Craig High School - Hornet Yearbook (Craig, MO)

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Hornet Hoopsters Scramble 'T X L, - ,WX Q, fhtffb 7 ,I 5- I '33, Q3 2:53 or With 6 games remaining to round out conference play for the basketball season, Craig stands little chance of rating a top conference position. An analyses of the season's record indicates that the Hornets have shown spurts of improvement since they looped directly from the gridiron into the Mound City Pre- season Tourney. With little practice, the Hornets lost ont to the strong Fairfax contenders in the second in Seas0n's Skirmishes STANDING: John Ingram, Keith Miller, Dean Jackson, Coach lnlow, Bob Austin, Gary Stockwell, Tom Kerns. KNEELING: Earl Theas, Steven Brownlee, Richard Heits, Jerry Moser, Leonard Rouse. Building a strong cam around a nucleusofonly two ex- perienced players has been a challenge toCoachJim Inlow, who believes that victories are won by experienced players, and players become experienced only by playing. Not stars but all-around team strength re - suits from Mr. lnlow's coaching. game. Picking up points as they made the conference circuit, the Homets began closing the gap between their opponets score and their own. By January the tournament picture had brightened for the Hornets, and they took 2 wins--2 losses in the Fairfax Invitational Tournament, Conference play has been an erratic alternation win, near-win, loss as the Hornets have met opposition fluctuating from the weak Bobcats to the mighty Savannah Savages and the Fairfax Bulldogs whose winning skein runs 22 in a row. The Scoreboard Said: Pre -Season Tournament at Mound City CRAIG OPPONENT 52 29 Forest City 37 54 Fairfax 44 63 Maitland Fairfax Invitational Tournament 44 39 Rock Port 56 52 Watson 48 54 Hopkins 55 61 Mound City Northwest Missouri and 275 Conference 30 51 Oregon -17 56 Mound City .39 G9 Fairfax 77 54 Forest City 26 70 Savannah 56 58 Horace Mann 54 58 Westboro 42

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1. .5 ,, xii' YQ C3415 FIRST ROW: Marilyn Luhrs, Doris Jackson, Eva Jane Drewes, Franccs McQueen, Mary Phillips, Linda Singleton, Coach lnlow. SECOND ROW: Helen Livengood, Delvlaris Schooler, Ncvada Bcntar, Linda Kent, Pat Dougherty, Donna Travis, Wanda Foster. Opportunities for play for the junior high basketball teams wcrc practically itil until thc Northwest Missouri Conference Junior-Hi Tournament, held for the first time at Craig. The if I Junior Hornets were stung by Bellevue 39-36 in their open- V AIG. ing contcst. The girls battled it out with Mound City 132-113, West- boro Q27-163 and Maitland Q11-1271 to take second place in the 5 tourney. Helen Livingood spots a place in the trophy case to hold thc trophy, held by Wanda Foster and unseen helpers. O Track Tralls Sports Season With lit'le ectator s irit behind their efforts members of the 'rack teams still mana e i bp P 1 L S rack up hundreds of hours of practice. Involved in such track events as Shot Put, Discus, Pole Vault Broad Jump, High Jump, and Relays is perhaps more co-ordination than in our other high schoolsports. Track can be considered a minor sport at Craig, with football and basketball holdinfg the sports lime-light. Buildin his track progratn around last year's cindermen--Leonard Rouse, ob Austin, Jcrr ' Moser, Richard Heits, John Sinkhorn Geor e Buckles Kenneth Youn and Dean ackson 5 . g . g. J -- Coach lnlow has signed up a number of freshman and sophomore hopefuls who plan to be out for sprntyitraining, Craig's tracksters usually participate in the Tri-State Meet fTarktoJ and the Dis- trict leetftxiaryvilleb. V .sal s - ' Q ' ' i1'I i ' gt: .1inlgFk,,',..4.l if-il ,iff s 1 s tvsii , ,4 N list., Craig Played Host to Jr.-Hi. Tournament BOYS, FIRST ROW: Dennis Wright, Gary Anderson, Jimmy Rogers. SECOND ROW: Heitman, Stanley Allen, Bernard Heits. THIRD ROW: Gene Snyder, Coach lnlow Kenny Owens, Jimmie Thomson. Z i . I! A ,. .4 Q . -F7 4,2 ' Lgfl ,r ,P Q a. 'l RA 7-9 9 BP ... O 3 K : . Bill I 4. 'naman-v av: ,. 'f