The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1948-01-22
MONARCHS HIT
TOP PERFORMANCE,
BEAT PLAIN CITY
Final Score AZ : 81
Here Tuesday Evening:
Reserves Also Win

Marysville High School regi-
stored what was probably its
peak performance of the season,
Tuesday evening, in defeating a
stubborn, ard-fighting Pla in
City quintet, 1927. Monarch Re-
serves took their end of the eve
ning's bill, 24-l7.
The Marysville high school
gymnasium was filled to capacity
by $50 p. m, one-half hour be-
fore the prelim was to start. BY
game time, the largest crowd
ever assembled in the gymnasium
with the possible exception of
some Union County tournament
crowdS) was on deck for the
show. A goodly number of them
were from Plain City.
The Varsity contest was nip
and-tuck affair the first quarter,
as the Monarchs and Scotties
traded point for point. Marysville
jumped to a quick four-point
lead on two baskets by Harry
Evans, who played one of his best
games of the season all the way
around, but Minshall and Fergu-
son put the Scotties right back
in the game with two quick
fielders. 1t looked like it would
be a repetition of that 1885
double overtime affair at Plain
City earlier in the year, especially
when it wore on toward the end
of the quarter with the Monarchs
leading only 9-8.
Monarchs In Second
But in the second stanza, a
superior Marysville offensive be-
gan to assert itself, and the Mon
archS began slowly, but surely,
pulling ahead to decisive lead.
During the second quarter,
MarySville hit for l6 points and
held Plain City to six, to make
the count 25-14 at the halfway
point,
The third quarter saw little
scoring, although both teams
missed several certain shots
which just trimmed the bucket
and dropped out. But the Mon
archs still collected 6 points to
only 4 for the Scotties. In the
final canto, although subs played
much of the game for the Mon
archs, the locals again outscored
their border-town visitors, l1-9,
to make the final tally 42-27.
Evans and Jerry Kingsmore
shared scoring honors for Marys-
vile with IL points apiece, but
they had marvellous support from
all their teammates from start
to finish. General floor play and
ball handling was never better,
and on the defensive-well, the
Scotties ordinarily a bunch of
sharp-shooters from any place on
the floor but they got only eight
buckets the entire game out Of
81 tries.
Shooting Also Improves
Marysville's basket shooting
continued to improve as the Mon
archs canned Is of 46 attempts
for a percentage of 32,6. From the
foul line, the Monarchs were not
quite up to their 81 percent GO
of % tries) record at Mt. Gilead
last Friday, but still dropped in
IL out of 20.
For the Scotties, Chuck Fer
guson and Bob Minshall were the
flies in the Monarch's ointment
all evening. Both played steady
ball and were in there trying
every minute but their team, as
a whole, was simply outclassed
by the Monarchs all the way.
The preliminary was much
tighter ball game all the way
with most of the scoring limited
to free throws by both teams.
Marysville was in front through
out, but by close margins: 7-2 at
the end of the first stanza, 1917
at the half, and 1911 at the end
of the third stanza. Bill Worth
ington tailed nine points for
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