DOVER - When the Strasburg Tigers, unbeaten in 27 starts, drew the Wheelersburg Pirates (26-2) for Friday night at Athens in the Class B Regional Tournament, they drew a club which has played a lot of basketball. Not only that, but the Wheelersburg cagers have played all together, every man on the Scioto County entry is a letterman and most of them have been playing together for the past 4 years. They start in October too.
Word from Portsmouth, which is 17 miles from Wheelersburg, reveals that the Scioto County club has won 93 out of 99 basketball games in the past 3 years...quite an achievement for any school. Head Coach Art Preston's team averages about 5-11 and has no particularly tall players who can reach theTigers, Junior (Clarence) Yackey who is 6-5. The Pirates play a fast breaking offense and depends on a fast passing attack.
Wheelersburg compiled a season record of 28-2 and then went on through the tournaments to build the record up to 32-2. Head Coach Emmet Riley of Strasburg, who drove the 10 miles to Athens on Sunday for the drawings after getting home from the Zanesville District meet at 4AM, said today he expected to take his team to the Berry Hotel in Athens Thursday and perhaps take a practice session on the Ohio University floor. The gym is 88x50 just a bit larger than the Tigers' 80x45 foot floor so Strasburg should feel pretty well at home on it.
As an aftermath of Wheelersburg's 36-28 victory over New Boston at Waverly last Saturday night, Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Kiser of New Boston, were arrested and pleaded not quilty to charges of inciting a riot and to assault and battery on Pike County Sheriff J.R. Foster. An after-game melee with some 600 of the 1,800 spectators taking part broke out around Referee R.C. Stratton of Wilminton and order was restored only after Waverly School Supt. John R. Reichert announced that trophies would be mailed to winning teams. The Kisers had a song playing on the New Boston team. They were released under $1,800 bond.
Tuesday, March 12, 1946
The Daily Reporter
Dover, Ohio
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