Keenesburg High School - Skipper Yearbook (Keenesburg, CO)

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TO VICTORY OVER THE FICHTI SCORE HAS QB-41, BAKER, H ' OUTSCORED VODNECK BY SINGEI THE SKZPPERS INASILITY T3 CASH IN AT THE FREE THROW LINE PROVED TO BE THEIR DOWHFALL IN SANK 7 CHARITY TOSSES OUT OF IN THE NEXT LEAGUE GAME PERS EKED A 42-AO IIN OVER NG SKIPPER TEAM, THE FINAL IGH SCORING SKIPPER CENTER, HG THE BASKET FOR 27 POINTS , THIS GAME AS THEY ONLY 77. PLAYED AT HIGGINS, THE SKEP- THE TIGER CAGERS AS ONLY TWO REGULARS PLAYED, THREE SKIPPER PLAYERS SAW THE GAME AS SPECTATORS AS THEY WERE BENCHED FOR MINOR DISCIPLINARY MEASURES. ON FESRUIMY 1, THE SKIPPERS PLAYED THE HYDSON Cow- SOYS AHC HAD GIVEN THE KEENESSURG TEAM A SURPRISE IN AN EARLIER GAME. THE SKIPPERS EXPERIENCED NO TROUBLE IN THIS GAME. THEY DOWNED THE COWPOKES TO THE TUNE OF 41- 25. BAKER GAINED HIGH PO THE SKIPPERS? SIXTH LEAGUE THE SKIEPERS NEXT GAME INALS. LACKEY COACHES FIVE BAKER AND SHAKLEE SOOREO 19 ING HONORS, THES GAME WAS BUMPED THE CARDINALS EN THE I ,.I In NT HONORS WITH 22. THIS WAS IN HITHOUT A LOSS, NAS THE PROSPECT VALLEY CARD- TRIMMING THE CARDINALS 58-38, POINTS APfECE TO SHARE SOOR- THE THIRD TIME THE SKIPPERS U48-TNQ SEASON, IN THE FINAL LEAGUE GAME THE SKEPPERS COMPLETELY RUUTED THE HAPLESS JELDONA FIVE 79-43, BAKER SET A SCOR- ING RECORD BY SCORING 9 F?ELD GOALS AND 11 OUT 12 FREE THROWS FOR A TOTAL OF 29 ROI wAS SECOND HIGH POINT MAN WXTH 14 POINTS. EVERY BOY USED EN THIS GAME SCORED. THE HELDONA GAME CLOSED THE SEASON OF LEAGUE PLAY, NTS FOR THE ONE GAME, HESSER THE SKEPPERS HAD AMASSED A TOTAL OF 466 POINTS IN 8 LEAGUE GAMES FOR AN AVERAGE THE SKIFPER OUINTET OF 58 POINTS PER GAME. WENT TO HIGGINS TO ENTER IN THEIR FNVETATIONAL TOURNAMENT HELD FEBRUARY 2E AND 26. THE HIGHLY FAVORED SKIPPERS WERE PARED AGAJNST SNYDER NHIOH THE SKQPPERS HON BY A SCORE OF 44-25, THES WIN PARING THE SKlPPERS WITH MERINO WHICH THEY DEFEATEO VERY CAPASLY, THIS WIN PUT THE SKEPPERS INTO THE CHAMPEONSHIP GAME. THE PROSPECT CARDINALS HAD WON THE LOWER BRACKET TO PLAY AGAINST KEENESSURG. MARGiN OF 22 TO 23. THE KEENE SKIPPERS WON BY A KENNETH SHAKLEE RECEIVED THE AWARD I PLAYER OF THE TOURNAMENT AND HAYNE BAKER 2ND. JACK GOBLE OF PROSPECT wAS THIRD. FOR OUTSTAND!NG ,N X , :Q2i I 35,4222 :Zi ,fm if 'ei I a XX TNL 9 FK R! I N. XI 4 J 7 Cy dj

