The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-02-28
Wade Greenies, Moss Point Girls,
Win High School County Cage Crowns

Moss Point, Wade, and Orange
Lake schools took the honors in
the annual Jackson County Bias
ketball Tournament last week
end when the Moss Point girls
team beat the Paseagoula girls
by one point, the Wade boys
shellacked the Paseagoula Pan
theirs 1927, and both the boys
and girls Orange Lake Grammar
school teams took trophies from
Wade and Escatawpa in the fl
mails Saturday night
The tournament, which started
Thursday, February 20, al | p.
M, continued throughout that
day and games were played in
the Mess Point gymnasium at
every hour on the following Fri.
day and Saturday. Finals were
played before a packed audience.
Spectators were lined up and
down the side of the basketball
court, al anxious 10 see the Ill
innate in county basketball COM
petition.
Elimination took a systematic
and steady turn from the very
beginning In the high school
boys classification, Moss Point
sent Vaneleave out with a 55-26
score and Wade trounced over
Ocean Springs 69-18. The Wade
bows then eliminated the Moss
Point boys with a seore of 1922,
sewing up the prospect Of play
ing in the finals. The other boys
high finalist team, Pascagoula,
first eliminated DIV 37-24. then
ST. Martin 1929.
The high school boys finals
were the most eagerly awaited
and exciting game of Saturday
night. The unbeaten Wade team
showed up TO best advantage,
and although the Panthers got
the lead on them in the first
half. they returned in the last
half and caught up with the Pan
theirs Ia final minutes of play,
Wade's Kirkwood rang up six
Of his 10 points cinching the
game Cor his team. Pascagoula
h~iahAseorer was Marlowe Mil
Ter. With f0-posrts Finn tcore
was 34s27.
The unbeaten MossAIsaitt girls
team eased into the finals by
beating Vancleave 1926 and DIV
81 %. The Paseagoula girls sent
the ST. Martin girls out with a
1924 score, then with a 1924
score. eliminated the Wade team,
which had beaten Ocean Springs
50-24.
Finals Close
II WIS a close girls game. The
Tigerettes seemed TO be putting
up a winning fight at first. then
dropped six points behind the
Pantherettes. In the 'ast two
minutes of play, when the score
stood pascagoula %, Moss Point
%, Nell Monk. who was M. p.
high scorer with nine points,
long shotted a beauty into the
nette1 circle, and the finish
whistle blew. PaScagoula high
scorer was Louise Penton. with
II points.
In the grammar school divi-
sion. the Orange Lake school had
some good basketball players.
The bows team played in the Fl
nails against a bigger Wade team.
and defeated that team 20-f3.
Orange Lake boys had defeated
the Gautier team ALL after the
Gautier boys had given DIV a
80 % beating. Escatawpa beat
Pascagoula 21-1l. then Orange
Lake beat that team 1920. The
other side of the race started
when the Vancleave bows eimi-
mated the St. Martin boys. and
the Hurley boys. In the semi fl
mails. Vancleave lost by a II
point margin TO Wade, which had
deafeated Moss Point Is 3. Or
ange Lake high eorer was c,
Brown, with 8 points, and Es-
catawpa's high point man was
Mailman, with 9 popts,
Orange Like grammar girls
won their first place in the tour
nament thus: DIV defeated
Wade. Orange Lake defeated
DIV. St. Martin defeated Moss
Point, making the semifinals
against Orange Lake Hurley de-
feated Gautier and Eseatawpa
beat Vancleave, then Hurley by
IN 1919 score. After defeating
St. Martin 23-t2. the Orange
Lake girls got the trophy over
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