Moberly Area Community College - Mojuco Yearbook (Moberly, MO)

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BASKETBALL TEAM First Row: Weaver, Winscott, Henry Truesdell, Shelton, Ridgeway, Clickner. I Second Row: McCormick, Stringer, Harrison, Clark, Vader, Valelly, Lilleston, Eldridge GYM TOURNAMENT For the first time in the history of local school gym-tournaments the Col- lege and the High School pooled their players to have one big tourney to- gether, rather than the two separate ones that are usually held each year. Under the direction of Coach Mc- Cormick, the tournament was a success. It attracted quite a lot of interest. Eleven teams were entered. They were called after their captains. The teams: Kellys, Blankenships, Fennels, Lille- stons, Richeys, Carters, Valellys, String- ers, Weavers, Eldridges, and Winscotts. On Tuesday, March 2, three games were played, and five teams drew byes for this first round. First round games: Fennels, 24-Eldridges, 505 Stringers, 20-Lillestons, 46, Richeys, 23-Kellys. 22. That night three more games were played. The Winscotts beat the Car- ters, 33-20g the Valellys beat the Blank- enships, 32-26g and the Weavers eked out a 84-33 Win over the Richeys, who were playing their second game of the day, The first elimination round saw three teams bowing out. On Wednesday after- noon the Eldridges trimmed the Lil'e- stons decisively, 47-24, and thus ad- vanced to theusemifinals. Then the Fen- nels removed the Stringers, 49-26. Next to go- were the Carters as they lost to the Lillestons, 42-26. Then the Blank- enships went down with a 36-24 shel- lacking administered by the Richeys. The end of the quarterfinal round saw eight teams still running for a place. The semifinals were run out on Thurs- day. In the first game the Kellys FORTY-SEVEN

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f ff- HHSKHHHH scored fourteen, but Barrington and Thompson of Kansas City hooked top honors with twenty-one and eighteen respectively. St. Joseph, '70-Moberly, 37 The Greyhounds left Kansas City in the afternoon of January 21 and headed for St. Joseph to play the St. Joe Jun- ior College Griffons. There was no ap- parent alibi for the walloping that they received at the hands of a little more than mediocre team. Certainly the game was not a very interesting one for the spectators. The Greyhounds were disappointing with their lack of spirit, the Griffons were disgusting with their lack of sportsmanship. Click- ner, Truesdell, and Ridgeway consti- tuted almost the only Moberly threats as they scored 35 of the 37 Moberly points. Of the nine boys who made the St. Joe-Kansas City trip, none were sorry to find that the scheduled Grace- land game at Lamona, Iowa, had been called off. Transportation was so dif- ficult that it took all the pleasure out of here-to-fore enjoyable trips to meet other teams. When they got home, they were there to stay. St. Joseph, 45-Moberly, 40 After a week's rest the Greyhounds felt able to take St. Joe in a return game at Moberly. And to all indica- tions for the first thirty-five minutes of play they were proceeding accord- ing to plan. Then the Greyhounds hit their stride and lost the game, close all the way, in the last five minutes. For t.he first time during the season Clickner failed to lead Moberly's scorers. Lanky Polly Truesdell, Junior center, dropped six field goals and four free tries to total sixteen points. This was good enough to lead both teams. Wentworth, 35-Moberly, 33 For the last two games of the seasson Wentworth Military Academy sent its Red Dragons to invade the Moberly court on February 10 and 11. The first game was a rousing affair with tem- pers running hot and with action fast and furious. The game was close all the way. Neither team was able to gain a lead of more than six points at any time. The half saw the Greyhounds ahead 21-20. The last half was a night- mare for Moberly rooters as they watched the local team fall into an almost effortless slump for nearly all the last two periods. It was only in the last few minutes that they woke up enough to give the Cadets a run for the money. The rally fell short though, and it was the seventh and last con- ference loss for the Greyhounds. Wentworth, 43-Moberly, 45 The will to win that one game, the inspiration of a Valentine Sweetheart, and an arousing crowd combined with good playing to give the Greyhounds their only conference win of the year. Again the game was close from the outset. The lead changed hands fre- quently in the first half, which ended in an even 20-20. Of course the score can not tell what really happened, and for the good of both teams it may be best to forget some of the more hectic happenings of the evening. Let it suf- fice to say that at one particularly ex- citing point the Wentworth coach threatened to take his team from the floor in order to protect them from what he termed deliberate fouls by the Moberly boys. The last half was another like the first, although Mo- berly edged gradually into a lead that could not be topped by the frantic ef- forts of the desperate Cadets in the closing minutes. When the game was over. it showed that Moberly and Went- worth were tied for the cellar position in the Missouri Junior College and the Interstate Conferences. Both had won but one game. , The dying effort of the Moberly Grey- hound was not impressive. Surely there will be no more M. J. C. participation in athletics for the duration. The last remaining hope to show Greyhound prowess rests on the shoulders of the track team, and this hope is slim since there seems little hope for more than one or two track meets this spring. FORTY-SIX

