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Girl Cqgers TakeThe Checotah High school girl’sBasketball team, coached by Perry Bennedy, has enjoyed a most sue* tfmful season. They were confer* ' champions, having remained•ndefeated in conference play.Ttiey placed four girls on the•fr conference team:Bette King, Bobbie Stone, tkwrothy Abbott, all1 Mnforg and ‘ Cleda Latta, a* sopho* | more., - r- The Checotah lassies scored 673 j points all season as compared tor 512 for thdir opponents. Cleda IHat* tabled the local team In. scoring. Abbott was second With 197 arid | JBetty Scott had 106. IThe girls won 15 games and lost j three. They Were defeated hy Little 1 * Kansas In the first rdund of play j fa the Tahlequah tournament. i, In the Connors invitational tourn-’4ament the Checotah team'won the third place trophy by defeating Halbert after suffering defeat b the Braggs team. In the district'• tournament the girls again lost in’ the first game to Warner.There will be seven girls returning next year who played first •tring this year. The are: JoyceHart, Betty Scott, Margaret Smith, Ixmme Luke, Cleda Lattn, Sue Nell Newton and Pat Hughes. .*The team next year will be bolstered by 12 girls who made up-this year’s freshman team.The freshman girls won five games and lost ope. They were-winners of the Warner Junior Hi tournament.O
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McIntosh County Democrat
Checotah, Oklahoma, US
Thu, May 16, 1957
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