Webster Township High School - Web Yearbook (Scotch Ridge, OH)

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Sw SPORT SNAPSHOTS The pictures on the opposite page are an attempt to illustrate the athletic life during the school year. The basketball pictures were taken during the County Tournament at Bowling Green State University. The baseball pictures show various members of the team in their new suits. The track pictures were taken during the spring training season, ' 9-fill

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WEBSTER BEATS JACKSON OVERTIME C0 TEST Are Elimenated At Fremont , Only the Webster Scots remain today of the five Wood County teams entered ln the district cage compe- tltlon at Fremont after the contests Saturday in which Jackson, Bloom- dale and Ton!-ozany lost out.. , Both Jackson and Bloomdale were defeated via the foul circle. but ln dlnerent, ways. Bloomdale mlssed five free throws in the final mlnutes of play as the Bulldogs lost,t 36 to 31. Jackson had very few foul, shootlng opportunities. V 1 The Jackson Wildcats were de- feated by the Webster Scots, 32 to 28, as the two teams played their second overtlme game in tourney competition in as many Saturdays. Jackson was awarded but four free throws on three fouh in the game. The Scots, of Coach Myron Brick Long. took 15 free throws on 12 fouls. Both Davis and Long of the Wildcats starting five were sent to the sidelines on fouls. Jack- son mlwcd two free throws: the' Scots mlsed seven. l Marvin Davis led the Wildcats with 12 points. Norman Jlmlson was high for the Scots with seven and Ralph Christian and Hank Scxav- M CMJFIVE wean cuumv ntckl were close behind with six mn. F Jackson was in front, 12 to 5, at the quarter, and 19 to 13 at the lntermislon. The charges Gatey Leatherman stlll paced the Scots 14 to 18 at the end of the third period. Merlin Brinker, Scot for- ward and ace scorer, did not start' the game as he was running a tem-. perature after a brief illness. The overtime began with the score 28 to 28. Joe Meder and Brinker each piled ln field goals ln the over- time to keep the Scots ln the tour- ney. In' the afternoon, Elmore, top bracket favorites and with but two defeats this season, defeated the Tontngany Indians of Coach Harlan. Kinney, 36 to 29, as Gundy piled ln ll points and Sheldrlck trailed close- ly with 10. The halftime score was 19 to 10 with Elmore ln front. I I mit .Forward Forwar' . .Center , .Guard . .Guard All .IUNIUR HI TUURNEY FIRST TEAM Miley. Walbritlge ...... , , . . Bass. Glenwood ..,..,,,..,. Michel, Webster ..., . . Emch. Glenwood ....,..... ' Meye r. Webster ,... ........ SECOND TEAM Bronson Cygnet .......,.. Farwarf' Rane. Pembervllle .... Forward Easlev. Bloamdale ..., Center . ,Guttrrl Phillips. Cyqnet ,....... Johnson, Walbridge ...... , HONORABLE MENTION Weiland. Olney, Vznaman. North Baltimore. Ruhlex Portage Twp. Bvbee. Portage Village. Dennis, Jackson. Scharf, Portage Village. Eckert.. Liberty. Ruch, Luckey. . .Guard Rui-flu Action Webster advanced at the expense- of Clyde, 51 to 24, and wusn't pressed either. There two teams battled tor the Wood county cham- pionship with Hoytvllle wlnnlng, 28 to 26, in an overtime period, so Hhyihing may happen here. The, winner should be an almost lure bet to reach the finale. The games Saturday bring the tourney! high scorers back into' action. George Glnter of Hcytville, Ll top man thus far with 22 points' and he will be ably assisted by brother Jim, who tallied 10, and this pair will be pitted ngquuti Merlin Brlnkbr and Don Kuhlman' ot Webster, who accounted for 21 and 20 Wlntt. rerpectiveb, in their only previous appearance here. bt. Paul'a has its scoring ace in Ray Bllnzley, who hu 20 poinug while Schroeder of Elmore, is one ot the mort polished player' gegn hm Yet Ind ROY Reldy or sr. lf,2.?,1'L'5t M'lfc wl.'i3 y what - 1 t me-:meh nukes., ' pm I haf'-,4E:1f:hl::c3hr:: far th grand ofli . n 0 303' Ballenger. I imager TERMS ARE READY FUR DISTRICT