DOVER - Strasburg's powerful and high-flying Tigers, who whipped the Tuscarawas Broncos 65-44 in Saturday night's Sectional finals, will encounter a rugged Yorkville Ductillites quintet on Thursday night at 7:30PM in the Eastern Ohio District Class B Basketball Tournament at Dennison High School. The Walnut Creek Cardinals, which defeated the Berlin Blue Jays 45-36, will encounter the Adena Warriors at 7:30PM Wednesday night.
The pairings were made Sunday at drawings in Dennison. The 2 winners from the Lafferty Sectional won the right to make the initial draw. Yorkville was 1st and drew No. 3 with Adena drawing No. 1. Strasburg was 3rd and drew No. 4 opposite Yorkville leaving Walnut Creek to oppose Adena.
Both games will precede Class A contests with Dover and Uhrichsville clashing after the Walnut Creek-Adena duel and Cambridge meeting Zanesville after the Strasburg-Yorkville battle. The Class B finals will be staged Friday night at 8PM and the Class A on Saturday night.
Strasburg boasts the best record of the 4 Class B teams, having won 27 and lost 1 to date. Yorkville, which defeated Adena 78-75 in Saturday night's Sectional finale at Lafferty, has won 27 and lost 3. Adena captured 24 of 28 games, all its losses being administered by Yorkville. Walnut Creek has triumphed in 18 of 21 games.
A 34-point scoring spree by Junior Clarence Yackey, 6-5 center and wheelhorse of the Strasburg Tigers (7-0) (27-1), carried the Tigers to their triumph over the Tuscarawas Broncos (4-2) (20-6). Yackey harvested 13 field goals and 8 free throws as the Bengals compiled quarter advantages of 13-10, 25-22 and 43-28. Junior guard Tom Haswell trailed him with 10 points, while Senior forward Andy Steve led the Broncos with 17 markers as his teammate, center Loyal Bishop, obtained 11 points.
Tuscarawas, Consolation Division winner in the county tournament, remained in the running until midway in the 3rd period. Then the Tigers of Head Coach Emmet Riley began to pull away and once the pressure was off they turned the contest into a rout. Tusky lost Junior Joe Kerns, substitute guard, midway in the 3rd stanza and Senior guard Dale McDonald in the opening minute of the 4th quarter. Strasburg's Senior guard Marvin Jeffers drew his 5th personal at the halfway mark in the 4th and Tom Haswell went out with 3 minutes remaining.
The Tigers capitalized on 17 of 31 free throws as 22 personals were called against Tusky, while the Broncos made good on 14 of 23 free throws, awarded as 17 personals were charged to Strasburg. Yackey, whose height around the backboards proved an unsurmountable handicap for the Broncos, who opened the scoring with a tip-in, but McDonald tied the score with a push shot and Tuscarawas went ahead 6-2.
A push shot by Yackey and one hander by Tom Haswell regained the lead for Strasburg and it never relinquished it. However, the Broncos rallied from a 21-12 deficit in the 2nd quarter to trail only 24-22 just before the half ended. Early in the 3rd frame, the Tigers led only 28-25, but consecutive action shots by Junior forward Dean Beitzel, Tom Haswell and Yackey gave the Bengals a 9-point edge and from that point on there was no doubt as to the outcome.
STRASBURG TIGERS - 65
Roland Malcuit F 0-0-0
Dean Beitzel F 3-2-8
Clarence Yackey C 13-8-34
Marvin Jeffers G 2-2-6
Tom Haswell G 4-3-11
Jim Weber G 2-0-4
John Reiger G 0-2-2
TUSCARAWAS BRONCOS - 42
Andy Steve F 6-5-17
Floyd Blackwell F 0-4-4
Loyal Bishop C 4-3-11
Dale McDonald G 3-1-7
George Kopp G 0-1-1
Joe Kerns G 0-0-0
George Mourodzis G 0-0-0
Howard Tharp G 1-0-2
Ralph Lahm G 0-0-0
Steve Pasquinelli G 0-0-0
Monday, March 3, 1947
The Daily Reporter
Dover, Ohio
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