Plymouth High School - Rock Yearbook (Plymouth, IL)

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AB H 2B 3B HR PCT. RBI E R BB Cookson 12 4 1 1 .333 3 3 4 5 Hitz 15 9 1 .600 4 2 Miller 12 5 1 1 .416 6 4 4 Downey 12 2 2 .416 2 3 5 2 Rankin 12 2 1 .167 1 1 1 2 Stoneking 10 5 2 .500 2 1 2 2 Post 14 5 .357 1 4 1 Lovell 9 1 .111 2 4 Webster 4 2 .500 2 Larson 9 1 1 .111 1 1 McCollum 1 .000 1 Bardolph 3 Plymouth 2 Here Bardolph 2 Plymouth 15 There Colchester 7 Plymouth 5 Here Colchester 5 Plymouth 3 There Eelke 09112 illlnre Glhanre with me The basketball season opened here Nov. 21 with the Black-hawks play- ing Bardolph a close game all the way. Bardolph emerged the victor 40-39. Our second team won 51-37. On November 28 we went to the new million dollar gym at Macomb to play Western. Western led all the way to win 66-50. The second team lost 46-33. On December 1 our third game made history as Plymouth downed Co- lusa 104-28. In that game Miller dumped in 29 points. The second team won 78-33. Our nearby rival, Augusta, came here December 5 and edged us 58-56 in a thriller. The second team lost 38-24. In our iirst game with Colchester we got off to a bad start by a technical foul being called on the crowd and were beaten 89-59. The second team lost by a close score of 56-52. December 12 brought Bowen to Plymouth and Plymouth won 52-44. Our second team was defeated 51-40. An over capacity homecoming crowd saw Plymouth edge Dallas City 68-67 on December 15. Brown of Dallas made 32 points. Our second team also won 37-26. Warsaw came to Plymouth December 19 and were beaten 58-45. The second team won 56-35. Arenzville came over December 22 to finish up our long home stand. Plymouth won 63-51. Our second team also won 56-50. In the first game of the Mendon Holiday Tourney Plymouth was upset by Warsaw 60-54.

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Back row: Wayne Lovell, Lyle Webster, Gale Downey, Jack Stoneking, Loren Larson Front row: Coach Schnake, Jerry Cookson, Junior Hitz, Merle Post, Richard Miller, Kayo McCollum Hake illlle Gbut En Ghz Ball Game The Plymouth Club lost three games and won one last fall. Two of the losses were handed to them by Colchester while they split two games with Bardolph. The battery for the team was Rankin and Miller. Hitz also saw some action on the mound. A G-ale Downey played first, while second base was patrolled by Jerry Cookson, with Junior Hitz as his mate at short, playing errorless ball. Stone- king handled the hot corner at third. In the outfield Melzlergffipatrolled the left sector while big Loren Swede Larson covered center field and Wayne Lovell took care of right field. McCollum and Lyle Webster also saw some action in both infield and outfield. Junior Hitz took the batting crown with a batting average of .600.

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On our return trip to Bardolph Jan. 5 we were beaten again 78-64. The second team lost 52-45. The Hancock County Tournament at Carthage was held January 10-13. In our first game we drew Nauvoo and at the end of play were tied 50 all. Plymouth won in an overtime 54-53. In the next game we played Carthage who won- 625-46 putting us into the consolation game with Warsaw. Plymouth won over Warsaw 56-43, thereby winning third place. Augusta defeated Car- thage in the next game for first place. On Jan. 16 Colusa came to Plymouth and was defeated 71-33. Our sec- ond team won 70-21. In our fourth contest with Warsaw, this one played on their floor, we defeated them 67-44 and the second team also won 52-46. Industry-Adair and Plymouth played twice in the same week Jan. 23 and 26. In the first game, here, Plymouth won 74-43 and the second team won 61-27. In the game at Adair, Plymouth won 76-52 and our second team won 68-33. On Jan. 30 Plymouth went to Camp Point and won 67-43, the second team also winning 54-28. In our return trip to Dallas City Feb. 2 we again defeated Dallas by one point 49-48 and our second team also won 55-24. In a game with Augusta at Bowen's larger gym, Augusta again defeated Plymouth 71-58. Our second team lost 58-49. Hamilton came to Plymouth Feb. 9 and were set back 58-46. Hamilton took the second team game 30-28. Plymouth went to Bowen Feb. 13 and found them much improved as Bowen won over Plymouth 52-49. The second team also lost 36-31. In our last scheduled game Colchester came to Plymouth Feb 16. In a close game all the way Plymouth staged a last quarter rally to win 70-59. Plymouth won the second team game 37-26. .- 121'-A-1141, , Plymouth was appointed to play LaHarpe in the opening game of the Carthage Regional starting Feb. 27. Plymouth defeated LaHarpe 74-40 and advanced to the semi-finals. Augusta won over Warsaw to get into the semi- finals and boasted a 26-0 season record. Although Augusta was the favored team many people thought that their time had come. In a nip and tuck game all the way Plymouth defeated Augusta 52-50, to give them their first defeat. In the second game of the evening Bowen won over Carthage in what was considered somewhat of an upset. Bow ' fings and there was another game like the night before with Bowen egnqeggmg victor 43-4-L Boygwens advanced tg the Galesburg. Sectional where they were defeateduby Westeril of Macomb.