Calipatria High School - Hornet Yearbook (Calipatria, CA)

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lBottom Row - Left to Rcightl Coach Erickson, Bill Brown, Emilio Deen, Richard Thurman, Junior Singh, Harry George. lTop Row - Left to Rightl Ernest Morales, Leo Regaldo, Wilbur Crockett, Wayne Chaffer, Joe Jeminez,' Wayne White. 6 Bdflfflldll The '51 basketball season turned out fairly well for the B's . They come closer to the championship than any other team since 1932. They tied all the way until the two final games which the Jr. Hornets dropped. They had good spirit and played good consistent basketball all through the season. The leading scorer was Junior Singh, followed closely by Richard Thur- man and Emilio Deen. The starting five was usually composed of Junior Singh and Harry George as the forwards, lanky Emilio Deen as center and Billy Brown and Richard Thurman as the guards. The Calipat B's started off the '51 season by winning three out of five practice games. This gave them good experience and lots of fire for the league opener with Calexico. Our boys won this game by 40-39. The second game was with El Centro, which was probably the worst game played all season. 'Calipat lost by a six point margin 30-24. The B Hornets came back -with fighting spirit and won over Hol-tville 39-31. Then the team was defeated once again by Imperial, 59-34. This must have been the incentive needed because our B's came back to.win the next four games, beating Brawley twice by scores of 30-22 and 45-30, Holtville 34-19 and El Centro 37-21. At this point, the team was tied for the league lead with Calexico an-u the next game was with the Bulldogs , The boys fought hard but lost,

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KLEFPI' T0 RIGHT! Coach Erickson, Donald Jones, Alvaro Deen, Freddie Singh, Eddie Dickerson, Jim Sparks, Jimmy Dickerson, Steve Benson, Melchor Abubo and Johnny Ramirez 'W' Basketball In the first game of the season Calipat ran over Douglass by a score of 62 to 31. The second game netted a loss to the Calexico Bulldogs by a 57 to 49 count. It was a very close game all the way. In a non-league tilt with Mt. Empire, Calipat's Hornets came from behind to Win by a 37 to 28 score. In the third league tilt Calipat had a very bad night losing to El Centro by a 41 to 28 score. The next game which Calipat's Hornets played netted them a win ov-er Holtville's Vikings by 43 to 25. In a very close game in which Imperial led all the way by la 2 to 6 point margin, Calipat lost by a score of 48 to 45. In another non-league tilt with Mt. Empire the Hornets had a hot first quarter, then cooled off but won eas- ily 38 to 30. The next game with El Centro was another defeat for Calipat. Too much height and backboard control enabled El Centro to win by 41 to 30. In the second game with Holtville the Hornets overcame a half-time de- ficit to win 47 to 38. The first game with Barwley, Calipat led all the way to the last two minutes,andlost as a result of seven free-shots, by a score of 40 to 37. In a second game with Brawley, in which Brawley led all the way, Brawley won by a 40 to 33 score. In their next to the last game the Hornets played the best game of the season. By ,being lucked out on a half court shot with 5 seconts to go, Calipat lost 58'to 56 tothe .Calexico Bulldogs. g' ' H

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the score being 34-30. They were defeated again in the final game by Imperial 52-42. The B's ended their season with a league record of 6 wins, 4 losses and a season record of 10 wins and 6 losses. Richard Thurman acted as captain for the team. When the suits were llung up, the All Valley teams were selected and Junior Singh and Emilio Deen were chosen as forward and guard respectively. GAME SCORES Q LEAGUE GAMES CALIPATRAIA 40 CALEXIO0 39 CALIPATRIA 30 CALECICO 24 OALIIPATRIA 24 EL CENTRO 30 CALQPATRIA 37 CALIPATRIA 39 CALIPATRIA 34 CALTPA'IlRIA. 34 CALIPATRAIA 42 CAL.I.PATR.IA 30 OALIPATRLIA 45 NON -LEAGUE CALIPATRIA 42 CALFEPATRIA 24 30 CALIPATRJIA CALJIPATRIA 22 CALIPATRIA 63 CALIPATRIA 33 EL CENTRO 21 HOLTVILLE 31 HOLTVILLE 31 IIMIPERIAL 59 DILPERIAL 52 BRAWLEY 22 BRAWLEY 30 GAMES H0L'I'VH4LE 26 CALEXICO 32 DOUGLASS 29 OOACI-IELLA 37 MT. EMPIRE 25 MT. EMPIRE 19 el -453'-9