Scott High School - Scottonian Yearbook (Scott, IN)

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BASKETBALL 49n5OQ THE SCOTT BULLDOGS LOST THREE MEMBERS OF LAST YEAR'S TEAM BY GRADUATBON, THESE PLAYERS WERE MYRON KENNEDY JR., GORDON SWARTZENTRUBER9 WALTER SGHROOK, WE ALSO LOST TWO FIRST TEAM MEMBERS THHS YEAR BY WJTHDRAWAL TO ANOTHER SGHOOL. THE TEAM FAOEO THHS YEAR OF BASKETBALL WTTH LOTS OF FTGHT DESPHTE THESE LOSSES. THE OPENING GAME OF THE SEASON WAS WITH BR:GHTONg A CLOSE, HARD FOUGHT GAME IN WHICH THE WILDOATS PUSHED AHEAD TO WIN 454 34. THE BULLDOGS NEXT PLAYED LIMA HN AN OMERTHME THRILLER AND THE TIGERS WON 49m48. SCOTT THEN VENT TURED THE FOLLOWING WEEK TO SHHPSHE FOR A FAST, HARD FOUGHT GAME SUT WAS DEFEATED 52w34G THE NEXT GAME WAS WlTH ORLAND WHO DEFEATED THE BULLDOGS 55W 48, THEN JEFFERSON, WHO WAS RED HOT, SCOTT JUST COULDNVT FIND THE RANGE AND WAS OUTSOORED 46H27a THE NEXT GAME WAS WHTH THE OADETS FROM HOWE WHO WON OVER THE BULLDOGS TO A 55444 VICTORY, HOLCOTTQ VILLE CHARGED HNTO SCQTT TO DEFEAT THEM 53 TO 37, ALSO ON THE SAME DAY IN THE EVENING GAME SCOTT STARTED T0 CLICK AND OVERTOOK LQMA 40 TO 380 THESE TWO GAMES WERE AT THE INUTTATHONAL TOURNAMENT AT BRIGHTON TOPEKA VENTURED TO SCOTT FOR A VICTORY OF 47 T0 38. SCOTT WENT TO ORLAND FOR A GOOD GAME SUT WERE DEFEATED 46 TO 38. THE NEXT GAME THE BULL DOGS MET BRHSTDL, ONE GF THE POWERS UF ELKHART OOUNTY, AND WERE DEFEATED BY A SCORE GF 78 T0 56, THE BULLDOGS PLAYED THE WOLCGTTVULLE HHGH NEXT AND WERE DEFEATED 56 TO 370 CAME THE OOUNTYTOURNAMENT WITH A FINE GROUP OF TEAMS PARTHOHPATHNG9 AND THE BOLLDOGS HAD A LTTTLE R' BAD LOGE AND WERE DEFEATED BY LTMA, WHO PLAYED VERY GOOD BALL, BY A SGORE OF 67 TO 49. THE NEXT GAME SCOTT WENT TO BRTGHTON WHERE THEY PLAYED THEIR REST GAME EDT NOT GOOD ENOUGH AS THE COUNTY GHAMPS DEPEATED US 53 TO 34, THE NEXT GAME WAS A ROUGH AND TOOGH GAME PLAVED WTTH LAGRANGE BUT THE BULLDOGS WERE AGATN DEFEATED BY A SCORE OF 56 T0 48. THE NEXT GAME WAS PLAYED WHTH TOPEKA SUT WE WERE DEFEATED BY A SCORE OF 544 4u. THE NEXT GAME WTTH JEFFERSON WAS CANCELEU BE' CAUSE OF THE COAL SHORTAGE. NEXT LHMA DEEEATEO US BY A SGORE CF 56 TO 400

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BASKETBALL '50 THE SCOTT BOYS RECEIVED AN UNLUCKY DRAW WHEN THEY DREW THE WAWAKA LADS FOR THEIR FIRST GAME AT THE SECTIONAL. THE WAWAKA BOYS SEEMED VERY TALL BE- SIDE SCOTT, WHICH PROVED THE DIFFERENCE IN THE SCORES THE SCOTT BULLDOGS COULDNIT HIT VERY WELL DURING THE FIRST QUARTER AND WHEN THEY FINALLY DID FIND THE RANGE, THE WAWAKA TEAM HAD QUITE A MARGIN OVER THE SCOTT TEAMS DURING THE FOURTH QUARTER, THE SCOTT BOYS MADE A COME-BACK, BUT WA- WAKA HAD Too MUCH OF A LEAD, THE FINAL SCORE WAS WAWAKA 49, SCOTT 33. THE BRIGHTON WILDCATS, LAGRANGE COUNTY BASKETBALL CHAMPIONS, WENT DOWN IN DEFEAT SATURDAY NIGHT IN THEIR GAME WITH KENDALLVILLE COMETS IN THE FINAL GAME OF THE SECTIONAL. BRIGHTON WENT INTO THE GAME WITH HIGH DETERMINATION TO WIN THEIR FIRST SECTIONAL TITLE.. THE FINAL SCORE OF THE GAME WAS KENDALLVILLE 54, BRIGHTON 48. SOFTBALL '49 SCOTT HAD A FAIRLY SUCCESSFUL SEASON THIS YEAR IN SOFTBALL WITH FIVE WINS AND TWO DEFEATSH THE FIRST GAME OF THE SEASON WAS WITH TOPEKA, WAS A GOOD GAMES THE FINAL SCORE, SCOTT 8, TOPEKA 4. THE NEXT GAME WAS WITH BRIGHTON, WHICH WAS A GOOD GAME FOR SCOTT, THE SCORE WAS SCOTT 3, BRIGHTON 2, WOLCOTTVILLE THEN CAME FOR SCOTT T0 WIN AGAIN. THE SCORE: SCOTT 4, WOLCOTTVILLE 3. THE NEXT GAME WAS WITH LIMA WHICH PROVED TO BE A BITTER DEFEAT FOR THE TIGERS, THE SCORE: SCOTT 22 LIMA 8, SCOTT THEN VENTURED T0 LAGRANGE TO THEIR FIRST DEFEAT IN A CLOSE GAMES SCOREg LAGRANGE 4, SCOTT 3, WE THEN ENCOUNTERED ANOTHER CLOSE GAME WITH MONGA. SCORE: SCOTT 4, MONGO 3, OUR LAST GAME OF THE SEASON WAS ANOTHER DEFEAT UNDER THE SHIPSHE TEAM, SCORE SHIPSHE I, SCOTT O, LAGRANGE PLACED FIRST IN THE COUNTY WITH SCOTT, TOPEKA AND SHIPSHEWANA TIEING FOR SECOND PLACE, MURLYN MYERS PROVED TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN HIS FIRST SEASON OF PITCHING FOR THE SCOTT BULLDOGSQ