Strasburg Tigers Senior Center Lloyd "Mule" Haas earns game honors as he scores 14 points (5 field goals and 2 free throws) in leading the Tigers over the Dover St. Joseph Ramblers 42-30.
DOVER - Built up by a red-hot display of basketball at last night's 2-game session the finals of the Class B Sectional Tournament at Memorial Hall tonight will field 4 Tuscarawas County teams...the Strasburg Tigers, Dennison Railroaders, Midvale Blue Devils and Tuscarawas Broncos...fighting it out with the winners going to the District Tournament finals at Dennison next week.
Only a meager crowd of between 500 and 600 saw last night's session with the powerful Dennison Railroaders eliminating the Berlin Blue Jays of Holmes County, the last of the 4 visiting teams, 37-25 and Strasburg's Tigers finally defeating a gallant Dover St. Joseph crew 42-30.
The Dennison-Berlin game last night fairly smacked of good basketball in spots, but Head Coach Dutch Furbay's Railroaders led the Blue Jays at every turn and it was not near as interesting as the Strasburg-Dover St. Joseph tilt. In fact, for 3 periods Head Coach Max Kratz's Ramblers threatened to reach down in the bag and pull out the granddaddy of all upsets before Head Coach Paul M. Roby's County Champs hit the bucket with dead-eye accuracy in the final period to score 20 points and clinch the victory.
How the Ramblers...supposedly one of the weakest teams in the tournament...could ever compile their bad record of 6 wins and 13 defeats is a mystery in the face of the way they played in last night's contest. They checked the Burgers at every turn, matched basket for basket and free throw for free throw for 3 periods before Strasburg led by Senior center Lloyd "Mule" Haas' long shots, could get command of the game.
Notice of what was coming was served in the opening period when the Dover St. Joseph Ramblers (6-14) snatched off a 6-4 lead in the 1st quarter, but the crowd didn't get wise until halftime when the Strasburg Tigers (6-0) (22-1) had to score a field goal in the last few seconds to knot the count at 12-12. Both teams were exactly even at the intermission in number of field goals made, free throws counted and personal fouls on players...the only one exception being that the Tigers missed one more free throw than did the Ramblers.
The 3rd period went on and still St. Joseph failed to weaken and knoted the count at every turn until the last minutes of the quarter. Then Haas started his scoring spree by dropping in 2 long shots which didn't even touch the hoop and gave Strasburg a 22-18 lead. Strasburg even then didn't have the game in the bag for midway in the 4th stanza the Tigers led by only 27-22, after which came the deluge of baskets and the Ramblers, still trying desperately though not wildly, couldn't match it.
Haas led the scoring with 12 points, including 5 field goals he made in the last half, while forward Rich Kennedy of Dover St. Joseph was close behind with 5 classy fielders for 10 points. Senior guard Blake Roush scored 9 for the Tigers and Senior forward Maurice Bayer 7, while guard Billy Cox dropped in 7 markers for the Ramblers. Referees Jimmy Morgan and Ralph Sundheimer called a total of 13 fouls on St. Joseph and 7 on Strasburg, all the Tigers' penalties being assessed in the 1st half.
STRASBURG TIGERS - 42
Maurice Bayer F 3-1-7
Loren Miller F 2-1-5
Lloyd "Mule" Haas C 5-2-12
Bob Dreher G 2-1-5
Blake Roush G 4-1-9
Fred Yenny F 0-0-0
Pete Welsch F 1-0-2
Bill Shroyer G 0-0-0
Percy Tucker C 1-0-2
Bob Spidell G 0-0-0
DOVER ST. JOSPEH RAMBLERS - 30
Rich Kennedy F 5-0-10
O. Contini F 2-0-4
Lab C 1-0-2
Weigand G 2-1-5
Billy Cox G 2-3-7
Doricri G 1-0-2
J. Contini F 0-0-0
J. Kennedy G 0-0-0
Saturday, March 4, 1939
John Stratton, Sports Writer
The Daily Reporter
Dover, Ohio
SATURDAY (TONIGHT'S) SCHEDULE
Strasburg vs Midvale
Dennison vs Tusky
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