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

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ophomore jinx Aller iurriping ouT To an 8-7 pre-Vdislricl sTarT The iunior varsilf slumped during disTricT play and Tinished The season ffilh a 9-20 slaTe. Belore disTricT began, The squad coached by Ke-iTh Qakley, played very well scoring convincing wins Over AngleTon McCullough. SouTh l-louslon and Willowridge. UnlorTunaTely, alTer a Tew ,, ..1l,Y,,r NYU? ' ' 'bf W. early disTricT losses, The Team losT momenTum and never succeeded aT geTTing Things rolling again. According To The players, The key problem was one oT playing as a Team. The Team concepT iusl never cliclced. We weren'T a uniTed Team. We were all individuals 7 There was no Unily sophomore Richard l-lairsTon said, 'IAM' YV f'- Q. X V lil-rlil - V xl? - LH, V r-xr i kr T 'Towards The end ol The year we weren'T playing as a Team ...IT wasn'T a Team eTTorT. sophomore Bruce Larson said. 'iWe never really goT TogeTher as a Team. We never played TogeTher, sophomore Sam l-lagopian said. AnoTher negaTive TacTor was The overall Team youTh. We hardly had any juniors. We were basically a sophomore Team. lT K. .lvl ,,,, . K I x. X ' ' ' xl'vNl 4 i ' ll, 1 i. , A . xi ui ir1l'lX,.rff.Xi Xllxnlll li Nlixr N Slixlil ,O F i..r- ua:-:nyjn TF 4' was a big iump up Trom The Treshman Team. We played a lol of Teams Thal were mostly iuniorsf' sophomore ScoTT Faringer said. The players on The junior varsiTy squad, olher Than The previous Toursome, were iunior Bob l-laThorn, sophomores Mike WeaTherspoon, Raymond We-aTherspoon. Troy Davis, Tommy Wiclcman. and lvlarlr mf' -5- l A , K ii Tx S' P 5 ! Forcing up a lay-up sophomore leTTy Scolf Faringer releases The ball high over The defender who .5 , U ' di hoping To draw a charging foul. Qt 1 5 While seHing up The offense sophb mofe DOW? guard Bruce Larscri 939: drives around a defender fowaroa if Open courf. llo, 4i

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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

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Hoague. Playing mosT oT The season wiTh The Team unTiI he was moved up To varsiTy Tor The IasT Tive games was iunior Chris Duliban. PosTman iuniorJeTT LayTon also began The year wiTh The iunior va rsiTy, buT he was promoTed early in The season, however. Aside Trom Their Two personnel losses, The Team had a Tew oTher deTecTions by players who quiT Tor various reasons. The highIighT oT The disTricT season came in a 6l-54 upseT over disTricT powerhouse Spring Branch. I'IairsTon led The Tiger scoring aTTacIc by blisTering The neTs Tor I9 poinTs. Hagopian possessed The high-poinT game in disTricT play wiTh a 2 I -poinT eTTorT versus The HasTings Bears. j Y li s x -we . . 's V. s N N - I .,-' .4 , Q ,, me , 7 1 ' ' .3 I V 6 5 2 6 ? , vi, . , if ,, -'W----M -I its .,,h,.,,,,,m.,,-mv -ii' f ' . -i..4...w ',,,,f- Tm 'ia ..f A . ,,,,wf i U. ww DespiTe The sub-par season The members oT The iunior varsiTy enioyed parTs oT The season and learned valuable basics which will help Them down The Iine in Their roundball careers. We had Tun, and we learned a IoT which will help The guys on The Team who will be playing varsiTy nexT year, Faringer said. I goT in shape and had a loT oT Tun.,We were all lcind oT crazy, I-IairsTon said. 'Il had Tun because I had a loT OT playing Time. IT was Tun playing The run-and-gun sTyle oT baslceTbalI, Hagopian said. He added. IT prepared me Tor my varsiTy years, buT I hoped iT would discipline me more. I goT a loT more experience and I learned how To handle more pressure Than I was used To, Larson said. All in all The season proved To be a valuable learning Tool Tor each involved player. NexT As The ball TIoaTs Toward The buclreT sophomore Sam Hagopian IIOI and iunior Bob I'IaThorn l42l awaiT a rebound. WiTh masTer'FuI dribbling and body conTroI sophomore Mark Hoague zig-zags Through The STraTTord press. season will be a visible TesT To show The imporTance oT The experience ThaT was gained Trom a year oT iunior varsiTy compeTiTion. Junior VarisTy SW Opp. 47 Memorial 72 43 Elsilc 54 38 WesTchesTer 60 43 I-IasTings 46 39 STraTTord 5I 45 NorThbrooI4 73 6I Spring Branch 39 Memorial 69 40 Elsili ' 87 43 WesTchesTer 79 40 I'lasTings i 74 45 STraTTord 64 47 NorThbrooIr 60 37 Spring Branch 53 Junior VarsiTy Bashe+ball I I