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Show Minersville (Oops, Uh Beaver), Flu Bug Win Over Tiqers83-39 The Beaver High cagers, dominated dom-inated by talent from Minersville, Miners-ville, slaughtered the flu ridden rid-den Tigers last Friday, 83-39. But there can be no glory in the Beavers and their unmerciful unmerci-ful Coach Parsons, who left his top players in the game until the fourth quarter and then kept in a couple of starters to maintain their 40 point lead. Coach Nielsen dressed 15 players including 5 freshmen and six sophomores and needed every one of them in order to keep five ball players on their feet. The ill-fated game, which Milford asked to have postpo.nT ed, but was turned down by Beaver Principal, Don Rowley, reportedly, because Beaver's schedule plays two games a week for the rest of the season. sea-son. Coach Nielson, not willing to throw in the towel without a try, pledged he would play the game with freshmen if he had to and that is just about what happened. Most of the squad, except Robt. Edwards who is out with an injured knee, drug them-felves them-felves out of the sick bed, convinced con-vinced the doctor and their parents that they felt fine, and showed up at school on Friday. It only took a few minutes on the playing floor to see that they should have stayed in bed. l'ans of both schools soon realized real-ized that the game should have been postponed, and Principal Rowley hung his head in his hands the second half, but Coach Parsons unaware of anything any-thing but the cheers of the Beaver cheerleaders, kept his regulars in the game and a full court press right to the end. Beaver led 16-11 at the quarter, quar-ter, 42-16 at the half, 61-25 at the three-quarter mark and 83-39 83-39 at the half. Tait who started in Edwards slot, was the only starter to see action in three quarters, and he played less than a half, picking up 5 points before fouling out. Tom Mayer May-er had 10 points to lead the Tigers but played less than a half. Raines was only on the floor about three minutes and the rest of the first eight were equally ineffective. Those getting in the game were: Seniors; T. Mayer and Kris Yardley. Juniors: Rich Smith and Steve Workman. Sophomores: Kevin Barnes, Jimmy Raines, Garland Tait, Alan Mayer, Russell Holm, and Bryan Hanley; Freshmen: Russ Smith, Tom Jones, Roger Barnes, Roger Bradshaw and Bryan Edwards. These in double figures for Beaver were Mike Gillins 21, B. Carter 15, Bryan Eyre 11, and Russell Albrecht 10, all from Minersville. Gale had 6, Mitch Gillins and Gurr 4 each, and Lee 3. |