DOVER - Four Tuscarawas County basketball players received special honors today. Senior 5-11 Ron Deibel of the Stone Creek Golden Panthers and 6-0 Senior Eldon Miller of the Gnadenhutten Indians were selected to the 2nd Team International News Service (INS) All-Ohio Class A Basketball Team for the 1956-57 season. Senior 6-0 Jerry Froman of the Strasburg Tigers and 6-1 Ed Bates of the Port Washington Purple Riders were named to the Honorable Mention list.
Deibel, who set a new 4-year scoring record this year, led the Golden Panthers to one of their best seasons in the school's history. Deibel scored 399 points during the regular season and tallied 120 more in the county and Sectional Tournaments. This brought his 4-year total to 1,905 points. The mark snapped the old record of 1,792 points held by Jim Lorenz, a former Stone Creek player and set in the 1951-52 campaign. Miller led the Indians to the County Championship through the Sectional and finally lost out in the finals of the District Tournament to the Midvale Blue Devils. The Tribe posted a record of 23 victories and only 4 setbacks.
Froman was the stalwart on the Tigers team this year which went through the regular season undefeated in County League competition and posted a 17-1 season record. The Bengals were eliminated from the County Tournament and finished with a record of 19 wins and only 3 losses. Bates was the high-scorer during the regular season in the County League with 446 points. The Purple Riders were also knocked out of action in the County Tournament in the semi-finals of the Consolation bracket. He ended the season with 582 points.
The 1st Team members were Bob Filiere of Troy-Luckey, Jerry Delong of Sidney Holy Angels, Jim Opperman of New Bremen, Larry Kruger of Allensville and Dan Kizer of Concord. The 2nd Team, besides Miller and Deibel, included Paul Fike of New Washington, Paul Hoffman of St. Paris and Marvin Engle of Arcanum.
Wednesday, March 13, 1957
The Daily Reporter
Dover, Ohio
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