|Beat Pretty Prairie
44-30 in Final Game

Marks Third Victory Over
Mid-Kansas League
Rival

The Halstead Dragons retained
the state championship in class
,B by defeating the Pretty Prairie
Bulldogs 44-30 in the finals at Em-
| porta. Saturday nigltt before a.
|record crowd of 4,600 spectators.
| The two Mid-Kansas league. riv-
jals reached the championship
|round by turning in lopsided
scores in Friday night’s opening:
| round—Pretty Prairie downing De
|Soto 61-39 and Halstead winning
over Courtland 61-34.

Anthony won the championship.
lin class A Saturday night by
_trouncing Turner 44-28 and Salina
|}edged out Topeka 45-43 in a thril-
ling finish for the title in class

Halstead-Courtland /

| The Courtland Tigers put up a
‘stiff battle at the start of the game
land led twice during the first
| quarter, 5-4 and 8-6. However, by
/the end of the period the Dragons
| were out in front 13-10 and con.
|tinued to widen their margin as
,the game went on, leading 26-16
lat the half and 46-21 at the three-
| quarters’ mark.

England paced the Dragons with
12 field goals and three free

;throws for 27 points. Smiley and
| Stahlheber each collected 8 points,
|Benbrook 6, and Vierthaler, Bob
| Wiederstein, and Koehn each 4.
|Pounds led the scoring for Court-
jland with 10 points while Stokes
}and ‘Blackburn each caged 8. |

Halstead-Pretty Prairie

| McCaslin’s tip-in gave Pretty
Prairie a 2-point lead to start the
game but Benbrook matched it to
knot the count. Halstead went
ahead 5-2 on-a free throw by Eng-
land and a basket by Stahlheber
; but two jump shots by Hess and a
|basket by Jones put the Bulldogs
/out in front 8-6. Just before the
|quarter closed Stahlheber hit for
|his second bucket to tie the count
‘at’ 8-all at the intermission;

Pretty Prairie led during the en-
tire second period except for a
short time when the Dragons were
out in front.13-12. The widest mar.

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