Grayson College - Saga Yearbook (Denison, TX)

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68 f1 L -'XL ' 1,2 li up - , , , ,, , 9 Fx, ,...,. W., As Ellis STewarT signaled he was open underneaTh The baskeT, Viking guard Rodney Fabre direcTed The Viking aTTack in The encoun Ter againsT Henderson CounTy. Sharp-ShooTing Guard Led Henderson PasT GCC Trailing by a mere Three poinTs wiTh Tour minuTes leTT in The game, GCC was very much in The game versus Henderson Coun- Ty. However, Rosie Fuller, The Cardinals sharp-shooTing guard, caughT Tire and poured in Tive sTraighT shoTs in The closing minuTes To power Henderson CounTy To a 9l-79 decision. Fuller ToTaled 35 poinTs in- cluding I6 Tield goals. Tommy Johnson was The Viking leading scorer wiTh I9 poinTs. A week laTer The Two Teams meT again, buT This Time The conTesT was held aT Tar away AThens. GCC came Tired up and walked away wiTh one oT The biggesT upseTs in The conTerence race. The Vikings revenged Their earlier loss wiTh a Thrilling 88-85 vicTo- ry. The key To This game was The Vikings 2- I-2 zone deTense ThaT held Fuller in check as he could only manage eighT poinTs Tor The nighT. Tommy Johnson couldn'T geT a shoT away under The baskeT buT passed oTT To TeammaTe BuTch Redwine who scored on an easy iump-shoT. Johnson did, how- ever, score I9 poinTs To lead all The Viking scorers. .L - ,X,,- if, .-f

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GCC Nips Paris, 69-65 For Second League Win Ellis Sfewarf gof mosf of fhe limelighf, buf Richard Chrisfensen puf fhe game away as GCC beaf arch-rival Paris in a barnbur- ner, 69-65. Sfewarf had his besf perform- ance as a Viking as he demolished fhe visif- ing Dragons wifh 27 poinfs and I4 re- bounds. Chrisfensen, affer missing fhree fimes, finally puf fhe gameiouf of reach wifh only six ficks of fhe scoreboard clock leff. Barely ahead 67-65, Chrisfensen baf- fled fiercely unfil finally, fhe shof of fhe game, a reverse lay-up, dropped fhrough. This upped fhe GCC conference record fo 2-6 and I2-9 for fhe season. Coach Spivey commenfed abouf fhe game afferward by saying, fhis was one of fhe finesf perform- ances by a GCC feam ever. Cenfer Richard Chrisfensen puf fhe Paris game ouf of reach wifh fhis reverse lay-up wifh only six sec- onds leff on fhe ficker. Chrisfensen bombed Paris for 22 poinfs as GCC squeaked by fhe arch-rival Drag- ons, 69-65. in Ellis Sfewarf and Paris perform- er Johnny Beach showed ballef- like form during fhe Viking- Dragon shoofouf. Sfewarf gracefully desfroyed Paris wifh 27 poinfs and I I rebounds. 167 .f

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N f ,f . K In Times oT Trouble, such as The seven-game losing sTreak iusT beTore The ChrisTmas holidays, Coach Spivey showed many moods and emoTions Through The course oT The games. Spivey was very seldom seen wiThouT a Towel in hand and was conTinuaIly shouTing insTrucTions during The games. Coaches Experience Helped YouThTuI Vikings Jim Spivey began his Third season as head baskeTbalI menTor aT GCC wiTh a 30-35 Two-season record. While aT Grayson, Spivey's Teams have Tinished TourTh and sixTh in con- Terence sTandings. Prior To coming To GCC, Spivey coached aT Beaver, Okla., where his Team Tinished The season wiTh an I I-I I record. Spivey played his college baskeTbaIl aT SouTheasTern STaTe College in Du- ranT, Okla., where he was a Three- Time all-American. LasT year he was named To The all-Time NAIA baskeT- ball squad, and is IisTed among such eliTe proTessionaI sTars as Willis Reed, Dick BarneTT, and Lucious Jackson. A brighT new Tace was added To The GCC coaching sTaTT This year. Dr. Flavil George acTed as assisTanT baske+balI coach and also psycholo- gy insTrucTor. George broughT wiTh him I8 years oT coaching and Teach- ing experience. I-Ie received his bachelors Trom EasT CenTraI STaTe College in Oklahoma and his mas- Ter's and docToraTe Trom NorTh Texas STaTe. I-Iis IasT Three years were spenT aT SouTheasTern where he was assisTanT proTessor oT psy- chology and educaTion. I-lis IasT coaching iob was aT Teague I-ligh School where he was also The assisT- anT superinTendenT. As Coach Spivey waTched The Tyler game inTenTIy, Coach George gave insTrucTions To a resTing Richard ChrisTensen. Spivey and George com bined Their knowledge To give individual insTrucTions To all baskeTbaII parTicipanTs oT The young and inexperienced GCC Team. 169