The Lucknow Sentinel, 1978-12-13, Page 25Mustang tipaoff tourney
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The second annual Must-
ang basketball tournament
officially opened the,- 78;79
season for the Senior and
Junior boy's teams. The
action started on Friday
night • at 5.30 p.m. as the
Madill Juniors met the Wal-
kerton Sacred Heart Crus-
aders in the opening game.
An easy victory put the Mus-
tangs into a fine position for
Saturday night's champion-
ship. Following the Junior
game, the Senior Mustangs
played the, Walkerton Sen-
iors and in a sloppily -played
exhibition, lost. to the visit-
ors. This meant the Must-
angs were in the Consolation
Round.
A dance with music by
"Turnatable" found both,
Madill students and many
visitors having a good time
(although the basketball
court told me it had trouble
adjusting to the new style of
play).
The
diploma
are
•
coming
With the coming of- Dec-
ember, thoughts at F. E.
Madill have already turned
to Christmas and Christmas
preparations. But this .year is
slightly different as the ex-
citement of the holiday seas-
on temporarily takes a. back-
seat behind the arrival of a
famed basketball team.
Yes folks, those comics of
basketball, the Harlem Dip-
lomats, will be appearing at
Madill on December . 15 at
8.00 p.rn.
Former students will prob-
ably be home from college by
then, so whyinvite them
not vte t m
back for a.couple of hours of
fun -filled excitement?
As well, what about bring-
ing along little brothers and
sisters? This will give them
an excellent opportunity to
see the "finer" points of
basketball and maybe, en-
courage them to join basket-
ball teams when they reach
Madill age.
And teachers? Why even
the most sombre of them will
thrill to the excitement and
comedy of the Diplomats!
This also gives them a
perfect chance to view top-
flight basketball.
Finally, the student body.
This is your "once -in -a life-
time" opportunity, to see
your favourite teacher on a
basketball court. Such "gun-
ners" as Centre -Court Simp-
son (the only shot he knows),
and Elevator Edwards will
dazzle you with their basket-
ball skills. Other stars such
as, Zig-Zag Zankowski,
Whizzing Wood and Hook -
shot Hunter will appear, as
well as the Senior boys'
basketball team. You can't
afford to miss this important
event!
KATHY UNDERWOOD
Saturday's excitement
started at 10.30 a.m. with
two outside Junior teams,
Kincardine and Chesley, bat-
tling for a championship
berth. The final score saw
Kincardine relinquish the
victory to the "black and
gold" and the following
Senior game proved likewise.
The Junior consolation fin-
al began at 3,00 p.m. as the
Kincardine Knights faced
the Walkerton Crusaders.
After a long, turnover -filled
game, the Consolation
Championship finally went to
Walkerton.
At 5.30, the oPening tap of
the Senior Consolation game
was made. In a fast, hustling
game, the Madill Mustangs
fought hard to regain, their
lost pride -- and in an excit-
ing overtime period, Tom
Henderson clinched the vic-
•
tory with an important foul
shot. This , gave the Mus-
tangs a 41-40 decision and
thus, the Consolation title.
The most' important games
of the tourney, the two cham-
pionships, got underway at
6.00 p.m. with the Junior
Final. The Junior Mustangs
obviously outclassed the
Chesley team, as they romp-
ed to an easy 51-17 victory.
Lucknow Sentinel, Wetinesdity, December 13, 1978, -Page 2$
The Senior Championship
hosted Chesley against
Walkerton Sacred Heart and
as the game progressed, it
was clearly evident who the
victors would be. Final score,
Chesley 56, Walkerton 37.
So for the second year,
the Tip -Off tournament has
proved to be exciting and
worthwhile a's an exhibition
of fine high school basket-
ball, Hopefully, Madill bask-
etball fans can look forward
to next year when our teams'
dedication will be rewarded
with the return of both'
championships to F. E. Mad -
KATHY UNDERWOOU
It's all debt and sweat
Like many people in Huron
County I did not eve realize
that the Blyth Summer Festi-
val existed until it was well
into its second season. And I
live only three miles from the`
theatre's door step, for heav-
en's sake! •
One might wonder how a
theatre with such a litnited
range of advertising in an
already limited theatrically -
minded area could survive.
But now they have success-
fully completed their fourth
season with only an eight-
thousdand dollar debt
breathing down their necks.
A theatre, any theatre,
deeds an audience; a large
audience every night ' to
simply break even. Only
through massive advertising
can it draw an audience that
will fill its house. Massive
advertising costs money.
