The Wrangell sentinel., 1952-03-07
WrangeII Wins lst Game Of
 Series, 56 55

A field goal nigh, under 10 basket with a0 seconds To go. N.a che l-.al game of the Southeastern l Alaska basketball champion. ID series for Wfangel last night a#- 55. Lynn Schwartz picked I0g u.I up off the floor jumped. tHisa3 ] and ssl il in. duncan Ilga aes was as much as six points ahea. the llnaI quarter bud lle Wran team tied the score With fHa u.#- ote5 to go. 5l-5l, tleu lost Us lead asa.n but got t back when counted
 In tae 0aJ quarter Wrane Hlsh Schools Wolves led tEe gi.# Ing Crimson Bears as U3sa .ea= were feeling each aaa.r out. aa dundefsou dumped in two f goals and three ouI of faar ra5 sho,s the first quarter for H'r.# gelL He Was backed by taa pla-z making and blackboard work af Tom MaAand. #raaseIl led al us end Of the first quarter I8-1.
 Late in the Iirst quarter and .I through the second quarter. s- eau.s highly-toutcd Nuuis sta.##I living Up to his press notices. B. half time he had seven field ea.# and a foul shot and Juneau had |. one point lead. 2I-20.
 Through the third quarter JH#- eau managed to keep Wran.aI from three 10 six points behind. l. was hard fought quarter tha saw Nrangelf8 Clint Miller aHH Steele Ferguson sideliued for re.- sonal fouls. Gundersous aagura v and MaNauds smooth hard HIavla kept @raugell in the game thou trailing. 39-35. ending the parl.
 Ninni5's scoring was stopped the final quarter but Bm CarIs and Herb Martin stoie tEa hs from @rangell several times aaI scored. The Juneau man-for-laaz defense Was pressing NraneaI close. MaXand started shooting aHl made nine points for the Wa.f in the last quarter. Gunde.saas shooting from the foul line con tinued deadly, and the locals craa up on the visitors until Schwartz thirty second bucket made the dif= ference.
 Three Juneau players Engstrom. Jerry Wade and Ninuis, fouled oHz the last quarter and Ed BradIa# joined the Wrangell team on tha bench for personals.
 Outstanding in the game Wa dunderson's accuracy at the foul line where he made nine out of ten foul shots. The only one he missed being the first one. He also added seven field goals, though be wasn't as hot as he sometimes is. and came out with 23 points to be high for the game.
 Juneau's speedy Ninnis played an excellent game to gather in eight field goals and two foul shots for IS points
 Both teams played the hardest games to be seen on this floor in years and a lot of credit should go to the boys who backed ID the point makers.
 Twenty-thre fouls were called on Wrangell and 31 on Juneau Every player in the game picked up several fouls except Tom Max- and. He played the entire game. bringing the ball into play anH getting the rebounds for Wrangaa scored II points, and did not co.z. init a single foul
 Both teams played a game tls= was outstanding fof good sro. manship - no gripping or no aaea feelings. Whoever wins the game tonight, or the series, will give .Ie visiting Anchorage team a g series next week end.
 Scoring for Wrangell were cr derson 23, MaXand IA, Miller Schwartz 6, Bradley ?, Steele guson 2, and Thorne FergusoH For Juneau it was Ninnis L, C~ son 15, Martin 10, Kadow 1, Fo. rest 8, Wade and Ripke 1.