SOUTH AMHERST - A ball club that registered 25 straight victories before it finally suffered its 1st defeat in the entire season...tournament play included...is the South Amherst High School Falcons (25-1) who will face the Midvale Blue Devils (24-3) in their opening game at the State Basketball finals on the Ohio State University Gymnasium floor Thursday night.
South Amherst is also the team that struck Dennison from the ranks of the contenders a year ago when the Railroaders won the Eastern District Championship that now belongs to Midvale. Canal Fulton is the only team that outscored the Falcons. The score was 34-25 and the game was the final of the Northestern District Tournament at Ravenne. The time was last Saturday night.
The Falcons waded through their regular schedule of games to win the Lorain County Class B championship. But since their string of victories included 2 over Amherst and the latter held victories over Bellevue and Bellevue in turn held a victory over Elyria, the South Amherst boys immediately laid claim to the entire Championship of the County...regardless of class. During the 21 games on its regular season slate, South Amherst marked up a total of 655 points to 355 for its opponents. The figures give the Falcons an average of 31.1 points a game to 16.9 for their opponents. No comparative scores are available.
Three members of the team which represented South Amherst at Columbus a year ago are back with this year's quintet and one of them, Joe Klimosewski, a forward, is the team's leading scorer. The other 2 veterans are Harold Brucker and Johnny Lupe and new members are Alfred Jones and John Kilmosewaski runners up to Joe Klimosewski for scoring honors in the order named. Joe in his 4th year and Lupe his third, both were mentioned on the 2nd All-State Team last season. Other members of the team are Dave Sliman, Harry Novak and Elmer Schacht who is not releated to the coach whose name is Ed Schacht. Head Coach Schacht is a former South Amherst and Miami University star.
In the South Amherst-Dennison game at the State finals last year, Dennison was declared by its backers to be off form. South Amherst turned in a 27-22 victory, but was defeated in its 2nd round game by Millersport which won a 32-30 victory. On the occasion of the Dennison game, Joe Klimosewski tallied 6 points, Bucker 2 and Lupe 2, but all 3 boys have another season under their belts and Joe, as noted, has become the team's high scorer.
All in all it means that the work is well laid out for Head Coach M.R. Helwig and his Blue Devils.
SOUTH AMHERST'S 1936-37 RECORD
South Amherst 25 - Belden 19
South Amherst 45 - Brighton 7
South Amherst 44 - Brookside 13
South Amherst 25 - Brownhelm 18
South Amherst 38 - Camden 20
South Amherst 25 - Columbus 19
South Amherst 38 - Eaton 20
South Amherst 29 - Grafton 7
South Amherst 41 - Henrietta 21
South Amherst 28 - LaGrange 12
South Amherst 23 - Penfield 13
South Amherst 31 - Ridgeville 24
South Amherst 35 - Clearview 16
South Amherst 17 - Avon 10
South Amherst 33 - Avon Lake 19
South Amherst 17 - Amherst 16
South Amherst 33 - Amherst 25
South Amherst 28 - Londonville 24
South Amherst 55 - Camden 7
South Amherst 23 - Lodi 22
South Amherst 22 - Avon Lake 14
NORTHERN DISTRICT TOURNAMENT
South Amherst 38 - Boston 11
South Amherst 23 - Lowellville 15
South Amherst 21 - Indepedence 17
Canal Fulton 34 - South Amherst 25
Wednesday, Mrch 17, 1937
Hugh McGarvey, The South Amherst News-Times
The Daily Reporter
Dover, Ohio
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