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THE MERCER CLUSTER
February 17, I960
Bears Stop
LaCrange, 82-73
The hot hand of Boh Reeves scalded the visiting La-
(1 range cage team here, Feb. 8, 82-7.'L The Bears put on a
great offensive drive, but were unable to completely run away
from the scrappy LaGrange team who were on their heels
throughout.
Hob Reeve*. last year's leading | The n|K'nmg minute* of the see
scorer gave the few fan* there a j ond half |>ut fear in the hearts of
Klim|>se of last year’s form hit-1 the Mercer Ians, as the LaGrange
ting for 27 points, to lead the Bears team came out with 3 straight held
to victory. His style of shooting j goals within 53 seconds to whittle
was i* little awkward, as lie ripped*Hhe Hear lead down to three |x>ints
the nets for II field goals. His awk 141-UK. The Hears were never tied
wardness was accounted for by I or behind in the second half, hut
never -taking aim. but just blasting j for the lirst six minutes, the la
■ in arc less shot the instant he got ' (Irange team managed to match
the ball. I the Hears shot lor shot and were
I n the opening minutes of the I behind only bv one or two i>omts
tirst is riod, the Bears had a 4 0 j Hob Reeve's hot hand started the
lead, but it was tier! up 4-4 by Hears' offense when he hit on a
Glenn Lord. I-aGrange's leading I freak play that gave him 4 |xiints
scorer who hit 21 |«>ints in the du- ^ Hob ripped the nets for a field
ration. Lord had a sacred s|Hit on goal in the key. and at the
the court during the second half on [ moment the ball past through the
the right side of the key. where he hoop, a l.afirange player flagrant
pumped all of his shots from the ly fouled him. allowing 2 Ire
floor, missing only one from that
location
Coach Wilder again displayed
confidence in his pregame ramb
ling. but from the expressions on
fa.
throws. This play was the tinning
|h>ilit in the game, and allowed the
Hears to pull away. With 10:03 re
maining. the Hears hud compiled
their largest leu.l of 13 |K>ints. 00
during the latter half of I 53. I he Hears then hit a slump, and
the first stanza. one could tell that
the game was not going as expect
ed. especially when the LaGrange
team tied the score several times,
and went ahead with 0:37 remain
ing. 29 27. hut they held the lead
only for 1:00 and the Bears eased
away, hut not by any great margins
until the half time* score of 41-33.
an eight point lead which was the
Bear's largest of the half
the LaCrange team held them
scoreless for about four minute*
while they again put on the attack
brining the lead down to six
IKiints at 00 00. The Bears then
pulled away to a momentary IP
point lead and coasted for a while.
Tension mounted in the crowd
with :44 remaining in the- game as
the IaiGrange team staged a come
back and on a three |x>int play
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Bears Blast Tampa,83-75 Hatters Tree
Bears, 71-60
Bear captain. Boh Reeves, sparked our Bears to win over the Tam
pa Spartans, M3 7f>, on Friday night with a 27 |x>int ix-rformance. Bol
duplicated his 27 |xiint (x-rformance in a previous game against I-a
Grange.
Boh hit an amazing 60'/, from
the floor, pumping in 12-20. His
early season |x-rcentage was around
39',. but lately he’s had the hot
test streak on the Bear team.
All five Bear starters hit in dou
ble figures. Backing up Reeves,
were Sieve Moody 15, Jud Rob-
< rt* 12. Chuck Newton 12, and Bill
Naylor hit It.
Big Steve Motxlv smashed La
mar Clements' all time rebound
record bringing down twelve and
bring his total to 757. Moixly had
previously tied the record in the
LaGrange game
Bill Naylor led the Bears under
the hoards, clearing them 16 times
Tampa hovered over the Bears
having two starters over 6T>", and
edged out a small margin in the
relxiuiwl department, 53-48.
With Reeves and M.xxlv resting
during the scond half, the game
was left to Roberts, Newton and
Naylor to win
The Bears now hold a 10-7 rec
ord and only need two' more vie
tones to cbp a winning season.
The Hear (x-rcentage from the
floor has lx-en doing exceptionally
MERCER RIPS THE NET
and they hit 33-67 to pull a
against the Spartans, with
Tam|)a team hitting a mere
managed to get within three |x>ints
f the Hears, 76-73, but that was
the end of their scoring as the
Bears added six to come up with
the final score. 82-73.
The game started a new tv|x* of
fense by the Bears. The new of
fense saw a three two ty|X- set up.
that left out Chuck Newton and put
in three guards, Manton, Roberts,
and Reeves.
The Bears hit a great |X“rcentage
from the floor hitting 35 for 69. hut
the visitors too hit around 50G
Coach Wilder s team must be com
mended for their restraint in pick
ing up fouls, as the team only pick
ed up 11 in the game, allow ing only
13 free shots to the I-aGrange team
The cheerleaders received little
supixirt from the few fans present,
and Batman wasn't even on that
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MERCER (t3|
FG FT PF If
601 31?
Total*
TAMPA
MERCER
Moody
►'ob^ft* v v
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33 17-27 19 13
FG FT PF TP
0 0 0
21 19-30 20
SCORE SY HALVES I v h.lo*
47 26—13 Total*
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The curse of the lowly foul
again plagued the Bears, a.
Stetson Hatter* gained sweet
venge in Deland by putting
Mercer team on the short end ol
71-60 decision.
The Bear* had previously vhi|
|x*d up on the Hatter* here ii V
con 70-65, hut 'twa* a difl-i
story in the land of sunshine
Coach Wilder often expi
that his team could whip an
ponent matched against then , h
the fouling problem has reti n*
and with fouls, comes defeat f ,
Bears.
The game was definitely
the free throw line, as the tf,
hail the edge from the floo
shooting the Hatters 24 23.
Walt Kilcullen, the game's lea
ing scorer, capitalized on 1
tosses to add to his total < f
ixiints for the night.
The Hatters raced throug
game leading with two to
points with the Bears only th*
once; with 4:05 remaining
first half the Bears went i hu
23 22, hut was only moment.irili
Only three Bears managed to
in double figures; they were
and Naylor with 16 apiece, f >lli
ed by Roberts with 12.
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