Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1922-03-08

either the Senior or Junior tourna-
ment. Yet Yerington came away
bearing both Of the handsome silver
trophies of the Junior Tournament
which are now displayed in the Yering-
ton Drug Stroe window
The boys'team was eliminated from
the Senior Championship i'll their first
game when they met defeat at the
hands OF the team who finally won
the Senior npionship-Sparks. The
2s:-6, does not indicate the good game
Of basketball our boys played
! The defeat was due largely to the fact
that our team, on the Nevada court
for the first time, did not get the gage
OF the basket until the game was almost
over while Sparks knew the floor.
| Their next game was with Las We
gas, from which they emerged victor
ious with score of 8-l3.
The Virginia game proved another
surprise as the Virginia aggregation
thought they had a walk away" and
had intended to make joke of the
whole game. When the final whistle
was blown it seemed that the Y. H S.
boys did not quite fall in with Vir-
ginias little joke for they had rolled
up score of 21-4
The final game in which the boys
tpo fha ch,, .t
was the hardest game they played and
the most exciting. The Pershing
County boys put up wonderful fight,
ticing the score at 1916 and l8. Bas-
ket-ball. such as played by varsity men
was played on both sides. With the
score 1918 the Yerngton boys rolled
i'll two more baskets making the score
22-lS. Then Lovelock spurted up
and made one more basket. Forty
five seconds rcmaincd time enough
in a basketball game to tie the score
or even win the game. But the
lerington boys played as they had
never played before keeping the final
score to 22-20. So the boys Junior
Championship was won.
The girls team was also eliminated
by the team that won the girls Senior
Championship. Fallon the winner OF
last years tournament. The outcome
of the game seemed doubtful until
almost the very end when Mills. the
star forward on the all state team
rolled in three baskets in about two
minutes. After that Fallon kept the
lead with the final score OF 2o-20:
, the lerngton girls rolling up larger
score than any other against the win
ming team and defeated by fewer
points than any other.
Carson the next team proved less
formidable opponent, meeting defeat at
score 1920. Wells. too was easily
defeated, the score beng 1922.
The final game deciding the girls
Junior Championship. was wit h
Sparks who had defeated our team
early III the season and who felt
rather confident OF victory. But the
final score stood 25-l2 in Yerington's
favor.
Both teams played excellent basket
ball; not a single payer showing poor
form. The outstanding player on
the boys team was probably Whitacre.
whose sure eye for long baskets, and
| steady consistent playing in all the
games will probably win him recogni-
| ton among the best players at the
| tournament. Beatrice Thrailkill play
ed the brainest game of any guard on
| any team during the tournament. 1t
her as guard on the first all-state team.
After the games were over the teams
OF all the high schools of the state
were guests OF the University at the
two games between the University of
Nevada and the Olympic Club OF San
Francisco While in Reno the men,
bers OF the girls team were guests
at Reno homes. The boys were the
guests of the S. A. +. fraternity
house The girls taking their meals
at the University dining hall A
dance closed the festivities for another
year
The fine shwing OF both teams
is due to the expert coaching of Miss
Swanson and MIR. McCaughney, who
have given much oi their time and
energy to put out Winning teams. Too
much credit cannot be given them