Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1949-03-11
FAVOR LOCALS
over BEE Gee
Another Meeting With Belle
vue Is Possibility and
Hope of Redskins

the high school office, with
adult ducats on sale at the Lake
Erie Sports store. If Port
Clinton wins tonight, as every
one anticipates, Saturday night
tickets will be on sale at the
sports store.
Port Clinton's Redskins, heroes
in the one-point defeat handed
them by the lucky Bellevue Red
men in the finals of the sectional
Class A tournament in Sandusky,
Saturday night, will travel to the
spacious Toledo University Field
House this Friday night where
they tackle Bowling Green in the
semi-fnals of the district tourna-
ment.
Toledo Libbey, winner of the
sectional tournament in that city,
will meet Napoleon in the first
game this Friday evening at 1880.
Bowling Green-Port Clinton tilt
is scheduled for $3.50 and there
will be a huge delegation of Red
skin fans on hand to cheer Will
bonds players to victory.
Eight other Northwestern Sec
tional winners will compete in
district tournaments to be played
in Findlay and Sandusky. Belle
vue continues in action at San
dusky this Friday night, meeting
Whitmer from the Toledo sec
tional while Mansfield plays Fos-
toria in the other bracket at the
Junior High Auditorium.
Toledo Central, defeated by
Libbey in a one-point verdict last
week, travels to Findlay for the
district event there where the
parochials meet Defiance. Find
Law, the 194S Class A state cham
pions, tangle with the Bucyrus
quintet. -,
The regional tournament will
be played in Toledo, with three
representatives of the northwest
ern district and one from the
Findlay district in action. Winner
Of the regional event goes to the
state tournament to be played in
Columbus.
Another Heartbreaker
With the lead seesawing in the
last half, and the huge crowd OF
partisan fans in an uproar, Sat
urday nights finals at Sandusky
will long be remembered as one of
the most thrilling games in local
cage history.
Port Clinton's eventual defeat
by a mere one point, 53 to 52,
was all the more heartbreaking
to the Redskins and fans because
Willbond's men had fought an up
hill, courageous battle all through
the game.
Harold Masing scored 16 points
to take top honors for the Red
skins. Bill Belshaw was close
behind with Is; Dave KrupI
scored IL; Andy Migala added
seven; Bill Fritz, two, and Curt
Wepler, one.
Tournament Manager Car
Mackey, Sandusky, said that the
Redskin- -Redmen game was the
most thSilling final game in his 19
years experience as tournament
executive.
With Bellevue's Milt Brucknel
hitting for II points in the first
half, the Redskins were behind
Is to 8 at the quarter and 80 to
- 26 at the intermission. Although
the Redskins tied the score at
32-all early in the third period,
Bellevue was again ahead 46 to
40 as the last quarter opened.
Officials Jumper and Wallace
had busy night, calling 20 fouls
against Bellevue and 10 personals
and a technical against Port
Clinton.
Their excellent foul shooting
displayed in the victory over Tiftir
Calvert was missing Saturday
night as the Redskins connected
on only 10 of % attempts. Belle
vue's Redmen were far more ac-
curate at the free-throw line
making II out of 28 attempts.
Foul shots could have won the
game for Port Clinton. but once
again the Bellevue quintet rode
through with some help from
Lady Luck. Bellevue scored II
points on fouls while Port Gin
ton tailed 10 of which five We're
by Dave Krupp.
Late in the second period, the
Redskins caught up with Bellevue
and went ahead 25-24 but the
Redmen spurted to hold the lead
80 to Is, at the half. From ther
on it was hectic game. with th'
|, lead changing IL times and tie'
four times before Jim Leple!
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