Fort Lauderdale High School - Ebb Tide Yearbook (Fort Lauderdale, FL)

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TERRY CARLISLE HAROLD SPEAR GLENN KROETZ VARSITY JERRY EBERT JACK LEACH JOHN HOLT

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The following week the L’s trampled the Miami Beach Typhoons and the South Broward Bulldogs. Immediately there was talk of an undefeated season. Never before had such an event taken place at LHS, and the students were ready to take up the chant of an “unbeaten” season. Miami Jackson gave L fans a scare when they faced the L’s on the courts of the Caldwellmen. At the end of the half the L’s were two points behind and Jackson still showed life. Fans began to breathe easier later in the game when the L quintet forged into the lead. At the beginning of the last quarter, the L’s began to show their old form as they raced to a 15 point lead which they held for the remainder of the game for a 55-40 victory. With twenty wins and no defeats the L’s went into the final game of their schedule. Miami Edison had taken it on the chin from the L’s earlier in the season and were out for blood. As the L’s were unbeaten, the Lauderdale fans wanted it to stay that way and as a result turned out en masse for the game in the Red Raider gym. With a capacity crowd on hand the Red Raiders took an early lead. L partisans were gloomy as the Red Raiders held a 32-7 margin at the end of the first quarter. Toward the end of the first half, the L’s began to show life and nar- rowed the margin to a two point Raider lead by half- time. Early in the third period the L quintet grabbed an eight point lead. This was short lived, however, as the Red Raiders quickly struck back. In no time at all the Edisonites were again holding a lead. As the game ended the score was deadlocked and the game was forced into overtime. In the overtime period the L’s were first to score on a free throw by Mike Holt. Again the Raiders quickly pulled into the lead with a basket. As the overtime period came to an end the Raiders held a one point margin of victory and the L’s were on the short end of a 60-59 score—their first defeat of the season. Although the defeat was a disappointment to L fans, they were looking forward to the district and state tourna- ments which held promise of bringing a state champion- ship to Fort Lauderdale.

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