Duncan High School - Wildkat Yearbook (Duncan, AZ)

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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

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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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jv, freshmen cagers prove their skill the season was all improvement for both the jv and freshmen, both finished well, the jv group showed a lot of improvement since their freshman year with new coach don wagner. “about all that can be said about jv basketball during the early part of the season is that it was extremely low-key,” said don wagner. “however, as the season lengthened, the players began to enjoy the taste of winning.” these wins included a tremendous victory over morenci after having lost to the wildcats earlier by thirty-seven points, the freshman group also had a good year and showed a lot of talent for their first year, “this group has the talent to go a long way,” said coach newell. with these two groups of boys moving up, duncan should be tough. jv basketball duncan 7 wins losses 10 opponent 54 reserve 47 52 ft. thomas 56 49 pima 72 52 wilcox 79 44 pima 57 33 benson 48 48 clifton 38 52 thatcher 63 59 valley union 43 43 morenci 82 79 clifton 39 55 benson 45 50 thatcher 54 56 baboquivari 66 70 morenci 68 40 tombstone 58 69 valley union 40 frosh basketball duncan 5 wins losses 5 oppom rit 46 reserve 15 56 pima 26 39 wilcox 54 47 pima 43 52 iordsburg 47 54 morenci 76 50 benson 49 42 Iordsburg 54 55 morenci 63 55 morenci 57 30