The Greene County Guardian, January 31, 1957

Page 2, January 31, 1957 the greene county GUARDIAN RAM RECORD RUINED Bellbrook Dumps Greeneview Small fry and larger fry are getting their cage kicks this week from the Junior High School County Tournament being staged at Greeneview North Junior High School. The first two games were played Tuesday night. An­ other two are slated tonight at 7 and 8 o'clock with the s e m i - f i n a l s scheduled on Fe b . 7 following a Feb. 4 game. That Feb. 4 date also marks the annual foul shoot­ ing contest. The championship g ame , of course, will be played at the Xenia Field House at 6:30 p.m. Feb. 23. In that foulshooting contest, each school is a 11o we d to enter one boy. lie may be either a junior high or senior high student. Dr awi n g s for position of s hoo t i ng will be held im­ mediately before the con­ test at the old Ross gym. The action gets under way at 7 p.m. with each boy's shoot­ ing 25 charity tosses. In e- vent of tie, 25 more shots will be fired to determine the winner. Bellbrook, with aright zone d e f e n s e and a small floor, F r i d a y n i g h t wh i t t l e d Greeneview down to a tie with three other teams at the top of the league tussle. Golden Eagle defenders took the best advantage of their we a p o n s - -a smaller floor than that which the James­ t own c r ew is accustomed, and the dead-eye hitting a- bility of one Fred Fleenor. The 6 3 - 6 0 l os s left the Rams’ record in ruins after seven straight wins and knots the Greene County Basketball League race among Greene- v i ew, Bellbrook, Jefferson and Yellow Springs Bryan. Coach Fred Long's crew ap­ p e a r e d headed for its 12th win of the season after build­ ing a 22-18 lead at the end of the first period. But the zone, which collapsed around Greeneview's tall Jerry Hill, kept the Rams within reason Jefferson Knotted in County League Fight Bowersvillc Jefferson show­ ed itself very much alive and kicking in the Greene Coun­ ty l e a g u e Friday night by turning back the Indians of Cedarville 63-47 at Cedar- ville. J e f f e r s o n hopped off to a 20-7 lead at the end of the first period. After that it was p r e t t y much a walk. John Williams paced the Tigers wi t l i 18 ma r k e r s and his shooting mate, Ron Brown, t h r ew in 15 points. Dave Jeremiah and Nelson Picker­ ing each c o n n e c t e d on 14 points for the Indians. Bowe r s v i l l e now sports a 9-7 mark on the season and 4-1 in league competition. C e d a r v i 1lc stands at 2-13 and 1-4. C e d a r v i l l e c ome s to Greeneview next Friday night while Jefferson hosts Xenia East. Jefferson's reserves won the GREENEVIEW HIGH GLEANINGS preliminary game by 38-35. Results: JEFFERSON--Guthrie, 2-1- 5; Gregory, 1-0-2; Gustaf­ son, 4-2-10; Marshall, 6-1- 13; Brown, 5-5-15; Williams, 9-0-18; Totals, 27-9-63. CEDARVILLE--Jeremiah. 6- 2-14; Fields, 2-1-5; Melton, 2-4-8; Hamer, 3-0-6; Pick­ ering, 6-2-14; Totals, 19- 9-47.' By quarters: Jefferson 20 38 59 63 ar\ril1 f» 7 1 4 3 0 4 7 d u r i n g the second quarter, by intermission, the Eagles held a 38-36 lead. Then the third frame was disasterous to Greeneview. Fred Fleenor of Bellbrook cut loose with six field goals and two foul shots, scoring the same amount of points as the entire Ram team. His running made Drake make two from the field and Pohlman drop­ ped in one. Hi l l , Franklin, Faulkner, Howard and Patterson made merely one field goal apiece d u r i n g the third frame for Greeneview. G r e e n e v i e w now holds a season record of 11 wins a- gainst four losses and a three- one league mark. Results: Greeneview--Franklin, 2- 2-6; Ferguson, 1-0-2; Faulk­ ne r , 5-4-14; Hill, 6-7-19; Howa r d , 4-1-9; Patterson, 4-2-10; Totals, 22-16-60. Be 11 brook--Reeves, 5-3- 13; Fleenor; 6-9-21; Pohlm­ an, 7-5-17; Finafjock, 1-0- 2; Dr a k e , 4-2-10; Totals, 22-19-63. Rv miarrprs: Greeneview 22 36 48.60 Bellbrook 18 38 54 63 „Reseryes: dee review— Leach, 1-2-4; Fhtterson, 0-0-0; Reno, 3-2- 8; Q>le, 3-2-8; Johnson, o-0- o; ftadds, 3-1-7; Cartwright, 2-0-4; Totals, 12-7-31. Bellbrook-- Dumford, 1-0- 2; Cook, 1-2-4; Fleenor, 2- 2 - 6; Smi t h, 2-0-4; Coyan 3 - 8-14; Qborne, 1-0-2; To tals, 10-12-32. By quarters: Greeneview 12 25 25 31 Bellbrook 7 13 23 32 pennant winning feed Wendell Garringer Phone 4-8087 Then, of course, no column tills week would be complete without comment on Friday night's Greeneview tragedy. Question is, whatta ya gon­ na say? Greeneview lost. A string of seven s t r a i g h t victories was smashed. The Rams fell from their p e r c h atop the G r e e n e County Basketball League. • There were r e a s o n s , of course. Bellbrook played a tremendous ball game-that's one of the outstanding rea­ sons. And Greeneview didn't play too hot a ball game-- that's a n o t h e r pretty fair reason. Then there was the zone defense which the Gold­ en Eagles worked to marve­ lous advantage. That's cer­ tainly to their credit. Then there was the small floor. That's no real excuse because the Rams are accus­ t ome d to small floors on which they've played in other games. One of the good points which may result from the game is that the Rams have been shown they can be whipped by another G r e e n e County team. Greeneview supporters c l a i m it shouldn't happen. And maybe it shouldn't. But the Rams have been shown they have to work for e v e r y t h ing they get. Now it's up to Fred Long and his crew to go out and get it—it m e a n i n g , nat.urally, tire league title and the tourna­ ment tiara. They may have to split for the title but the Rams can show their stuff in Tie tournament. This, too, is the time for fans to rally a r o u n d their team; to prove that support 'doesn't falter when a game is lost. P r o p e r encourage­ ment from the s i d e l i n e s , confidence in the Rams’ a- bility to rejuvenate a win­ ning' streak and a strong de­ termination on the part of ■i'the players, themselves— Continued on page 5 Bright spot in the icy roads Monday was no school. Stu- d e n t s e n j o y e d the legal "hookey. By Doris Wigal Greeneview rolled into its second semester this month »nd students in general were glad that half the year was over and seniors are beam­ ing over the s wi f t l y ap­ proaching graduation time. On the social calendar, sen­ iors are sponsoring a dance Friday night after the game with Cedarville. 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