Tournament Firing Opens Wednesday At Memorial Hall (2-13-50)

The Tuscarawas County Class B Tournament returns to Dover Wednesday night after an abscence of one year for a seven-night stand and season records of 11 participating teams indicate one of the most interesting classics of them all. Baltic's Eagles and Port Washington's Purple Riders collide Wednesday at 6:30 in Memorial Hall, launching a cage meet which will continue Thursday, Friday and Saturday of this week and Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of next week. Two of the seeded teams, Sugarcreek-Shanesville's Pirates and the Strasburg Tigers, will see action Wednesday night. The Pirates meet Dundee at 7:45 and the Bengals collide with Bolivar at 9:00pm. Strasburg and the Pirates finished county league play in a tie for second place with 8-2 records. Dundee, under Coach Fritz Jacobs, had a 4-6 league record while Coach Warren Craigo's Bolivar Cardinals posted a 5-5 mark in the conference. Midvale's defending tournament champions (9-1) and winner of the county league title for three consecutive years, swing into action Thursday at 9:45pm against the winner of the Baltic-Port Washington battle.
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The district champion Blue Devils are in the upper bracket with Sugarcreek-Shanesville and Tuscarawas, the league's third place team with a 7-3 mark. Stone Creek's Panthers, coached by Ken Newlon, who finished the season with a 6-4 record, are in the lower bracket with Coach Don Martin's Strasburg Bengals. The Panthers see their first tournament action Thursday night when they clash with Coach Ray Blickensderfer's Gnadenhutten Indians (4-6) at 7:30. Three games, two of them consolation battles in which once-beaten quitets receive a second and final chance to stay on the tournament trail, are scheduled for Friday night. Coach Ray Clever's Tuscarawas Broncos, another of the seeded teams along with Stone Creek and Midvale collide with the winner of the Sugarcreek-Shanesville-Dundee game Friday night at 9:00.
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Mineral City, coached by former Muskingum college star Rich Ronvechio, see action for the first time Saturday night a 9:00 against the winner of the Bolivar-Strasburg game. The Tigers have a 1-9 mark in the conference. Two other consoldation games are scheduled for Saturday night at 6:30 and 7:45. Semi-finals will be played February 22nd with the finals scheduled for Friday, February 24th. Consolation semi-finals will be played February 23rd. Three county teams, the winner, runnerup and consolation winner, will advance to the Dover section tournament in March. Tournament officials will be J.H. Dalyrmple and A.H. Nichol of Akron and Harold Simpson of Newark. Tournament Manager W.E. Laws announced. Trophies will be awarded to the three teams gaining berths in the sectional tournament.
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Monday, February 13, 1950
The Daily Reporter
Dover, Ohio