckey, a Neligh forward, bucketed a charity toss with less than a minute gone in the quar ter and from this point on the Warriors were never headed. Three minutes and 10 seconds had elapsed in the quarter be fore Plainview counted from the field. But Neligh’s Hoggins and Van Kirk dumped in a follow up and a dribble-in shot, res pectively, as Coach Dick Fisch ers’ charges pulled away from sputtering Plainview. The score at the end of the quarter was Neligh 13, Plainview 6. Coach Fischer’s lads contin ued the torrid pace as they counted 12 points in the second period to 8 for Plainview. Ne ligh’s Forward Francis led the second period scoring with 5 points, while freshman Forward Kokrda paced his team’s sec ond period scoring with 6. The alert Neligh club control led the rebounds during most of the half. Plainview’s shooting was inaccurate. In second half play, tne Ante lope county quint limited the Plainview tribe to 4 points. Ne ligh stretched its lead to 19 points as the final period got underway. The count was Ne- j ligh 38, Plainview 19. At this point Coach Bob Hauver’s kids rallied. The rally lasted until the official 3-min ute time-out. During the 5-min ute rally the Plainview team picked up 13 points. With the official time-out, the Plainview club cooled. During the final canto, 4 of Neligh’s first string players — Moon, Van Kirk, Muckey and Hoggins—were sent to the showers via the foul route. However, before Hoggins went out on fouls he chalked up 8 field goals and a charity for a i 17-point total. Kokrda, of Plain- j view, hit 15 points. Boxscore: NELIGH (45) fg ft pf tp1 Wisch 12-444 Francis 5 1-3 3 11 | Hoggins, _ 8 1-3 5 17 Muckey 2 1-15 5 Holthus 0 0- 0 0 0 Van Kirk 11-353 Welch 0 0- 0 0 0 Moon _ 2 1-355 •-■— Totals 19 7-17 27 45 : PLNVW (38) fg ft pf tp | Thomas 1 1-1 3 3 Kokrda 6 3-8 1 15 Stueckrath 04-604 Albin, L. ... 2 5- 8 3 9 Scranton 0 1-4 5 1 Albin, G. 0 0-120 Foster 2 2-3 1 6 Totals 11 16-29 15 38 Ord 49. Ainsworth 38 An alert Ord cage team falter ed briefly in the third period but regained its scoring punch in the final canto to defeat the game Ainsworth quintet, 49-38. Coach Leon Englebart’s Ains worth basketeers trailed through most of 3 quarters before tying the count at 32-all with 4 sec onds to go in the third period. Carl Johnson, the slick Ains worth pivot man, almost single handedly put his team into the lead during the third period push. He connected for 10 points. Guard Osborn, of the Brown county club, swished a basket from midcourt to knot the count. Then Englebart’s lads moved into the lead on a pair of buck ets by Johnson in the opening minute of the final period. Calmly, and cooly, the Ord “5” settled down and maneuv ered into the lead on the should ers of their big center, Richard son. Richardson tallied 12 points in the final quarter as the Ord club swept into the finals of the tournament. Richardson, of Ord, walked off with high scoring honors as he hit 10 buckets and 4 free throws for a 24-point total. High point man for Ainsworth was Slot Man Johnson with 20. Boxscore: AINS. (38) fg ft pf tp Stoltenberg 0 0- 1 5 C McAndrew 0 0- 0 0 C Hagerman 13-415 Johnson 8 4- 4 4 20 Manes 3 1-3 4 1 Austin 0 0-010 Morgan 0 0- 0 2 0 Osborn 3 0- 0 2 6 Totals 15 8- 12 19 38 ORD (49) fg ft pf tp Maurice 12-414 Falter 4 0-108 Richardson 10 4- 8 2 24 Heuck . 2 0- 3 3 4 Stoddard _ 3 1-1 1 7 Pencas 0 3- 4 5 3 Totals 19 10-21 12 49 Finals— Neliqh 44 Ord 41 The Neligh Warriors were forced to come from behind in the final minute of the frantic tilt to capture the championship and to get a shot at the state class B title at Lincoln. Francis and Hoggins, a pair of elongated Warriors, were the heroes of the game when they pushed their team into the lead with less than a minute to go. Francis connected with a 2 handed side shot that put the Neligh club out in front by 1 point, 42-41. Seconds later, Vic Hoggins came back for the clinching bucket as time ran out. The heavily