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

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ltl ffm u bouncing S TGV If lnekperienced and unrehearsed the girls varsity basketball squad opened their first season with a 37-36 victory over the Spring Branch Bears. They maintained their lead and dropped only once in a close game against Westchester Wildcats to wind up their season 6- I. Unfortunately the freshman team also held the starting gamels title and finished the season OV7. Although both teams had little experience or practice their enthusiasm and close scores drew larger crowds than the boys basketball team contests. lt was a lot of everything: Our defense was good. but we also had a lot of girls who could dribble and shoot H senior Caryn Perkins said. The freshman team played several hard fought games but were hampered by their lack of team unity thus. they never managed a win. Most of the girls had never played before. freshman Kim Ehrlund said. 'land we had to learn to work together. towards the end our offense started really shaping up. Because of the districts late start into the all feminine sport and unofficial rules. the top squad, made up of sophomores Paula Ng. Felecia l-toneycutt. Kelly Thomas. Rhonda Conley. Terri Oates. Karen Burns. iuniors Ann Greason, Helen Kim. Micky Mathis. Felecia Farringer. and seniors Patti Alsmeyer, Caryn Perkins. Lezlie Noble. Christina Martinez. was dubbed a non- honors team. Yet. playing Hiust for the fun of it provided players like Perkins with a personally rewarding and physically great season. We had fun practicing for the games, we had fun at the games. and we had fun after the games . . .And the best part of the season was that we all became really good friends. Perkins said. At 5'l l Mickey Mathis was the non-honors teamls tallest player. She was also one of their highest scorers along with Caryn Perkins. Meanwhile. Ehrlund added points to the scoreboard and needed height to the freshman team roster. consisting of Ehrlund. Carrie Flanagan. Teresa Overby. Karen Fotenot, Janet Phillips. Anna Marie Finnerty, Debbie Hearn, Rhonda Bragg, Ting Sun. Julie Christopher, Michelle l-lood. and Rachel Rosenfeld. Li .rr Vg .I W, Tn , ll i tr ........--, onus' BASKETBALL A - ' ? wxizsitt L ? 'A SNA OPPONENT 5 37 Sprfq Branch 36 . 40 Northbrook :tl I' T' TTT- 33 seswsfa 30 lt ' - 54 tste-r :fia 33 4 3' NNes': es'e 30 39 Sr' 'Q 5'a':t' 25 ' -15 N: t'::n 22 ' A Z :RESi-MEN K I , ,V '-1 Sr- as Ear' Za ff i '- ' N: 't'::- 25 f ' V H 9,3 ,gc 5 Q 1 '.' 43 J 'N 'i 9 I 5 XXI' ' Z Arms stretched, freshmen Debbie , N , , V j Hearn attempts to block at 'i -I T i inbound pass. L A toss-up against Spring Brarc' W i brings lunior Ann Greason face 'C W V face with her rival at the first qamf: SJ V-1:2 of the season. .ff 41 WT

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hard CIC I to follow Equipped wiTh a surplus of youTh, varsiTy baseball head coach Charles Maiorana and a I5 man squad. prepared To deTend The Tigers' I7-AAAA disTricT TiTle and wage war againsT neighboring Teams. Previous Tiger baseballers advanced To regional con.peTiTion in '7I,sTaTe Tinals in '74, bi-disTricT in '78 and quarTer Tinals in '79, Thus, This year's varsiTy inheriTed a season Tull oT work and high expecTaTions. Nine capable players graduaTed inTo college baseball Trom lasT year's Team leaving i many posiTions To be occupied. Maiorana immediaTely Tilled These vacancies: however, due To academic sTandards. iniuries and players moving Their residences. keeping These posiTions required perpeTual ' 1 - . care and consTanT waTch. We ,i. . .g-. LPQTY N . 'f1 Q I . ' S . . ', ' . r -- S have a young Team - loTs oT ' ' - a 3 NinTh leading l'1iT'Ter in The ciTy wiTh 4-'. ji -'. :-Q i. F- -5 -A ,' 'N i J ' a baTTing average oT .438, senior ':'f fl g',Q ': 'T h- ' ' ' piTcher STeve Calderone makes - .. . - -...L conTacT wiTh The ball Tor a double in i I 1 'f . . '-- 5- ' , . , , . The TirsT round in The Spring Branch , ' - TournamenT. .- . Nr . 2'-ef-1.-'l or .n-N' . ' I Treshmen and sophomores and iT is going To Take a couple oT years To gain back ThaT experience and power we had beTore. Maiorana said. ThereTore, The Woodsmen relied heavily upon senior shorT sTop Johnny Comeaux. senior piTcher-TirsT baseman Roger Clemens and senior piTcher-TirsT baseman STeve Calderone Tor leadership, experience and all around know how boTh on The playing Tield and aT pracTice. Comeaux was only The TiTTh player in Spring Woods' hisTory To capTure The honored senioriTy oT Tour year leTTerman. Calderone was raTed ninTh leading hiTTer in The ciTy possessing a baTTing average oT .438, and Clemens, The Tigers number one man on The mound. esTablished an impressive ERA oT I.lO winning IO oT I5 games. These seniors were Tamiliar Taces and a welcome relieT Tor Tiger Tans, buT many underclassmen also conTribuTed individual TalenTs To sTrengThen The Tiger's pounce. Sophomore John Yard unabashedly walked onTo The dusTy diamond and played caTcher. Yard did a good job - especially having To iump in and iusT Take over The posiTion, Calderone said. MelTing inTo The varsiTy ranks and quickly learning Their posiTions were Treshman Aaron Tanguma, iunior piTcher Todd Dannelly and ouTTielder Richard HairsTon. GeTTing inTo disTricT The ball club as a whole had excellenT games. beaTing Spring Branch. STraTTord and WesTchesTer. ln The mosT exciTing game This Four year leTTerman. senior shod- sTop Johnny Comeaux followS Through on his swing affer clobbef' ing a Triple To The outfield. The W - I v - , rg' ,'g..,4.qn V -, A. , . Tigers wenT on To win The game .. - fi -' , T T ' iq, f 5 against Northbrook. 5-2.