Madison High School - Cauldron Yearbook (Madison, OH)

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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

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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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After the Hornets had kept the edge in the first half, the Streaks bounced back to bat- at half-time. tie them on even terms. A wild exchange of the lead many times between both squads resulted, with the Streaks pulling it out in the final min- ute. The final two weeks of the season confirmed the title hopes of the team Perry and Harvey proved to be tough competition but the Streaks were not to lose the winning trail. Climaxing an outstanding season was the Streaks' domi- nation of both St. John and Jefferson, thus giving them an 8-2 league record, and an ov- erall record of 13-6. For the first time in 17 years, Madison had a share of the league crown, tying with Kirtland. Season Summary M. O. Conneaut 68 65 Chardon 70 58 Ashtabula 42 74 Fairport 60 51 Edgewood 81 61 Kirtland 62 70 Geneva 50 59 Perry 77 73 Harvey 58 71 Jefferson 67 58 Chardon 69 57 Fairport 38 48 Ashtabula Harbor 67 66 Kirtland 76 71 Perry 54 47 Harvey 72 69 St. John 83 71 Jefferson 82 59 Coach Folmer watches his seniors play their last game with Jefferson. Watching the team in action is J. V. coach Kovats. Jeff Lintem goes up for q shot in midst of Harvey players as Jim Jack- son and Dale Crane look on. 27