Zanesville St. Thomas Saints (Irish) 1946 Basketball Team. FRONT: Russ Nocera - Tony Andornetto - Ben McLoughlin - Chuck Thomas and Dave Snider. BACK: Head Coach Stan Kinskey - Bob Arnold - Bill Barry - Jerry Dunn - Gene O'Brien and Mick Brune.
Sophomore Center Clarence Yackey scores 20 points while leading the Strasburg Tigers to a 61-50 victory over the Zanesville St. Thomas Saints. Yackey has a total of 64 points in tournament play for a 9.3 point per game average.
ZANESVILLE - Rolling over the 2 Muskingum County entries with an offensive power they seemed to be saving for just such a triumph, the Strasburg Tigers and Tuscarawas Broncos won the opening games in the Eastern District Class B Tournament here last night and tonight the 2 collide for the Championship. Strasburg, one of the few undefeated teams in the State, ran its string to 26 straight wins by sweeping over the Zanesville St. Thomas Saints 61-50 and Tusky overpowered the Frazeysburg Red Raiders 63-47.
Free scoring gave plenty of thrills to the 2,040 paid customers who filled the Municipal Auditorium to watch the 2 Tuscarawas County teams, highly rated as favorites, display their power before an audience inclined to take the 2 teams a little too lightly. Tonight's game for the Championship between the Tigers and Broncos is to be preceded by a half hour band concert by the Zanesville High School Band. Doors will open an hour before game time.
Strasburg has 3 victories over Tuscarawas to it's credit, 25-23 and 45-43 in the regular season and a 31-16 triumph 2 weeks ago in the county tournament, but past records won't count too much in this final meeting of the 2 clubs with the District Championship and a trip to theRegional Tournament at Athens next week at stake. The county fans are here. Both Strasburg and Tusky are so well represented that the Zane Hotel, where both teams are staying, is almost completely filled up with them. A walk down the half block to Municipal Auditorium gives the idea that you are either of the 2 towns for an evening.
Last night's contest proved to Muskingum County fans that the caliber of Tuscarawas County basketball is well above the average and they saw their 2 teams swept down the river almost helpless before the offensive power of Strasburg and Tuscarawas.
The Strasburg Tigers (7-0) (26-0) may have had the toughest of the 2 opponents, according to the tourney records, but the Zanesville St. Thomas Saints (16-5) couldn't find enought steam to hold the Strasburg five down. The Tigers were on and went on and on with basket after basket, outscoring the Irish in the 1st and 3rd quarters by nice margins to command the game early and maintained a margin of at least 5 points all the way.
It was Big Sophomore center Junior Yackey and Senior guard Fred Walton who kept the nets singing for the Bengals. Yackey, who sometime plays a defensive game, went the other way and scored 20 points for game honors, while Aul was ringing the boards for 18. Senior guard Joe Deibel got 9, Sophomore forward Tom Haswell 8 and Senior forward John Garver 6 points, respectively.
Head Coach Emmet Riley's club established it's superiority in the 1st quarter by shutting down the St. Thomas defense and piling up an 18-7 lead in the 1st quarter, but the Irish changed to a fast breaking man to man in the 2nd period and cut the margin to just 8 points at halftime with the Tigers leading 30-22. Strasburg high again in the 3rd stanza to score 18 more points and lead 48-35 going into the final quarter, maintaining at least a 10 point margin throughout.
Both teams scored 21 field goals, but the Tigers were making it's free throw shots, sinking 19 of its 28 tries, while the Saints made only 8 of 21 attempts. Strasburg lost Aul inthe finalperiod and St. Thomas lost guard Mick Brune. Forward Gene O'Brien led the Irish with 16 points, sinking 7 field goals, the same number as Yackey and Aul.
Shortly after the game ended a fist fight took place on the auditorium stage, but it was quelled by tournament officials. No one from Tuscarawas County was involved.
STRASBURG TIGERS - 61
John Garver F 2-2-6
Tom Haswell F 3-2-8
Junior Yackey C 7-6-20
Fred Aul G 7-4-18
Joe Deibel G 2-5-9
Marvin Jeffers F 0-0-0
Ed Gasser F 0-0-0
ZANESVILLE ST. THOMAS SAINTS - 50
Bob Arnold F 5-2-12
Gene O'Brien F 7-2-16
Jerry Dunn C 5-0-10
Mick Brune G 2-1-5
Russ Nocera G 0-0-0
Bill Barry G 2-3-7
Saturday, March 9, 1946
John Stratton, Editorial Staff
The Daily Reporter
Dover, Ohio
DISTRICT CHAMPIONSHIP SATURDAY NIGHT 3-9-46
Strasburg vs Tuscarawas 8:30PM (DC)
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