The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-02-24
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sonREs LAST NIGHT

SCORES LAST NIGHT
 Metlakatla Vets 30; Juneau High School 25.
 Mt. Edgecumbe Grads 53; Wran- gel Town Team 37.
 Mikes Night owls 53; Peters -urg Merchants 49
 Tn game that had spectators on their feet and tearing their han through four speedball quarters, Ju- neau His Crimson Bears went down fighting to the Metlakatla quintet last night in the third game of the triple header in the Gold Medal Basketball Tournament, third day of play.
 Final score as the whistle inter- rupted the last scramble for the ball stood at 30-25.
 Dade Nickers high school squad was playing heads-up ball all the way, probably their best game of the season. But the VFW blue and gold quintet, sparked by dead-eSe Jeff David, played a pace-killing ot- iensiye and a defensive that kept the Bears tryino desperately - work the ball in under tae basket
 13 FOULS
 A tight, first quarter, with 13 fouls called, ended with J-Hi in the lead GA. Metlakatlans didn't get a field goal through the hoop dur ing the first frame, with their four counts dropped ir on free throws.
 For @ full six minutes of first quarter play neither team could break through to score. Then Bill Nickel took his own rebound off the back .oard to slip in the first field goal Of the game, and Gus Adams sank one from the corner.
 Metlakatla's star ball handler David turned on the steam in the second quarter, with assists from Leask and Toni Atkinson put two in from under the basket, one long s.7ot, and dropped in a free throw.
 Hansen, working the ball through the defense. but missing out on the pay dirt, finally connected for J-Hi's only goal of the second quarter.
 19-16 SCORE
 Trailing only by three points at the half, Juneau's Bears came out of the showers with plenty of scrap. David went on a scoring prowl, talk ing passes from all over the floor, but the Bears held the Vets to six tallies. and took six themselves on two goals dropped in by Milt Schultz and two free throws. The third quarter ended 1916.
 Junes Il took the ball out of bounds as the final quarter started, working it under the Vets basket but losing the ball on rebound. M. Hudson took short pass and long shot which slid through the 1-DOD 1O4 bltt MtlldhdJ1dllo.
 OUT ON FOULS
 With only three minutes of play remaining in the game, and the score as 23-24, Metlakatla's two first string guards. Leask and M. Hudson, went out of the game on fouls. David decided to put the game on ice for the visitors, drop ping in three goals in quick success sicn, but there was still plenty ot argument left in the high school lads. Sperl.ng tipped in a one handler, Adams dropped a long shot through the hoop and slid in under the tasket to tally again.
 But with the final seconds tick ing out David and Atkinson scored again for the Vets. The whistle blew and it was all over by the guessing on tomorrow games.
 Possibilities are that Metlakatla and J-Hi Will meet again in the crucial No. IS game. If the Bears win their next three games in the Losers Bracket and the Metlakat- lans keep their winning streak go- ing, playing in the No. IS meet will be none other than J-Hi and Met lakatla.
 Score by quarters-First, 6-4; sec- ond, 10-13; third, l6-19; fourth, 25-30.
 High point man for Metlakatla was Jeff David with 19 points. Han- sen, Schultz and Adams shared Eon- CTS with each for the J-Hi squad
 SUMMARY
 Juneau High FG FIT TIP Sperling ........-.... .....-. l Hansen --.-.----.---s.,..---.--.--. ? 2 Graves, B. .....-.-....-.k.. 0 1 Schultz 2