Lake Odessa High School - Reflections Yearbook (Lake Odessa, MI)

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Defer ve 5 ofketbolf Back Row Coach Kay, Dean McLeod, Bob Dexter, Jim Henry, Fred Fink, Milo Sutherland, r Front Row Lawrence Hatt, Bruce Dahms, Bob Gaiser, Lavern Middaugh 0 Offb Q!! With but two regulars back from last year's league championship nine, the Tro ans faced none too bright prospects and skies as the baseball season Coach Kay had a large turnout of hopeful lads, eager to win a regular The schedule was as follows Lake Odessa at Sunfield Nashville at Lake Odessa Woodland at Lake Odessa Sunfield at Lake Odessa Lake Odessa at Nashville Hastings Play off Portland at Lake Odessa Academy at Ionia Portland at Portland Ionia at Lake Odessa Academy at Lake Odessa May 31 opened However berth HE-- j . April 19 Lake Odessa at Woodland 25 26 30 3 7 10 - 17 21 24 28

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6 oxketball Summing up basketball season, we find a thrilling but not too successful season All through the season Lake O' was flashy led by the speed and prowess of Captain Kelly Our team showed lots of ability at handling themselves Portland came here as our first opponent Lake O' had plenty of speed, but they couldn't penetrate the opponent's defense They fought valiantly to the final period but lost by the score of 29 to 42 The following Tuesday we went to Caledonia to fam an undefeated team Playing hard our team ended the final period in a tie, but Cal edonia won in the overtime by the score of 17 to 25 We journeyed to Delton next The game was fast, and Delton walloped us 21 to 57 Heartbroken the team traveled to Middleville They led ten to one in the first quarter, then Middleville wrested the game from us 25 to 54 The game of the year was with Woodland we beat them 50 to 27 which made all of us very happy Middleville came up again on our floor The game was close but Mlddlevllle defeated us once again by the score of 26 to 52 Next Nash ville came here and they beat us badly by the score of 17 to 44 Belding came over and we beat them 28 to 22 which was very unexpected Traveling to Sunfield, we really received a defeat that was a staggering blow The score was 26 to 21 Delton came over and handed us another walloping blow with the score 29 to 51 The team slowly recovered before traveling to Portland The team played hard but they lacked players and they were again defeated 25 to 45 We went to Nashville and were outscored once more by 22 to 44 Ionia was next handing us a trim ming 55 to 21 In the League Tournament we played Delton and we were beaten again 57 to 21 Playing Woodland next, Lake O' recovered in the last half to win by a score of 56 to 55 Our second team did better, winning five games and losing eight Back Row Milo Sutherland Mgr , Claude Wlerenga Center, Harlan Middaugh Forward, Bob Allarding Guard, Dick Pearson Center, Bob Reed Guard, Bob Lane Forward Front Row Coach Kay, Doc Kaufman Forward, Dean Kelly Guard, Don Cook Forward, Lyle Bartlett Guard o l o Q u ' , 0 . .. o o Q- i' ' 0 . I, o Q I ' c o . P a ,- .1 ' n o Q e --' ' .- l 1' U i 9 o s 1 ' Q ' - ' 0 - - o ' o

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