7th Annual
North Central District "A"
Boys Basketball Tournament
1964

Champ

ionship

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Quincy 66, Oroville 56
Game 1.
At Eastmont High School

Quincy's Jackrabbits bedazzled Oroville in the opening quarter of their tournament game, racing to a 14-point lead.
Then, as the Hornets recovered from their tournament jitters, it was pretty even ball game. But Oroville couldn't catch the quick Jackrabbits.
Chief differences were the hustling, driving work of Quincy guard Garwin Bruce, and the smooth under-the-boards work of Jerry Livengood.
Oroville's Mike Bourn opened the game by hitting a basket from close in. But then the Hornets lapsed into an anguishing several minutes without scoring from the field.
Bruce was hot. He drove the key and hit swishers from the outside.  The aggressive, blitzing, Quincy zone defense was forcing Oroville into hurried shots and poor passes.
Repeatedly, the Hornets would move into forecourt, only to turn the ball over with getting off  a shot. And Livengood was controlling rebounds in Quincy's forecourt.
Suddenly the scoreboard read: Quincy 18, Oroville 4.
Only six seconds remained in the period with Bourn hit another field goal for Oroville. Between those two shot, the Hornets hadn't been able to score a field goal.
The quarter ended 18-7.
Oroville fans rooted for a rally.  They were joined in a great show of neighborliness by their usually arch-rival neighbors from Tonasket.  And the Hornets responded by outscoring Quincy from then on.
Shots never came easy for the Hornets because of the scrappy Jackrabbit defense.  Oroville's Charley Cox hit two long ones, back to back, and Ray Wilson and Wayne Scott hit long shots, too, in the second period.
It was 38-29 at halftime and 49-39 at the three-quarter mark.
In the fourth period, unaccountably, Quincy lost its poise momentarily, and began getting off some poor passes.
A tip-in by Ken Scacco and a nice jumpshot by Scott brought the Hornets to within seven points, but it was too late in the game for Oroville and the Jackrabbits quickly regained their poise.
Livengood hit a pair of free throws and hustling Reese Harper shook loose for a solo to restore Quincy's cushion.
Bruce led all scorers with 22 points. Bourn paced Oroville with 15.

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Tonasket 65, Cashmere 50
Game 2.
At Eastmont High School

Slick, smooth, sharp, bright - the adjectives usually used on safety razor blade commercials - would best describe Tonasket's performance.
And the Tigers glided evenly through the game, chopping down Cashmere with ease even though the Bulldogs battled all the way.
Tonasket was potent on offense and superb on defense.  The Tigers had the game wrapped up early enough to give the starting lineup a rest. But that's customary for Tonasket.
The Tigers never trailed. Larry Visser hit the first field goal and Jack Larrabee swished another soon after.
Tonasket's defense was fierce. As Cashmere moved toward forecourt, the guards were picked up at mid-court by three defensive tornadoes: cat-quick Visser, Larry Jungblom and Virgil Newton.
They allowed no room for a casual long shot.
Cashmere tried spreading its offense and sending a man quickly through the middle.  That paid off in a couple of baskets by Nick Babcock, which kept Cashmere close (12-8) early in the first period.
But almost never did Cashmere get a rebound on its offensive board.  Big, agile, Larrabee was sweeping in the rebounds with precision.
Offensively, the Tigers were potent, too.  Visser, with a variety of shots, and the smooth Larrabee led the attack early in the game.
Tonasket breezed to a 20-12 lead at the end of the first quarter and extended it to 36-24 at halftime.
Tonasket coach Martin Anzelini substituted freely and the depth strength of the Tigers showed, as they continued to perform smoothly.  It was 52-38 at halftime.
The Tigers opened the second half with another barrage and quickly had a commanding 20-point lead, 58-38. The coasted from there.
Cashmere hustled hard and managed to do something that few teams manage against the Tigers great defense; they scored 50 points.
That happened when Babcock went up in the midst of a scramble and potted a lay-in just before the buzzer.
Babcock, who turned in a fine performance, led Cashmere scorers with 14 points.
As usual, Tonasket's scoring glory was well spread. Larrabee was top man in the game with 16. But Visser was close behind with 15 and Don Atchison had 13.

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Quincy 42, Tonasket 38
Game 3. (Championship & winner to state, loser out)
At Eastmont High School

One of the state's longest winning streaks came to an end Saturday night in the Eastmont gym when Bob Woodworth's Quincy Jackrabbits engineered a surprising execution of Tonasket.
To the winner went the district's lone coveted berth in the State Class A basketball tournament, opening Wednesday in Tacoma.
The Tigers of Martin Anzelini had won 19 straight games since losing, on this floor, to Eastmont in the season-opener on December 7. Saturday night's game was all that stood in the way of the Tigers' bid for a berth in the state tournament.
The Jackrabbits used a sturdy 2-1-2 zone and needed only 32 shots to win the North Central District A boys basketball tournament.  They made 15 of those shots for 46.9 percent shooting accuracy.
It was a tension - packed struggle witnessed by a near-overflow crowd.
Although Quincy controlled the game nearly all the way, never were the two league champs (Tonasket from the CTL and Quincy from the NCL) separated by more than six points. The only six-point margin belonged to Quincy, 27-21, in the first two minutes of he second half.
The game's back-breaker was delivered in the last second of the first half.
The Jackrabbits had overcome Tonasket's last lead of the game, 21-19, on a field goal by Blaine Ford and two free throws by Jerry Livengood in the last 37 seconds of the first half.
When Tonasket took the ball out of bounds after Livengood's two free throws, there were only four seconds to play in the half.  The Tigers tried to hurry the ball down-court, but, as so often happens, the desperation effort back-fired - Garwin Bruce intercepted for Quincy and scored with one second remaining.
Instead of a two-point lead, Quincy had a four-pointer, plus momentum and confidence that carried into the second half.
A struggling Tonasket team shaved the deficit to one point twice in the fourth quarter on the shooting of Don Atchison, Jack Larrabee, and Larry Visser.
But quick Reese Harper drove through the key with 2:58 to play to make an important basket for Quincy and Bruce Lynch followed with two free throws. Lynch scored again on a long pass, as Tonasket was pressing up court, with 1:21 to play. That seemed to be the final blow. Although Tonasket hopes received a momentary lift when Larrabee cut it two, 40-38, with 26 seconds remaining.
It was a frustrating evening for the Tigers, who managed only 14 field goal in 52 attempts - a sharp contrast to their shooting throughout the season. They missed their first seven shots of the second quarter, then came back to tie the score three times and finally go ahead, 21-19, for the last time on a basket by Jim Howeiler.
Quincy's small, fast guards, Bruce and Harper, played brilliantly while harassing the Tonasket attack continually. Big, burly Darrell Boorman was a bear on the boards for the Jackrabbits. Bruce led the Quincy scoring with 12 points.
Larrabee, with 17, and Visser, with 12, accounted for most of Tonasket's scoring.

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Oroville 60, Cashmere 53
Game 4.
At Eastmont High School

Oroville nabs 3rd in meaningless contest

Oroville took third place in the North Central District A basketball tournament by defeating Cashmere Saturday night at East Wenatchee. The consolation game was played as a preliminary to the Quincy-Tonasket district championship test.
The Bulldogs were red-hot at the outset as they rolled into a 21-13 quarter-ending lead.  The Hornets kept whittling at the margin until closing it to 29-28 just before the half.
Oroville made the first basket of the second half to take the lead and was never headed.
Juniors Mike Bourn and Charles Cox led the Hornets with 14 points apiece.  Cashmere was paced by Dean Henry, who collected 16, and Jerry Van Winkle with 15.