Dixon High School - Chanticleer Yearbook (Dixon, CA)

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he - s:,-.:z. - teen- 'ing 75'------------ LH. C111 U. C I Sffjf H i' no s '1 1 I . I . 9 3 7 B BASKETBALL The '56-'37 HBH basketball team had a fair season, finishing second in the league after losing two hard fought games to the champion, Esparto. Mr. Good, who joined the staff last year, introduced a new type of basketball. Hard training was needed in order to perfect this new system. After a few practice games with Vacaville and Rio Vista the HBW team finally started to adapt this new style. It was none to soon for the season was to open the next week. Winters was the first team in the league to see the Dixon 'B' hoopers in action. we won an easy victory, 22-15. The team then traveled to Clarksburg for their second league game. Dixon won by 3 baskets and a free shot. The next game was with Esparto. This was the battle to see who would be champs of the Northern Section. Dixon was on the short end of the score, 15-22. A practice game with Vacaville showed that all was not well with the WB' team. They lost by 6 points. Two defeats in a row finally made the team buckel down to some hard training. They split their games with Davis, winning one and losing one. Winters was again to face Dixon. Winters fought hard but ne were too strong, winning by a score of 28-26. Once more the 'Bn team met the champions for their return game. They battled hard, and at the half it looked as if Dixon might win. In the next half Esparto came back to take us 28 to 20.

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C BASIQETBA LL The WC' team, after losing two practice gamesg one to Vacaville, and the other to Rio Vista, showed a marvelous improvement for their first league game with Winters. On the eighth of January of this year, Dixon's WCW team was suited up and ready for their long waited chance to meet the 'CW team from Winters. Although they lost by one basket, they showed so much fighting spirit that it looked as if Dixon might have another championship 'CW team. Clarksburg was the next opponent for our WCW team. Hard luck caused them to lose by only one pointy 13 to 14, to Clarksburg which ruined their chance for a championship. Though this defeat was heart- I breaking to the 'C's' it did not stop their fighting spirit. The following week they trained hard to make a comeback when they played SQ Esparto. The Dixon 'CW team won by the score 18 to 4. A The team showed continuous improvement in the following ga es Q3 when they played Vacaville and Davis, although they lost to both Q7 schools. This ended the first half of the 56-57 basketball season with the WC' team winning one league game out of four. Not wanting to end up in the cellar, the team put in some hard Q work before the second half started. Davis was the first on the i schedule. The team made a much finer showing than in their previous N game with Davis, but Davis was just a little too strong. They won by three points, 21 to 24. The team kept working hard for the rest of the season and were rewarded for their hard work by taking the last three games and , placing third in the league. They won only a few games, but the team as well as their coach, 'Q Mr. Williams, are to be congratulated for their sportsmanship and . spirit. N Those who earned their letters were: Taylor, H. Witt, Hopkins, 'H Firchow, Brown agnohwer. . V X? cmtncleer it i r il

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1 1 w TENNIS The tennis season of WBVW did not prove as profitable as last year's season. The team composed of nearly all veteran players lost several of their practice matches with the neighboring schools. This year the boy's and girl's teams played separate matches. This new system intro- duced another singles player for each team instead of the previous mixed doubles. The boys had their first league match on May 1 after having played several practice games. All the boy's teams from all the schools in the league mst at Davis. Edward Seifert and Dean Dunnicliff playing doubles for Dixon were eliminated in the first round. I mes Seyman also lost his first match to Winter's singles player whom he had beaten in a practice match before. Irving Dietrich held the highest honor for this school by getting into the semi-finals only to be taken off by a Clarksburg man. The boys would have done better if they had had more time to practice, but their schedule was too full to permit this. The gir1's team has played several practice matches already, but the league matches have not been played. They will be too late to publish in this year's Chanticleer. In the practice matches the gir1's doubles composed of Virginia Almeida and Barbara McIntyre have shown the greatest possibility of winning their matches. Gail McKenzie and Zanette Belden playing the singles matches for Dixon have a fair chance of winning, but the competition is greater in this field. Like the boys, the girls need more practiceg and also like the boys, their schedule is too full. Wh can do no more than hope the girls win and wish them good luck. The players were: Irving Dietrich. Virginia Almeida James Seyman Barbara Mc Intyre Ed Seifert ' Gail Mb Kenzie Dean Dunnicliff ' Zanette Belden Qhcmtlcleer A T