Diamond Bar High School - Taurus Yearbook (Diamond Bar, CA)

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PAST THE OPPONENT - dribbles Diane Dertadian, senior. Dertadian served the team as co-captain along with senior Sabrina Iordan. TRAVELING? - Bits Sirchia dribbles ' down the court to the Brahma basket. FOCUSED ON THE BASKET - Sophomore Teresa Tyler repares to shoot the ball. This was tylJer's second year on varsity. 118 Sports X Varsity Girls' Basketball

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-ball Faces Changes A new year, a new league, and new coaches are what the junior varsity and freshman boys' basket- ball team faced at the beginning of the year. Some of the problems were solv- ed with the addition of Zelmon McBride as the freshman coach and Charles King as the jv coach, along with existing coach, Kevin Patterson. The jv team was confident that they could win the Sierra League ti- tle, ' said junior Marc Carrido. Their sole purpose was not to win the ti- tle, but to ready players for the tran- sition to varsity players. In fact, at the end of the season some players moved up the the varsity team to enable them to get some experience at the varsity level. Sophomore Gary Hernando com- mented, I like the program of mov- , ,X A X V, Qf-U-' ' I ' 5 ing players up, it provided me with experience I could not have other- wise had. As far as the Freshman team, it was an uphill battle from the begin- ning. They started the season with salvage a 6-16 at season's end. Coach McBride said the roblem with the team was a lJack of fundamentals. But he was also quick to point out morale was always good and it was a lack of practice time that made these problems hard to fix. The team was sometimes forced to prac- tice as late as 5:30-7:00 p.m. because of the overcrowded conditions of the gym. So all was looking good for Brahma basketball as another season ended with teams making good showings. 7 It'sla reat tribute to Diamond Bar that Siey are so successful in sports. It shows their great attitude and determination, said McBride. an 0-6 record but managed to Being on the iunior var- sity basketbal team is really fun. I hope one day to be on the varsity , - - team, says sophomore Boys Iunior Varsity -I-my Clark., Basketball DBHS 40 58 Los Altos DBHS 48 63 Nogales DBHS 45 57 Rowland DBHS 71 38 Charter Oak DBHS 45 44 Wilson DBHS 54 67 Los Altos ,DBHS 39 38 Nogales DBHS 60 42 Rowland DBHS 66 53 Charter Oak DBHS 59 50 Wilson GIVE ME THAT - Freshman Ben McBratney and Ken McDaniels try to pull the rebound away from a Nogales Noble. Nogales was Diamond Bar's opponent during the game. SOPHOMORE BASKETBALL TEAM - IL to Rl: RiChie,Fr , Iohn House, Courtney Iones, Ted Mangh, Harold Shin, Mitch Eckles, Ieff Siao, Damian Dertadian. Not pictured: Coach Charles King. Boys' junior Varsity Basketball X Sports 1 1 7

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Girls Give It a Co The girls' varsity basketball team wasastrongteam who ut inalot of , ' f M S, flygiffg ho'1u1rS,zi1JccirdLng1to Coalgh Davisd .f I e as et a team consiste o I-'-T-'-NOEL-EE two seniors, four juniors, four sophomores, and one freshman. . Dianne Dertadian, senior and , 'C - , .Q Sabrina jordan, junior, were both I I l31uJ'v . , XSL the' returning members and the cap- ' A315 JH- tains ofthe varsity team. I ,.,, We vm sN,,,4,- I Being such a young team affects g L I ,L W 415- , , the play because we have a daily .YT .l 'Z M5 W learninglprocess and in all the little things t at are im ortant it needs a 'real' basketball athlete, said varsi- ty coach Ierry Davis. Coach Davis also added, Coach McCabe is helping me a great deal to im lement the goals of the basketball rogramf' Diamond? Bar girls' basketball was the only team in the Hacienda League to make CIF playoffs four straight years. They were planning to make CIF playoffs for the fifth straight year, according to Coach Davis. In December, the Lady Brahmas were ranked ei hth in the top ten of the valley. Tie Sierra Lea ue is the Strongest girls' basketball Feague in Southern California, said Davis, The six Sierra Leage teams are ranked in the top ten of the valley, five out of the six teams are ranked ahead of Diamond Bar. The basketball team practiced hard during the summer for six weeksg they layed 24 games accor- ding to McCallie. The team is just beginning to et together as a unit, said McCaEe. The girls' strengths are their at- titude, hard work, and team play, said Davis. DHHS DHHS DHHS DHHS DHHS DHHS DHHS f DHHS DHHS ww aww ,W WWW' Girls Varsity Basketball The Sierra League was the strongest girls basketball league Southern California said Coach jerry Davis Los Altos Nogales Rowland Charter Oak Wilson Los Altos Nogales Charter Oaks Wilson 5 SCREEN - Sabrina jordan, junior and Andrea Aiken, junior, guard the Brahma Key. jordan was the teams co-captain. Girls' Varsity Basketball X Sports 119