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BENTON BOYS DEFEAT HEATH IN OVERTIME – 1956

By BILL CARTER, MURRAY, Ky., March 9 quarter to tie the score and the overtime period in the Regional Tournament here Heath snapped the Pirates' win detent. at 30 straight games, the only team in Kentucky to finish the regular season in unbeaten fashion. Mayfield put on another sterling performance to edge past disfirst game of the largtrict rival Sedalla, 49-46 in the est crowds ever to witness a game In the Purchase. Mayfield and Benton square off Saturday night at 8 for the to represent the First Region in the State Tournament at Lexington on March 14-17. Mayfield is defending regional champion. Indians Trail By Eleven Benton, trailing by 11 points late in the third period, turned in a sparkling performance in the last quarter and overtime period to notch the win over the highlyfavored Pirates. Mayfield played another deliberate type game in dropping Sedalia. The Cards weren't as sharp as they were in dropping Tighman in the opening round, but came through in the final 1:16 seconds to notch the victory. Benton threw up a sterling deTense and limited the Pirates' Martin Holland to only 17 points, his low for the season in beating the Bucs. Holland managed to get only five points in the first half, but spurted briefly in the third period, only to have the Indians blanket the giant center in the final canto and the overtime. Benton, trailing 46-35 with only 29 seconds remaining in the third period, got a spark from 6-4 substitute J. D. Gammel who hit jump shot and poured in a followup to cut the gap to 46-39 at the end of the period. Benton Misses Final Fling Coach Bill Farris' Indians continued to pull up on the Pirates, cutting the gap to five points, 54- 49, with three minutes left in the game. The Tribe promptly went into an all-court press and the Pirates managed to hit only three free throws in the remainder of Wes Santee In Two-Section Run Tonight MILWAUKEE, March 9 (P) - The featured mile run in Saturday night's Journal Games shaped up Friday as a two-section race with Wes Santee competing against ‹ catch-as-catch-can field in one of them. In this respect the race will be near of last week's Knights of Columbus meet. The controversial miler won his Sports Editor Benton rallied in the final on to upset Heath 60-59 in semi-final round of the First regulation playing time. Tom Morgan pushed in a fielder two foul shots to cut the lead to 56-54 with 1:15 left the game. Benton moved ahead 39 seconds left in the contest big Stedman Baker hit 15 jump shot and was fouled by Birdsong. Baker canned his charity toss to put the Indians a 57-56. Heath's Jack Peyton countered with a charity toss, but his second try and "Bear" rebounded for the Indians. Benton held the ball, waiting a good shot, with Don Jackson missing a 20-footer just before the ended. Heath controlled the tip to start overtime period and Peyton the Pirates ahead with a jump 23 seconds had elapsed. Morgan came back with a 15- to tie the score again. After two clubs had exchanged the Birdsong was called for oftensive charging with 37 seconds in the contest. Gammell, the offended player, hit the first shot, missed the second and Holland rebounded for the Pirates. Heath worked the ball around, waiting for good shot, finally getting the ball to Holland who fouled. Big Martin missed both attempts and Stone grabbed the for the Indians. Heath finalintercepted the ball with three seconds left and Peyton attempted long heave, but missed. Heath held the upper hand in opening period, leading 20-15 the end of the first quarter. Benton came back to take the lead the second quarter as Holland only three shots in the first and hit two as Baker did a standout job in keeping the ball from the big center The Indians managed to hold 8 lead with six minutes left in third period when the Pirates caught fire and appeared to be on way to victory No. 31. The Pirates poured in 12 points to only for Benton in running up the margin late in the period, to have the Indians score two goals before the canto ended went on to win in the over- Baker, besides his stering defeneffort on Holland, banged in points for the Indians, hitting seven field goals and two foul Ed Jones was next with a point output and Gammell hit 10 points in relief. Stone scored six points, but snagged three rebounds late in the game. Besides Holland's 17 point outPeyton and Eddie Williams 15 points each for the Bucs. Heath hit 49 per cent of its field attempts 24 of 49. Benton connected on 21 of 61 flings. The Indians actually won the game at foul line, hitting 18 of. 25 comto 11 of 22 for the Bucs. Mayfield, which had held the | Box Scores Player fta-m MAYFIELD. (49) Pember, R. Story, 11- 6 12-10 Fiser, 32 Knight, G Henderson, .10 0 0 J. Story, G 0- 0 0 Totals 35-17 24-15 SEDALIA (46) Player 1ga-m f1a-m Vest. 13- Galloway, G. Guthrie, 20 J. Guthrie, C Key, G 10 8 Page, G .13- 5 2 Totals .43-15 28-16 Mayfield 15 13 . . BENTON (60) Player 1ga-m fta-m Stone, Dailey, 4 0 0 00 Gammell, S. Baker, 19- Jones. \ G T. Morgan, Jackson, 2- 0 Totals 61-21 25-18 HEATH (59) Player 1ga-m f1a-m Peyton, 13- 5 Boldry, 1• 0 0 Williams, Holland, Birdsong. Jordan, G Totals . 49-24 22-11 Benton . . . 15 31 Heath .20 57 upper hand most of the game, suddenly found itself trailing 46-45 with 1:16 left in the contest. the Cardinals quickly overtook Third District champions moved ahead to stay. Bob Henderson fired in a jump shot to shoot the Redbirds a 47-46 advantage with 55 seconds left in the game. Sedalia missed its field goal attempt seconds later and Bob Knight rebounded for Cards with 39 seconds remaining. Mayfield lost the ball on a pass, but Rex Story re-intercepted a Sedalia pass and was fouled with 18 seconds left. Story hit both tries and Jim Page fired a despera• tion shot with two seconds but missed, and school was for the once-beaten Lions. Rex Story Scores 22 Coach Jack Story's defending regional champions set the pace in the early stages of the game the Cards took the lead at and shot into a 15-9 margin Ken Pembers hit four straight jump shots from 15-feet out. dalia came back to cut the to 15-13 at the end of the period (Fand tied the score at 17-all early in the second quarter. The mainder of the second period nip-and-tuck with Mayfield top 27-25 at halftime. Sedalia led 31-27 in the third period, but Mayfield came back to knot the score at 36-all moved ahead at 38-36 on two throws by R. Story. The Cards trailed only once thereafter, a late splurge wrapping up game. Rex Story led the Cardinal tack with a 22 point effort. Pember added 11 points before fouling out in the second period and Henderson counted 10 points. Vest, Junior Guthrie and Page scored 12 each for the Lions. Sun-Democrat went tonight. | the and Heath in with when foot Hoppy into missed Stone for game the put after footer the ball, left but was ball ly a the at in got half away 34-33 the their two 46-35 only field and time. sive 16 on tries. 12 for only key put, tabbed goal the pared

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