Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-02-12
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Terps Hosts Tonight

The Washington areas "big
three" of college basketball will
be involved in five games tonight
through Saturday, but only one
figures to be close.
Unpredictable Georgetown
meets a Navy team which has
won 10 of 16 games Saturday
night in McDonough Gym. The
MiddieS opened the season by
drubbing Western Maryland,
1854, and won seven in a row
before losing an overtime deci-
sion to Princeton. Columbia and
Duke also beat Navy, which won
No. Is yesterday, $3.50, over
Penn at Annapolis. It was Navy's
18th straight victory at home.
The HoyaS have an 8-5 record,
losing to teams they figured to
beat and defeating teams they
figured to lose to. In their last
game, Tuesday night, the hot
and-cold Hoyas were nosed out
by one point by a Virginia team
they expected to handle de-
ciSively.
CIV and Terps Favored.
George Washington and Mary
land are expected to improve
their records in the Southern
Conference.
The Terps. tied with West Vir-
GINA for fourth place with an
S-3 record, meet VMI at 8:15
o'clock tonight at Richie Coli
scum and entertain Washington
and Lee there Saturday night.
VM1 is Oil in the conference,
while W61L is liz.
While the. Terps are reasonably
assured of making the eight
team conference playof tourna-
ment. CIV isn't. The Colonials.
who started out as one of the
teams to beat in the conference,
lately have become chronic los
ers. They have dropped three of
their last four conference games
to slide into ninth place. In
their last game the Colonials lost
to Duke team they earlier had
drubbed by 26 points.
Game Free to Public.
The Colonials play W&L at 4
pm. tomorrow at Tech High in
a game that will be free to the
public. Originally, the game was
to be played at Washington-Lee
High School, but was switched
because of an Arlington County
teachers meeting scheduled for
the WI gym.
The Colonials play at VPI Sat-
urday. VPI has a 2-10 confer
ence record. The Colonials also
have Maryland, February "a, and
William and Mary, February 26,
remaining on their conference
schedule. With Duke in seventh
place with a TO record and
Richmond eighth with ga, CIV
has an uphill battle to make the
tournament.
Navy will throw it's one-two
scoring punch-Don LANCE and
John Clune-at the Hoyas Sat-
urday night. LANCE has aver
aged % points game and Clune
20. It was Clune's laSt-second
goal that gave the Middies their
victory over Penn yesterday.
Hogan Shares HOnOrs.
Sharing the hero'S role with
Clune was Ed Hogan. who made
the winning goal possible. Ho-
gan intercepted a Quaker pass
intended for Ernie Beck and
tossed it to Clune, who scored
a layup with one second to 60.
Clune scored 20 points and
Lange IL to lead Navy, while
Beck led all scoring with 81
points, is Of them on foul shots.
The game was tied 16 times
and the lead changed hands 10.
Navy held a 51-45 lead going
into the last period, and after
two minutes stretched it to 54-46
before the Quakers rallied. The
loss snapped six-game winning
streak for Penn. which now has
the same record as Navy, 1873.
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