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WICKLIFFE AND HEATH WIN BOYS A AND B REGIONALS – 1928

STATE HOOP PLAY STARTS THURSDAY, LEXINGTON GYMS Regional Winners and Runners Up All Ready For, Final Test of Skill. With -two district basketball tournaments and eight regional meets out of the way, nothing but the State tournament at Lexington remains to decide Kentucky interseholastic champions for 1928. The Lexington meet, with thirty-two teams competing. will begin Thursday and continue through Saturday night, when the champions in both boys' and girls' divisions will be named. The thirty-two State tourney competitors are divided, halt boys and half girls, and these will be further divided when the drawings are made into Classes A and B. The list of State tournament entrants, listed under the regional meets in which they won the right to go to Lexington ,follows: FIRST REGIONAL. At Murray. Boys -Heath and Wickliffe. Girls--Marion and Bardwell. SECOND REGIONAL. At. Owensboro. Boys- Henderson and Corydon. Girls Providence and Utica. THIRD REGIONAL. At Bowling Green. Boys--Central City and Woodburn. Girls--Smith's Grove and Woodburn. FOURTH REGIONAL At Louisville. Boys--St. Xavier and LaGrange. Girls--Waddy and Shepherdsville. FIFTH REGIONAL. At Danville. Boys--Danville and Lawrenceburg. Girls--Danville and Junetion City. SIXTH REGIONAL. At Georgetown. Boys--Covington and Walton. Girls--Georgetown and Oddville. SEVENTH -REGIONAL. At Richmond. Boys- -Middlesboro and Carr Creek. Girls- -Witherspoon and Barbourville Baptist Institute. EIGHTH REGIONAL At Ashland. Boys--Ashland and Minerva. Girls Ashland and Mt. Sterling. WICKLIFFE, AND HEATH PIRATES WIN CONTESTS McCracken County High's Win Over La Center Is Big Surprise. MURRAY, KY.,. Mar. 12.- The Heath Pirates entered the finals of the First Regional tournament by winning the Class A boys" championship from the La Center lads Saturday afternoon in the College gymnasium, 26-15. Wickliffe won the Class B championship bye downing Almo 20-15. In the Wickliffe-Almo game the work of Bradley and Bass, of the winners ,and Schroeder and Holland. of Almo, was outstanding, Bradley, with 7 points, was high point man of the game. The contest was rather slow with Wicklifte leading, all the way. The winners never seemed pushed to. any extent. Bill Smith scored 15 points and played a bang-up floor game to feature the play of the contest between the La Center and Heath boys. Miller player well as did the entire Heath side. Harris and Mitchell were the stars of the La Center quintet. The outcome was a good deal of an upset, but the Heath victory was clean cut and well deserved.. The lineups: Heath 26 La Center 15 Smith 15 F Tyner 6 K. Bagwell 4 F Rasco 2 W. Bagwell Harris 3 Ross 2 G Armstrong 2 Miller 0 G Mitchell 2 Referee, Washington; scorer, Sledd; timer, Pullen. Wickliffe 20 Almo 15 Billington 5 F Schroeder 5 Bradley 7 Hurt 5. Rollins 6 C Trevathan. 1 Deweese ( 0 G Moss. 1. Bass 0 G Holland 0 Subs Wickliffe: Phillips 0; Owen, 2. Almo-Moss. 0, Lynn 3. Referee, Miller; scorer, Sledd; timer, Pullen. at Murray. Rainey T. Wells, president of the Murray State Teachers' College, presented handsome silver trophies to the captains, Rollins and Kendall, for their teams. Mr. Wells thanked the crowd for its splendid behavior at the games,

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