MEET. As Wood County closed its great-I at basketball tournament in the 22-r year history of the event, five teams prepared today for the district tour- ney to begin Wednesday in Fremont. The five teams are: Jackson Township, Bloomdale, Webster Twp., Rlslngxun and Tontonany. JACKSO T0 t SGOTS Jackson is to meet Webster at 8:00 P. M. Saturday, exactly one week toi the minute after the two teams? met for the Wood County title, and Bloomdale will play Sandusky -St. Marys at 7:30 P. M. Saturday as the result of last n1ght's games ln the Fremont Dlstrlot toumey. Tontogany, which drew a bye, is to open its tourney campaign against Elmore at 2:30 P. M. Satur- day. Elmore turned back Huron, 55 to 33, Wednesday. Vermilion, which defeated Rislngsun, takes on Nor- walk St. Paul, winner over Green Springs, 50 to 47. In last. nlght's battles, all three of the Wood County teams won easy victories: Webster cleaned Clyde, 51 to 24: Jackson whipped New London, 56 to 26, and Bloomdale eliminated Monroevllle, 41 to 27. Against New London, Gatey Leat.herman's Jim and George Gin- ter scored 36 points between them as Bob Butler Don Kuhlman. brllllant llttle Web- ster 'Scot forward, has been named to Dlck Behr-'s All-Fremont Toumey Five. Don. whose brother Dale is Perrysburg coach. scored 35 points in three games ln the tournament. Also named to the team were Roy Reldy. Sandusky St. Marys, Bob Chambers. st. Marys, Ray Blinz- ley, Norwalk St. Pauls and Mort Hhheman, of Elmore. I Bloomdale-Tontogany Rffhmblifly wEB5E'5'sgNggsNl,wH,':lTLE The Webster Junior High School cage team today held the county title after winning the final game of the tourney Saturday night, defeat- ing Glenwood, 16 to 12. Webster deft-ated Vfnlbriclge. 20 to 18, ln the semi-finals and Glen' wood took Bloomdale. 20 to 15. At the same time Otl1ci.1l.s Mike Kormazls and J. Needles. togethr-r with managers ol the event, chise the all-tourney teams. Michel, th-: Webster center. came oh' with scor- ing honors for the meet with a total WEBSTER ELIMINATED SCOTS LOSE EARLY AND DROP TILT TO ST. MARYS 'I'he lust of the five Wood County Class B cage squads 10st out in the Fremont dktrlct tourney last night I5 the Webster Scots went down to defeat at the hands of Sandusky Bt, Marys, 26 to 28. ' Rlalngsun, Jackson, Tontogany and Bloomdale had previously met defeat ln the tourney. , St. Maryfs meets Elmore at 1:30 P. M. Saturday Im' the district title. Elmore, top bracket favorlte. de- feated Vennllllon. 38 to 24, ln the opening game last night.. The Scots at Coach Myron Long BOL off with an easy stride, con- trolling the rebound. and tlpoffs and regularly hitting the basket -in a IBIHC where shots were few. Merlin Brinker opened the, scor- lng for Rte: and Don Kuhlman me mu Bcsavnlckl each mo piled ln buckets before 'the ,Blue found the inside of the hoop. Webster led, 10 to 4 at the quarter. Coollnz uf! or letting down after the easy start, Webster beian to lose the rebound and the tlpoffs in the second, perlnd. In that stanza BI FR 'the Wildcats downed the Huron Co- untlans. George Ginter scored 26 polrxtsjgwlgg the field. Jlm tallied io and my Dennis exgm. The wifi- cats led at. the half, 27 to 17. With Loman and Holt each tally- ing 11 points, the Bloomdale Bull- dogs of Coach Karl Worstell, using a three-two zone against Monroe- ville's one-two-two zone, led at the intermission, 17 to 9. Webster used a two-one-two zone on the nar-orv floor as they led at. the half, ill to 17. Merlin Brinker led the field in scoring with 21 points and his ru-:ning mate, Don Kuhlman was close behind with 20 points. ' In the opening game of the night. lsandusky St. Marys nosed out Fre- mont St. Joe, 24 to 23, as they scored s. bucket in the last 10 sec- onds of play. i 4 they were held to four points as the Saints added I3 to take over the intermission lead, 17 to 14. The third period was all defense, elllh team battling for positions suitable for attempting a bucket. Webster added four points: