Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1932-02-25
Six Teams Take Part in
Amateur Basketball Play
off Saturday, Sunday.
Champions Take Difficult
Schedule of Three Games
to Win HOnOrS.

The Sandstone independent basket
ball team was crowned champion in
the final game of series of seven
games staged as fitting climax to
a season of as fine a brand of basket
ball the past winter as has been seen
in this section of the state for many
years.
The tournament, which took place
Saturday night, Sunday afternoon and
night in the Willow River high school
gymnasium saw six representative
teams of the district compete for
honOrs and for the privilege to enter
the state amateur basketball tourna-
ment to be held in the Minneapolis
Auditorium March 1-6. The event
was sponsored by the Willow River
basketball squad and was attended
by fair sized and enthusiastic crowd.
Close Competition.
Hard fought and closely contested
games featured practically through
out the event which saw the Wright
A. c. club paired with the Askov ALI
stars to open the play. This game
took place Saturday night at o'clock
and the upstate boys dimmed Askov's
chance for highest honors by a score
of % to 16. This was a slow game
with neither team hitting their nat
ural stride.
Willow River Beats Barnum.
In the next contest Saturday night
the Willow River team stretched a
small margin of victory in the last
few minutes of play to emerge with
% to 81 triumph over the Barnum
Battlers. This game was first in one
teams favor and then the others
until by last minute rush the Will
low-ites plunged ahead. Both teams
played a fast and smooth system of
basketball with practically every man
of both lineups carrying his end of
the gruelling burden Of 40 minutes
play.
Sandstone Takes Overtime Game.
In one of the longest and most des-
perately contested games of basketball
seen in Pine county for some time
Sandstone took the meagre measure
of Hinckley by the score of 33 to 80.
The game went into three overtime
periods of five minutes each before
the superior stamina of the Quarry
City team displayed its superiority.
Hinckley started fast in this game
and ran up score of - to 1 in the
first quarter to completely play the
boys from Sandstone off their feet,
but Sandstone, in the second half dis
played a driving attack which Hinck-
ley could not stave off and slowly but
surely the margin of points which
Hinckley had gained in the first half
was Whitfield down until at the whistle
to end the regular playing period a
tie score was chalked on the board.
Three overtime periods were neces-
sary before the game was ended
Three of Sandstone's players were
elected with four personal fouls each
while Hinckley suffered slightly to
its lineup when Nichols was forced
from the game with an injured ankle
and Stanchfield the individual star of
the team, suffered a bruised eye.
In the draw for the final days
placings after this game, Wright,
AskOv's nemesis, received a bye which,
carried them into the championship.
bracket and Sandstone and Willow
River played off Sunday afternoon to-
send Sandstone into the champion
ship game as Wright's opponent with
20 to Is victory over the Willow
boys.
The three losers of Saturday nights:
hostllitles drew for places in the con-,
ISOLATION matches and Askov drew a.
bye to appear in the final consultations
game Sunday night as a curtain raiser
to the Sandstone-Wright champion
snip game. Barnum and Hinckley
were matched for Sunday afternoon.
Bamum Beats Hinckley.
The Barnum boys came back with a
vengeance after losing the hard
fought game to Willow River the
night before and downed Hinckley
Sunday afternoon to earn them
chance at Askov. Askov, however,
proved too stubborn for the northern
boys and they went down in defeat
81 to 10. Marvin Petersen, high
scorer for Askov with IL points.
dropped in the tying basket and the
game remained tied until the final
when the ball was dropped
through the loop to give Askov a very
close contest. Medic of Barnum,
seemed to have a natural tendency
to make baskets and did much dam
age to the comport of opposing play
ers, but was stopped almost complete
ly in the Askov game by Frank Grafel-
man.
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