Del Mar College - Cruiser Yearbook (Corpus Christi, TX)

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ip-and-Tuck Battle With Victoria Pirates 'N At the conference championship game Carl Peters consults the scoreboard before going in for the last quarter of play. Buddy Greenwood makes it to the basket but fails in Buddy Greenwood and opponent jump for the ball in the an attempt to make a lay-up and two points. junior college Region 14 South Zone playoffs. 98

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Mike Rio Freshman Forward Lake jackson George Dunson scores against Victoria despite the ef- forts of a Pirate cager to break up the attempt. Viking Team Splits Series Against Pirates of Victoria Del Mar cagers discuss their conference championship win over Victoria at lunch in the Student Center. Del Mar 97 Victoria 99 Two points was the margin of victory as Victoria beat Del Mar in a game requiring two o-vertimes. It was a close game all the way. The halftime score was 41-41. Scores at the end of regular play and the first overtime were 81-81 and 93-95. The final score was Victoria 99, Del Mar Vikings 97. Del Mar's leading scorer was George Dunson with 27 points. Guy Lease bagged 20. Mike Rio made 17 points, Bill Reeves 11, and Buddy Greenwood 10. Bob Gross was top scorer for the Pirates. Del Mar 80 Victoria 73 The Vikings cinched at least a tie for first place in the Gulf Coast Junior College Conference with an 80-73 win over the Pirates from Victoria. The score was tied nine times during the first half, but the Blue and Silver led 29-28 at the half. Bill Reeves held scoring honors for the Vikings. He made 27 points. Guy Lease managed 16 points and Mike Rio 10. Kent Galloway led the Pirates with 20 followed by john Eblen with 16 and Dennis Lewis who bagged 13 for the Victoria team.

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Gives Vikings Gulf Coast Championship With a 72-67 win over the Pirate team from Victoria junior College, the Del Mar Vikings be- came the Gulf Coast junior College Conference champion in a game played in the Refugio High School gymnasium. The lead swayed back and forth in the opening period of the clash, but Del Mar led 39-37 at the half. The score during the second half of play was close also. Toward the end of the game the roar of the crowd became tremendous as the Vik- ings' lead was narrowed to only two points before the Big Blue ended it all with a final score of 72-67. In earlier games the Vikings whipped the Pirates 80-73 and dropped one 99-97. This was the second consecu- tive year that Del Mar had won this conference title. Taking top scoring honors for this game, and also for the season, was George Dunson who bagged 23 points. Scoring runner-up for Del Mar was Guy Lease with 14. Mike Rio managed 10. Danny Lewis and Bob Goss were high scorers for the Victoria Pirates. Each of them scored 14 points. Ronnie Stiegler dropped in 13 points and john Eblen 10. In the Region 14 South Zone playoffs in San An- tonio, the Vikings lost to the boys from South Texas College of Houston by a score of 63-59 after leading 35-34 at the midway point of the clash. Leon Miller, Mike Rio, and Guy Lease shared scoring hcinors for Del Mar as they each bagged 15 points, Fred Grasso scored 19 points for South Texas, Roy Patterson and Steve Castillo 16 each. Coach Eldon Long supervises the long hours of prac tice that are necessary to win the conference title. 3955 WW Coaches make an attempt to untangle Viking and Pirate players as tempers flare after the Victoria conference game.