favored Ord team I rode the scoring crest during the SCOREBOARD The Neligh Warriors swept through the class "B” district cage tournament this week w'ith wins over Bassett, Plainview' and Ord. Here are the results: FIRST ROUND Neligh 44, Bassett 38 Plainview 42, Valentine 38 Ord 53, O'Neill 30 Ainsworth 36, Burwell 16 SEMIFINALS Ord 49, Ainsworth 38 Neligh 45, Plainview 38 FINALS Neligh 44. Ord 41 greater share of the champion ship tilt on the shoulders of their big pivot man, Richardson. He kept Coach R. R. Peterson’s crew in the game by accounting for 28 of the 41-point Ord team total. With 15 seconds gone, Van Kirk, a short Neligh guard, took the initial tip-off and dribbled down the center of the court into the foul circle to sink a 1 hander for the first fielder, ’fnen in rapid-fire pace, the Warriors grabbed a 9-2 lead. Four min utes and 30 seconds had elapsed in the first period before the highly-touted Ord crew was able to count from the field. But once getting the range the Ord kids carried through and with a minute and a half left in the quarter they pop ped into the lead on Rchard son's follow shot and a chari ty toss. The first period end ed with Coach Peterson's lads out in front 15-11. Neligh moved into a faster brand of ball playing at the outset of the seond frame an.l pulled up to knot the count on Muckey’s follow shot with 45 seconds to go. The halftime score was deadlocked at 22-all. During the second half play the point margin between the 2 high school clubs did not vary over 4 points. Francis meshed a 1-hander from the side with 2 minutes gone in the third period as the lead see-sawed back and forth. Richardson, of Ord. started con necting with his turn-away and hook shots. These baskets put the Ord Chanticleers out in front for the remainder of the frantic period. But in the first 3^ minutes of the final canto, Dale Moon and Vic Hoggins potted a jump and 1-handed shot, respectively, to bring the victory-bound War riors up to within a point of the Chanticleers. A short scoring spurt by the Neligh lads put them into the lead briefly with a 40-37 count. Ord bounced back into the lead with a pair of buckets with about 75 seconds to go. Then, Francis and Hoggins brought down the house with the winning baskets as the Ne ligh fans hit the peak of their enthusiasm. Richardson picked off the high scoring laurels for the evening with his 28-point total. Other high scorers were Neligh’s Hog gins and Francis with 20 and 10 points, respectively. Following the game, Joe Ry an, sports editor of the Neligh News, told The Frontier sports staff, the most significant thing about the entire contest was the lack of substitutions until the last 15 seconds when Richard son, of Ord, fouled out. This in dicates the best brand of ball was being played with a mini mum of fouls, Ryan said. In the curtain raiser on the final evening’s card, Ains worth captured the third place spot of the tournament by down ine Plainview, 50-49. The 1-point margin the Ains worth crew won bv does not, however, indicate the type of ball that was played. Plainview caught the Ains worth club napping in the final period # and slipped In some sleeper' buckets to narrow the margin. , Plainview held a slim l point advantage as the third place game moved into the second period of play- But Ainsworth rapidly fired in 4 two-pointers to move into the lead. By the time the inter mission rolled around the Brown county lads had piled up a 31-25 lead. Resuming the second half pla\ Coach Leon Englebart’s young sters continued the alert bal playing and moved into the fi nal period with a 42-34 margin Then Foster. Kokrda anc Thomas, all of Plainview, slip ped in the "sleeper” buckets be fore the coasting Ainsworth quint realized their plight. Bui time ran out just as Foster con nected for Plainview’s 49th point. The slick center for Ains worth, Johnson, and Thomas, a Plainview forward, shared high scoring honors for the