Moreno Valley High School - Valhalla Yearbook (Sunnymead, CA)

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ALLCIF 1st TEA! Winters Repeats As SAL ' s Most Valuable Player ABOVE: San Andreas League ' s Most Valu- able Player Al Winters leads attack against Workman. A I won the MVP Award for the second straight year. BELOW: Viking Sharp- shooter Doug McGuire shoots against Central. The Vikings won, 79-44. ABOVE: Carter McGhee slips by Workman defenders to lay up two points. BELOW: Carter outjumps Workman center Dave McGuire at the games opening tip-off. Fifteen seconds later Carter again out- jumped the seven foot McGuire to establish the Vikings ' supremecy. aij McGhee ream lis teds s 217

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Moreno Wins League, 14-0 Advance to CIF Semi-Finals The 1976 Varsity Basketball team produced the best team in Moreno Valley ' s history. With a league record of 14-0, the Vikings won the San Andreas League Championship for the second straight year. Team captain and leading scorer Alphonse Winters was unanimously voted the league ' s Most Valuable Player for the Second time. The Viking Season started good and progressively got better. Pre-league play ended with a 7-3 record. The Vikes then plunged headlong into league play and ended on top, 14-0. In the first round of CIF, Coach Dahl ' s league champs trounced Desert Valley league runner-up. Central of EI Centre 79-44. Round two saw the Work- men Lobos invade the MVHSGym with a hot shooting team and 7 foot center, Dave McGuire. The Vikings handled the hot shooting and McGuire royally, as Moreno advanced to the Quarter-Finals by defeating the Lobos, 72-59. Quarter Final action broughtnew action to Moreno ' s Vikings. The SAL Champs traveled to La Habra to battle the Sonora Raiders. In the exciting and tense game, that was filled with high emotion, the Vikings met one of the most balanced teams they had faced all season. By the middle of the third quarter, it ap- pearefias if the Vikings had been stopped. With Sonora leading by nine, the Moreno Squad staged the most spectacular come back of the season. When the Final buzzgr sounded, the Vikings had advanced to the semi- finals by edging the Raiders 67-65. Hopes for a CIF Championship were ended at Cal State Fulerton as the Mission Viejo Diablos capitalized on one of Moreno ' s few off nights. The Diablos, paced by a good fast break and hotshooting from the outside, eliminated Moreno Valley, 68-43. 216 LEFT: Steve Strutz hits two from the outside. ABOVE: Craig McGhee dunks a basket against Workman. Craig was named First Team All League. BELOW: Spark-plug ball handler Jimmy Williams leads a Moreno fast break.

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BE LOW: Paul Ricci shoots free throw; the score board tells the story. Eg II ' 4 ' BELOW: Jimmy Williams confers with Coach Dahl during tension filled Hemet game. LEFT: Doug McGuire shoots jumper against Hemet. BELOW: Al Winters drives against Hemet defense.