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Show Jr Jazz excitement mounts . . .. ..- pause. ' u "6 "'. The Bucks surprised the Kn 31 to 26. Their victory capped I day of surprises and unexpec : turn arounds as the fast-improvi Bucks fought back from a 15 ? first quarter deficit to tie the sal'' at half-time, 16 to 16. m-The m-The game was still in doubt am could have gone either way afu third quarter score of 24 to 20 fort Bucks. The Bucks hit a couple! key shots while the Knicks j! could not get that basket when tl' needed it to pull even with i Bucks. Both teams had balanced scon with Clark getting 12 and RosJ; with 9 leading the Bucks powered offense, while Franm and Wilkerson with 6 each 1 disappointed Knicks team. ' But word is watch and wait-: Coach John Wardenburg seems have his team peak out at just right time. He has a sleeper in tt continually developing Nelson Nelson might just surprise teams as they get into the eiti tournament. Don't count the Knicfci out! also helped the Cougars causey . The Spurs barely got past tne Lakers 24 to 22. Van Dyke with 15 points led the Spurs to a hard earned victory over the pesxy Ss. ht fwith entered the scoring column with Johnson with 5 and Walker and Craighead with 4 each lea ding the way. Van Dyke and Allred proved 0 b? too much in the important fourth ThSpurs led 15 to 14 at half time, and then dropped behind 22 to 18 in the third quarter. Then came the surprise. The Spurs scored 6 in the fourth quarter while holding the Lakers scoreless. The victory for the Lakers only tightens up the race in Division I. The Pacers beat the Celtics, 24 to 21 The Celtics lost a heart breaker this past Saturday. They held a 17 to 13 third quarter lead, and in the fourth quarter Fraughton singlehandedly scored 9 out of his game high 13 points to out score the Celtics 11 to 4 to nail down this most important victory.- A much-improved much-improved Butterfield led the well- by Mary Coons The Jazz ran past the Suns on Saturday, 38 to 24. The Jazz remained on the heels ot the unbeaten Spirit team with a big third quarter scoring spree led by Atwood with 10 and Ash with 8 to beat the determined Sun's team. The Jazz cause was also helped by Jacklin and Giles, who had 6 each. The Suns overcame a very cold first half to play the Jazz even the second half. The Suns were hurt by a lack of accuracy from the foul line. The Spirits almost doubled the score by beating the Cougars, 41 to 21. . The Spirits got over a big hurdle in the drive for an undefeated season as they beat the Cougars with a balanced scoring attack that saw Swenson and Church with 8 each while Zorn, Weight and Newman scored 6 each. The Cougars had great hopes as Green was back in uniform, but certainly not back to full strength as he only garnered 4 points. Sanderson San-derson with 9 and Southam with 4 |
