The armory building was located on East Court Street, and served as the gymnasium for indoor high school sports. According to accounts of the game, hundreds crowded in to watch. Playing the first of two twenty minute halves as if they had invented the game, the Sidney girls scored six baskets from the field to one for Piqua to lead 12 to 4. Sidney scored two more baskets in the second half to none for their rival to make the final score 16 to 4. The Daily News reporter summed up the feelings of the Sidney players in the locker room afterwards: "The Sidney girls feel proud of their victory in as much as it was their first game, while the Piqua girls have played a great many games."

In the early days of the sport, there was concern that the stress of physical activity would be hard on the delicate constitutions of the female players. Rules were enacted to protect them. Each player was assigned to a zone consisting of one third of the floor, and could not leave that area. The players could dribble the ball no more than three times before passing it off. As today, a goal was worth two points, and a foul shot one.