The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-10


grabbed third place.
The boy high scorer was Hill
burn, of Bladenboro, and the top
basket shooter in the girls divi-
sion was Joyce Hollingsworth, of
Beulaville.
Ellzabethtown and Bladenboro
tied for the boys team sportsman
ship award. Bladenboro was given
the trophy and another will be
mailed to Elizabethtown upon ar
rival. The girls craftsmanship
award went to the Atkinson team.
AS each trophy, given by the
city's civic clubs, was presented to
the winner, a representative of
the club made the presentation.
Phil Buchheit, of the Star-News
advertising department, acted as
master of ceremonies.
To each of the first and second
place teams went a trophy and
miniature basketballs to nine men,
bers and the coach. The third place
winners received miniature bronze
basketballs.
Play in the tourney started
Wednesday afternoon and contin-
ued through last night as boys
and girls teams, all from south
eastern North Carolina high
schools, battled v%aliantly for the
coveted trophies.
Officials of the tourney said last
night the quality of this years
basketball and team workmanship
has been far above the average
of previous piayoffs.
Capacity crowds were present
throughout the entire playoff.
Amid much wild and aimless
shooting, something akin to that of
a horse opera, the Elizabethtowr
boys became basketball champions
OF Southeastern North Carolina
when they trampled on the Baden.
boro Huskies, sc to 81.
These were definitely not the
same two teams that won victories
earlier in the tournament. They
fumbled around the basket anG
couldn't get organized, but Elizabeth
town won out and that settled it.
Gooden, of Elizabethtown, led If
scoring with II points, while Bryan
headed B~ladenboro's scoring with Il
points.
The Beaulaville girls became
Southeastern North Carolina cham
pions when they took a 33 to 26 pic
tory from those hard fighting Bo
livia Bobcats. 1t was Bostic, Hol
lingsworth and Edwards that pulled
the fancy stuff for the innerS
a sWeeter brace of forwards were
never found on anybody's court.
Hollingsworth, who can best be
described as a blonde of the statues
que type, sank 6 field goals and 3 fol
shots to take the lead in scoring
Bostic, uon whose ample shoulders
falls the heavy work of the Beaula
vile squad. rang up II points.
1t was the maddest of scrambleE
Ii Jill "lllolIC " Sdll oo Dolli NooA
fought for blood and glory.
The first quarter saw little scor
ing on either side as the period end
ed with the score tied up at 2 al
but from there on out, Bostit
and Hollingsworth for Beaulavillt
and Stone, Cannon and Hand fol
Bolivia took matters in hand ant
made a real battle out of it.
In the middle of the third quar-
ter, the trickiest of trick plays wa!
pulled when somebody threw the
ball under one of the improvise(
bleacher tiers and Referee Carrutf
called time to crawl on all tours tt
retrieve it.
Everybody was happy, though
escepially the Beaulaville team
They will have a shiny trophy tt
look at.
Dixon Wins
The Dixon lads, in their second
game of the day, put the snatch
on the third place trophy when
thew put the skids under the Chad
bourn outfit. The score: 10 to 9.
Apparently, ;ome of the lustre
had been removed from the pre-
viously flashy Chadbourn. They
couldn't seem to find themselves -
or the basket.
Dixon entertained the audience
with a smoothly working Parker to
Z. King combination. When the
dust of a toss-up cleared B. King
was invariably standing under the
goal ready for the pass from
Parker. Pretty slick. And he was
high scorer for his team. High
man for Chadbourn was L. Brown
with 5 points.
Consolation Game
The Rosehill girls won the con
ISOLATION game from the Atkinson
team, II to %, but they could prob
ably win a beauty contest mucf
easier.
1t was not the same Atkinson
team that beat Calypso and Jack
sonville. They couldn't get organ
lied nor could they find the basket
AS a result, they grabbed fourth
Mace in the girls tournament. Rose
hill finished third.
Little Cleo Sanderson, of Rosehill
as usual, led in scoring with 1;
points. Peterson was high for At
kirson with 9 points.
Corbett, of Atkinson, took claim
to the honors for being the best
o,7ard to appear in the tournament
hut she was not up to her previous
standard in this game.
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