Black Earth High School - Earthman Yearbook (Black Earth, WI)

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Basketball With the close of football season we swung right into the work of getting a basket- ball team into shape. The squad worked hard preparing for the first game of the season which was to be against Mt. Horeb. Three regulars were back from last year's team, they were Mickey Borman, Dick Bardsley, and Bill Frome, as well as letter winner Don Bergum. The team lacked height and tried to make up for this handicap with speed and fight. Black Earth High started out their season with Mt. Horeb and they came out on the short end of a 16-33 count. The following week the team journeyed to Verona to start a six game winning streak. After a 28-24 victory we went on to triumph over Lodi in the first league game, Waunakee, Verona, Prairie and Sauk. The last game before the holiday season found us tangling with Arena, with whom we were tied for the league lead. They knocked us out of first place and snapped our winn- ing streak by whipping us 41-26. The first game of the new year was With Mt. Horeb and for the first half it was close. We left the floor leading 17-15 but in the second half Mt. Horeb began to roll and the game ended with a Mt. Horeb victory, 31-41. We were losing and we lost three more games before starting en the winning track again. Spring Green, Mazo and Lodi beat us in that order. We finally snapped out of our losing streak against Sauk City. We beat them 38-25 and then went on to win the most thrilling game of the year. We came up fast to close a four point lead Waunakee had in the last minute of play and went on to win an over time 41-37. It was our last victory of the season. Prairie squeezed out a 26-27 victory against us and Mazo trimmed us 47-10. In the tournament we drew Mazo for our first game. We 10 st 31-44 and the follow- ing night we concluded the season with a 24-35 defeat at the hands of Arena. We placed fifth in the league with 6 wins and 8 losses. One interesting factor regarding the past season is the fact that two freshmen played on the first five for the year. They were Wendell Anderson and Harlan Lartch. There are several other good prospects among the lower classmen, and from the looks of things basketball is going to be on the upgrade during the next few years. Individual Scoring fg. ft. Frome 83 67 Bardsley 38 26 Anderson 34 24 Borman 28 23 Lartch 26 18 Bergum 14 14 DeWitt 5 2