Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 64, No. 47, Ed. 1 Monday, February 24, 1986 Page: 4 of 10
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4 Altus (OK) Times, Monday, February 24,1986
Duke moves within win of state tournament
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eight-point run to regain the lead
in the first quarter.
Gotebo ran off six straight tallies (5248) with just 19 seconds left in the
on three occasions and the leading to pull within a point (17-16) but the
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eighth game in their last nine outings eight-of-eight from the free throw
The Bulldogs'Jones, who was dead hitting only 39 percent on 21-of-54
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only eight-of-23.
Phillips nailed a 25-footer with 3:28 scoreboard ringing by tickling the
left in the third quarter to increase
Bulldogs’ leading scorer with 24 the Bulldog lead to four, 37-33. Two
Mangum wins district
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twine for 28 points to close out the
game, 15 of which came from the
defense, led by ball-hawking guards
Tracey Lane, Paula Sadler, Jill Mat-
thews and Lee Ann Graumann, stifl-
changing hands six times before
Darby knocked in a 20-footer at the
five-second mark to give the Tigers a
36-35 lead. Darby tallied eight of
Duke’s 12 points in that third period.
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line in a two-and-a-half minute span
to hand Clester Harrington’s gutsy
Dawgs a 26-25 lead.
timeout. He was promptly whistled
for a Technical foul by official Bob
Hartley. Amazed, Menefee pro-
tested. Hartley then slapped another
‘T on the Mac mentor.
three-of-four from the line.
The Highlanders controlled the
boards, badly outrebounding the
Dawgs 47-29 and hitting on 18-of45
from the field, good for a 40 percent
shooting night. Altus fared no better,
field goal attempts. The Bulldogs
were on target on 17-of-25 from the
line, while Mac pumped in 29-of-43
from the charity stripe.
The loss evens out the Bulldogs’
season mark at 11-11, while Macar-
thur has now won four conference en-
counters in a row
Altus now looks towards the post-
season District Tournament on a less
than encouraging note as they are
slated to battle the Duncan Demons,
a team that has already beaten them
twice in the past two weeks, in a first-
round game Friday at Lawton
Eisenhower.
game.
With 15 seconds to go, King con-
nected on a free throw but missed his
Saturday night to Lawton Macar-
thur, 65-59, in an odd, foul-plagued
contest that took the spotlight away
from the players and put it on the
men in the striped shirts.
A total of 49 personals, 27 on Altus
in the overtime, Randy Welch netted
a charity toss to put Duke ahead,
4847. But Dill City regained the lead
(49-48) on a Jack Mendez jumper
with 1:30 remaining.
Darby's two free throws with 59
Coyotes managed hold on for a 21-18
lead at halftime.
cent) from the field.
Duke jumped to a 6-3 lead with 3:17
left in the opening period but Dill Ci-
ty ran of the six points to the quarter
to grab a 9-6 advantage.
The Tigers came back to square
things at 12-all with 5:03 to go in the
second stanza and the score was tied
four more times in the half before
Michael Milner swished a jumper
from the top of the key at the buzzer
to hand Duke a 24-22 lead at halftime.
It remained a see-saw battle in the
third quarter with the score knotted
Battles and Black led Gotebo with
20 and 16 points, respectively. Jen-
nifer Dugan scored a game-high 26
for Coyotes.
Lone Wolf hit an amazing 73 per-
cent of its field goal attempts but ws
hurt by 11 turnovers. Gotebo con-
nected on 67 percent of its shots from
the floor and was made just six
miscues.
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a full minute. In fact the Highlanders
were in the one-and-one situation
with only 1:57 expired in the opening
quarter
Following Derrick Bailey's game-
opening basket for Altus, Macarthur
scored eight straight points, six com-
ing on foul shots, to snare an 8-2 lead.
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mainder of the half.
Mangum expanded its lead to 18
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Midway through the third period, second one. Robert S hafer grabbed
Lone Wolf outscored 8-1 to forge a the rebound and score to cut the
31-23 advantage. But Kathy Battles margin to a point (52-51).
Phillips penetrated the Highlander 14-of-14, got nothing but net on the
zone for layup, was fouled in the pro resulting four foul shots to give the
cess (what else’) and converted the Dawgs their biggest bulge of the
pressure of its own. Kelli Kelly, the points (38-20) early in the second half
dandy Mangum playmaker, led the before Sayre used a 10-2 spree to
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DUKE 55, DILL CITY 50, OT
Boys Championship
DUKE - Darby 10-9-29, Milner +2-10, Weleh
3-1-7. Hall 2-1-3, Combs 1-2-4. Totals 20-15-55. PF
13.
DILL CITY - J. Mendez 7-5-19, Walters 7-0-14,
M. Newman 1-1-13, Medlock 1-244. Totals 21-8-50.
PF 21.
