60 - Gary Caviness Gains Point Title For 1959-60

Gary Caviness of the Tuscarawas Bronocs holds this year's Class A scoring title.  (PHOTO...The Daily Times, New Philadelphia)



DOVER - It's official now!  Statistics compiled by The Daily Reporter Sports Department shows 5-11 Senior Gary Caviness, of the Tuscarawas Broncos as Tuscarawas County's Class A leading point-marker during the 1959-60 regular season.  Caviness, in nailing down the title, succeeds Ron Bradley of the Gnadenhutten Indians.  The latter scored over 500 points.

Gary headed a group of 24 players from the county's 12 Class A schools who tallied over 200 points during the season.  The Broncos ace was pushed to the limit by the Garaway Pirates 5-10 Senior Koran Zehnder, who was only 7 points off the leading pace.  Senior Ron Breniser at 6-11 of the Midvale Blue Devils was 3rd, 5-11 Senior John Rice of the Baltic Eagles 4th and Junior Sandy Bonvechio of the Dennison St. Mary Blue Waves took 5th.

The County Champion Pirates were the leading Class A offensive unit in the county with 1,266 points, while St. Mary's held the distinction of permitting its 17 foes only 703 points.

CLASS A TEAMS

The columns below are:  Team - Won Lost Record - Points - Opposition Points

Garway  19-1 - 1226 - 877
Dennison St. Mary 16-1 - 1126 - 703
Tuscarawas Valley 13-4 - 1147 - 992
Baltic 14-8 - 1187 - 1090
Midvale 11-8 - 1135 - 1057
Tuscarawas 11-9 - 1078 - 946
Gnadenhutten 11-10 - 12-31 - 1149
Port Washington 9-12 - 1141 - 1227
Dennison 8-9 - 935 - 913
Strasburg 8-12 1011 - 1010
Dover St. Joseph's 6-11 - 1029 - 1141
Stone Creek 0-21 - 942 - 1498

CLASS A INDIVIDUAL SCORING

The columns below are:  Player - Team - Field Goals - Free Throws - Points - Average

Gary Caviness - Tuscarawas - 163 - 63 - 389 - 21.6
Koren Zehnder - Garaway - 157 - 68 - 382 - 21.2
Ron Breniser - Midvale - 145 - 91 - 381 - 21.2
John Rice - Baltic - 147 - 66 - 360 - 18.0
Sandy Bonvechio - St. Mary's - 145 - 62 - 352 - 21.0
John Hall - Gnaden - 122 - 87 - 331 - 16.6
Jim Bender - Port - 123 - 72 - 318 - 15.9
Frank Wallick - Strasburg - 130 - 46 - 306 - 17.0
Melvin Peters - Dennison - 118 - 58 - 290 - 17.1
Chuck Cantrill - TV - 126 - 35 - 287 - 16.9
Ron Clark - Gnaden - 108 - 49 - 267 - 13.4
Ray Rank - Gnaden - 90 - 78 - 258 - 12.9
Larry Lorenz - Stone Creek - 87 - 75 - 249 - 12.5
Chuck Stingel - Garaway - 97 - 51 - 245 - 13.5
Ron Lake - TV - 89 - 57 - 235 - 13.8
Neil Beans - Midvale - 89 - 51 - 229 - 12.7
John Landon - Port - 86 - 53 - 225 - 11.3
Gale Sauser - Stone Creek - 79 - 63 - 221 - 11.1
Merle Degen - Stone Creek - 88 - 42 - 218 - 10.9
Gary Gerber - Baltic - 87 - 40 - 214 - 13.5
Walt Burtscher - Dover St. Joseph's - 91 - 31 - 213 - 12.3
Bill Seese - Strasburg - 73 - 64 - 210 - 11.7
Jim Studer - TV - 71 - 64 - 206 - 12.1

Saturday, February 27, 1960
The Daily Reporter
Dover, Ohio