Enid High School - Quill Yearbook (Enid, OK)

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28 Congratulations, Seniors! 'A' Make the W. B. johnston Downtown Store 205 Em Randolph Your Victory Garden Headquarters 'A' Only the Besi--- ' Garden'Seeds ' Field Seeds ' Flower Seeds 'lr Remember- ' Garden Tools ' Insecticides ' Fertilizers 'A' A friendly kind of service the people have liked for 45 years if ' c ami...-ts T A lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll Il THE QUILL Macazmia asf: tl: By Bos Showing great improvement over their previous season, Coach Dale Holtls Plains- man cage team drove their tough schedule to fourteen victories and captured the region- al title to finish among the top eight class A teams of the state. With Hve returning lettermen, the Enidites put in over a month of hard practice before opening their season at Education Building on December 14. The first visitors were the Bluejays of Guthrie. The Enid boys led the game all the way up to the last seconds when Keith Camerer of Guthrie put the Bluejays in the lead 23-22 to win. This was a very exceptional game as not a single foul was called on Guthrie. Rebounding from their first loss, the Plains- men came back to down the Perry Maroons 28-27 on December 18 with Forward Ray Benge splitting the baskets to win in the dying seconds of the game. Bill Tremain chalked up eleven points for the winners. On Friday, the 22nd of December, the Holtmen journeyed to Fairview for their first out-of-town game, ln the second overtime lanky Melvin Leierer, Center, made a bucket to steal the day. High point man was Ray Benge with eight points. Lagging behind during the first half, the Plainsmen staged a splendid comeback to steal the game from the Cushing Quintet 30-18 on Thursday, December 28. Ray Benge again dominated the offensivve power wi h thirteen points. Throwing their equipment together to make the trip to Alva on the 29th of Decem- ber, the Enid Five had a hard time on the slick Hoor but finally won 22-20. Harvey O'Mealey and Ray Benge shared the top honors with six rallies each for the victorious Holtmen. Enid for the second time tromped the stubborn Fairview team 41-25 on the Tues- day following. Thrown into the spotlight was Enid's most valuable player of last year, Kenneth Herdman, who scored twelve points and was closely followed by Center Gene Bradfield with ten. Veteran Harvey O'Mea- ley also proved he was a splendid floorman in copping the game. For the first conference tilt of the season Enid journeyed to Norman on lanuary 5. After an exciting evening of thirty-two min- utes of play, the score read 44-29 Norman. Curly Herdman kept the losers in the ball game with ten scores. The next out-of-town game was Ianuary 9, Tuesday, at Blackwell. Hampered by a small court, the Plainsmen had a hard time at first, but their precision set plays paid off in the long run to be victors 28-24. Playing their best game of the season, the Holtmen defeated the Oklahoma City Cen- tral Cardinals 30-28 on Friday, Ianuary 12. This was their first Mid-State Conference win. The Plainsmen's tabulations were now G REGORY one win and one loss. Kenneth Herdman made a field goal in the last seconds of the game and held top honors as high point man with fourteen buckets for the winners. Probably the roughest game of the season was played at Perry on the 16th of Ianuary. The game swayed back and forth. only to be lost to the Maroons 25-22. The terrible fact was that we could have won on free throws. Returning home, the Plainsmen met the Captiol Hill Redskins on Friday, Ianuary 19. The Oklahoma City veterans showed their real style with their Center, Wayne Boles, netting fifteen points, followed by Wayne Speegle and Enid's own Kenneth Herdman with twelve points, to defeat the Holtmen 49-37. The Enid Quintet were the visitors of the Classen High School at Oklahoma City on Friday, Ianuary 23. The Plainsmen led the whole game to the last six seconds, then lost when Pitts of the Comets tossed a field goal to Pllt them in the lead 29-28 to win. The Enid Troopers could only call it their out-of-town jinks, for they played heads up ball all through the contest. Kenneth Herd- man's eleven points, however, was the big noise of the evening. Pulling out of the rut, the Holtmen on Friday, the 26th of lanuary, jolted the Wolves of Shawnee 38-24. The Plainsmen really got hot as the proverbial country-store stove as Herdman and O'Mealey wore the poor baskets out when the ball kept Hying through. Little Bob Hirst, acting captain, kept the team on their toes with his inspira- tional commands to win the encounter. On Ianuary 30 the Enid Hoopsters played host to the Goldbugs of Alva on their home court. The boys captured the game from them again with the easy going score of 47-21, this being the largest margin of the season. Leading the team scoring were Bill Tremain with thirteen and Harvey O'lVlealey with twelve rallies. Packing up their togs on the Friday fol- lowing, Enid journeyed to Oklahoma City. The Centralites, who had felt defeat at the hands of the Plainsmen three weeks before, spelled scorched earth to the tune of 32-30 for Central. Another one of those nip and tuck games in which the lead waved back and forth all through the encounter. Tower- ing Center Melvin Leierer's ten points were of no avail to the losers. 'l' ln the non-conference game on February 6 the Blackwell Five really felt the power of the up and coming Plainsmen who tripped them 28-16. Herdman and Football Hicks came up for the top net splitters for the winners. February 9 found the Plainsmen again leaving town to play Capitol Hill. The tact and experience of the great Hve Redskins fContim4ed on page 30Q

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