Minster High
School’s gridders realized today that Lima St. Rose knows something besides
basketball, after establishing a relationship with the Cardinals on the
greensward Saturday evening.
The Cardinals’
ability at the grid pasttime was thrusted upon the
Wildcats in a rather convincing 31-7 manner at the Lima Municipal stadium.
But it was not as
one-sided as the score might tend to indicate, with the setback being partially
attributed to the fumbling committed by Paul Maltinsky’s
boys.
In fact, the first
two touchdowns recorded by the Cardinals un the initial period were the upshot
of Minster bobbles.
One of these
occurred midway in the opening period and was recovered by St. Rose on the
latter’s 44, from where the Cardinals moved to Minster’s three with Jim Kill
slicing off tackle for the touchdown.
Jack O’Connor’s try for the extra point was blocked.
A few moments later
Minster again fumbled, this time with St. Rose gaining possession on the
Wildcats’ 26 and advancing to the five yard stripe,
before Ronnie Klaus went off tackle for the score. O’Connor’s placement attempt was wide.
Kill and Klaus headed
a St. Rose assault in the third period that started on Lima’s 24 and moved to
Minster’s 12, with Kill going around left end for the six pointer.
The Wildcats
finally got their ground offensive to moving after the next kickoff, advancing
all the way from their own 30, mostly through the center of the Cardinal wall
and seconday to the three yard
marker, with Ted Frericks and Jon Hogenkamp
doing the bulk of the ball carrying. Hogenkamp smashed across for the score while Winner booted
the added marker.
Toward the end of
the third quarter, St. Rose again moved within the shadows of Minster’s goal
posts, with Klaus going over on a 14-yard jaunt after the Cardinals had
incurred a penalty for clipping.
In the last period
Klaus, who averaged 6.6 yards in a5 tries, intercepted Hogenkamp’s
pass, with Tom Webb and himself carrying the pigskin to the one
yard line, where Webb pushed it across.
St. Rose’s attempt to carry the extra point across was stopped.
Minster came back again
but fumbled with the Cardinal seconds taking over for the balance of the game.
The Wildcats are
scheduled to entertain Bradford in a home-raising Tri-County league engagement
at Minster next Friday.
Scoring by
quarters:
Lima St. Rose 12 6
7 6 — 31
Minster 0 7
0 0 — 7