Grayson College - Saga Yearbook (Denison, TX)

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Members of +he I97I-I972 Grayson Counfy College Tennis Team were: llell To righfl kneeling, Donna Yerion, Debbie Morrison and Rhonda Skaggs. Slanding, Troy Smilh and Roger Golclsmilh. l97I-I972 Tennis Team Schedule Opponenf Dale Place Time Paris March 7 Paris l:3O Cooke COUUTV IO Gainesville lZO0 Cooke Counfy I7 Home I :OO Navarro 20 Home 2100 Tri-Meer Kilgore-Tyler 21 Tyler ioioo Paris April 4 Home I :3O Tyler 6 Home I :OO Navarro IO Corsicana I :OO Mary Hamilion, fennis coach, gives Donna Yerion, The only sophomore on The 156feam, some lips on her backhand.

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s aHresulT oT Taking Too big of a lead off TirsT base, Viking Alan WhiTTield had To biTe The 1sT in order To avoid a pick-oTT Trom AusTin College's TirsT baseman. WhiTTield was illed saTe on The play as GCC baTTed across eighT runs in The TirsT inning oT This scrim- age. PiTchers Were To Be CounTed On Heavily Being fhe only brighT spoT ThaT Coach Ward could Tind, The piTching sTaTT Tor The Vikings would have To be The back- bone oT The Team. This was a compleTe reversal Trom The year beTore as Ward had a sTrong hiTTing line-up. T-lowever, if The hiTTing should come around, and The piTching sTaTT holds opponenTs, and The deTense holds up, Then The Team could very easily resemble The Dodgers oT The early I96O's when They dominaTed The baseball world wiTh The same TreaTmenT. The Vikings did however have some Tal- enTed hiTTers Tor The spring season. Gary RichTer and Jim Lucas were big STicks Tor The Vikings during The Fall Season. Rick Barber, Bill Clay, WalTer Kenny, and Alan WhiTTield all were hiTTing well when The season-opener was creeping up. , N. Rick Barber and Gary RichTer Trap an AusTin College runner beTween Third and second base. LaTer in The clay RichTer, The Tall season's leading hiTTer, sprained his ankle and would be ouT of The line-up unTil almosT The Time Tor The Vikings' season-opener on February 26. 155

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Freshman Troy SrniTh Takes Time ouT Trom classes To pracTice on his backhand aT The courTs locaTed on The WesT Campus. Freshmen DominaTe NeTTers Only one sophomore, capTain Donna Yerion, reTurned To The 7I-72 Tennis Team. The oTher Tour Treshman members prac- Ticed diligenTly To prepare Tor The Tough Two monTh sched- ule. Due To The consTrucTion of The gym and The moving oT The main campus courTs. The Tennis Team had To pracTice eiTher on The WesT Campus or one oT The local courTs. Roger GoldsmiTh doubles as a member of The Tennis Team and also The baskeTball Team. GoldsmiTh was a disTricT winner in high school aT Lewis- ville. N Troy SmiTh and Rhonda Skaggs .VX spend an aTTernoon wiTh Donna Yerion and Roger Gold- smiTh pracTicing Tor Their upcoming dou- bles. I k..,., ,psig , . 4sX.,s.Q .T , 35, 157