Ellsworth High School - Hub Yearbook (Ellsworth, WI)

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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

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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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C reepmg Qumn' January 13 Ellsworth 58 Baldwln 40 Even though lt was Frxday the 13th the Panthers d1d not let It affect them one b1t and went out to get revenge for an earl1er defeat from thxs club Revenge was were hot that was the whole story Everyth1ng they tossed up went 1n Snooks G1lbertson talhed twenty four B111 Qu1nn fourteen and Don Krause th1r teen Thxs was one game when the subs got a chance to show the1r stuff an op porturuty they really enjoyed! January 3l Ellsworth 52, Durand 31 Ellsworth went down to Durand deter m1ned to even up last year's score They got off to a fly1ng start and pxled up a bmg advantage whlch enabled them to coast along through the rest of the encounter not that they were lazy Once agam the bxg boys had the say as Durand d1dn have the helght to cope w1th them Each added to thelr totals as they contlnually lut the old bullseye February 3 Ellsworth 53 Colfax 37 Ellsworth was out to revenge an earher defeat at the hands of Colfax and that they d1d They outscored Colfax 53 to Z7 The v1s1tors made qu1te a f1rst quar the second quarter enabled the Panthers to clalm v1ctory number eleven Th1s game marked the appearance of three bearded Panthers although they weren't v1s1ble to many of the spectators The beard must have mspmred Lafe for h had one of Ins best mghts swxshxng them m from all over Courtesy of East End Varmety and Stexner Brothers Grocery K J- ' . , . ,t . - . , theirs to the tune of 58-40. The Panthers ter of it, but a twenty-six point splurge in . . , as . . . . . , ' , I ll - ll ' ' , . ' , - ' ' ll ll, e 93