The Sidney herald., 1958-03-20

VA
to many seemed the impossible
a history making feat, by win
ming the Class A conference anc
state championship two years in
row..
In 1857 Sidney tied with Grea'
Falls Central for the conference
title and then went on to defeai
the Mustangs for the coveted state
honors. This season there weren't
any ties, in fact no defeats either
Sidney romped through the regu-
lar season without a loss and then
made the Projectors eat more
words by stopping Great Falls
Central, Havre and Miles City
on successive nights to again take
the Montana State highest award,
The Golden Eagles, as they
rightly should be called, now have
a conference win streak that dates
back to February 8, 1857. On that
date following, a defeat by Har-
din the week before, a victory over
the Mustangs started Sidney on
their way to 20 wins without q
loss over Montana's Class A teams.
No other team in the state, in
Guiding Doubled, B and c clubs
can come close to this record. The
1858 team will undoubtedly go
down in history as one of Sidney's
best if not the greatest. A heap of
praise and congratulations are ex-
tended to Coach Toby Kangas, his
staff, and the Golden Eagles.
Readers will be interested in
learning of one of the many rea-
sons why Sidney could not lose
this season.. Their team manager,
Lanny Vader, a very important
cog in the wheel is also a super
stitious individual. Lanny wore
the same shirt during each of the
ri victories this season. He came
close to a few bumps on the head
however last Saturday night
when team members learned he
was considering a change for the
championship game. To the Eagles
that thought was unheard of. To
point out the Importance of what
some would call a silly idea on
the two nights Sidney lost
this season to non-conference Will
hston Lanny had changed shirts.
No wonder the team almost had
kittens" when they heard of an
other possible change before the
final game. II anyone has a few
spare moth balls Lanny could use
them. Another basketball season
starts next November.
Sidney's 81 As win over the
Custer County Cowboys from
City in the Great Falls
Central gym was quite an accom-
Everyone the team
talked to, every paper
they read, every radio they lis
to and TV program they
watched said it couldn't be done.
All this on top of a 20 game win
ming streak and the state cham
pionship in the offing really put
the pressure on the Golden Eagles.
Early moments of the game indi-
Gated this could be the thriller Of
the 16 game tourney. Neither team
could hit consistently and both
played tight ball.
Sidney was out in front 1912
at the end Of the first period and
at halftime.
In a very hectic second period
Miles City led twice 21-20 and
and was never behind by
more than three. With four sec
,nds left in the period and the
score knotted at 24-all, John
Marman drove in for a layup to
1--WE Sidney the two point mar
gin.
Having their best quarter of the
same Sidney, mainly on the
shooting of Ron Quilting and
Craig Price, made II points while
holding Custer to Is in the third
take a 43-37 lead.
However the Cowboys were far
rom beaten yet. Guard Paul Mil
er hit two quick ones from out
close the gap 43-41. But then
Quilting put his teammates out
ahead again with a six point mar
,in on a pair of buckets.
The last five minutes Sidney
vent into their famed ball con-
rol. Miles retaliated with a full
,ourt press only to have the
Champs feed the long passes to
Quilting for some easy layins.
Ron Quilting was high for the
,ame with I'll points, Is of them
n the last two periods. Bob Jen-
en- and Craig Price, the two
egulars returning next year, each
made IL. Four seniors; Quilting,
-ohn Marman, Dale Winter and
Dick Helten played their final
Of basketball for Sidney
Ugh school. Other team members,
III of whom will be back next fall
re: Gene Kaufman, Keith Gros-
art, Ron Munoz, Gary Memoir
is and Al Mann.
Sidney won their way to the
inals after receiving a first round
defeating Great Falls Central
night 55-35 and Havre
'riday 58-48. Miles City had nos
d out Lewistown 40-39 and Bill
Central 1888.
In the Mustang game the Eag-
IS were prepared for their tough
st contest of the season, but 1t
id not materialize. At the start