With Lyle high school the distance of from Hennepin to Park avenue away from the Iowa line, the school brings an inter-state squad here for the State Basketball tournament. Three members live in Iowa...

Lyle 48,
Spr. Valley 42
Special to the Minneapolis Tribune

ROCHESTER, Minn.- A taller Lyle High School basketball team made the most of its scoring opportunities Tuesday night before 3,500 fans as it skipped to a 48-42 victory over Spring Valley in the first round of the Region One tournament.

In running its season record to 20-4, Lyle advanced to the finals Friday against either Kasson-Mantorville or Medford, which clash at 8 o'clock tonight.

Wells, Lyle, South St. Paul, Cambridge Win in Regions

By Ted Peterson
Minneapolis Tribune Staff Writer

The list of contenders of for the 1962 state school basketball championship was reduced to 28 Tuesday night as Lyle, Wells, South St. Paul and Cambridge paraded through first round tests in regional eliminations.

A tall Lyle team, District Two champion and conqueror of Albert Lea, moved into the finals of Region One at Rochester when it toppled Spring Valley of District One 48-42 before 3,500 fans.

Mortensen Resigns As Coach at Lyle

Special to Minneapolis Tribune

LYLE, MINN.-- Harry Mortenson (sic), Lyle high school basketball coach, has resigned. During his two years at Lyle his basketball teams won 33 games while losing only eight. He plans to attend the University of Minnesota summer session.

Two State Grid
Coaches Named

By United Press

Ralph Luchsinger, former Drake university athlete, has been signed as high school football coach and athletic director at Faribault.

Luchsinger played guard on the Drake football team for three years between 1934 and 1936. He will assume his new duties in September.

Basketball coach Harry Mortenson today said he is resigning from Lyle high school to attend summer session classes at the University of Minnesota. In the past two seasons, Mortenson's players won 33 games and lost only eight.

Lyle Wins First Football Game

LYLE, MINN.-- Lyle high school played the first football game in its history here Friday and won, 13 to 6 from Elkton. It was a six-man contest.

St. Augustine Beats
Pillsbury, 23 to 13

Austin, Minn., Jan. 14.- St. Augustine high school defeated Pillsbury Academy of Owatonna, 23 to 13, in a basketball tilt played here Saturday night. Daley was the outstanding player for the winning Austin quintet. In a preliminary match, Lyle high school defeated the St. Augustine B team by a nose-out count of 12 to 11.

ROSE CREEK TRIUMPHS

Rose Creek, Minn., Dec. 10. -- Rose Creek high school boys defeated the Lyle high school basketball team, 20 to 6. The Rose Creek girls also won, by a score of 34 to 30.

The Lyle High school baseball team challenges any team in Southern Minnesota, representing the high school of any city of not more than 3,500 inhabitants. For games, address George O. Johnson, Lyle, Minn.

BALL SEASON OPENS AT LYLE

Austin Team Is Defeated by One Run.

(Special Dispatch to The Tribune.)

LYLE, Minn., May 9.- The baseball season was opened here Friday with a game between Austin and Lyle. The local team won out in what was a very clean game by a score of 3 to 2. The batteries were: Garrety and Moonan for Austin, and Myhre, Hildebrand and Johnson for Lyle. Saturday the St. Ansgar High school forfeited a game to Lyle High school. The score was a tie, 1 to 1, at the end of the sixth inning, when the Saints left the field.

Lyle, Minn., July 20. -- Lyle high school team defeated the Madison Sluggers here by a score of 13 to 1.

Lyle-Pacelli girls basketball team tops Sleepy Eye as Walter nets 24

The Lyle-Pacelli girls basketball team beat Sleepy Eye 63-37 in the Hayfield Showcase Saturday.

Brooke Walter scored 24 points for the Athletics (10-2 overall), who started the game on a 24-2 run. Walter hit four three-pointer in the first half and Kristi Fett added 21 points.

Sleepy Eye competed in the state tournament last season.

LYLE — When Gary Meyer built a home on his grandpa’s farm land about a mile from Lyle back in the 1970’s he uncovered something that would help him bring back a family tradition that had laid stagnant for nearly 40 years.

That discovery was a small rock that was buried in the middle of a cow pasture behind his house and Gary’s neighbor informed him that that rock used to be home plate for baseball games. Sure enough, Gary’s grandpa and the Nevada township baseball team had used that pasture space for their home field for nearly a decade back in the 1930s.