Granada Pioneer, Vol. II, No. 43

              SLATE  IMPORTANT
MEETING  FOR  ALL
BASEBALL MANAGERS
    An important meeting of
all baseball managers and
players is slated for this
Monday night, 7 o’clock,
according to James Hanamura,
athletic director. Discus-
sion will center on the
possibility of organizing
a hard ball league this
season.
PIONEER  Sports
April 1, 1944                         Page 7
RAMBLERETTES  TO  CLASH  WITH
INVADING  GRANADA  HI  SEXTET
   In the curtain-raiser
of Tuesday night's benefit
basketball twin bill at
7:15 o'clock the pride and
joy of Sepol, the Ramblin’
Ramblerettes will meet the
challenge of their cross
town rival, the erstwhile
sextet of Granada high
school.
   The high-riding Sepol
six after rampaging through
the girl's league to the
championship, toppled the
all-star aggregation in
two successive tilts, and
holds a victory over the
same Granada hi six. Now
riding on the crest of an
eight-game winning streak,
they will again enter the
fracas as favorites. In
their first meeting the
Ramblerettes easily subdued
the Granadans 31-20, but
with more practice under
their belt the visitors
should put on a much stif-
fer battle.
   All season it was the
uncanny one hand shooting
of Norma Hamamoto and smooth-
working, veteran Chizu Kan-
da that coach AL Kato nest-
led his hopes in the front
line. But last Sunday,
surprising the fans, the
coach,and all probability
herself, it was Eva Sugi-
yama who put on a flossy
performance,driving through
to tingle the twine for
20 points. Should either
of the versitile scoring
twin find the hoop with
regularity as they were so,
accostumed throughout the
season or should Eva Sugi-
yama repeat her last Sun-
day's performance, the local
cagerettes should by far
top    the    31    markers they
registered in their initial
meeting. At the guard posts
Al Kato will again rely up-
on his dependable starting
three, all-league Janet
Kubochi,Mary Yokoyama and
Holly Onomiya, with rugged
Mieko Akutagawa on hand to
relieve any one of the trio.
Other certain to see ac-
tion are: Norma and Anna
Sugiyama, Alice Yatabe,
Joyce Ikesaki and Helen
Kato. Little is known of
the visitors, but they
have been putting on a stiff
battle, against outside
high school sextets, and
should Invade the., center
with a  hard  fighting squad.
BENEFIT  GA,E
AMACHE  VARSITY  CAGERS
TO  BATTLE ‘AA’  ALL-STARS
  The local "AA" All-Stars fill tangle with John Ka-
shiwabara's flashy Amache high school varsity in the
second tilt of the benefit casaba doubleheader Tuesday
night. Sponsored by the athletic department of the
community activities, the entire proceeds of the
event will be turned over to bolster the high school
athletic fund.
   After a long lay-off the prep basketeers looked im-
pressive in the humiliating thrashing that they adminis-
tered on the single-A All-
Stars last week, but will
face a much more severe
test when they  meet the
"AA" aggregation. Running
up against the lanky All-
Stars, the prepsters will
have trouble controlling
the backboard, but high-
scoring Tosh Okamura,Harry
Kajioka and Johnny Mizoue
along with hard working Jack
Hoshizu and Jun Furuno in
the back court should give
their elder brothers a busy
evening. Besides the above
named quintet the following
players are certain to see
plenty of action: Hank Shi-
mada, Goro Shizuru, Romeo
Kitagawa, "Dag" Nakatogawa,
Frank Goi,Calvin Kitazumi,
Ken Kashiwabara and Russell
Yamaga.
   The cream of the maple-
wood cavorters of the "AA”
league, with three center
encounters and the Denver
tournament under their belt,
should be a well-coordina-
ting unit by now. The All-
Stars will floor a lanky
quintet with such skyscrap-
ers as Aki Watanabe, Soapy
Miyashima, and Chick Furuye
and will have plenty of
speed with eye-pleasing
John Kashiwabara, ever-
flashy Tosh Shimizu, Benny
Yamagiwa,Alfred Kato, Shig
Sugano and John Tsuruta.
Although the "AA" stars will
be rated slight pre-game
favorite, it should prive
to be a hum-dinger of a
battle.
   Tickets for the game
may be obtained at the
PIONEER,   8F CA office    and
the high school office.
NISEI  LEADS UTAH
UTES  TO  NATIONAL
COLLEGIATE  CROWN
  Wat Misaka, a regular
on the Ute squad, achieved
the honor of being the first
nisei to perform in the
Madison Square Garden and
also the first nisei to be
on a National Collegiate
championship aggregation
when his Utah University
collegians pulled one of
the biggest upsets in the
history of the tournament
by ekeing out the highly
favorite Dartmouth quintet
in an overtime decision,
42-40,last week to capture
the National Collegiate AA
crown.  On Utah's first
visit to the Garden some
time ago, they were elim-
inated by Kentucky in the
National Invitational Tour-
nament.
   The Utes suffered a
crushing blow In the open-
ing minutes of the champion-
ship tilt when their high-
scoring center and play-
maker was forced out of the
game with a twisted ankle,
but pint-sized Wat Misaka,
who had been, regularly
playing at the guard post
ably filled in his shoe,
and dispite his height dis-
advantage, shoved in a pair
of field goals to help out
in the  cause.