Gackle High School - Oriole Yearbook (Gackle, ND)

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I U 4 By Delyle Schaible With the football uniforms packed away we found the boys bouncing the basketball around in the gym. Although the Oriole team was lacking height and depth, the season's record was not exceptionally good but the common saying among the 5 juniors and 5 sophomores was, 'Wait until next year? November 2Lth found the Gackle Orioles traveling to Steele for the first encounter. A tall, experienced Steele five proved to be too strong in the encounter with a final score board reading of 52-37. Continually learning by being the underdog, a determined Oriole five played host to a sharp shooting, fast moving Hazelton team. This see-saw battle continuing to the very end of the game saw Gackle fail to come through in final minutes of play to go down fighting to the tune of 46-55. In the next contest Gackle played host to the Medina Cardinals. The tables turned for Gackle in this battle with Gackle taking the lead early in the game and sending the Cardinals home with defeat, AO- 28. That was Gackle's first Prairie League conference game of the season. Packing up the wits once again we found the Orioles traveling to Edgeley. This game proved to be a thriller when a tie ending ballgame went into an overtime with Gackle losing a heartbreaker L2-bl. Moving to Streeter in the next encounter saw a fast moving, sharp shooting Streeter team trample the Orioles by a final reading of 70-Zh. Gackle then played host to a fast moving Lehr team and proved successful in downing the Lehr Leopards in a see-saw battle by a score of b7-LL. This was another conference game. Putting on our traveling shoes again took us to Medina where we played our third Prairie League game of the season. We led all the way and proved to be very effective on offense and defense, to come through with a L6-38 win over the Medina Cardinals. Traveling to Lehr for another conference contest found the Leo- pards turning the tables on Gackle by being victorious in a hard fought battle, bf downing the Orioles by a figure of 59-L2. In a non-conference game we then found Gackle playing host to a tall, experienced team. This proved to be another thriller by going right down to the rocks and found Edgeley once again edging out the Orioles by a final margin of 5h-51. Gackle again played on their home court and played a very power- ful Streeter five. By winning this game Gackle could have tied the conference standin s for first place but failed, and bowed to the Streeter Bobcats, 22-29. Moving down to our District tournament floor the Orioles next en- counter with Wishek proved to be another of those WWho's gonna win gamesn by keeping a very slight spread all the way. After four quart- ers of play the score was tied at 30 all. At the end of the overtime the score was still tied, so the game went into a sudden death. Byron Koski dropped one in to win the ball game 3b-33.

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Gackle moved into the Napoleon Invitational Tournament with a A win ll loss record.In the first encounter the Orioles played Napoleon. Another thriller which went right to the end saw Gackle pull through a hard-fou ht victory by downing the Napoleon lmperials by a final read- ing of 55-SA. Gackle's sharp shooting Byron Koski was high with 27 counters. Wald had 23 for Napoleon. ' Being victorious in the first game pitted us against a tall, very gell balanced Steele team, which downed the Orioles to the tune of M-M7. Packing the suits once again we found the Orioles traveling to Fullerton for a non-conference tilt. Quarter scores were very close. The close of the 3rd quarter and most of the fourth saw Gackle move ahead by a lO-13 point margin. This did not stop the hard fighting Fullerton five for they came back strong to win a thriller 69-08. Steadily playing games out of town we followed the Gackle squad to Dawson where another ball game going right to the end saw the Daw- son cards come out victorious by a final reading of 68-6b. It seemed the Orioles formed a habit of playing close ones for we witnessed another see-saw battle at Kulm but Kulm started hitting in the final minutes of play to down the Orioles, 56-L9. The same week we once again put our shoes into traveling bags and headed for Hazelton where we found that a hard fighting Tiger team bowed to the Orioles when a couple fast buckets at the end of the game gave Gackle the victory, 67-63. NW In 'V is meg, ' M it f 1-, V 7 z' Za The Orioles had a 6-l3 record going into the District tournament at Wishek. Our first tilt put us up against a zippy, sharp shooting Strasburg team. The Clippers led the Orioles by 10 counters at the half and started hitting from outcourt in the 3rd quarter to pull away from the Orioles and go on to victory 58-45. Bowing to Strasburg found us against Linton in our second encoun- ter of the tournament. The Orioles fighting hard all the way failed to come through and Linton won the contest by defeating Gackle, 65-48.