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Show Midget Quintet Crushes Weciders in Opener i South's rampaging midget hoop team lived up to its expectation, as Coach Nate Long's cagesters thoroughly thor-oughly crushed the opposing Panthers Pan-thers by a lop-sided score of 32 to 16 on the West floor. Once again it seems as if Dependable De-pendable Nate's hoop clan has molded into a championship squad capable of attaining its fourth straight undefeated year. Thursday's victory now gives South high school a one game lead over the Westerners in the initial Big Three series. First Quarter Hard Fought The invading Cubs found a smooth, hard fighting Panther quintet take to the floor during the first half as both teams vainly attempted at-tempted to surge ahead. The quarter quar-ter ended with South tied to West at 7 all. Although both squads were a bit erratic and wild in their initial debut, de-but, it was an evenly matched contest con-test during the first half. The Blue and White boys barely eeked out a slim lead of one point as the gun eded the half, the score being 11-12. Cubs Start Blitzkreig A much improved Cubs' quintet took to the "two-by-four" field as the last half of the game saw what seemed to be a nip and tuck contest con-test turned into a South "blitzkreig." "blitz-kreig." The Cubs hit the stride as they tanked one basket after another an-other to increase their slim lead to a safe and high score of 23 to 16 at the close of the third canto. Not only did the invading Southern clan increase the lead but a tight defensive stopped the red and black shirted Panthers from keeping keep-ing uo with their rivals. In the last quarter, the feeble Weciders became erratic and rattled rat-tled as they tried long shots one after af-ter another without success. The Cubs completely dominated the final fi-nal lap as they started a scoring spree that gave them a well earned 32 to 16 victory. Smith High Scorer in Tilt Co-Captain Howard Smith displayed dis-played great offensive spark as he tallied twelve points to lead all scorers. Fellow mate, forward Brower, followed closely with ten points. It was, however, the cooperation co-operation of every member of the midget clan that gave South its first victory. For the Panther clan, James Corbin, center, and Joe Tobari, forward, for-ward, performed brilliantly. |