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GYM TOURNAMENT climbed over the Fennels, 37-30. The Richeys eliminated the Lillestons, 34-32. In the winners bracket the Winscotts dropped the Valellys from the cham- pionship flight by beating them 33-25. In the last game of the semifinals the Weavers won the right to meet the Winscotts for the championship as they won over the Eldridges by a 22-19 count, the lowest scoring game in the tournament. The championship, third place, and consolation games were played before a nice crowd, and they were all three very close games. At seven o'clock the Kelleys and the Richeys met for their second time in this tournament, and his- tory repeated itself almost to a UT. Again the Richeys won, and again they won by only one point as they had done in the first round. Captain Bill Richey dropped fourteen points to pace all scoring. Clark, of the losers, tallied nine. The third place game was the least close of the three. However, the 42-34 win by the Eldridges does not give a true indication of the closeness of the game. Halftime score was 20-18 in fa- vor of the ultimate Winners. The third quarter turned out to be the bad luck period for Valellys as they managed to score but 2 points then. During that same time, however, the Eldridges dropped ten points and were able to stave off a last period rally even though they were outscored in that period. Cap- tain Bobby Eldridge scored sixteen points, but he was very closely followed by his team mate, Johnny Atterbury, who sank fourteen himself. Star of the game though, was little John Jacoby of the losers as he netted sixteen points to vie for honors with Eldridge. He also played a very good defensive game. Frequently he was literally in the hair of his opponents, stealing the ball, blocking their shots and intercepting passes. Jacoby was not at all awed by the presence of the older and larger college boys, The championship game was a rip snorter all the way. Action was always fast and furious, and at -the half the Winscotts had swatted out a 20-9 lead. However, this was never about to be enough to win this game. The lead changed over to the Weavers near the end of the third period, and they held it almost down to the wire. Hard luck figured greatly in their losing. With the score at 31-29 in favor of the Wea- vers, and with scarcely three minutes to play, Captain Weaver fouled out. Shortly afterwards Lyons, another Weaver man, followed him to the side- lines. This 'left the Weavers sadly un- dermanned, and the finish '-was more or less an anti-climax as the Winscotts were able to score five points in the remaining time. Special recognition, if any of the players were deserving of it, should be made of Willy Lyons of the losing team for his all-around good play. Besides scoring fifteen points, his defensive play was a deciding factor in the im- proved play of the Weavers the last half. At halftime he shifted to guard Winscott, who had scored sixteen points in the first half, and held him to a bare field goal and a free shot in the last half. That this rankled the Winscotts at times was evident as they would try to shake their captain lose with pure force, but to no avail. All credit should be given to Captain Winscott and his team for winning this tournament, how- ever, because time has proven that it takes more than just breaks to win a ball game. Top ten scorers in the tournament were: Winscott, 56 points in three games, Lilleston, 68 points in four games: Eldridge, 56 points in four games, Vader, 41 points in three games, Maupin, 24 points in two games, Jacoby, 35 points in three games, Atterbury, 44 points in four games, Fleming 55 points in five games, Richey, 54 points in five games, and Weaver, 31 points in three games. FORTY-EIGHT