55 - Right Down The Line

Sports Editor
Wednesday, March 2, 1955
The Daily Reporter
Dover, Ohio


BILL JONES OF THE STONE CREEK GOLDEN PANTHERS played his final game last week when the Golden Panthers bowed to the Gnadenhutten Indians has set a 4-year scoring record that will be hard to beat.  The Panther Ace, who broke into the limelight in the 1952 County Class B Tournament as a Freshman, has totaled 1,792 points during his 4 years as a Stone Creek cager.

This total more than eclipses the record of 1,546 (adjusted from last year's 1,539) set by Jim Lorenz, also of Stone Creek, just last year.  Lorenz, who turned 20 before the season ended, could possibly have tallied more than 1,700 points had not he been sidelined by the age limit.  Lorenz still holds the Stone Creek High School individual game record of 42 points, but Jones has the top level of 638 points in one campaign for the Panthers.

Bill's 638 scored this season just missed the county record of 642 set by Dave Leggett of the New Philadelphia Quakers in the 1950-51 season.  Leggett scored his total in 22 games, while Jones added up his total in 26 games this season.The breakdown on Bill Jones' record at Stone Creek shows him with 345 markers in his Freshman season, 400 even as a Sophomore, 409 as a Junior and the 638 this season.

Ron Deibel, once again of the Stone Creek Golden Panthers, the 1st Sophomore to make the All-League Team since Jerry (Goose) Von Kaenel and Jerry Haswell of the Strasburg Tigers did it in 1953, is the lad who has the best chance to crack Jones' 4-year mark.  Ron racked up 345 points as a Freshman last season and this year his total reached 504 points.  That adds up to 849 for 2 seasons and with still 2 more campaigns to go, the red-headed Panther stand-out could well be on the way to a new mark, barring unforeseen injuries or illness.

THERE WERE MANY OTHER SCORING RECORDS set this season including those by Nick Mourouzis of the Uhrichsville Tigers and Ron Ross of the Dennison St. Mary Blue Waves.  Both Twin City lads posted new season marks at their respective schools land are still in a position to hike their totals.  Ross' 48 points were the high mark for the season with his total just 4 away from the county's all-time record of 52 set by the Mineral City Tigers' Elmer Harris in 1929.

The Ramblers set a new school and Memorial Hall scoring record with 109 points against the Blue Waves of Dennison.

STILL OTHER MARKS were accounted for as Uhrichsville's Mourouzis hit for 17 straight free throws without missing in a game against the Carrollton Warriors early in the campaign.  The Mineral City Tigers' Paul Lindsey has the top free throw total in one game with 19.  The Tuscarawas Broncos holds the single-game scoring mark of 111 points tallied against Mineral City with the Tigers collecting 88 markers in that same contest to set a new record for the 2-team total in one game.

That's quite an assault on the record books, but at the rate the scoring is climbing each year, new marks should be set again next season.