Maple City High School - Maple Leaf Yearbook (Maple City, MI)

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PANTHERS In the 1952-53 basketball season the Panthers won 12 out of 14 WLT Conference games which put them in first place with Fife Lake. Both teams received a trophy and their names engraved on the floating trophy. Picture, back row, left to right: Coach Rader, A. Peplinski, D. Peplinski, Hanna, Zientek and Waslawski. Front row, left to right: Sharnowski, Novak, Brow, Miller, Whitten and Shupiery. On January 9, the Panthers lost a heartbreaker to Buckley on the winner's home floor. The Panthers led for the first 3 quarters, but Buckley out-scored Maple City by 9 points in the last quarter and won the game by one point. 55-54. BLUE JAYS Last fall the girls entered the All-Girls WLT Conference together with Buckley, Fife Lake, Williamsburg and Rapid City. The girls lost one conference game to end the season in sec- ond place. The Blue Jays also split with Elberta in two games of non-conference play. Picture, back row, left to right: Watson, Waslawski, Cate, Whitten, Dalzell, L. Olsen and Coach Simon. Front row, left to right: Mikses, M. Kucera, Garvin, L. Kucera, Fritz, Stan- ton and C. Olsen. RESERVES The Reserves had a very successful season this year contend- ing 8 wins to one loss. Their only loss was to Lake Leelanau by the score of 35 to 17. Picture, back row, left to right: Coach Rader, Novotny, Jim Miller and Wisniewski. Front row, left to right: Joe Miller Lyon, Cluff and Kilinski.