Entered A. Second Clas.! - Local History Archives
Entered A. Second Clas.! - Local History Archives
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Page Ten<br />
~y fRED flUnnHlS<br />
Coach's Faith Justified<br />
As Devils Beat Parkers<br />
Coach John Thursby did last Friday, January 22<br />
what Border Cities League cagl';!coaches have bee~<br />
trying to do for eleven years-he defeated Highland<br />
Park on its home court, 58-56.<br />
True, il wasn't a lopsided<br />
viclOry but it was lile iinH the Parkers committed<br />
time the Parkers had lost be- fouls.<br />
fore a home crowd since former<br />
Devil cage coach Ed Wernet<br />
turned the trick in 1948.<br />
Since that time Border Cities<br />
teams have appeared to be<br />
hypnolIzed when they walked<br />
through the :parker gym portals.<br />
But not last Friday. The Devils<br />
shattered a myth and moved<br />
into a three-way second place<br />
tie. one game off the leagueleading<br />
Parkers' pace, with<br />
W~'andotle and Royal Oak. Wyandotte<br />
squeezed past winless<br />
~Ionroe 58-57 and Royal Oak<br />
carne from behind to dump<br />
Fordson 70-54 that Sal'le night<br />
to create the three-way deadlork.<br />
Said It Could Be Done<br />
All season coach Thursby has<br />
said "I know this team of mine<br />
has great potential, but so far<br />
they haven't put together a<br />
team effort to prove their<br />
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Against Highland Park the<br />
Devils did put togelher a team<br />
effort and out-scrapped the<br />
Polar BearS, The Devils jumped<br />
off to an early lead in the first<br />
period when Captain Dave<br />
Veenendaal dropped in his first<br />
three shots and from then on<br />
it was a dog-eat-dog affair with<br />
the point spread never being<br />
more than four poinls for<br />
either team. With three minutes<br />
left in the fourth quarter the<br />
Devils fashioned a seven point<br />
lead and this set the stage for<br />
a whiriwind finish that would<br />
do justice to a Frank Merriwell<br />
story.<br />
HIGHLAND<br />
Trailing by seven points the Mapp<br />
Parkers began to press to get<br />
Craytof<br />
Sarver<br />
control of the balI but the Chaffin<br />
Devils didn't stand still and try Sigmon<br />
Hili<br />
to play a game of keep. away. Pumas<br />
Instead they drove in hard on Blackwell<br />
Smilh<br />
'the boards llnd in the process Total!<br />
Parochial<br />
Win on FOlll Line<br />
In the final period the Devils<br />
astonished the crowd when they<br />
collected 17 of 20 free. throw<br />
attempls. This was actually the<br />
story of the game. It was won<br />
from the foul line. The Devils<br />
hit an amazing 68 percent on<br />
26 of 38 tries as compared to<br />
the Parkers' 14 of 25 for a 56<br />
percen,tage.<br />
Highland Park out-shot the<br />
Pointers from the floor :n to 16.<br />
'Il1e~' made 21 of 58 field goal<br />
attempts as compared to the<br />
Devils' 16 of 49.<br />
Longworth Mapp notched 15<br />
points for individual scoring<br />
honors. He was followed by his<br />
teammate Sarver, who tied<br />
Veenendaal for runner-.up hon.<br />
ors with 14 points.<br />
Ron Schram and Ron "the<br />
Butcher" LlncIau were bearcats<br />
on the boards and Al "Yogi"<br />
Lang .and Jon Rke were magnificent<br />
in controlling the ball<br />
while bringing it down. the<br />
court and setting up plays.<br />
As Coach Thursby said "it<br />
wasn't any individual effort<br />
that gava us this victory - it<br />
was a full team effort and the<br />
team has found itself and knows<br />
it Is potentially great."<br />
BOX SCORES<br />
GROSSE PTE.<br />
Veenendaa1<br />
G<br />
4<br />
Lindau 3<br />
Miles<br />
I<br />
Schram 4<br />
Rice 3<br />
Lang 1<br />
Mumaw 0<br />
Howard 0<br />
Total! 15<br />
PARK<br />
6<br />
o<br />
6<br />
o<br />
54ooo<br />
1" Pt •.<br />
6.10 14<br />
2-3 8<br />
2..,2 4<br />
3-5 11<br />
7-9 la<br />
6-9 8<br />
0-0 0<br />
0.0 0<br />
26-38 68<br />
3-6<br />
0-1<br />
2-2<br />
2-2<br />
2-8<br />
2-4<br />
0-0<br />
O.()<br />
3-4<br />
14-~<br />
Grid Teams Shuffled'<br />
Sam Madden, executive sec- moves would be acceptable 'and<br />
retary of the Parochial league, desirable.<br />
the largest organization of its Coach Eddie Lauer of 51.<br />
kind in the United Slates, has Paul also was disappoinled that<br />
announced a reshuffling c! his teams would be forced to<br />
schools for football only. compete in the Blue group and<br />
The purpose of the rearrange- had some arguments against the<br />
ment is to match teams of like change but was willing to go<br />
caliber to provide better com- along with the wishes of the<br />
petition and eliminate lopsided Parochial League officials.<br />
scores that have prevalled in Lauer pointed out that Sl.<br />
the past. Paul would be forced to travel<br />
farther and would lose lis n3t-<br />
There will be three groups ural neighborhood rivals in St.<br />
. known as the Central Red,<br />
East-West While and East-West Ambrose and Servite.<br />
Blue. The all boy schools will "Under the new arrangement,<br />
continue In the c'entral group said Lauer, the league is going<br />
while the strongest teams of to re-evaluate the caliber of the<br />
St. Joseph High Grads<br />
to Hold Get-Together<br />
The St. Joseph's High School<br />
alumni ",ill have their annual<br />
get-together on Friday evening,<br />
February 5. from !l to I :~o at<br />
Roma Hall, 10 Mile road at<br />
Gratiot,<br />
There will be dancinl!. ~nack~<br />
and a midnight burret. The<br />
price of tickets Is $6~O per<br />
couple, pre-sale, And $7.~0 per<br />
cr>uple at the