By Bill Mitchell
States Sports Writer
Columbia’s powerful Caps, dominating both backboards and using a sticky man-to-man defense, rolled over the short and inexperienced Camden Bulldogs, 67-29, at the Columbia gym Thursday night.
The Caps’ Billy Ray put the locals ahead to stay when he drove the baseline for a layup with 2:19 left in the first period, making the store read 7-5 at that point.
Wayne McLemore and Alex Karnaris added field goals and ray connected on a free throw while Camden could manage on a bucket by James Debruli and a free throw by Jan Puczkowski.
The first quarter ended with the score of 11-8.
In the second period Ray and McLemore, who controlled the boards all night for the Caps, led a surge which carried Columbia to a 31-19 halftime margin.
The third period was merely a repetition of the the second. Ray and McLemore tossed in 14 points between them to put the game out of reach.
Camden, who lacked an efficient scorer, could not shake loose from the Caps’ tight Man-to-man and managed only 17 points in the middle two periods.
The Caps out-scored the Bulldogs, 16-4, in the final period to complete the rout.
Ray finished the night with 23 points while McLemore tossed in 21. Debruli led the losers with nine points followed by Jimmy smith’s eight.
CAMDEN (29)
Debruli 4 1 – 3 9
Puczkowski 0 2 – 4 2
Loway 0 0 – 0 0
Goodson 0 0 – 0 0
Rush 0 0 – 0 0
Logan 0 0 – 3 0
Smith 4 0 – 3 8
Schreiben 0 0 – 0 0
Hillbrand 2 0 – 1 4
Sowell 2 1 – 2 5
Truesdale 0 0 – 0 0
Bowers 0 1 – 1 1
Glenn 0 0 – 0 0
Totals 12 5 – 17 29
COLUMBIA (67)
Ray 10 3 – 5 23
Karnaris 2 2 – 2 6
Campbell 4 1 – 3 9
Barber 1 2 – 2 4
Calcutt 1 6 – 2 2
M’Lemore 2 5 – 15 21
Driggers 1 0 – 0 2
Totals 27 13 – 29 67
Columbia ………………..11 20 20 14 – 67
Camden…………………… 3 11 6 4 – 29
Personal fours: Columbia 8, Camden 16.
Fouled out: Camden – Hildebrand.
