Green Mountain High School - Ramblings Yearbook (Lakewood, CO)

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STATE BASKETBALL All Right, Rams!!! The 4080 Green Mountain High School Boy's Varsity Bas- ketball Team stomped out every op- ponent's team on their way to the State AAA Championship. The guys fin- ished their best season ever with a 23- 2 record to win first place in the state of Colorado. During pre-season, the Rams were rated first, but the ranking was soon destroyed when Wheat Ridge came to our school ancl beat us by four points. The loss didn't destroy the team's hopes for the rest of the sea- son, so they went out and walked on Pomona, Jefferson, Evergreen, Gold- en. and Bear Creek. The streak lasted up until we played Alameda at home. The Pirates couldn't, and didn't miss that night, and they downed the Rams by twenty-one points. The next four games against Columbine fa make-up game because of snowy, Lakewood. Arvada, and Arvada West assured us a place in the Sub-District Tournament. The Rams had to beat three teams to win the Jefferson County Cham- pionship. and they did. Their first game was against Evergreen, and you'd have thought that the Cougars had stayed home that night, like they prob- ably wished they had done, after our team won by forty-six points. A little bit tougher team to beat was the sure- shooting Alameda guys, but the Rams pulled it off by beating them by four points in over-time. The next game was for the Jefferson County League Championship and we went to Wheat Ridges gym and teamed up against the Farmers, who had never been beaten by a Green Mountain team. Both teams played very intensely and the game ended in a tie, and over-time resulted. The television news cameras had been covering segments of the game and catching crowd shots, but none of the film was as excit- ing or important as the part of our Ram team coming out on top to win the Jefferson County Championship and, after the game, taking down Wheat Ridge's nets. This win gave Green Mountain top seeding going into the state tournament. The first opponent was from Pueblo Central High School, and the Wildcat team proved to be worthy of a state seed: although the Wildcats hopes for first were wiped out after a Ram victo-

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Sue Barker Dede Benefield Sally Boyle Leigh Moore To appear bright. Besides The leadership of This years capTains, lVlaThis and Hodgins, many oTher individuals make noTable conTribuTions. Tammy WaTTs qualified for The STaTe Championship diving fin- als in whaT is only her Sopho- more year. The Team even had help from Sweden in The form of exchange sTudenT Mariann Hansson. The mosT im- proved swimmer award wenT To Jean Johnson who simply led a general Team improve- menT. This lisT of individuals who made major conTribuTions To The Team conTinues wiTh lvlosT Valuable Swimmers, Senior - Charlene Elmore, Junior- Sue Barker, and Sophomore- Tammy WaTTs. The Team can look back To some exciTing and TrlumphanT compeTiTive momenTs. The vicTories over Jefferson, Ar- vada WesT, and Bear Creek were especially rewarding. Be- sides The four league meeTs in The 1979 season, The Team also compeTed againsT several Teams from oTher parTs of The sTaTe. Along wiTh The vicToryh aT Bailey, were meeTs aT NorThglenn, Loveland, and HeriTage Schools. NexT year is coming and leading Green MounTains resurgence as a swim power will be Tammy WaTTs and Sue Barker. Shelby Sloaf Karla Reed Marianne Hanson Linda Hodgins Linda MaThis Charlene Elmore .000 p ' Lrr:-A. Q.0 Pt, ' A V M if -'guts ri if

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ry of 61-AQ. The Rams advanced to the quarter-finals and were met by the guys from Regis High School. The Raid- ers almost had our hopes for first de- stroyed, but again, Green Mountain came out The victors, 50-417. Things started to get real tough go- ing into the semi-finals, and The team to beat was the Maroons from Ala- mosa. The Rams got hassled during The first half, and were having problems handling the situation, but after half- time and a pep-talk from Coach Davis, the mighty Rams walked on the court and stomped out the Alamosa team. 65-At. Ah . . . Finally! The State AA Cham- pionship game. and against whom else beating with a score of 74-55 and the Rams walked away with the state title. and a couple more basketball nets! After this the chant changed and ev- eryone on our side screamed, Boulder . , . Panthers , . , Boulder Panthers just got stomped! The stars that made up the if! team were Paul Witherspoon. Glen Merica, Bill Rooney, Chuck Felton, Tim Lovejoy, Sean Vasey, Mark Langkamp, and Tim Deignan. Sean Vasey was recognized ln the Denver Post as a member of the second team, All-Conference, and on the All-Tournament team. Tim Love- joy's name appeared in the Boulder Camera, and he made first team, All- Conference, and the All-Tournament team also. Tim Deignan mentioned in the Rocky Mountain News because he was on second team, All-Conference along with Vasey. Chuck Felton re- ceived honorable mention for the All- Conference team. Mark Langkamp cleaned up everything when he was picked for All-Tournament by the Den- ver Post, the Rocky Mtn. News, and the Boulder Camera, and was picked All- Tournament most valuable player. He was chosen for first team AIl-Conter- ence, and the biggest honor was be- ing selected to participate on the McDonald's All-American team in games against Teams from other states the weekend of March 28-30. in Salt Lake City, Utah. CONGRATULATIONS!!! RAMS!!! but the defending state champs from Boulder. Colorado, the Boulder High - fx ,gy QI' U,-K. School Panthers. The game was so ex- citing it was indescribable! Everyone was yelling Boulder Panthers 5,17 vi Boulder Panthers gonna get stomped! Our team was losing the first halt, and a fewfly Green Mountain fans were pretty worried. but things shaped up at the end of third quarter when Boulder had two technical fouls called on them, The Rams got a break, and the rest is history! Boulder took a 1 ',.s. 1 ,1--'--' L.