'District' AA Field Filled

'Cats Score, 63-35;

Coin Flip on Monday

By JOHN K. SMITH
Sun Sports Writer

The athletic directors from East and West flip a coin Monday to decide which plays Port Angeles and which faces Bethel next Friday in the first round of the local “district” class AA tournament.

The Wildcats of West coach Bob Smith handled the Central Kitsap Cougars last night, 63-35, at Silverdale in one of three games that helped decide the “district” lineup.  Elsewhere, Port Angeles its No. 3 spot in the post-season picture by toppling Shelton, 46-42, and Bethel earned the Seamount league berth by defeating Sumner, 52-43, in a playoff at Puyallup.

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Top Peewee

Fives Mix

For Honors

The two top teams from the regular season met again today to decide the Kitsap County Peewee association post-season basketball tournament championship.

Unbeaten Manette faced once-defeated Silverdale in the championship game this afternoon after the consolation final between North Perry and Warren Avenue.

Manette trimmed third-place North Perry, 27-14, and Silverdale downed fourth-place Warren Avenue, 32-17, in semifinals last night as the tournament continued to underline regular season standings.

Bill Segerman scored 13 and Bill Carter 10 for Silverdale in last night’s high individual scoring. Alan Martin of Manette and Terry Showman of North Perry each had nine and Bruce Larson, leading Warren, had six.

The post-season tournament this winter replaced the all-star games of previous peewee seasons.

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DEPENDING on the flip of the coin Monday between West AD Bill Hurney and East vice principal Tom Guerin, one of the Bremerton quintets will oppose PA and the other Bethel next Friday night. Winners of those two games will clash on Saturday to qualify one to the state class AA prep hoop tournament March 13-16 at Hec Edmundson pavilion at the University of Washington in Seattle.

All post-season games are supposed to be played on neutral courts. Locally, this usually at West and Central Kitsap.

The Wildcats pulled into a tie with East in the local AA tournament trail final standings by trouncing CK last night. Both West and the Knights of East, who completed their regular schedule last Tuesday, lost one game in an otherwise all-victorious AA path. In each case, the one loss was due to the split in the crosstown rivalry that saw each win its home fray against the arch foe.

DANNY SHEDWIN, the 6-3 junior pivot for West, scored 17 points and grabbed 15 rebounds in pacing the triumph at Silverdale. He had 10 points at halftime when teammate Steve Schumacher, who finished with 13, had 11.

Their 21 in the first half almost equaled the Cougars’ entire output in the same span. West led at intermission 32-22 after a 20-point second quarter that dissolved the tightness of the first eight minutes.

Only Cougar in double figures was senior Joe Burroughs who garnered 15, six in the fourth quarter when he spent considerable time walking to the free throw line.

After three quarters, West was on top, 44-26, and the swarm of Wildcat substitutions in the late stages – for quite a while all five players for West were guards – did little to slow down the margin spreading.

WEST outrebounded CK, 59-25. West outshot CK in the field, 42.2 per cent to 22.9 per cent, and at the free throw line, 68 per cent to 43.3 per cent.  In detail, the Wildcats put in 23 field goals in 52 attempts and 17 free throws in 25 tries while the Cougars were netting only 11 of 48 goal efforts and 13 of 30 charity chances.

In the fourth quarter, when West subs outscored CK, 19-8, the Cougars managed only one goal in 11 attempts and seven of 17 free throw tries.  Through the whole second half, CK hit only three of 21 from the field.

Smith used 15 Wildcats against CK but now faces the chore of cutting three from the squad before the playoffs begin.

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West Cops

Freshman

Cage Final

West’s Wildkittens closed a successful freshman basketball season with a 44-30 triumph over North Mason yesterday.

Arne Dahl paced the winners with nine points as coach Wayne Jensen started his reserves and only played his starters during the third panel. ‘Kittens finished the campaign with a 11-1 mark.

Best individual performance of the contest belonged to NM’s Bud Allen, who picked up 21 points in almost a one-man performance.

West (44) – Dahl 9, Simpkins 2, Guy 2, Costello 4, Hoffman 6, Harrell 6, Dickerson, R. Green 5, Bailey 2, White 2, Ogg, D. Green 6;

North Mason (30) – Allen 21, Blackwell, Diahon 3, Ernesti 3, Drake 2, Fields 1, Keith.