Madison High School - Highlights Yearbook (Portland, IN)

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Highlights ot l9-47-48 Basketball Season The Madison Tom Cats started the seasogi oft' with a thud instead of a bang by being defeated by Saratoga and Redkey by rather large margins. Gray defeated the Tom Cats by a very close score after Madison had lead most of the game. The Bryant ball gEllT1C was a different storyg at last the Cats got into the winning column but their joy was short-lived because the next bali game found them pitted against a team from Pennville. Madison started off this game with several quick baskets and it looked like an easy one, but the Bull Dogs came back gamely and defeated the Cats. Here is another one of those games when the Cats took off to a flying start and it look- ed bad for those Cossacks from Ridgeville: the complexion of the game soon changed, but the Cats fought gamely and never were very far behind. Another of our happy memories was the Poling game which was played at our home gym. Madison led most of the game, and it looked pretty bad for Poling. But back they came the last few minutes and got ahead by one point with eight seconds to go. Billy Barna was fouled by a Poling man and had two shots coming. What a spot. one point be- hind and the game counted on these two shots. But why worry, Billy hit them both. Here comes the shock, Barna had missed SIX STRAIGHT FOUL THROWS. We won the game. Our Jefferson tAdamsJ game was another thriller. The Cats led most of the game and it looked like another one for the win column, but Jeff came back to within one point of dc- feating them. Prescott, one of our prospects for next year, had not scored during the first half: but he made up for it the last half with sixteen points. Ten of them came in the last quarter. We won two more games during the re- mainder of the season by bettering the Alumni and Poling again. Among the highlights of the second team games were, when playing Roll the Kittens used only three men on offense during the last half to stop Roll's fast break attack. The amazing thing was that we played right with them the last half. Pennville's seconds and Madison's seconds battled right down to the line with Penn coming out on top by one point after having led by a score of 8-1 at half-time. One nice thing about having a basketball team is that if one team isn't so hot then you can have a better one the next year. Madison prospects look very good with three of the regulars coming back and several more boys who looked very good in games played this year. Richard Prescott, Richard Crawley, Howard Shauver, Robert LeMaster. Oakland Roberts and Ronny Warren are very likely to be on the first string. Another pro- mise for the future is the fact that the second team will be made up of all sophomores. The boys looked very good in some of the games played, and with a little more experience they could turn out a winning combination. Basketball Season's Record CMADISON SCORE ON LEFTJ Madison 32 - Saratoga 67 Madison 22 - Redkey 49 Madison 28 - Gray 30 Madison 30 - Bryant 25 Madison 25 - Pennville 44 Madison 24 - Ridgeville 37 Madison 33 - Poling 32 Madison 27 - Gray 33 Big Four Tourney Madison 50 - Jefferson 49 Madison 32 - Gray 33 Madison 39 - Jackson 52 Twenty-eight Madison 27 - Redkey 52 County Tourney Madison 17 - Roll 70 Madison 25 - Ft. Recovery 72 Madison 36 - Alumni 34 Madison 29 - Jefferson 59 Madison 25 - Byrant 33 Madison 38 - Jefferson 41 Madison 45 - Poling 35 Madison 20 - Redkey 60 Sectional Tourney

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WARREN LQMASTER xy? STUMP SHAUVER COACH WEHRLY POWELL BALLARD PRESCOTT

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Front row, left to right-Jimmie Stump, Bob Matchett, Lawrence Roberts, Bob Bickel, Billy Harshman, Jack Shaneyfelt and Henry Brosher. Back row, left to right-Ted Walters, Paul Lake, Vernon Stoner, Bill Green, Darrell Williams and Dorwin Mays. RESERVES SEASON RECORD Basketball Madison 18 - Saratoga 35 Madison 28 -- Jefferson 24 Madison 15 - Redkey 14 Madison 24 - Gray 26 Madison 19 - Bryant 14 Madison 9 - Jackson 49 fgvertimey Madison 10 - Roll 45 Madison 19 - Bryant 14 Mzltlhfiffn 1825 F3 IXCOVQTZ834 , , a 1son - e erson Madison 13 - Pennville 14 Madison 14 - Bryant 22 Madison 16 - Ridgeville 32 Madison 23 - Jefferson 25 Madison 29 - Poling 15 Madison 17 - Poling 18 YELL LEADERS 1947-1948 Twenty-nine