Delevan Machias Central High School - Flash Yearbook (Machias, NY)

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l L BA EBALL I953 Crack! Wood met leather and an easy grounder went out to the Little Valley short-stop. He scooped the ball easily and whipped his peg. Suddenly the D-M bench went wild, for the ball was sailing high over the second basemen's reaching glove. This was the break and D-M's runner on the third base streaked for home and then came the umpires cry of safe! D-M had broken the extra inning tie and had won the Catt. County Class C Championship. It had been a good season and D-M was almost satisfied. Hinsdale and West Valley both lay behind, both victims of D-M. Also there was Holland and Cattaraugus who were defeated in non- league tilts. Our defeats had come from Arcade and West Valley'but we were the Champs. D-M now went to Salamanca to meet Clymer for the Bi-County Championship and to revenge a basketball defeat. The game was a pitching masterpiece with Roy Scott and jim Sproul sharing honors. Roy for his one run pitching and jim for his booming 2 run homer early in the game. The score stood at that, 2-l favor of Salamanca. The Team traveled now to Hamburg to meet Holland in a sectional play-off, where they were plagued by errors and batting weakness and came off short by six runs. The score was 10-4. Al- though we didn't go all the way, everyone knows we had a great season. 36

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OOT BALL Tlurd Row, L. to R.: Coach Malinoski, C. Blackhall, I. Sproul, R. Schaper, M. Wiese, R. Anderson, N Schneider, T. Truesdale, B. Gilbert, M. Brown, K. Schneider, T. Dailey, D. Eastland, P. Boldt, Managers Second Row: W. Neamon, R. Scott, R. Mapes, F. Wiese, I. Davis, D. Weaver, R. Howell, j. Mitchell, P Sherwood. First Row: C. Weidinger, P. Draves, P. Hamblin, F. Green, G. Stangl. After summer recess, D-M's squad of athletics retumed to the Alma-Mater and climbed into foot- ball togs to resume war on the opposing schools. After three weeks of grinding into shape, D-M successfully met Hinsdale at Delevan and the season was under way. Another win over Limestone made D-M even happier. The big test was coming! D-M was to lock homs with Little Valley at the county seat and the winner would probably take the crown. All who saw the game won't easily forget it. D-M consistent- ly bulled through and around Little Valley and then would suddenly draw back and send 'em deep with a pass. Early in the second quarter, half-back, Bob Roberson was badly shaken up and re- ceived a broken nose. ,He didn't know it at the time and continued playing. At the end of the third quarter, D-M led by 27-7 and needed only a matter of minutes for a victory. But iniuries took their toll and the D-M attack stalled, ran out of gas and stopped. The margin dwindled and L. V. surged ahead. D-M made a final attack but L. V. withstood it and took top honors in a 34-27 victory. The following week D-M faced West Valley and waited too long to start playing and took a 45-46 defeat which ended in almost complete darkness. The rest of the season went well. D-M warped Ellicottville 48-29 and wound up the season in a blaze, beating West Valley 44-20. Congratulations are certainly due to this D-M team. 35

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- si I7 u Y 3 f l l 5 jg - Coach Malinoski X N 1, Delavan-Machias was getting up in the wor - The word around school was that we would be a Class B school for basketball. This rumor wa -1 fied when a count of boys in High School showed us three over the limit. The plan was this ' M would play her regular C schedule and at , . ,, . . . season s end would meet the 2nd team in B and if victorious, she would play the lst team for the cup. D-M was confident. She had lost no starters and was further strengthened by a 6 ft. 3 in. transfer student, Tom Truesdale. The C schedule seemed a breeze for D-M and she had a six game streak going before she knew it. Suddenly the roof fell in. Hinsdale came visiting and brought along four points more than we had, and D-M went for a deep six 57-53. D-M bounced back and beat Holland 56-36 and started another streak. D-M was looking already to the B play-offs. D-M cruised along for four more games, winning all of them handily when it happened again. D-M went to Hinsdale determined to right the wrong but the bobcats had other plans. Behind Ken Fairfield's 32 points, Hinsdale clawed a 56-51 victory and became the first team to beat us twice in two years. D-M used no set offense against Little Valley for there were rival scouts in the stand but they still rolled up a 66-45 victory to end the C season. Now came the play-off. Allegany had come in on top of the B league with Portville second so we had our work cut out. A week and a half of hard work preceded the Portville game. D-M perfected her 2-3 offense and got set for the tilt which was to occur at the Olean High School gym. D-M was keyed up but not scared. They played a cool deadly game and Portville went down 58-42. The final test was meeting Allegany four nights later. A crowd of 850 fans were present to cheer on their favorite and although Allegany had the odds, D-M had the crowd. The game started with the flurry of baskets, too many of which were Allegany's. However, D-M settled down'and the game got close. D-M would draw up on Allegany and then the gap would widen. Finally, in the last quarter, D-M made a final bid and drew within 2 points of the Blue Devils but fate said no and the game ended at 52-48, Allegany getting the win. D-M's first try in fast company didn't quite make it but we are certainly proud of our team.