Port Byron High School - Echo Yearbook (Port Byron, IL)

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-......--.,1., ment ed w good trib Floy pres awar ent thre ond The and MCG of off gua Tom The ing Tou tor kin pet the Ann Jan in SSC On Pro Cor In los , --up - an-ws---......... f ,, Y ,,.,., ,,-H,-W-U -YVV w.,,,,,, ,X were evident as gym, balcony, and crowded halls resound- th cheers. Both Cordova and Reynolds brought along a cheering section and Port Byron, favoring Reynolds, con- ted its share of applause. A. Shatter, Rock Island County Superintendent of Schools nted the winning trophy to the Reynolds team. He also ed them the Floyd A. Shetter Traveling Trophy for perman- eeping as they have been victors in the County Tournament times. Other trophies were presented to Cordova, sec- lace, and Port Byron, Consolation. x ll-Star Team chosen by officials was: Mack of Reynolds und of Red Devil fame, guards, Wake of Hillsdale, center, er of Reynolds and Williams of Cordova, forwards, Wake llsdale, Captain. The Second All-Star Team selected by ials was Johnson of Port Byron and Northland of Cordova, lsg Bell of Reynolds, center, Anderson of Coal Valley and n of Reynolds, forwards. TWO-RIVERS BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT Competitors: Lyndon, Annawan, Prophetstown, Atkinson, Hillsdale, Cordova, Port Byron, Erie Host-Erie January 18-24 game between Lyndon and Tampico at Erie on Saturday even- January li, formally opened the Two-Rivers Basketball ney to which Erie was host this year. Lyndon was the vic- From the 18th to the 24th, Lyndon, Hillsdale, Erie, At- on, Prophetstown, Cordova, Port Byron, and Annawan com- d in a series of exciting games for the Tourney Crown and Tourney Consolation Championship. wan took the basketball floor against Erie ary 20, losing to Erie 52-32 in the second he Two-Rivers Tournament. Hillsdale faced nd game of the evening, losing to Atkinson on Monday night series of games Atkinson in the 48-33. uesday night, January 21, Port Byron was aligned against hetstown in the opening game, losing by a score of 40-31. ova defeated Lyndon 50-35. Hillsdale won over Annawan. three-game series Wednesday night on Trie's floor, the rs of Tuesday's games--Port Byron and Lyndon--tangled for 7 9

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vict son- etst 3yro kins of p two Thur sole the for On F larg area as E ey c prow They poin bask 24 t ing hotl V.W. Ulac ulat went On T Tour with feat ll-p On Y don, ry, the winner comnetadg and wn and Cordova won from Lynd n by one hotly ay--score 48-A s of Monday night's games--Erie and Atkin- the winners of the games on Tuesday--Proph --were pitted against each other. Port 54 to 265 Tris downed At- in the last few minutes was victor over Cordova by on by a score of contested point 73 Prophetstown oints in two overtime periods--score 38 to 36. day night's ga ion honors. A pening game. onsolation Cha iday, January st crowds ever witnessed the ie played its own. It was U to the winning of the Con- mes were devoted tkinson played Cordova for third place in met Hillsdale in the second game defeating its rivals 36 to 25. Port Byron npionship, thousand persons, one of the for basketball in the TwoHRivers final of the Two-Rivers Conference Tourney rival, Prophetstown, for the coveted Tourn- their nightu for the Zric cagers whose 24, over a assembled ss at the basket gave them supremacy over their rivals. hit it from every an le on the floor. The top was lo sg others 9, 7 t-wise. They 123 the third ack the Prophe contested Two Miley, Lyndon, trophy to the ons of the Two to Prophetstow and E oroving the entire Erie team was ed the first Quarter mark 8 to 65 the half quarter E to 73 the fourth 18 to 12, turn- s in a final score of 50 to 3l to win the -Rivers Tourney Crown. i president of the loop, awarded the first Captain of the Erie team with the congrat -Rivers Conference. Second place trophy n and third to Atkinson. DISTRICT 3QSKET3QLL TOURNdUENT Comoetitors Valley, P esday evening, ament was play 2 St. Harys, Cordova, Lyndon, Coal ort Byron, Hillsdale, Orion, Tris Host-Erie February 25-25 Fenruary 25, the first game in the District ed off on the Erie floor, Erie competing ft. Marys and Hillsdale aligned against Cordova. Erie de its rival 55 int margin--sc nesday evenin -50, and Hillsdale won over Cordova by an 46'35a ' g, February 26, the Red Devils defeated Lyn ion team making its debut that evening in