LOGAN - The Sugarcreek-Shanesville Pirate basketballers (7-2) (24-5) wound up their tournament drive and season at Logan on Saturday afternoon, losing out to the Glenford Golden Horde (29-3) 46-44 in a Regional semi-final game, one of the most thrilling of the Regional encounters over the entire state. Head Coach Earl Sundheimer's combine gave with all they had, overcame a terrific handicap inflicted by officiating and almost won the game in the final seconds, but were snuffed out.
Lester Boyd of Lancaster, a linotype operator and C.H. Jones of Wellston, school superintendent, should stick to their daily trades and leave the business of whistle blowing at tournaments to men competent. Certainly they are not. Only 17 fouls were called the entire game and nothing less than "chipping from the rear" was considered a violation by the two. Since the entire tournament had been officiated in similar fashion, the Golden Horde had an edge on the Pirates by knowing what to expect and started right off in that direction at the opening whistle. Sugarcreek-Shanesville; however, held back when they might have driven in, to avoid committing fouls. The result was a 13-3 lead for Glenford in the 1st quarter; although, the Pirates managed to collect 4 more before the period ended.
That initial setback became such a handicap that the Creekers never quite recovered. They trailed 26-18 at the half and in the 3rd stanza began making their bid. Right off the bat they tied the score at 26 and then Glenford pulled up 30-26 and later led 36-29 in the 3rd period, but the Bucs cut it to 38-33 before the period ended, outscoring the Golden Horde 15 to 12 in the session. Glenford was groggy and on the ropes as the final quarter opened and the Pirates went out and collected an 11 to 8 advantage in the scoring and once pulled ahead of their rivals at 43-42. Glenford then scored their final points with a minute and a half remaining. Senior Captain guard Ernie Raber scored a free throw for the Pirates with one minute remaining.
And then as the time ran out, in the final seconds of play, Senior forward Doyle Schumaker stole the ball from a Glenford man in midcourt, dribbled in and laid the ball up for an easy sucker shot, but one of the officials called a traveling violation...the only traveling violation called the entire ball game...and robbed the Pirates of the field goal and the tie which would have thrown the game into an overtime.
Raber was the game's high scorer with 18 points, scoring 5 field goals and 8 free throws out of 11 tosses. Schumaker had 14 points to tie Glenford's Captain Dan Danison for runner-up honors. Each had 7 field goals. The Golden Horde's Dick Melick also hit double-figures with 11 points.
In the 1st semi-final, Ashville defeated Wheelersburg 44-34 and in the finals Saturday night Ashville downed Glenford 41-36 for the right to enter the State finals at Springfield this week.
GLENFORD GOLDEN HORDE - 46
Dan Danison F 7-0-14
Ridenour F 1-0-2
Clarence Wise C 2-1-5
Bill Clark G 0-1-1
Dick Melick G 5-1-11
Smith F 1-1-3
Williams G 0-0-0
Hursey F 5-0-10
Wilson C 0-0-0
SUGARCREEK-SHANESVILLE PIRATES - 44
Bill Neff F 2-0-4
Doyle Schumaker F 7-0-14
Bob Lanzer C 2-2-6
Ken Miller G 1-0-2
Ernie Raber G 5-8-18
Bill Weiss C 0-0-0
Doran Immel C 0-0-0
Monday, March 19, 1945
Clyde Shaffer, Sports Writer
The Daily Reporter
Dover, Ohio
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