Stone Creek's Jim Lorenz will bow out of scholastic competition Tuesday night when he and his mates invade Baltic for a non-league engagement. Lorenz will undoubtedly go down in the history of his school as one of the finest athletes ever turned out in Jefferson Township. Picked as a member of the All-League team by the coaches last year, Lorenz proved his ability to spark the team this season when he set a high standard of driving play for his teammates to follow. Although opposing teams have feared the scoring ability of Bill Jones and Ronnie Deibel, they knew that if they could bottle up Lorenz their chances of clipping the Panthers would be very good. The stocky senior has set a new individual scoring mark at Stone Creek with his 42 points garnered against Bolivar two weeks ago. He previously had tied the old mark of 39 when Stone Creek took Magnolia into camp.*
Against Baltic Tuesday night, the Panthers' jumping-jack center will be out to wind up his scholastic career with a standout performance, especially since the game will be played with an old rival. It was against Baltic that Stone Creek came through with their only County Tournament championship in history when they won in 1951. Last year Baltic met the Panthers twice and won 56-42 and 57-52 in an overtime. The Egales took the first meeting between the two teams this year by a 77-76 score and Lorenz, who had been averaging 35 points per game before that tussle, was held to 17. Lorenz is currently leading the scorers in the County with an average of 27 points per game on a total of 405 markers totaled in Stone Creek's 15 contests. There's only one other cager in the county who can come up to Lorenz's mark this season and that one is Gnadenhutten's Carl Gilmore.
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Gilmore has averaged 20.7 points in the 17 games Gnaden has played to date and his 354 points give him a good chance to pass Lorenz's total by the end of the season. Any points he gets in the tournaments will hike that increase and probably once again give the top scoring post to the Indians. Leonard Porter of the Tribe was last year's top scorer. Only Dave O'Hara of Dennison has been able to break into the 200-club from the county's three independent Class B schools. O'Hara's total of 214 points gives him the 11th place in the scoring derby thus far. Tom Ott of Baltic is third behind Lorenz and Gilmore in the present statistics. Ott has 295, Glen Hines of Gnaden has 262 and Bill Jones of Stone Creek is fifth with 255.
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Ott and Strasburg's Jerry Haswell, who has 204 in the 12th position, were the only representatives of the top three clubs in the circuit, while Stone Creek and Gnaden each had two as did Sugarcreek-Shanesville. Nick Mourouzis of Uhrichsville is the only scorer in the Class A ranks to come up with any big contribution and the Tiger marksman has a 19-point average plus per game with 211 collected in 11 games. The Class B Scoring lineup is as follows:
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Jim Lorenz - Stone Creek 156-93-405
Carl Gilmore - Gnadenhutten 119-96-354
Tom Ott - 119-57-295
Glen Hines - Gnadenhutten 110-32-262
Bill Jones - 90-55-235
Max Miller - Sugar-Shanes 101-41-243
D. Slemmer - Dundee 78-76-232
Bill Ray - Sugar-Shanes 84-40-228
Ken Huston - Port Washington 86-50-222
Argento - Mineral City 82-58-221
Dave O'Hara - Dennison 72-70-214
Jerry Haswell - Strasburg 76-32-204
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January 25, 1954
Art Cicconetti
The Daily Reporter
Dover, Ohio
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