The Silver Kewanite - Kewanee Public Library District

The Silver Kewanite
The Basketball Squad
KEWANEE HIGH opened up their 1930-31 basketball season by defeating
Knoxville High in a very close game by a score of 13 to 17. In the second
frame of the year we journeyed to Pekin and received a 26 to 8 defeat by the
fast Pekin team, and the same week were defeated 20 to 9 at East Moline.
In our first intersectional game we played Burgettstown, Pa., and downed them
by a score of 20 to 13. Then we met the speedy Moline five and in one of the
fastest games of the year we turned them back with a 20 to 16 score.
In our return game with Knoxville we were beaten 24 to 16. After the Knoxville
game our team started playing the kind of ball that made them famous in the
tournaments to come. We won the next six games in succession, defeating such
teams as Geneseo, Wethersfield, Monmouth, Streator, Princeton, and Rock Island.
With the exception of the Streator game, Kewanee swept through these with comparative
ease. The game with Streator was the most exciting game of the year.
With the teams tied at 22 all, it was necessary to play an overtime period, in which
Kewanee nosed out a one-point lead.
At Streator we were not so fortunate as before and were defeated in another
close game 24 to 27. Then Galesburg came down with one of the fastest teams
ever to be developed in the "College City" and beat us 31 to 14.
Our return game with Wethersfield was easily won by a score of 23 to 17.
Then at Canton we lost the most heart-breaking game of the year. With the score
tied, one of the Canton men shot a basket from the opposite end of the gym, winning
the game 18 to 16. We closed our scheduled season by defeating Princeton 23 to 18.
THE SECOND TEAM
Kewanee's second team had a very successful season this year, playing a thirteengame
schedule and defeating such teams as Knoxville, Annawan, Wethersfield,
Monmouth, and Princeton.
Moline gave us one of our worst defeats, 24 to 11. In the Geneseo game, one
of the most exciting games of the year, neither team was ever more than one basket
ahead of the other. Kewanee was beaten by one basket.
Among the heart-breakers for the team was undoubtedly the return game with
Knoxville. Here we lost for want of a single foul shot. We also lost to Rock
Island and Galesburg by very close scores. Our seconds downed Wethersfield twice
and divided honors with Knoxville. We beat Princeton twice. We defeated the
first team from Annawan 22 to 13. At Canton, however, much handicapped by
their shortness, our boys were beaten 23 to 8.
Altogether the second team won seven games and lost six, making their percentage
above .500, an excellent record for a second team. Many of their defeats were
by only one or two points, proving that they were even better than the number of
victories would show.
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