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ELEVEN SKEPPERS SGORED TIN THIS GAME THAT BAKER, SKEPPER PIVOT HAN, LED THE WAY BY SINGEING THE NEIS FOR A 24 POINT OUTPUT BEFORE HE RETIRED IN FAVOR OF ANOTHER BAKER-'CHESTER, WHO HIT FOR 5 POINTS, MGRROW, LYLE SMITH, GALEN BOwLES,-PIPPIN, BOSKY AND DARYL ARNOLD ALL OONTRISUTED TO THE SOORE, ON THE TUTH OF JANUARY THE SKIPPERS TRAVELED TO WEL- DONA WHERE THEY ENGAGED THE WELDONA QUINTET, THE SRIRRERS EADLY OUTFLAYED THE HOME TEAM, 74-48. PRADTIGALLY EVERY DKTPPER THAT NAS iN THE GAME SCOREDf BAKER DEIND Dogg FOR 25 POINTS AND KEN SHAKLEE HITTING FOR 17. HESSER HELPED THE KEENESSURG CAUSE BY DUNKING 12 POINTS, R, VELASQUEZ WAS HEL3ONA'S BEST POINT GETTER, SCORING 18 POTNTS, THE NEXT LEAGUE GAME WAS WITH HUDSON. THIS GAME WAS PLAYED ON THE 18TH or JANUARY TO ALLOW THE SKIPPERS THE OPPORTUNITY TO PLAY IN THE UNION PACTFIC LEAGUE TOURNA- HENT WHECH WAS HELD ON JANUARY 20, 21, AND 22 AT DEER- TRAEL. IN THE HUDSON GAME THE SKBPPERS WERE GIVEN A SCARE AS THE HUDSON COHPOKES HELD THE HIGHLY EAvORED SKIPPERS TO A 50-Q3 SOORING HARATHON. EVERY SKIPPER REGULAR SOOR- ED IN THES GAME, KEN SHAKLEE WAS HIGH POINT NAN WITH 22 POENTS, W, BAKER HET FOR 13, FRED HESSER 6, JOHN HELL- MUTH, 6, AND CLYDE DUFFIELD HIT EOR 4. WEDERQUIST AND STEVENS SHARED HUDSONDS SCORING HONORS BY HITTING FOR 15 POINTS APIEOE. THE DEFENSIvE WORK OF STEVENS AGAINST W, BAKER WAS THE BEST OF THE SEASON AS BAKER WAS HELD TO 3 FIELD GOALS AND 7 FREE THRONS, IN THE UNION PAOIEIO TOURNAMENT HELD AT DEERTRAIL THE SK!PPERS ROMPED OVER PARKER EN AN 50-26 TRIUMPH IN THEIR FfRST GAME, THE SKIPPERS DREW PROSPECT VALLEY IN THE SECOND GAUE AND ROUTED THEM 48-33 AND THUS ENTEPED THE SEMI-EINALS Or THE TOURNAMENT. IN THEIR THTRO GAME or THE TOURNEY THE SKEPPERS COLLIDED WITH THE STRONG STRASSURG INDTANS. THE SKEPPERS EHERGED VIGTORIOUS AFTER PLAYING ONE or THE BEST GAMES or THE WHOLE TOURNAMENT. THE FINAL SCORE IN THIS THRILLER WAS 34-32. ALL SKIPPERS ii W6 1nIIIII,, I , F A I 01' I X PLAYED A vERY EINE DEEENSIVE GAME TO HOLD THE STRONG IN- I' DIAN TEAM TO 32 POINTS. SHAKLEE AND BAKER SCORED 11 AND 9 POINTS RESPECTQVELY9 WHILE HESSER AND DUFFIELD GARNERED L 6 POINTS APEECE AND JOHN HELLMUTH, 2. THIS VICTORY AD' VANCED THE KEENESSURG FIVE TO THE FINALS AGAINST A STRONG BENNETT TEAM, BOONECK SOORED 22 POINTS TO LEAD BENNETT , 5X f 'L:I.lEE.fffe555:::EIl?ZZQ Esidggf QQX

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QI QQ, F' ? 'y fi .HQ4 A,f ' W ,T ff I C ON ILZARGH 9 AND 19, THE SKIPPERS REPRESENTING THE fw 6 EASTERN DIvaSToN TN A PLAY-OFF AT GUNTER HALL, GREELEY TO DETERMINE THE LEAGUE REPRESENTATIVE FOR THE STATE TGDRNA- NENT IN DENVER. KEENESBURG MET LAFAYETTE IN ITS OPENING T GAME. THE LAFAYETTE BOBCATS BEAT THE SKIPPERS ev 1 POINT, 36-35. THE BOBCATS HEIGHT RRovED A LITTLE TOO MUCH FOR THE SHORTER SKIRPER FIVE. THE SKEPPERS FAILED TO CLICK AS EN THEER PREVIOUS GAMES. THEY REREATEDLY NISSED THEIR SHOTS FROM THE FEELD AND WERE COLD AT THE FREE THROWLTNEQ THEY GARNERED 9 OUT OF 19 FREE THROWS f I TO PRACTZCALLY GIVE THE GAME TO THE MUCH TALLER OPPON1 ENTS. THAT SAME EVENING THE FREDERECK WARRIORS DEEEATED THE ADAMS CITY EAGLES T0 ENTER THE EINALS AGAINST THE LAFAYETTE BOBCATS. THE FOLLOWTNG EvENaNG THE SKIPPERS COMPLETELY OUT' GLASSED AND OUT'FOUGHT A SCRAPPY ADAMS CITY QUINTET. BALL CAREER SGGRED 21 POTNTS TO CAPTURE SCORING HONORS FOR THE EVENING. JOHN HELLMUTH DISPLAYED SOME EXCEPTTON- M' ALLY FTNE DEEENSTVE woRK AND CONTRIBUTED 7 POINTS TO HIS TEAMS' ViCTORY, THIS GAME MARKED THE END or HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL EGR THREE SKIPPER SENIORS, WAYNE BAKER, KEN SHAKLEE, AND CLYDE DUFFIELD. ' I XX W .-' X 1 in xxx ox' Q f X ZX L 4, J 'I -I M 7 T XX X sJ,', :EE V TER 422: -EEEA .-'Ei C