Spring Woods High School - Safari Yearbook (Houston, TX)

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win SGCISOHS The novice Tigers exhibiTed a desire To begin Their high school TooTball careers and display winning spiriTs while collaboraTing Tor Two idenTical records OT 5-5. BoTh The Black and Gold Teams, previously reTerred To as The A and B Teams, noT only Tound new names buT also received new coaches in Jim McNeil and Neal Miller. The Teams' and coaches' TirsT vicTories came againsT The SouTh l'lousTon Trojans. The Black winning 8-O and The usnnnusssn Gold 22- l4. Freshmen Marc SmiTh, Andy Dacovich, RoberT SundquisT, BerT Ward, Glenn l-lamleTT, Ronny Vickery, Kenny Savino and Ben Wagner Hall had excepTionally good games, McNiel said. auf., Q , . VicTories rose To a peak aTTer a sluggish sTarT Tor The Gold Team, alThough They were iusT abouT unbeaTable, SmiTh said during mid-season. STraTTord, Elsik, Memorial and l-TasTings all Tell vicTim To The Gold as They rallied Tor 46 poinTs as compared To Their opponenTs IZ, The Black squad developed a paTTer in Their play by winning one Then Two in a row and repeaTing iT again. WesTchesTer, STraTTord, Memorial and NorThbrook each came up shorT due To The Tigers' excellenT play and qualiTy aTTiTucle, Miller said. ParT oT This is aTTribuTed To each players previous experience wiTh The game, however, These kids came in and began To Teel The pressure oT The selecTion process and The ones we have leTT have really grown and Taken on responsibiliTy, Mchliel said. ln an aTTempT To scrimmage one more Team before The regular sea- son commences Treshman RoberT SundquisT runs wiTh The ball againsT a sTern Cy-Fair ball club. Defensively freshmen Derek Larson l3Ol and Larry Coker l63l prevenT This WesTchesTer running back Trom gaining The needed TirsT down. Black Team I5 wins, 5 lossesl SWHS Opponenfs Smiley O 35 Soufh Houston 8 O Clear Creek 0 24 Wesfchesier I4 6 STraTTord b O Elsik 6 T2 Memorial I4 6 Hasfings 24 30 Spring Branch 6 8 Norfhbrook I4 B Freshman l:ooTball IO7

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Y 41 Gi I I winnings 'l li i W By spiking The ball To The Elsik Team, sophomore Karen Burns llbl secures a poinT Tor The varsiTy Team. Accornplishrnems came in a big way Tor The varsiTy Tigers as The Team combined in The righT proporTions The necessary ingredienTs To Tie Tor TirsT place in boTh halves oT disTricT, and by deTeaTing The STraTTord SparTans clinched The semi-Tinal round OT disTricT baTTled in The Coliseum. Finishing The season wiTh an impressive I l-3 record, The underaTed neTTers were picked TourTh in The disTricT polls during The pre-season, however, The girls wrapped up a sTrong second place Tinish Thanks To sTrong leadership, Team uniTy, solid skills and a conTidenT winning aTTiTude, Thus changing The minds oT Those who had earlier pushed Them inTo The no ThreaT caTegory. Their sTrong leadership was spelled S-Y-L-V-I-A OR- T-I-Z, head coach Tor The veTeran volleyballers. OrTiz ran a Tough program pushing everyone To Their maximum poTenTial. iunior ChrisTie Rees said. She TaughT us a loT abouT winning. WiThouT her we couldn'T have done iT. Knowing They could do iT added To The degree oT Team conTidence which had been previously lacking. Moreover, uniTy in The group provided a posiTive TacTor. l'The uniTy was real High up in The air iunior Ann Greae son l4l spikes The ball during The playQTT maTch. big. senior Randi Reid said. Perkins added, We did a loT oT sTuTT TogeTher all The Time. We really were able To use ThaT To our advanTage. Tool Having an advanTage helped, buT possessing solid skills and TalenT made The diTTerence in iusT winning or being a winner. We work hard on our skills. OrTiz believes in ThaT, buf more imporTanTly, while working on our skills, she insTilled a conTidence in us, Toof' Rees said. This conTidence paved The Tigers' way To many impressive vicTories. I Think beaTing PorT Neches Groves was really someThing because They wenT on To win sTaTe. Reid said. AnoTher big maTch came aTTer The regular season ended when The Tigers maTched Their abiliTy To ThaT oT The STraTTord SparTans. There was deTiniTely a rnenTal block in exisTence. buT we had losT To Them Tour Times and we knew whaT we had To do, senior Ann Greason said. The Tigers did iusT ThaT, breaking STraTTord's spell and winning The semi-Tinal round oT compeTiTion. AlThough The big maTch againsT The SparTans came during posT season, The regular season deserved a beTTer TiTle Than merely regular. The Tiger neTTers Trounced Elsik, WesTchesTer, Memorial. NorThbrook and l-TasTings noT only in The TirsT halT buT in The second halT oT acTion as well. vsfsiiyvaiie-,sail T09