tilt, as each counted 18 points. Boxscore for the champion ship game: NELIC.H (44) fg ft pf H Francis_5 0-1 3 1( Hoggins_ 9 2- 4 3 2C Muckev .... _ 2 2- 6 4 ( Van Kirk 1 2-4 1 4 Moon _2 0-414 Totals_19 6-19 12 44 ORD (41) fg ft pf H Maurice _ 3 0- 1 2 ( Moore _______ 0 0- 0 0 C Falter_ 2 0- 0 2 4 Severson _ 0 0- 0 0 < Richardson _ 12 4- 9 5 2t Stoddard_ 0 2- 3 4 . Pencas 0 1-1 3 ’ Totals _-_.17 7-14 16 4! ST. JOSEPH’S TO STATE TOURNEY Jusies Drop Hartington 49-26 In Class ‘C’ Playoff ATKINSON — Using a tight zone defense and a fast break j otfense, St. Joseph’s of Atkin- ; son, Saturday night worked its way into the state class “C” ! tournament by defeating Har- ; tington, 49-26. The playoff game was staged : on the Plainview maples. It was ■ originally scheduled for Tues day night, March 7, was resched uled for Friday night, March 10, but because of bad roads was not played until Saturday. Dexter and Slattery account ed for 9 of St. Joe’s 12 first per iod points as the Wildcats from Hartington trailed at the end of the period, 12-4. The Bluejays from St. Joseph’s boasted a 23 9 advantage at the end of the first half. An 11-point scoring spurt in j the third period by Vogel push ed his team into a substantial 41-20 lead as play moved into the final quarter. Coach Louis Wewal’s Blue- j iays only tallied 8 points in the final period of play as substi tutes dotted the lineup. The Josies big pivot man, Vogel, racked up 16 points in the first 3 quarters to cop high scoring laurels while Dexter, another Bluejay, picked up 15. Looking best for the losing Har tineton quintet were Hegert and Bell. Among those taking cars and escorting the Josies to Lincoln wer*> Leo Seger, Francis D. Lee, A. G. Miller, Charles Dvorak and Art Humpal. Chadron Prep Romps Over Josies— (Soecial to The Frontier) LINCOLN—St. Joseph’s hall of Atkinson, was turned back in its bid for the state class “C” basketball crown early Wednes day afternoon, March 15, yield ing to a strong Chadron Prep aggregation, 40-33. Prep enioved a 10-6 lead at' the end of the first stanza: 24 14. at halftime; 29 - 22, at the third. Atkinson’s Gerald Vogel was held scoreless in the first half. A host of rapid supports from Atkinson — and some from O’ Neill were on hand to see Dan nv Kuska hoist in 15 points and Bob Armstrong tally 12 to lead Prep. Vogel bounced back in the second half to score 10 points. Other St. Joe tallies were: Ber nard Troshynski, 6; Tom Slat tery and Bill Dexter, 5 each. In an earlier first round class “C” game. Holy Name routed Pawnee City. On Friday Prep will play winner of Friend Scribner game. The Josies, who have been handicapped by lack of prac tice, voluntarily competed in class “C”. Technically, St. Joe is a class “D” school. Neligh. St. Joe Go Compete at Lincoln— Nebraska High School Ath letic association Monday an nounced the pairing for the state basketball tournament which got underway in Lincoln Wednesday noon St. Joseph’s of Atkinson, win ner of the class C district tour nament, played in Atkinson during the first week in March, was to tang’e with Chardron Prep ih the first round. Neligh, winner of the class “B” meet held here March 9-11, Wednesday evening was to test Mitchell in the frist round. However, up until press time Wednesday results of these games were not available. All-Holt Cage ‘5’ To Be Selected Ballots are being sent to all Holt county high school coaches this week in preparation to picking candidates for The Frontier’s fourth annual all Holt county basketball team. The issue of The Frontier which will contain the all-Holt county cage “5” will be an nounced soon. Coaches will work with The Frontier’s sports staff in the se lection of the top 8 basket bailers in Holt county. In ad dition, candidates for a second team and honorable mention will be chosen. LEGAL NOTICE (First pub. March 16. 