Duncan High School - Wildkat Yearbook (Duncan, AZ)

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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

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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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1976-77 varsity basketball-center, coach burnside; jack abeyta, 24; donald pena, .14; alex morales. 32; adolph benavidez, 22; anthony lee, 40; richard wright, 30; barry crockett and randy cox, co-managers; gerald lunt, 44; gabriel munguia, 42; orson merrell, 14; norm germaine, 12; jack rapier, 10; alan day, 20. varsity basketball season 15 wins losses 9 duncan opponent 40 reserve 32 69 ft. thomas 60 57 pima 58 75 wilcox 74 75 pima 57 64 benson 48 84 clifton 65 86 baboquivari 69 56 thatcher 59 77 tombstone 79 59 valley union 41 61 morenci 92 80 clifton 59 81 benson 50 62 thatcher 61 69 baboquivari 57 74 morenci 84 70 tombstone 88 61 valley union 53 76 eac tournament wilcox 61 58 thatcher 75 44 tombstone 53 66 district tournament benson 38 46 thatcher 67 29