The Wrangell sentinel., 1940-03-22
Wrangell Hi-Lines
DON LEWIS. Editor

 tested basketball thrillers of W. H. S. for the 1940 season, the mighty Seniors upholding tradition togeth- CT with their pride just barely man aged to curb off the threatening att taeks of a determined underclassmen quintet to win by a score of 22-17.
 Spark plugged by Eddie Churchill star of this years varsity and only returning first string letterman for next years squad, the UG's took the first blood of the encounter with Kenny Dolan flashy young redhead cd forward for their team, sinking a beautifully executed one handed field goal from the side line. Yes, sir. it looked even more doubtful when these boys raised the score to' four points with in the next few plays. The tension was relieved however when Alan McCay came through for a beautiful counter from about the foul circle.
 Tn next quarter showed the| youngsters putting on the heat toI leave the Seniors in the rear by al margin of five points. Rallying how. ever before the half was over they managed to grap a One-point lead on the UC's bringing the score up to 12-11. All through the third quarter both teams put up a desper-. ate struggle but neither was able to account for more points than theI other therefore leaving a critical score of 14-14 with but one quarter to go.
 The last quarter got under way. with the driving stamina of the. Seniors coming to the surface only to be rivaled by that of the Church i'll charges Leonard Churchill not. ed dead eye of the Wolf varsity who was a potential threat to any ball. club with his spectacular long shots that always seemed to hit the hoop, 1 polished up his reputation a bit when he executed one of his prize. throws to bring the Seniors two points ahead of their opponents. Be- fore the amazement of the spectators died down. Alan came back down to the Senior side of the center 1ineI to plunk in another long one which he claimed to be a fluke, but if you ask me it was beautiful. This boost ed the score to 18-14 in favor of the ex-varsity. Wow! let's slow down minute! All the time these mercy shots have been going in from the hands of Churchill and McCay, Jack Dolan. noted for getting away with murder on the maple court, has been plunking them in to take high SCOT ing honors for his team. Bert also accounted for lay up. Sundberg spurred every onslaught of his team but was unable to account for any points of his own, but points aren't everything.
 Oh Yeah! before I forget it, yours he got out of it was two personal fouls. Dirty guy Now back to the ball game.
 Just a short time after making his beautiful field goal Len was taken out of the game on fouls. Lewis sub stituted for him and the game got under way with very little change in pace Eddie made good a free throw from the charity line, this was due to a technical foul on WIG. | To add them all up he committed five of these fouls, two bad he wasn't playing he'd been kicked off in the first minute of play. We still can't find any rule in the book about tripping the referee and eal-. ling him a robber, etc. With two minutes left to go the youngsters put on a drive only to be disheart-. ened when Dolan snaked through the mess of players and laid one up to put the future townsters out front by two more points. Eddie converted another one of those charity shots to bring his teams score to a final total of IT. Out of the mad scramble Jack (slick) Dolan made another difficult shot to put the final two. points on the Seniors 22 score.
 Here is a summary of the nights fight:-Seniors (22); Jack Dolan (8); L. Churchill (6), A. McCay (6)I Bert McCay CD, Lewis (0).
 Underclassmen: 17-Eddie Chur- chill (S), Kenny Dolan (6), Ber- nard Iverson (3), Bill Lloyd CO.,, Francis Churchill (O), V. Wies (0).
 Valedictorian-S -Salutatorian Named
 It was announced this week that Harry Sundberg was named Valedic- torian of the class of 40 and Arlene Shain was named Salutatorian.
 These are positions of honor and they were selected for the grades they have received all through High School I can say, and I also think that speak for the rest of the High School, that we are glad to have two so worthy, and well liked to fill these positions.
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