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Bears lose to Southern
in best of three games
The Mercer Bears paid a visit
to the lair of the Georgia
Southern Eagles down in
Statesboro last Saturday (6).
and wound up wishing they had
stayed home. The Eagles
bombed the Bears, 86-66, in a
game, which, once again,
evened the Bears record, this
time at 8-8.
Phillip Sisk collected 20 points
for the Eagles, 16 of those in the
first half. Steve Buckler, always
n pain in Mercer’s neck, wound
up with 18.
But it was probably little
Tommy Bond, all 5-9 of him,
who did most of the damage.
Continually breaking the
usually tough Mercer press with
some fancy dribbling, Bond also
chipped in 8 points, as well as
-.collecting four assists.
Leonard Hardin led the Bears
in scoring with 20 points.
Monnie Brabham had 14. and
center Billie Smith and sub
guard Eddie Creech had 11 a
piece. Hardin also picked up the
rebound leadership with 13.
Mercer and Southern traded
baskets at the start of the game.
before Jack Scott hit a jumper
that put Mercer out in front, 8-4,
with 17:59 to play in the half.
The score was tied at 6-6, then
again'at 7-7, before the Eagles
broke out in front for good.
Sisk put in two field goals. and
then Bond hit a comer shot that
put Southern up by six with 14
minutes to play.
The Bears never did get back
on the right track after that,
although they did manage to
stay close for tne rest of the
half. They cut, ft to four twice
by Tom Robinson
(13-9, and 19-15), and down to
two once (15-13), but the offense
simply, could not hang on to the
ball long enough to put some
points on the board.
But the Eagles were not .
exactly Johnny Cools either. If
Southern had taken advantage
of the Bear mistakes earlier,
the chances are that it would
have been over a lot sooner than
it was. But, as it was, the Eagles
made their share of the tur
novers, which were able to keep
the Bears in the ball game.
But whatever mistakes
Southern did make, Sisk did not
mak§ too many of them. He was
7 for 8 from the floor in the first
half, and two for two at the foul
line. And his field goals were not
Chinese shots, either. They
were all either comer shots, or
drives down to the free throw
line.
The teams went into their
respective locker rooms with
the scoreboard reading 36-27 in
favor of Southern. During half
time, the crowd was treated to
an unexpected treat when our
men cheerleaders took on their
cheerleaders in a short half
court game. But our fellows
didn’t fare any better than the
varsity, losing 6-4.
If the first half was rough for
the Bears, then the second half
proved to be murder. Mercer
got to within eight, 38-30, after a
three point play by Smith with
19:15 to play. But that was as
—
close as the Bears got the rest of
the night, as the Eagles
collapsed the i\*of on Mercer.
Southern out-scored the
Bears, 25-7 through the first nine
minutes, to send the score up to
61-36.
Though the Bears never
rolled over and died, it was still
all over for them' for the night.
They cut the lead to 57-51 with
Brabham and Hardin leading
the way-as well as with Sisk out
of the game due to fouls and
with Charlie Gibbons, the
Southern center who played a
fine game, sitting on the bench
with four fouls. Smith, for
Mercer, was also out of the
game due to fouls by the seven
minute mark
Mercer cut the lead down to
80-66, due to Creech?who scored
the Bears last ten points, at the
1:42 mark. But the Eagles never
did lose their composure, and
quickly put the fire out of the
Bear rally with a six-point spurt
of their own making the score
86-66.
The game was originally
feared to have been a regular
riot, due to the last game these
two teams played, which saw
several incidents take place
between players on both teams,
out on the court. But several
state patrol troopers, as well as
the fact that this time the refs
had control of the game, kept a
nd on t dm pert both of-players
and spectators
ROLLINS
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determined to knock Rollins off.
no matter what.
David Jones collected the
first point of the overtime on a
foul shot, but Shea hit a corner
shot with 3:34 left in the period
to give Rollins it’s first and only
lead of the night
Scott and Eddie Creech, in
place of Bruce Gordy who
fouled out with 3:36 remaining
in the regulation time, then put
in two baskets to give the Bears
a 76-73 lead.
Shea continued to hit from th *
corner, but Mercer counterea
with a bucket by Creech to
make the score 78-76, with 153
left.
Hardin then scored two points
due to a goal tending call on
Higgs, and hit two foul shots
with 22 seconds showing on the
clock to almost sew it up Frank
Valenti hit a foul shot for the
Tars, with 14 seconds left, but
then Creech took a long pass for
the lay-up that ended all scoring
with five seconds left, at 84-77.
Jack Scott goes up for two against
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