4 County Cagers Receive Honors On INS All-Ohio (3-13-57)

Four Tuscarawas County basketball players, received special honors today. Ronnie Deibel of Stone Creek and Eldon Miller of Gnadenhutten were selected to the second team international News Service All-Ohio Class A Basketball team for the 1956-1957 season. Jerry Froman of Strasburg and Ed Bates of Port Washington were named to the honorable mention list. Ronnie Deibel, who set a new four-year scoring record this year, led the Panthers to one of their best seasons in the school's history. Deibel, a 5-11 senior, scored 399 points during the regular season and tallied 120 more in the county and sectional tournaments. This brought his four-year total to 1905 points. The mark snapped the old record of 1792 points held by Jim Lorenz, a former Stone Creek player and set in the 1951-1952 campaign. Eldon Miller, a 5-11 senior, led the Indians to the county championship, through the sectional and finally lost out in the finals of the district tourney to Midvale. The Tribe posted a record of 23 victories and only four setbacks. Jerry Froman, a 6-0 senior, was the stalwart on the Strasburg team this year which went through the regular season undefeated in county league competition and posted a 17-1 season record. The Tigers were eliminated from the county tourney and finished with a record of 19 wins and only three losses. Ed Bates was the high-scorer during the regular season in the county league with 446 points. Port Washington was also knocked out of action in the county tourney in the semi-finals of the consolation bracket. He ended the season with 582 points. The first team members were Bob Filiere of Troy-Luckey, Jerry Delong of Sidney Holy Angels, Jim Opperman of New Bremen, Larry Kruger of Allensville and Danny Kizer of Concord. The second team, beside Miller and Deibel, included Paul Fike of New Washington, Paul Hoffman of St. Paris and Marvin Engle of Arcanum.
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Wednesday, March 13, 1957
The Daily Reporter
Dover, Ohio