Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 62, Number 46, Decatur, Adams County, 24 February 1964 — Page 16

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SECTIONAL TOURNEY (Continued from BA> Tbe last sectional meet held in Adams county prior to 1940 was in 1931 when Decatur was the tourney site. (There were 767 teams entered that year as compared to oply 597 this year.) All Adams county teams were entered in the field, but the following year, 1932, teams from this county were broken up and sent to two sites. Decatur and Monmouth participated in the sectional battle at

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Fort Wayne and the other aeven competed in a tourney at Bluff ton. Drastic Changes On that January day ip 1940, however, the I.H.S.A.A. announced some radical changes. Decatur would again boat an all-Adams county meet, as this city was awarded the sectional through , elimination of a similar meet at Columbia City. Columbia City was "broken up” that season, with three teams soot to Fort Wayne, two to the Huntington sectional, two to the Pierceton sectional and the eighth to the sectional at But-

Lets take it Eagles! a Drs. Edward & Elizabeth Peck 4 . — Good Luck To All of Adams County’s Fine Teams! PREBLE GARDENS Preble, Ind.

ler. While fans *t Columbia City were probably unhappy, basketball enthusiasts in thi§ county were overjoyed. Competing at Decatur would be the nine quintets from Adams county, Kirkland’s Kangaroos, Jefferson’s Warriors, Monroe’s Bearkatr, Hartford Center’s Gorillas, Pleasant Mills’ Spartans, Berne's Bears, Geneva’s Cardinals, Monmouth’.. Eagles and the host Yellow Jackets. Another change tnat season was one that sent the Adams county winner to Auburn for regional competition with winners from Kendallville, Butler and Pierceton, instead of Fort Wayne. This changed a few years later, however, with the Adams county winner sent to Huntington for region-

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al warfare, and later to Fort Wayne. , Shitfa to Monroe Announcement was made on January 3, 1955, by L. V. Phillips, I.H.S.A.A. commissioner at that time, that the sectional meet in this county would be held in the new Adams Central gymnasium at Monroe that year, instead of the Decatur gymnasium. This was to be the first time since 1940 that the tournament would not be played in Decatur. , The change didn’t affect one team, Monmouth’s Eagles. The Eagles won the last two secionkg at Decatur and continued on for two more titles In 1955 and 1956 at the Monroe gym. So, since the 1940 season, there have been just three , alterations

M.H.S. Leading Scorers BH V Jr ’ ML I*- M - : \ m i ":^| V / *% 1 "'W'l W'' Pi ■ Jr" \ Jr \ / a. I ■■■ M et Mk L^m 1 m w THIS QUARTET of senior started have paced the Eagles during the season. Shown from left to right are Dean Schieferstein, Bob Brandt, Elgene Bienz and Jerry Liby-

in the lipeup of teams and just one gymnasium change. But for the first time In those 24 seasons, teams pther than Just those from Adams county will compete here. Some Worried Many basketball fans in the county were worried abobt Adams county not ovon hosting a meet since school opened this fall. The doors of Hartford Township and Pleasaijt Mills high schools were not reopened last September, leaving Adams county with just six high schools and six teams. The I.H.S.A.A. recommends a minimum of eight and a maximum of 14 teams for sectional tourneys, so if a tourney was to be held at Adams Central, two more clubs would be needed. Commissioner PhU N. Eskew an-

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nounced early this year, however, that Hoagland would be shifted here from Bluffton and Monroeville from Fort Wayne, ending any speculatibn of Adams county losing its tourney. Both Hoagland and Monroeville will add to the talented brand of basketball that is generally seen in the Adams Central gectional. The Wildcats have a strong ball club this season, while Monroeville is in a rebuilding year. Both, however, have the “guns” to go all the way in the #neet here. Down through the yeers, both schools have produced some fine ball teams and Monroeville bolds a distinction no other team in the rural area of Allen county can claim—a Fort Wayne sectional tourney title, won in 1948.