Charleston High School - Recorder Yearbook (Charleston, IL)

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BASKETBALL I WiTh buT Two Ieffermen, Paul Henry and SeaTon, reTurning Tor The opening of The baskeTball season, The horizon loomed darlc Tor The Troians. So did The score board records as The locals advanced Trom game To game. Time aTTer Time The hopes of The Tans rose. only To be dropped in biTTer disappoinTmenT. BUT Coach Carson and his boys deserve more crediT in a season like This pasT one, perhaps, Than aT any oTher Time, Tor iT is The losing figh+ ThaT calls Tor The loesT, and in spiTe of all The discouragemenT, The Team improved sTeadily To The end of The season. and only in a biTTerly dishearTening game. well played, was The local quinTeT deTeaTed in Their TirsT game oT The regional TournamenT aT Paris. .fwfh-f-J f 6,l3.,4L-AJ,1. ' li' ' ' ND Howl, 'XCK ROW: E. Henry, P. Henry, TalboTT, Hudson. 'QONT ROW: Ewing, Roberfs, Seofon. Twenty n e lvgc as c c coo i

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BASKETBALL RESUME I Coach Carson's Troian Cagers entered the season of play slightly handicapped because of football iniuries, and tell betore the Kansas quintet by a 30-I6 scare in their first game ofthe season. Charleston's home debut was made when they met the steadily scoring Ashmore team and, despite a convincing attack during the third quarter, bowed to Ashmore's I9-I5 lead, thereby giving the opponents their first victory over the locals in recent history. After a relatively even game during the first half, Mattoon scored heavily in an effort to down their bitter rivals, and defeated the Troians by a final count of 35-I 3. Revenge was sweet for the south siders when, despite Seaton's scoring pace, T.C. defeated C.H.S. by a 22-I4 score in a game which provided the townspeople with more excitement than had most ofthe games in the last tew years. To a handful of fans who witnessed the old year out in the basketball season for C.H.S., the Troians again met defeat by a 35-8 score at the hands of Decatur. Despite a valiant effort in the first half, the locals crumbled before the Reds' rally and suffered a defeat which in no manner in- dicated the real appearance of either team. Gaining an early lead in the game, Newton commanded their encounter with the local quintet by a 38-I4 victory, giving C.H.S. its third defeat in the E. l. League competition. Led by P. Henry and Seaton. C.H.S. held the Greenup 'five to but a I7-I5 lead at the end of the first half, but crumbled in the second half, and fell to final defeat in a score of 5l-52. With the iinx still clinging to the scoreboard for the locals, Oblong defeated the Troians by a 34-I8 score, with the Henry brothers leading for C.H.S. In their second game of the season with Mattoon. the Traians failed to revive sufficiently, and suffered the low end ofa 29-9 score. With Seaton and P., Henry again in the scoring lead, C.H.S. gathered I8 points against the Paris Tigers, but failed to hold the three year record of victory when Paris scored to a 26 lead. The Greenup quintet scored a smashing victory over the locals by a 63-24 score. Despite a desperate attack in the third quarter and heavy scoring by Seaton and P. Henry, the locals failed to regain the lead after Casey's early supremacy in the game, and took a 36-30 defeat. Breaking their record for defeat for the first time this year, the C.H.S. Troians rallied to demon- strate, by an actual score, the constant improvement made by the team during the discouraging past weeks. Displaying good teamwork and effective shooting. C.H.S. defeated Marshall by a 27-20 score. Retaliation for their first defeat of the season at the hands of T.C. came for C.H.S. when the Troians held the southsiders in e 22-I8 victory. Continuing their belated victories. the local quintet defeated Kansas, 38-20. Though the locals outscored Greenup in the third quarter and evidenced decided development of the team since G-reenup's victory earlier in the season, the Troians finally lost by o 44-32 score. ln a most disheartening defeat, the locals bowed to Kansas in what appeared to be a possible win forthe Troians by a tinal score of 35 to 33. Seaton and P. Henry again led the scoring, and put C.H.S. in the lead for the third quarter. A free throw tied the score, but in the overtime Kansas scored and eliminated C.H.S. in the first game of the regional tournament. The Carson trained alumni team defeated the Troians by a count of 33-25 in an unnecessary overtime game. f fl PX ff v -, 'lf - 1 I, X. Cr JY' -O sill' 'e A wma. Thirty