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

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uwb if mebwm Al 'rlne beginning oi llie year flue varsily baskelball leam was lnoping lo improve on llie previous seasons dismal record. Uniorlunalely The squad could win only six ol 30 games. l'lowever.'rl'1e record was deceiving. The Tigers were sclieduled To play Dulles, Cypress Creek. Scarborough. Lamar Consolidaled. Weslcliesler lwice. Memorial lwice. and . 9 X X! I Q M Y 4-n. . f fn... Hu M -. . . J, 5 9 7 Wills his lofi fool planfed firmly on ine Coliseum courf iuniof Danny Bump drives around flie Hastings delensemen fowards flue basket. ln fhe 2-3 zone defense iunior Jail Rus-- noxiqli ilOl frieg to diglrad llne oppo- nenV mlwile Tom Blue l2Ol waifg to gee where ine ball goes. . 4 l-laslings lwice. All ol llne previous leams eillner lied lor a dislricl cliampionslwip, won 'rlneir dislricl, or were in llne lop l5 ranking in l-lous+on.'l'l'1e squad played Dulles. ranked second in l'lous+on. and Cy-Creek, ranked lliird. ln llie lougln I7-AAAA, 'flue leam. coaclwed by Wendell l-lillon, won Two ol ils I4 games. Spring Brancli fell in The lirsl lnall of play 52- , - 4 A+ fha lop ol his iump, senior Tom Blue l2Ol slioofs a IS-ioofer in ll'ie second Half of flue Memorial game, 44.2 ,r lyk ., -. 1 .A- l l -gn, -L i, J 1 X' Q As flue ball bounds off of flue rim, senior U 8 : Jeff Fogle prepares fo pull down A L 0' 1 rebound. H I SpliHing fhe defense, iunior Rich Merrie ' son losses up a finger-roll as he soon between flfie helpless Trojan defenders. Q I J Y ' A ' U A N. i l Narsit baske-'bali

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definitely improved since lhe beginning ol The season. Evidence ol improvemenl lirsr showed ilsell during 'rhe Humble Tournamenl al Alascocila wilh Lucllke leading 'rhe way wilh a 77 and receiving lourrh place our ol 155 golfers. During +he comperirion al Willis, Ludllce and freshman lvlilce Lively shol a 75 in The Be-sf-Ball Tournamenf 'ro finish in +he1'op+en.O'ihers playing well were senior l'lanlc Williams, juniors Sieve lvlichalelc, Chuck Winlree and sophomore George l'larris. sf? ,,, mes Mawr Before she puHs junior Renae Roio sfeps back and sizes up The green on The ninth hole. Wifh a driver in his grasp, senior Erik Ludllme shows his lop form on fhe prac- 'fice fee. Luclllce was lhe lop golfer on ihe feam as well as one ol lhe lop golf- ers in dislricl, eaii ll3

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44, and NorThbroolc was deTeaTed 55-49 in The second halT oT disTricT. The losses in disTricT play were, Tor The mosT parT, very close games. The only blowouT occurred aT The hands oT WesTchesTer when Three Tiger sTarTers were unable To play. OTher Than The loss To The WildcaTs The squad was a viable conTender in every game They played. We didn'T win enough in pre-disTricT so when disTricT sTarTed we didn'T know how To win. LaTe in The game we would be Tour poinTs ahead and we didn'T lcnow whaT To do, senior Tom Blue said. Marlc WoodruTT, senior all- 'Nu 755151, T ., :ln bmw nl ' .I A Q y ' 'T -im.. LQ disTricT cenTer, explained a psychological TacTor ThaT hurT The Team. We were picked To be lasT and iT was hard To overcome. We didn'T have The conTidence . . . lT was hard To Tighf our way up, WoodruTT said. We had The TalenT To go a loT TurTher Than we did, buT The TacTor OT noT having enough experience hurT us, senior STeve Dixon said. Joining Blue. WoodruTT, and Dixon on The varsiTy were senior Billy Jenkins, Rami Joseph. and CapTain JeTT Fogle. Rich Morrison, JeTT Rusinovich, Danny Bump, Ron KoTlar, JeTT LayTon, and Chris Duliban compleTed The Team wiTh beneTicial iunior abiliTy. VarsiTy SW Opp. 57 Memorial 74 57 Elsik 67 45 WesTchesTer 66 39 l'lasTings 47 60 STraT'Tord 69 57 NorThbrool: 6I 52 Spring Branch 44 53 Memorial 58 ' 54 Elsill 64 52 WesTchesTer 6I Sl l'lasTinqs 62 56 STraTTorcl 63 55 Nc-rThbroolr 49 47 Spring Branch 6I Senior Mark Woodruff l34l sofily Tosses in a Turnaround iurnpshoT over The Mem orial defense while senior Tom Blue boxes ouT Tor a rebound. VarsiTy BasTeTball l l