| Summary: | State Champions 1940-41 Back: Helen Taylor, LaVonne Moug, Alyce Esdaile, Adeline Mourn, Coach Jack Lynch. Front: Berniece Moen, Doris Boyd, Mildred Moen, Lucille Moen, Betty Lentz, Betty Taylor. Betty Taylor, Alyce Esdaile, Helen Taylor, LaVonne Moug, and Adeline Mourn. Jack Lynch was the coach. The team won 1 7 games. The state tournament scores were: Ayr 62- Regan 15 Ayr 54- Halliday 21 Ayr 50 - Norwich 1 6 - Championship All-State First Team Selections were Doris Boyd, Lucille Moen, and Mildred Moen. All-State Second Team selection was Berniece Moen. The final night an estimated 800 were in attendance. Nearly 500 basketball players and fans spent the night in the gym because they became snowbound. Some curled up in chairs and went to sleep, some played basketball and some just visited. Gordon Morrison made his way up town and got rolls and bars for the Ayr Girls Basketball Team. State Champions 1 941 -42 Berniece Moen, Evelyn Holden, Betty Lentz, Adeline Mourn, Charlene Boyd, Coach Jack Lynch, Alyce Esdaile, LaVonne Moug, Doris Boyd, Phyllis Stoll, Lucille Moen. TRIBUTE TO THE AYR GIRLS BY DORIS LENTZ Last year is gone, '42 is here, Folks are wondering what you'll do this year You've done quite well, in fact just swell, In keeping home our victory bell. But just the same I dare to bet- I'm confident that you still rate As the bestest team in all the state. In '38 we did it alone Without our two stars, Marge Stabe and lone, In '39 we did it once more, This time without Lila whom we had before. In 1 940 we lost our Jo But on with the title we did go. In'41 I'm glad that you could You showed that Lentz she wasn't so good. Now is '42 you haven't got Milly, But if you think you can't win, well don't be silly, Milly was good, a darn swell guard, But get in there and fight! It won't be hard. You've got the stuff so make a team So let's go on and fight full steam! You'll win the title, honor too, And show the folks that we're not through (Any game should be a cinch With our own long-legged coach, Lynch) Tish, I hear you're in there, too; Keep using your butt, you'll get through. Betty, you're too darn temperamental. You can't be good and yet be gentle Allie can do it, 'cause I think I know Forget about Jack and the way you'll go! Evelyn's from Buffalo, she should know how Get in there and stop them, you'll be a wow. To Addie Mourn and all the rest, I'm sure that you'll all do your best. But to Doris and Toots and long-legged Lindy I'll just close my mouth before I get windy. But if you play ball I'm sure you'll make The county and district and also the state. So with this poem, uptown I'll tramp And hope when I see you, you'll be the champs! In case this doesn't make much sense Remember, the author is Doris Lentz. The 1941-42 Ayr Girls Basketball Team was the North Dakota Consolidated H igh School League State Champions for the fifth year in a row. The team members were Lucille Moen, Doris Boyd, Berniece Moen, Alyce Esdaile, Evelyn Holden, Betty Lentz, Adeline Mourn, Phyllis Stoll, LaVonne Moug, and Charlene Boyd. Jack Lynch was the coach. This was his fourth year at Ayr. The team won 21 games. The state tournament scores were: Ayr- Foxholm (forfeited) Ayr 43-Greenland 29 Ayr 61 - Buffalo 11 - Championship State First Team selections were Doris Boyd, Lucille Moen, and Berniece Moen. Doris Boyd and Lucille Moen have scored over 1,400 points a piece in five years, and have not played in a losing game. They played in 1 04 games in 5 seasons (1938-1942). Ayr has recorded 4,409 points to only 1,087 for its opposition, better than a 4-1 ratio. The following is an account of an All-Star game as it appeared in the Fargo Forum in 1 942: 69 Scanned with a Zeutschel Zeta book scanner at 300 dpi. Edited with Multi-Page TIFF Editor.
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