Milton Township High School - Miltonian Yearbook (Milton Center, OH)

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BOYS BASKETBALL The Basketball season was opened on November 2O, 1956, with our first opponent being Pemberville. They had the advantage over us by having a very tall center who scored eleven points for them. The game was lost by eight points, the score being 15 and 25. We considered this fair be- cause of the competition we had. The next game was with Portage Twp, on November 25th. In this game everything seemed to go wrong. They were one point ahead at the half but they ran up an eleven point lead before the end of the game. We hated to lose this game because we did not have another one scheduled with them.The score was 16 and 27. Next came our game with Liberty on December 4th, In this game three of our regular players did not play. The game was played over time and Milton won out in the end due to some good foul shooting by Heilman and a last minute field goal made by Whitacre. The game ending with the score being 25 and,22. On December ll, we entertained Haskins who had two very fast players and also had good teamwork. In this game we were beaten by a large score lO and 47,and one of our play- ers went out on fouls. our next game was away from home on December 18, at Sylvania. This was a new school to compete against so we did not know what to expect. Their team beat us as bad as Haskins did the game before. In this game we had a good excuse for not doing so good because Sylvania had so many more students to pick their material from. In the next game easier competition came when we play- ed Grand Rapids on December 22. We won by nine points the score being 18 and 9. This was a very rough game but there were not many fouls called. During Christmas vacation, on December 29, the boys played the Alumni which was made up of some of the teachers and star players of former years. This game was way out of our reach because it seemed that they got most of the large players to play against us. We lost after much effort by a score of lO and 26. Again on January 8, Liberty came over to see if they could beat us this time. our star players were all present this time and instead of playing over time we won over them by nine points. The score was 26 and l7.

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C Mufromlamb BOYS BASKETBALL fCOn'tJ January 9 we played Westhope and in a very close game with both teams very evenly matched we lost two points. This was one of the best games we The score was 19 and 17, on February 16 was the next game with Henry This game was pretty easy all by a eight points lead 25 and their gymnasiumg through and we won The next game whom we beat again and tumble all the game progressed. The final score was 17 and 15. by only played. Twp, in the way 15. was with Grand Rapids on February 12, by a safe margin. This game was rough way through but became more so as the Last of all came the tournament game on February 19 which was perhaps the worst of all. The highest score made by anyone on our team was four points while the highest on the Luckey team was fourteen. The score was 45 a 12. Luckey lost by only a few points in the finals GIRLS BASKETBALL Even though they had a poor beginning, the girls had a very successful basketball season. They lost only fourgames of the thirteen playedg Several of the team will be lost through graduation. Since in the Inter-class Tournament the underclassmen received the honors, we are looking forward to a suc- cessful season next year. C-19375 ------