Photo above shows Captain Senior Forward John Garver and Head Coach Emmet Riley being presented with the team's individual charms for winning the District Championship over Tuscarawas 47-44 at Zanesville on Saturday night. Tournament Manager Rolland Buxton (left) is doing the honors. Both Strasburg and Tuscarawas got the individual charms and both teams will receive trophies later.
The Tigers' Senior Guard Fred Aul goes up for a high one exhibiting some of the reach Strasburg uses under the basket. At the left is Senior Guard Joe Deibel of Strasburg and Senior Center Fred Walton of Tuscarawas, while Senior Forward John Vesco of Tusky and Junior Center Marvin Jeffers of Strasburg are in front of Aul.
ZANESVILLE - With their 4th District Championship safely tucked away and their string of straight victories extended to 27, the best record in the State, the Strasburg Tigers today were looking forward to meeting Wheelersburg on Friday night at Athens in the State Regional Class B Tournament with a crack at the State title at stake. The Tigers, which this year won the Tuscaraws County Class B League and Tournament Championships, won the Eastern District Class B Title for the 4th time Saturday night at Zanesville Municipal Auditorium by defeating the Tuscarawas Broncos 47-44 before a crowd of 900 fans.
After a mixup yesterday, during which Adena drew for Strasburg, the Tigers will play at Athens and Head Coach Emmet Riley was there to draw for his team, getting Wheelersburg Friday at 9PM at Athens. Worthington and Glenford play at 8PM. The 2 winning teams will play Saturday night at 9PM for the Regional Championship. There will also be a Consolation Division contest between the 2 Friday night losers to complete the card.
Wheelersburg has won 26 and lost 2 games and Glenford has won 26 and lost 4 games. Officials are Lester Boyd of Lancaster and C.H. Jones of Wellston, the same men who refereed the Regional at Logan last year when Sugarcreek-Shanesville represented the District.
After eliminating Zanesville St. Thomas 61-50 Friday night, Coach Emmet Riley's undefeated Tigers went to take the District title from the Tuscarawas Broncos in a nip and tuck ball game which saw Strasburg leading all the way after the opening moments. In eliminating Tusky, winner over Frazeysburg 63-47 Friday night, the Tigers took their 4th victory this year from the Broncos. Strasburg won regular season contests 25-23 and 45-43, dropped Tusky into the Consolation of the county tournament by 31-16 and then turned in Saturday night's 47-44 triumph to wind up Tusky's season.
The Tuscarawas Broncos (8-2) (24-4) battled every step of the way Saturday night, never giving up and only the better balances of the Strasburg cagers proved the Broncos' undoing. The Strasburg Tigers (8-0) (27-0), in winning the game, exhibited a consistency found in few ball teams. The Tigers played steadily and although personal fouls sent Tom Haswell out early in the 3rd quarter and kept Sophomore Center Clarence "Junior" Yackey on the bench part of the last half, they never became demoralized.
Tusky scored first, Walton opening up with his only field goal of the game, but Haswell soon tied it and then the Tiger offense, clean cut as always, started clicking and they ran up a lead of 13-4 before the Broncos could cut it to 14-8 at the 1st quarter. The 2nd period saw Senior forward Rich Donahue and Vesco hitting for Tusky to out score Strasburg 16-14, but the Tigers were still ahead 28-24 at halftime. Haswell and Yackey led Strasburg in that period with all 5 starters scoring.
Again in the 3rd stanza, Tuscarawas came back to outscore Strasburg 13 to 12 and when the whistle sounded theTigers were leading 40-37 going into the final quarter. Garver hit a field goal for Strasburg, but Donahue made a basket and a free throw and the score was 42-40 in favor of the Bengals with 4 minutes to go. Garver stepped into the action again then and slipped in 2 more field goals and Aul scored a free throw to ice the game 47-40. Only 90 seconds remained when Donahue hit an action shot and Vesco slipped in Tusky's last basket to make the final score 47-44.
The Tigers outscored the Broncos 16-14 from the field, but Tusky sank 16 of 30 free throw shots, while Strasburg was making 15 of 26. Garver and Yackey led the Tigers with 12 points apiece, but Haswell, who played only 20 of the 32 minutes, scored 10 before going out on fouls. Aul and Deibel each collected 5, Senior forward Ed Gasser 2 and Junior center Marvin Jeffers 1 point. Donahue and Vesco were Tusky's 2 big men, hitting 17 points apiece, while Walton, usually right up in there with the other two, was held to 7 points, leaving the game in the last 2 minutes on personal fouls. Tusky also lost Junior guard Bill Dessecker on fouls in the 3rd quarter.
Official Ed Sherman and Nolan Swackhammer were calling them close, assessing Strasburg 21 personals and Tusky 18. Following the game both teams were presented with individual medals by Tournament Manager Rolland Buxton, while both Strasburg and Tuscarawas will receive trophies from the Ohio High School Athletic Association at a later date.
