Torried Tiger Senior center Dan Lechner of Mineral City aims and fires a strike at Dennison last night as the Bengals trounced the Baltic Eagles 67-37 in the 27th Annual Tuscarawas County Class B Basketball Tournament. Lechner tallied 24 points for the night's work. The other Tiger in the photo is Freshman guard Roger Wigfield (25), while Baltic center Bob Felton (12) comes up too late to halt the launch of Lechner. Official Vally Dirodis looks on.
Mineral City Tigers 1st-Year Head Coach Don Hamilton is looking forward to guiding his team to a successful Tournament Championship after a 17-3 season.
Mineral City Tigers 1949 Cheerleaders. In no particular order: Gladys Ewing - Joann Reidl - Gloria Reed - Annie Eberhardt - Maryalice Duerr - Doris Farnsworth - Janet Tope and Lois Watts. Miss Belnap (Leader) Standing.
Mineral City Tigers Senior Forward Dick Lindsay led his team to victory hitting the nets for 25 points against the Baltic Eagles in the Birds 1st tournament encounter.
DENNISON - The Mineral City Tigers (1-0) (18-3) (11-38) rushed to a 7 point lead 21-14 over the Baltic Eagles (0-1) (5-15) (24-39) after the 1st quarter of play. The Bengals' Seniors forward Dick Lindsay, center Dan Lechner and guard Gene Reidl made a rout of the their game with the scrappy Eagle quintet. Mineral City had won a close 44-40 game against Baltic earlier in the season.
In this 1st period, The Eagles sank 8 straight free throws, but could not approach the marksmanship of Lechner and Lindsay from then on. Lechner, one of last year's tournament standouts, gave another brilliant performance last night as he racked up 24 points, but had to surrender scoring honors to his teammate, Lindsay, who provides the other half of the potent Tigers' one-two punch this year.
In the 2nd stanza, the offense of Mineral City settled for another 21 points, while their defense gave up only 5 markers to Baltic by the time intermission arrived...Mineral City 42-19. In the 3rd quarter the Tigers slipped somewhat hitting the hoops for a more modest 9 points as the Eagles outscored them 10 to 9...Mineral City 51-29. But in the 4th canto the Mineral City Reserve team showed just as much offensive power by swishing the nets for another 16 points as their defense held back Baltic who could pick up a lowly 8 markers.
Lindsay topped all tournament scorers so far with 25 points, while his teammate Lechner followed up with 24 markers and Reidl hit 12 points, while leading the Tiger scoring. The floor play of Senior Gene Raushenbach and Freshman Garland Burger, diminutive Baltic forwards and Seniors guard Don Thomas' 13 and center Bill Snyder's 12 points, highlighted the Eagles' 1st tournament appearance.
MINERAL CITY TIGERS - 67
Dick Lindsay F 11-3-25
Clarence Fiddle F 0-2-2
Don Farnsworth F 0-0-0
Curt Jones F 0-0-0
Larry Ewing F 0-0-0
Dan Lechner C 11-2-24
Bill Walter G 1-0-2
Warren Binder G 1-0-2
Gene Reidl G 6-0-12
Paul Ley G 0-0-0
Dale Adams G 0-0-0
Roger Wigfield G 0-0-0
BALTIC EAGLES - 37
Gene Raushenbach F 2-2-6
Garland Burger F 1-2-4
Dean Huprich F 0-0-0
Bill Snyder C 5-2-12
Bob Felton C 0-2-2
Don Thomas G 4-5-13
Dean Miller G 0-0-0
Friday, February 18, 1949
Rex Ridenour, Sports Editor
The Daily Reporter
Dover, Ohio
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