THE STAGE WAS SET for the Tuscarawas County Class B League's game of the year last night when the two principals, Midvale and Strasburg, came through their eighth circuit game without a stain. Midvale's Blue Devils had the daylights scared out of them, but outlasted Gnadenhutten 75-68 in a thriller decided at the foul line on the Midvale planks, while Strasburg drove to a 66-30 lacing of outmanned Sugarcreek-Shanesville High at Sugarcreek. Thus the "big one" faces the two rivals who are leading the league. They'll clash at the Strasburg gymnasium next Friday night with the victor apparently destined to rule supreme for the 1955-56 season. Gnadenhutten's loss was only its second in 17 outings, while Midvale, which got revenge for a previous setback inflicted by the Indians, now has won 13 of 17. There were a pair of high-scoring derbies and another spinetingler last night when Port Washington outshot Mineral city 104-84 and Tuscarawas polished off Baltic 96-76 in the racehorse tussles. In the other fray Stone Creek barely got by spunky Bolivar 61-60. Other games next Friday night will find Tusky visiting Port, Bolivar invading Gnaden, Stone Creek going to Dundee and Mineral City showing at Baltic. The standings now look like this:*
1. Strasburg 8-0
2. Midvale 8-0
3. Gnadenhutten 6-2
4. Port Washington 5-3
5. Sugarcreek-Shanesville 5-4
6. Tuscarawas 5-4
7. Stone Creek 3-5
8. Bolivar 2-6
9. Baltic 2-6
10. Mineral City 1-7
11. Dundee 0-8
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Saturday, January 28, 1956
The Daily Reporter
Dover, Ohio
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