The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1939-02-23

three minutes to go that the Long
Prairie team snapped. Harrasseu
and heckled defensively, Long Prai-
rie couldn't convert in this final
frame. With a 6-point lead they
attempted to stall with three min
utes. Larson and Brown scored
last for the locals closing the gap
to two points.
There were exactly five seconds
to go as the Main Streeters stormed
down the floor again, while fans
were completely wild. Just before
Brown took q last shot at the bas-
ket, the horn sounded games end.
1t was forward VOLTS efforts that
kept Long Prairie in the scoring
swim. With Is points to tally high
point man of the game, Wolf all
but held the offensive sway Of the
team on top.
For Sank Centre jackson scored
highest with points. But an I'M
usual factor, evidenced so many
times in this Sank Centre club, was
the evenly divided scoring. Brown,
Pangburn, Conkey, Larson, and
Hildebrand all contributed with
four points. Kringen caught three.
While Long Prairie waltzed on to
win, teams scored even from the
floor with II field goals.
Long Prairie simply heckles a
team to death. They play race
horse style with fast breaks, con-
vert only a small fraction of their
shots. But they're boring in and
looking for the breaks. And Fri
day they were getting them. A
bad batch Of first quarter passing,
that ultimately removed the regu-
lars from the court found Long
Prairie intercepting pass after pass
to set up plays for scoring, driving
offensive.
1t was really the reserves night.
But outstanding work was contri-
buted by two of them, Brown and
Hildebrand. Brown, who has been
ripening for a first berth position
all year, rose to new heights Fri
day with his offensive drive. Hill
debrand, pacing the scoring when
the reserves were in there, plays
an effortless game. One bucket
he dumped was a rebound in which
he covered his short for four re-
turns before he dumped it. While
Long Prairie men had him on
height, he converted. Jackson, too,
moved into a new scoring spotlight
with his high-point conversion for
the team. y
In the first quarter Fruetel and
Lubertz converted from the field.
Wolf converted three free throws.
A slap-bang offensive drive, the on
ly spark for the locals in the first
quarter, found Pangburn, Conkey,
Kringen in a driving succession
that upheld scoring. Jackson con-
verted a free throw. Score: Z to Z.
Blake, Wolf, Simonson lead the
Long Prairie second quarter trek.
Kienberger dumped a gift toss. Hill
debrand converted two goals, with
Deziel and Larson contributing free
throws, and Long Prairie moved to
a halftime lead, IA to 13.
In the third quarter Sank Centre
was held without a field goal On
ly Jackson, Larson, Kringen con-
tributed free throws. But Long
Prairie put on their drive in this
frame. Simonson scored twice
Wolf scored twice, Blake, Lubertz
and Wolf followed in that order
with goals in a mad rush to the
basket. Simonson and Wolf added
free throws, marched to a 80 to II
lead.
It was a mad scramble in the
fourth with jackson starting the
scoring pace. Following Jackson's
first bucket were Brown, Jackson,
Conkey, Pangburn, Larson, and
Brown in that order who burned
their way to a 14-point quarter and
all but stole the ball game in the
last minute Of play. Brown scored
in the last minute to close to a
two-point margin. Long Prairie
with a six-point lead had attempted
to stall, nearly made it good, but
their efforts were desperate to stave
off this final Sank Centre drive.
Ethun was scratched from the
game on fragrant foul ruling.
The summary:
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