59 - Tuscarawas County Class "A" Basketball League Scoring (2-5-59)

PHOTO: Port Washington Purple Riders - Left To Right: Junior Larry Hagan, Sophomore Bill Phillips, Coach Thomas Davies, and Junior John Landon. MAP BASKETBALL STRATEGY - Port Washington hasn't had much success this season, but the Purple Riders will be out to pull the upset of the year Friday night when they invade Midvale to help wind up the Tuscarawas County Class "A" League season. Coach Davies, concluding his first year at the helm, goes over some strategy for the Blue Devils with his team veterans.

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Midvale's Blue Devils will be easily favored to come out of Friday night's final activity in the Tuscarawas County "A" League with their second straight unbeaten championship. The Blue Devils, who posted a 61-51 victory over Port Washington in a non-league meeting on the Midvale court December 30, will be after their eighth straight league decision against the Purple Riders tomorrow night. Port hasn't won any of seven previous loop contests and has lost 16 straight league games including back to the 1956-1957 and 1957-1958 seasons. Meanwhile, Tuscarawas Valley's Trojans will play host to Baltic and Garaway invades Tuscarawas. Tuscarawas Valley must get by Baltic (3-4) and then hope for an upset in the Midvale-Port clash in order to gain a share of the championship. The Trojans of Coach Bob Helier have lost only to Midvale in previous loop warfare. Garaway (4-3) will attempt to cement its fourth-place rung in the standings against Tuscarawas (2-5). The Broncos will pin their hopes of a victory on the high-scoring Gary Caviness. Caviness held to the runnerup spot in individual scoring last week despite being limited to 14 points by Tuscasrawas Valley. The Junior veteran has 184 points, 57 points shy of Gnadenhutten's Ron Bradley who finished his league season two weeks ago with 217 points. Tuscasrawas Valley's Ben Price moved into third place with 146 points, replacing Midvale's Ron Breniser who didn't see league activity last week. Breniser skidded to seventh behind Bill Phillips of Port Washington, Jim McAfee of Stone Creek and John Rice of Baltic. With the exception of Port Washington, Friday's games will close the season for all the league teams. Port has a Saturday night engagement with Malvern for its finale.

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INDIVIDUAL LEAGUE SCORING

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1. @Ron Bradley, Gnadenhutten Indians 91-35-217 27.1

2. Gary Caviness, Tuscarawas Broncos 70-24-164 23.4

3. Ben Price, Tuscarawas Valley Trojans 63-20-146 20.9

4. Bill Phillips, Port Washington Purple Riders 53-32-138 19.9

5. @Jim McAfee, Stone Creek Panthers 52-31-135 16.9

6. John Rice, Baltic Eagles 59-16-134 19.1

7. Ron Breniser, Midvale Blue Devils 53-27-133 19.0

8. Roy Buchanan, Tuscarawas Valley Trojans 45-24-114 16.3

9. @Frank Wallick, Strasburg Tigers 46-22-114 14.2

10. Gary Gerber, Baltic Eagles 45-22-112 16.0

11. Larry Yakley, Garaway Pirates 41-28-110 15.8

@ Season Completed

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Thursday, February 5, 1959

The Daily Reporter

Dover, Ohio