Duncan High School - Wildkat Yearbook (Duncan, AZ)

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coach barbara Stauffer, betsy elmer, celia mendez, adele merrell, theresa luna, shelley white, ruthy garcia, elaine lunt, cindy segraves and isabel herrera. girls play hard, place second at state 1) as susan comes in for a spike against the thatcher eagles, the crowd yells, “kill it!” 2) “love that figure,” rachel even though the wilcox cowgirls don’t. 3) sterling sets up the ball for cindy in a home game against wilcox. 4) lori and brenda team up a spike for tombstone. pride led the volleyball season as the varsity fought hard to the end. two made it to all-state: frances on first string and tina on second, the team walked all over valley union during the conference and beat them 15-0. other teams like morenci and thatcher were a little tougher to beat, making it to first in the district tourney helped, but the state championship was lost to thatcher. jv had a very good year and came in with the best win-loss record of the three teams, the girls played a few easy games and some tough ones too, against safford, pima and clifton. team energy and spirit made scoring go fast, high scorers were sandi, sabrina and rhoda. third string played challenging games, shelley, cindy, and elaine did their best and were high scorers. After being beaten by morenci on home court, third string went on to beat them there and to show more strength. 27

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tina price, rachel garcia, brenda cox, carol douse, frances rodriguez, lori nichols, susan seitz, sandi germaine, kristi elmer and coach burnside. rhoda hooper, kaylene french, kathy crawford, coach barbara stauffer, cindy se- graves, sandi tipton, jeanne lunt, melissa peru, sabrina rodriguez, ruthy garcia and lucille mcbride. 26 duncan varsity opponent 15 thatcher 4 11 pima 15 11 safford 15 4 thatcher 15 15 wilcox 10 15 valley union 0 15 tombstone 8 12 morenci 15 15 thatcher 12 17 morenci 19 8 wilcox 15 15 clifton 10 15 clifton 5 15 pima 4 15 Denson 8 i 15 baboquivari 10 duncan jv opponent 16 pima 14 15 safford 13 12 thatcher 15 15 wilcox 8 16 valley union 14 15 tombstone 8 4 morenci 15 15 thatcher 7 3 morenci 15 15 wilcox 4 15 clifton 12 7 clifton 15 15 pima 7 15 oenson 2 15 baboquivari 4 duncan 3rd string opponent 15 pima 9 14 safford 16 15 thatcher 9 11 wilcox 15 15 tombstone 2 8 morenci 15 15 thatcher 9 15 morenci 9 15 wilcox 8 10 clifton 15 12 clifton 15 15 pima 11

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kats struggle through successful season playing several tough opponents, such as morenci and tombstone, the 1976-77 varsity wildkats completed a successful season and established a 15 win and 9 loss season, despite this, they were unable to get to the state tournament at phoenix after facing staff competition in the district tournament, the highlight of the season was an exciting 62-61 victory over the thatcher eagles, other big wins for the wildkats were 19 and 21 point thumpings of clifton. the dhs team also finished fourth in the eac tournament, the kats breezed past wilcox in the first round but bowed to the tough tombstone yellowjackets in the semi-finals, losing all hopes for first place, duncan, although losing twice to the class a morenci wildcats, gave the cross county rivals a scare at dancan. the season ended with a heartbreaking 46- 67 loss to thatcher. 1) driving past two blue devils, gabe scores an easy lay up. 2) jack scores and draws the foul for a possible 3-point play. 3) coach burnside discusses strategy with the players during a time out. 4) skying above tombstone’s reishl, richard hopes for a basket. 5) richard drives for the bucket as gerald moves in for a rebound. 6) pre- game warm up finds gerald concentrating on upcoming game. 28