PHOTO: Ron Sakola (right) first-year coach of the Gnadenhutten Indians, was selected Tuscarawas County "Coach of the Year" by his coaching associates, after leading the tribe to a 6-2 league record, good enough for runner-up position to Garaway and Tuscarawas Valley. Posing with him is assistant Ted Martin, whom Sakola, pointed out had a great deal to do with the Indians' success.
PHOTO: Ron Lake of Tuscarawas Valley wraps up one of the biggest moments of his high school basketball career into one big smile of happiness after receiving the "Most Valuable Player" award Saturday night. Lake also gained the 'Coaches' All-County Team. Other members of the squad were teammate Jim Studer, Tom Andreas and Bob Raber of Garaway - Ray Rank of Gnadenhutten - Jim Bender of Port Washington - Gale Sauser of Stone Creek - Larry Lautenschleger of Baltic - Jim Clymer of Strasburg - Phil Meese of Tuscarawas and Neal Beans of Midvale.
PHOTO: An overjoyed Garaway High Basketball Team shows the fruits of victory, including the Daily Reporter Tournament Championship Trophy, after edging Gnadenhutten 58-55 in the finals Saturday night at Dennison.
DENNISON - The finals were treated to a fiery duel between the Pirates (19-4) and Indians (13-8). Three Garaway starters hit the double figure column in the evenly-matched game with buxom Bill Yakley leading the victory on 17 points. Tom Andreas and Bob Raber added 14 and 12, respectively. The latter fouled out with 3:52 to play. Bill Blickensderfer paced the Indians with 17 points and Ray Rank added 12. Gnadenhutten broke out to an 8-0 lead at the outset before Bill Yakley dented the scoring column with a layup shot for the Pirates. From there Gnadenhutten moved to a 12-2 lead and was on top 20-14 at the end of the first quarter. The Pirates began hitting on all gears in the second quarter and tied the game at 26-26 with 2:55 in the half. The lead see-sawed until, with one second to go, Gnaden's Dave Struchen swished a fielder from near the mid-court mark to give the Indians a narrow 32-31 lead at the half. In the second half the game was a nip-and-tuck duel throughout. The biggest margin was 3 points and that was 51-48 and held by the Pirates. Gnaden and Garaway were dead-locked a total of 4 times on the stretch run. Garaway had a few foul shooting opportunities, and therefore had to connect from the field. The Pirates hit 27 of 83 field goal tries for 32.6 percent. They had only 9 foul shooting opportunities and made 4. Gnadenhutten connected 21 times in 58 attempts from the floor for 36.2 percent, while making 13 of 19 free throws.
GARAWAY PIRATES - 58
Bob Raber 5-0-10
Tom Andreas 6-2-14
Bill Yakley 8-1-17
roy Yoder 1-0-2
Bud yhakley 4-0-8
Dan Bleininger 0-0-0
Jarrett Gray 2-1-5
GNADENHUTTEN INDIANS - 55
Ray Rank 5-4-14
Bob Ervin 3-1-7
Brad Kaiser 1-5-7
John Weaver 4-0-8
Dan Blickensderfer 7-3-17
Dave Struchen 1-0-2
Monday, February 27, 1961
The Daily Reporter
Dover, Ohio
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