Gnadenhutten Indians' entire 1946 Basketball Team. FRONT: Ernest Bennington. 2ND ROW: Mr. Johnson - Junior Kennedy - Dean Williams - Alvin Ervin - Al Blind and Head Coach Mr. Kachilla. 3RD ROW: Bob Hearing - Gene Mishler - Jim Lindon - Al Reiser - Bill Roche and Gene Montague. BACK: Roy Huebner - Fred Crouse - Rich Schupp - Bob Peter - Jim Stewart - Rich Shamel - Glenn Mowl and Jerry Virtue.
DOVER - The Gnadenhutten Indians (2-1) (37-28) just got by the pesky Baltic Eagles (2-2) (23-34) (10-10) by a score of 30-29. The Indians creeped to an 8-4 lead in the 1st quarter. In the 2nd period, the Warriors were still maintaining a 4-point edge 16-12 at intermission. The Eagles tied the score 26-26 at the end of the 3rd stanza on a field goal by Senior forward Paul Brown. Freshman forward Gene Montague and Junior forward Bill Roche each hit free throws for the Red Men to open the final quarter, but Brown hit again from the field and the count was tied with less than 3 minutes to go. Sophomore guard Junior Kennedy slipped in another shot for Gnaden before Brown again sank one of 2 free throw shots and the Indians began to stall with a 30-29 lead.
Several seconds remained when Roche took the ball out and threw a wild pass, the ball going into one of the gym entrances. Senior Doren Pepper, Baltic guard, tried to recover it, but while he was doing it the time ran out and the final buzzer sounded before he could return it to play. From 3 to 5 seconds were lost and Baltic protested vigorously, but to no avail. Decision of officials is final in tournament play, but there was no decision to make, the final buzzer had sounded and that was the decision.
Brown was high scorer for the Baltic team with 10 points. Kennedy scored 11 points for game honors while leading the Indians.
GNADENHUTTEN INDIANS - 30
Bill Roche F 1-1-3
Gene Montgue F 2-2-6
Jim Lindon C 3-0-6
Junior Kennedy G 5-1-11
Gene Mishler G 2-0-4
Alvin Ervin F 0-0-0
BALTIC EAGLES - 29
Paul Brown F4-2-10
Adrian Ott F 0-3-3
Marvin Dietz C 2-2-6
Bill Brown G 0-0-0
Doren Pepper G 2-2-6
Dean Gerber G 2-0-4
Saturday, February 23, 1946
John Stratton, Editorial Staff
The Daily Reporter
Dover, Ohio
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