DOVER - The Gnadenhutten Indians carry the hopes of Tuscarawas County tonight and on Thursday the Midvale Blue Devils takes the banner as it battles the Adena Golden Wave in the Dover "A" District joust at Memorial Hall. The winner of tonight's clash between the Indians (22-3) and the Springfield Local Flying Tigers (23-0) will meet the Blue Devils (16-9) - the Golden Wave (14-7) victors for the Regional berth next week at Canton.
While Gnaden will be out to stop a big undefeated team from Jefferson County, Midvale will have a much different problem to face when the Blue Devils match talents with the Golden Wave at Memorial Hall on Thursday. Adena; although, losers of 7 games this season, finished strong at the tail end of its schedule, winning 10 of it's last 13 games including an upset victory over the touted Freeport Red Raiders 66-62 in the Sectional finals at Brilliant last Friday night.
With only one man over 6 foot, Adena relies on its speed and agile players for a smooth attack, while the Golden Wave are a "running and shooting" team most of the time. They relied on deliberate ball handling in the fading minutes of their game with Freeport to preserve the victory. The Diablos have lads going at the fathom mark or more. The Blue Devils of Head Coach Pete Hilliard will have a definite height advantage as Senior Dick (Dandy) Leggett is 6-0, Senior John Colombo is 6-1 and Junior Russ Hobart is at about 6-2.
Senior Center Denniso Sims is the tallest member of the Adena squad at 6-1, while Tom Yakabowski is 5-10 and Steve Kokovich is 5-10 and will probably go at forwards. The guards will be Bill Sims at 5-9 and Tom Sefsick at 5-9. Yakabowski is the teams leading scorer, having 348 points for a 16.5 average, while D. Sims follows him with 295 points for a 14.0 average. Kokovich, with 241 and 11.4 average and Sefsick with 203 and a 9.6 average and B. Sims with 176 and 8.3 average round out the starting combine for Head Coach Ray Rathbun.
Meanwhile, Midvale's potent 1-2 punch of Leggett and Colombo are expected to make a good try in offsetting the balanced scoring of Adena. Colombo, who set a new school record for one season for the Midvale Blue Devils this year, has 569 points for a 21.8 average and Legget has 508 points for a 19.4 average. Tom Krocker, 5-11 Sopohomore, Lonnie Wolfe, 5-10 Senior and Hobart however, have come through in tournament play for the Diablos after a mediocre season.
MIDVALE BLUE DEVILS (16-9)
Augusta Blue Devils 73-34
Baltic Eagles 73-74 DEFEATED
Tuscarawas Broncos 78-46
Dundee Bulldogs 75-52
Strasburg Tigers 55-62 DEFEATED
Gnadenhutten Indians 64-65 DEFEATED
Tuscarawas Valley Trojans 73-74 DEFEATED
Port Washington Purple Riders 71-72 DEFEATED
Stone Creek Golden Panthers 58-69 DEFEATED
West Lafayette Generals 90-61
Tuscarawas Broncos 89-33
Conotton Vallley 83-65
Gnadenhutten Indians 81-87 DEFEATED
Strasburg Tigers 64-67 DEFEATED
Sugarcreek-Shanesville Pirates 84-36
Dennison Railroaders 96-66
Port Washington Purple Riders 85-59
Newcomerstown Trojans 69-45
TUSCARAWAS COUNTY TOURNAMENT
Stone Creek Golden Panthers 67-70 DEFEATED
Tuscarawas Broncos 89-67
Strasburg Tigers 62-54
Tuscarawas Valley Trojans 96-58
DOVER SECTIONAL TOURNAMENT
Killbuck Bucks 91-52
Stone Creek Golden Panthers 76-71
Walnut Creek Cardinals 77-58
ADENA GOLDEN WAVE (14-7)
Yorkville Ductillites 58-56
Tiltonsville Ramblers 34-79 DEFEATED
Powhatten Point Indians 59-70 DEFEATED
Smithfield Sentinels 82-56
Dillonvale Night Riders 78-75
Cadiz Cardinals 69-81 DEFEATED
Mt. Pleasant Mounties 64-62
Smithfield Sentinels 63-72 DEFEATED
Brilliant Blue Devils 48-41
Yorkville Ductillites 88-72
Wayne 87-56
Mt. Pleasant 87-65
Dillonvale Night Riders 51-92 DEFEATED
Barnesville Shamrocks 75-70
Cadiz Cardinals 72-78 DEFEATED
Brilliant Blue Devils 62-60
Wayne 80-59
JEFFERSON COUNTY TOURNAMENT
Irondale Red Raiders 63-54
Yorkville Ductillites 64-50
Springfield Local Flying Tigers 50-65 DEFEATED
BRILLIANT SECTIONAL TOURNAMENT
Freeport Raiders 66-62
Wednesday, March 6, 1957
The Daily Reporter
Dover, Ohio
NOTE: PLAYERS (From Right Down The Line With Jim De Mello)
RUMORS, rumors and more rumors...
DURING THE COUNTY AND SECTIONAL BASKETBALL TOURNAMENTS no less than 3 times a night we heard about one county athlete or another planning to move into another city in the county.
The 1st rumor that we heard and one which gets stronger each day, is that 6-4 Sophomore Ben Price from Tuscarawas Valley High School, is moving into New Philadelphia this summer. "If" the rumor is true the Quakers would have plenty of height for next year with 6-5 Sophomore Merle Clum, who moved from Sugarcreek to New Philadelphia this year.
BUT ANOTHER RUMOR floating around says that the above combination could be broken up since the Clum family is planning to move to Strasburg.
THE LATEST RUMOR was that Uhrichsville's 6-5 Junior, Clyde Arnold, will be moving to Gnadenhutten in the near future. It is rumored that his family is building a home there and are planning to move sometime this summer.
BUT, as we have it, these are not facts...just RUMORS!
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