The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1939-02-16
Alex Won
From Locals
Score 28-25
Morris Added To
String of Wins With
Score of 1918
NEAR SEASONS END
Meet Long Prairie
And Wadena Friday
And Saturday

Losing first to Alexandria in a
fuzzy ball game Saturday and then
swapping Morris in a scoring bar
rage, the Toftness cagers look on
the tail end of the scheduled sea-
SON now. Long Prairie ends dis
trict play; Wadena looms as for
midable opponent from a tough
conference that should give the
boys the kind of training they need
for tourney play. Both games, Fri
day and Saturday, are on foreign
courts.
This week the postponed Osakis
game date will be set. Pairings
for sub-district will be made this
week. In the interim Melrose and
Sank Centre stand of with respect
full awe of each other, and hope
it won't be a first round meeting
for the two in the sub-district tus-
sles at Swanville the first week in
March.
Sank Centre IS; Morris ID
Breaking down what potentially
was a dangerous Morris attack,
Sank Centre achieved a defensive
victory for three straight quarters,
then in the fourth launched a driv-
ing attack that broke the spirit
of the boys from the west and
drove on to win 35 to 10. 1t gave
them the biggest margin over any
team all season.
Taking lead to 2 at the first
quarter, Sank Centre moved into a
13 to lead at the half and through
out maintained that six point mar
gin in the race of terrific barrage
Of Morris shooting that couldn't
find the hoop. Leading p to Is
at the start of the fourth quarter,
the locals launched a driving, spir-
tied attack that completely broke
the spirit of Morris. Smith alone
for Morris scored; Nelson made a
free throw. For Sank Centre
Kringen, Brown, Pangburn, Ethun,
Hildebrand, Larson were dumping
the buckets for a 14-point quarter.
Morris was dangerous through
out. In Nelson, Moffatt, Troelson
and Houston they held dangerous
scorers. But Morris played in
tough luck for three quarters. Eas-
lily holding their own on floor play,
they set up time and again, bore in
to shoot, but couldn't click. They
were met too with defensive coun-
ter that was one Of the top defen-
sive performances of this Sank
Centre club. While Sank Centre
seemed not in trouble with six
point margin throughout yet there
was the feeling that these Morris
boys had good enough floor work
to warrant their dumping a few
buckets before the game wound up.
But that wasn't to be.
Two new scoring possibilities
rose to heights in this game. While
Pangburn, by virtue Of four free
throws, ranked highest with eight
points, it was Brown and Kringen
who each scored 7. Brown who
started at the regular forward posi-
ton for the first time, ripened as
Toftness expected, was a demon on
floor play and waltzed in for his
share of points. Kringen showed
his greatest drive Of the year when
he caught 7 points; even then he
didn't neglect his floor work.
Ethun seemed to have an off
night. He fouled three times in
such short order he had to be re-
placed. That gave Larson his
chance to show offensive drive that
was his tops. Larson really pulled
in there Monday. One in particular
he recovered and while still Off his
feet in the air, checked the ball
through the hoop. In the late quar-
ter when Deziel, Hildebrand and
Jackson relieved those boys didn't
slacken the pace set by the others.
The first half saw little scoring.
Only Ethun scored from the field
in the first quarter. But there were
snatches of passing and floor play
that transcribed other perform
ances. One instance Larson and
Conkey were whipping the pill
about when Kringen broke. The
pass was good and his basket fol-
lowed. Nelson, deep in the second
quarter, scored first from the field
for Morris. In the third quarter
alone Morris took over. Houston,
Moifatt, Wagner. and Troelson, us
ing quick breaks. stormed in to
score 8 points. Sank Centre held
IN the lead with an 8 point rally
to the scoring lane.
with the second team setting the
pace Sank Centre took two ball
rames from Morris. With Hide