SUGARCREEK - The Garaway Pirates
HEAD COACH: Glenn Bower
5-1 Tuscarawas County League
17-4 Season
TEAM PLAYERS
Don Richardson 105-35-245 6-0 Senior
Errol Miller 75-67-217 5-11 Junior
Tim Miller 85-45-215 5-10 Sophomore
Kim Sedwick 54-67-175 6-1 Sophomore
Rich Richardson 65-60-190 5-5 Senior
Mike Gerber 27-60-114 5-4 Sophomore
Ray Hisrich 7-9-23 5-5 Junior
Dan Hicks 0-2-2 5-11 Junior
NOTE: Mr. Charles Harshbarger was teaching Spanish & American History at Garaway in 1967. He was teaching at Port Washington in the early 60s.
*The teams began to melt away in the 1956-57 season when Bolivar and Mineral City consolidated to form the Tuscarawas Valley Trojans. Then in the 1957-58 season Sugarcreek-Shanesville and Dundee consoladated to form the Garaway Pirates. Stone Creek left the league during the 1965-66 season to merge with the New Philadelphia Quakers. In the same period, Baltic merged with the Garaway Pirates. This left 7 teams in the league vs 10 teams and added two more power-houses in Tuscarawas Valley and Garaway to compete with the likes of Strasburg and Midvale of the old guard, leaving Gnadenhutten, Port Washington and Tuscarawas awash in competing among themselves.
The young and surprising Garaway Pirates lost the Tuscarawas County (Class A) League to the State Champions, Strasburg Tigers, 63-46. Because of the loss of so many veterans, the Pirates were not expected to compete this year. They ended up 5-1 in the League and finished the season at 15-3. The 1st game in the Sectional Tournament was against the Dover St. Joseph's Ramblers, who was having a rather tough season and the Pirates walked off with a 10-point victory 71-61. In the 2nd game, the regenerated Gnaden Indians were looking for another scalp, but fell to the Pirates by 9 points, 57-48. The Dennison St. Mary's Blue Waves powerhouse showed up for the Pirates' 3rd game and promptly had to walk their own plank, 80-51, and ended Garaway's brilliant season at 17-4.
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