Duke......3 18 12 9 10 - 35
Dili City.9 13 13 10 5 - 50
GOTEBO «, LONE WOLF «
Girls Championship
GOTEBO - Battles 8-4-26, Black 6-4-16, Albright
0-4-4. Woods 1-1-3.1 aufer 1-0-2. Totals 10-13-45. PF
9. Guards - Woods, Squires, Riley, Laufer.
LONE WOLF - Dugan 11-4-20, Shatswell +0-8,
Burnett 4-0-8. Totals 19-4-42. PF 15. Guards -
Meinert, Thur, R. Corbett, D. Corbett.
I one Woll.. 15 6 10 11 - 42
Gotebo.....8 10 12 15 - 45
ELDORADO 53, GRANDFIELD 52
Boys
ELDORADO - Thompson 7-4-19. King 4-4-12.
Walker 24-10. Roe 344. Shaler 2-0-4, Springs
1-1-3. Totals 19-15-53. PF 13.
GRANDFIELD - Greer 8-2-18, Clemer 5-2-12.
Palmer 54-10. Torries 444. Simpson 2-0-4. Totals
24-4-52. PF 16.
Eldorado....6 15 15 17 - 53
Grandfield.17 7 12 10 - 52
CANUTE 34. CARTER 40, OT
Girls
CANUTE - Croley 114-28, Spitz 0-2-14, Snowder
344, Kamphaus 344. Totals 234-54. PF 17.
Guards - Whaley, Schachle, C. Wilson, S. Spitz.
CARTER - Smith 9-2-20, L. Hopkins 5-5-15,
Dyer 54-14. Totals 19-1149. PF 15. Guards -
Carter. York, Hodge.
Canute.....8 6 10 23 7 - 54
Carter.....12 12 10 13 - 49
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points before he fouled out (as did quick hoops by the Highlanders knot- charity line. In comparison—the
Marquette Todd and Scott Kirby), hit ted the count at 37-37. The with 1:09 Bulldogs got zip—absolutely none—
two quick buckets to pull Altus back remaining in the period, Phillips was from the stripe in the final period of
within two, 8-6. good on two free throws to set the play and despite outscoring Mac 8-6
But Macarthur, making the most stage for a strange sequence of from the field, came out on the short
of frequent visits to the charity events that, seemingly, should have end of the 65-59 final score.
stripe, closed out the period with a bee the turning point in the game Alfred Willis, was good for 12-Of-14
16-10 advantage, that was achieved Following a Highlander walking free tosses for the Highlanders to
mostly on the strength of eight sue- violation with a minute to go in the finish with 20 points, while Phillips
cessful shots from the foul line third quarter, Mac Coach Menefee added 13 for Altus on five hoops and
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and 22 on the Highlanders, were slap- three-point opportunity to put the game at six points, 43-37. It appeared
ped on both teams and 68 foul shots Dawgs up by four, 29-25, but two Mac that Altus was on the verge of break-
were attempted before the final horn charity tosses by Rod Fisher with ing out of their current slump.
mercifully turned out the lights on two seconds remaining before the But fate and fouls were not to be so
the regular season-ending Southern half, sliced the span to 29-27. kind to the struggling Dawgs.
Conference battle. Fisher, who connected on 10-of-14 Macarthur opened the final stanza
The Bulldogs got an inkling that from the line and registered nine by running off seven unanswered
they might be in for a long night hoops from the field, took game scor- points, and, yes, three of those came
when Terry Jones was saddled with ing honors by racking up 28 points for via the charity stripe, to regain a
his second personal and Keith Coach Hartwell Menefee’s one-point, 44-43 lead.
Phillips was whistled for a Technical Highlanders. At this point, the game had
(nobody has figured out why yet) The Bulldogs were good on nine- disintegrated into a never-ending
before the players had been the court of-12 from the stripe in the first half, series of trips to the foul line that had
Dill City battled back in the fourth hit two field goals and a free throw After a Bearcat turnover, the Pan-
quarter to to tie the score (45-45) on and Karen Black added a fielder as thers got the ball to Thompson on the
Jon Medlock’s 14-foot jumper with Gotebo cashed in on two Coyote tur- right baseline and he delivered his
just 20 seconds left. novers to narrow the margin to 31-30 game-winning turnaround jumper
The Tigers had chances to win it in heading into the final period. from about five feet out.
the final minute of regulation but With the score tied at 36, Marlia Thompson topped Eldorado with 18
three times missed the front ends of Woods switched from guard to for- points. King and Michael Walker ad-
one-and-one free throw oppor- ward and provided a three-point play ded 12 and 10 tallies, respectively, for
tunities. to put the Hornets ahead (39-36) and the Panthers.
