Catalina High School - Torch Yearbook (Tucson, AZ)

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CHS Cagers Open Season With Four Victorics The Catalina cagers opened the 1962-63 season with four straight victories, dumping Sunnyside, St. Maryis, Palo Verde, and Pueblo in succession and moved quickly to the top of the league standings. Against the Titans and Warriors CHS head cage coach, Galen Kintner, was able to clear the bench using the whole 15-man squad. In the Pueblo clash the Trojans hit their season high in points as they collected 80. Trojan forward jon Mustonen headed the scoring with 19 points, followed by center Dick Chapel at 15 and guard Craig Gillaspie at 11. On january 4 the Blue and White invaded the Tucson gymnasium and met defeat, 59-47, for the first time this season. A capacity crowd watched Tucsonis LeRoy Taylor and comp-any knock the Trojans from the ranks of the unbeaten and into second place in the city standings. The next night the CHS cagers, be- hind the 13 point efforts of Chapel and Gillaspie, got back on the winning trail as they recorded their first upset of the year by stunning the visiting PU Coyotes, 42-39. The win was not only the fifth in six games for Catalina, but it also started a winning streak that was to last for the next 12 games. On january 11 Rincon invaded the CHS lair and were handed a 56-47 lashing. Chapel, Cordon Pixley and Mustonen all hit in double figures for the Trojans. The next night CHS dumped S-alpointe 52-41. Amphiis mighty midgets became Catalina's next victim as Pixley blistered the nets for 23 points in the 67-53 Out manuevering two Phoenix Union cagemen, Marc Stumpf C320 comes down with a rebound as Craig Gillaspie 1142 looks on. div! S if .. l f J Forward JIM BLOUGH in his first year on the varsity squad is one of eight juniors on the team. jim is also a member of the football team. is .Ffh faTI1LlNn n1'lll ll. .ffl Guard JOE BRECK Copping first team all- known for his ball hand- city honors highlighted ling has been a two-year center DICK CHAPEL'S letterman for the hoo - second ear on varsit P Y Y- sters as well as lettering Dick was the top re- on the golf team. bounder for the Trojans. victory. Mustonen followed with 18. 'Dx gina. Senior guard BOB DON- ALD en'oys flying air- planes wluen he's off the basketball court. Bob is a two year veteran on the Catalina cage squad. REID EHLENBURG, a junior guard, in his first year with the CHS hoop- sters also is Catalina's top broad jumper on the track team in the spring.

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Catalina Cagers Reign As State AA Champions The 1962-63 Trojan basketballers turned out to be the best ever as they brought Catalina its first basket- ball championship in the history of the school. The CHS cagers marched to an outstanding season record of 16 wins and 2 losses and then reeled off four vic- tories in the state tourney to reign as state champs. Under the coaching of first year mentor, Galen Kint- ner, the Trojans opened the season with four straight victories before losing to Tucson High. The Blue and White then rewrote the record books as they won their twelve games in a row before falling to West Phoenix in the final game of the season. At the seasonis end, center Dick Chapel copped first string all-city honors, while senior forward Cor- don Pixley was named to the second team. Three juniors received honorable mention on all-city. They were jon Mustonen, CHS leading scorer, Craig Gillaspie, and Terry Moe. But it was far from over for Catalina as they de- feated North Phoenix and Rincon in the interdivisional playoffs and advanced into the semi-finals of the state tournament. Then trouble struck as Chapel came down with the mumps and the Trojans were without the rebounding and shooting of their all-city star. But with the determination of the team and the coaching of Mr. Kintner the Trojans dumped Mesa and then came back the next night to defeat Phoenix South Mountain to snare the trophy-as ,63 high school basketball champions.

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Guard DAN FLORES, a transfer from Carl Hay- den, p l a y e d defensive back on the Catalina football squad as well as lettering in track. ,asain E Zag junior forward TERRY MOE finding a starting role in his first year on the varsity was known throughout the season for his deadly jump shot. I , 4181: ., Play-making guard C R A I G GILLASPIE, averaging at a 7 point clip for the Trojans, was a great asset with his ball-handling. JON MUSTONEN led the Trojans in scoring for the season with a 11.5 average. Ion, only a jun- ior, will be a great help to the team next year. ,ef ATB! Building hifi sets is a favorite pastime of re- serve center GLEN LAMB. Glen, only a junior, is one of the tall- est members of the team. :fflll lll Senior fo rw ard GOR- DON PIXLEY playing in his second year of var- sity basketball for CHS was named to the sec- ond all-city squad. TWIN 'ima-.. Senior reserve forward ALAN LINDBERG finds water skiing as his favorite hobby. This was Alanis second year on the basketball team. Ill llln Swimming is the favorite hobby of reserve center MARC STUMPF. Marc headed the Trojan bench strength in his second year on the varsity. HTS? Reserve forward, junior JIM MANEVAL, is one of the shortest members of the basketball squad at 5-9. also com- petes on the track team. if if 'YALJ I QV' Jfy The Tucson Daily Citi- z e n , coach-of-the-year, GALEN KINTNER guided the Trojan cage- men to a 20-2 record and the championship, 7 Catalina Goes on Twelve Game Winning Streak The Sunnyside Blue Devils put a scare into the Trojans for the first three quarters but the Blue and White managed to come alive in the final period to record a 47-40 victory on the CHS court. On January 25 the Trojans notched their sixth victory on their cur- rent winning streak downing a game Palo Verde quint, 63-43. The next night Catalina traveled to meet Carl Hayden and came home with a 57-42 win. On Febru- ary 1 Catalina whitewashed the winless Pueblo War- riors 70-41. On February 2 the Trojans made history as they brought the high-flying Tucson Badgers back down to earth as they handed them their first defeat in 34-games by a score of 44-43. The win, in front of a packed house in the CHS gym, put Catalina into a first place tie with THS in the city standings and re- venged the Trojans lone loss of the season..,Chapel led lead. the scoring attack with 14 points while Pixley added 11. On February 8 the Trojans visited the Rincon gymnasium, and had to go in overtime for the first time of the season in defeating the Rangers 48-43. With the score deadlocked at 38 the Trojans went to Work in the overtime period. CHS forward Terry Moe supplied the winning punch by tipping in a missed free throw by joe Breck that gave Catalina a 54-43 Catalina downed Salpointe, 58-45 and Amphi 53-45 to move their win streak to 12 games. The Tro- jans watched their win streak snapped on February 16 as West Phoenix handed them a 86-72 loss. The defeat, second of the season for CHS, ended Catalina's regular season of play.