Republic High School - Memories Yearbook (Republic, OH)

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MEMORIES OF K.H.S. 1 . na TBQYSEASK ETBALL , First Row: Donald Porter, manager, Bryce Weiker, Leonard Hblmer, Howard Cook, Darl Baugher, Howard Seipp, Wayne Roth, mgr. Second Row: Mr. Cole, coach,, Cletus Hopple, Junior Straub, Albert Lepouttre, Vernon Spotts junior high coach. VISITOR REPUBLIC Melmore 19 - 52 New Riegel Thompson 29 - 54 Bloomville McCutohennille 19 - 21 Thompson Bloommille 8 - 35 Attica New Riegel .27 - 49 Melmore Lykens 29 - 75 Green Springs Old Fort 26 - 61 TOURNEY Sulphur Springs 54 - 22 Thompson Alumni 25 - 21 Bloomville Green Springs 29 - 45 Bettsville T. B. U. 21 - 50 Jackson NINETEEN 'FHJKTY-EIGHT Mason, Robert Mr. Burkholder 25 - 45 24 - 51 29 - 52 50 - 25 27 - 44 34 - 57 25 - 29 28 - 42 27 - 26 27 - 23

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Tfigbfifykjgg OF ms. KX. ,J VN ' g eiassffsasksr 1-eksmfl 'S,'XA,,XN CTX15 XX-T, lx if - Another basket ballfseason haslbemenandigonexfor thefgiFii1 Basketball team. A total of eleiren gameQvere playQedsus,e3re1bwei17efwon fd fear lost. We have tried hard to 'n ef?ery.fga:n1e and lplaymed to th! last whdstl' altho the winning of the gam seemed hopeless. A summary .of theiseason Fbllovrs. After a few weeks of practice Q we played Thomp on theirfe ,for the first game of t elsnc-?i?s'5if. .e were defeated by a score ofXl7 -95 . Next the McCutohienvi lepgirls came to Republic and defeated us by the core 12- 25. Teamwoflr was Lacking and it became evident that we must worl- up some teamwork to'..,wvin.L7ThenJQame the Bloomville game in the Bloomvillc! gymnasl- ium. The game was Elos'Q,t11rQ1g out, but late in the last quarteiigmtrexy found the basket' d pulled awaygtigwi by a score of 19 - 15. The care? ful ecoachin of M1 s' la e wa b' 1 to show results b ' 'n 5 ro- 'S , A 5 LQMXs,. aieps Iagggvaxspr gg mise oi a .real team before h son wasxgyer. L 5 gf N' I In the game with Lyken 'the te really found itself andT'rollee'51uup the largest score ofthe season vr -gefeat the Lylfenf' teen by a scorej of '51 - 13. The result was never ini he combination of Spgtts, Miller and Dorothy Echelberr worked so ' y 'thaxtpthe Hop Qnents were completely baffled at times. But the Ate' . was o matchxforttjge strong Old Fort team. Pendry herselff the star of?the Ol f team, acc ted forsb enough points to beat us ingle-handed. g,The sc ro wg!! - 27. ing of the 0ld Fort tef was so effel tiv th wrap ' ,Tot lace e in t e first orsqfourth quarters' , f 1 '7 fx I 'X The alumqtxae team was layed during the Christmas va fatiiovn a' d defeated 17 - 9. Thenxcxame the Gr en Springt game, there. The cerej' tied at the end of th :Shi-st quartcr,!but the team then settled vhf o work and won by a score MED - '4. Afllext, came the revenge game ' the season. Thompson was do eat d tg afscore of 17 - lil. A This game showed how much the team had dev loped fsinee the season opened. Then camo the thrilling Attica. game. Wi th ,score 7 to 2 in our favor at the end of the half, the game seemed w . u Attica camo back strong in the second half and we wg: lucky to 1. n b 2 13 - 12 score. The last game of the season was with Xen Springs andyfwe won the game by ap score of 27 - 12. This game was a ng elos forf the seasQ hmvor1: of the forwards was ex- cellent a d he gu I'C1ij5.Q 'Ul'-.1316 0'1ard's 'just as good. Four gygqd laye ,sfwill be st from the squad by graduation. They are: Miller, Dor thyex fd Kathryn Echelberry and Anway - two forwards and 2 guards. Th y wilinbe,-hard to replace next seascng. but Cooley, Sherman, Eckert, Ge , P Be' er, Roope and Baden are ready to step into their 'places and -'fi rry o for Republic. Other girls of the, student body may win a place 'ho th squad by hard, practice. nflt takes sacrifice and a wil- lingness to' l,'st coaehing to develop into a basket ball player. In closingf',we7 wish to recognize the team's appreciation of the work of Miss. Clagettfg 'our' coach and of Winona Monroe, our manager. ,I f I N I N RTE EN TH HCT YW E, IG I-.I T

