Le Roy High School - Melting Pot Yearbook (Le Roy, IL)

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opponents caught up with and passed the Maroons before the game was finished, however. Gene Barr from McLean was high scorer with 17 points. MANSFIELD won a nip-and-tuck battle with LeRoy on the victor's floor. LeRoy trailed 7-6 at the quarter but tied up the score 17-all at the half mark. The Maroons emerged on top 33-29 in the third quarter but weak- ened in the finish. Davis, from Mansfield, was high man with 17 points. HEYWORTH was again trampled by the fighting Maroons on the defeated team's floor. The host team held a one-point edge at the end of the first quarter, but LeRoy took over in the second quarter and worked up a sub- stantial margin by the end of the game. Hillard copped scoring honors by sinking 20 points. PAXTON was blasted by the red hot LeRoy team in a non-conference game on the Maroon's floor. Center Lyle Whitehouse led the Maroons by collecting 15 points. mostly tip-ins. WELDON-DE LAND was battered by LeRoy with a substantial margin. Whitehouse again won scoring honors with 15 points. BELLFLOWER lost to LeRoy in the Ma- roon's first game of the McLean County Tournament. Mears of Bellflower won scoring honors with 14 points. SAYBROOK was given quite a fight by the LeRoy boys, especially during the first half. The Comanches found their stride and went on to win, which eliminated the Maroons from further competition in the tourney. Hawthorne of Saybrook was high scorer for the night with 19 points. CERRO GORDO was the victor in a runaway game. The Maroons did, however, rally in the fourth quarter but it came too late. Hillard of the Maroons and Cricksman of Cerro Gordo tied for scoring honors with 17 points each. RANTOUL sent forth a well-balanced scoring attack to beat LeRoy in a hard fought game. Hard driving Sebast- ian topped scoring for Rantoul with seven baskets. Until the last quarter, LeRoy was not more than ten points behind. PAXTON was defeated on their own floor in a high scoring and exciting game. Whitehouse and Hill- ard led the LeRoy attack with 50 points between them. Whitehouse scored 26 and Hillard 24. Little Jim Adams of Paxton took scoring honors with 32 points. FISHER beat the LeRoy team for the second timeg this time on the latter's floor. Cender led the victors with 16 points to his credit. TOLONO won an easy game from the Maroons. The victors led all the way, paced by Ryan who, although he fouled out early in the fourth quarter, twenty eight

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SAYBROOK took an early lead to win our first game on the hard- wood. The Comanches were led by Hawthorne who bucketed 17 points. FARMER CITY spelled defeat to LeRoy on the Moore High School gym floor through their height and rebounding power. Trailing by 13 points as the final two-minute period began, the Maroons pulled to within 9 points before the horn proclaimed the end of the game. GIBSON CITY defeated LeRoy in a non-conference game, which was close all the Way. Hillard was high scorer with 14 points. WELDON-DE LAND went down before the inspired Maroons to bring our first victory to LeRoy High for the year. The D-W Eagles came close in the third quarter but did not overpower the Maroons. FISHER was aroused to a final scoring spree which caused another defeat to home talent. The Maroons were only two points behind at the half, however. Hillard was again high man with 20 points. MAHOMET was our first victory in the Sangamon Valley Conference tournament. LeRoy came from behind to nip them in an overtime period. Simmons was high with 16 points. FARMER CITY overpowered LeRoy in the S. V. C. finals, making us the second-place winners in the tourney. The Maroons caused an upset in the first quarter by leading 11-9 but were behind 21-15 at the half. The high scorer, Morrissey from Farmer City, led with 22 points. MANSFIELD dropped LeRoy in an unexciting game. Manuel led the victors with 23 points. HEYWORTH was an easily downed opponent for LeRoy on the local floor. The Maroons held a 22-12 lead at half time and were never pressed throughout the rest of the game. Stills led the scoring column with 10 points to his credit. MCLEAN had some trouble with LeRoy the first half with LeRoy leading 11-9 at the end of the first quarter. The Row l-K. Forrest. J. Henson. P. Weber. J. Caywood. K. Walden. D. Varboncoeur. Row 2-B. Flanagan. K. Trotter, G. Bruning. J. Simmons. J. Hill, R. Hillard, H. Witt, K. Robbins. G. Stills. B. Wheeler. L. Whitehouse. How 3-D. Nichols. W. Beeler. T. Holmes. G. Hill. A. Flanagan. R. Scoii. B. Wheel. C. Worihey. G. Hari. E. Smith. W. Woods. R. O'Neal. Coach Adams. D. Bailey. twenty-seven

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made I4 points. GIBSON CITY tripped LeRoy up in the final quarter of a cut-throat game. The half-time score was 36-24 in favor of LeRoy but Gibson City soon passed them. Rhodes of the opposing team was high scorer with 22 points. MAHOMET got revenge on LeRoy by defeating them in the Conference Tournament. Sophomore Kenny Robbins netted 15 points to lead the evening's scorers. FARMER CITY won the last regularly scheduled game of the season. Although they scored only 6 points during the last quarter, they won by a 7-point margin. Morrissey made 20 points and Hillard was a close second with 18. CLINTON fell just a bit short of making two goals a minute, racking up 63 points. They overpowered the Maroons by quite a number of baskets. Although he played just a little more than one half of the game, Patterson of Clinton was high scorer with 20 points. This defeat ended our play in the regional tournament. BASKETBALL SCOREBOARD VARSITY LeRoy ......... ....... LeRoy LeRoy .......................... Weldon-DeLand ........ LeRoy .......................... Mahoment .................. 46 LeRoy ............ .......... 3 3 LeRoy Heyworth .... ....... LeRoy LeRoy ............ ....... Heyworth ......... ....... Paxton Weldon-DeLand ........ McLEAN COUNTY TOURNAMENT Bellflower .................. LeRoy ......... ....... LeRoy ......... ....... LeRoy ......... ....... Paxton LeRoy LeRoy LeRoy ......... ....... Saybrook ...... Farmer City Gibson City .. LeRoy ............ Fisher ......... . TOURNAMENT LeRoy ............ Farmer City lSecond Place Winnerb Mansfield ........ ...... LeRoy .......... McLean ...... Mansfield ........ ...... LeRoy .......... LeRoy ....... LeRoy ............ LeRoy ............ Saybrook ...... Cerro Gordo Rantoul ........ LeRoy ....... Fisher ........... Tolono .............. ...... Gibson City .. LeRoy Mahomet ...... LeRoy Farmer City REGIONAL TOURNAMENT LeRoy ...... ................. 2 8 Clinton ......... U... N... twenty-nine