The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-08
Il TEAMS ADVANCE IN CAGE MEET
PLAY GROWS FAST
AS FINALS NEAR
Girls Semi Finals And Boys
Quarter Finals Con-
tests Slated Today

With playoffs in the boys pre-
liminary brackets and in the girls
quarter-finals, the Star-News-Y.M..
CA. basketball tourney went
through its second lap yesterday
afternoon and night on the Y court.
Play, started at 10 o'clock yester-
day morning ana continued until
IL o'clock last night, with twelve
clubs advancing.
Girls semi-finals and boys quar-
terminals will get under way at
2:30 o'clock this afternoon and will
continue until 10 o'clock tonight.
Yesterdays results:
Bladenboro boys 81, Shallotte 10.
Waccamaw boys 20, Long Creek.
Grady 10.
Dixon boys 26, Wallace "a.
Jacksonville boys rs, Kenansville
10.
Beulaville girls 80, Wallace Z.
Rosehill boys y, Beulaville 10.
Atkinson girls %, Calypso IA.
Chadbourn boys Fl, Southport 1S.
Bolivia girls A, Long Creek
Grady II.
Calypso boys %, Bolivia %.
Rosehill girls So, Cerro Gordo %.
Elizabethtown boys 20, Leland 10.
AS the tourney grew a day old.
er, yesterdays games grew faster
in speed while the scores dropped
to lower average figures. Some OF
the finest examples of team organ.
ization and basketball skill seen in
this section in years was. exhibited.
Today's girls games, in the semi,
finals brackets, will be as follow:
$3.50 p. NJ, Beulaville and Rose.
hill.
8 p. M, Bolivia and Atkinson.
Finals and consolation games in
this division, along with those of
the boys division, will be played
Saturday night.
Boys games today, all in the
quarter finals, will be az follow:
$3.50 p. m.,e Rosehill and Bladen-
boro.
4:3o p. m, Calypso and Chad
bourn.
7 p. M, Jacksonville and Eliza
BEETHOVEN.
9 p. M, Waccamaw and Dixon.
All trophies and awards will be
presented at the conclusion of the
tournament Saturday night at 10
o'clock.
Beulaville Wins
It was two field goals and three
foul shots for the Wallace girls
while their opponents went to town
with both. The score: Beulaville
SO; Wallace Z. The winners brought
to bear one of the most efficient
defenses yet displayed. This, cou-
pied with Wallace's inaccurate shots
at the basket, held the score down.
Beulaville, through this victory, ad-
vanced to the semi-finals.
Anybody's Game
This was anybody's game to the
gun, but Rosehill came through
with a basket in the dying minutes
to take the tilt from Beulaville,
- to 10. Featuring long shots from
all over the court, both outfits put
on some speed and sank a few
very few-remarkable shots. Rouse
led the winners scoring with eight
points. and Byrd, also with eight,
was high for Beulaville.
Atkinson Triumphs
The Atkinson girl cagers proved
too powerful and took their game
from Calypso by the tune Of p to
II. The clubs fought on even terms
in the opening period but Atkinson
forged ahead in the next to lead, II
to 9. at half time. There was but
one point made in the third and
Atkinson took the game after Calyp-
so, scoring eight points, threatened
to rally in the last quarter. Dick
ems and Peterson, with eight points
each, were high for the winners,
while Guy, with eight, led the losers.
Southport Loses
Chadbourn wrapped this one up,
but not in short order. The score:
Chadbourn 21, Southport 1s. Both
displayed outstanding precision and
organization, but Chadbourn was
Just too fast. High man in scoring
was B. Caps with II points, while
Lewis led the losers with 10. This
victory o v Chadbourn into the
quarter finals.
Bolivia Advances
Led by hard playing little Cath
crime stone, the Bolivia girls en-
tered the semi-finais by defeating
Long Creek-Grad decisively. The
score, Bolivia A, Long Creek-Grady
II. The losing outfit played hard
and fast and scrapped even In the
last minutes when they couldn't
win, but the Bolivia girls knew
what they were about. The same
stone that led Bolivia to victory
covered herself with glory when
she rang up a total of 20 points,
the highest yet recorded in the
High ore for Long
Creek.Grady was Moore with eight
points.
Calypso Climbs
They turned on the speed in this
one. and out of the melee came
Calvpso with % to Bolivia's o.. 1t
was as wild as it was fast. Both
teams fought hard, only to get be-
meath the basket and shoot wild.
Had it not been for this wildness
The game would have been scored
on an adding machine, so close to-
eether were the basket tries. Bo-
TWAS win came out of it's ability
to come out of a scramble in pos