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NAUGHTY OR NICE?
James Cossairt, 7, visits Santa while at Linne’s Bakery yesterday. | photo by JACK BOYCE
Golden Bears Get Big Wins
The Shelbyville High School girls varsity team celebrates a 54-49 win over Franklin Community High School yesterday. | photo by KRISTIAAN RAWLINGS
by KRISTIAAN RAWLINGS
The cheerleaders and student section may have been wearing “ugly” Christmas sweaters yesterday, but the results on the court were beautiful, with both Shelbyville varsity boys and girls basketball teams picking up victories.
The girls (7-4, 3-0) snapped a several-season-long losing streak to Franklin Community (6-8, 3-0) in the afternoon with a 54-49 win, with former Golden Bears Sydney Baker, Ella Johnson, Lilly Johnson and Ava Mummert cheering on the young team.
“Don’t get me wrong, Franklin lost a lot of seniors (since last season),” team captain Hannah Baker, Sydney’s sister, said. “But, they’re still a pretty good team. The fact it’s Franklin - and we beat them - means a lot.”
The Bears started strong against the Grizzly Cubs’ press. When Franklin knocked it in the backcourt in the early moments, Baker recovered and found Maddy Jones for one of her two three-pointers of the quarter.
Shelbyville repeatedly drove the lane, resulting in 8 points for Ash in the first quarter, in addition to inside hits from Baker and Jones, making it 18-9 at the end of the first.
“Driving hard was part of the game plan, because they are really handsy,” Jones said.
Savannah Collins and Addy Marshall also got in on going hard to the center.
“If we didn’t do that, we definitely would have lost,” Baker said. “It was a little rough, but we learned to go into them and draw the foul.”
Although the Cubs’ offensive rebounds kept them in the game, hustle plays kept the Bears in control. Marshall split defenders for a lay-in, Ash got a couple of steals, and Reese Fortune put back consecutive Bears’ misses, as well as grabbed a key rebound as time expired at the half, with the Bears in the lead, 26-20.
The teams fought to a draw in the third. Jones hit two more threes, and Collins scored consecutive three-point plays with the game tightening, giving the home team a 40-34 lead heading to the fourth.
Early in the final quarter, Franklin’s Aubrey Leugers twice stole the ball and scored, tying the game at 40 with five minutes remaining. But a lay-in from Ash, a free throw by Jones and a block by Collins helped the Bears stay on top.
“I think (losing the lead) comes with being a young team,” Jones said. “A lot of us didn’t have any varsity experience, so it has taken us a while (to adjust).”
Baker agreed. “It’s important that we maintain our leads. We need to not allow them back in it.”
After Baker got past multiple defenders for a lay-in and Collins hit two free throws, Baker then made a laser-like assist to Ash, putting the Bears up, 49-43. Another big bucket and subsequent rebound by Fortune with a minute remaining was followed by Jones hitting a free throw with 15 seconds remaining to all but seal the win.
Jones finished with 18, Ash with 14 and Collins scored 8, giving the Golden Bears a four-game winning streak.
“We’re getting to the next level,” Baker said.
The Bears play in a tournament next weekend at Northeastern, north of Richmond.
Ball girls for yesterday’s game were Wren Orem, Jacie McCollum, Althea Brant and Tatum Jones.
Look for details on the boys’ victory in tomorrow’s edition.
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SHS Courier Archive Highlights:
April 17, 1957, Part III
The Shelby County Medical Society and the Medical Auxiliary, an organization of doctors’ wives, announced a new scholarship to an SHS girl interested in nursing. The scholarship was a loan to be repaid once the girl finished her college education.
