Highland Community College - Trail Blazer Yearbook (Highland, KS)

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WMM Q' Our Scotties Score fidealized maybe'7J The toss-up A basket Cheers. Time out. How some teams travel. Gerald Marsh fSever- fo--M0 fha: Thirty-six ancej. Time keeper. Coach Warren. The bench. Iolians in a huddle

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DEUCE! N the spring athletic fancy stages a tournament beginning with Love all and progressing systematically through Deuce to HGHIHGN and HSet . VVith ten- nis on two courts and conrters on the sidelines, no H. J. C. student lacks oppor- tunity for speculation. Athlete and phil- osopher alike may be heard asking, Is this a love match, and proclaiming, 'tThat's a racquet. Long before spring heard of Highland, tennis propaganda favored the improvement of our courtg but when it was learned that complete equipment for a new court had been given to the school by a former faculty mem- ber, enthusiasm became acute. A horse and a. plow appeared on the campus, boys in overalls set to work. The old court was renovated, and the new one prepared to rival VVimbledon. Shoesto fit fifty pairs of feet were Warned of the hard steps ahead of them when their wearers should enter the Spring Tournament, to compete for the four trophy cups pro- vided by the college athletic fund and stu- dent contributions. It's a pity a yearbook has to go to press before winners can be known. The staff leaves space for you to inscribe their names. Championship Trophy: Men's Singles Qhauvf?--f Women's Singles Second Place Medal: Meng Singles Women's Singles The softball fans schedule fall and spring games. For the most part these games are intra-mural, but interest in them occasionally mounts so high that boys leave town and pay penalties in cuts, lured out by the diamond dust. And speaking of intra-murals, a, word should be said for ping pong, that fascin- ating dormitory game. 'Tis said that champions are made nightly across the net on the dining-room table. Thirty-five

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TI-IE SCCDTTIE SQUAD Twenty-four Scotties assembled the first night ot' the season for the initial pep talk by Coach NVarren. Lettermen Ross, Chilcote, Molinare, Bell, and Johannes drew enviable attention. Two weeks of hard practice followed. Then Coach NVar- ren and his entire squad set out to take NVillis, but-didn't. Defeat seemed to be on every side ot' the Highland clan. Defeat. Defeat-by lola, twiceq St. Joe, twice: Haskell, twiceg Viihite Cloud Merchants, twice, and NVil- lis, once. Every possible combination ol' plays was tried by this clan, without avail. The great Ross with his accom- plished left hand seemed to fail. Chilcote convalesced from a knee thrown out of joint. Henry and Molinare suffered sprained ankles. The number of players dropped-20, 15, t12was practice became harder and winter nights became Colder. Only 10 courageous Scotties were to com- plete the year. This made practice 'hard- er, but at this point. the story takes a dif- ferent course. T . Victory. Did the boys learn what that word meant? They did. They went out to double the score on Vifillisg they took the Everest Internationals for two games, and they overthrew Doniphan. W'inning the games was only part of the 'Y- victxory. Courage, school spirit, and team work entered their games. Boss. making '19 points. showed up the strong St. Joe Crit't'ons. Molina.re, Henry, and Chilcote patched themselves together and got back onto the court. Bell and Batchelder came through in spurts to help the games along as guards. Johannes broke loose this year for some nice playing, breaking-more than doubling-his last year's goal record. rneaa-eye, Pele, too, knew where the goal was. Ketterman and Marsh shouldn't be left out of this, for they were ot' great help when the squad practiced. Then, with a great Pep Rally and a burst of school spirit such as never had been t'elt before, the Scotties marched to their last game with St. Joe Junior Col- lege. The boys really played. The half ended with St. Joe leading by 6 points. The game seemed endlessg on and on it went, both teams tiring fast. Bang! went the gun to end the last game 48 to 26 for St. Joe. But the Scotties were not 'tdown in the mouth , they congratulated the Griffon team and put away their suits for the year. H Yes, they were defeated in most of their gamesg but in courage, spirit, and morale they were triumphantly victorious. Thirty-seven