Losantville High School - Mysticlens Yearbook (Losantville, IN)

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Basketball 4 9-50 We opened our cage season by playing Stoney Creek for our first home game. The Little Devils lost their game by a thirty-two to eleven count. Bill Golliher was high for Losant with six points while Medler and Oliver collected thirteen and ten respectively for the Blue Devils. The first team also lost their game. The score at the half was twenty-five to fifteen in favor of the visitors. The final score was Stoney, forty-six: Losant, thirty-one. Dean Lester was high for Losant with eleven points while Baldwin of Stoney collected thirteen. Our rivals, Modoc was our next game. The game was Modoc's game but was played at home. The second team started the evening off right by winning twenty- seven to twenty-three in a thrilling game, with Smith leading the winners with seven field buckets, and one free throw for fifteen points. But alas! It was a different story for the first team, with Bertram slopping them all over the floor. The score at the half was eleven to twenty, Modoc's favor. We fought all the way but could not over- come the lead and lost thirty-four to twenty-two. Lester scored seven points for the losers and Bertram got twelve for Modoc. We traveled to Wayne or rather to Union City, to play the former, for our first game away. We certainly didn't look good this game. We managed to build a lead in the opening minutes of the game, and were ahead seven to four at the end of the first quarter. The score was ten to eleven at the half in Wayne's favor. We kept up the pace until the last quarter, but Price and Dirhan managed to sneak under the basket to build up the score to forty to twenty-two at the gun. This was the game when Wayne presented us with the loser's horseshoe, which was not exactly a welcomed gift. The Little Devils lost by a score of twenty to twenty to twenty-two. On November twenty-second, McKinley paid us a visit. We looked much better this game. We fought a losing battle all the way but were ahead at the three quarter mark twenty-one to twenty, but they outscored us in the last quarter to win thirty to twenty-four. Trinder and Lester were high with six points each. The second team won their game twenty to fourteen. Well, it looks like we are a three quarter ball team. Our next game was at home, with Williamburg. We showed resemblence to a fighting ball team, but were defeated forty-eight to thirty-three. Lester and Holaday were high with seven points each, while Harris of Williamburg was high collecting a total of seventeen. The Little Devils were defeated thirty-four to seventeen. Golliher was high with six closely followed by Johnson and Smith each with four points. On December thirteenth, we were defeated fifty-one to twenty-eight by a hot and experienced Saratoga quintet, placed by Shierling and Liggett with seventeen and nineteen points respectively. Dean Lester and Glenn Himelick were high for Losant with thirteen and five points. The second team lost a hard fought game, thirty-one to twenty-eight. We traveled to Mt. Summit on the sixteenth of December,,to come home defeated forty-eight to twenty-five. Trinder and Lester were high for Losant, each collecting seven points while Vaughn was high for the Eagles hitting a total of sixteen. The second team lost theirs, forty to nineteen. Douglas Evans broke into the scoring column with two points made in the last few minutes of the game. The last game before Christmas was with Economy at Economy in the shoe box. We were defeated fifty-five to twenty-seven. Lester and Pangborn got seven and six respectively. Oler was high for the Cardinals collecting a total of seventeen. Z5

