Crosby High School - Maroon Memoirs Yearbook (Crosby, ND)

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BASKETBALL The Maroons also participated in three tournaments this year. The first was the Border League Tourney which opened on February 12 with Crosby overpowering Lignite 42 to 30. In our second game, the Maroons won a victory over Bowbells by a score of 61 to 41. In the championship game, the Crosby quint found themselves pitted against a hard driving Columbus team. This was a close, high scoring game with Crosby coming out on top with a score of 59 to 55. This was the ninth consecutive time Crosby had won the Border League Tournament. Crosby placed two men on the alltournament team, Myron Bothun and Cal Andrist. The next was the District Tournament, which opened at Ken-mare this year on March 4. The tournament operated on a different setup this year with only eight teams participating. This was due to the reclassification of schools and a revision of the districts. The Maroons found themselves facing an inspired Kenmare quint in their first game but defeated them by a score of 40-37. In the semi-finals, the C rosby five defeated Lansford 52-34 which put them up for the finals. In the championship game, the Maroons were beaten by Minot Model by a score of 78-32. Despite the fact that Crosby did not place first in the tournament, we still received a good share of the honors. We received the sportsmanship trophy, a much coveted award, for the third time in four years, which is quite a record in itself. When the all-tournament team was chosen, Crosby placed two of the ten men selected on it. They were Myron Bothun and LeRoy Rude. The Maroons traveled to Dickinson on March 10 to participate in the West State Tournament there by virtue of being runners-up in the district tournament. The Maroons were defeated by Watford City in the opening round 20-42. The next game Crosby won a one-point decision over New Leipzig in a fast, thrill-a-second game. Score 60-59. The final game found Crosby playing the Elbowoods Warriors and coming out on the bottom end of a 26-45 score as the gun went off. Myron Bothun was placed on the West State Tournament Team during this tournament. This team is made up of the eight outstanding Class B teams in Western North Dakota. This was the third time Bothun was placed on an all-tournament team this year. During the season the Maroons played 24 games, winning 17 and losing 7. We scored 1005 points to 916 for our opponents with an average of 42 points per game for Crosby and 38 points for our opponents. The team averaged 42% of their free-shots and 32% of their field goals, with an average of 55 shots per game.

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RESERVE BASKETBALL Thirty boys answered the first call for reserve squad practice this fall, but the reserve coach, Mr. Skoglund reduced this to nineteen boys after two weeks of practice. The squad was made up primarily of freshmen boys. The squad had eight or nine games scheduled to be played, but due to the climatic condition this past winter, it was necessary to cut the schedule to five games. The ace scorers for the squad were Floyd Pederson and Jerry Miller. The standout men on defense were Ronald Hattel and Eugene Benson. The seasons schedule was as follows: Dec. 9 Portal vs. Crosby They “ZT Us Tff Dec. 12 Kenmare vs. Crosby 45 22 Jan. 2 Portal vs. Crosby 31 16 Jan. 20 Grenora vs. Crosby 16 45 Feb. 5 Kenmare vs. Crobsy 39 26 T otal T5-? TIE BABY MAROONS The 1947-48 basketball season for the Baby Maroons got under way at a rather late date, their first game being played with Noonan, January 9. The season from the standpoint of games played, was a short one with only five scheduled games. Players showed improvement as the season progressed with Bob Steen being high point scorer of 74 points, followed by Norvil Carlson with 68 points and Kenneth Odegaard with 54. During the entire season the Baby Maroons scored a total of 254 points to 137 for their opponents. The Gold Medal Tournament, which was held at Alamo on April 5, saw the Crosby boys take second place. In the first game Crosby played, they found themselves facing the grade team of Hanks, N. Dak., which they defeated 34 to 13. In the next game, they were pitted against the Alamo grades whom they defeated 29 to 21. For the championship game, the Crosby team found themselves playing a tough Wildrose team. The game was close throughout, with Coach Roberts boys being nosed out 30-28 in the closing minutes. Two Crosby boys, Bob Steen and Fred Anderson, were placed on the all-tourney team. Bob was put on the first five and Fred received a second team berth. Crosby 26 Noonan 1 1 C rosby 31 Ambrose 20 C rosby 35 Ambrose 11 C rosby 34 Noonan 15 C rosby 37 Ambrose 16