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

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JUNIOR HIGH TEAM In the scheduled season Coach Long found trouble in fiIUng the three positions left open on the Wood County Champ's team with the graduation of three members to the ninth grade. The team opened their basketball season by smothering Luckey 52-16. In the next game the Juniors suffered a 19-12 defeat at Portage Village, playing on a small floor with baskets that were up regulation height. Tangling with Luckey the second time the Scots found trmnne in defeating the improved Trojans 22-16. . Playing a benefit game against a tall Bradner squad Webster was on the short end of a 50-25 score as the final seconds tick- ed away. Since our team was the winner of the Junior High tournament last year, it was held at Webster this year. In their first tourney game, the Junior Scots, decked out in new uniforms of scarlet and gray, trimmed Haskins 25-14. Avenging a pre-tournament defeat, the Junior High defeated Bradner 25-21 to go to the quarter finals. Giving Pemberville the side road in the next game, the Scots won 25-24 in a well-played game. In the Semi-finals the Scots played last year's runner up, Walbridge, and turned the tables on them again 20-18. The Junior High played host to G1enwood's unrated team in the finals. Both teams had trouble in getting started and the score stood 3-2 at the half for Yebster. In the second half the Scots endurance and spirit won them their second county title by a score of 16-12. ' 9-4l i'iig13fg1.,,.,-.. If I .--. .,... W I... J,

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..,...................................-...-... .,... .....v. BOY'S TRACK The Webster Scots romped to the championship in the Annual Wood County Track and Field Meet at Bowling Gneen University Stadium. Seven records fell by the wayside in the preliminaries and finals in which the Scarlet and Gray team piled up 54 points, the highest point total in the history of the meet. Finishing second to the Flying Scots were the Indians of Tontogany with 26 lf5 points and close behind the Indians came the Lions from Liberty with 25-E points. Two new records were set by Webster. One was in the 440yd. run when Kenneth Layman set a new time of :54.5 and broke his own record,:55.8,set in the preliminaries. Harold Shaffer set a new record in the low hurdles at :27.4L Shaffer also tied his own record in the 220 yard dash at :25.2. Shaffer was high point winner of the meet taking three firsts and one second. His three firsts came in the 100 yard dash, 220 yd. dash, 220 low hurdles and his second was in the broad jump, for a total of 22 points. Next to Shaffer was Kenneth Layman who finished on top with 75 points winning the 440 yard dash and running in the mile re- lay. Paul Sundermeier was next with 65 points. Scsavnicki was next with 45. Others contributing to Webster's scoring column were McCann who finished third in the shot putg Gallo who fin- ished fourth in the mile rung Sundermeier who finished fourth in the half mile relay, composed of Sanders, M. Shaffer, Heder, and Emmitt who finished third and Brinker who finished fifth in the 880 yard run. After taking the County Meet, the Webster Scots entered the Northwestern District Meet held at Bowling Green State University Stadium. Webster took fifth place with 16 points. Shaffer took second in the scoring honors with 14 of Webster's 16 points. Shaffer gained a first in the 440 yard dash and two seconds in the 100 yard dash and the 220 yard dash respectively. Shaffer, Wood County's outstanding sprinter, took second in the 440 yard dash, with a close finish in the State Meet at Columbus. W1 v.i.v. c.,s,.. it L' .4 d'ii ., ..c...,cd.

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