the Blue UWO. Score, 19 to 18. In the first minute of the final stanza, a foul .shot by Hank Scsav- nlckl and a bucket by Don Kuhl- gnan gave the Scarlet and Gray a two-point margin, 21 to 19. Then the Saints went into high gear and walked off with the ball game as Chambers piled in two buckets. Rledy one and Erney came through with a double counter. Wlth a mln- ute to play, the Saints refused a free throw and o moment later Nor- man Jlmlson scored the final Scot bucket.. After the first quarter, the Scots. not controlling poasesslon of the ball ls they did ln the opening minutes of the game, fought an uphill bat- tle. At. the same tlme, the fates de- creed that they should miss the greater percentage of their shots. Merlin Brinker. the Scots ace scor- er, who has been lll, scored but one field goal and two free' throws for four polnts. Joe Medqr dld not score. io! 58 points for the five games In the semi-finals, Webster had to come from behind to push over the two-point victory. They trailed at intermission. 12 to 8. Glenwood led the entire route in its semi-final though the score at the end of the fir rt quarter was only 2 to l. In the final game of the meet, leach team failed to score in the cn:-ninz quarter, and at the half. flu- score was 3 to 2. ' In the thtrtl period Webster. pac- ed luv Michel and supported by Mey- er, went into high gear and walked oil with the title. Webster scored wen points in this period while -'E-n-. i:l .dried four. In the fourth frame, Michel scor- ed six points as dld Glenwood. Web- ster retaining its four point margin :md winning the tou1'ney's first plare Lrophy. The 1941 junior h-lgh tournament thawed .1 profit of about 860. mark- ing the first time ln the hlstory 'ne ew-nt That it has been other than an expense for the sponsoring I t school. The summary of the final game: WEBSTER G. F. Tl. D. Szactvnicki ... 0 0 0 E,li'xis7:': r ..., 0 l l Tshclirl ...,.. 5 1 ll Meyer ..,.... 2 0 4 Seifert ......,, 0 0 0 L. Szsavnifki , .... 0 0 0 7 2 16 GLENWOOD , ' G. F. Tl. Bass .,.........,. . 0 1 l Sarvel' .. 0 0 0 Cervenrc ., 1 0 2 Emch ..... ,.. 3 1 7 Burguss 0 2 2 Garrett ... ... 0 0 0 - 4 4 12 Chambers pnfcfd .the field in tal- lles wlth six and one for IQ points. Don Kuhlman led the Scoh with four field goals. Jlmlson scored five, ' Christian two, Scsavnlckl four and! Brinker four. Both clubs used zone, defenses. 4 Webster took nine free tosses at the foul circle and connected with five. The Saints took but three. made two, refused one. St. Marys suffered seven fouls. Webster three., WEBSTER -TRACK CH MPIONS Webster Townships stream-lined band of speed merchants Saturday romped to thc championship in the. annual Wood County track and fieldg meet held at Bowling Green State Unlversity's spacious stadium. Q Seven records fell by the wayside in the two-day meet that saw the Scarlet and Gray team plle up ml Other new iecords included a' mark of :54.5 set by Layman of Webster ln the 440 as he cracked his own mark of 155.8 set in t.he prelim- inarles held on Friday. Layman was presed all the way by Bob Maha!- fey and Hopkins both of whom were clocked in the 54's. I Shaffer paced the fine Webster: thln clad crew to victory by romp-ing: points' the highest poin 't0 a1m uielhome in front in three events and history 0' me meet' Fimshmg swffmlshing second ln a fourth to muy! ond to the Flying Scots, coached by Lamar Pat Hetrmk, were the In-V 'diana of Tontxogany with 26-115' points while a scant point behlnd was the Liberty Llom with 25-115. Harold Shaffer, Websters mercury , man, set a new record of 127.4 in the low hurdles and then tied his. 22 polnts. He finished first ln the, 100-220. and 220 yard low hurdles' and second in the broad jump. The Scots' other firsts were chalked ap by Layman in the 440 and the mile relay quarter composed of Scsavn- llckl, M. Shaffer, Sanders and Lay- man. 3 own record of 123.2 in the 220-yard' dash in the finals,

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