Charleston dancers for the Spring Festival would be Linda Ash, Nancy Hester, Diana Page and Becky Moore. Janet Briley and Lou Ann Worland would present a tap dance routine. Chorus line members were Ash, Marge Bailey, Sharon Browning, Nadine Dellekamp, Betty Fuller, Martha Henry, Nancy Hester, Karen Hirschauer, Barbara Kent, Judy Kremer, Rose Ann Knoebel, Rose Linville, Nancy Mann, Mary Belle Stuart, Peggy Thomasson and Lou Ann Worland. A “Soft Shoe Dance” would be presented by Briley, Worland, Ash, Moore, Dixie Linville and Rita Sandman.
Sam Sater, class of 1950, a member of the Air Force, had drowned while swimming in Florida. Sam had been active in SHS sports and was a popular vocal soloist, appearing with the band at home basketball games, and won the top music department award, the Music Medal, in 1950.
In a first for SHS baseball, two games would be played at the same time on the local athletic field. While the varsity team battled on the regular diamond, the B team would use the southeast corner of the field. Coach Doc Barnett said several games in the year might be scheduled in the same manner.
Gary Long, senior, “who has received just about every basketball honor given, including a berth on the SCC All-Conference team and the Paul Cross award for the second straight year,” was named among the final 100 players in the running for a berth on the Indiana team in the annual Indiana-Kentucky basketball game sponsored by The Indianapolis Star for the benefit of the blind. Long was one of seven SCC players on the list.
J.M. McKeand had escaped what might have been a serious injury. McKeand had been lighting the boiler in the shower room when the boiler exploded, breaking out a window. McKeand’s hair had been singed.
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: Home sales were up in Shelby County. The average sales price of a closed home over the prior four months was $127,633.
2004: Bob Wade, 78, prepared to step down from his role as Shelby County Commissioner after serving two split terms. Wade had started his career at Flat Rock High School in 1949, as a teacher and coach. He taught everything offered: social studies, health, physical education, industrial arts and driver’s education. He later served as principal of Mount Auburn High School, and remained principal when Mount Auburn was consolidated into Southwestern. He later became superintendent.
1994: Shelbyville Middle School Principal Michael Osha announced he would not be returning as principal the following year.
1984: The new dining room at the Holiday Inn opened.
A Shelbyville News editorial encouraged city officials to reverse a decision to remove 14 trees that merchants wanted removed and replaced with dwarf trees. The News said the trees gave “a nice natural, country contrast to the concrete, brick and blacktop. But more importantly, the trees symbolize the effort to revitalize a sagging downtown.”
1974: Several downtown stores remained open on Sunday for Christmas shopping, including The Browse About, G.C. Murphy Co., Bill Becom’s, Major’s, Lords, Shoe Tree and Compton’s Cow Palace.
1964: Freda Richey, Waldron, won the Jaycee Christmas lighting contest. The judges traveled over 80 miles judging the exhibits.
1954: Three foxes, 1,054 sparrows and “a whale of a lot of other animal enemies of the farmer bit the dust in the Morristown area during the past week, where Future Farmers of America conducted a pest contest,” The Shelbyville News reported.
Four Silver Creek area high school students paid fines plus court costs for assault and battery against a Shelbyville High School sophomore. The incident occurred on S. Harrison St., near the courthouse, following a basketball game.
1944: Pvt. Charles “Bob” Lee, 20, of Marietta, was killed in action in Germany. He had been inducted through the local Selective Service in 1943. The War Department also announced that Okrey Richardson, of rural Shelbyville, 20, had died in Germany. They were the 47th and 48th casualties from Shelby County.
1934: A 25-voice a capella choir from Shelbyville High School sang Christmas carols at Major Hospital, Gordon Children’s home and the county poor farm.
1924: City Street Department employees received a wage increase, raising their hourly pay from 35 cents to 40 cents.
1914: Fire destroyed the school building at Mt. Pisgah, known as the “Bugaboo school.” The fire had likely started from an overheated stove. When students and the teacher, Clayton Martz, had left Monday evening, the fire was left burning in the school building so that it would be warm when the session began on Tuesday. The only remnants of the building were the brick walls.
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