Bancroft High School - Bulldog Yearbook (Bancroft, NE)

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THE FINAL TALLIES Varsity Scores (16-8) Wakefield Brownell-Talbot Lyons-Decatur Walthill Winside Homer Stanton Wisner-Pilger Emerson-Hubbard WolthiH Ponca Allen Oakland-Craig Pender Ponca Beemer Beemer Newcastle Macy Walthill Winnebago Wakefield STATE Oxford Junior Varsity (14-2) Wakefield Brownell -Talbot Lyons Decatur Walthill Homer Emerson-Hubbard Allen Beemer Pender Oakland-Craig Beemer Pender Wakefield Dodge Howells Above: Row 1; Student manager Trevvor Roth. Jerry Knuppel. Chad Gettman. Brent Gatzemeyer. Jason Slaughter. Richard Mohl. and Brian Bruning. Row 2: Assistant Coach Barry Gettman. Student manager Steve Smith. Travis Roth. Barry Bonneau. Tim Flock. Jason Wortman. Jason Macklin. Brandon Slaughter. Student manager Tyler Roth, and Head Coach Mike Sjuts. Left: All-Stater Jason Slaughter puts up a shot against the cards in Lincoln. Left ON TO STATE!! Below Coach Mike Sjuts gets his point across.

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B-R Bounces Back Returns To Lincoln When the Panther basketball team could muster only one win during the month of January and its record was dipping near the .500 mark at 9-7, no one thought that a mere month and a half later that B-R would be in Lincoln with its second straight State Tournament berth. Bancroft- Rosalie was on a four-game losing skid until the second quarter of the repnatch with Beemer — whojeorttbr beat B-R 57-51 — whep-tWo reserves, Tim Flock and Branaon Slaughter, ignited B-R's 2 5meback against the 'Cats and set into motion late-season rally. The Panthers pounded Beemer 64-46 and then tore through their final two opponents, Newcastle and Macy, by sizeable margins. After a hard-fought, overtime triumph over Walthill in Subdistricts, B-R' overpowered high-scoring Winnebago for the Subdistrict crown and took out Wakefield 71- 54 in Districts to earn a trip to Lincoln. One of the team's pre-season goals was to return to the State Tournament, a goal they didn't realize was within reach until the turnaround victory over Beemer. Coach Mike Sjuts said of his team, I've been fortunate enough to coach for two years and gone to state twice. Seniors Jason Slaughter and Brent Gatzemeyer were B-R's big guns in 87-88. Slaughter, who averaged 21 points a game, earned first-team All State for Class C-2. Gatzemeyer received Honorable Mention All-State. Newcomers Brian Bruning, Richard Mohl, and Chad Gettman filled the remaining starting spots and averaged nearly 10 points a game. While B-R's 15-8 record wasn't as impressive as 1987's (23-3), the Panthers still rolled over their foes by a 68-58 average.

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A 4-15 record is nothing to laugh about, but alot of great things came out of the 1987-88 Lady Panthers Basketball Season. Improving upon last years 1-18 mark and coming within four or five points of a few more wins, B-R showed they had promise for 1988-89 with only two seniors on the squad. The Lady Panthers, due to only ten players on the entire squad, were forced to start three underclassmen, who gained valuable experience for the years ahead. B-R's 23-game losing streak, which had carried over from the 1987-87 season, was finally broken with a 46-44 squeaker against Macy, a game that saw Junior Danna Hermelbracht score 19 points to power the Lady Panthers. Consistently getting better as the season progressed, the Lady Panthers put together a come back win against Oakland -Craig, 42-40, where B-R rattled off seven points in the final minute and a half to force an overtime. After heartbreakers against Allen and Pender, B-R carried two straight triumphs into sub-districts. The Lady Panthers beat Beemer in the final minute with Kelly Bar-tling's clutch free throw, and next humbled Newcastle's ladies by seven, a game that Coach Gerdes said We did everything right. After the Lady Panther season was ended by Winnebago in subdistricts, Coach Gerdes acknowledged that if B-R could've played 3 or 4 more games they would be closer to the .500 mark. Danna Hermelbracht led the attack for the Lady Panthers as she drained 216 points and brought down 199 rebounds. Senior LeEtta Suhr also helped the team with 163 points and 56 rebounds. 26