The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1940-03-21

Bertha 81;
Sank Centre 90
Strange are the ways Of heroics
and to the faithful comes reward
for it was Albert Groska's easily
executed tip in shot, on a rebound
from Noeske's try, that iced the
semi-final round and the path to
the finals for Bertha. And Groska,
sensationally a non-scorer, won the
ball game in the sudden death
overtime.
It was Bob Millner, captain and
veteran utility man switching from
guard to center, who turned the
tide for Bertha. With Herseth,
their ace scorer Of another evening,
effectively stopped, Millner stepped
out in the last half to close a seven
point lead. It was his uncanny
scoring that brought Bertha to a
halftime tie with the locals 16 to 16.
But stopped as he was, John Her
seth, was the lad who also had his
moments. When the chips were
down and it meant get them or go
home talking to himself, the heinie-
hair cutted lad damned in two buc-
kets with less than two minutes to
go. His last one tied the ball game
in less than 40 seconds.
From there on in it was Bertha,
and the tale of that overtime sweep
was a tale of a Sank Centre club
that folded before the pace. From
the tip off Cooper got the ball, fail
ed on a long shot. Herseth missed
a try; Nelson recovered and was
fouled. On a chance Sank Centre
chose to take the ball out of
bounds. Bertha broke the attack,
and Noeske missed long try. With
a minute and IS seconds gone, Hill
debrand lost the ball, and Herseth
missed bucket. Then Noeske's
try for a long and Groska's cool
winning bucket.
Sank Centre had started that
ball game with a nine point quar-
ter that gave them four point
lead. Bertha had taken the first
five points with Groska and Mill
ner scoring. Then Jackson and
Nelson got out their scoring tools
to take the lead. In the second
Bertha had an inning that put them
back in the running with Millner
leading the scoring advance, and
Noeske accomplishing the tie with
a minute and quarter to halftime.
Sank Centres early scoring Sue
cess were the result of Jackson's
driving and Nelson's play from the
hole. Stan Nelson, with 16 points,
was left defensively alone. But
Sank Centres passing was off.
Bertha actually controlled the ball
throughout large share of the
game.
In the third Sank Centre bounced
back to new scoring opportunity.
Jackson dug in for a long, and
Nelson scored. But diminutive
Bluhm, pint-sized no more, was the
scoring tally for Bertha. He roll
ed up four points for the entire
scoring. Then with a seven point
lead, Sank Centre found Bertha
chiseling at the foundations of their
game. It gave way to tie that
sent them on into overtime.
Deer Creeks game for most Of
the Sank Centre boys closed the
books. Coach Ray Schwartz turn
ed over the starting lineup to the
seniors: Captain Carl Hildebrand,
Stan Nelson. Glen Sieben, Joe Jack
son and Armund Botz. For Jack
son it closed a four year career, a
! career that was marked with I'M
canny ability to rise in tournament
play. For Hildebrand it closed a
session that saw him a scrapping
forward. Stan Nelson, migrator
from Montevideo, became the top
scoring man. Glen Sieben and
Botz were the ace substitutes who
doubled in brass at either forward
or guard. Returning to the local
club are guards Jim Arneson and
Jim Cooper.
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