59th Annual Blue & Gold Tournament
Gold Division Championship Game
December 30th 2004 - 8:30 p.m.
Hammons Student Center - SMSU
GLENDALE FALCONS (10-1) - 69
VS.
BOLIVAR LIBERATORS (10-3) - 61

GLENDALE FALCONS
2004 BLUE & GOLD
GOLD DIVISION CHAMPS!

Falcons tie Kickapoo and
Springfield Central for most
Blue & Gold titles won with 9
total championships!

Glendale (10-1) 11 18 18 22--69
Bolivar (10-3) 8 18 7 28--61

GLENDALE — Rosenbury 6, Harbour 19,
McAmis 8, Lewis 23, Hannah 6, Burrows
7.
BOLIVAR — C. Blair 20, Hastings 10,
Ankrom 9, S. Blair 3, DeClue 11, Peter 4.

Deja vu as Bolivar claims 2nd in B&G

By: Bill Breshears 01/05/2005

It was deja vu all over again for coach Chuck Blair and the Bolivar Liberators last week. Blair's Liberators dropped a hard-fought, spirited decision to coach Sean Williamson and his small, scrappy basketball team in the championship game of the Gold Division of the Springfield Blue and Gold Tournament Thursday. Williamson's Springfield Glendale Falcons out-ran the Liberators 69-61 for the 2004 Gold title. The Falcons reminded area fans of Williamson's 2003-04 Willard team that downed the Liberators 58-56 in the district semifinals this past March. Even part of the officiating crew was the same for both games. "We got off to a four-for-11 start in the first quarter and trailed 11-8," Blair said. "If we would have hit three or four of the easy shots we missed inside, we easily could have been ahead 15-11 and had control of the game. "We matched Glendale 18-18 in the second quarter, then we let it get away due to some circumstances we couldn't control in the third quarter. We got whistled for a foul, gave up a three-point shot, failed to get a foul call and did get a technical called on us in a stretch of about two minutes. Then, Glendale hit another three-pointer at the buzzer, and we were suddenly behind 47-33 going into the fourth quarter. "I have to give credit to our players in the fourth quarter. They cut the lead to single digits and gave everything they had left." Jeff Lewis led Glendale with 23 points. Spud Harbour added 19. C. Blair paced Bolivar with 20 points. Ty DeClue added 11, Mark Hastings 10 and Jesse Ankrom nine. "When you get to a championship game, you have to come out and play well right from the tipoff," Blair said. "We got off to a bad start, and you can't do that in an emotional game like that. "We'll learn from our mistakes and get better this week." Willard, Williamson's old team, downed Springfield Parkview 67-58 for first place in the Blue Division. Republic downed Mountain Grove 69-52 for third place in the Blue. Mount Vernon edged Branson 65-63 in overtime for third place in the Gold.