DOVER - Two more teams joined the Strasburg Tigers in the semi-final round of the county's 23rd Annual Class B Basketball Tournament at Memorial Hall last night and the 1st of the eliminated teams packed up for the season.
The Baltic Eagles and Gnadenhutten Indians gained the favored round and the Mineral City Tigers were taken out of the competition. Baltic won its way into the upper bracket semi-final with a 42-17 victgory over the Stone Creek Golden Panthers and Gnaden earned a similar place in the lower bracket by nosing out the Midvale Blue Devils 56-50 in the best exhibition the tournament has shown. Mineral City, in the Consolation Division, was defeated 63-33 by a Port Washington Purple Riders team playing without its ace, Senior forward Elmer Linard, benched by a leg injury suffered Tuesday night.
Last night's program drew a paid crowd of 750 as compared with 887 drawn to the 2nd night of competition a year ago, according to Tournament Manager W.E. Laws.
The Consolation Division game between the Port Washington Purple Riders (1-1) (9-9) (8-29) and the Mineral City Tigers (0-2) (1-17) (9-32) provided the program with the evening's high individual scorer, Junior guard Sonny (Lorin) Johns of Port Washington who looped 10 field goals through the baskets for 20 points, thus taking over the assignment usually handed by 1st-Year Head Coach L.A. Arrington to Port's Linard. The latter, injured in a collision in the Purple Riders' 1st game on Tuesday night, was not in uniform. His leg is injured above the knee, but he is expected to be ready to go next week when the Riders return to action.
Port Washington rode to a 13-7 advantage in the 1st quarter. Mineral City matched the Purple Riders in the 2nd quarter as they both scored 11 points and Port held on to their 7 point lead 24-17. After intermission, Port galluped to a 25 point led and the Tigers were held to just 3 points by the end of the 3rd stanza...Port 42-20. In the last and final quarter, the Purple Riders rode down on the Tigers with another 23 point scoring spree to lock up the victory.
Junior center Bob Roenbaugh and Senior Dave Goettge followed up John's 20 points with 15 and 13 points, respectively for Port Washington. Forward Junior Kreiger of Mineral City led his team with 10 points, while teammate guard McCreery popped in another 8 points.
The defeat eliminated the Tigers, making them the 1st team to drop out of the competition. Winner and runner-up of the tournament and winner of the Consolation Division will qualify for the Sectional.
PORT WASHINGTON PURPLE RIDERS - 63
Dave Goettge F 5-3-13
Sonny Johns F 10-0-20
Bob Roenbaugh C 6-3-15
Charles Gallion G 1-2-4
Harold Huston G 0-1-1
Paul Lemneck F 3-2-8
Bob Kail F 0-0-0
Cliff Jones G 0-0-0
Ken Stocker F 1-0-2
MINERAL CITY TIGERS - 33
Junior Kreiger F 4-2-10
Gintz F 0-1-1
Gil Fiddler C 3-0-6
Wigfield G 0-4-4
McCreery G 3-2-8
D. Waltshire F 1-1-3
Friday, February 16, 1945
Clyde Shaffer, Sports Writer
The Daily Reporter
Dover, Ohio
SATURDAY 2-17-45
Dundee vs Bolivar 7PM (C)
Stone Creek vs Midvale 8PM (C)
Tusky vs Sugasrcreek-Shanesville 9PM
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