Speedway High School - Speedette Yearbook (Speedway, IN)

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step in learning. ' ,flaw It seems as though Speedway is certain to have good up and coming hardwood squads in the future. The second team of the Junior Hi basket- ball teams lost two out of three games by close margins this year. These were lost only by lack of experience. The first team won two out of five starts this season. The toughest opposition of the season was from Decatur Central. Harold Kuykendall was high point man for the ,Junior Hi group, His playing ability and leader-- ship was much needed in some of the tight spots of the games. Harold will no doubt be the leader -of the Junior Sparkplugs during next year's sea- :SOIL This year was the first time many of the boys ever had a basketball in their hands, but under the able direction of Coach Sallee. many of these boys will turn out to be future Speedway varsity players. junior High basketball is the stepping stone to success in turning out good high school teams. Our school is fortunate to be one of the few Marion County schools to sponsor Junior High basketball. Junior High boys who participated in basket- ball this year were: Etter, DeMoss, Guion, D. Kaufman, B, Ellis, G. Gibson, F. VVingert, D. Crawford, D. Bledsoe, K. Vincent, D. Mason, G. Iindres. G. Seymour, R. Leeke, H. Kuyken- dall, R. Stewart, G. Vance, J. Scott, R. Hughes. D. Thomas, J. Nadolny, T. Sutherland, B. Bene- Hel. and R. Bland. In future years, many of these boys will credit Junior High basketball as the first step in their success in the hardwood sport. Attention-the first

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B , Speedway hardwood fans watched the Speed- way Sparkplugs start the 19-I-5--16 season with two wins. Perry Central lost, 22-33. and Green- wood went down to defeat 31-38. Then came three straight defeats. Franklin Twp., Browns- hurg, and Plainfield heat our team hy scores of 38-25, 35-21, and 23-17, respectively. The Plugs then defeated Manual for the fourth consecutive year. 37-23, .-Xt the close of the next game. Mooresville was on the short end of a 35 to 29 score. Decatur Central retained the Marion county dope bucket hy trouncing the Sparkplugs -18-31. Our next loss was to Danville hy a score of 34 to 40. Speedway's gallant crew sailed to victory in the Pike Twp, Invitational Tourney hy sinking Pike. 37-27. and Franklin Twp., 32-31. This was the first tourney ever won hy the Plugs. lividently these triumphs encouraged the Sparkplugs, for they won their next two games. Lawrence Central tallied 25 points to Speedway's 35 and Beech Grove fell hefore the surging Plugs, 32 to 26. Franklin Twp.'s Flashes then ousted Speedway from the Marion County Tourney, -I'-If-31. Then Sparkie was sealped by the XYarren Central XX'arriors, 40 to 30. The thriller of the season was against Zionsville's Eagles. The Sparkplugs eked out a 30 to 35 overtime victory in a thrill-packed game. Pike Twp. again lost to the Plugs, 48-29. The last two games in the regular season both resulted in sethacks for the Speedway five. XVash- ington ran over our boys 43 to 35 and Ben Davis pulverized the Plugs hy a score of 47 to 37. .Xfter hard practice, the Sparkplugs invaded the Danville sectional tourney. New XYinc'hester fell -10-34. Speedway rolled into the semi-tinals only to he stopped hy Danville in a very close game in which the XYarriors defeated the Spark- plugs, 27-25. X M .9 A 'I' Front Row: H. 0. Pritchard, IJ. Crumley, P. Brnmley, B lienung tmgr.l, S. Carmichael ll. Musgrave, R. Chambers. Back Row: C. Love. li. Sen- ter. ll. Anderson, T. Lawson D, Boyer, K. King. J. May hugh. judging from the play of the reserve team this year, Speedway will have good varsity teams during the next two years. Teamwork and sharpshooting were hoth in evidence as the team won 11 games and lost only 7 during the 1946 season. lioh liuykendall sparked this team until his rapid improvement gained him a position on the varsity. Dave Cruinley and Phil lirumley led this year's reserve scorers in the eighteen game season. The rese1'ves were led by Coach Sallee, who. as shown hy the season's record, handled the hoys very eapahly.

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I For the first time in our school history, boys other than the squad participated in basketball. Of course it was not in competition with other schools. This was called Intramural Basketball. The league consisted of five teams, four of which played every Monday night. The fans took to this rather well, although the crowds were not as large as was wanted. VVagner's jPC's, consisting of seven boys, took the championship for the '45-'46 season. XVagner was high point man for his team with Burton as rnnnerup. Ont of six games the JPC's lost only one. This gave them an average of 833. The team was made up of three seniors and four freshmen. The Iron Five, captained by Bob Hanen, was a little rusty when it came to dropping the ball through the hoop. .-'X pretty drastic season was experienced by these seven boys with one win out of six games, although most of their games were dropped by very close margins. Running a close second to VVagner's jPC's, was lNarren's Spartans Gene, one of the two seniors on the team, led in the score building, and was helped by tive other teammatesg one junior, two sophomores, and two freslnnen. The Spar- tans had a fairly good season with two losses out of six. Five losses and no wins was the record of Oslos' Panthers. l3ob's team did not get to play in the finals because of their cellar position in the league. Humphreys was high point man for the Panthers. Une Junior, one senior, and five fresh- nwen made up this unlucky team. Tied for second place with the Spartans was Carter's liilrov Kids. His team also lost two out of six games. One defeat was handed to him by the Spartans: and the other by the IPCS. The eight boys who made up the Kilroy Kids' power and steam were six sophomores, one freshman. and one junior. .X 'Lia fs. fl' s