47 - Northeastern Sectional Basketball Tournament

DOVER - The Strasburg Tigers, defending titlists, will meet the Millersburg Knights on Thursday night at 6PM in the 1st game of the Class B Northeastern Sectional Basketball Tournament at Memorial Hall, while the Dover St. Joseph Ramblers, Tuscarawas Broncos and the Sugarcreek-Shanesville Pirates will see action the same night as a result of drawings made Monday night at Dover High School.

None of the Tuscarawas County quintets will be opponents in the 1st round for which the Dennison Railroaders, Dennison St. Mary's Blue Wave and the Walnut Creek Cardinals, the Holmes County Champion, drew byes.

Sugarcreek-Shanesville, the Tuscarawas Tournament runner-up, will collide with the Malvern Green Hornets, upset victor over the Sherrodsville Wildcats, Carroll-County finals, Thursday night at 7PM.  Dover St. Joseph's Ramblers will engage the Berlin Blue Jays, which bowed to Walnut Creek in the Holmes County finals at 8PM and Tuscarawas, this county's Consolation Division winner, will meet the Carrollton Warriors at 9PM.

The Dover St. Joseph's-Berlin victor will meet at Dennison High School Friday night at 7PM, Walnut Creek will oppose the winner between Sugarcreek-Shanesville and Malvern at 8PM and Dennison St. Mary's will collide with the Strasburg-Millersburg victor at 9PM.  Those battles will lead to the 2-game finals, the winners of which will enter the Eastern Ohio District meet at Dennison.

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Strasburg, boasting the best record of the 11 entrants at 24-1 and Tuscarawas 19-5 looms as favorites to clash in the upper bracket finals.  In the 6-team lower bracket, Walnut Creek has the standout record 16-3, but a real scramble for berths in the finals is anticipated in that division.  Sugarcreek-Shanesville has a 19-5 record, while Berlin has an 18-5 record, while Dover St. Joseph's owns a 12-6 mark and Malvern stands at 10-13 and Dennison owns an 8-11 record.

Millersburg, Strasburg's initial foe, has won only one game (1-18), Dennison St. Mary's 12-9 andCarrollton 5-12.

Dennison was the 1st team to draw and selected the bottom rung of the lower bracket, while St. Mary's which was next, picked the top place on the upper bracket.  Tusky was 3rd and took the last position in the upper bracket.  Strasburg came next and Head coach Emmet Riley elected to go into the upper bracket with Tusky.

St. Joseph's and Sugarcreek-Shanesville then drew in that order.  Berlin came next and picked the spot opposite St. Joseph's.  Walnut Creek chose a bye and Carrollton elected to oppose Tusky.  Malvern was 10th in the draw and picked Sugarcreek-Shanesville as its opponent, leaving Millersburg as the automatic foe of Strasburg.

Admission for the tournament will be 40 and 60 cents, tax included.  Ed Sherman and McCoy Mariner of Muskingum College will be the officials and Harold Ramsey, assistant coach at Dover High School, will be the tourney manager.  Each school will be permitted 13 passes.


Tuesday, February 25, 1947
The Daily Reporter
Dover, Ohio

RIGHT DOWN THE LINE
With Harry Yockey

Another renewal of the Strasburg-Tuscarawas rivalry is anticipated now that they are in the same bracket of the Class B Sectional meet starting here Thursday.

Strasburg must hurdle Millersburg and then Dennison St. Mary's and Tuscarawas must win over Carrollton to throw the 2 county powers together in Saturday's climatic battle for a berth in the District tourney next week at Dennison.  The odds favor both county quintets because their records are far superior to the other 3 clubs.

Anything could happen in the lower bracket.  Sugarcreek-Shanesville looms stronger than Malvern, but the St. Joseph's-Berlin duel is a game of a different color and well may be rated a toss-up.  Should the Pirates whip Malvern they then will face a toughie in Walnut Creek, reigning quintet in the Holmes County tourney.  Dennison's Railroaders, who played both Class B and A teams and whipped New Philadelphia in its last start also will be one to watch.