California State University Northridge - Sunburst Yearbook (Northridge, CA)

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w Nxxiwa Classic baffle under the basket for The rebound. Tom Dawes scores on the fast break. Bob Allen soars goalward.

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AlThough The MaTs were on The shorT end of The win column, devoTees of VSC baskeTbalI never lacked The opporTuniTy To cheer exciTing play and solid in- dividual performances. Paul Edmondson, a lanky forward wiTh a TalenTed Touch for goals, led The Team in scoring. Paul hurT his ankle during The season which hobbled The Team's offensive eTTorT Tor sev- eral imporTanT games. Frank Nordyke,'who con- sisTenle played a bruising brand of defensive bas- keTbalI, was honored by The CCAA as Player of The Week Towards The end'of The season. He ranked second in Team rebounds and had a 12.2 scoring average. This season also saw a senior who warmed The bench for Two previous years come bounding onTo The courT and proceed To finish Third in Team scoring, seT a school record for individual poinT per- formance in a game T33 and finish among The Top Ten free Throwers in The naTion T8770 i. Chuck Malouf's desire and paTience were finally rewarded. Unable To deTeaT Orange ST. for The pasT Two years, The MGTS simply removed CT big ObsTGCIe, 6-5 Roger Crowd whoopsiT up as The MaTadors score. Guinn, and puT him on The VSC squad; The resuIT was Orange ST.'s defeaT in The lasT game of The year. Roger gave The Team The rebounding TalenT needed To conTroI The ball as well as offensive punch. WiThouT a doubT, Guinn was greaT and a big TacTor in The many close games The MaTs had. Round- ing ouT The bench were Bob Allen, a speedy guard who has been solidly enTrenched on The sTarTing five for The pasT Two seasons; Ernie BrandT, a 6-8 gianT who improved sTeadin as The season progressed; and Dave SwarTz, an excellenT sixTh man, LosT Through ineligibiliTy was STeve Green, a valuable guard whose shooTing abiliTy was definiTely missed. Chuck Malouf evades Fresno roadblock as he shovels in 0 IGYUP- I04 Chuck Malomc ifi Frank Nordyke ifi

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Frosh regulars il-ri: R. TalboTT, V. KeTch, M. Cooley, J. DeMarco, coach DavenporT, B. Archer, K. PeTrillo. BALL HAS WINNING BOUNCE FOR FROSH Freshman baskeTbaIl presenTs a unique problem To a coach, for each year The Team musT be compleTely rebuilT from scraTch. AlThough faced wiTh This problem, coach Dean Dav- enporT assembled a fine Team in his firsT year aT The helm. Teamwork was The. key TacTor in The Picador's playmaking as They swepT To a 12-6 mark wiTh Two-Thirds of The season gone. Good ball handling, excellenT shooTing and speed aTTribuTed To a versaTiIe offense ThaT resulTed in high scoring games. Playing a schedule ThaT included iunior colleges, uni- versiTy frosh squads and conference Teams,VTiTe Picadors worked very well. Their high poinT came againsT AnTelope Valley whom They defeaTed 193-94. The fine playing of Bill Archer and Vic KeTch will be a val- uable asseT To nexT year's varsiTy, and a greaT deal of promise was exhibiTed in The spiriTed work of Mark Cooley, Ken PeTriIIo, Jess De- Marco and Roger TalboT, all of whom should have good shoTs aT varsiTy berThs nexT fall. 106 Jess DeMarco lays one up. Frosh bench tl-ri: D. Pecell, L. Glenwinkel, B. HunTingTon. i2nd rown D. Sherwin, D. Pardue, B. Milroy. N xinxw High scoring Bill Archer displays his excellenT offensive moves.