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The Esko boys basketball team was escorted from Hibbing to home and Hank's Coffee Shop after winning the region and qualifying for the 1955 state tournament. It was the first team from Carlton County to play in the tournament. This week, the last of the starters for the team, Jerry Anderson, died. He is shown in this newspaper photograph third from the left.