STRASBURG TIGERS - 47
John Garver F 6-0-12
Tom Haswell F 5-0-10
Junior Yackey C 3-6-12
Fred Aul G 1-3-5
Joe Deibel G 1-3-5
Ed Gasser F 0-2-2
Marvin Jeffers C 0-1-1
TUSCARAWAS BRONCOS - 44
Rich Donahue F 5-7-17
John Vesco F 7-3-17
Fred Walton C 1-5-7
Jay Herning G 0-1-1
Bill Dessecker G 0-0-0
Bob French F 1-0-2
Loyal Bishop G 0-0-0
Bob Winsch G 0-0-0
Monday, March 11, 1946
John Stratton, Editorial Staff
The Daily Reporter
Dover, Ohio
NOTE:
DISTRICT TITLE 4TH FOR STRASBURG
The Eastern Ohio District Class B Basketball Championship was won by the Strasburg Tigers as they brought home the baconfor the 4th time. The title won this season by Head Coach Emmet Riley and his Tiger Cagers is the 1st for Strasburg since 1938. Strasburg also won in 1933 and 1928. In 1933 Dover also won the State (Class A) Championship.
DOVER
1928 - Strasburg
DENNISON
1929 - Macksburg
1930 - Carrollton
1931 - McConnelsville
1932 - Sugarcreek-Shanesville
1933 - Strasburg
1934 - Chandlersville
1935 - New Matamors
1936 - Dennison*
1936 - Amsterdam*
1937 - Midvale
1938 - Strasburg
1939 - Dennison
1940 - Midvale
1941 - Midvale
1942 - Gnadenhutten
1943 - Gnadenhutten
1944 - Philo
1945 - Sugarcreek-Shanesville
ZANESVILLE
1946 - Strasbuug
*Two teams won Champion status in 1936
NOTE:
TIGER STAR ILL, IN BED WITH COLD AFTER GAME
Sophomore Forward Tom Haswell of the Strasburg Tiger High School Basketball Team was stricken with a severe chest cold Saturday at Zanesville and was reported improved at his home today. Haswell, who is in bed, played more than a half on Saturday night in the Tuscarawas game, racking up 10 points before he fouled his way out.
NOTE:
STRASBURG HOLDS COUNTY WIN RECORD
The Strasburg Tigers, in addition to winning the Eastern District Class B Tournament at Zanesville Saturday night, broke the winning streak record held by their old rivals, the Sugarcreek-Shanesville Pirates. The Creekers in 1943-44 won 26 straight games before meeting defeat in the Regional Tournament, while Strasburg by winning over Tuscarawas 47-44 now has 27 straight.
NOTE:
WHO'S ON FIRST?...THIRD BASE!!!! (Abbott and Costello Routine)
While the average basketball fan was sitting back in his easy chair yesterday enjoying the victory his favorite team won, at least 2 of those favorite teams were scurrying all over Eastern Ohio trying to find out who they played in the Regional Tournament and where. Result was that Strasburg's undefeated Tigers got in 2 tournaments and Adena, District winner at Steubenville, got in none...in fact the Adena delegation was cold shouldered, temporarily of course, out of the Younstown Regional.
Strasburg, with Head Coach Emmet Riley on his way to Athens and the State Highway Patrol out trying to stop him, drew Akron Ellet in the Youngstown tourney with Adena pulling it out of the hat for them, but Riley made it to Athens and drew Wheelersburg there for Friday at 9PM. Adena, clear out of the tournaments, made the fact known and telephones over the State started buzzing, the harassed officials of the Ohio State High School Athletic Association finally deciding that Adena would play Akron Ellet at Younstown and Strasburg would play Wheelersburg at Athens Friday night.
After Coach Riley left for Athens yesterday morning for the drawings at Ohio University, Supt. G.W. Jeandrevin found out that Strasburg was to draw at Younstown and sent the highway patrol after Emmet, but it didn't work. The patrol found him as hard to nail down as his basketball opponents have and he got through. Meantime Adena was drawing for Strasburg at Youngstown and while the Tigers had plentyof foes, Akron Ellet on Thursday night at Younstown and Wheelersburg at Athens on Friday night. Adena had non and started the wires buzzing.
It all came about because of the ruling that the teams would go to the closest Regional Tournament and won't happen again, everybody hopes and if the State Tournament is returned to Columbus next year and the Regionals are eliminated. Class B finals are held at Wittenberg College at Springfield next weekend and the Class A finals will be held at Toledo. To win the right to compete in the Athens Regional, Strasburg defeated Tuscarawas 47-44 at Zanesville, Wheelersburg defeated New Boston 36-28 at Waverly, Worthing defeated Grove City 50-30 at Westerville and Glenford defeated Corning 57-46 at Logan.
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