Alhambra High School - Fortress Yearbook (Phoenix, AZ)

Varsity basketball has good season With a season that had its ups and downs, the Lions' Varsity Basketball season finished strong down the stretch. Throughout most of January, the Lions were without their star center, Mitch Smith, who suffered a broken finger. The team seemed doomed, but they did surprisingly well without their key player. Lions lost in double over- time to number one ranked Central High, falling short by one point 158-592. One February 3, I984, one of the best performances of any players in Alham- bra 's history took place as the Lion's Mitch Smith finished the night with a new school scoring record, an aston- ishing 42 points, as the Lion's walked all over the Bruins, 99-49. The Lion's had agreat year with I2 wins and Il losses. VARSITY BASKETBALL AHS Westwood 44 Thunderbird 53 Corona Del Sol 54 Chandler 60 ,J Arcadia 78 South 49 Maryvale 72 Casa Grande 37 Camelback 53 ' Trevor Browne 6I Cactus 79 Maryvale 57 Central 58 Camelback 63 Trevor Browne 99 South 47 """ fling, Arcadia 7I 5 I2 WINS Il Lossfs Mitch Smith jumps and begins to shoot in . the game against Westwood. OPP 46 49 59 59 60 46 59 42 58 48 75 55 59 64 49 68 59 VARSITY BASKETBALL FRONT ROW - Coach Kemp, Randall Lindsey, Tim Cole, David Sandoval, Travis Mask, Pat Kearney. Roger Wayman BACK ROW - .lim Hanawalt, Richard Gano, Mitch Smith, Gary Thomas, Troy Hardwick. IO2 VARSITY BASKETBALL