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in those last 15 hectic minutes.

charged with eight fouls in the
cashed in for 13 free throws and
the ball game.

It was a fairly simple matter
for Drake to keep the lid on Wild-
cat scoring through the second-
half melee. The Bulldogs played
a tight man-for-man defense and
effectively kept big Jack Parr,
6-9 Wildcat center, from shoot-
ing.

With K-State long shots going
wild, the Wildcats limped out the
time. The K-State shooting per-
centage fell from 46 per cent for
the first half to a meager 35 per
cent for the game as the ’Cats
hit only 27 per cent in the final
20 minutes.

Biggest statistical difference
in the two teams’ came in re-
bounding where the Bulldogs

jtowered far above K-State, end-
jing with 43 recoveries to the

Wildcats’. 23.

Leading K-State scorer was
5-8 guard Pachin Vicens who =
had six baskets and three free
throws for 15 points. ‘That tied

' Drake’s Red Murrell for scor-
ing honors. Parr had 14 on
five baskets and four charity
throws, but the big sophomore
got only five rebounds. Willie
Cerf, 6-6, Bulldog senior center,
led with 10 rebounds.

_ Drake stepped out first, scor-

forward, dropped in a free throw
in the first minute, and the two
teams swapped leads until Parr
hit a pair of free throws with
three minutes . to pull out
6-5.

Building: on that, the Cats
shook off the stubborn Bulldogs
slowly, until putting on a scoring
spurt in the last four minutes of
the first half to get the hailftime
margin of 11 points.

While; Drake could hit but 29
percent, of its 69 field goal at-
tempts, the Bulldogs dropped in
380 of 389. free throws to outdis-
tance K-State by 28 points at
the line.

Part of the rash of Wildcat
fouls in the final minutes came
as they pressed Drake for the
ball. ‘The Bulldogs went into a
semi-freeze with four minutes
remaining,

The win gives Drake a 3-1 rec-
ord for the season, the only loss
coming by 62-63 to Tulsa here
Saturday. The Bulldogs
after leading by 18 with 15 min-
utes to play. Tonight’s action
was almost an exact reverse of

 

that.

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K-State Offense Falters
After Forging 4A-31 Gap

BY PAUL DE WEESE
Special Correspondent
. DES MOINES, IOWA—Kansas State lost to Drake University,
70-64, here Monday night in a wild, scrambling cage display that
saw the Wildcats blow a 13-point lead in the second half. —
After building to a 42-31 advantage at intermission, and pull-
ing out 44-31 as the second half opened, the Cats fought off a
determined set. of Bulldogs for five minutes of the second period

Then K-State lost its scoring punch—netting only nine points

Drake threw up a tight defense that allowed the Wildcats no
certain shots, In attempting to make a scrap of it the Cats were,

late stages which the Bulldogs

Box Score

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Powell eeeoereeseee 4- 6 0- 2 3 §
Parr eeeceseeseses 5-11 4- 6 4 14
Totals seccccee 24-68 16-26 21 64
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TOtaS Meee aes 20- 70 30-39 17 7
Halftime Score—42-31, K-State.

Officials—Wayne Lichty and Bo McAl-

ister.

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