Arcanum High School - Arcette Yearbook (Arcanum, OH)

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BASKETBALL - he first game of the basket-ball season was played at Ansonia on the 15th of November. The team received quite a bit of practice at this game by ohalking up 44 points to 10 for Ansonia's Tigers. New Carlisle was the next team to bo victimized by the Arcanum players., This game, held on the home floor on the 22nd of November, proved tc be one of the most exciting of the year. In the last minute of play Arcanum wasonn point be- hind. Aukerman, while dribbling down the floor, was fouled and knocked out . He made his free throw good to tie up the game. In the first overtime Lehman a- gain tied the game, which had been endangered by a New Carlisle basket. Bristley proceeded to win the game, 26-24, by a long shot in the second over- time. Not nearly so exciting but much more necessary j?ff to Arcanum's success was the 16-IO beating our Z?q'f9 team handed our old rival, Monroe , on the Monroe 7, floor. The winning of this game is credited to r-al. the splendid guard-work of Reese, who kept the ball V f, fro Arcanum territory time and again during the ,zur Ah is last mis. ,N The next game, against ' x West Carrolton, was play- X' Q o p pp g ed on our home floor. Arc- e W l N e y y anum started out with a 0 I Q . bang to lead 15-7 at the , ef. 4 half, but found the game ' , A tied 18-18 as the gun was fired at the fourth quarter. I Bristley remedied this difficulty, however, by making good the foul attempt which was allowed him. This left ,FX the final score 19-18 in favor of Arcanum. wing Little should be said of the Union City game which - followed, as Arcanum, not up to proper form, lost by a y ' score of 21-12. Next came another walkover for Arcanum with Franklin, the loser. This was a home game, played December 20th, which Arcanum won by the truly lopsided score of 35-13. Then 09-me 8 game in which was evidenced the true Arcanum spirit--that of coming from the bottom to overcome difficulties. At the end of the first quarter Hol- lansburg led by a score of 5-2, and at the half the score was deadlocked at 9-9. Then in the last half Arcanum turned on the steam to swamp Hollansburg by a 25-15 score. Following this came'the easiest game of the year--played with Versailles on the Versailles floor. In this game Troutwine went on a rampage to obtain the highest individual total in one game per year--17 points. Lehman added 13 to this and the other members of the team chipped in till the total reached 46 points In this game Shelley distinguished himself by making five points. To oppose the

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46 points of Arcanum, Versailles could muster only ll. The day after the Versailles game canm another tilt with Union City. Arcanum kept the score tied till after the half, but then Union City started more trouble. It seems that Arcanum should have saved some of the thirty-four points that were wasted against Versailles to use against Union City, but such was not the case. Union City won, 26-20, Following this game came the battle royal with New Madison. Although not so exciting fperhapstll as the previous game, the result was much more gratifying Qto Arcanumj. At the half New Madison led by a score of 7-6. In the last minute Arcanum found its team to be holding the host end of a 16-15 score, only to have all hope blasted by a lucky New Madison shot which placed the score at 17-16. Troutwine stepped in the emergency, though, and dropped the ball through the hoop with only a second to play, This left tho score 18-17, favor Arcanum, Then cane another game with Franklin. Although Franklin led 15-lO at the half, Arcanum pul- led through to win, 28-19. Aukerman played a fine game against his former school- mates. On February third a delayed game with Monroe was played off on the home floor. Very little difficulty was encountered in polishing off our traditional rivals to the tune of 29-15, In this game Baldy Corzatt came through with flying col- OTSQ On the seventh the team journeyed all the way to Union City, Indiana, to play a game against Jackson. The game was very well-played by both teams, and it was due only to superior defense that Arcanum held the five-point margin required to win the game, 26-21. Then came the last home appearance of the year--a non-league game with a very powerful Lewisburg aggregation, At the end of the first half those Arcanumites who weren't completely dazed saw that Lewisburg was on,the big end of a 32-12' score. In the third and last quarters an Arcanum offense was led by Aukerman, whose ten points helped bring the score to 31-50, favor Lewisburg, in the last minute of play. The Lewisburg team, however, had its own idea of how the game should end, and so came across with the four points necessary to win the game and to leave the score 35-50 at the final gun. Then, on the twenty-second of February, nrcanum won its first tournament ganm at Greenville. Hollansburg, the unfortunate victim, was lucky to receive the 16 -5 ' Q . r , H - - - 1- n .I ,. ...e 1 , F' '-l- c ----N --- ------Y---A f U l v