Glendale Basketball recently welcomed Tristan Steele
and his family from Richmond Hill, Georgia to the
Ozarks! We all hope they enjoyed their visit to this fine
part of the country!

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.

59th Annual Greenwood Blue & Gold Tournament
Semifinals - December 28th, 2004 - 8:30 p.m.
Hammons Student Center - SMSU
FALCONS CLAIM BIG VICTORY
OVER PIRATES!
GLENDALE FALCONS (9-1) - 85
VS.
BRANSON PIRATES (7-3) - 56

Semfinal game
Glendale (9-1) 14 32 24 15--85
Branson (7-3) 8 22 10 16--56

GLENDALE — Rosenbury 6, Harbour 16,
McAmis 14, Lewis 26, Burrows 10, Bear
9, Dunn 4.

Holiday show spectacular
By Wiley Hendrix
Branson Daily News Sports
Editor

SPRINGFIELD - Heading into the 59th
Annual Blue and Gold Tournament, it was
well known that the Glendale Falcons
were a good shooting team.

On Wednesday, the Falcons put on a
shooting clinic en route to an 85-56 win
over the Branson Pirates. Glendale hit 12
three-pointers, including six in the
second quarter.

"They shot the ball well and we didn't,"
said Branson head coach Randy Bishop.
"We also had trouble guarding them and
we gave up a lot of open shots."

Down by six points, 14-8, at the end of
the first quarter, the Pirates fell behind
even further as the Falcons went on a
32-22 run to build a 46-30 halftime lead.
The rest was history as Glendale cruised
in the second half.

"Offensively, we took some shots we
probably shouldn't have," Bishop said.
"(Glendale) was a lot quicker than us. It
was just one of those games."

Branson was led by Zac Morgan's 16
points and Brett Walster's 10.

Glendale was led by Jeff Lewis, who
scored 26 points.

Glendale's 12 three-pointers set a new
Gold Division record.