West Bend High School - Bend Yearbook (West Bend, WI)

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. .- U .-..l..1- ,.Dd..K LITTLE TEN SCORES --- 1945 1. Hartford .... 46141, points 2. Oconomowoc . . 4014 points 3. Berlin . . . 32W points 4. Ripon . . . 29 points 5. West Bend . . 28W points 6. Mayville . . 17 points 7. Columbus . . 9 points 8. Horicon . . . 3 points 9. Beaver Dam . . 0 points 10. Waupun . . . O points Up and over with Dengel in the lead. Top row-Mr. Grignon, John Peters, Reid Horle, Milton Rusch, John Barens, Robert Gonring, Jim Dengel, Howard Proeber, Harry Kieckhafer. Second row --- Harold German, Carl Kircher, Ber- nard Wagner, Jim Hughes, Alex Esselmann, Web Hron, Richard Klein. Third row --- Don Bauer, Richard Heppe, Eldon Prentice, Roy Asmus, Robert Weiss, Jim Grogan, Don Lutz, Neal Schleif. Bottom row--Fred Reimann, Herbert Goeden, Eugene Bohn, Wallace Dagget, Gerald Kircher, Starting the I945 track season with ayoung and fairly inexperienced group, the team still managed to win two meets and place fifth in Little Ten standing. Stepping in as track coach in view of the wartime emergency was Roy T, C-rignon, who needs no further introduction. Coaching track was no new experience to Mr. Grignon who turned out fine teams in Marinette several years ago. During the entire season, Coach Grignon kept one eye to the future, realizing that practically everyone on the squad would be returning the following year. Underclassmen were given an excellent chance to select their event and to train for it. Two freshman-sopho- more meets gave the newcomers an opportunity to experience competition before being placed on the varsity, Proof that West Bend was developing a better than average team was apparent when our freshman-sophomore squad won the Little Ten champ- ionship. Special recognition may well be given Donald Bauer for his remarkable showing against stiff competition. Don amassed over a hundred points during the season. He represented West Bend High School at the state meet in Madison, where he won third place in the IOO-yard dash and the broad jump, and fourth place in the 200-yard dash. Bauer toes the mark.

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Jim Boldt Jim Dengel Reid Horle Jim Grogan Roy Sauer Bob Yahr Harry German Richard Klein Fred Reimann Bob Weiss Highlights of the Season For their opening game the Benders traveled to Slinger and took a non-conference victory by a score of 34 to 20. Boldt, Dengel, and Horle were the outstanding sharpshooters. Later when a return game was played the Benders triumphed with a score of 40 to 2I. Two games against Cedarburg were won by West Bend, the first 33 to 25, and the second 35 to 29. On December 4, in a fast-moving game with Kewaskum the Red and White five finished with a 24 to I8 win. Then the follow- ing week Coach Bucci's squad fought with Waupun for a well- deserved 26 to 24 victory. However, in the next game the Green and White boys from Port scored a 37 to 20 victory. The I4th of December saw the Red and White squad lose its first conference game to the title-holding Horicon team, score 38 to 26. The next Friday the Benders dropped a tough overtime thriller to Hartford. At the final whistle the Benders needed one basket. Score Hartford 37, West Bend 35, When the team took on Columbus, Reid HorIe's high score of I3 points could not carry the victory. The Benders lost 46 to 34. ln the next tilt, Jim Boldt was high scorer with I0 points. Both teams played a tight, defensive game, but even the 5 points by Huna Klein and the 4 extra points by Horle failed to stop Berlin from winning by 28 to 2I. The con- ference game at Beaver Dam on january I8 gave the Benders their fifth loss. Although Dengel and Horle made 28 points, the final score was 50 to 3I. The following week at Mayville the Benders, by setting a hot pace during the second half, got rid of their jinx and won by a score of 39 to 32. Dengel led the scoring with I4 points while Horle followed with I2. Next came Hartford. Here the Benders were unable to hit their stride, and after an 8 to 8 deadlock in the first quarter, lost by a score of 32 to 28. In the last three games of the season, the Benders took a win from Ripon and Iost to Port Washington and Oconomowoc. Then at the regional tournament, playing superb ball, the Red and White was defeated by one point by Sheboygan, score 4l to 40, and by two points by Ripon, score I8 to I6. VVest Bend drops another shot through the hoop to add two points to the score. VVest Bend guards closely as Hartford takes the ball out of bounds. Page twenty-one fo ,Q 4 1945-46 BASKETBALL LITTLE TEN STANDINGS Won Lost Beaver Dam . . 8 2 Berlin . . . . 8 2 Oconomowoc . 8 2 Hartford . . 7 3 Horicon . 7 3 Columbus . . 3 7 Ripon . . . . 3 7 West Bend . . 3 7 Mayville . . 2 8 Waupun . . 1 9

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A lack of experienced players, a scarcity of material in some places, and a general run of hard luck throughout the season marked the path of West Bend High's i945 baseball season. Out of ten games played, the team won two, and only one of these was a conference victory, Many errors in each game proved to be costly: and when up against tough competition, the mistakes were turned into runs by the opposition. Coach George Hennings took on the job of building a team out of a small number of returned lettermen and many new boys. The task of selecting and training applicants for the right position was not an easy one. All of the Little Ten Conference games played during the season were doubleheaders. Both of the games with Hartford were tough ones. The West Bend outfit almost pulled out ahead in the second one, but couldn't quite make it, Horicon's sluggers got the best of our pitchers in the second game to cinch both. Although Mayville batted in four runs in the first game, West Bend's nine finally clicked to take the second. Oconomowoc proved to be too tough for the Red and White and took both games by naI'I'OW fnaI'glI'lS. ln a non-conference game Kewaskum outplayed the Red and White for a victory. ln the last game, the team slugged out a win against Port Washington. Coach Bucci gives Boldt and Schmidt Kewaskum Hartford Hartford Horicon Horicon Mayville Mayville Oconomowoc Oconomowoc 3 Port Washington few pointers. SCORES 5 . . . West 7 . . . West 2 . . West 2 . . West 8 . . . West 4 . . West 1 . . West 7 , . West 8 . . West 5 . . . VVest '-5 Top row --- Don Lutz 'T .. -X --. 'E 7 A J, if i ' 4 , 4 ' V f 5 - Bend Bend Bend Bend Bend Bend Bend Bend Bend Bend Harry Kieckhafel Alfred Schmidt Karl Kircher James Boldt Jim Dengel Jack Miller Reid Horle Coach Hennings Second row --- Roy Asmus Richard Klein Herbert Fischer Ken Lemke Jim Hughes Bottom row --- Neal Schleif Bernard Wagner VVesley Taylor Albert Duenkel Roy Sauer Bch VVeiss Carl Duenkel Page twenty-three