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TILGHMAN GIRLS WIN DISTRICT OVER BALLARD – 1975

PAGE 3- D SUN-DEMOCRAT, PADUCAH, KENTUCKY SUNDAY, MARCH 9, 1975 By BILL BARTLEMAN Sun-Democrat Staff Writer Paducah Tilghman's Lady Tornado, led by 5-6 sophomore Laura Lynn, on Saturday won the first Second District girl's basketball, tournament to be held in more then 40 years by defeating the Lady Bombers of Ballard Memorial, 62-35. The last tournament was held in 1931 when the Tilghman ladies defeated Lowes, 33-8. Tilghman also won the girl's tournament in 1929, 1927, 1926, 1923, 1922 and the first year it was played, 1921. The Saturday victory gives Paducah a spot on the winners side of the bracket in next week's regional tournament, which will be played at Mayfield High School. The Bombers will play a winner from one of the other districts. The draw for position is scheduled today at Murray State University. victory champions Tilghman girls rip Ballard for Second District crown Miss Lynn scored nine of her 21 points in second quarter, which saw Tilghman jump from a three-point first quarter lead to a 16-point advantage at the half. Miss Lynn's scoring was high for the game, despite the fact she sat out most of the fourth quarter in foul trouble. Miss Lynn scored her first bucket of the second quarter on an 8 foot jumper from the right side with just 18 seconds ticked off the clock. She followed a minute later with two free throws, which came only 10 seconds after Ballard's Vicki Keeton hit. the first of two from the charity stripe. Also helping the decisive second quarter Tilghman scoring outburst was Opal Hamilton, who scored six of her total 13 points in the final 3½ minutes of the period. Her first bucket was a layup with 3:30 left, which gave her team an 18- 9 advantage. She also canned two free-throws with 2:44 left in the half and got her final second-quarter points on a layup with 23 seconds remaining. The Lady Bombers held the lead only one time in the contest, 2-1, which came when Janet Compton canned a layup with two minutes and three seconds gone in the game. Her bucket was followed by eight consecutive Tilghman points, four by Miss Lynn and four by Leloa Greer. After falling behind by as much as 20 in the early going in the third quarter, the Lady Bombers attempted a comeback, but were only able to cut the margin to 16, which came with 2:18 left in the quarter when Miss Compton hit from 10 feet out to make the score 39- 23. Joining Miss Hamilton and Miss Lynn in double-figures were Miss Greer, a 5-10 sophomore center, with 11 and Cynthia Flye, a 5-3, senior guard, with 10. Carla Stallons, who scored 10 points, was the only Bomber to hit double figures. Miss Compton was the Bomber's second leading scorer with nine. The Bombers had a total of 23. fouls called against them and Miss Compton's fifth foul came with 6:21 left in the game, Miss Keeton's was called with just over 5 minutes left and Miss Buchanon's came with 1:03 left. The Tilghman girls went to the free throw line 31 times and connected on 14. Miss Lynn canned five of 10, Miss Hamilton connected on three of four and Kristi Karr hit four of six. The Tilghman girls were called for 19 fouls and the Ballard girls hit on five of 16 gratis attempts. None of. the Tornado girls fouled out of the game and Miss Hamilton and Miss Lynn were the only ones in trouble, with four each. Paducah Tilghman won the right to the finals by defeating Lone Oak in the opening round, 64-57, and St. Mary in the second. round, 53-43, Ballard had little touble in its other tournament games as it defeated Reidland, 61-25, and Heath, 46- 19. * Paducah will carry a •16-6 record into the regional tournament while. Bllard will try to better its 12-10 worksheet. Tilghman 31 44 62 Ballard. . . . 15 24 35 PADUCAH (62) -Hamilton 13, Flye 10, Greer 11, Lynn 21, White, Perry 2, Pipes, Cleary, Karr 4, Brown 1, English. BALLARD (35) Compton 9, Keeton 7, Stallons 10, Buchanon 4, Harrington, Williamson, Goode 1, Hook 4, Bumpous, Mays. Kentucky district tourney results ACC regular season leader, appeared likely to get the other conference spot in the NCAA tournament. The Terps would be placed in the Midwest Regional in Lubbock, Tex., against Creighton. A berth in the National Invitation Tournament opening next Saturday in New York appeared available for N. C. State, last year's NCAA champion and No. 8 in the nation currently. Clemson, semifinal ACC loser to North Carolina, already has accepted an NIT bid. By The Associated Press Boys Saturday District Fluals 1st at Carlisle County .. Carlisle County 68, Hickman County 55 2nd at Lone Oak Paducah Tilghman 91, Lone Oak 63 3rd at Mayfield Mayfield 81, Wingo 58 4th at Murray State University Calloway County 58, Murray State 44 5th at Trigg geounty Trigg County 92, Crittenden County 57 7th at Madisonville Madisonville 76, Earlington 66 8th at Christian County Christian County 64, Hopkinsville 52 9th at Owensboro Sportscenter Owensboro 60, Apollo 55 10th at Muhlenberg Central Central City 67, Muhlenberg Central 59 11th at Breckinridge County Breckinridge County 64, Cloverport 53 12th at Ohio County Ohio County 88, Grayson County 77 13th at Russellville Russellville 65, Auburn 64 27th at Jeff. Fern Creek Jeff. Fern Creek 50, Lou. Moore 49 29th at Bullitt Central Anderson County 70, Bullitt Central 63 30th at Henry Shelbyville 73, Shelby County 52 31st at Trimble County Carroll County 76, Gallatin County 74 32nd at Grant County Scott County 67, Grant County 60 33rd at Conner Boone County 82, Conner 81 34th at Covington Holmes Covington Catholic 66, Covington Holy Cross 65 35th at Dayton Newport Catholic 60, Newport 57 36th at Campbell County Campbell County 54, Fort Thomas St. Thomas 52 37th at Paris Harrison County 64, Paris 59 38th at Bracken County ... ... Bracken County 75, Pendleton County 58 39th at Mason County

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