Smithville High School, The Searchlight, 1939, Page 42

Description:	We drew Stinesville for our first opponent in the TriCounty Tournament and won by a score of 23-17 • In the secondgame, Morgantown blasted our hopes of the tourney championship 24-22 in an overtime game.After the tourney, we went to Unionville and haddifficulty jumping the range during the first half, but inthe second half the fast break attack checked and 4 pointsscored in .the last 25 seconds by Hill & Johnson gave theSkibos a victory. The score being 27-24.The next night, January 28, we went to Stinesville andmade a desperate attempt to overcome a half-time score of 15-7y but in the last seconds to play a long shotby Steinhagengave Stinesville a victory over the Skibos by a score of 2525» This was Stinesville’s first win over Smithville in tentrials..January 31, we traveled to Gosport for a 33-15 spankingby the only teem in the state to be unbeaten before thesectional tournament.February 10, Paragon came to the Smithville floor to bebeaten by a 33-26 score. This was the second win for theSkibos in eleven starts with Paragon.February 17, Morgantown won another thriller from theSkibos in eleven starts with Paragon.February 24, The team went to Heltonville, in spite ofthe absence of Hr. Quakenbush having the flu, and won a35-33 victory.March 4, the Smithville versus Bloomington game was anexciting contest during the first half which ended 13-11 infavor of the Panthers. With Mobley out of the line-upbecause of ineligibility and two other regulars weakened bycolds, the Skibos were employing a slow conservative gamebut were unable to rack in on scoring on opportunities thatcame in the second half when the Bloomington defense beganforcing the play. The loss enabled Bloomington to go to a33-13, 52-48 and 39-29 victories over Martinsville,Mooresville and Bloomfield respectively before they bowed toGarfield of Terre Haute in the finals of their regional.
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