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

Page 121 text:

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

Page 120 text:

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

Page 122 text:

GSSOHS on she COUIT llip 'i:1'kifrfir.1p:,rri' Lifzfllf lvifr rlirr,i,r3ki mme efperjed gruniriq r,c1iii', 'luririrj il'ie-ir lirsl , pl mr, rmi l,..f.iefmii. llirf B irffirri erirlrgrl fliylriii r,lf,, .1 ill rl Yfr' 'Nfl 'fl 5 Q nl'1il-11 'lee A lf igrri lirii'l'iF'rl up ilifair 'lfzip rj' l Tlif: A ifnsrri nl'iff,f: ',UlU fir lfirf um, fi lffri ririiril mri 0 fir c riallrnrl rrsri',i3lf:rl ol lxflikf: Liv ely Adolph Carillr, Marr. X 2 . Smvr Dara Benreu Mike Jones Doug l-lowe, led Rohauer Cedrizl-larfs and Bobby Maas. Despife a lfgsirg iluii record rhere were ii.'z'ar:1irg perlormariiez C, 'nd . iiuals on 'he team. Dumfj Berne Sfifed 22 r,',ii1':i fa 'dei 'J VVe',Tf.lre:'ei,Mai1 Serve rnalrhefl Berne 5 'ifil iisgjxinsl Elsik and scljreil 25 rtilvnis .fersus l I J. I ii 5 ik'N, S e I-A ' .4 Q., l-lasrings along wilh 25 poinls in an earlier Elsik game. Smith was fhe leading scorer on lhe A leam vsirh an average ol iusr os er I5 poinls per game. Apparently lhe malor downlall lor lhe squad was a lack ol experience and luck lale in caurl conlesls. i'We usually les? games in The lourllw quarler. We iusl didn'l have il al lhe end Lively said. Maas commenled lhal lhe combining ol players from Q dillerent iunior high schools hurl the squad. We iusl gol logelher. Spring Woods and Spring Oaks al The beginning ol the year so we didnil know a Wifh 'lhe ball lloafing over a loresf ol arms A learners Mike Lively l22l, Cedric Harris l4Ol. and Mike Jonesl52l fight lor a rebound. -4. lo'r alaour each olher ' Maas said. i'Also. il is hard lor a lirsl year coach lo have a winning season. he said, referring lo rookie coach Neal Miller. The B leam delealed Memorial Twice, IS' I4 and 39' 30: Weslchesler 32-33. Slrallord 33-22. and Northbrook 38-34. The leading scorer for The B learn was Larry l larsl'1aw wilh an average ol nine poinls a game. Ofher leam members were Pere Verven. Sleve McNamara. Billy Reed. Pele Rarneriz. Roll Blaellner. II Lee, Ronnie Vickery. Brian Wilson. Mike McKinnon. l'lieu Dinh. and Dan A hook pass alfempl is thrown by B Team member ll Lee l3Ol in hopes ol allackinq lhe zone defense. ,.., X , . M-rf' 'l n .X , . 1 .. . xr 9 f. -I J J :X