PHOTO: 1958-1959 Tuscarawas County Class "A" League All-Stars. Left To Right TOP ROW - Bill Housel of Midvale, Roy Buchanan of Tuscarawas Valley, Ron Breniser of Midvale, Gary Caviness of Tuscarawas, Jim McAfee of Stone Creek. Left To Right BOTTOM ROW - Ben Price of Tuscarawas Valley, Bill Phillips of Port Washington, Charley Stingel of Garaway, Ron Bradley of Gnadenhutten and Gary Gerber of Baltic.*
Small in stature, big in scoring potential and a desire to excel. Those are the outstanding attributes of The Daily Reporter's 1958-1959 All-County Class A League basketball team. Selected from an array of outstanding players were five Seniors, four Juniors and a Sophomore. Scoring ability, value as a team player and defensive ability made up the selection yardstick. The coveted mythical team honor find Midvale's league champs and defending tournament titlists and Tuscarawas Valley receiving two berths apiece. Chosen were Bill Housel and Ron Breniser of Midvale, Ben Price and Roy Buchanan of Tuscarawas Valley, Ron Bradley of Gnadenhutten, Gary Caviness of Tuscarawas, Gary Gerber of Baltic, Jim McAfee of Stone Creek, Bill Phillips of Port Washington and Charley Stingel of Garaway. Bradley, Caviness, Price and Stingel are repeaters from last year, while Price also was honored two years ago. Averaging just 6 feet, the mythical team is one of the most prolific scoring outfits in recent years, totaling 3,466 points or an average of 18.9 points per player per game. Last year's All-County totaled 3,184 points or 17.1 per player. Bradley was the county's leading scorer with 501 points in 19 games for a 26.4 game average. He is one of five players on the team who averaged over 20 per contest. Caviness amassed 383 points in 19 games for a 22.5 average, while Price ended with 389 points in 18 games for a 21.6 average. He is the tallest man on the team at 6-5. Port Washington's 5-5 Phillips is the smallest player on the squad, but rolled up 383 points in 19 games for a 21.3 average. Breniser set the pace for Midvale with his 17-game 21 point-per-game average on 357 points. Baltic's Gerber, although not the leading scorer on the Eagle quintet, is one of the best all-around players to see action on county hardwoods this season. His 17.8 average in 20 games was among the tops, while his defensive abilities impressed many loop coaches. A team can't score unless it has the ball and that is where Midvale's Housel and Tusky Valley's Buchanan come in. At 6-3 and 6-1, they are two of the leading rebounders in the county. They also did their share of scoring with respective 190 and 239 totals. Stingel, the other 6-footer on the team, was the key in a well-balanced Garaway attack. The 6-1 Junior combined team play, scoring ability and defensive work to gain the reputation as one of the most rugged operators in the league. He ended with a 15.4 average in 20 games on 308 points. This year' honorable mention list exeplifies the fact that there were many good players.
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HONORABLE MENTION
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Garyaway - Larry Yakley and Koran Zehnder
Strasburg - Frank Wallick and Nick Haswell
Midvale - Hanes Hairston and Tom Krocker
Tuscarawas Valley - Ron Lake and Clarence Cantrill
Baltic - John Rice
Port Washington - John Landon
Stone Creek - Haarold Lahmers
Tuscarawas - Dick Robinson
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1958-1959 ALL-LEAGUE TEAM
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Ron Bradley, Gnadenhutten Indians, 5-11 Senior, 501 26.4
Ron Breniser, Midvale Blue Devils, 5-11 Junior, 357 21.0
Roy Buchanan, Tuscarawas Valley Trojans, 6-1 Senior, 239 13.3
Gary Caviness, Tuscarawas Broncos, 5-11 Junior, 383 22.5
Gary Gerber, Baltic Eagles, 5-10 Junior, 356 17.8
Bill Housel, Midvale Blue Devils, 6-3 Senior 190 11.2
Jim McAfee, Stone Creek Panthers, 5-7 Senior 360 18.0
Bill Phillips, Port Washington Purple Riders, 5-5 Sophomore, 383 21.3
Ben Price, Tuscarawas Valley Trojans, 6-5 Senior, 389 21.6
Charley Stingel, Garaway Pirates, 6-1 Junior, 308 15.4
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Tuesday, February 10, 1959
Norm Singleton, Sports Editor
The Daily Reporter
Dover, Ohio
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