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This house at the intersection of Montgomery Street and West South Street is just one in the area fully decked out for the holidays. | photo by KRISTIAAN RAWLINGS
Bears Close Out Long Week With Win
A long week finished on a high note for the Shelbyville High School boys’ basketball team. After taking final exams and two close losses, the Bears (6-2, 2-1) defeated Yorktown (3-4, 0-3), 48-46, Saturday night at home to head into the break.
Opposite the first two games of the week, in which they started fast but lost momentum, Shelbyville didn’t score until mid-way through the first quarter, spotting Yorktown the first seven points.
“We had a slow start shooting, but we knew we were going to get it going,” Cole Schene, who made several key defensive plays, said.
“We knew we had them. It just took a while throughout the game,” Caden Claxton said.
Free throws and a steal by Claxton and inside buckets by Mar Nicholson put the Bears within three with 25 seconds left in the quarter, but the Tigers laid it in on the final possession, giving them a 13-8 lead.
Shelbyville’s shooting struggles continued to start the second, but senior Kenny Owens came off the bench with a three, and Claxton was fouled after a crossover dribble caused trouble for the defenders. He hit both free throws, bringing the Bears within two points. Nicholson later hit Schene underneath with excellent passes for consecutive scores, but Yorktown responded with a three. The Tigers attempted to hold the ball for a final shot, but a melee of turnovers ended up with Yorktown missing, and taking a one-point lead, 20-19, into halftime.
Yorktown’s zone defense to start the second half left senior Damon Badgley open for two three-pointers, making it 25-20, but the Tigers fought back to tie it at 30. Badgley hit another three with under a minute remaining in the third, and Schene stole the ball in the final seconds. The teams entered the fourth knotted up at 35.
Aggressive drives by Claxton to start the fourth put him at the free throw line, where he hit three of four on consecutive trips. On the only miss, Nicholson grabbed the ball while falling out of bounds and threw it off a Yorktown player, giving the Bears the ball again. With just over three minutes left, Claxton went to Nicholson to put the Bears in the lead, 43-41. But Yorktown answered.
With the Bears up by two in the final minute, Yorktown fouled three times to get to five team fouls. With 4.9 seconds left, Badgley hit two free throws to seal the win. Yorktown threw up a three at the buzzer, to make the final score a two-point difference.
The Bears now get a break before the holiday tournament next weekend. They’re looking forward to a few days off.
“We’re not very deep this year,” Schene said, “so we really need this time to get everyone on the team healthy again.”
Nicholson led the team with 13 points. Badgley added 11, Claxton scored 9 and Gavin Reed put in 8.
NOTEBOOK:
Despite reports of a reprieve, Big Lots officials say they are preparing to start going out-of-business sales at all stores, The Franklin Daily Journal reported. A Big Lots official had previously reported the Franklin store would be spared due to community support, but that decision has apparently been reversed. Company officials said they are still hoping the company will be sold, although a tentative deal with Nexus has fallen through.
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SHS Courier Archive Highlights:
January 1976, Part I
Class of 1979 rings would go on sale in February. A $20 deposit was required, and they could be ordered during fourth hour by the cafeteria or at Conner’s Jewelry. The total cost of the rings ranged from $41 to $65.
The SHS Art Guild Club hosted an Old Movie Film Festival, featuring four Charlie Chaplin films in the school cafeteria. Lisa Martin, Guild President, had organized the event.
Lead roles for the upcoming “Fiddler on the Roof” were announced. They would be played by Mike Phillips, Beth Nolley, Terrill Appleby, Lynn Melton, Bob Toon, Ann Hart, Don Gobel, Gena Everman, Hillery Banawitz, Mike Cheatham, Jeff Hart and John Hall.
Thirty-six seniors would be graduating at mid-term, the lowest number in several years.
