DOVER - Last Thursday on February 5, the Scio Panthers (24-1) edged the Killbuck Bucks (21-3) 60-59 at Memorial Hall. Tonight Head Coach Don Martin's Strasburg Tigers (24-4) will now shoot the works in an effort to annex the Class B District Tournament Championship and move on to the Canton Regional Tournament next Friday and Saturday. The Tigers whose last appearance in the District joust was at Steubenville in 1950, have not met the Panthers since that time when they swamped Scio (24-1) 68-59 and went on to the finals.
Head Coach Framk Samuels' charges had run through 24 straight games without a defeat until that night when Tom Miller, Norm Couts, John Rieger, Jim Huffman, Don Gepfert and Dick Froman played a major role in drubbing the Harrison County crew. Bob (Colonel) Hugh and Glenn Bower were the 2 big factors in the Panthers' attack at that time with Big Jerry Thompson giving them plenty of height. But Scio was a victim of a red hot shooting Tiger team and watched a carefully boarded win streak go up in smoke.
Strasburg (22-6) was eliminated 52-42 in the District finals by the Yorkville Ductillites (24-4) two nights later as the Tigers lost their touch in the shooting department. Coach Martin's crew had been upset that year by the Bolivar Cardinals 53-50 doing the trick in the opening round of the county tournament.
But Strasburg rebounded in the Consolation Division bracket and went on to Steubenville along with the Midvale Blue Devils (18-8), who had won both the League and Tournament crowns that season.
Scio again brings a 24-1 record into the battle tonight and the thought of revenge will be uppermost in the minds of Captain Dick Hugh and Company. Hugh is a brother to Bob Hugh who last appeared in Scio High School cage togs against the Tigers at Steubenville in 1950. Both Scio and Strasburg will be out to better the performances they gave in the preliminary tournament contests Wednesday and Thursday and win a berth in the Canton joust.
Game time is slated for 8:00 with the doors opening at 7:00. Approximately 900 tickets will be sold at the box office, according to W.E. Laws...Tournament Manager.
Saturday, March 7, 1952
The Daily Reporter
Dover, Ohio
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