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Show Jr. Jazz heads for tournament In key games that had the potential of tightening up both divisions in the seventh and eighth grade Jr. Jazz this past week, both the Pacers and the Spirits, who are division leaders, withstood the challenge of the Jazz and Spurs. The loss by the Spurs put them below the .500 mark for the first time in several years. The Spirits met the challenge of a very good Jazz team as they came back from a 0 to 6 deficit and tied the score at 6-all, and then 8-all at the end of the first quarter. Jeff Swenson, Church and Davis with 12, 9 and 8 points respectively led the comeback Spirit team. Davis scored 8 big points in the second quarter to put the SPirits ahead to stay. The win assures the Spirits the Division II crown. The Pacers beat the Spurs, 35-25. A cold third quarter kept the Spurs from making their long . awaited comeback in Division I. Henry led the Pacers as they secured Division I by scoring 14 big points. Van Dyke worked for 13 big points. The Bucks beat the Suns 37-24. Rosenlof and Christensen with 12 and 10 points respectively, helped the Bucks to their highest position in two years as the expansion team tied for the third place in Division II. A big third quarter that saw the Bucks score 9 points opened up a rather tight game. Webber with 12 and Chipman with 8 led the Sun's team. The Celtics surprised the Cougars 37 to 30. In what proved to be the closest game of the day, the Celtics won in the final few minutes by three key buckets by Hullinger and 100 percent per-cent foul shooting as Hardman hit four of four shots from the line. The game was tied numerous times, and as late as two minutes to go the game was still in question. Hullinger, Hardman and Gilbert with 10, 9 and 8 points, were the leaders of the Celtics while Green and Sanderson with 10 and 9 points kept the Cougars in the game. The Lakers beat the Knicks, 45 to 37. In the last game of the day, ft, T Lakers assured themselves of ( I second place finish in Division I a; they beat an improving Knitfc team. The Lakers started fast at,; j were led by Rown with 15, Wale 2 with 14 and Robinson with 10, oil $ to have the Knicks come back at; ft play even ball the remainder of tk m game. The Knicks were led k tM Hansgen with 12 and Cordner ,j( 8. j A reminder, the league game & end on March 2, while the leap pet tournament begins on March 5 ali Jin p.m. in the Community Center. W Division I A Pacers n flea Lakers t; and Spurs if, ipsi Celtics H ho Knicks H Division II i Spirits M Argi Jazz U lie i Bucks H touri Cougars V. In Suns H Pile Plun able |