DOVER - The Strasburg Tigers (5-0), Tuscarawas County Class B Basketball Champions after drawing a bye in the initial round, Friday afternoon defeated Mingo Junction 17-16 in an overtime 2nd round game. It was a wonderful victory for the Franklin-Township tossers and placed them in the semi-finals on Saturday morning. Displaying one of the best defenses that any team in the tournament has shown, Strasburg held the Mingo crowd of cagemen from the beginning and Senior Orval Deems, elongated forward and captain of the Tigers, placed his team in the running and into victory by his clever shooting. He garnered 5 shots from action for a 10-point total. The game was the 3rd in the afternoon program and was played before the largest crowd that witnessed any tourney game the entire day. Dover students and citizens amassed at the end of the floor, turned for Strasburg and helped cheer them to victory.
Strasburg grabbed an early lead and lost it twice, once in the 1st quarter and again in the final period when things looked bad for the Franklin-Township five. Senior Bob Miller scored a foul sto start the game, then Mingo center Schaefer went under for his only field goal on the Tigers' center, Paul Sundheimer. Deems swished the nets from close range to give Strasburg a 3-2 lead, but Mingo's guard Riggs was fouled by Miller and he tossed a pair of foul shots as the quarter ended 4-3, Mingo. In the 2nd quarter Strasburg's Senior guard Paul Neidenthal hit a long shot to give the Tigers the lead , then Deems scored a pair under the basket and gave Strasburg a lead of 9-4.
At the start of the 3rd quarter Neidenthal dropped in another long one for Strasburg, then Schaefer caged a foul and Coen tied the count at 11 all with a fielder from mid-court. Mingo's forward, Ullstrum, went under his basket to give Mingo Junction a 2 point lead as the 3rd quarter ended. Ullstrum kept the ball rolling for Mingo in the 4th period and gave them a 4 point lead at the start. Deems; however, with a beautiful overhand shot from back of the foul line, made Strasburg 13 when there were 10 minutes left to play. Another basket by Deems which came when he tipped one into the hoop after someone had missed a long shot, tied the count at 15 all when there was only 37 seconds to play. Ullstrum was fouled by Neidenthal in the overtime period and made a foul to give Mingo a 16-15 lead. Sundheimer's only basket of the game was the winning one for the Strasburgers. It came after 2 minutes had been played in the allotted 3 minutes of overtime. He was near the backboard and tipped the ball in as 2 men were on his shoulders.
STRASBURG TIGERS - 17
Orval Deems 5-0-10
Bob Miller 0-1-1
Mears 0-0-0
Paul Sundheimer 1-0-2
Paul Neidenthal 2-0-4
Clyde Denzer 0-0-0
MINGO JUNCTION - 16
Hresho 2-0-4
Ullstrum 2-1-5
Schaefer 1-1-3
Longo 0-0-0
Coen 1-0-2
Racca 0-0-0
Riggs 0-2-2
Saturday, March 3, 1928
The Daily Reporter
Dover, Ohio
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