Charles Page High School - Sandite Yearbook (Sand Springs, OK)

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Roundballers Have Winning Season The Charles Page High School boys basketball team accomplished many of the goals set by a number of players and had a much better season than Coach Don Johnson anticipated. The roundballers began practicing on October 1, and worked out every day of the week from that day until the end of the season with the exception of game days. The practices, as all practices, were long and hard, but it all seemed to pay off, stated Dean Samuels, senior starter. Although every starter from last year graduated, and only two lettermen returned, the pride and poise of this year's squad enabled them to be a 3-A threat in high school competition. The Sandites defeated powerhouse teams such as Stillwater, Broken Arrow, and Pawhuska to give them a 7-0 record at the beginning of the season. B TEAM- Front row: Major Brown, Mike Cook, Jackie Taylor, Dwayne King. Second Row: Coach jim Baird, Barry Rogers, Rex Thompson, Alan Schinnerer, Coach Calvin Long. Back Row: Rick Perdue, Ieff Billington, Greg Vaughn, Darren Boone, Billy Dudek, Barry Crow. FAKED OUT- Rick Perdue manages to get the ball around a persistant defender by first faking left and then passing right. Nw Dean MXMMMWM

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atb X W it W' JUMP BALL- Damon Downing out-jumps the opposing Cardinal by a foot and places the ball where he wants in the clash with East Central. -I-rl -fr- f qlxq SET SHOT- Dean Samuels takes his time and puts the ball up from the outside with very little effort from the defense. - -f E ' I sm. .E a JUMP SHOT FROM THE CORNER- junior Greg Potter finds that he can hit consistantly from the corner by out-jumping the East Central Cardinal. After the birth of the season the tables seemed to turn for the Sandites with many tragic losses to teams such as Jenks, Stillwater, East Central, Ponca City, and others. Our season was much better than we expected, said head coach Don Johnson. We felt we have improved since the beginning of the season even though we started three juniors. Coach Johnson was forced to open the season with three starting juniors due to the loss of one senior starter, Darrell Smith, who broke his leg just five days before the regular season of play began. During the course of the season, Johnson's roundballers participated in two invitational tournments, Edison and Miami. The Sandites placed fourth in a heartbreaking contest of defeat against the Jenks Trojans in the Edison Invitational, and after a fine start in the Miami . Tournament the Sandites fell to a discouraging third place. I think we did pretty good this year considering how young of a team we were, commented junior starter, Damon Downing, but I guess it wasn't good enough.

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Q-'Q .ff X 1979 SANDITE A TEAM- Front Row: Rusty Shuler, Dean Samuels, John Blake, Alan Schinnerer. Second Row: Billy Dudek, Coach Don johnson, Coach Calvin Long, Coach jim Baird, Rick BACK UNDERNEATH- Senior captain, jeff Fine, fakes a shot a a move on this defender, allowing him to go straight for the bu :we -Ups,-C , Perdue. Back Row: Daryl Smith, Greg Potter, jeff Fine, Rob Miller, Damon Downing, Darren Boone. 1 .. R' nd then uts STRAIGHT OVER THE TOP- junior Damon Downing could hit his cket. P jump shots all night long by jumping above the East Central Cards ,Q ex, an if