The Tuscarawas County Class B Basketball Tournament, now in its 32nd renewal, has reached the end of the trail and who should be scrambling for the honors but the top teams according to the league's regular season standings. As if by some pre-arranged plan, Tuscarawas and Strasburg will meet again in the game county fans have been waiting for since the two battled earlier in the season with the Tigers winning handily. The two titans of the league will clash for the championship crown in the feature game of the evening with Port Washington and Baltic, who deadlocked for the third-place finish in the regular season, tangling in the preliminary for the consolation title. Strasburg and Tuscarawas have already clinched berths in the Class B Sectional to be held here next week along with Killbuck, Dennison, Dover St. Joseph's, Dennison St. Mary's and Millersburg. The winner of the Baltic-Port tussle will be the third representative from the county league. Baltic nipped Midvale 73-70 in the first consolation game at Memorial Hall last night while Port Washington pulled away in the final quarter after trailing most of the way to oust Sugarcreek-Shanesville from the tourney 60-50. Strasburg has won the tournament championship 13 times since its inaugural in 1923. The undefeated Bengals will face a team that will be seeking Tuscarawas' first tournament title since 1935. That was the Broncos only championship in the annual festival. Port Washington 's Purple Riders will be out to annex the first trophy in the school's history. Port has never moved past the county tourney while Baltic was runnerup twice in 1938 and in 1952.*
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Saturday, February 27, 1954
The Daily Reporter
Dover, Ohio
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