The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1919-12-25
Hst rHOOL AND FORESTRY
s. 41Isto. ETBALL GAMES

During the Bottineau
high school and For~ basket ball
teams have played four games, the
High School winning one and losing
one and the Forestry team winning
both games.
On Thursday night the Forestry
boys and the Egeland boys played in
the high school gym and which game
was easily won by the local team with
a score Of 20 to 81. Nelson Ruelle for
the. Forestry team starred in this
game. Friday night the local high
team and the Egeland team met on the
local floor, the Bottineau High win
ming with score of 80 to II. The
Bottineau boys played the Egeland
team off their feet from start to fin
ish, and the latter half of the game
coach Brown sent in number of
second string men. Ralph Ferguson
for the locals scored the most points,
but the entire team showed good work
all through the game. .- ..
Monday evening the High School
and Forestry teams, along with about
thirty local rooters, went to Willow
City to play the high school and town
teams of that city. The high school
game was the first one staged and
which probably was the fastest game
of basketball played around here, con-
sidering the disadvantage the Bottin-
eau boys had in playing on small
floor and in hall with a low ceiling.
Willow City won the game, but not by
great deal as the score was a tie, 20
to 20 when time was called. It was de-
cided to play five minutes more to
settle the game and here Willow
scored three points to Bottineau's one,
making the final score % to 81 in Will
lows favor. The first half ended IL
to 5 in favor of the boys down the
line, which is conclusive evidence that
the Bottineau boys were just getting
on to the small building when time
was called. We say Willow hasn't. a
great deal to feel elated over and by
this we mean that when they come to
Bottineau, which we hope will be soon,
and go up against our team on floor
that is more regulation size than
theirs and then trim our boys they
sure will have reason to feel good, but
until then-well they won at Willow
City by two points.
Immediately following the high
school game the Forestry and the
Willow, City town team appeared on
the floor, and from the gossip on the
sidelines we were led to believe that
the Willow town team would run up
q score probably reaching into three
figures on the Forestry squad. How
ever, we were told after the game, and
by member Of the Willow team, at
that, that the Willow City team goes
into exile for all time after the trim
ming the locals administered them.
The DOWNSTAIRS had the better of the
first half, score to 5 but when the
final whistle blew the score was For7
estry AZ, Willow City Town Team 13.
The Forestry boys really feel
ashamed of themselves, inasmuch as
they are wholly responsible for the
disbanding of the Willow team and
had they known this before hand they
would have kept the score down to
save the Willow team from going to
destruction. In this game Leveille,
Ruelle and Clarence Gorder scored the
most points and the five Bottineau
boys on the floor used good team work
all the way through.
The trip was made by automobile
in all eight cars going.
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