Central High School - Analecta Yearbook (Switz City, IN)

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Switz City Basketball Schedule 1948-1949 December 15 Switz City-37 Graysville-38 The Switzers played a hard game but lost by 1 point. Bill Lewis, who played forward, scored 14 points. Pethech made 12 points for the win- ning team. December 17 Scotland-35 Switz City-29 Our last game for year 1948 was in the Scotties favor. Staker, who played guard scored for 9 points. Cochrane for the visitors scored 12 points. December 24 January 2 VACATION WEEK-Santa Claus sent us a new ball player, Ray- mond. King. January 4 Switz City-36 Linton-44 Our first game for 1949 was played on Linton floor. We should have won, b-ut failure to hit the bucket from the foul line lost the game for us. Gastineau racked up 10 points for our side. Reed made 14 points for the Miners. January 7 Lyons-39 Switz City-41 Again we tangled with our close neighbors Lyons but walked away with a victory by a 2 point margin. Gastineau banked 12 points for Switz. Ed Fulk scored 16 points for the losers. January 11 Switz City-33 Worthington-42 The Ramblers, who were very lucky in shooting, bested us by an 8 point margin. Donald Ray Cruse, who played guard was high point man for Switz with 9 points. Warren, who played guard for Worthington, col- lected 15 points for the winners. January 14 Bloomfield-44 Switz City-36 The Cardinals will have to admit it was not a practice session. The Switzers never gave up till the gun was fired ending the fourth quarter. Gastineau scored 11 points for the Switzers and Lewis 23 points for the Cardinals. fContinuedJ

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Switz City Basketball Schedule , 1948-1949 January 20 Wabash Valley Preliminary Switz City-31 Lyons-39 The game started at 10:00 on the Linton gym. The Switzers were ahead 5 points at the half, but the final quarter saw Lyons the winners. Ed Fulk, who played the position of forward, held scoring honors with 13 points. King, who played center, led the Switzers in scoring with 12 points. February 4 Switz City-42 Midland-36 The Switzers turned up with their best game of the season with Midland on their home floor. Switz City was ahead of the Middies all the wav. Gastineau led the scoring attack with 12 points and Orman tallied with 10 points for the loser. February 5 Marco-47 Switz City-44 , Marco, our new rivals, bested the Switzers by a three point margin. The Switzers were a little slow getting started, but the last half saw them go into action. Goodman, who played forward, hit for a high score of 17 points. Charlie Justus, playing the position of forward for Switz, scored 11 points. , February 9 Switz City-62 Carlisle-32 The Switz City Switzers came through with a booming 62' to 32 victory over the Carlisle Indians on Wednesday night. Raymond King took scoring honors by scoring 19 points. For the Indians, it was South, who made 12 points. , February 11 Pleasantville-56 'Switz City-45 The Switz City Switzers paid a visit to the Pleasantville five at the Dugger gymnasium only to take a beating. At the half the score was 17 for both sides, but in the second half we saw the Pleasantville five move to victory. Mitchell racked up 28 points for Pleasantville while Gas- tineau made 12 points for the Switzers February 18 Switz City-51 Hymera-42 The Switz City Switzers , in rounding up their last home game of the season, overtook Hymera in a thrilling and exciting game. Justus was high-point man with 14 points, and for Hymera it was Shipley making 12 points. February 25 Sectional Worthington--58 Switz City-42