HAIL THE KINGS...Happy as larks in a summer meadow, the basketball team of the Bolivar High School Cardinals is shown here celebrating their Eastern District Tournament Championship in their dressing room after their victory over last year's District Champions, the Gnadenhutten Indians on Saturday night. Head Coach John Major (extreme left) and his Red Birds also had just cause to be happy, winning the school's 1st District Tournament Title. The "mugger" is Warren Klink, Cardinals Captain and scoring ace (29).
DENNISON - The Bolivar Cardinals (6-1) (17-9) won its 1st Championship in the finals of the Eastern District High School Basketball Tournament at Dennison Saturday night. Head Coach Dutch Furbay's Dover Crimson Tornados won the Class A District against the Philadelphia Quakers 45-30 as well. Coach John Major's Bolivar cagers turned back a favored Gnadenhutten Indians (6-1) (20-5) 38-33 for the Class B Crown. As Champions they succeed Gnaden in Class B basketball. Last year the Indians gained the crown by beating the New Concord Little Muskies 46-40.
As a result of the Cardinals triumph over the Indians, the team will now advance to Regional Competition at Kent, Ohio. Playing before a sell-out crowd of nearly 2,500 fans, Dover and Bolivar ably displayed the prowess that enabled them to climb to the peak.
The Bolivar-Gnaden game see-sawed throughout the 1st six minutes of play in the final quarter and then Coach Major's Cardinals pulled out to a 35-33 edge and began to stall with Gnaden's over-anxiousness to break up the stall netting the Cardinals their last 3 points on free throws in the last 15 seconds of play.
Carried by the stellar Senior forward Bill Lockett, the Indians took a 6-2 lead in the opening quarter with Lockett scoring all the points, while Senior forward Warren Klink contributed Bolivar's only pair of points. In the 2nd period; however, the Cardinals fought a brilliant up hill battle and emerged at the half with a 16-15 lead, outscoring Gnaden 14 to 9 in the period. Center Russ Ross set the pace for the Red Birds and picked up 3 baskets and a free toss, while Klink had 2 field goals, forward Keene Lebold one and guard Jim Augsberger a free throw.
Standing flat-footed and completely divorced from the smooth operation that marked their game with Quaker City Thursday night, the Indians were outscored again in the final 2 quarters, with Bolivar taking a 10 to 8 edge in the 3rd and 12 to 10 nudge in the final.
After the intermission Bolivar pushed to a 26-23 lead in the 3rd period on 2 field goals and a pair of free throws by Lebold and baskets by Klink and guard Bill Zutavern. Lockett; meanwhile, was sparking the Gnadenhutten attack, picking up 2 buckets in eachof the 2 middle periods. At the start of the final period lockett dribbled in for an easy looper and Senior guard Ken Kohl tallied a free throw to knot the count at 26-all, but Bolivar slipped ahead on a follow-up by Klink. Then a free throw by Lockett and a long shot by Kohl put Gnaden out front 29-28 with Zutavern tying it up on a free throw shot with minutes remaining.
Quick baskets by Sophomore forward Bill Martin of Gnaden and Ross of Bolivar boosted the count to 31-all and a free throw by Ross gave Bolivar a narrow 32-31 edge with 2 and a half minutes to play. At the 2 minute mark Junior guard George Schupp tied it up with a free throw shot that completed the Indian scoring.
Then Klink scored on a jump shot from the corner and Zutavern put the Red Birds out front 35-33 with a minute and 50 seconds to go. He was fouled a 2nd time by Lockett and took the ball out of bounds to begin the Bolivar stall. Ross fouled Lockett with only 40 seconds remaining and the Gnaden ace missed both shots. At the 15-second mark Kohl fouled Klink and the latter tallied the free throw to open the margin to 3 points. Almost as the gun cracked, Lockett fouled Augsberger and the latter was given 2 tosses at the basket, both of which he scored after the other players had left the floor and the game had ended.
Gnaden's Lockett led the individual scoring with 17 points (7 field goals and 3 free throws), while Klink topped the Bolivar cagers with 13 markers (6 field goals and a free toss). Ross tallied 10 more for the Cards, Lebold 8, Augsberger 3 and Zutavern 4 points. Kohl backed up Lockett with 8 points for the Indians.
BOLIVAR CARDINALS - 38
Warren Klink F 6-1-13
Keene Lebold F 3-2-8
Russ Ross C 4-2-10
Jim Augsburger G 0-3-3
Bill Zutavern G 1-2-4
Paul Lab G 0-0-0
GNADENHUTTEN INDIANS - 33
Bill Lockett F 7-3-17
Bill Martin F 2-0-4
Ralph Long F 0-0-0
Ken Kohl C 3-2-8
George Schupp F 2-0-4
Chuck Glauser F 0-0-0
Bill Kilchenman F 0-0-0
Monday, March 15, 1943
Clyde Shaffer, Sports Writer
The Daily Reporter
Dover, Ohio
REGIONAL TOURNAMENT FRIDAY 3-19-43
Bolivar Cardinals vs Kent State University High School Blue Devils
Hartville vs Waynesburg
ALL-DISTRICT TEAMS
1ST TEAM
FORWARD - Warren Klink (Bolivar Cardinals)
FORWARD - Bill Lockett (Gnadenhutten Indians)
CENTER - Russ Ross (Bolivar Cardinals)
GUARD - Ken Kohl (Gnadenhutten Indians)
GUARD - Dick Hupp (Hopewell Blue Tornadoes)
2ND TEAM
FORWARD - Bill Martin (Gnadenhutten Indians)
FORWARD - Keene Lebold (Bolivar Cardinals)
CENTER - Miller (Quaker City)
GUARD - Jim Augsberger (Bolivar Cardinals)
GUARD - Cooperrider (Hopewell Blue Tornadoes)
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