- But Lane, driving for a goal
-which would have put the Soon-
ers in command, showed a little
-too much enthusiasm and was
called for charging. Norm
Stewart of Missouri converted
two free tosses, then after a
tense goal-trading session Mis-
souri pulled away again to a
70-63 lead with big Bob Reiter,
Redford Reichert and Gary Fil-
bert punching home the points.

0. U. Closes in Again.
‘Oklahoma later again shoul-
dered to within five pcints with
a 6-point burst when the game
_ had only three and one-half
-. minutes to go, but Missouri can-
celled that with a return barrage
which netted four quick points
and the Tigers pulled out of
danger.
Reiter, hooking them in like}

 

a giant whooping crane, led the|
Tiger scoring with twenty-nine|
points, Stewart added nineteen
and Med Park eighteen.

Lane, the 5-10 driving demon
for the Sooners, popped in
twenty-seven points and Peck

’ rattled the iron with twenty-four,

Sooner .attack.
The game was f
bging called.
ited on Okla-}
homa
Tigers, These h
‘the case since /each team hit
twenty-nine
dead-eyed thir
out of forty‘six chances while
Oklahoma got twenty-nine of
forty-one from the gratis zone.
Missouri had the worse of it
from the field, hitting twenty-
nine of seventy-five for a 38.7
percentage. Oklahoma hit twen-
ty-nine out of seventy for a fat
* 41.4 per cent. The Tigers, with
Reiter and Park leading the way
on fourteen each, outrebounded
the Sooners, 54 to 41

OKLAHOMA 87. MISSOURI 95.
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- Half-time score: Missouri 46, Oklahoma

Free throws missed: Oklahoma—Burr, |
Muller, Wheeler, Abbey 3, Lane 4, Peck 2.
Missouri—Park, Filbert, Reiter 3, Smith 2,°

Stewart. :
Officials—Cliff. Ogden, Wichita and John
Fraser, Illinois. ‘ ;