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F. U. M. A.
With more accurate foul shooting,
the Bishop cagers might have pulled a major upset in Virginia prepschool circles, but as it was, lost 44-42, in overtime to Fork Union's lofty squad.
The Bishops maintained a lead from the beginning of the second quarter to the last 30 seconds of play, when a debatable foul on Jim- my Davidson enabled Lefty Swan of the cadets to pour in the tying point. The foul was the result of a collision between Davidson and Swan at mid- court when Davidson was working the ball down.
In overtime two scores in rapid succession were dropped in by both teams, topped off by the winning basket by Bethencourt in the last seconds of the 3-miriute period.
The free throws provided the mar- gin in this close decision, for V.E.S. outscored the cadets from the floor, dropping m only 4 fouls 1n II at- tempts.
OH, OH, SO NICE!
Fork Un ion Raudle ..
G FT PFTP .. 0 1- 2 2 I
Garrett
Bethencourt
Wawner ........
Benson ..........
Morales .......... 0
Davenport ...•... 0
Swan ........... 6 3-5 I 15
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Flood . ........... . 5
Totols V.E.S.
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I0 44
PF TP
3 14
Davidson .......... 7 Forinholt •......... 6
Peirson ............ 0 McCracken ......... 0 McCurry ........ 4
Stokes •. 2 1-1
Smith ......•...... 0 Totals ...........19
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F.U.M.A. ... II V. E. S.......II
9 15
9 42
4-44 2-42
Peirson, c .......... Farinholt, c
Stokes, g
McCurry, g McCrocken, g ..... Smith, g ••.... ..
3
2
2 33
Saints Win Here
Both teams scored easily today, as the Saints swept to an 87-60 victory over the Bishops. Jimmy Davidson dropped 22 points through the hoop for a season high for an individual on the squad, but was forced to take a back seat, as Harold Hunt of the Richmond team scored 31 points.
The first period score stood 20-16, the Bishops trailing. Y.E.S. was never
St. Christopher
Hunt, f ...
Bowles, f ...... Covington, f
Porr, c .. ........ Frozer, c ........... Hunt, W., g ...... Hondie, g
McCollum, g
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THE METEOR
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Fulton, f ........... 3 Barber, f ......... 0 Davidson, f ........ 8 Lowe, f ............ 0
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able to outscore the visitors in any quarter, but were very scrappy and did score a single high of 60 points for one game. Height again was the big difference between the teams as V.E.S. grabbed comparatively few rebounds. Jim McCurry had 8 points and Peirson followed with 7 points for the home club. Bowles was sec-
ond for the Saints with 17 points.
V. E. S. G F PF TP
The Bedford Game; The Same Old Story
The Bishops journeyed to Bedford to meet a taller, but no more aggres- sive team. In the first quarter of the game the Otters started a fire that the Bishops could not put out. At the end of the first quarter the score stood at I1-6 in favor of the home team.
The lanky Otter center, Jimmy Burks, controlled both the back- boards and was thus able to shove in five field goals from under the basket, this combined with 6 for 9 free throws made him high scorer
for the game.
During the second period the Ot-
ters were able to outscore the visi- tors by IS to 4 points.
The second half the Bishops caught fire but were not able to overcome the lead that the Otters built up in the first half. Bill Stokes was high scorer for the visitors with 14 points; most of them gathered from the out- side in the third period. Sam Peirson was behind him with 7. The Bishops almost equaled the scoring of the Ot- ters in the last half; but were unable to overcome the sharpshooting of the Bedford quintet. The game ended
SPORTS
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