Forman High School - Chieftain Yearbook (Manito, IL)

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My BASKETBALL 4 , 1 SEATED: Frank Golden, Ron Wistehuff, Duane Golden, Ron Thomas, Parker Lawlis, Dick Wells, Loren Sunderland. 2ND ROW: Mr. Brodman, Lester Vogel, Smith Rakestraw, Pat Lynch, Dale Parkin, Don Vance, Kenneth Bender, Roy Gol en, Frank Vaughn fMgr,j 3RD ROW: Gary Gosda, Merrill Dierker, Alan Hubbard, Marvin Wilson, Wintifred Richardson, Ronald Vogel, Ed, Heinhorst, Roger Vogel, Daryl Thompson, Billy Spaits. Forman did very well in basketball this year. After showing great promise in the first game against Bath, the Brave took four straight before losing their first in the season to Athens. The next game was one of the most important games of the season. With Coach Brodman called home because o the death of his mother, Mr. Lawlis took over coaching duties against Easton, The first half of this game was a clost battle, but after a good rest at halftime, they took the game an captured the Green Duck, After this game the Braves lost to Havana and then took an easy one from Hopedale. The sailing wasr1't so good for a while after the Hopedale game. The Braves lost two straight, one to Delavan, ant the other to Mason City. y losing to Mason City, we also lost possession of the Green Duck, Forman then took another mage from Bath before the County Tourney. The Braves fared pretty well in the Toumey. Our first game was with San Jose. lt was a tough battle all the way With about four seconds left, Parker Lawlis, on a nice pass from Coonie Golden, sank one to break a 45-45 tie. B1 defeating San Jose, the Braves recaptured the Green Duck,

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The team looked very good in the next game as they defeated Mason City in a real team victory to advance to the ials, The Braves met the strong Havana five in the finals, Our boys put up a good fight but could not keep the Ducks im flying away as Champs with a 63-59 victory, A ter the Toumey the Braves won five straight before the Regional Toumey in Pekin One of th ' ' . ese victories was er Easton, in defense ofthe Green Duck, Our first game in the Pekin Regional was with Eureka. Although the Braves had a cold night, they came out on top, to 39. Two nights later, the Braves returned and accomplished what Forest City and Manito have been trying to do :25 years, They beat Pekin, 69 to 66. Next came the championshifp game and the Braves came through againas ay defeated Delavan, 56 to 52, and brought home a beautiful plaque or the Regional Championship, Six nights later the Braves traveled to Pekin to 1 C V p ay ontral in the semi-finals of the Sectional and were defeated to 42, Re iona 3 HAVANA-Two photo finishese --an upset and a new owner for? the Green Duck - highlighted thei first round of action in the Ma-g son County Tourney here last night. , 9 - Bath captured a 53-50 surprise victory over Easton, and Forman, by virtue of Parker Lawlis' last- second lay-up, regained the Duck by nosing out a stubborn quintet from San Jose, 47-45, before a near-capacity crowd. Forman Tops HAVANA -- lt's Forman vs. 36 Havana in Friday finals of the Hb Mason County tournament in new , Havana gym. ' 5, This came about as Forman K kept the Green Duck with a 65-42 conquest of Mason City last night before a good crowd. In the. Cffm' I, f 2 MASON CITY -'With all they I the guard at Buckingham Pal-1 . 339, the prized Green Duck went' A rl from the hands of the Formanla Tp Braves into the eager P31155 of 2 -J' the Mason City Huskies here 1 Tuesday Highl- thrill and excitement of changing X.. MANITO - Forman's Braves rolled over the Bath quintet for ' the second time in as many out- ings 55-37 on their own floor last night, .Q-:rf .L,-- asm, 4 WILLIAMSVILLE 4TPS3--Par- Lawlis led the Forman Braves to their 6th victory in a row last night as they defeated unbeaten Williamsville In Row, 53 To 40 it Cham 1011 I.. 1 ....,---.M Forman Takes 6th 75 i MANITO ITPSJ-Kirby Lawlis. gcoach at Forest City before the consolidation, and substituting as mentor for Forman in the ab- H sence of J. E. Brodman, coached -s . the Braves to a 53-47 decision ., gl over Green Duck holder. Easton, Hao take the coveted Duck .from , f + 'the Hawks here last night in a H - Mwell-played encounter before a I nearkcapacity crowd 3,6665 Spill Chinkg In 69-66 Thriller 1 'gy BY LLOYD ARMSTRONG ' 'Sf C Times Sports Editor - Chastened Chinamen's scaips sway gently from Forest City and Manito homes, emblemetie of the greatest basketball victory in history of the two northernmost Mason county towns-or of consolidated Forman High! For a Forman quintet, that apparently didn't understand it wasn't supposed to win, massacred Pekin in the first major ,upset of the 1952-53 IHSA tournament series last night, 69 gto 66, before some 2 Q00 stunned, screaming fans, who even T 'i ' Hi' I '-M'-I after seeing, couldn't believe it, Forman Takes Duck P