DOVER - The Dover St. Joseph's Ramblers and Midvale Blue Devils advanced into the upper bracket finals of the Sectional Class B Tournament at Memorial Hall on Thursday night with the Ramblers gaining a 65-50 decision over the Carrollton Warriors and the Blue Devils scoring an easy 74-47 victory over the Berlin Blue Jays, Holmes County runners-up.
The Strasburg Tigers and Dennison Railroaders, Sugarcreek-Shanesville Pirates and Malvern Green Hornets, Carroll County Champions, will collide tonight in the lower bracket semi-finals with the 2 winners meeting Saturday to decide which quintet in this bracket will advance to the District Tournament at Steubenville.
Head Coach Eddie Young's Ramblers ran roughshod over the black and white of Carrollton and only in the waning minutes of the last period did the Carroll County quintet, formerly a Class A Club, threaten to pull close to St. Joseph's...final 65-50.
The Midvale Blue Devils (3-1) (23-3) had little difficulty in lacing the Berlin Blue Jays (19-7) after the 1st quarter. In this canto, Junior forward Jack Ford, who turned in another brilliant performance in meshing 15 points, staged a scoring duel with guard Bruce Miller and center Bill Rottman of the Blue Jays. The Blue Devils ace tallied 10 of his 15 points in this quarter to give Midvale a 16-11 margin at the end of the period.
In the 2nd period, Midvale made a rout of the game as Junior guard Dave Rennicker, who paced the Blue Devils with 17 points as Junior forward Jim Golder and Ford rfan wild to stake Head Coach Bill French's quintet to a comfortable 35-14 halftime lead.
From the 3rd stanza on, Berlin was helpless as Golder, Sophomore center Bob Sherrell, Junior guard Gene Byers and Rennicker shredded the Blue Jays' zone defense to score at will. The Devils held a 55-32 3rd period margin. Stan Miller, with 9 points, led Berlin point-makers.
MIDVALE BLUE DEVILS - 74
Jack Ford F 6-3-15
Bob De Mattio F 2-1-5
Jim Golder F 6-2-14
Bob Sherrell C 5-2-12
Dan Carlisle G 2-1-5
Gene Byers G 3-0-6
Dave Rennicker G 6-5-17
BERLIN BLUE JAYS - 47
Ruttman F 1-1-3
Bergen F 3-3-9
Stan Miller F 4-1-9
Bill Rottman C 0-2-2
Boyd C 0-7-7
Bruce Miller G 3-2-8
Troyer G 0-1-1
Engel G 0-1-1
Yoder G 3-1-7
Friday, March 5, 1948
The Daily Reporter
Dover, Ohio
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