Marine City High School - Mariner Yearbook (Marine City, MI)

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BASKETBALL continued St. Stephens met the same fate as before, only worse this time, being trounced 42-18 by our fellows. A large crowd from Marine City traveled to St. Clair on January 30 to watch Marine, with the aid of Holland ' s long shot, clinch a hard fought battle 29-28. The Blue and White from Marysville bit the dust again, this time 31-25. M.C.H.S. had to fight hard the next game to down the Muskrats 20-19. The Mariners had but to beat Holy Cross and Richmond, the two weakest teams In the County, to take the Championship: and they came through gloriously 32-21 and 48-23. Then came the District Tournaments. Marine City ' s high scorer. Dawn, with 105 points, helped to elude St. Clair on the Beam the next two nights, scoring 24 points against Algonac and Richmond The Mariners beat Algonac 37-21 and Rich- mond In the finals 35-18. Now came the pay-off. Marine City went to Pontiac on a Saturday night but came back the losers, beaten by one of the best rated teams In Michigan. Keego Harbor spilled us by an overwhelming score of 34-14. Lavem Bradford was chosen on the All County Basketball team. Totzke and Holland made the second team. Much credit must be given to our loyal coach, Mr. Pflngst, who trained and led our team to glory. Hats o f to the best basketball team since 1925. FOOTBALL CONTINUED The Mariners then tredked to St. Stephens and fought to a second scoreless tie against a heavy built St Stephens team The Marine eleven ran circles around Marysville in the following game, winning by a score of 26-0. Algonac was the nert victim of the Mariners wreckless drive, dropping a 7-0 battle to Old M.C.H.S. Richmond, top-notch contenders for the Championship, was then crossed off the board, 12-6, by a more determined Wllcat team. In the final game of the year, the Mariners rode forward, rolling over their city rivals, Holy Cross, 12-0, County ' s Undefeated Champions. The Pflngstmen ' s goal line was crossed only once by the Richmond, eleven. Thev rang up 78 points to their opponents 6. Not a bad record for any gridiron teamlMtl Pete Jeup was chosen as All-County guard, the only Marine high player to receive the honor this year

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BASKETBALL Front Row: Donald Horn, mgr., Lawrence De Cou, Roy Dawn, Lavem Bradford, John Holland, Melvin Totzke. Second Row? Mr. Dresser, Louis Lozon, David Faucher, Fred Schneider, Lawrence Taylor, Bill Galvin, Mr. Pfingst. Won Lost Ptg. Marine City 11 1 925 Algonac 10 2 833 St. Clair 9 3 750 Marysville 6 6 500 St. Stephens 4 8 333 Holy Cross 2 10 167 Richmond 0 12 000 Marine City High School basketball team went through their 1945 season with fourteen wins and two losses to take the St. Clair County Basketball League Championship and the Class C District Tournaments. This year has been the most successful season since 1925 for the Mariners, getting to the regionals at Pontiac before being defeated by Keego Harbor. In the first game of the year. Marine City treked to Port Huron to play the Saints, knocking them over 26 to 14. The following game at home proved to be a bit disappointing as St. Clair nosed out the Orange and Black 20-18. Marysville came to town the next week and put up a terrific battle but found them- selves in another thriller at the short end of the score in an overtime, Marine City winning 25-23. The Mariners fo ' ind themselves in another thriller at Algonac, Holland saving the game with a fie ld goal in the last minute to ring up the third victory. The Wildcats had a gay time with their city rivals. Holy Cross, and ran up a high score of 55 to 14. Richmond faced its sixth defeat of the year at the hands of Marine High the next week, dropping this one 47-28. The Mariners were In a tie for first place as the second round of the season rolled around.

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track Front Row: Donald Horn, mgr., Robert Hyslop mgr., Kirby Lee, Harold Smith, Fred Tyler, Lawrence DeCou, Lawrence Taylor, David Faucher, Linus Leibert, Fred McLouth. Second Row: David Foster, Nathen Brewer, Dick Nichols, Bill Galvin, Bill McGlynn, John Holland, Bob McCollister, Jerry Sayers, Marvin Revers, Mr Dresser. The track season this year marked the appearance of our new coach Bob Dresser Although this is wr itten too early to publish any of the track results Mr Dresser believes that the team has a lot of promise, and predicts better results than we experienced last year Ten boys went over the River Rouge Invitational meet at Ann Arbor Saturday, April 14. Although we didn ' t place a man the boys performed well considering the class A competition. However, Lawrence DeCou qualified for the semi finals in the 65 yd. high hurdles. The Schedule thus far includes meets with: Saturday April 14 Friday April 20 Wednesday April 25 Friday April 27 Tuesday May 1 Friday May 4 Friday May 11 Saturday May 19 Saturday May 25 River Rouge Invetational, Ann Arbor Open Romeo (here) Lake Shore (here) Port Huron (here) Algonac (here) County Track Meet (here) Regional at Femdale State Meet at Lansing