The Port Washington Purple Riders little-big-man 5-5 Sophomore Bill Phillips (4) aims one at the basket during tournament action last night, while teammate 5-8 Sophomore Jim Bender (7) and the Garaway Pirates 6-1 Senior Fritz Mueller (left) look on. The Port-dwarf scored 10 points last night to give him 393 points for the year as the Purple Riders were ko'd by the Pirates 87-49. (PHOTO...The Daily Times by Bob Fisher)
The Garaway Pirates Cheerleaders this season, candidates for the County Cheerleader Award to be made on Saturday evening. FRONT: Karen Miller - Mary Norman - Jenifer Widdon and Kay Deetz. BACK: Claudia Stevanus - Vita Angel - Maryjean Miller and Linda Gerber. (PHOTO...Harmon Studios)
With no Seniors on the squad, the Port Washington Purple Riders 1st-Year Head Coach Tom Davies is in a big rebuilding campaign. The team consists of: Tim Decker - Jim Hannahs - Jim Bender - John Landon - Jon Davies - Bill Phillips - Chuck Mayse - Gary Gay - Dan Kinsey - Bill Fisher and Tom Decker. At center is Coach Tom Davies. (PHOTO...The Daily Times by Bob Fisher)
The Port Washington Purple Riders Cheerleads, another group in contention for the County Cheerleaders Award to be made on Saturday night are these lasses: Carol Welsch - Betty Gibbs - Betty Davies and Connie Dichler. (PHOTO...The Daily Times by Bob Fisher)
NEW PHILADELPHIA - The semi-final pairings were complete today following last night's action that saw both the Gnadenhutten Indians and Garaway Pirates gain the other 2 berths. Thus, the top 4 teams of the recently completed League, which were seeded for the tournament, will do battle for Sectional Tournament berths next Friday, February 20th.
The Indians, a 56-53 victor over the Stone Creek Golden Panthers last night, will now tangle with the League and defending tournament Champions (Midvale Blue Devils) next Friday. For the other Sectional nod, the Pirates, an easy 87-49 winner over the Port Washington Purple Riders Thursday, will square off with the Tuscarawas Valley Trojans in the nightcap a week from tonight.
The Friday victors, will then tangle at Memorial Hall on Saturday evening for the tournament crown. Both; however, are assured Sectional berths, along with the winner of the non-county tournament slated at Dennison next week.
The husky, well-fed lads of the Garaway Pirates (1-0) (5-3) (13-8), from up Sugarcreek way, let it be known they are to be dealt with before this tournament is over as they waltzed over the Port Washington Purple Riders (0-1) (0-8) (3-17). Showing balance and plenty of bench strength, as 4 hit double figures and 10 men got into the scoring column, the Pirates rolled to a quick 24-14 advantage.
The much smaller youngsters of the Purple Riders; although, showing great stamina and an undeniable thrust for good old fashion scrap, were never in the game after the first 3 minutes of play. It was tied at 1 and 2 all early in the contest, but midway in the quarter the Corsair boys moved on to a 15-3 lead and then to the lopsided decision.
Firing more than any team thus far, the Maroon and Gray aimed at the hoop 80 times against Port, making 37 for 41 percent. The Purple and White, hitting 31 percent, canned 22 of 70 action attempts. The sharpshooters of 4th-Year Head Coach Jim Stull were led by 5-5 Senior Butch Yakley who hit 19 points, while 6-1 Junior Chuck Stingel added 18. Junior 5-10 Koran Zehnder hit 15 points and Tom Andreas had 13.
Junior 5-9 John Landon led the Seniorless Riders of 1st-Year Head Coach Tom Davies with 14 points, while both 5-8 Sophomore Jim Bender and 5-5 Sophomore Bill Phillips hit 10 points. Phillips who had been averaging 20 points per game for the Port Washington Purple Riders going into the contest, had a difficult time in both shooting over the heads of the big lads from Garaway as well as just having a hard time finding the basket. However, he ended the season with a total of 403 points to add to his already sparkling career. In his Freshman year the pint-sized lad scored 168 markers.
The Purple Riders thus ends with a 3-17 record; although, there were several times during the contest that it was evident that this just might be the club to beat in a couple of years. That is, if they can lick a definite lack-of weight problem.
GARAWAY PIRATES - 87
Tom Andreas 6-1-13
John Sigrist 3-1-7
Chuck Stingel 7-1-15
Butch Yakley 8-3-19
Koran Zehnder 7-1-15
Fritz Mueller 3-1-7
Raber 1-1-3
Gray 0-0-0
Larry Yakley 1-0-2
Hidick 1-1-3
PORT WASHINGTON PURPLE RIDERS - 49
Jim Bender 5-0-10
Tim Decker 0-0-0
Larry Hagen 1-3-5
John Landon 7-0-14
Bill Phillips 4-2-10
Jim Hannahs 1-0-2
Tony Nigro 2-1-4
Dan Kinsey 0-0-0
Tom Decker 2-1-5
GARAWAY 24-45-61-87
PORT 14-26-35-49
Friday, February 13, 1959
Don Wagner, Sports Editor
The Daily Times
New Philadelphia, Ohio
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