Laurel outlook., 1949-02-09
ONLY FOUR GAMES
BEFORE TOURNEY
Tough Ones With Red Lodge,
Miles City Scheduled For
Coming Week End

end, with the undefeated Rec
Lodge Coyotes invading Friday
night and the Miles City Cow
boys taking the floor Satur-
day. Four games remaining on
the schedule before tournament
time, with the last two being
against the Billings Rams next
week.
Friday night the Red Lodge
junior high school club will
tangle with the local junior high
aggregation in the first game,
starting at 7. Red Lodge nipped
the locals by one field earlier in
the season as a result of a
Laurel boy tossing the ball in
the wrong hoop, an occurance
that has happened in contests
in Red Lodge the past three
years. The rapid pace and ex-
citement associated with these
two traditional rivals never fails
to produce a thriller. The second
event between the high school
clubs has developed into the most
important game for the Locomo-
tives this season to date.
The Coyotes are riding unde-
feated on top of the Tri-county
league in 10 games, all of them
conference, to remain the only
undefeated club in this part of
the state. Currently rated in
the top four in Montana B cir
cles, the Coyotes have taken on
the favored role in the coming
game, and a Coyote win would
give them No. 1 rating in the
tournament draw slated for SUM-
day. Since cedings for district 6 |
are determined by vote and not
by league standings a convincing
win by the Laurel club could
throw the vote to them, since
their opponents during the sea-
son have been generally consid-
cred tougher.
On the other hand the Coy
otes handed Laurel the. worst
they suffered all year,
a 67 to 33 game, so the Laurel
victory Friday, if they do win,
would have to be convincing.
The Coyotes have virtually the
same club suited up that car
ried them through one of their
most successful seasons last year, {
when they copped third in the
state meet. Buster Christianson ,
but seems to be ably
'eplaced by Bob Dodge and Jim
Iong. Christianson incidentally
S leading his conference and
cam scoring by holding down
irst string center in his first c
ear of college ball at Nebraska v
State Teachers college, alma ma 2
er of his former coach, Bill :
>ruer.
Diminutive Nick Jurkovich is n
he spark plug for Red Lodge
nd in spite of his size combines a
peed, alertness and one of the u
est shooting eyes which will n
lake him a major headache for g
pposing coaches to try to stop. W
ANITA, Dimich, Dodge and Long
bly, assist in controlling back il
cards and rounding out a fine is
lst break offense.
Saturday night the Miles City {
owboys will be out to avenge
le one-point 40 to 80 loss they
Uttered at the hands of the Lau-
Il team in December. The loss
as the first after five success -,
IL starts for the Miles City crew. @
lies City up to the past week III
ad been riding high in the Big In
race, but lost three of their c.
st four tilts, chiefly due to B
e loss of their ace center, six "
ot four-inch Jim Cotton. Cot Pl
n, who is rated as one of the tr
st performers in high school al
relies, has returned to the Cow
VS. lineup. al
In the previous game with so
aurel, the high scoring center te
tied 13 out of 16 free throws w
ID three field goals for 19 Sc
ints in spite of the two de- -
nsive men who were assigned n
him. The Miles City boys u
Il be playing the third game n
the week for themselves, TAX v
2 on Billings and Glasgow at
me and then coming to Lau-
!: sis
In the curtain raiser Saturday 40
2 Cabooses who are presently "
ling along with victories over a.
cir last two opponents, namely he
: Joliet varsity and the Har- thu
l B club will take on the
rhly touted Yearlings from, an
Ilings. The Billings junior Sol
III coach rates this years club Bil
: best for sometime, having rel
t only three games in Is. &c
Last week they used their Ca
ght advantage to surge ahead cal
the Laurel B team in the
t quarter for an II point Nh
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