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fl' nf- ixflff, 'Wight .31 -iffy' ltr-lgb. v . .. fn. ' L xl - -,,.xVr, ,Q l Aixlfxx. . A . ,, 'CBASIET'BA,hL 4, Q X f T MP eq S' I . , r , K, - . , W . ,X , , hjqix X. fi A' Q The season startedsftv-ith a fcallffors, volungteixrs on.N,dvember'ZB by Coach Carroll P. Cole. Many goqd frospects '2:fbQ6ndedfafsf'the sfeasori Eiforetold. The first game was playedxhf the home cage with me K ore. Republic won easily as the score ofL19. 3-fjfS2i indicated. The fbllowin Tuesday, he squad traveled to Thompsoniwhere Lint won a hard-fought tilt by'f'ivc ggi s. With Cook out on fouls for thelfirst time, Thompson anticipated a 'ctory but fell shor't'.Q'On,Fridefy, McCutchenville, a Wyandot County team, attempted to invade four tehrriitor but were repelled 19 to 21. This was four first real test of strength.?.f'The next four combats proved equally fsugcqslsfiul against Bloomxrille, Newfhiegel, Nliylcens and Old Fort. In the Lykensf game, Cool: scored 55 points which wafs 'madylpgssible by the other members Afffeeftf- ing him the ball. MX,--x, 1-'7 A, . PNAS ,I KJ As the holiday seasonfiwas agproachi ' Sulphur Springs, afcrsw ford County team, challenged us an ,sh hed liberality in their offer. We accep- ' ted and received our first s t-back.-f'lThe scor was tied four minutes from the end. Three members of ur team, hayii. f s vere colds, coixld no eep up the grueling pace and f 1 short as the Q oracltefdli xl NY Ll During the holidays ,' w were host fzzirathe a. 1 ' . From fthe four cornerxs came the gallant who had 'or years giv rf forth roverbial Wi dn1i.sILl'E, their lengthy arms flaye us- down via hecfive - man ne defense. u Jtht lofty giants were only ne point ahe at the nd J 1 KN' We invaded Sandusky County the irst mweexk: -in JarK1,r7y'X,ftox,.defeat Green Springs We enjo ed their' n v gymnasium very .AQ A The :Pollici week we ent on rampage in the Jxmibr Hi! h gym in Tif- fin. On this oc sion, e de ated T. B. U. for theizvlait time against Class B compet ti . ' New Riegel, loo vilfle nd' Thompson were all subdued during February. Thompsn, howeve , n r we their previous loss of 'five points to three. This looked fa rab or them, since tournament time was approaching. With much cha in, A e must tell that Attica swagged a five-point 'vic- tor fter gaini e. l gacy of points. Hohner made a futile attempt in the final b cket to reco ver, but fell shor ,after scoring several points. With So e humi ity ,fund ,s . , we lanclfeled in to- wind uplfthe scheduled season b d eati ,,A?o'i-'the s - time, Mehnore and Green Springs. Never before i t e hitfory of -ret ball in Republic, have we played such a wide range o s col and emerged so successfully. However, under the generalshi of oac1 Cole, in l9'55 - 36, R.H.S. won 16 out of 19 games and 1936-'57 pro ed ea y as successful. Upon th appr ach of the County Tournament, we felt quite confident that we had go d deal of strength on account of' the fact that we had de- feated two p evious county champions twice each, during the seasong name- ly, Green Syrirfgs and Thompson, 1956-57 Seneca champs. ln the tournament play, we defeated Thompson for the third consecutive time by four oints Caverage of the previous scoresl. This, unfortunately put us in th' bracket with Bettsville, who won 21 consecutive games after N1Ty!ETEEN..Tfig-leigh?Y-,E Jem