PHOTO: The Basketball Season continues last night at Garaway High School when Don Bleininger (33) outjumped Baltic's Jack Miller (24) to start their battle. Others in the picture are, left to right: Geof Stevanus (41), Larry Kaser (14), Roy Yoder (25), Dick Gerber (5), Willis Mullet (23), Don Deetz (23), Wayne Burkey (43) and Dale Lautensleger (12).
SUGARCREEK - Starting right where they left off last year, the Garaway Pirates (1-0) kicked the lid off their 1961-1962 basketball season Thursday night by scuttling the Eagles of Baltic (0-1) 47-37 at Garaway high School. A combination of hot shooting from the outside by Garaway and ice cold accuracy on the part of the Eagles put the game in the victory column in the first half for the host Pirates who in reality were the visitors. The game was originally scheduled for the Baltic gym, but incompleted repairs there forced the Eagles to travel to Garaway to become the "home" team. To add to the confusion, the Baltic Reserves forgot their uniforms and had to go home to pick them up. As a result, both games were late getting started. The "visiting" Pirates got off to a fast start as Roy Yoder dropped in a pair of foul shots with only 3 seconds run off the clock. Big Don Bleininger got the first field goal of the season as he spun around in the pivot and dropped one in from the left side. In no time at all, the Pirates led 15-5, but settled for an 8 point margin, 15-7, at the quarter stop. It wasn't until 2 minutes into the second stanza that Baltic got it's first field goal, a one-hander from the key by Willis Mullet. The Pirates, who had little trouble in solving the Baltic man-to-man defense in the first period, quickly ruined the Eagles' zone attempt in the second frame as they rammed home 6 of 9 attempts, all but one of the buckets coming from the outside. Midway through the fourth period the Pirates scored on 5 straight fouls to take their biggest lead of the game, 47-26. Coach Glenn Bower then cleared his bench and the Eagles got hot, closing out the scoring with 11 straight points. Garaway's Yoder, who sat out most of the third quarter and then fouled out early in the fourth, shared scoring honors with Mullet, each netting 15 points. Yoder connected on 5 of 8 field goal attempts, most of them long one-hand jumpers from the top of the key. Dan Bleininger had 10 points for the Pirates, accounting for 7 of those in the first period. The Pirates hit 42 percent from the field for the night, canning 16 of 38 attempts. Baltic hit 12 of 46 for 26 percent. Garaway's Junior Varsity (1-0)over-came a bad start to romp over the Baltic Reserves (0-1) in the preliminary game, 35-17.
GARAWAY PIRATES - 47
Dan Bleininger 3-4-10
Roy Yoder 5-5-15
Wayne Barky 2-1-5
Geof Stevanus 3-2-8
Don Deetz 3-2-8
Schaar 0-1-1
BALTIC EAGLES - 37
Jack Miller 1-2-4
Dan Lautensleger 1-1-3
Larry Kaser 0-3-3
Dick Gerber 4-0-8
Willis Mullet 5-5-15
Stauffer 1-2-4
Friday, November 17, 1961
The Daily Reporter
Dover, Ohio
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