The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-07

Beaulaville girls, 81; Acme.Delco,
I15.
Calypso girls, 80; Waccamaw, 80.
Rosehill boys, 27; Atkinson, 8.
Wallace girls, "a; Clement, 80.
| Elizabethtown boys, IT; Franklin,
13.
Cerro Gordo girls, SO; Leland. 26.
Bolivia girls, 4S; Bladenboro, 26.
The Long Creek-Grady girls went
to the quarter-finals on a bye.
Play lasted from 1 o'clock yester.
day afternoon until 10 o'clock last
night, and sizeable crowds filled the
Y court all through the day and
night.
Today's pairings are as follow:
10 a. m.-Shallotte and Blanden.
boro boys.
II a. m.-Waccamaw and Long
Creek-Grady boys.
II noon-Wallace and Dixon boys.
1 p. m-Jacksonville and Keans.
vile boys.
2 p. m.-Beaulaville and Wallace
girls.
p. m.-Rosehill and Beaulaville
boys.
.. m.-Atkinson and Calypso
girls.
5 p. m.-Chadbourn and Southport
boys.
6 p. m.-Long Creek-Grady and
Bolivia girls.
7p. m.-Calypso and Bolivia boys.
s p. m-Cerro Gordo and Rosehill
girls.
9 .. m. - Leland and Elizabeth.
town boys.
Rosehill Opens With Win
The Rosehill girls pried the lid
off the festivities by overtaking
Shallotte in the second quarter and
holding the lead thereafter to win,
Al to 20. Cleo Sanderson led the
winners drive by chalking up %
points, thereby becoming a con-
tender for the tourney high score
trophy. Both outfits fought hard
throughout, but the Rosehill cagers
were just a little too fast.
Atkinson Advances
In the second game of the after.
noon, the Atkinson girls moved into
the quarter-finals by defeating Jack.
sonville, 30 to IT. Paced by the
high-scoring Dickens, they took the
lead early and held it throughout
the game. Dickens led the scoring
with % points. All in all, the game
presented little that was spectacular
except hard and fast basketball.
Show Speed
Those Red Phantoms from Beula-
vile displayed speed, power and
precision to come out of tangle
with Acme-Delco on the long end of
a So to Is score. The Columbus
county team put up a valiant fight,
but never offered any serious threat.
Hollingsworth led in scoring with
20 points.
Game OF Games
In this game of games, both
teams operated at high speed from
opening whistle to the gun, but
Calypso displayed slightly superior
teamwork to exc out by a two-point
margin. The final score was 80 to
80, and it was anybody's game to
the end-a tough one to lose. V.
Sellers, Of Waccamaw, led the scor'
ing with 20 points.
Real Battle
The two best drilled teams yet
to appear in the tourney came on
the floor for this one and left only
after they had put on the best ex.
hibition of basketball seen in this
neck of the woods in years. The
score: Wallace, "a; Clement, 33,
With ten seconds to go in the
fourth quarter, the Clement lasDies
led S3 to 81, when the referee called
time out. At time in, four seconds
remained when the winning play
was started and the ball had not
passed through the basket and hit
the floor when the gun sounded.
Phew!
In a fast game-possibly too fast,
because fouls were charged against
every player on the floor - the
young ladies from Cerro Gordo took
the measurs of Leland, 80 to 26.
The score was fairly close until the
third and fourth quarters, when the
winning outfit brought to bear it's
superior shooting ability. Strout,
of Cerro Gordo, took scoring honors
with 18 points.
Bolivia Triumphs
The Bolivia girls rang the cur
few on the first day of the tourney
as they rolled roughshod over Bla.
denboro, 4s to 26. 1t was a lopsided
affair from the start, but the Bla-
denboro lassies were game in their
fight. But the Bolivians just
couldn't be said nay. High scorer
was Hand, of Bolivia, with 26
points. And incidentally, this is
the highest individual score of the
first day of the tourney.
Rosehill Cops Game
The male basketeers made their
debut in the tournament in this
game and the Rosehill boys left
with ~ points to 8 for Atkinson.
This tilt was the first in the tour.