Boys' Basketball: Collins boys lost to White Oak in the Sectional tournament at Nevada 36-25. Lineup: Miller (f) - 10 pts; Oswalt (f) - 0 pts; Renfeldt (c) - 11 pts; Marsh (g) - 2 pts; Titus (g) - 2 pt; Pritchard (f) - 0 pts; Holland (g) - 0 pts.
Boys Basketball Season Summary - Collins won: Shipley 38-22; Fernald 34-20; Baxter 31-21; Maxwell 48-23; Fernald 66-18; Colo 22-17; Baxter 41-10; Rhodes 37-17; Maxwell 47-18; McCallsburg 32-17; Colo 37-17; Farrar 53-18; County Tourney - Cambridge 32-24. Lost to: Dowling (Des Moines) 49-21; Rhodes 36-33; Melbourne 25-17; Slater 58-35; Zearing 41-35; Steamboat Rock 47-28; Shipley 38-36; County Tourney- Zearing 33-23; Sectional Tourney - White Oak 36-25. Season Record: Thirteen victories, nine games lost.
Boys Basketball team members and individual scoring: Frank Miller (46) f - 290; David (Bud) Renfeldt (45) c - 118; Wm. (Bill) Pritchard (45) f - 106; Curtis Marsh (45) g - 88; Robert (Bob) Titus (46) g - 67; Gordon Holland (46) g - 63; Russell Oswalt (45) f - 35; Ronald Halterman (48) f - 8; Dean Wolf (46) f - 6; Harold Mullihan (47) g; Ronald Stratton (48) g. Coach - Supt. Long. Team Manager - Warren Keagle (45). Cheerleaders: Yvonne Torry (45); Jenalva Elliott (45).
Girls' school basketball tournament - The girls have been divided into six teams. The captain of each team is a first-string player and there is a second-string player on each team. A game is played each day. To date each team has played three games.
Personality of the Week - Name - John Patterson; Age 17; Ambition - to own and operate a 200 acre farm; Favorites: Actors - Abbot and Castello; Actress - Judy Garland; Movie - A Soldier for Dinner; Food - Chicken; Drink - Fountain Coke; Book - Deep Silver; Song - Opus One by Tommy Dorsey; Subject - Farm Shop; Sport - Baseball; Past time - Dancing.
Voc Ag - The Farm Crops Class of the Voc Ag department has set up a laboratory to test seed for farmers of the community. The class will test oats, soybeans, corn, or legume seeds for germination. A charge of 15 cents per sample. All persons wishing tests please bring or send at least one pound of seed.
March 15, 1945 Voters of the School District cast 24 ballots for re-election of C. E. Fish and C. W. Keagle as Board Members for three years. J. R. Witmer was re-elected as Treasurer. Other Board Members are L. D. Holland, Ernest Hofer, D. W. Hubbard and Mrs. O. M. Serbein as Secretary.
Honor Roll Ninth - Gene Atwood, Alma Bach, Doris Caulkins, Dolores Gardner, Darlene Haley, Lois Maxwell, Anna Van Pilsum. Tenth - Wanda Anderson, Ramona Beavers, Dorothy Buck, Katherine Carroll, Donald Huntrods, Joyce Maxwell, Harold Mullihan, Carolyn Partridge, Margie Shearer, Gerald Wood. Eleventh - Patty Fertig, Bernice Hofer, Frank Miller, Donald Snyder, Bob Titus, Albert Vasey. Twelfth - Doris Atkinson, Russ Beavers, Helen Caulkins, Wanda Huntrods, Carol Kimberley, Curt Marsh, Russ Oswalt, Leola Harris.