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Baseball Highlights of 49 The Red Devils opened their baseball season on September ninth, by giving Farmland a run for their money, but came home defeated five to two. Dean Lester pitched the openor for the Devils. Wiggins and Pangborn brought home the bacon for us with two runs. The Green Tigers handed us another defeat in ball game number two by a score of nineteen to five. Lowl Lester pitched the most of this game. Those earning runs for us were first basemen Bill Deady with two, Lowl Lester with two and Dean Lester with one. Heuss collected four runs for Green. At last we woke up. We travel to the diamond on the hill, or Modoc as it is commonly called. ln the fourth inning the Indians had us eight to three. Reed Holaday broke his strike out jinks, of seven straight, by hitting a double against the school house. That seemed to raise the morale or something, anyway we kept going to win fifteen to eight. Hoyatt Ellis came through with three of the winning runs. Glenn Himelick got the most hits of the day with three. Carl Baldwin had the best average of the day by hitting his only time at bat for a l.000. LINCOLN-HERE WE COME! A different ball team after beating our old rivals Modoc. Our hopes were up and so was our ball playing for we came home victorious by fourteen to six. Lowl Lester and Dean Lester shared the pitching honors for the Devils. This was the game that Bill Trinder, watching the Lincoln High School girls play ball in the field by the school, decided he could see the girls better from third base, so what do you know he hit a triple. How about that Bill? Parker travels to Lost-ant-hill for the next game, and after the dust had cleared we found ourselves on the low end of the score eleven to one. Dean pitched this tragedy for us. Downing hit a three base hit for Parker. On this brisk fall day, the Huntsville Redmen traveled down to our local cow pasture. Newton was the pitcher for the Redmen, and Reed started as pitcher for the Devils. I mean started, all right, because he was very glad to get back at home in left field, when he was replaced during the first inning by Dean. Here is Mike Wiggin's the center fielders story of what happened, All I know is I was too busy climbing over the fence chasing Huntsville line drives to really get a clear picture of it all. Our only run was gotten by Pangborn the lead off man. He got on base with -a single, was advanced by a single by Lowl and brought in by Bill Deady. By the way we lost fourteen to one. 'Our last game of the season was Stoney Creek. Lowl Lester took his place on the mound for this game. This was Bob Freeman's or 6'Ears good day. Bob sure made his presence known on second base by catching at least a half dozen hard-to-get flies. Dean got a triple off of Oliver, Stoney's pitcher. We were defeated fifteen to eleven. This ended our season with a two to five record. 24

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The Little Red Devils were defeated by Economy forty-one to eighteen, with Gene Himelick hitting nine for Losant, closely followed by John Paul Golliher with five. On January the sixth, we were trampled by the Center Spartans. After the final basket had been made, the score read fifty-two to twenty-eight in favor of Center. Freeman and Lester were high for Losant, collecting eight and nine points respectively, while Warner was high for the Spartans, closely followed by Johnson, Lacy, Conwell, and Windmiller. The Second team was beaten thirty-four to seventeen. AT LAST MODOC AND VICTORY! On Friday the thirteenth, we won our first game of the year against our old rivals, the Modoc Indians. We led at all the stopping places with the exception of the first quarter. Losant used only six men in this game, all' six men breaking into the scoring column to give the Modoc quintet the bad luck horseshoe. Dean Lester was high, collecting fifteen points, followed by Himelick with nine, Holaday with six, Freeman with five, Petro with four, and Trinder with one. This was the Devils best game of the year, with the ending score forty to thirty-five in favor of Losant. Bertram managed to rack up thirteen points for Modoc, closely followed by Bennett with twelve. The Losant Seconds lost their game by a sixteen to twenty-three count. Bruce and Dean acting as doggers, intercepted several passes, turned them into fast breaks, and scored easily. In the county tourney, which was played the week of January sixteenth at Farmland, we drew Farmland and were beaten sixty-nine to thirty-six. Dean Lester kept us in the running collecting a total of twenty-one points. On January twenty-fifth we played Jackson and came home defeated thirty-eight to sixty. Lester and Himelick were high with fourteen and ten points respectively. The Little Devils also were beaten by a thirty-six to twenty count. February the third, we played the Lincoln Wolves. This game we played our worst brand of basketball of the year. Everybody was cold and we were defeated twenty-five to eighteen. Freeman and Himelick were high for Losant, while Cox was high man for Lincoln. This next game was a heartbreaker. We lost to Wayne thirty-five to thirty-eight. The score was tied at eighteen all at the half. The Devils showed more fight in-this game than had been shown in quite a while. Dean Lester led the Devils with seven field baskets and six free throws, making a total of twenty points. Bruce Petro -played a whale of a defensive game, holding one of Wayne's high scores, Torres, to a mini- mum score. The Little Devils led by Smith with nine points, lost thirty-seven to twenty We were victim to an old long due revenge in our last game of the schedule with Huntsville. Four years ago the Losantville Red Devils walked all over the Huntsville Redmen by beating them ninty-two to eighteen. Well this year was the first time Huntsville has been able to beat us since. We were plenty cold and they took advantage of it. The final score was seventy-eight to twenty. Lester high with seven points. Wiggins and Pangborn were next with four and five points respectively. Mike, playing both second and first team games played his best game of the year that night. The second team lost their game thirty-one to twenty-one. Deady broke into the first team scoring column with two points on that gloomy night. We drew Union City in the sectional but due to the dead-line of the printer's of this annual we cannot give you the results of this game. z6