The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1938-03-24
Sank Centre
Lost First
Region Battle
MOorhead Won By Score Of
AZ To "a Friday
Evening
CONSOLATION LOSER
@ osby-Ironton Regional
Winners To Go To State
Contest

Sank Centre, making its first
Region six bid in thirteen years,
was shunted out Of the race in the
opening clash Friday evening by a
more smoothly oiled machine than
their own, Moorhead, AZ to "a, then
muffed try at consolation honors
when they lost to Breckenridge 80
to 16.
damned to the rafters nearly
two thousand, including couple
hundred from this city, saw the
classic battles get under way,
watched Crosby-Ironton and Moor
head down their weaker opponents
to go into the finals. Moorhead,
easily smothering the locals after
they had stuck it out for a half,
had an edge on Crosby by virtue of
their easy win. Crosby, in the Sec
ond game, had its hands full down.
ing a fighting, squirming Brecken-
ridge club "a to Is. Crosby, rid
ing on its strength, dominated
Moorhead % to % in the finals to
enter the state meet in the top
eight teams of the state.
Sank Centre, playing the best ball
they could produce that evening,
was caught up in it's own inexperi-
ence, and the veteran club of Moor
head set a telling pace that settled
into a last half rout. Moorhead
scored at will in the last quarter.
For two of the locals it marked
their last play of the season. Sen
iors were Ray Walker and Rich
Hoffman. Walker, veteran forward,
turned in one Of his best perform
ances when he played with every
thing he had to stop that Moorhead
onslaught and aid in the attack.
And Kringen played one Of his fin
est games with a defensive counter.
Obviously what ultimately crack
ed the Sank Centre attempts was
Moorhead's rushing defense far in
the back court. That sort Of de-
tense had worried the locals all
season, and Moorhead bored in
again and again to stop the attack.
It required the services Of Walker,
Kringen and Larsen to bring the
ball UP.
Moorhead pulled their punches In
the first half, made no attempts to
shoot from the court. They gave
Sank Centre an opportunity to
play the defensive tight and took
their chances on working the ball
in. Running up the first six points,
Mcorhead was held at that point.
Two long shots by Pangburn and
Larson spread the Moorhead de-
Tense, allowed Jackson to sneak in
for a tip in shot. Larson took the
first three points when he was
fouled as his shot went through.
Kringen and Walker, connecting
free throws, ran the quarter lead to
10 to 6.
Free throws kept the locals in
the race for the first half. Six of
the twelve points of the locals were
free throws, and it was far in the
third quarter before a free throw
was missed.
Second quarter scoring was
slight. Moorhead got one basket.
and three free shots. Larson and
Walker each capitalized free
throw to take the half time lead IL
to II.
Moorhead, maintaining a smooth
ly passing offensive, used three
men back on the attack. They took
no long shots, but awaited the
breaks. But the bottle neck defense
that Toftness planned that sent
them down the center lane stymied
these breaks. Extensively the locals
had one spark when three shots
fell in quick succession, then the
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