Livingston High School - Eagle Yearbook (Livingston, IL)

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av ' With George Spudich begin Benld Dec lb ning his first year as coach at LCHS, the Livingston Eagles started basketball practice on October lst When practice started there were 29 boys out, but many of them wllted during the conditioning period and quit When the season ended The basketball calendar for the 1951 52 season is given in de tail on the following pages 'Is he gonna make it Central Catholic Nov 30 The Eagles opened the season at home against the Central Catholic Pioneers With a good crowd cheering them on, the Eagles raced to a L8 32 victory Roxana Dec 1 The following evening our boys Journeyed to Roxana to tangle with the tough Shells Both sides played a very ragged game The Eagles won 31 30, as Art Heinz h1t a shot in the last seven seconds Malench paced the Eagles' scoring with 13 points Madison County Tourney For the third straight year the Eagles were entered in the Madison County Tourney On Dec L, we met our arch ri vals Worden in the first round The Eagles turned on a siz zlin fast break and waltzed away from Worden to the tune of 60 A Heinz and Malench each had 20 points for the Eagles In the second round, the Eagles found themselves pitted against the tough Dunbar Eagles Dunbar set up a very tight zone and forced the Eagles to shoot from out They were very cold and as a result, met their first defeat of the season The score was L8-37 Heinz paced the Eagles with 12 points Edwardsville Dec ll In their next game, the Eagles were soundly trounced 57-35 by the Ed wardsville Tigers The Tigers had the game well in control right from the starting gun Malench topped the Eagles with la points Benld Dec lh On this date, the Eagles once more hit their winning stride as they shel- laced Benld by the score of 62-39. Malench led the scorers with 22 points. Madison-Dec. 15 On the following night the Eagles motored to Madison, where they absorb- ed a 70-51 defeat. It was a close game until four of the Eagle regulars fouled out midway in the final period. Heinz led the Eagle NBefore the battlen scoring attack with 15 points. m there were only 18 boys left. - . . . - if 3' Z, i . . , . ?,

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Vf71?5l 77 FRONT RW 1 to r Robert llalench, Jin Sandrin, Art Heinz, Bob Bodi, Frank Urekar, Richard Sandrin, and Donald Kline BACK ROI 1 to r Donald Smerldmanagerl, Delbert Johnson, Howard Salters, Doyle Heil, Ricnard Stanko, Donald Coulson, and Coach George Spudich ff?fffff'7f74' EOPHOWY ORE D Smerk, G Robertson, J Masinelli, R Kline, S Kuba, H Salter, R Stanko, P Leyden, L Adams, R Vallow, K I-hghlander, Coach Spudich 28 2 o o Q 2 Q o o O C C . f O O . . Q . 0

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. 1 EAGLEE Bob Bod1 Center :wa 1' Mt Olive-Dec 18 The Eagles played one of their best games to date, as they defeated Mt Olive 5h 51 The game was marked by the fine passing of the Eagles Malench and Heinz led the Eagles with 18 and lu points respectively Medora Dec 21 For the final game of the year 1951, the Eagles went to Medora and ran up one of their highest scor 1ng games of the year, as they trounced Medora 78 h3 M lench, Heinz, and Rich Sandrln led the scoring with 23, 22 and 15 points respectively Benld Jan A The Eagles went to Benld expecting an easy victory, but returned home with a humiliating 50 A7 defeat Earlier in the year, LCHS had defeated Benld by over 20 points Malench topped all scoring with 23 points Bethalto Jan 5 On the following evening the Eagles, using a full court press defense for most of the game, walked over Bethalto by the top heavy score of 60 38 Malench and Heinz netted 21 and 19 points respectively Bethalto Tournament The Eagles were entered in the Bethalto Tourney along with Dunbar, Central Catholic, Mt Olive, Brighton,Idnco1n of Venice, St Peter and Paul of Waterloo, and the host team In pre tourney predictions Dunbar was seeded first, and the Eagles second In the first game, the Eagles were matched with Lincoln The Livingston lads were all tightened up and played a very poor game 1n losing A5 Al Henna and Rich Sandrin led the Pocahontas Jan 18 On this date the Eagles hung up their 5th straight home court victory as they defeated the Poky lads by the score of A7 30 Malench sparked the Eagle at tack with 20 points Roxana Jan 2A The Roxana Shells came to Livingston with only one thing in mind to avenge an earlier l point de feat at the hands of the Eagles The Eagles folded up in the final quarter and were defeated for the first time at home The final score was 55 AO Heinz paced the E les with 1 S 5 points nTime out Up and in Donald Kline Guard 30 Jim Sandrin Forward ' ' 0 l ,L , . . - h.5w+,. ' - . a- L, E , ' ' . . ., . - . V I 43,53 4 :T ' ' L4 5 I O 5 - - ' V1 Eagle attack with 17 and 12 points respectively. ,V . . . g liiiir I 0 4: x ,fi he fy' u a X E B . ' ,L ' N n n