European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 17, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse Sunday March 17, 1968 the stars and stripes Tkv. Ohio state reach Mideast Region finals Page 19 Lexington by. A Kentucky blasted Marquette in?8and Ohio state held of feast Tennessee 79-72 Friday night in the semifinals of then Caa Mideast regional Basket Ball meets Ohio state saturday night with the Winner advancing to the championship round next weekend at los an Gele Sophomore Dan Issel poured in 36 Points 26 in the first half As Kentucky took charge Early and was never threatened. Issel a 6-foot-8 Pivot Man hit both from close in and on Lon jump shots As he made 14 of 18 shots from the Casey and Mike Pratt Kentucky s other Sophomore starters added 19 and 17, re was led by Brian Brunkhorst with 23 Points. Kentucky hit 69 per cent of its shots in the first half As the wildcats went in front to stay at 10 05 on Pratt s driving Layup. Quick splurge within three minutes Kentucky held a 10-Point Lead following two jump shots and a pair of free throws All by Issel. Kentucky went to the dressing room at halftime with a 53-40bulge and came out running. After an Early barrage of baskets Casey and Gary Gamble hit a flurry to put Kentucky ahead 69-51. The Victory was Kentucky s26th in Mcaa play. The wild cats hold records for the most championships four and most tournament appearances15. East Tennessee led Early in the game but was plagued by errors and was Down by 12 be fore halftime. When errors and cold shooting plagued the bucs Early in the second half Ohio state took advantage and rolled to a 58-40lead with 10 12 to go. East Tennessee refused twofold however and Mike Kretzer outscored the buckeyes 10-4 in a two minute period to narrow the Gap to 10. Kretzer who hit 10 of 15 Field goal attempts and led All scor ers with 23 Points Sank a Hook a three Point play a 10-footer, a free throw and a Layup i succession. Ohio state rattled for a time by East s full court press began the freeze with five minutes to go and ran out the clock. East Tenn. Fisher g 10 Ohio state Krele Sims Arnold Swift Woodward Walling Hall Fleming f t 1-1 13 howell3-4 23 Hosket 5 sornson6 Scybel 7-7 21 meaclors2-2 2 Finney 0-0 0 andreas2 Smith 0 0 1-7 2-2 0-0 0-0 0-0 g f t 10 2- 22 7 4-7 18 7 0-0 14 4 1-1 9 4 4-7 12 0 0-0 0 0 0-0 0 2 0-0 4 totals 2816-2372 totals 3411-1879 East Tennessee 27 45 72ohio state 37 4279 fouled out Ohio state Hosket. Total Foula East Tennessee 16, Ohio state 17. Marquette g f t 4 5-fi 13 6 11-12230 Smithburne Luchel Thor Scuran Sim a Spahn Sewell Kentucky g 0 0-2 7 2-2 16 6 7-8 19 5 0-2 10 0 0-1 0 0 0-0 0 2 0-0 4 1 2-2 4 Pratt 8ja.ra.cz 1 Issel 14 Casey 8clevenger 2 Gamble 3lemaster Porte Pool Laib Busey Argento f t 2-2 18 0-0 2 8-10 36 3-4 19 2-2 2-3 2-3 0-2 0-0 0-0 0-0 2-2 totals 3127-3489 totals 4321-28107 Marquette 40 4989kentucky 63 54107 fouled out Marquette Thompson Luchini. Total fouls Marquette 22, Kentucky 22.attendance 11,500 Houston thumps Louisville thu surprises Kansas state Wichita Kan. Up hous ton s top ranked cougars led by Elvin Hayes 35 Points and 24 rebounds and a tight Zon defense chewed up Louisville s fast breaking cardinals 91-75friday night in the opening game of the Mcaa Midwest basketball regional. In the Nightcap Sophomore Rick Wittenbraker rallied Texas Christian s scrambling horned frogs to a 77-72 upset Over Kan Sas state. The win put the surprising Southwest conference champs in saturday night s finals opposite top ranked and unbeaten Houston. Hayes the fabulous senior Forward and player of the year scored 20 Points in the first half and bested Louisville s Westley Unseld in the Battle of 6-8 All americas. Unseld finished with 23 Point Sand 22 rebounds. The cougars ran up a 45-32halftime Edge after taking their first Lead 15-13, with seven minutes gone on Forward Theodis Lee s tip in. Houston never trailed thereafter build ing a 33-17 advantage in the next eight minutes when the eighth ranked but cold shooting cardinals managed Only Orefield goal. Elvin Hayes. Edge on Unseld clans beat blast Albuquerque . Up Lew Alcindor s height finally broke defending Mcaa Cham Pion Urcla away from a tenacious new Mexico state defense Friday night and the clans beat the aggie 58-49 in the opening game of the Mcaa West regional. Santa Clara s Broncos mean while cashed in on an amazing 72 per cent Field goal proficiency in the first half to blast aside Hometown new Mexico 86-73 and join no. 2-ranked Urcla in the regional finals. The Home state aggie fought the clans to a 28-28 standoff at halftime and went ahead briefly at times in the second half but finally cracked open after 6-9 Sophomore Sam Lacey fouled out with 6 25 to go. The Lead changed hands 11times and the score tied 10 times before Urcla started slowly pulling away in the final few minutes. Alcindor scored 28 Points an pulled in 23 rebounds and when he made a three Point play with 12 08 to go to put Urcla new York up the new Jork Mots management relented 1 Rilay and agreed to make in a stadium available for a a exhibition game Between Oci y s two professional loot Ball teams. Hie announcement was made. Mayor John