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AGAIN STATE CHAMPIONSMT. PLEASANT RETAINS TITLE FOR BASKET BALL PROWESSDefeats Iowa City In a Whirlwind Finish After Game Was Lost—Accept Challenge of Indiana For March 28thThe Mt. Pleasant High School has ketball team has again won the title of Iowa state champions, the same distinction the team won last year.More than that they traveled the same route, beating Iowa City for the second time and as was done a year ago capturing the title in the very last minutes of the final game.Twice Iowa City, last year and again this year, after defeating all comers fell before the prowess of the lads from Mt. Pleasant.Twice Iowa City holding its own al most to the last have ordered the tom toms beaten, only to fall crushed atthe last minute.The winning of the state championship this year was in detail and in local color wonderfully like that nerve racking game of last year. Last year after the long series of district games and semi-finals, Iowa City and Mt. Pleasant found themselves face to face a. Ames. At the end of the first half of the final game Iowa City had a strong lead. In the second half Mt. Pleasant overcame the lead and turned vistory into defeat.This year it was the same thing Iowa City and Mt. Pleasant faced each other on the floor at Iowa City and at the end of the first half Iowa City • the advantage to the tune of 9 to 3. In the second half Mt. Pleasant came back with a whirlwind finish and won out by a score, close as it was of 17 to 16, taking 14 points in the last half to Iowa City’s 7.Story of the Game.
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Mount Pleasant Daily News
Mount Pleasant, Iowa, US
Mon, Mar 18, 1918
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