The Strasburg Tigers 1946 Basketball Team . FRONT: Tom Haswell - Fred Aul - Clarence Yackey - Joe Deibel and John Garver. BACK: John Armbruster (Manager) - Roland Malcuit - Ed Gasser - Marvin Jeffers - Dean Deitzel - Jim Weber - Bill Garver (Manager) and Mr. Emmet Riley (Head Coach).
The Gnadenhutten Indians came that close...to dropping the Mighty Strasburg Tigers. FRONT: Gene Montague - Alvin Ervin - Bob Hearing - Gene Mishler and Junior Kennedy. BACK: Al Blind - Jim Lindon - Al Reiser - Rich Schupp - Dean Williams and Head Coach Frank Kachilla.
DOVER - The Strasburg Tigers (3-0) (64-17) (22-0), County League Champions and only undefeated High School Club in the county, wasn't impressive in its 3-point victory over the Gnadenhutten Indians (1-1) (36-28), but the Indians were. The Tribe mauled by Strasburg twice during the regular season and 77-21 the last time wasn't taking any more of that last night. They played their own ball game, took their time and with good shooting when the opportunity presented, almost baited the Tigers into a defeat.
Strasburg led 6-4 at the end of the 1st quarter, strugging for every point. With 2 minutes to go the Tigers led 31-24, but Freshman center Jim Lindon and Sophomore guard Junior Kennedy sank field goals to cut the margin to 3 points with 45 seconds remaining. Senior guard Fred Aul made his only action shot of the game to give the Tigers a 5-point advantage and Senior guard Gene Mishler potted one for the Indians as the game came to an end.
The Bengals won the game from the free throw line by sinking 9 of 11 free throws, while the Redmen missed 5 of 11 tries. Big Sophomore center Junior Yackey and little Sophomore forward Tom Haswell shared scoring honors for Strasburg with 9 points each, while Junior forward Bill Roche, who played a bangup game for the Indians, led Gnadenhutten with 8 and Kennedy and Freshman forward Gene Montague each collected 6 markers.
STRASBURG TIGERS - 33
John Garver F 1-1-3
Tom Haswell F 4-1-9
Junior Yackey C 3-3-9
Fred Aul G 1-4-6
Joe Diebel G 3-0-6
Ed Gasser G 0-0-0
GNADENHUTTEN INDIANS - 30
Gene Montague F 2-2-6
Bill Roche F 3-2-8
Jim Lindon C 3-0-6
Gene Mishler G 2-0-4
Junior Kennedy G 2-2-6
Al Ervin G 0-0-0
Friday, February 22, 1946
John Stratton, Editorial Staff
The Daily Reporter
Dover, Ohio
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