The Sidney herald., 1957-01-03
Miles City and
Clendive Here
This Weekend

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With the New Years entranc'
the Sidney basketball team jump
into the remaining two-thirds o
their seasons schedule this week.
end.
Friday night Miles City, victor
over the Eagles two weeks ago
play on the locals floor and Sat
urday night the Red Devils from
Glendive invade this territory.
The battle Friday night coulc
mean a great deal as to who viii
reign as league champion two
months from now. Whoever win.
between the Cowboys and Eagle.
this week will hold first place
in the Glass A conference.
Custer county leads the league
with a 20 record. Sidney is il
second place with four wins anc
one loss. Other teams in order Of
their rankings are Great Fall:
Central 81, Laurel 81, Billing:
Central 2-2, Hardin 2-2, Dawson
IL, Lewistown IL, Havre l.;
and Glasgow GA.
Sidney in seven games have
won five and lost two. They
have defeated Williston, Glasgow
Hardin, Billings Central ano
Glendive and lost to Dickinson
and Miles City.
The locals have scored 424
points to their opponents 379
This is a game average of 60.t
to SAL. Individually the local
scoring punch is well balanced
with our averaging in the double
figures. Grin Anderson leads with
100 points and a 1913 game aver
age. Tom Quilting has scored 80
points averaging 1928 per game.
Bob Potts has a 11.4 average
scoring 80 points and Jack Mar
ron 70 for an even 10 per game.
Others scoring are Ron Quilting
81, John Marman 80, Keith Win
ter IL, Dick Helten 3 and Doyle
Dotson 2.
Against Miles City Friday
Coach Toby Kangas is undecided
as to his starting five. The ex-
tent of the seriousness of the
ankle injury suffered by forward
Jack Marion in the Glendive
game will not be known until
game time.
Coach Kangas wiz pick his
starting five from Marion, An
derson, Keith Winter, Bob Potts,
Tom Quilting and Ron Quilting.
Custer, coached by Bob Rees,
is expected to start Charles Hood
and John McLain at forwards,
Jim Stephenson at center and
Tom Peterson and John McRae
at the guard spots. Hood and
McLain scored 20 and 10 points
respectively in their teams 60-52
win over the Eagles and pose
the biggest defensive problem for
Sidney to solve.
Coach Ward of Glendive will
start Chest and Darling at or
wards, Schlaugh at center and
Durant and Hubbard at guard.
The Red Devils who are improv-
ing with every game are expect
ed to move into town with a
large following including their
own pep band. Sidney's win over
Dawson 1882 on the latter's
home court vas the first time
since February 1853 that the Ea-
giles could turn the tables at
Glendive.
In the preliminary Friday mite
the Sidney JV's will play a re-
turn game with Glass c Froid.
Froid defeated Coach Don Smad-
ing's five earlier this year 53-45.
Saturday night Glass c Lam
bert will play the preliminary
against the JV's. This high scor-
ing club also holds a victory over
Sidney's B team 1853.
In games two weeks ago the
Sidney B team came from behind
to defeat Bainville 67-73. After
trailing by as much as ten points
in the first half Sidney scored
35 points to their hosts % in
the final two periods for the
victory. Dick Rein and Ron Mum
or led Sidney with IA points each.
Gene Kaufman had IL and Brent
Potts 10. d. Harmon of Balm
vile was high for the night
with %.
Lambert defeated the B team
the Class c teams court IA
So in action December %. The
victors led throughout and held
quarter leads of ITO, 1924, So
Al and IA = SO.
George Lake was high for the
night with rs points. His team
mate Jerry Williams had 10.
For Sidney Kaufman and
Munoz each had Is followed by
Keith Groshart with IL.
In the preliminary of this
game the Lambert B team troun-
ed the Sidney Frosh second
62-26. Lorry Dotson led
lambert with "a. Lynch was high
or Sidney with eight. (.
In other freshman action that
week end Sidney defeated the
3ainville B team 54-37. Bob Jen-
en- led his team with IS. Han
en- and McCracken each had IL
Bainville. s
The following night the Sidney s
rrosh first team stopped the :
Ilendive Frosh 1926. Alfred ]
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