The house at Blyth holds
four -hundred people, A`good
night is of course a full house
-- "four -hundred.. But an •
average is two hundred ;.. I
have seen as few as forty
faithful stragglers file in that
theatre. They are exuberant
at first because, they can pick
any seat they want. But they
soon feel uncomfortable be-
cause they know that tonight
the theatre isn't,. pulling in.
enough money to even fill the
actors' plates.
This year audiences are
looking up (critics are looking
down). I don't believe it ever
hit below ninety. This may
sound good for a small
village like Blyth, but if you
knew that one EGG light
bulb in one farnell cost
thirty-six dollars and you
stop to think that it takes
nearly twelve people from
the audience to pay for the
one light bulb...then you
know it is all sweat and debt.
This season I held the
position of a "techie" or
P.A. (production assistant).
The glamour of the stage
burns low at the stroke of one
o'clock in the morning; or
doing the same scene chang-
es in the same dark black-
ness for the fifteenth time.
Still you wring your hands;
you read and re -read your
stage. notes; panic striken,
that you have forgotten
something vital thatwould
throw an actor or change the
entire plot of the thing.
The twelve and fifteen
hour days are broken only by
.lunch breaks which may not
arrive until midnight -- • if
they indeed arrive. And then
there are the eighteen and
twenty and -even twenty-two
hour days; fondly known as
'all nighters'. Those days can
mean only one thing; a
deadline -- the approach of .a
new opening night. Food and
baths and other, such menial
A. day on the trail
As the time of departure
grew nearer, my enthusiasm
grew weaker. The thought of
trailing 3 miles, • through the
Falconer Ski Trail, with two
dozen agricultural students,
who would be "pole prun-
ing" (what ever that was)
trees didn't strike me as my
idea of a "good time". Little
did I know it would be an
extremely informative exper-
ience.
I discovered that "pole
pruning" is the process of
removing the lower branches
off trees so that they will
make better saw logs. I
learned how to distinguish
several trees and the reasons
why they grow where they
do. We saw a beaver dam
and the problem it caused by
flooding the ski trail.
The students were pleased
to show me the bridge which
they had built in the morning
and assured me that it was.
strong by all getting on it and
jumping. (approx. 1 ton of
good ole "F. E." students).
The fellows cleared all fallen
branches etc. off the trail,
and generally made it safer
and more enjoyable for ski-
ers.
As a person who really
enjoys cross-country skiing, I
really appreciate the work
that these people did with
very little reward other than
the satisfaction of a job well
done. The boys worked un-.
der the supervision of Dan
Webster and Bob Gibson, a
Resource Technician.-
, During the few breaks the
boys had from work the good
packing snow provided excel-
lent entertainment, as did
watching people (like me!)
with a three-foot leg span
trying to cross a four -foot
stream.
Thanks to a group of hard
working "guys" who made
the Palconer "trail a better
place to ski.
ALISON ROBERTS
tasks are pushed aside; they
are thieves of time.' Now only
the ticking of the clock
matters. •
When the deadline has
been met, and you are too
tired to watch the grand
opening, you know it does
not matter. You know the
show will go on without you.
The audience and the
actors are enthralled in the
magic of the stage; as well
they should be. They truly
believe the costumes and set
appeared mystically and in-
stantly before them. This
attitude, though naive as it
may be, allows the techies to
sigh a breath of relief, for
only then do they know they
have successfully . accom-
plished their task. The show
begins. The techies are long
forgotten, asleep in their
beds. They do not even exist.
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Basketball
It's good to know that the
team has finally gotten the
bugs out of their system.
After three quarters of
sloppy play, they finally got
together in the last quarter.
The scene after the first
half was-12Clinton
20 for C lin t
and this trend continued into
the third quarter. But a mad
rally in the last quarter
brought the Mustangs up to
one point behind the home
team. Then Clinton . sunk a
free throw. Brad ;Klos on a
break evened the score at 51
with a little over a minute
left.
Due to some sloppy clock
work, Madill was given the
ball and five seconds to score
and win the' game. On the
last play the shot just missed
going in, after it had been
cleverly set up by the coach.
"Three minutes of over-
time" was declared. The
effects of the last quarter
showed on the Madill play-
ers. The team finally suc-
cumbed to the effects of the
rally. Tired and disappoint-
ed, the boys went down to
defeat, fifty-seven to fifty-
four.
The team learned a valu-
able lesson. You can't win a
game on one quarter.
Therewere two bright
spots for the Mustangs
though. Steve Burke was the
high scorer with seventeen
points. And a Clinton player
scored on his own basket. As
he broke into the clear
yelling "Give it here, before
they get down here", he
gracefully sunk a lay-up into
his own basket.
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