The SHS intramural league was in full swing. The Continental Kids, led by Mike Peduto and David Frost, were the top team in the freshmen-sophomore division. The second-best team was Kiss, led by John Camp, Buster Blunk and Gregg Pierson. Brad Gould was averaging 18 points per game on the FZ’s. “The No. 4 team in this league is Max Miller Team, led by who else but Max Miller.” Tony Ball and Dan Inlow were the top players on the B-Street Five. Mike Hirschy and Steve Bowers led the Truckin Turkeys. John Werbe and Daryl Whitten led the Braves. The Sweathogs were the top team in the Junior-Senior division. (“The name Sweathog was derived after seeing Brian Jones after football practice.”) They had three of the top six scorers in the league: Gregg Staker, Todd Glidden and Brian Jones. Baker-Campbell Overdrive was another top team, led by Matt Adams and Bill Buchanan. Greg Harris, Dave Ruschhaupt and Kevin McLeod led the Highway Stars. Rick “Doobie” Johnson, Jeff Peters and Scott Brattain led the Disciples. Mark Byrd, Tim Munger and Steve Woods led the Fro Patrol. The Grand Dunk team was led by David Frank, Jeff Frost and Steve Frazee. Roger Porter and Todd Deupree led the Bogarts. Top players from other teams included Archie Antle, Bobo Limpus, Gregg Reinbold, Chuck Phares, Mike Scudder, Joe Collier, Scott Klare, Charley Fisher, Kevin Wise and Phil Wheeler.
This Day in Shelby County History
News around Shelbyville and the surrounding area as reported on or about this date in history. Selections are curated by The Addison Times from Shelby County Public Library Genealogy Department materials.
2014: Calls originating from Jamaica had spammed several local numbers. Pleasant View resident Steve Mohr said he had received several calls, each time the caller asking for $350.
2004: After spending nine months of the previous year on a NATO peacekeeping mission in the former war-torn country of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Staff Sgt. John Smith, 57, Shelbyville, was home. Bosnia had been his first deployment after serving 35 years in the Indiana Army National Guard, Bettina Puckett reported for The Shelbyville News.
1994: A full Coke bottle was thrown through the window of a car in Shelbyville, injuring a Fairland teen who was hit by the bottle and with broken glass. The girl and two other teenagers had been near the intersection of E. Broadway and Noble Street when a vehicle cut them off. They followed the car to a parking lot and a confrontation ensued, resulting in the bottle being thrown through the window. Police were investigating.
1984: New Life United Methodist Church hosted a live nativity scene.
A tree in Morrison Park fell during winds of nearly 40 miles per hour.
Stacey Collingwood, Fountaintown, was crowned queen at Morristown High School’s Homecoming. Her escort was Mike Mullins.
1974: Karen Siebert was named Homecoming Queen at Southwestern, and Patti Meiser was crowned queen at Morristown. She was escorted by Jon Bridges and crowned by Vicki Phares, the 1973 queen.
1964: Boys Club members used scrap lumber donated by Admiral Corp. and rope to build games for underprivileged children, to be distributed by the Salvation Army. Production was headed up by John McKee, Jim Wells, Charles Wilson and John Cole, as well as adults Rudy Thoman and Harold Cherry.
1954: Russell Branson, 47 W. Pennsylvania, placed first in the Jaycee Christmas lighting contest. A trophy was presented by Jerry Vawter and Jack Worland. Other winners were Mr. and Mrs. Emerson Foster, Elmer Critser, Kendall Ellis, Wilbur F. Pell Jr., Mrs. Robert VanCleve and Mt. Pisgah Baptist Church.
The local Salvation Army had the gold wedding ring of a woman who accidentally dropped it in a kettle. The woman had been aware of the incident, and said she would return to the organization’s headquarters to retrieve it, but had yet to do so.
1944: Clarence Hall Jr., Carl Crosby and Denzil Walton, all from Shelbyville and members of the famous Great Lakes Naval Training Center choir, were part of the 1,000-voice choir appearing in a Christmas concert on the Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy radio program.
The Elks Lodge and Meloy Bros., owners of the Strand and Alhambra theatres, hosted a children’s party, a tradition started in 1933.
1934: Robert Heistand, 510 South Harrison, was held up at gun-point after he stepped out of the rear door of his home. Heistand had parked his tea and coffee route truck in the alley behind the house, and was about to do some evening business. The gunman took the $38 on Heistand.
1924: C.P. Sindlinger, following his usual tradition, passed out two 20-pound pigs and a 10-pound bucket of lard to three families in need. The pigs were “certainly the finest pigs ever given away at Christmas time,” The Republican said.
1914: The incandescent lights illuminating the city’s east side were turned back on. Roy Campbell, manager of the water and light plant, said the lights had been turned off several nights’ prior because the mercury rectifier bulb had broken. Three of the bulbs, guaranteed by the manufacturer to burn 300 hours each, lasted less than half an hour. An order was sent to Pittsburgh for more.
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