Milan High School - Bulldog Yearbook (Milan, TN)

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1957-58 GIRL'S BASKETBALL REVUE The M lan Girls went through the usual routine in l957-38 by winning all their regular season games but one, this one being lost to Dixie by a close score after Milan had eked out a win ln the first game. In both of the Milan-Dixie games it was nip and tuck from beginning to end. These two games established Milan and Dixie as co-favorites in the regional meets The girls went through the County and District tourneys with little trouble. hrion Thompson was chosen the best player in the county after exhibiting an uncanny eye for the basket. It was very much the same story in the District meet when Inez Vbluot collected an amazing total of over 200 points in four games to take the scoring honors: In both tournaments the leads piled up by these two girls were well pro- tected by Catherine Manning, Leatrice Thompson and Louise iCountryD Leach, who played their guard positions perfectly. The girls played under a great handicap in the Regional meet, having lost Janie Downing and Bonnie Sue MhLemore. the regular centers. The subs played wonderful basket-ball, but the loss of the two centers was felt keenly. ,The team made a good showing in spite of this and took the first two games easily. when they met Dixie in the semi- finals however, the Milan team got off to a bad start in the first quarter and Dixie piled up a lead that the Milan girls could not overcome alll though they played on even terms in the last half. The girls came back Saturday night, however, and beat Dyersburg by a decisive score. Manning and Volner made the 811 West Tennessee team. Q., Graduation will hurt the team this year as Brion Thompson, Inez Volner, Bonnie McLemore and Catherine Manning go down in history along with the other stars such as Pauline Coleman, Sarah Belew, and Thelma Turner. There will be others just as good next year if everything runs true to form. There will probably be forwards and guards better than ever as Milan had a strong line of reserves the past season. Emmett Ramsr

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X, f XXX BUYS' BASKETBALL REVIEW Graduation in 1957 left only one letter man to return to the basketball squad for the season of 1938. But with an abundance of material coming in from junior high schools, we looked forward with high hopes to a successful season. le opened the season against an old rival, bdina, and with only a week's preparation won the game by the narrow margin of one point. It seemed that we were gradually improving and would be at our peak at the time of the tournament. The strong Sardis team came to Milan and were able to defeat us in an overtime period by a very narrow margin. we defeated the strong Bemis team and reached the climax when we went to Bradford and defeated the team in an overtime period. Tru1y5 we thought we had a great team and looked forward to the approaching tournaments. But cur hopes were in for a terrible crash. Illness-vpneumonia, measles, and colds-forced some of our best players out of the line-up and weakened others to such an extent that they couldn't play the brand of ball that they were capable of playing. As a result we were only able to win second place in both the County and District Tournaments. But, with the loss of only one man, we are looking forward to the next season which, we hope, will be our most successful one. any fe ff W fglulif Fri? 5 ff L Q