Grayson College - Saga Yearbook (Denison, TX)

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GCC guard Rodney Fabre drove down The sideline hoTly pursued by a Seminole guard in The champion- ship game OT The 'Viking Classic. The Vikings Tell in The Tinals 87-54. 2 35 'lf ., .s. . , i Ar, 7-Mc: fifisw' , ZL .JN 'T . A- ' I ..., tm 51.1-. ,. ,ii.siisss T isss is . 5 W Q Seminole Takes FirsT Viking Classic Tourney Seminole Junior College Trom Oklahoma used a TighT deTense, sTrong rebounding and sharp shooTing To capTure The TirsT an- nual Viking Classic held in The GCC gymna- sium during The Thanksgiving holidays. Seminole beaT The hosTing Vikings 87-54 in The Tinals oT The Three-day TournamenT To Take home The huge championship Trophy. Seminole gained a Tinals berTh by beaTing ChrisTian College oT The SouThwesT 92-67 in The TirsT round, Then deTeaTed Oklahoma CiTy SouThwesTern in The semi-Tinals IOI-78. GCC marched inTo The Tinals wi+h vicTories over ForT VVorTh ChrisTian College I I8-78 and EasTTield College 97-83. The consolaTion championship wenT To WesTern Texas College, who deTeaTed FT. WorTh ChrisTian 85-78 and Cisco Junior College 98-95, aTTer losing To EasTTield in The TirsT round. Oklahoma CiTy SouThwesT- ern Took The Third place Trophy wiTh a 99-84 win over EasTTield. Sophomore cenTer STeve ShoTner hooked a shoT over The ouTsTreTched Seminole deTense in The Viking Classic Tinals. Seminoles +igh+ deTense and Tancy ball handling held The Vikings To The lowesT poinT ToTal-oT The TournamenT.

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60 Viking Tommy Johnson drove The lane and was fouled by a Navarro player in The TirsT conference game. GCC losT The conTerence opener aT Navarro by a narrow 7I-67 margin. WiTh The score Tied aT 67 all wiTh 23 seconds To play, The hosTs sTole an in- bound pass and scored. Na- varro sank Two Toul shoTs in The closing seconds. To puT 1 , The game ouT of reach. t I in .,,...., is .,,. .. Us e,::.... 5 'f ssrraaa Vikings Drop Conference Opener To Navarro 7I-67 The Viking cheerleaders and a small group of Viking Tans iourneyed To Corsicana via school-sponsored bus To supporT GCC in iTs . TirsT conference game. However, They were disappoinTecl by The ouTcome as The Vikings dropped a close one, 7I-67.

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'ws ,-ff 'M eww' y ii was , W, 'aww -Q Richard Chrisiensen, Viking cenler, pufs defensive pres- sure on Lon Morris's cenier Sammy High. Chrisiensen fouled in +he acl buf responded wilh 20 poinis To lead ihe Viking scorers. Vikings Gave Lon Morris Good Figh'r In Losing Cause Rodney Fabre, Viking freshman from Baron Rouge, La., Tried io drive be- Tween Kenneih Smilh and Eugene Harrell of Lon Morris. Fabre pumped in I2 poinfs as ihe Vikings fell To Lon Morris, 87-76. Behind lhe shooling and rebounding of Richard Chrislrensen and forward Kenny Harper, lhe Vikings ioughl gallanfly againsf formidable conference foe Lon Morris. Trailing 38-29 af hali- fime, fhe Vikings roared back wi+h Jrhe defensive work of Har- per and The shoofing of Chris+ensen. The Vikings came wilhin one poinr a+ lhe hallway poinl rhrough lhe second half, buf Lon Morris hii a sfreak and pulled away lo a 87-76 vicrory. Viking Tommy Johnson fried in vain +o rake lhe ball away from Lon Morris's sfarring forward Eugene Harrell. Johnson conlribuied I2 poinfs in lhe losing cause. 162