Keenesburg High School - Skipper Yearbook (Keenesburg, CO)

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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

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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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