DOVER - The Midvale Blue Devils (2-0), dark horse entry, who Friday night upset all forecasts by defeating the Mineral City Tigers (0-1), county league champions (9-0), Saturday afternoon when they defeated the Strasburg Tigers (2-1) by 16 points and won the right to meet the Bolivar Cardinals (2-0) for the Class B High School County Championship at Legion Hall at 8PM tonight. Both Bolivar and Midvale will enter the Class B District Tournament at Legion Hall next Saturday. The defensive work of Midvale's guard Fabiano and the floor work of Captain forward Roy Smith kept the Tigers from its 3rd county championship. Fabiano held Senior forward Art "Dutch" Miller, Strasburg's scoring ace, without a field basket. Junior Fred Mears scored 3 of Strasburg's 4 field goals.
Head Coach Young's Tigers were trailing by a 4 point margin, 7-3, at the end of the 1st quarter. It was a beautiful game, faster than any previous encounter of the meet. Strasburg drew 1st blood when Senior center Wayne Myers scored from underneath, but a foul by Blue Devils guard Baldwin and then a fielder from the same lad gave Midvale the lead, 3-2. Fans whooped it up and cheers were as hotly contested as the game. Miller tied the count with a foul then shots from the field by Baldwin and Smith put the down county team in front. Strasburg added only 1 point in the 2nd quarter coming on a foul toss by Miller. The Midvale crew led by Smith boosted their total to 13 points, the half ending 13-4. After Miller's foul shot Smith caged a field goal to give Midvale a lead of 9-4 as the 2nd quarter opened. Mears held on the side lines by Coach Young then replaced Pingstock at forward for Strasburg. Morgan, Tiger forward, added a foul shot then center Zucal tossed a pair of free ones. Smith ended the scoring with another foul throw after Mears missed a chance from the gift line.
The 3rd quarter was closer, but didn't change things very much as far as Strasburg was concerned. The miners were still leading by a count of 19-9. The fine floor generalship of Roy Smith, Midvale's forward, kept the team ahead, cool but fighting. Smith once during the 3rd quarter dribbled the length of the floor for a basket, going through the entire Strasburg team. Morgan and Zucal started the period off by caging field goals then Mears scored from action to make the count 17-6. Miller scored one of 2 fouls and Mears another field goal then Smith ended the scoring for the period with a fielder which brought on the last period totally dominated by the Blue Devils.
MIDVALE BLUE DEVILS - 27
Roy Smith 3-1-7
Morgan 2-1-5
Hirst 0-0-0
Zucal 1-2-4
Baldwin 4-1-9
Fabiano 1-0-2
MIDVALE BLUE DEVILS - 11
Art "Dutch" Miller 0-2-2
Verle Miller 0-0-0
Pingstock 0-0-0
Fred Mears 3-1-7
Wayne Myers 1-0-2
John Heid 0-0-0
Wil Dreher 0-0-0
Steitz 0-0-0
Saturday, February 23, 1929
The Daily Reporter
Dover, Ohio
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