The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1947-12-24
.MONARCHS LOSE
CLOSE DECISION
TOU.SANDUSKY
Locals Look Ragged
In 1886 Defeat:
But Reserves Still Win

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Turning in one of their rag
gedest performances of the EN-
tire season, Marysville High
Schools Monarchs dropped a
37-36 decision to an inferior but
!. inspired Upper Sandusky team,
Tuesday night, The game w as
played in the Upper Gymnasium.
The Marysville Reserves kept
their slate clean with a 31-17
= conquest of the Upper Reserves.
q Marysville fans-a good $50
SStrong, who followed the team to
Y The game, will probably relate
many raw" decisions by one of
the officials; poor sportsmanship
by Upper Sandusky 'teen-agers,
w o shouted, screamed, booed,
whistled and stamped their feet
everytime Monarch tried a free
throw; and numerous other SIM
liar factors which probably con-
tributed considerably to Upper
Sandusky's narrow, last-second
victory.
That one of the officials was
incompetent, there is no question.
And some of his stupid decisions
zin the closing seconds of play no
doubt weighed heavily in III e
''Rams" favor. That the Upper
Sandusky partisans showed rot
ten sportsmanship is quite true.
The same tactics by Marysville
school kids in the Marysville
gymnasium would probably re-
suit in their eviction from the
game.
But when it comes right
down to the truth of things, these
conditions should not have had
any bearing in the final outcome.
The Monarchs really beat them
selves. With surprising ease, they
jumped into a 90 lead midway
in the first quarter and it looked
like a sad night for Upper.
A But the Rams didn't know
gbout it, They began fighting
back, and carried the battle right
I to the Monarchs door step. Al
I though Marysville, as usual, led
all the height advantage, they
were losing the rebounds at both
ends of the court simply because
Upper Sandusky was Outright
hig them for the ball The Mon
archs look e d, at times, like
bunch of sand-lot kids who
weren't sure of themselves.
And when it came to shooting,
the locals were way, way off.
None of them could hit worth
dime, and on the other hand,
couple of the Upper Sandusky
boys were really on. Kent, in
particular was as hot as fire
engine the second half as he can
ned five lcng, one-handed push
shots from bevond the foul circle.
Foul shooting was allother
factor; the Monarchs got only
six out of Is tries while Up &
made good on nine out of Ia at
tempts from the free throw line.
And in ball handling, Marysville
was only mediocre, fumbling
many times to h a We the alert
Upper Sandusky lads recover.
Marysville held a 9-5 lead at
the close of the first quarter and
was in front 21-14 at half-time.
But in the third stanza, Upper
came from behind to tie the score
at 25-all, and forged into the lead
I'm the final stanza, Then Marys-
vile got a 3-point margin in the
last minute, but forgot to protect
it. Instead of holding the ball,
the Monarchs chose to try for
more point, only to loose the ball.
With about 20 seconds left, Kent
scored for Upper to make it So
SIS for the Monarchs. With only
seconds remaining, Marysville
tried to score again, finally lost
! the ball out of bounds to Upper
with 10 seconds to. go. Mason
canned the winning goal for Up
per with four seconds left to
play.
In the preliminaries>the Little"
,MonarchS won from Upper San
tlsky reserves, 81 IL.