The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-02-26

III lNU tLil Llllls SahAyS SSoeSi oe'y one in the afternoon and the othe in the evening, the winners vol only by points. Juneau Hi was il both games. In the afternoon thu Crimson Bears beat Edgecumbe 3! to 3S, the final score icing in tho last few minutes of play. In tht night game Sitka ANB nosed out Juneau Hi 37 to 35 and as in the afternoon contest, the last minutes of play decided the outcome.
 AFTERNOON GAME
 A third quarter rally in one of the hardest, fastest games of the tournament brought victory to Ju- neau His Crimson Bears yesterday afternoon.
 It was a heartbreaker for Edge cumbe Grads to drop, after playing first half game that couldn't be beat.
 Final score in the tilt Sat sent J-Hi into the semi-tinals was 35- B.
 Sparked by their rangy center Dundee Atkinson, Edgecumbe grads broke out to an early lead in the first quarter, scoring four field goals before Nickel took tip off to jump a two-hander in for J-His first goal
 Adams took a short pass from Sperling to drop one in, then broke out from under the basket for an- other count. Bill Graves took one handler from the sidelines for the fourth goal.
 Adams took short pass from Sperling to drop one in, then broke out from under the basket for an- other count. Bill Graves took a one handler from the sidelines for the fourth goal
 Atkinson scored four field goals during first quarter play, two on passes from Stitt and two one handlers out of the pocket. Stitt scored one of his own and Truitt took a fancy pass from Bremner for a count.
 The first quarter ended l3-9 with the Grads in the lead.
 Holding the Bears to only two field goals in the second quarter the Edgecumbe toys stepped up the game to a break-neck speed, SCOT ing four field goals and three free throws
 By half-time whistle Edgecumbt was in the lead 24-13
 J-HI SCORING SPREE
 Bill Graves started the second half scoring spree for the Bears. HI took the tip off and popped one il on the first play. Schultz followe' suit and Edgecumbe took time ou to lick their wounds. Sperling go hot for the Bears and made it tw in a row, then passed quick on to Graves for the fifth goal. Tn Grads took another time out wit the score 25-23 in their lead.
 Sperling jumped high into tn air and tipped the ball off his fin gers into the basket to tie up tn whole show 25-25. And that's tn way the score stood for four tul minutes of play to the end of tn quarter.
 Bill Sperling probably takes tol honors for the screWiest shot 0 the tournament on the first pla, of the fourth frame. He threw a lon! one to Graves under the basket. H missed Graves-but hit the basket to put J-Hi out in front, leat they never relinquished.
 The Edgecumbe Grads tried des perately to pull ahead as the SCOT jumped to 30 all at official time out
 Adams made the count 32-30 fo Juneau. Then Truitt put in tn beauty shot of the game to tie it al up again 32-32. During the franti final three minutes of play Mickl scored a field goal and Hansol made free throw good Atkinson scored free throw for the Grad and the game ended with J-Hi hay ing the dubious privilege of playin their second game of the day, talk ing on Sitka ANB in the night till
 Score: First quarter, J-Hi 9, Edge cumbe 13; second quarter, J-Hi l; Edgecumbe 24; third quarter, J-E 25, Edgecumbe 25; fourth quarter J-Hi 35, Edgecumbe B.
 High scorer C. the game was At kinson for Edg ecumbe with points. Sperling was J-Hi's hig point man with II.
 SUMMARY
 J-Hi FIG FIT IT