Montana Tech University of Montana - Magma Yearbook (Butte, MT)

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BASKETBALL Ili? I950 Basketball Team, left to right: Coach Tom Tobin, MacMasters, Toshoff Pressley Mattson, Aiken, Anderson, Baker, Bossard, Kranyak, Melrose, Walker Janny, Cooper, Johnson. INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS, CONFERENCE GAMES Aiken ..,. Bossa rd .,s,... ..... Goddard ..... .- ,... - Graham ...,.. . Kranyak LL,L...,..... MacMasters Mattson .......,, . ..... Mel rose 22, Presley ,...,, Toshoff .... Total Point Games Av. I5 I6.2 I3 7.2 IO 0.7 8 0.4- I5 7.4 I5 4.6 I5 2.5 I3 2.5 I5 2.5 I2 I0.0 Free Throw Av. .6I .56 .20 .50 .35 .49 .37 .55 .43 .55 Fifty per cent of the crowd watches the lads on a good night. I 5 8 I

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SPORTS Hockey The Mines Hockey team had a three game schedule with the Copper Kings in Butte, and with the Great Falls VFW Jrs. The Orediggers beat the Copper Kings 8-3, and dropped two tough ones to the VFW 7-5, and 9-6 in Great Falls. The Miners lost second period leads in both cases as o result of poor condition and lack of reserves. Next year promises a big-season gs interest is spreading to the other Montana colleges. The Butte Civic Center will also spur big-time collegiate hockey here at Butte. Until then the lads are keeping the team together and looking to the future. Baseball The big year in Mines baseball came at last, with the Orediggers taking the Small College Conference crown in Billings. The squad met Western at Dillon in practice games, losing close ones 8-7 and l l-6. Carroll lost in Helena by a 6-5 count. Mines split a home series with Western 5-l, and then lost 6-3. The Conference meet saw the Miners in a bye in the opening round, then winning over Rocky Mountain by 8-4 and over Northern in the finals by l7-9. Four-year-man Reynolds had a 4-O record, with credit for all of the Orediggers wins in his pitching arm. Jack Gentry provided the batting spark, with Lee giving a top-notch catching job. The Magma gives the sports honors of the year to the whole baseball squad and Coach Cullen. Minor Sports P. K. Dos led the Miners to the Conference Tennis crown by taking the singles honors in straight sets, then teaming up with Tom Walker, the two took the doubles in the some efficient manner, straight sets. The golfers, Siegel and Price, got third and second respectively. Their team score was low for the meet. Track Lack of condition and the hottest competition in years from a one-man team robbed the Miners of a money spot in the conference meet ot Billings. Western's McMahon was the whale show in what are usually the Oredigger's spots. He took 23 points for a new individual mark :ind beat the second place squad by two points. Northern had 2l, Carroll, Eastern and the Mines followed. l57J

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BASKETBALL ACTION Top left: Western and Mines watch one go in. Top right: Toshoff blocks one by Western. Center: Kranyak defends against the House of David. Lower left: Big Will tips one off against Eastern, Lower right: Mattson shares honors with an Eastern man. f59