Ellsworth High School - Hub Yearbook (Ellsworth, WI)

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Hands at home Pzlls' December Z0 Ellsworth 31 Baldwln 32 The Chnstmas Splrlt caught up wxth the Panthers as they handed the game wrapped up and t1ed to Baldwm Hope Santa made note of our generos1ty!l Any for the season and Baldwln be1ng v1c tory hungry capltahzed on thls 1nab1l1 ty to put the bxg b1g ball through that tlny t1ny hoop The only consolahon was the non conference status of the game December ZZ Ellsworth 48, Boyceville 35 In the last game before vacatlon the Panthers went out and racked up Vxctory N 6 To do that they had to out score a bunch of sharpshooters from the fall' cxty of Boycevxlle The Panthers d1d out smpe them though mamly because of Sleep Krause's exghteen pozn s Boycevllle had a good outf1t but the Pan thers are hard to beat when they get golng January 6 Ellsworth 30 Sprmg Valley 31 On the mght of January 6 the team traveled to the Valley for one of themr tradltxonal games Ellsworth has had a JIIIX on the Valley for a number of years to thexr wmmng streak over them The Valley players had other thoughts and showed the Panthers they can't take the1r vacat1ons so serlously by beatmg us 3l 30 Ellsworth unable to get started tra1led throughout the contest and only began to perk up near the end At that t1me Ellsworth lost two men on fouls and the Valley talung advantage of the loss held to themr one poxnt lead Courtesy of Weber Muslc 8: Radlo Co Red Wlng and Most Implement Co o. . - ' ' t . . , . . K . . . way, Ellsworth hit the lowest percentage now, and were hoping to add another game 91

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December 9 Hudson 37 Ellsworth 43 After belng tamed down a b1t by Colfax the prevlous week Ellsworth went out and gave Hudson a good trouncxng 43 37 Hudson had a good outf1t but the Panthers were hxttmg and showed the boys from there just how the game IS played' A fxne defensive thxrd quarter helped the Ellsworth fxve xmmensely as they were able to bu1ld up quxte a lead Hence when three regulars were lost 1n the last quarter they d1dn't have too much cause for alarm Anyway the boys were h1t t1ng and clawed out thelr flrst confer ence vxctory of the year Let's have some more of them! December 16 Ellsworth 46 R1ver Falls ZZ Last year Ellsworth made the headlmes by talung the Falls twxce so th1s year they cont1nued to pour rt on and beat the Falls by the bxggest margm rn the hmstory of the senes between these two teams QAnd don't thlnk It d1dn't feel good' The Falls Jumped off to a fast lead but that was erased as the Panthers went on to a 46 22 vxctory The old Bay C1tyan Snooks G racked up seventeen for a n1ght's good work J1m Qumn also play Bay C1tyan .hm Johnson who was con valescxng December 13 Ellsworth 34 Glenwood C1ty 30 On the road the boys hlt a foremgn floor thexr luck on forexgn floors 1sn't too good and had qu1te a game before pulhng xt out 1n the last quarter Glenwood Clty a new add1t1on to the conference gave he Panthers a rough t1me t1ll they settled down and played the cahber of ball they' capable of Nook Gllbertson fcus todran of the large st apartment house m Ellsworth came through wxth elghteen po1nts whlch dxd the trrck Glenwood had substantlal leads but they couldn 't stop the Ellsworth fxve when they started to churn Ahhh, Ballet! Courtesy of Marvm Struve and Anderson Shoe Store, Red Wmg A I ' Il ll . ' - ed good ball as he filled in for the other , . . . ' t ' re P - . 90

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January 20 Ellsworth 34 Menomome 55 Early on the 20th the Panthers boarded the school bus to Menomome the home of the League leaders Thexr task was to beat the lead1ng team m the conference on 1ts home floor Even though they fa1led xt was not from lack of effort for the Panthers really fought Menomonxe had one of the1r better nxghts and pulled a ans were a good team and deserved to w1n as they put on a good dxsplay of basketball The team wxll try to change around tournament txme ! January Z7 Ellsworth 53 New R1chmond 39 On our 'unlucky floor Ellsworth had a good n1ght Smnce they had lost two con ference champ1onsh1ps on New R1chrnond's floor durmg the last two years the Pan thers were determ1ned It would not happen aga1n Ellsworth estabhshed leads twxce only to see New Rmchmond even lt up Then by feed1ng Nook and Sleep the stantlal lead When the game was over each of our tall boys had a twenty pomt total, a mght of great accomplzshments' January Z4 Ellsworth 52 Glenwood C1ty 31 After hav1ng the game cancelled for two successwe mghts the Panthers went out and poured lt on to the Glenwood qum tet The Ellsworth crew knew they had to have thxs one to stay m the race so they were TOUGH never rel1nqu1sh1ng the1r lead dunng the entxre game Don Krause paced the home team w1th e1ght een pomts as Snooks' and Bxll Qumn each added ten polnts to bnng up the totals The Panthers h1t the hay as early as pos sxble that mght as they had a tough game comlng up the next mght! ' Basketball or Leapfrog '7 Courtesy of B and B Market Basket and Nelson Barber Shop I ll ' ' . , - ' ' ll ll IJ, way near the end of the game. The Indi- Panthers succeeded in building up a sub- 92