Plainview High School - Pirate Treasure Yearbook (Plainview, NE)

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BA KETBALL A basket! A basket! A basket boys! You make the baskets, we'll make the noise. For Coach Graff and the Plainview Pirates, this was a poor year as far as winning scores were concerned. They were placed last in the Northeast Nebraska Conference. Even though the Pirates: lost all their games except one, they played some very exciting games during the season. Four of our games were lost by a margin of less than 3 points and one by 4 points. Plainview was defeated by two points in a terrific basketball game at Randolph, Randolph led the first quarter by a score of 12 to 14. Plain- view came out the second quarter with a lot of stamina, but couldn't keep it up throughout the quarter and was one point behind at the end of the first half by a score of 26-25, The second half was closer yet, and kept the crowd on their feet quite a -bit, The score was tied at the end of the third quarter with 43 points each. Plain- view stayed ahead through the last quarter un- til the last 3 minutes of play, when Randolph scored enough to win-52-50. Several other exciting games were played, two with Creighton, one with Pierce and two with Neligh, the second of which we won in the district tournament at O'Neill with a score ot 63-59, Our next game in the tournament was lost to Ainsworth, There were eight lettermen in basketball this year, Those receiving letters were Melvyn Shoemaker, Glen Lerum, Gailyn Thomsen, Lyle Ashburn, Jack Bomar, Bill Frost, Edward Prange and Gary Lingenfelter, SEASON RECORD Plainview-37 Plainview-4.2 Plainview-51 Plainview-53 Plainview-44 Plainview-49 Plainview-43 Plainview-39 Plainview-52 Plainview-50 Plainview-46 Plainview-52 Plainview-52 Plainview-52 Plainview-57 Plainview-G2 Plainview--40 Creighton-39 Pierce-58 Wayne-73 Laurel-77 Bloomfield-52 South Sioux City-87 Creighton-44 Piercew42 Blair-72 Randolph-52 Hartington--59 Bloomfield-59 0'Neill-67 Laurel-59 N eligh-61 N eligh--57 Ainsworth-53 INDIVIDUAL SCORING Melvyn Shoemaker .. Jack Bomar ....... Gary Weber ..... Glen Lerum ...... uGailyn Thomsen Lyle Ashburn Keith Bessmer .. Bill Frost ....... Edward Prange .... Gary Lingenfelter .. John Blake ..... Bob Patras Leon Lerum ........ Charles Goetzinger . .. 1954-55 BASKETBALL SCHEDULE December 3-Creighton here -December 10-Pierce there December 17-Wayne here January 4-Laurel here January 7-Bloomfield there January 11-Hartington here January 14-South Sioux there January 18--Creighton there January 21-Pierce here February 1-Randolph here February February 4- Hartington there 8-Bloomfield here February 11-Laurel there February 15--O'Neill here February 18-Neligh there 9 FT FG Total . . . .75-138 137 349 . . . .35- 66 56 147 ....17- 28 40 97 . . . .3-5- 74 30 95 ....30- 67 22 74 ....25- 58 14 53 .. 6- 16 2 10 .. 3- 8 2 9 .. 9- 14 0 9 .. 1- 5 2 5 .. 2- 3 1 4 .. 4- 4 0 4 .. 2- 4 0 2 ...1- 2 0 1