Lafayette Central High School - Leaves of Lafayette Yearbook (Roanoke, IN)

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Pirates Draw Lancaster fractional Tourney Second Straight Year Lancers Are First Foes Roger Lake all Team Bob Wright Tom Deuter Jim Rupert AT HUNTINGTON — Allen County ' s Lafayette Central will make its second appearance in this tourney tonight when it meets Lancaster at 8:15 p.m. These same clubs met last year when Lafayette played here for the first time and the Huntington County five upset the Pirates, 66-65. Tonight ' s open- er, at 7, sends defending champion Huntington Catholic against Clear Creek. The 1959 champs are fa- vored while the second game Is fated a tossup. Huntington and Andrews won as pected as the tournament opened re Wednesday. The Vikes turned ck Jeffferson, 74-33, while the ardinals sidelined Roanoke, 63-39. Andrews ' John Bigelow led all scorers with 23 points. Lafayette Central drew Lan- caster for the second straight year. This will be the Pirates 2nd year in the Huntington Sectional. Last year the Pirates were switch- ed from the Fort Wayne Sectional to Huntington ' s Sectional. Lancaster defeated Lafayette 66-65 in the Pirates first appear- ance in the Community Gym- nasium in Huntington last year. Lancaster lost only 3 players via graduation who were on the Lancaster team which defeated Lafayette Lancaster losses for ' yette has the t Denne. I Wright Rogei attack average 157 poll Bailey has scoi played 8.3 aven in 19 gai Evans h; having a has tallic average, accumulai offenslVe , have b ' for a 6 fore, th an average Everyone back the Pirates Sectional! 19-

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Lafayette Central Pins 58-52 Loss On Woodlan COUNTY ROUNDUP Pirate Lafayette Central rallied in the second half to down Woodlan, 58- 52, and snap the Warriors ' six- game winning streak in an Allen County Athletic Conference game at Lafayette Central last night. The Pirates evened their confer- ence record at 2-2 and boosted their overall mark to 6-4. Wood- lan dropped its second ACAC de- cision in three starts and its third. Ar C0 i, overall against six victories. The Bucs trailed, 16-12, after one period and 35-31 at halftime. The Pirates moved ahead, 44-42, at the three-quarter mark and then added another four points to their final margin in the fourth period. Roger Lake paced the Pirates ' attack with 27 points. Monwell Sheley added 12 and Bob Evans tallied 11. Jerry Closson topped Woodlan with 13 while Lester Rekeweg connected for 12. Harlan scored a come-from-be- hind 68-44 victory over Elmhurst. The Hawks trailed, 13-10, after one quarter, but moved ahead, 30-23, at the intermission, stretched their lead to 47-30 at the thir- 5 won going away. It fifth victory in eig v Steve DeLong with 23 points added 10. Ro- hurst with added 11. Huntert mark b The W victor: peri or 56-30 poir game losing str Roanoke, 80-54. T the opening baskr leads of 17-16; Larry Cagnet to spark Mo ott, Roger K added 16, 1 as the Cub victory in Bill Bailey 18

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Second Team Front row: Dwight Duhamell, Bob Hulvey, Lynn Lopshire, Gary Maitlen, Tim Feighner Jon Carroll, Roland Denney. Back row: Chad McClure, Jerry Young, Jim Bowman, Coach Charles Bromelmeier, Bob Joker, Bill Rife, Roger Johnson. Junior High Basketball Team Below: First row: Billy Brindle, Lynn Battershell, Mike Gould, Tommy Lamber t, Tyrone Whittacre, Dennis Deuter, Danny Piatt, Steve Haver, Robert Rife. Standing Terry Lambert , Tom Lesh, David Garvin, Byron Smith, Mr. Bromelmeier Jerry McClure, Kenneth Lorenz, JohnWisel. Tom Young.