Lindsay who wild the inline Between the new f Ailts of the National Ball i a no and the new is of the american la i la a to would be a 11 " Charity. I l " stadium Inana of i a landed that 100 Peru i " net proceeds go to. Under a previous j by cinc it the jets and giants i a e i to to donate Only 50 1u want jut the mayor s office g to Iron out any might arise the teams had give the entire proceeds to Charity Lindsay said not mayor s office conducted negotiations with the me management after the National league baseball team announced earlier it would not permit a football game in the stadium during the baseball season because of possible damage to the playing giants and jets will meet next summer in Yankee stadium in the first meet in. Between the Sutra City rivals. The a to teams to Plav in Shea stadium in Ato give Jet fans an Opportunity to see the inter league contest an jets Home mayor s announcement said the agreement stipulated that a special mayor s commit tee must decide if weather conditions at the time Are suitable to play the game. Richard Collins were the two tallest men the aggie could Muster against Urcla and when Collins fouled out about a minute after Lacey was buzzed to the Bench the aggie Hopes evaporated. They had up to that Point played a Ball control game and forced Urcla to play their own game instead of the usual speedy attack that had carried the Bruins to a 26-1 season record. The aggie brought a22-6 record into the playoffs. New Mexico state an inde pendent just did t have the Bench depth to carry the fight any longer. Warren was Urcla s second High scorer with 20 Points while Jimmy Collins got 16 and Bob Evans 14 for new Mexico state. Santa Clara got four men in double figures with 6-5 Forward Bud Ogden pacing the attack with 22 Points. Joining him in the select bracket were brother Mph Ogden with 11 Points 6-9 Center Dennis a Trey with 13 and Perry o Brien with 1.8. Santa Clara which ran its continue d on pay ?.2 Houston out shot 46.5 to 40.0 and out rebounded 59-54 the Missouri Valley champs in running its winning Streak to 31games and its season record to 30-0. The loss snapped a 12 game Louisville winning Streak. The cougars splendid zone defense forced the Over anxious cardinals into 22 addition to Hayes the cougars had three others i double figures. Lee added 18, Don Cheney hit 17 and Ken Spain scored 12. Butch Beard added 21 for the cardinals who take a 20-7 record into saturday night s Consolation game. Texas Christian Down by As Many As 12 Points in the first half trailed 68-62 with 4 16 left when Wittenbraker a 6-2 guard drove the Lane for a Layup and then Sank a jump shot to Cut the deficit to two. Wittenbraker nets 18 Carey Sloan s free throw an James Cash s Layup with three minutes left gave the frogs a 69-68 advantage and a Lead they never relinquished. Wittenbraker led the smaller texans with 18 Points and Mickey Mccarty the frogs All Sec Forward added 17. Guard Steve Honeycutt of Kansas state topped All scorers with 19 Points and Burly Nick Pino a 7-1 Pivot had 15 for the wildcats. Pino hit 13 Points in the first half when the cats built a 38-26 Edge before the frogs rallied to trim the deficit to 41-37 a halftime. But the big Center had to sit on the Bench much of the last half because of a knee injury. Thu will take a 15-10 record against Houston saturday night. Louisville Houston g f t Unseld 8 5-9 23 Hayes King 5 0-1 10 Lee Sylvy 00-00 Spain Beard 9 8-5 21 Lewis Holden 41-1 9 Chancy Linonis 0 1-2 1 Hamood Deeken 10-02grosso j 1-1 b manner 0 0-0 0 Gorius 2 0-0 4 g f t16 3-8 39 9 0-2 18 4 4-5 134 1-1 $ 7 8-8 00-00 totals 3211-1975 totals 4011-2291 Louisville. 32 43 76 Houston. 45 4691 fouled out Louisville Board. Total fouls Louisville 1g, Houston h. Attendance 11,000. Estimated Texas Christian Kansas state i Cly Swift Cash a Sloan Harp Kerth g 8 0 5 1 0 0 1 h f 1-1 1-1 0-0 of 1-2 fi-5 0-1 11 Hanyi u Webb Pino Seyfort Willms Arnold Willis Litton 0 0-1 0 Sliwin 0 f 5-5 3-61-5 2-5 2-20-0 0-0 1-10-0 t 19 1.1 18 10 13 00 8 0 totals 2919-2577 totals 2914-2-172 Texas Christian 37 4077kansas state 41 3172 fouled out Texas i hns Lian Swift Kansas stale glom Scutt. Total fouls Texas n is stain 17.attendance 10, is. Lew Alcindor. Too big too much ahead 7 the Lucius Vei never behind h the a ies tied he score . The Drums Imp h i lil tin i " ef1. If i �.,0.? in i a a kvansv1llk, Lizul. A Lead i m the first tiny in Hie Jiuu a. V a rallied Muse and Hail and a i d Ahi ail a id half la Lii Iid i j .,1 i. I n Novini on. A Dallas thru hic ii a i i a. H. N d. C tier eve to Del ral Adi a \ ill l i \. A i probably conquerors. The Houston Cois Lars. Moved from a 47-14 Lea with 7 22 to go to a 57-46 Lead with 90 seconds left As Alci Dorand Mike Warren each hit two Field goals and Lynn Shackel Ford added a 10-footer.Lacey, who is 6-9, and 6-6 u Iii til Mcaa col Trinity of sail Antonio Tex. Defeated a s h 1 a n d of Ohio Tifj-52 for third record tournament crowd of 13,062, which jammed Robert stadium saw second ranked Kentucky Wesleyan Lake the Hali Lime Lead Ai Ier liitlin.l1, 13 of 22 floor panthers took charge of the boards and the sycamores could score Only two Field Yoal Soh Juye %2
