Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1940-02-29
.CHESTERHILL WINS THE
COUNTY, BASKETBALL
TOURNAMENT

Chesterhill won the right to rep
resent Morgan county at the district
tournament this week at New Con
cord, by repeating last years per
formance in winning the county
championship. Not only did the
Chesterhill varsity win the cham
pionship, but the junior high also
took home the trophy. This is the
first time that any one school has
won. both trophies. Chesterhill var
sity won the championship by de-
feating Pennsville, Friday night
1928, and then coming on to win a
smashing victory over Stockport on
Saturday night, 1921. The junior
high also won two games to take
the championship. They defeated
a scrappy team from Stockport on
Thursday night, 1924 then on Sat
urday they proceeded to very de-
cisively trounce Deavertown 38 to
10.
The tournament as whole pre-
sented many interesting and closely
contested games. 1t started off
Thursday night with fight to the
finish battle between York and
Penn junior high. Even though
they fought furiously Penn emerged
from the game on the little end Of
an 1916 score. The next tilt was
another junior high game in which
Stockport gave battle to Marion,
but the latter proved to have too
much power and when final whis-
tie blew Marion had garnered 20
points while holding Stockport to
"a The next game, the first var
sity battle of the tournament, saw
Stockport come from behind, tie up
the score, and then go on to win.
Manchester led all the way until the
final quarter when Stockport knot
ted the score at 25 all, and then go
ahead 28 to Is when the final gun
sounded.
The first encounter scheduled for
Friday night was Junior high be-
tween Manchester and DeavertOwn.
AS the game got under way Coach
Stephenson of Manchester had only
a single substitute. When one of
his players was forced from the
game he had to use this one sub
stitute. AS the game rolled on an
other player was elected from the
game via the personal foul route.
men, Then another player had to
leave the game. The score board
read Is to 13 in favor of Man
chester. Just before the gun cound-
ed Deavertown made another field
goal, tying the score. Coach Ste
phenson then forfeited the game to
Deavertown, rather than play the
overtime with only three men. Thus !
the score was to o. Other games
scheduled for Friday found Ches-
terhill winning over Pennsville by a |
score of 80 to 28. The final tussle
of the evening proved to be another
thriller. Stockport led all the way
with Deavertown making desper-
ate fourth quarter rally, and to no
avail. Deavertown put up strong
fight as shown from the final score,
46 to A.
Saturday night the championship
games were played with Marion jun
ior high defeating DeavertOwn jun
Tor high, 38 to 10. In the final
game of the tournament in which
the championship of Morgan county
was to be decided Marion proved to
be too powerful for the boys from
down the river The final score
read So to 21 in favor of the lads
from Chesterhill.
After the Saturday night games
Gerald Anderson presented the
trophies to the various captains.
To Captain Whitacre of the Chester
hill varsity he presented large
gold trophy: to Captain Bowman OF
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