Modesto Junior College - Buccaneer Yearbook (Modesto, CA)

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602, B11.f,6UQ,Qklnl The I'-750-5l baslceTball season was one oT ups and clowns Tor Coach Leon Lafaille and The Team. For This reason The hoT and cold PiraTes lcepT home Tans Tense aT every game. Being a green Team iT sTarTecl slowly. Then sTeamed Tans up by going on a six game winning spree. capTuring The FirsT Annual Sam Barry TournamenT in Glendale. Thus. The home crowd ThoughT The Bucs had a TighTing chance Tor The sTaTe championship in The TournamenT here early in January. buT They were disappoinTed. SanTa Rosa beaT Them 56-54, eliminaTing Them Trom The championships, and worse was The beaTing by Los Angeles CiTy College, 5 I -46, in The consolaTion semi-Tinals. DespiTe This The PiraTes were noT down. Early February saw Them on anoTher winning spree, This Time winning Tour sTraighT league games and landing aT The Top. where They remained unTil The lasT Two weeks oT The season. Here They Toolc a downhill Trend, losing The lasT Tive ouT oT six games. dropping To TourTh place wiTh a 6-6 league record. CurT Polzine, cenTer, disTin- guished himself by conTrolling boTh boards and sinking pivoT shoTs. Tom MaTThews, Torward, exciTed 'Fans wiTh his leT'T and righT hook shoTs Trom which he buclceTed mosT oT his poinTs. Tom MaTTl1ews, one of Coach Leon LaTaille's high scorers aT Tor- ward during The hecTic i950-5I campaign, geTs around cenTer Harvey Cranow of CCSF Tor a layup. AsToundingly enough, aTTer dropping Tive consecuTive games To CCSF in Two seasons, The Bucs Tinally broke The sfring.

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Here Norman Cone goes high over Wilson and Cranow lo drop in a clincher againsi' fhe Rams. The Bucs dumped CCSF in 'lwo games, yer finished no higher lhan fourih, fading in ihe second half of flue schedule. In 'lhe fwo previous years flue Rams had lrnoclred +he Bucs owl' of 'rifle considerarion. This year Modes+o won bolh games, buf CCSF siayed up +here in second place. ' imma, Modeslo Visifors 54 Visalia ............, ,,,,,,, 5 5 33 Ensor AC ...,... ....... 3 5 53 Reedley .,..... ,,,,,,, 3 5 35 Grani' ..,.., ....... 3 6 49 Grani ,..... ....... 3 9 56 Fresno ..,.,...,..,. ....... 5 3 40 Placer .......A.......,........., 35 60 Valley JC ' ...,...,... 1.36 47 Sania Monica ' ........ 44 5l EI Camino ' ,..,... f ...... 36 54 Sanla Rosa ...,,....,.... 56 55 Placer .,,...,....,..,.,.,... 38 46 Los Angeles CC ...... 5I 42 San Francisco CC' .... 38 5I Sranford Braves .....,.... 77 46 San Maieo' ....,..,..... 43 45 Conira Cosla' .,,..,...... 4l 48 Placer .,,.,..,.,...... ,,...,. 3 7 52 Sacramenfo' ..,....,.,.... 42 43 San'I'a Rosa' .,.............. 63 58 San Francisco' ...,........ 5l 44 S+ocld'on' ,..,.v.............. 49 47 Sania Rosa' .,,...,....,,... 39 50 San Maleo' ,,.,......A..... 53 44 Confra Cosia' ..,.,....... 53 50 California Frosh .......... 39 43 Sacramenfo' ,A., .......... 4 6 47 Siocldon' ...,... .,.,...... 5 2 Won I6, Losf I2 'Conference games. Si'a'I'e fournameni. 'Glendale +ournamen+.