Mineral City Tigers 1948 Basketball Team. FRONT: Dan Lechner - Warren Binder - Bill Walters - Gene Reidl - larence Fiddler and Don Farnsworth. MIDDLE: Jim Labue - Charles Young - Rich Lindsay - Dale Adams - Paul Ley - Don Steineck - Ernest Gribi and Joe Argento. BACK: Head Coach Bob R. Tawzer - Franis Finley (Manager) - Bob Jones - Larry Ewing - Tom Finley - Perry Kastor and Clarence Abel (Manager).
DOVER - Dundee's sharp-breaking Bulldogs, Mineral City's surprising Tigers and the Port Washington Purple Riders advanced into the 3rd round of the Tuscarawas County Tournament as they turned in victories over the Stone Creek Golden Panthers, Tuscarawas Broncos and Baltic Eagles in Friday night's session at Memorial Hall before a small crowd of 500 fans.
By defeating a rallying Stone Creek quintet 67-61, first-year Head Coach Fritz Jacobs' Dundee combine set the stage for a Wednesday meeting next week with the Midvale Blue Devils in the feature game of the upper bracket semi-finals, while Tuscarawas, rated at the start of the tourney as a possible "dark horse," was eliminated from play by Mineral City 49-37. Port Washington advanced in the lower bracket by handing an outclassed, but scrappy Baltic aggregation, a 58-20 defeat.
The story of the Tuscarawas Broncos (0-2) (12-14) (32-31) whose defeat at the hands of the Mineral City Tigers (1-1) (11-11) (10-37) was not all enacted on the boards at Memorial Hall Friday night. Against the Gnadenhutten Indians the night before, 5th-Year Head Coach Jim Rogers sent his Broncos in without the services of 6-3 Senior center Joe Kerns, suspended because of disciplinary reasons. Last night 2 more Tuscarawas regulars, 5-8 Junior guard Hal Tharp and Senior center Floyd Blackwell, were out of the lineup for similar reasons.
Playing the 1st contest of the Consolation Division without the services of these 3 regulars, the Broncos were unable to cope with the point manufacturing of Mineral City's Juniors 6-0 center Dan Lechner and forward Gene Reidl. Between them, these 2 men accounted for 34 points of the Tiger total and threatened to make a rout of the game in its early stages.
After being held to a 9-9 1st quarter tie, 2nd-Year Head Coach Bob Tawzer's Bengals, surging back after Thursday night's loss to the Port Washington Purple Riders, opened an offensive which ran the count to 29-14 at halftime. Lechner, one of the tournament's standouts, poured 9 of his 17 points through the nets in this period, while Reidl meshed 6 of his 17 markers.
The Mineral City offensive continued in the 3rd stanza as Tusky lost forwards Senior Ray Vesco and Junior Don Wertenberger vis the foul route. The Tigers held a 42-21 advantage at the end of the quarter.
In the final period, the Broncos, led by Senior guard George Mourouzis, staged a belated rally, while holding the Bengals to 7 points, but were unable to overhaul the winners. Mourozis' 14 points was high for Tusky.
MINERAL CITY TIGERS - 49
Gene Reidl F 5-7-17
Don Farnsworth F 0-1-1
Bill Walters F 0-0-0
Rich Lindsay F 1-1-3
Dale Adams F 1-0-2
Dan Lechner C 7-3-17
Clarence Fiddler G 1-5-7
Warren Binder G 1-0-2
TUSCARAWAS BRONCOS - 37
Hal Crites F 3-1-7
George Kopp F 4-0-8
Don Wertenberger C 1-0-2
Ray Vesco F-C 0-0-0
George Mourouzis G 6-2-14
Doyle Roth G 1-2-4
Saturday, February 21, 1948
Rex Ridenour, Right Down The Line
The Daily Reporter
Dover, Ohio
NOTE: 1948 TUSCARAWAS GRADUATES
FIRST ROW: Cleala Schumacker - Raymond Vesco - Masrgaret Donehue - Jack Bonzi, Faye Roth and Richard Ault. SECOND ROW: Robert Lichti - Joyce Schwab - William Eilwood - Margaret Reichman and Ray Johns. THIRD ROW: Robert Reneker - Mary Louise Blickensderfer - Floyd Blackwell - Jean Ann Hill - George Mourouzis and Lela Wertenberger. FOURTH ROW: George Kopp - Glenn Rankin - Joseph Kerns - Eugene Crites and Joseph Roth.
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