Mahanoy Township High School - Corinthian Yearbook (Mahanoy City, PA)

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I K 1 i Varsity Basketball Team: Techentin, Campbell, Leck, Jones, Nemitz, Hylan, Burke LARKS SCORE 721 POINTS T0 OPPONENTS' 471 In their first encounter with Gilberton the Larks were defeated by a 24-16 score but in their second fracas showed the material they were made of by defeating the Ducktowners in a thriller 23 to 22. The Larks rolled up their highest score of the season by defeating St. Clair 55- 16. In their game with Schuylkill Haven the Larks put on a real guarding show and held them to 9 points for the lowest score of opponents for the season, 34 to 9. A seven game winning streak was made by the Larks when they defeated quin- tets from Minersville, Schuylkill Haven, Ashland, St. Clair. Gilberton, Girardsville and Orwigsburg in that order. The Larks scoring total for the year was 721 points, an average of 34.3 points per game. Their opponents scored 471 points. an average of 22.4 points per game. John Etcho center for the Larks was the league leader in individual scoring with 235 points for the regular season. Coach Eugene Martin GET THAT TAP Eighty-five

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1 Varsity Basketball Team: Student Manager. Evansg Fritz, Etcho, Koznecki, Lorent, Coughlin, Becker. PURPLE LARKS ENJOY GREAT SEASON The Purple Larks of Mahanoy Town- ship, coached by Mr. Martin, and paced by their star performer Johnny Etcho, Hnishing second in the league race and ran up the record of 16 wins out of 21 games. They won 13 out of 16 league games and 3 out of 5 exhibition games. At the close of their regular season they were invited to play in Bloomsburg tourn- ment where they were eliminated by a strong Dickson City team. The success of the Larks was due to the all-around ability of the starting five -Etcho, Nemitz, Leck, Coughlin and Koznecki both in shooting and in good guarding. In the two big games of the season with Frackville the Larks put a scrappy bat- tle and were barely edged out by a pow- erful Frackville five. Both games were thrillers, full of excitement from begin- ning to end. Township lost the first game at Frackville, a heartbreaker, by 1 point and the second at home by 2. The scores were 32-31 and 35-33. 1 1 KOZNECKI SCORES AGAIN Faculty Manager John Sherry ,SZ f H Q ' a f w ts'-afit ' , X A . - I4 . . il 'A - .. 3 I 52? fri- . R ' 4 ff , -s. f:J,- ku' Ag - I ' -. ' ' fi 4- A-.,, .. Eighty-four

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if if Jay Vee Basketball Squad: First Row: Bradbury, Merook, Wronski. Foley, Jones. Second Row: Craynock, Copeland, Hume. Lord, Lazzer, Long, Hatala. Third Row: Coach Reese, Long, Kilcullen, Burke, Getz, Deffley. SOMETHING TO BRAG ABOUT! M-T-H 5 OPP M.T'H'S. Opp. Jan. 4 Orwigsburg 39 Dec' 10 McAdoo 24 14 'lJan. 7 Frackville 31 Dec. 14 Hazle Township 21 30 man' Minersviue Dec. 17 Guberton 16 24 l-lan' Sclluylklll Haven Dec. 21 Girardville 43 18 man' Ashland 'Jan. St. Clair Jan. Gilberton 'fFeb. Girardville Feb, Orwigsburg l'Feb. Frackville 'Feb. Minersville Feb. Schuylkill Haven Feb. Ashland fFeb. St. Clair Feb. McAdoo Mar W. Mahanoy Twp GIVE IT MORE SNAP Mar. Dickson City Total 'Denotes League Game. ..,e.w.::.,,..A, ,.,-.....f.....,,...,-su. ,, A Eighty-six