Shelbyville High School - Okawwako Yearbook (Shelbyville, IL)

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IN FAST HARD SCHEDULE U OW, tellers, get right down to work with basketball. Don't sound like Geisz, do 1? Anyway, here we go. We started our schedule at Pana and enjoyed a victory. Next came our first home game, St. Elmo. We tromped them. Taylorville - Moanl And then of all teams to lose toe- Windsor. We traveled to Nokomis and Beezo sank 17 points as we knocked 'em over. Overran Pana again, but were stop- ped at the Pana Holiday Tournament by Kincaid. We surely could have used Mac the rest of the season. Kansas beat us, and Beezo scored 18 points as we beat Windsor. Revenge surely was sweet! Started out swell at Bethany but lost out in the last half. Gave Kansas a tough fight with Beezo collecting 18 points again, but they won 48-89. Knock- ed over Moweaqua by the same score by which Kansas beat us. Ahl More revenge, Bethany-36, Shelby-51. Beezo tallied all year high with 24 points. County Tournament time. We were still hot. Beezo got 20 as we beat Cowden, but Windsor's six man team cooled us off. 500 per cent so far. Won 8, lost 8. St. Elmo mauled us down there, but everyone scored as we won at Findlay. Then we lost two, Vandalia and Altamont, and won two, Findlay and Moweaqua again. Beezo sprained his ankle at Mowea- qua and remained out of the line-up till Regional time. Gave Altamont a tough fight but they beat us. Then Charleston overran us. The Pana Regional and Kincaid-the same team and the same story. Put up a fight the first half, but the final score turned up 60-36. Now for the inside story on the squad. Beezo and Coochey led us all the way through with 258 and 215 points respective- ly. Beezo ended with a 12 point game av- erage. Butch, our center, tallied 141 points. Our guards, Don, scoring 86 points, and Wayne, 80, covered their men like blankets. Not to be excluded are Mac and Bly. Mac only played ll of the 25 games but tallied 74 points. Bly sank 41 points in 17 games. Coochey was the only varsity man back this year, but he will be joined by Beezo, Mac, and Wayne next year, along with McBride, Westenhaver and Reid. Managers this year were Don Morehead, iuniory and Elmer Coff- man, senior. ln a nutshell, here's the story. We won 11 and lost 14. We scored 915 points to op- ponents 1080. A11 in all, we consider this a fair season. Good luck next year, Rams! Coochey. Carl. Lawrence. Loren, Don. Wayne, and Iohnny warming up in the gym. Pa 'le 25

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CACERS TURN IN COOD RECORD FIRST ROW: Lawrence Bly, lohn McBride, Wayne I-lowse, Don Carmichael. SECOND ROW: Elmer Coffman, Dave lanes, Don Reid, Bill Richardson, lain Crane, Don Morehead. THIRD ROW: Bill Leach, Bob Westenhaver, Mr. Cm-isz. Nov. N ov. Dec. Dec. Dec. Dec. lan. lan. lan. lan. lan. Ian. lan. lan. Feb. Feb. Feb. Feb. Feb. Feb. Feb. ' Home Page 24 if w if BASKETBALL SCHEDULE 1943-44 Pana 'St. Elmo Taylorville Windsor Nokomis Pana Kansas Windsor Bethany Kansas Moweaqua Assumption Bethany St. Elmo Findlay Vandalia Altamont Findlay Moweaqua Altamont Charleston Games if 1- 1 Q 1- Shelby Shelby Shelby Shelby Shelby Shelby Shelby Shelby Shelby Shelby Shelby Shelby Shelby Shelby Shelby Shelby Shelby Shelby Shelby Shelby Shelby PANA HOLIDAY TOURNAMENT Dec. 27 Kincaid 66 Shelby 31 SHELBY COUNTY TOURNAMENT Ian. 26 Cowden 36 Shelby 45 Ian. 28 Windsor 29 Shelby 27 REGIONAL TOURNAMENT Mar. l Kincaid 60 Shelby 36 LETTERS WINNERS Carl Waqaoner senior center Don Carmichael senior guard Lawrence Bly senior guard Bill Leach junior forward Bill Richardson junior forward lain Crane junior guard lohnny McBride junior forward Wayne Howse sophomore quard

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C. A. A. AND CDVEJITAS PLAY AND PERFGRM E Ovejitas are proud of our organization. We started off this year with a bang and have made conspicuous progress ever since. We chose Pauline Kimmel as our leader and organized our- selves tor the first time this year. We even receive activity points now. To call our infrequent business meetings to order, we elected Dorothy Anny as our recorder of minutes, we chose Esther Lou: and to keep the treasury well filled, we elected lune. We could be found at almost every home basketball game in our White gym suits and purple bands. We even drilled for Findlay in their gym. Quite often we yelled about having to practice for our drills, but we all agree it was well worth it and down deep we loved it. Oh yes, we did our patri- otic bit during the March of Dimes. We sold tags and made our goal and then some! Our G. A. A. has been successful too. Our mem- bership was large and all our meetings were well represented. lune was unanimously elected presi- dentg Dorothea, vice-presidentg Alice, secretary: and Iackie, treasurer. Phyllis was appointed as recorder of activity points. In organized groups We played . 5 V Somethinq new has been added. Page 26 4 P. J .- we Phiddy. Iune. Iuckie. Dorothea. and Alice Dorothy Ann. Esther Lou. lune. and Pauline soccer, volley ball, basketball, baseball, badminton, and ping pong. We had loads of fun at the Taylorville Play Day. lt gave us an inspiration for a Play Day of our own, and we did give a successful one in the spring. In May, along with the Oveiitas, we demonstrated our ability at stunts, drill- ing, baton twirling, and several other tricks in a P. E. Program put on especially for the public. The high light of the evening was the distribution of the G. A. A. awards won throughout the year. Our activities have been one long parade this year and loads of fun.