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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Feb 04, 1949
Page
8
The Shafter Press sports page, edited by Chuck Morse, covers local prep scores, upcoming games, and athlete profiles with concise game notes and standings.
Shafter High School prepares for second half in Sierra and Kern leagues. The Generals face Tehachapi and Taft on the road as Don Gleason leads Taft in scoring and Tehachapi pursues the league pennant. Shafter sits bottom of Kern while seeking improvement and a chance at respect in district play.
Friday games feature Shafter at Tehachapi and McFarland hosting. Saturday schedules list Tehachapi at McFarland.
Kern County Basketball League scoring shows Roy Packard of Shafter High in fourth place with 46 points. Taft’s Don Gleason leads with 63, followed by Riley of B.B. with 53 and Reynolds of Bakersfield with 47. Paul Cato of Shafter sits ninth with 29, while Frank Wells, another Shafter player, is fifth with 18.
Supremacy in the junior high league is at stake as Shafter High School D and E teams meet in the local gym. The Rio Bravo and Maple quintets also play to avoid finishing last while the E squad leads on win count. The toss up contest pits evenly matched D and E records.
The notice lists general hunting and fishing regulations for striped bass black bass predatory animals lobsters crabs and head trout and salmon with seasonal limits and gear rules. It also promotes a March of Dimes benefit basketball game at Shafter High gym next Tuesday afternoon.
Standings in the three Shafter bowling loops remained unchanged per figures from the Shafter Bowl. The Mixed Foursome standings cover games rolled January 17 while Minor and Major Leagues reflect January 18 and 20 results. Roy Farrel of Richland School attended a Bakersfield basketball game Tuesday night. Glendale College edged the Renegades 56 55 in a tight contest.
Wasco district awarded carpentry and electrical contracts for a $71 425 lighted baseball park at the corner of Poso and Poplar streets. The project will include a 1 000 seat grandstand, dressing rooms, restrooms, concessions, and parking, with completion expected in early April.
Kern County's Taft Merchants, the 1948 national champions, will defend their NCSS title at the national meet in Greeley, Colorado, starting September 4. Taft joins the San Joaquin Valley Amateur Softball League, with a nine team circuit including Hanford, Corcoran, Lindsay, Porterville, Exeter, Visalia, Tulare, Taft and Kingsburg. Les Haney and Pat Peebles are expected to handle pitching again for Taft.
The Richland School varsity basketball team fell 14 to 11 to the High School C s in Tuesday action. Robert Merz led Richland with five points while Clif ford Ratzlaff matched the high for Richland with five, as both teams shared top scoring honors.
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