Show Weber Battles Baffles Grant Tech Five T Tonight HUTCHINSON Kan March 21 UP Utah Wi-Utah Utah California and Kansas teams will wind up play Thursday night in the championship quarterfinals quarterfinals quarterfinals of the National Junior College Athletic basl basketball tournament Weber college Ogden Utah faces face Grant Tech of Del Paso Heights Cal at 9 pm p.m. EST in one of the quarterfinal games and two region six teams meet in Ill the other Host team Hutchison Kan and Dodge City Kan are scheduled scheduled scheduled sched sched- for 1030 pm p.m. EST Weber college thumped Abraham Baldwin Agricultural college of ot Tipton Ga 70 64 to win a berth berthin in the quarterfinals The Baldwin Weber contest was wasa a wide open affair marked by many long shots Buck Brannen Baldwin forward tied the tourney record of oC 2 27 points to take scoring honors donors The record had been set bv by Ted Tanne of i I j j I I 1 I I Ii I college Bremerton Wash Neville Ne lifts Hits 22 Weber guard Floyd Neville led the thc Warriors account accounting ng for 22 points It was vas his play which consistently consistently consistently con con- penetrated the Stallions Stallions' defenses After hitting a few long shots at the start Neville repeatedly repeatedly repeat repeat- edly outmaneuvered his opponents by faking a long one getting his guard off balance and nd driving ing in inor for or a set The two teams battled on near- near even cven terms through the first half with Weber's Webers forward Fay Rippon sinking a long one from to give gi the a 36 34 lead at atthe atthe atthe the rest Through the first 10 minutes of the second half Weber maintained an almost constant lead of two or three points Point Nine-Point Lead Then with five ne minutes remaining remaining remain- remain I ing ng Keith Sewell vell and Wayne Vayne Cottie Cottie Cot- Cot tie le sparked a drive that pushed the he Wildcats into a point nine-point lead Baldwin tried desperately to rally in n the closing minutes but couldn't quite make it I Brannen led the closing dr drive c I but missed two free throws in the final two vo minutes 1 aid In I 1 It pt pI tp fg I ft pe PC tr t. tr'S 5 S 3 3 13 Brannen 12 1231 3 1 27 1 3 1 0 1 G 6 Rippon Batton 6 3 30 0 15 i 3 0 11 0 0 0 0 a 1 1002 0 0 2 Blackburn Thompson 0 0 1 0 15 5 1 1311 3 11 6 13 1 3 13 8 6 2 24 24 Ne 0 0 0 0 1 1042 0 04 4 2 1 1254 2 5 4 0 0 0 0 Downs Down Edwards 2 2125 1 2 5 o 0 1 0 1 StoneR 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 Wallace Wallce 28 25 11 U IS 18 70 10 Total Tola 27 10 17 64 |