The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1919-03-27
RETURNS
STATE CHAMPIONS
ONCE AGAIN THE Poppy TEAM
FROM THE GATE CITY IS
STATE CHAMPION
THEY GIVE MITCHELL AWFUL DEFEAT
Winning Every Game From The Pre-.
liminaries Up The Team Eemon-
strates Old Time Form

The tournament for the basket ball
championship of the state held at
Huron last week, the Elkton High
School team for the second time dem
o%nstrated that they are the boys with
the punch. Starting with the games
here over a week ago in which they
came off easy v~ictors, Elkton went to
the state meeting and in the first con-
test cleaned up Dell Rapids by a score
of % to IL. In the next round they
defeated Flandreau % to 10. and then
in the evening they fairly drove the
Mitchell team off the map by a score
of AZ to 6. In all their playing Elk
ton always showed that they had
something in reserve and in the finals
there was no evidence hat they had
yet extended themselves. 1t would be
a fine game to see them meet some
team evenly matched with them for
speed, generalship and tactics.
Mitchell was completely o~utclassed
by the fasteners who romped away
with the score from the very begin
ming. Hundreds of people packed the
galleries and side-hnes to see the
game. The contest was the slowest
final game aver seen at a Huron tour
nament.
During the contest Mitchell was held
to n lone field goal. the southerners
making their other four points on free
throws. During the contest Elkton
scored four free throws and 10 field
goals. Mitchell's one field goal was
made at the opening of the first half.
The first period ended with a score
of 18 to 4 after 20 minutes of slow
playing. The fans. however, expected
to see Mitchell take her usual brace
and put up a snaps contest in the
last half. But they were disappoint-
ed. Mitchell started in the second half
In even worse form than she had
played the first. Elkton, on the other
hand. played a faster game,
The teamwork OF Elkton during the
entire game, and throughout the hast
half especially, was exceptionally well
Unanswered. Wherever the ball went
an Elkton man was there to get it.
Time and again the two Elkton for.
wards. Lovely and Trautman, work
ed the ball down to the basket and
shot a goal with ease. Lovely was
especially fast in this regard. Traut-
man, when not assisting Lovely would
now and then cage a long shot
But the defensive tactics of the Elk
ton team were as good as their often
sive playing. Petschow at guard stood
out as a tower of strength for Elkton.
No Mitchell man was able to penetrate
his territory and shoot a field goal.
This is the second time in eight
years that Elkton high school has won
the tournament.
The lineup was as follows: Elkton:
Lovely and Trautman, forwards;
Smith, center; Petschow and Hartwig,
guards. Mitchell: L. Harmon and d.
Harmon, forwards; Smith, center;
Kimpoogt and Giles, guards.
The officials of the tournament,
Wanless and Sheets, gave the utmost
satisfaction and their decisions did
even raise a murmur. They stand
head and shoulders above the great
majority of such officials. There is
some talk in Huron of their local high
school team meeting the Elkton cham
pions. We can assure the people Of
Huron that they will see a great game
as far as one side is concerned, but
If they do not take sorrow calmly
they had better not arrange such a
match.
Brookings county has great pride in
their champions and Brookings takes
off its hat to the snappy, hard play
ing team of Elkton. Well, they have
a Bookings boy. Joe Bergeim, for
principal of their school and coach Of
their team, so there may be a good
reason for 1t after all.