Altona Collegiate - Green and Gold Yearbook (Altona, Manitoba Canada)

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This year’s basketball season in Altona has been more successful than any other of the thre ' e years during which we have participated in the Red River Valley Basketball League. Team spirit soared high among the girls of the team after their first win of the year and they continued their victory spree throughout the entire season. During the year, the girls had seven wins and one loss. What a contrast to last year, when they won only one game! At the annual basketball tournament, the girls also showed their skills in the game when they defeated first Winkler and then Morris, winning the permanent tournament trophy. The last and deciding game for the league championship was • played at Morris where the girls fought for their top position in the league and defeated Morris by a score of 27-16. This won for them the league trophy for the 1958- 1959 season. Since the girls were the top in the league, they were privileged to go to Winnipeg during the Easter holiday?, to take an active part in the basketball tournament there. At Winnipeg, the girls played their first game against the Portage girls and were defeated but they won their second game against Neepawa. The girls of the team enjoyed the season greatly. Much of the credit goes to their enthusiastic coach Mr. Lloyd Siemens. Esther Toews was the top scorer of the year, with a total of seventy-four points in her favour. Judy Friesen was voted the most valuable player of the team for her skills and enthusiasm in the games. —Dora Toews STATISTICS ALTONA 14 Winkler 8 Morris 14 ALTONA 22 ALTONA 25 — Lowe Farm 23 Lowe Farm 26 — ALTONA 52 Morden 15 — ALTONA 36 Winkler 20 — ALTONA 8 ALTONA 27 Morden 12 ALTONA 27 — Morris 16 35

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One of the biggest single changes in Altona Collegiate sports, has been the inauguration of basketball. The purchasing of expensive equip¬ ment was necessary. Thus, in that first season (1956-57) Altona had one of the best basketball courts in Southern Manitoba, but it lacked a good basketball team. In this same year the Red River Valley Basket¬ ball League was organized. It consisted of teams from Morden, Morris, Winkler, Altona, and one year later Lowe Farm. That first season was one of disaster for the Green and Gold. It lost all six games. However, in the sophomore year Altona won four of eleven games, and our coach, Mr. Dave Dyck commented, “Wait until next year.” This past year has been terrific. In the be¬ ginning of the year more than one hundred sea¬ son tickets were sold at $1.00 each and assured A.C. of good attendance throughout the season. And the team began winning. Although the year was marred by a second-round loss in the annual tournament, The Green and Gold topped the league with a record of 7 wins and one loss. Remembering briefly former stalwarts on A.C.’s “fighting five” we recall names like Jim Schellen- bcrg, “Hurricane” Hiebert, Donald Braun and Dave Kroeker, the latter being the holder of our school’s scoring record, 106 points, and being the winner of the athletic scholarship as the highest scorer and most valuable player on the basketball team. The league championship has assured this year’s team of a trip to Winnipeg during the Easter holidays to represent Southern Manitoba in the Manitoba playdowns. —Bob Wieler STATISTICS ALTONA 36 — Winkler 30 Morris 22 — ALTONA 32 ALTONA 33 — Lowe Farm 34 Lowe Farm 35 — ALTONA 67 Neche 77 — ALTONA 56 Morden 39 - ALTONA 48 ALTON A 39 Neche 56 Winkler 21 ALTONA 35 ALTONA 27 — Morden 26 ALTONA 47 — Morris 36 Exhibition games.

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