Hector High School - Wildcat Yearbook (Hector, AR)

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Heating Up Prepartion In The Locker Room Picture this: A gym lock- er room 15 minutes before the game. Players getting dressed, gossiping, or just horsing around. Where are my socks?”, “Hey did you hear about what happened last night? , “Let’s push Ju- lia into the showers.” 5 minutes: The bedlam has ceased, and a calmness has come over the team. Every- one is dressed and ready to kick some tail. The coach has given his pre-game pep talk and game strategies. The who gets who, who does what, and who to most watch out for. 30 seconds: The excitement is building back up in the players, each one wants to do their very best. That last thirty seconds is the longest, standing in the hall waiting for the buzzer, and getting ready to run out. Can you picture this? It’s a scene that takes place be- fore every game, whether boys or girl, the Locker Scene. It's all the same, and surprisingly the guys are worse than the girls at gos- siping and primping. Espe- cially Billy Chisum, whose favorite seat in the dressing room is in front of a full length mirror. They talk about the days happenings. Whos seeing who, who did what, and what will be going on later. But the major difference is the bragging. “I’m so good- looking. “I’m so tough.” Quite a comical scene. Afterword is totally different in each locker room. The girls are a little more emotional, and blame themselves. “Well if I had shot better. “If only I had done this or 1 had done that. But on the otherhand, if they won-look out, the emotion goes both ways. “We are so awesome. Just wait until the next game, will the other team be sorry.” The guys are a different story, they know they lost as a team and not one person is to blame. ISN'T THIS OVER YET? Rhonda Warren Senior, Alin Strickland Senior, and Tammy W'arren sit through the last quarter of the grossest football game ever, while sitting on wet bleachers! WHAT A PEP RALLY! The cheerleaders recognize the out- standing performance of the Sr. Boys Basketball team just before they left for regionals

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Basketball Winning . . . Underdog Of A Season This was ihc year that ev- eryone said. Hector Wild- cats? A winning team? Nev- er!” W ith the loss of three of the five starters from a year agos winning effort made the future of this year's team bleak. But through sheer determination from the players, the Cinderella Wildcats made their first trip since the mid-1960's to the regional competition held at County Line. The line-up made of two seniors, one junior, and two sophomores, allowed all an- alysts to predict Hector at the bottom of the confer- ence standings. But it was not to be so as the Senior Boy's Basketball Team cap- tured the Pope County Tournament Title beating Atkins with a resounding 60-44win. Surprising themselves was the key to the whole game. Out manuvering the other opponents time after time was the winning edge. Some of the players attrib- uted some of this season's wins to the good fundamen- tals that were taught to them during their years un- der the junior high basket- ball coach. Clarksville 39-32 Alrcad 55-46 Plainview 49-26 Alrcad 53-45 Dover 36-42 Lamar 40-45 Nemo Vista 63-44 Ola 30-5 Dover 47-44 Oark 34-56 Plainview 37-55 Jcssicvillc 38-57 Lamar 38-46 Mayflower 35-46 Dover 25-46 Atkins 44-60 Pottsvillc 30-45 Havana 68-54 Alrcad 37-56 Havana 42-36 W onderview 49-66 Pottsvillc 29-39 Ola 32-57 Danville 45-41 Mayflower 34-41 W onderview 35-28 Danville 57-43 NemoVista 69-55 Pottsvillc 45-60 Mayflower 41-64 SEMI- 38-51-WON HAVANA 40-36 ELKINS 40-36 Senior Boys Basketball: (first row) Billy Chisum. Brian Byrum. Mike Huffman. Brent Freeman, (second row) Stan- ley Sackman. Jon Lawrence, Steve Poyntcr, Edward Linker. David Brown, (third row) Stewart Condlcy. Scott Chisum. Terry Skinner. Larry Freeman (coach) Design by Michelle Patton

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 Sportsmanship A Must In Every Ballgame Anger rises through from the bottom of your toes. You know that number 15 knock you into next week as you were driving towards your goal — the basket. Now just calm down, don’t you remember what the coach said about being a good sport about things. But I can’t, I Can’t. I’ve just gotta say something. As you slowly rise from the floor, the anger mounts up like Mt. St. Helen's, but something within the very soul of your being clams you down and a big smile comes onto your face like the rising sun. But what is that that makes it all come out all right. DISCIPLINE. That right, the ability to shrug off unfortunate circumstances and keep on playing the game that is in progress. But how does one attain this high level of self-con- trol? Through years of regi- mented practice. Besides the practice comes reiforc- ment from the coaching staff. Many teams have lost, but, the other team will re- spect that team more if they have a good sportmanshi- plikc conduct about them. Sportsmanship is that one key ingrcdiant to a success- ful athletic program, but is sometimes ignored by those individuals in the leadership positions. If the coaches will lead the way through good sportmanship then the play- ers will fall in line with their leader. jm ntA a e» • T i?' DEFENDING HIS HONOR Ju- nior Billy Chisum blocks ihc travel- ing lane from a Dare Devil during the Pope County Tournament. TAKING IT EASY. Senior Stacy Barton takes a breather from the heat during Ihc Wondcrvicw Base- ball game. Design by Micbclk Patton