Cobre High School - Chieftain Yearbook (Bayard, NM)

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Junior Varsity Takes Second In District I I The Junior Varsity Basketball Team ended their season with a record of nine wins and ten losses. They placed second in the district tournament, while Deming made first. The JV ' s started out the season with four straight wins against Lordsburg, Mayfield, Clitf, and Lydia Patterson. Then in the B-Team Tournament held in Deming on December .30, they had their fifth victory against T or C with a score of 84 to 51. The team lost their sixth game to the Deming B-Team, thus placing second in the tournament. Then after losing to Deming die team lost three more games in a row to Deming (again), Lordsburg, and Gadsden. It was not imtil on January 15 that they tasted victory again when they defeated T or C once more. Still their luck didn ' t turn aroimd because they lost five consecutive games to Silver, Tula- rosa. Silver, Las Cruces, and Gad- sden. Everything was looking bad un- til on February 19, they defeated Cliff .59 to 47. In the district tourna- ment that followed they proceeded to beat Tularosa 66 to 64 and Gad- sden 63 to 52. They lost first place to Deming and settled for second in the district. Head coach for the Junior Varsity team was Hector Madrid as- sisted by student Coaches Candy Jau- requi and Albert Sedillo. Michael Piientes scores against Deming in a cnidial game.

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Varsity Squad Third At Invitational Xavier Acosta blocks an attempt by Deniing player Bill Alle anxiously await the outcome. 1 as the rest of the players look on and This year the Cobre varsity squad ended the basketball season with an overall record of 9-9. In the district game competition, Cobre had wins over Socorro, Gadsden, and Tularosa and losses to Socorro, Gadsden, Sil- ver, and Deming. In the non-district competition, Cobre had wins over Lordsburg, Cliff, and Hot Springs and losses to Mayfield, Lydia Patter- son, and Las Cruces. In the in- vitational competition, Cobre came up fighting in die Gallup Invitational to get third place by beating Grants. Returning lettermen were Henry Carrillo, Xavier Acosta, Ray Del- gado, Davy Munoz, and Kito Pedr- aza. Lynford Wilson, a sophomore and a newcomer to the varsity team, was high point man for most of the games and helped lead Cobre through a rough season. The 1972 Indian basketball squad coached bv Mr. Robert Benavidez with the assistance of assistant coach. Hector Madrid, consisted of Henry Car- rillo, Butter Jimenez, Jimmy Bradberrv, Mike Puentes, Larry Sifuentes, Mike Acosta, .Xavier . costa, Lynford Wilson, Hector Ramirez, Davy Nlunoz, Kilo Pedraza, and Rav Del ' gado. The team managers were Bobby Perez, Martin Porter, and Ricky Reiss.

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The Junior Varsity team included in m i i i I I tit Wayne Hoeye, Manager Bobb Espinosi Da id Bobbv Pedraza, Rand Foster Fe]i Sdndo dl Ra K liu ! i ' lU L)fl,i(l imini hi ull ii li ii dnie Bill Coppedge Robert Bums ithui Orti. Cohn and Coach Hector Madiid t Hector Ramirez. Butter Jimenez, il! Rogers, John Cihson. Jerrv Maez.