West Salem High School - Neshonoc Yearbook (West Salem, WI)

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Bangor 29; West Salem 30 Gaining revenge for the 32-35 defeat that Bangor bestowed upon them at Cashton last year, the Black Clads of West Salem edged out Bangor in a 29-30 thriller. With the score tied 17-17 at the half, the teams exchanged basket for basket and with 20 seconds left to play, Rollie Groth made the last of his eleven points to give Salem its hard fought victory. Onalaska 40; West Salem 32 Salem, traveling to Onalaska for its second conference game, was handed a 40-32 defeat by a fast, sure Onalaska 5 . Corky Dahl paced Onalaska in this rough and tumble game, while “Moxie was Salem's offensive spark with 13 points. Melrose 22; West Salem 50 Playing an inspired brand of basketball the White Clads of Salem handed Melrose a 50 22 defeat on the local's hardwood. Roland Groth, leading the field, made 19 points. Moxie , who played an excellent defensive game, managed to hit the hoop for 10. Mindoro 11; West Salem 42 After getting off to a slow start Salem's fighting 5 rolled on to a 42-11 victory over the yellow clad Mindoroians in a rough game at Mindoro. Moxie was high point scorer with 11 points. Groth and Cassel followed with 10 and 8 points respectively. Galesville 24; West Salem 19 Galesville, so far unbeaten in '46, kept a clean slate by topping Salem 24-19 in a hard fought game. ' Rollie and Moxie scored 9 and 7 respectively. Central B’s 18; West Salem 41 A game but inexperienced Central B team was defeated by Salem's “White Clads in our first non conference game by a 41-16 count. Moxie , high man, with 14 points was followed closely by Cassel with 10. Logan B's 30; Wes' Sale m42 Leading Salem's “White Clads to a 42-30 viciory over a flashy Logan “5, “Rollie rang up 21 points Starting in the last 90 seconds, “Moxie took second honors with 8 points Holmen 32; West Salem 30 After leading for 31 minules of play, the Salem lads lost their game when a double shot free throw put Holmen on the long end of a 32-30 count. Cassel, pacing Salem with 11 points, was followed by Groth with 10 points. Our old coach, George, almost ate three pencils during the game. Trempealeau 22; West Salem 50 Sparked by Cassel, who collected 12 points, every man entered the scoring column in an easy 50-22 victory over Trempealeau. Groth was second high with 8 points Westby 26; West Salem 48 After a two week Christmas vacation, the sharp shooting “5 traveled to Westby to hand them a 48-26 shellacing. The basket twins, Moxie and “Rum , were too much for the Norwegians as they racked up 17 and 16 points respectively to lead Salem to victory. Harry Caulum was able to hit the hoop to tally 8 more points. Logan 26; West Salem 44 With Salem's game being marred by bad shooting and slow movements by the play- Page Thirty-one

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Row 1: H. Caulum, E. Carlson, L. Semlar, R. Groth, G. Rhodes, D. Selbrede, D. Cassel Rhyme, Coach Goodspeed Row 2: Assistant Coach Hagen, D. Ender, S. Fischer, W. Olson, J. Kopp, S. Syvertson, K. Diekroeger R A. Walters Row 3: R. Wehrs, J. Hougen, D. Wehrenberg, J. Wehrenberg, J. Wedin, M. Graff, W, Carlson, R. Sprain, fia eiLcilL Name FG FT A FTM PCT. PF TP Roland Groth .100 96 51 .531 66 251 Lawrence Semlar .... 94 96 43 .450 73 231 Donald Cassel . 55 36 22 .611 43 132 Harry Caulum . 33 33 14 .424 24 80 Willard Olson .. 24 28 15 .571 29 64 Gene Rhodes . 9 27 11 .407 33 29 Kenneth Diekroeger .. 9 11 5 .455 7 23 Stanley Fischer .. 6 9 2 .222 11 14 Sidney Syvertson .... 3 14 6 .357 14 12 Earl Carlson 4 6 1 .167 3 9 Gerald Wehrenberq .. 1 2 0 .000 2 2 Delvin Wehrenberg . 0 2 2 1.000 2 2 Delven Wehrenberg .. 0 2 2 1.000 2 2 338 360 173 .481 307 849 st Salem score given first 35 Galesville 31 30 Bangor 29 46 Trempealeau 26 32 Onalaska ..... 40 35 Melrose 28 50 Melrose 22 45 Central Sophs 26 42 Mindoro 12 36 Onalaska 19 18 Galesville 24 39 Mindoro 19 41 Central Sophs 16 41 Westby 27 42 Logan Sophs 30 32 Bangor 41 30 Holmen 32 Tournament 50 Trempealeau 22 31 Bangor 33 48 Westby 26 38 Onalaska 33 44 Logan Sophs .... 24 22 Melrose 38 22 Holmen 36 849 633 Page Thirty

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ers, the Salemites had to fight hard to defeat a stubborn Logan B team 44-26. Moxie's sharp eye netted him 24 points with ''Rum as runner-up with 8 points. Holmen 3G; West Salem 22 Displaying the worst brand of ball they played all year, the Salem boys took it on the chin from a high spirited Holmen team by a 36-22 count. Inaccuracy of shots was the deciding factor with only two boys, Rum with 10 and Olson with 8, hitting consistently. Galesville 31; West Salem 35 Playing an excellent grade of ball, the Salem lads conquered the heretiore unbeaten Galesville five. The Salemites played good consistent ball all the way with all around team work being the deciding factor. Every man used entered the scoring column with Moxie in front with 11 points followed by Rollie with 10 points. Trempealeau 26; West Salem 46 After getting off to a bad start, the Salem lads went on to defeat a stubborn Trempealeau five by a 46-26 score. Cassel was high with 14 points followed by Moxie with 12 points. Mindoro 19; West Salem 39 With the starting five seeing most of the game from the bench, the Salem bucketeers went on to score an easy 19-39 victory over an improved Mndoro team. Rum and Moxie led the field with 12 and 10 points respectively. Westby 2?; West Salem 41 Playing a slow sure game, the Salemites handed Westby a 27-41 defeat on our hardwood. Rum and Moxie collected 14 and 10 points respectively. Melrose 28; West Salem 35 Displaying a heretofore dormant quality, our fighting five defeated Melrose by a 28-35 count. This boosted our Coulee Conference standing by giving us five straight wins. Rum with 12 and Moxie with 10 points were high for Salem. Central B's 26; West Salem 45 On our hardwood, a fighting Central team went down to defeat before our fighting five in a fast and furious game in which Rollie was high with 16 points. Onalaska 19; West Salem 36 The Salem lads, going out with blood in their eyes to ga;n revenge for the 40-32 defeat handed them earlier in the season, downed Onalaska in an exciting game. The scoring was divided between Groth and Semlar with 12 and 10 points respectively. Bangor 41; West Salem 32 Salem, traveling to Bangor with the thought of making it two in a row, was overwhelmed in the first half by a 26-6 count; but our boys came back to come within one point of Bangor before the Bangorites turned on the speed and defeated us 41 to 32. Rollie and Moxie led the scoring attack with 14 and 13 scores respectively. DISTRICT TOURNAMENT West Salem 31; Bangor 33 After dividing the two regular season games, Salem and Bangor were scheduled to meet in the first game of the tournament. As the game got under way it became evident that the Bangorites had not cooled off since the last game. The Salem lads fought hard but were unable to overcome the four point lead that the Bangorites held at half time. Salem rallied in the last quarter, but Page Thirty-two