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

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BASEBALL In the season of 1956-57, the Milton High School team lived up to its school's tradition, by compiling a record of 8 wins and 5 losses. The team was selected from 15 candidates, which gives weight to the fact that the team members developed them- selves into a winning aggregation. The pitching was ably handled by Donald, HDizH Feehan and Harold, NBusW Dunn, The catching was well received by Dale Richardson one of our only two Seniors. We will always remember ULib'sW ability to run out bunts. First base is controlled by Bernard HBuckeyeH Durliat who, with a little more At second base, we any coach the njittersn he shall be a leader in At short stop, we Carl UCappyN Meyers, speed, will make a good hitter. have Gaylord Groff, who would give and applauds. With more experience fielding. present our other Senior member, who usually Hcapsn off everything except hits. We may find Carl playing for some gas or oil team in Custar, soon. At third base, we had several personages mainly NBusU Dunn, whom most coaches would like to have on their team, because he works well in any position. In the outfield, we have Ned Hathaway, Jake Heilman, Ross Hall, Harry Whitacre, Emerson Anderson, Raymond Wag- ner, Richard Blasius, and Raymond Herr,

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..i.,..i..-..1.--..-ui..- - V- - - A --- Y C M11.'roN1AND----- ,W RESERVE BASKETBALL The reserves of Milton High School for 1956-57 had a very successful season. In their games they won nine out of thirteen games. The four lost games were played on the opponents' floors. Harry Whitacre played in most of the games as guard and held up his part quite successfully. The fact that their opponents never ran up a high score shows that the reserves had good defense. The second team players are promising material for the future first teams. The scores for the reserve games were as follows: Pemberville 7 24 West Hope Milton Milton Portage 9 Tontogany Milton lO Milton Liberty 9 Hoytville Milton ll Milton Haskins 7 Grand.Rapids 8 Milton lO Milton l3 Grand Rapids 6 Haskins l7 Milton 17 Milton 7 Liberty 9 Henry 6 Milton 15 Milton 8 Henry 15 Milton 8 Q-19375 -------

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if 9 T ' 0A1L1fONlA N D JUNIOR HIGH BASKETBALL This school year the Junior High boys was very eager to show their skill in basketball. At the first practice l4 boys showed their willingness to prove their athletic skill. These boys taken as a whole were for the most part inexperi- enced and small in stature. Ten out of last years first twelve graduated into High School, leaving only two subs to constitute the nucleus of this years Junior High team. The boys played 9 games during the regular playing season, winning l and losing 8. The following were the results of the games. Hoytville Milton Liberty Milton Tontogany 55 Milton 3 Grand Rapids 10 Milton 6 Haskins 24 Milton 7 Tontogany 25 Milton 19 Grand Rapids 14 Milton 10 Haskins 34 Milton O Hoytville 14 Milton ll 18 16 15 16 At the close of the regular season the boys accepted an invitation to play at North Baltimore in the county tournament, They drew Liberty the team they had beaten before. The first half of this game prove to be Miltonfs downfall, caused by the boys being over confident, over the victory mentioned above. The last half was played on a more even basis but the lead piled up by Liberty during the first half was too much. The final scoreg Liberty 28, Milton ll. C1937 1 M