After the teams swapped baskets they never relinquished that lead.
throught the game as the Tigers points before being ejected from the Trailing 17-6 at the end of the first
managed only 20 of 54 shots (37 per- game in the waning seconds. Corey quarter, the Panthers came back
while Macarthur found the range on both Harrington and Menefee pulling
11-of-17 freebie attampts. Neither out their hair. “It looks like they
team was able to get any degree con- want us to play ‘no-touch’,” Harr-
tinuity going for them on offense and ington finally said in frustration.
as a result Altus hit only 10-of-32 But the Highlanders had much the
from the field, while Mac managed better of it as the clock wound
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Macarthur.. 11 10 28-65 Coyotes were nipped by Gotebo, 45-42. (Staff Photo)
the one-and-one situation with 3:22
left in the second quarter, Altus’
Mr. Jones went on a tear, knocking in
ed Sayre’s offense, enabling the attack with 29 points and sophomore close the gap to 10 points (40-30) with
Lady Tigers to win the Class 2A Girls Tara Staton added 20 for the Lady two minutes to go in the third
District basketball champion hip, Tigers. quarter. But that’s as close as the
59-49, Saturday night. With the score knotted for the fifth Lady Eagles could come.
Sayre didn’t go home empty- time at 10, Kelly took charge by fir- With Mangum still up by 10 points
handed, though, as the Eagles ingin 14 points during a 16-0 Mangum (42-32) at the end of the third period,
defeated Mangum, 58-42, for the run in a short span overlapping the Kelly and Staton keyed a decisive 8-1
boys’ championship trophy. tail end of the opening period and spree at the start of the final period
... t c. i: , 4. n , start of the second stanza. and the Lady Tigers roared out to
„Alfourfin 2Atsadyancedttothis During that surge, Mangum’s their biggest bulge at 19 points
wen which beg^ ThuS hard-pressing guards were certainly (56-37) with three minutes left,
mem, wnicn oegins i um at 1 doing their part by forcing the Sayre Sayre committed 16 turnovers, six
d , forwards into five critical turnovers, more than Mangum. But the Lady
Coach Jim Callen’s Mangum’s The Lady Eagles never got off a shot Tigers played flawlessly while erec-
girls, 18-5 and ranked 20th in the during those four minutes, while ting their 16-point lead in the first
state, will oppose Cordell (16-7) in Mangum was building its 26-10 lead. half.
the Regional winners’ bracket at 7:30 High-scoring Shannon McKennon,
D.m. Thursday. who finished with 32 points, despite THE FIRST HALF of the boys’ ti-
The Mangum boys (5-17) of Coach having an off night-night (14 of 27 tie bout was nip-and-tuck with six
Roger Ford will meet Cordell (15-8) from the field), finally hit a follow lead changes, seven ties and never
in the losers’ bracket at 4:20 p.m. shot that ended the Sayre drought
Thursday, with 3:05 left in the first half and the (See * LADY TIGERS next page)
Walters and Mike Newman added 14 strong to cut the margin to 24-21 at
and 13, respectively, for Dill City. halftime.
Duke will carry a sparkling 24-3 With five minutes left in the third
record into the area tournament, quarter, Eldorado made its move by
while Dill City advances in the outscoring the Bearcats 9-4 and pull-
losers’ bracket with a 15-12 mark. ed even at 36 on Chuck King’s two
free throws with 34 seconds to go in
IN THE GIRLS championship the period.
game, the Gotebo Hornets came lagging by two (44-42) with 4:57 to
from behind to edge Lone Wolf, 45-42. go, Eldorado reeled off six
Lone Wolf sprinted to a 15-8 lead unanswered tallies to go in front
behind Terri Shatswell’s eight points (48-44) but the Bearcats produced an
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By RICHARD RIALS “This team has a lot of heart and ed their way through the losers’ Scott Greer led Grandfield with 18
38 Blake Darby hit four free throws in never gives up no matter how things bracket to earn a berth in the area markers.
5a the final minute of overtime to lift are going," said Duke coach Kit tournament. Brian Thompson’s short Eldorado will take a 17-12 record
k‛5 the Duke Tigers to a 55-50 win over Lewis. "It feels realy good to be go- jumper with three seconds left was into the area tournament.
5 Dill City in the championship finals ing to the area tournament in the the ticket for the Panthers as they
BK of the Class B Regional basketball winners’ bracket.” nipped Grandfield, 53-52. In other losers’ bracket action, the
F* 1 tournament Saturday at Western Darby led Duke with 29 points and Eldorado fell behind, 15-2, early Canute girls eliminated Carter,
E Oklahoma State College. Milner tossed in 10 for the Tigers. because of cold shooting and a lack of 54-49, in overtime.
Cold shooting plagued Duke Mendez paced Dill City with 19 rebounding.
with 15 seconds showing to secure the
hard-earned win for the Tigers. THE ELDORADO Panthers battl-
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