1950) Julius D. Cronin, Attorney NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT Estate No. 3583 In the County Court of Holt County, Nebraska, March 13th, 1950. In the matter of the Estate of Maude Hess, Deceased. All persons interested in said estate are hereby notified that the Administrator with the Will annexed of said estate has filed in this court his final report and a petition for final settlement and distribution of the residue of said estate: and that said re port and petition will be heard April 5th. 1950. at 10 o’clock i A M at the Countv Court Room in O’Neill. Nebraska, when all persons interested may appear l and be heard concerning said i final report and the distribution ' of said estate. LOUIS W REIMER. County Judge (County Court Seal) 45-47 Redbird Isolated For 5 Days REDBIRD — Redbird was isolated for 5 days and cut off from the outside world. No mail has arrived since Tuesday, March 7. Highways and roads are all blocked with deep snow drifts. The phone service has been very spasmodic. Hundreds of birds, of all kinds, have been found frozen to death from Tuesday’s storm. Friday, March 10, 6 inches of snow fell, which brought further hardship. Other Redbird News Due to the snow storm our roads have been blocked all week. Barry Baker walked out from Lynch Tursday to see his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Nick Baker. Virgil Wilson rode the pony to Lynch Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Art Bessert are in Wagner, S. D., getting ac quainted with their little grand son, born to Mr. and Mrs. John Stewart. Miss Leota Hull, teacher at Redbird, wras unable to get to her home in Lynch Friday night. jyyic dliu Xvvuci i Tuesday in the Ray Wilson home as their car was stuck in the snow enroute to the William Wells farm. Vic McKenzie was a dinner guest at Ray Wilson’s Friday, March 10. Edward Carson was in Red bird Monday, March 16. Eugene Hrbek, of Scottville, wes here Monday, March 6. Mrs. Floyd Crawford, of near O’Neill, called in Redbird Mon day, March 6. Claude Pickering and family were in Redbird Monday, March 6. Fred Truax, sr., was here Monday, March 6. Dale Bessert was in Redbird Monday, March 6. W. H. Hartland was here on business Monday, March 6. Lee Wells called in Redbird Monday, March 6. H. V. Rosenkrans, of Dorsey, visited here Monday, March 6. Bob Wiley, of Dorsey, was in Redbird Monday, March 6 James Yocum was here Thurs day, March 9. Beryle Bessert was here Fri day, March 10. Ray Wilson was a visitor in Redbird Friday, March 10. Eva Truax called here Sat urday, March 11. ATKINSON NEWS Mrs. Dorothy Barrett return ed last Thursday from a visit with her sister, Mrs. Blanche , Pick, and family at Wynot. Mrs. Kate Kirkland spent the past week at the home of her f niece, Mrs- E. H. Chace. Rev. and Mrs. W. C. Birming ham returned late Tuesday from Lincoln where they had been for 2 days attending a town and country Methodist church conference. Atkinson public school’s sec ond team won third place in the second team basketball tourna ment at Bassett Friday. Larry * Chace was high point man. m Mr. and Mrs. Robert Groe ger, of Wood S. D., spent the weekend with relatives, the W P. Dexter, Mary Weber and Frank Weber families. The Groegers said that it was most ly sand in the air at Wood the day of the blizzard here. About 8 inches of snow fell later, but the wind was of such velocity that it loosened a freight car on the track. The car was check ed before any damage was done. Mrs. Elvon Chace and Larry accompanied by Dick W h i te, will go to Lincoln today (Thurs day-). From, there they will go } to Omaha to meet Miss Jane Chace, who is coming home from Northwestern university for spring vacation. They will also spend sometime with Mr. Chace, who is on jury duty in | Omaha. Bob Horner and his room mate, Stanley Kennedy, of Sid ney, spent the weekend at home. Jamtjl White was here also Bob and Stanley came from Lincoln and Jim from Norfolk. Frontier tor printing! EARL W. 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