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Saturday, February 6, 1943 CLOUDBUSTER Page Three Basketball ’Busters Defeat Catawba Indians A new varsity combination of Kraft and Chic at the forwards, Caldwell at center, and Davis and Raybritz at the guards snapped a two game losing streak for the Cloudbusters Wednesday after noon as the Pre-Flighters defeat ed Catawba college, 34 to 30. Although the Raesemen led all the way, Catawba came within one point of tying up the contest with three minutes of play re maining. At half-time the Cloud busters were ahead, 23 to 18. Jack Kraft, captain and varsity forward, led the Pre-Flight scor ing with 10 points. He was playing his final game, having completed his training here Wednesday. Paul Caldwell, center, had nine points for the Cloudbusters, and Carl Davis, guard, had eight. Davis’ two field goals in the final niinutes of play were the mar gin of victory. For the losers Captain Moses Bridges had 10 points, and La tham, a substitute guard, had 7. Only one game is scheduled for the Cloudbusters next week, that iigainst Duquesne here Thursday afternoon. Soccer Vindicators Defeat Wildcats to Capture Soccer Championship The Vindicators, coached by Lt. (ig) J. E. Wadsworth, defeated the Wildcats, coached by Lt. (jg) H- B. Kirkland, 3 to 0, for the Soccer championship Monday af ternoon. They were tied for top honors at the end of the regular Season’s play. Cadet R. A. Hopen scored first for the winners after five minutes of play in the first period, and at halftime the Vindicators were s^head, 1 to 0. Scoring the other two Vindicators points were A. A. Audycki and J. F. Heaps. Close throughout, the game was ®ne of the best played on the win- sport program. The entire first team for the Vindicators—R. Hopen, LW; J. Repcynzski, ; J. p. Heaps, LI; A. Audycki, R. E. Brown, RH; H. E. Cal- ^on, FH; J. J. O’Connor, FB; and Ellingwood, G—and substitutes J- S. Hegeman, R. S. Marshall, R. B. Rogers, and A. D. Sherwood P^a^yed outstanding ball. Others to Perform for the winners included J- F. McGinnis, R. W. Taylor, A. Lt. (jg) Whitey Kendall—Officers’ Coach Officers’ Basketball Loftis Leads Duke’s Blue Devils To 59-33 Victory Over OflScers Dute^s Blue Devils, the cream g Program of Southern Conference basketball, treated the U. S. Navy Pre Flight Coj-onado SqUadron officers with little respect Tuesday ^ VindlcatorS night as they polished off the for mer colleges aces, 59 to 33. The game, which was played at Durham with all proceeds going to the sports infantile paralysis j t. j xi. , ,1 1 I gram, and both were granted the drive, saw the Dukes take charge I ® ’ • v*. t-u 4. j „ , ’ „ L • • Saturday night liberty award, of the game from the beginning. tt i j. i 4. , J Until last week the Vindicators They scored as they pleased with! 4.- 4.^.1 ^ \ ^ ^ J • 1 ^ had held the top spot in total num- Coach Jerry Gerrard using 14 Gaining one and one-half points last week the Coronado sfluadron tied the Vindicators in total num ber of points in the sports pro players during the game. her of points for several weeks. Records in the various sports give While the officers displayed suf- Vindicators 10 victories, three ficient form to indicate they could ^^d three ties in soccer, have a well running basketball wins against two losses in machine with a little more prac- j -^yj-estling, four wins against three tice, they were way off in their j ^Qgggg volleyball, four wins and shooting. Only Ensign John Barr j boxing, and 10 wins was able to hit the basket with any losses in basketball. accuracy, his 11 points leading the officers’ scoring. Lt. (jg) Whitey Kendall, coach of the officers, had 8 points, and Lt. (jg) Kenneth Hashagen, who scored 17 against North Carolina State, got 7. Holding a 31 to 15 advantage at half-time, the Blue Devils made 28 points in the second half while the officers were making 18. Cedric Loftis, leading scorer of the Sou thern Conference, was high man for the winners with 14 points. K. Wells, and A. G. Williams. Playing on the losers teams were Bufflap, G; Gutters, FB; Chute, RB; Fremeyer, LB; Darrows, LW; Shutt, IW; Barrows, RW; Barrough, LH; and Williams, LW. Barrows, at the right wing, stood out for the losers. The Coronado squadron has seven wins and nine losses in soc cer, three wins, three losses and one tie in wrestling, six wins and two losses in volleyball, five wins, two losses and one tie in boxing, and 13 wins and two losses in bas ketball. The standings as of Jan. 30*: Squadron W L T Pts. Coronado 34 18 2 40 Vindicator 31 13 7 40 Devastator 28 21 5 35 Wildcat 29 21 4 34 Kingfisher 26 20 8 34 Buffalo 25 24 7 31% Mariner 22 27 5 30% Skyrocket 22 30 2 28 Helldiver 23 27 4 25 Catalina 23 29 2 25 Buccaneer 21 29 4 24 Mustang 12 40 2 16 Wrestling Pre-Flighters Take N. C. State The Pre-Flight varsity wrestling team won its third straight match Wednesday afternoon, defeating North Carolina State at Raleigh, 16 to 14. On the same program the Pre-Flight B team lost to State’s B team, 19 to 13. The varsity event started off in a nip and tuck manner, Pre-Flight winning the first and third bouts and State winning the second and fourth. In the fifth match State took a three-point lead when Stall ing decisioned McArthur. Then Cadet Landsberg’s decision over Edwards tied it up again and the Navy took the lead in the seventh bout when Hendershot pinned Kerr. Needing a fall to win the final match. Wagoner went after Mc- Keeby from the starting gun in a bout that saw fast and furious ac tion all the way. At the end of the regular match each boy had two points and there was not any time advantage. In the overtime Wag oner won the decision, but it didn’t give State enough points to take the meet. Wednesday afternoon at 1600 the State team comes to Chapel Hill for a return match with the Speidelmen. Varsity Results 121 — Nist, Pre-Flight, pinned Ratts, 1:12, second period; 2:25, third. 128—Blalock, State, pinned Ba- bine; 1:15, second period; 1:09, third. 135—Dorn, Pre-Flight, decision ed Chandler, 6-1. 145—Troxler, State, decisioned Raynor, 5-3. 155—Stallings, State, decisioned McArthur, 6-0. 165—Landsberg, Pre-Flight, de cisioned Edwards, 10-3. See WRESTLING, page J, The Week in Sports Wrestling Today— Duke, there Wednesday— N. C. State, here, 1600 Basketball Monday— Officers vs. Wake Forest, here, 1930 Thursday— Cadets vs. Duquesne, here, 1600 Boxing Wednesday— Ft. Bragg vs. Regimental Champs, here, 1915
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