Coachella Valley Union High School - La Conchilla Yearbook (Coachella, CA)

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For the first time since 1938, a Coachella Bee squad brought a basketball championship to C VUHS, and in the process racked up the best Bee record in the history of the schoolf Coach Lee Fulmer's casabamen lost only one game this season and ended with eighteen consecutive wins. The highly touted Arabees began th e i r championship schedule by crushing the Palm Springs Papooses 44 to 27, then traveled to San Jacinto where they upset the Tiger Cubs 49 to 30. They lived up to expecta- tions by coasting to their third consecutive loop win, defeating the Elsinore Tiger Cubs 50 to 35, and stretched their winning Streak to four with Cl 55 to 52 Captain Mike Castanon and Coach Lee Fulmer are congratulating each other now that win OVGI' The P6t'l'lS CULJS. the long and hard season is over. And well they might, for it's been many years since The Desert Raiders still had another maior hurdle in their pursuit of the championship - the Beaumont Cougar Cubs. The Arabs squeezed by with a score - of 43 to 40 after a hard-fought game and 'then continued their victory streak by edging the Banning Colts 39 to 37. Undefeated in league play, the Arabees rolled over the Hemet Bullpups 55 to 44, ending their highly successful season in first place in RCL play, the only undefeated team in the League. Bee lettermen were Mike Castanon, George Cunningham, Bill Kelley, Walt Criner, Chester Maddox, Clayborne Tribble, and Dick Montoya, manager. Cunningham was named on the All-RCL First Team, Cas- tanon, Kelley and Criner on the Second Team, and Maddox, who was high point man for the Arabs, was given Honorable Mention. we had u team as good as the '53 quintet. B BASKETBALL - Left to right: ROW 'lx David Okerlund, Ron Wilson, Willie Callaway, Clayborne Tribble, Stan Van Gundy, Joe Morris ROW 2: Chester Maddox, Eddie Thomas, Walt Criner, Bill Kelley, George Cunningham, Mike Castanon, Dick Montoya.

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1 'C BASKETBALL - Left to right: ROW 1: Guy Richardson, Joe Maddox, Jim Wade, Art Montoya, Joe Terrones, Joe Cabral. ROW 2: Rudolph Aguirre, Ernie Moreno, Gary Hammons, Harold Fuller, Don Duarte, Tom Sylar, Jerry Dollins, Coach Hackett. The Cee basketballers had a good season this year, winning four games and losing two, thus ending their season in second place in the Eastern-RCL. Coach Walt Hackett's Cees opened their season with a win over the Palm Springs Indians, 21 to 11. Beaumont fell next to the red-hot Arab quintet with a close score of 39 to 35. Still undefeated in League play, the Coachella squad took their next two games from Banning and Palm Springs, but finally ran out of gas when they lost to the Beaumont Cees. The Cees finished their season with a close victory over the Banning Cees, squeaking by 22 to 21. ln the RCL playoffs, the Cees lost to Elsinore by one point in the semi-finals, 25 to 24, and Elsinore went on to win the championship. Cee lettermen this year were Ernie Moreno, Art Montoya, Don Duarte, Joe Maddox, Tom Sylar, Joe Terrones, Jim Wade, and Harold Fuller. Joe Maddox, who led the team in scoring, was co-captain with Harold Fuller. Coach Frank McDaniel's defending RCL champion Dee basketball team had another good season this year. Winning all their league encounters but one entitled them to play in the RCL playoffs and proved them to be basketball stars of tomorrow. To start the ball rolling, they defeated Palm Springs with a score of 20 to 18. Then the locals took .their only loss when the Beaumont team edged by, 21 to 20, after a hard fought battle. The Arabs then continued on their way by trouncing Banning. They defeated Palm Springs in a return league game and later smashed Beaumont 39 to 21. ln their last league encounter the Dees smothered the Banning five 42 to 18. In the RCL playoffs the CV squad won their first game by default and then lost to a superior Hemet squad 32 to 25. Lettermen were Bob Chambers and Tivo Cadena, forwards, Jesse A. Perez, center, Frank Jaramillo, Tony Gonzales and Joe Perez, guards. Leading scorer with 107 points in 13 games, was Tivo Cadena, fol- lowed by Bob Chambers. 'D BASKETBALL - Left to right: ROW 1: Jesse A. Perez, Tony Gonzales, Joe Perez, Fred Jaramillo, Tommy Ellis. ROW 2: Coach Mc- Daniel, John Cochrun, Bill Fariester, Phil Lee, Bob Chambers, Rudolph Aguirre. ,Zi in fl 3 , kr -' 0 . 0