Madison High School - Cauldron Yearbook (Madison, OH)

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For First Time In 17 Years the Streaks finished strongly enough to gain a co-cham- pionship with Kirtland. The Streaks opened the season by taming Conneaut in a contest which went down to the wire. After building up a big early lead, the team was forced to keep up with the Spartan's scoring attack in the final period. The following weekend brought on mixed emotions. On Friday, Madison began the league season by smash- ing Chardon, with fine efforts on the backboards. The next evening saw the Streaks greatly humbled in a non - league contest with Ashta- bula.. December 15 saw us gain another league victory at the expense of Fairport. Despite a constant full-court press by the Skippers, the Streaks kept a considerable lead throughout the game. Edge wood also bit the dust the following evening. One of the Streak's cost- liest losses of the season came at the hands of Kirtland the next Thursday. The team's inaccuracy at the foul line proved to be a major differ- ence. Madison would only lose a share in first place briefly, as the Hornets after- wards fell to defeat with Fairport. The Christmas vacation was marred by our loss to Geneva. The Streaks kept the game close until their oppo- nents scoring outburst in the final minutes. In one of the most exciting games of the year, the Streaks continued their title hopes with a squeaker over Perry on January 5th. At Harvey the following night, however, we came up on the short end of the score in our first meeting with this team. The following three weeks found the Streaks on the road. Victory was the result at both Jefferson and Chardon, but Fairport proved to be a dif- ferent case. Using a tight de- fense, the Skippers gave us our second and last league loss of the season. Our close victory over Ashtabula Har- bo» on Saturday set the ball rolling on a six-game winning Jeff Lintern follows through with an open shot. Varsity Squad - (L to R) Herb Prince, Jackson. Jim Foster, Dave Globig, Gary Bums, Rich Svagerko, Bob Ray Hall, Doug Norris, Mark Nixon. Leitch, Jeff Lintern, Dale Crane, Jim 25

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Streaks Tie For Crown Showing a starting squad of well - experienced seniors, Coach Folmer in his first year at the helm produced the finest basketball results in many years. Despite an ear- ly season of inconsistency, Tension is shown by the I V. cheer leaders at the Kirtland game. Madison controls the backboards. 24

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streak In a real barnburner the next Friday, Madison once again clashed with Kirtland. Jim Jackson outreaches a Harvey Mark Nixon seems to have the edge player to gain two more points for on the ball as he shoots, the Blue Streaks. Sponsored by DIAMOND ALKALI COMPANY 26