Hayden High School - El Burrito Yearbook (Hayden, AZ)

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Hayden opened the season with a 25 to 21 victory over Ray,the conference champions. Eddie Graham, Hayden star athlete, led the scoring with a total of sixteen points. A week later, at Chandler, another win was scored 36 to 21, Graham and hhrquez combining to tally the points. The following week Superior was added to the list of victims by a 56 - 50 score. Playing on the Panthor's small court, the Wolves felt at home, and had an easier time than the score indicates. Graham again led the scoring with 18 points. After these three wins came two close losses, as Coolidge and Florence won by one and three points respectively. Throughout both games Graham's sensational play kept the Wolves constantly within winning distance, and it was not until the final gun that the out- come of either was certain. In the next game with Gilbert, the Vandals were soundly trounced, and went back disgraced by a 55 to 22 score. Graham kept the spectators in an uproar with beautiful shots from all over the court. His total, was, believe it or not, thirty-one points. And then, to wind up a season with four wins, three losses, they fell by the worst score of the season to Casa Grande, 53-45. Given but small chance of winning even a game at the Ehot Cen tral Conference tournament in Lbsa,the Wolves gained the wholesome respect of the bigger schools when,with only six boys playing dur- ing thc entire tournanmnt, they went into the consolation finals. In thc opening game of the tourney, the Wolves came from be- hind to defeat Gilbert 35 - 28. Behind eight points until the last five minutes of the game, they kept the basket ringing, and rang up eighteen points in the final minutes, seventeen of them scored by Graham and Lhrqucz. On the following dny,the Mesa Jackrabbits,on their way to the Championship, soundly trounced Hayden 58 to 25. The highlight of the entire tournament, however, came in the consolations when the Wolves defeated Tempo for the first time in the history of their athletic rtlations. Tempo was later chosen as the sixteenth team for the state tournament. In this game Haydon again came from be- hind to gain a two point lead with only thirty seconds to play. This eliminated Tempo, and sent the Wolves into the consolation finals against Coolidge. Coolidge defeated them 48 - 44, but not before the Wolves had made a record to be proud of.

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