DOVER - The undefeated Strasburg Tigers (1-0) put their sparkling 22-0 record on the line tonight when they tangle with the Gnadenhutten Indians (0-0) in the nightcap of the 3-game program on tap in the 32nd Annual Tuscarawas County Class B Basketball Tournament at Memorial Hall tonight. Head Coach Don Martin's Tigers handled the Indians easily in the regular season when they posted a 76-53 victory on Gnaden's floor.
The Tribe has been known as a tournament team; however, and the Bengals will be gunning for that 23rd victory with all of their claws sharpened. Sharing the bill with the Strasburg-Gnadenhutten Championship Bracket fracas will be a pair of Consolation Division games that should once again draw a capacity crowd and keep the attendance mark climbing towards a new record.
The Stone Creek Golden Panther's (1-1) lineup will be dotted with Freshmen as the Golden Panthers try for an important victoroy over the Midvale Blue Devils (1-1), who will probably still be without their chief offensive threat Senior forward Dave Martin. Midvale lost an 82-64 decision to the Panthers when Stone Creek had Senior forward Jim Lorenz in the lineup, but tonight's battle will be tagged as a crowd pleaser from start to finish.
The 1st game on tap tonight, the Dundee Bulldogs (1-1) - Sugarcreek-Shanesville Pirates (0-1) fracas, slated to go on at 6:30, will be another potential thriller with the 2 teams having staged a nip-and-tuck battle in the regular season. The Bulldogs won a 50-48 verdict in a hectic contest at Sugarcreek and the Pirates, who bowed to Baltic's high flying Eagles (2-0) Thursday night will be railing with all guns manned in order to stay in the running for the State Tournament which opens the week following the annual county carnival.
In the Championship Bracket tussle, Head Coach Martin's Strasburg crew will have to throttle the scoring of Senior forward Carl Gilmore, the county's top point producer this year. Gilmore's teammate, Sophomore forward Glen Hinds, is ranked in the 4th spot in the scoring race. The winner of tonight's Gnaden-Strasburg battle will move into the lower bracket semi-finals with the Port Washington Purple Riders (1-0). The Stone Creek-Midvale winner goes to the upper bracket Consolation Division semi-finals with the victor in the Dundee-Sugarcreek-Shanesville tussle meeting the loser of the Strasburg-Gnaden game.
Saturday, February 20, 1954
The Daily Reporter
Dover, Ohio
NOTE: WEST POINT
John Shetler, the Strasburg Tigers' capable Senior Guard, has been ordered to report for a physical examination at Walter Reed General Hospital in Washington March 1st. The 6-foot cager received the principle appointment to West Point recently from Congressman Frank Bow of the 16th District. Efforts are being made to have the date of the physical postponed.
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