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regional tournament finals
Lindley Hall Saturday night as El
Dorado and Inman high schools
became tourney champions and
won free transportation to the
state class A and B meets this
week,

El Dorado, Ark Valley runner-up
and twice victor over Hutchinson
during the regular season, trailed
most of the way and then went
ahead in the last quarter, but had
to down the Hawks in an overtime
session, 32 to 30, after the \Cairns-
men tied the score in the last few
seconds.

Inman, likewise, hit the come-
back trail in the last quarter after
Peatody-had set the pace until that
time, and registered 12 points in
the last eight minutes to sew up
a 26 to 25 victory. Inman, in
claiming. the crown won here last
year by Midian high, is this
_section’s official representative at

the class B tourney at Hutchinson |

and El Dorado goes to Topeka.

.The absence, for the first time
in seevral years, of a Newton team
_ from the regional finals didn’t cut
down the crowd. Lindley Hall was

comfortably filled, altho the atten- }

dance dropped slightly from the
record turnout for Friday’s semi-
final contests when the Railroaders
were eliminated by Hutchinson.
Hawks Rely on Free Throws

A remarkable free throwing per-
centage kept Hutchinson in the
ball game, and two charity flips
in the last ten seconds by Roy
Mitchell tied the score and made
necessary the overtime session.
Then, a one-handed shot by Kent,
El Dorado forward, provided the
margin of victory before a minute
had elapsed. —

Hutchinson, converting 14 out
of 19 gift shots, led by an 8 to
7 score at the first quarter, 15 to
‘12 at the half, and 20 to 19 at tlie
beginning. of the last period.

R. Mitchell, who rang up 25
‘points ‘against Newton, couldn’t
dent the El Dorado defense so
successfully and tallied only eight
points against the Wildcats’ bound-
ing ball hawks. Team _ scoring
honors fell to his younger brother,
Guy, who counted an even dozen,
while McSpadden, El Dorado
center, was high for both teams
with 13.

The score was tied three times
and El Dorado had been in the lea@
only once up until McSpadden’s
basket and free throw at the be-
ginning of. the last quarter, which
sent the Wildcats ahead, 22 to 20.
Hutchinson tied the score three
times ofter that but never regained
the lead. R. Mitchell drove in for
a set-up with 26 seconds to play
and was-fouled by Miller and con-
verted both times to set the stage
for theb rief, overtime stanza.

~The floor work and passing of
Love sparked Hutchinson’s attack,
while Kent and Covert starred with
MecSpadden for El Dorado.

 

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The four finalists in Newton’s
regional basketball tournament re-
ceived major consideration in the
selection of the Kansan’s all-tour-
nament teams. The champion El
Dorado Wildcats landed three play-
ey on the Class A and Hutchinson
wo.

Inman and Peabody were each
awarded two places on the Class B
quintet, and the fifth position went
to Buhler. Jay Payton of Newton
was named as a guard on the class
A second team.

The all-star nominees follow:

Class A—First Team

Forwards—Kent, El Dorado, and
R. Mitchell, Hutchinson; center—
McSpadden, El Dorado (Capt.);
guards—Love,’ Hutchinson, and
Covert, El Dorado.

Second Team

Forwards-—Geymann, El Dorado, }'
and G. Mitchell, Hutchinosn; cen- |
ter—Nordstrom, Lyons, and
Grimm and Bellatti, _.ewton; cen-
ter—McClour, Newton; guards—
Stevens, Hutchinson; de la Torre,
Lyons, and Nebergall, Newton.