Highlands High School - Highlander Yearbook (Fort Thomas, KY)

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The Tollowing Tuesday evening The Bluebirds Tell again, This Time al The hands oT The Bellevue Tigers. Berk led boTh Teams in The scoring deparT menT wilh 22 poinls. The score was 6855. The Third game oT The season was played in Silver Grove . small gymnasium. The Big Trains -,hol inTo The lead aT The ouTseT and The Birds could never caTch up. The halT Time score was 34- 29 'nd The Tinwl w 5 62 52 Serlf w 1 ain high C1 4 di ' . . GS CQ wiTh 25 poinTs. Newporl wilh her usual powerhouse, nexT dumped The Highlanders To a Tune oT 88-42. John Turner and Ronnie Bridewell led in The scoring de parTmenT wilh 24 and IB poinTs respecTively. Sara' kalsannis was nexl wilh I6. lT was a diTlerenT slory Though on January sixTh in The Highlands gym as The Bluebird-2 Trounced The Ludlow PanThers 73f4l. They Took an early lead and The Panlhers never did come close. Sara kaTsannis led The Birds wiTh a high oT 33 poinTs. lvlarTin had I3, Slephens I I, and Sewers IO. Rem' ley was high Tor Ludlow wiTh 23. The advanlage oT playing on Their own Tloor proved To be a deciding one Tor The Greendevils when The Bluebirds played DayTon. 5erk led The lflighlanders wiTh 28 poinTs, buT The Tinal score was DayTon 64, Highlands 59. Highlands deTealed Their ciTy rival, The ST. Thomas Tomralm, 54-40. The lasT guarler proved To be a big one as The Bluebirds scored I7 poinTs To Sl. Thornasi 6. The nexT Two weeks were disasTrous ones Tor The Birds. During This Time They dropped live ,Traighl games. Sewers sfops a fasf break BASKETBALL CO-CAPTAINEL Lefl To riqhlz Pariny Sarakalsannis, Dave' Sewers In Alexandria The Campbell CounTy Camels dumped The l-lighlanders 72f6O. Panny 5arakaT, sannis was high man in The scoring deparTmenT wiTh 34 poinls. Though The halT Time score was Tied aT 3 I f3 I, The Camels pulled away in Tne final Two periods and won The conTesT. The Beechwood Tigers nosed ouT The Bluebirds 53-50 in a hardfToughT conTesT in FT. MiTchell, The winners sunk Three Tree Throws in The lasT Twenly Tive seconds To break a 50-50 deadlock. The Tollowing evening, The Birds losT anoTher game To DayTon which was even more ol a hearT- breaker. The score when The linal period began was 40437 in DayTon's Favor. Two Toul shols by DayTonls Williams in The closing seconds made The Greendevils vicTors by The score oT 58757. Serk again paced his Team wilh 33 poinTs. Ken Williams was high Tor Daylon wilh IB, The Birds had a very bad nighT againsl Bellevue as The Tigers walked away wiTh an 83-48 viclory. Bellevue's Top scorer was Hagberg wiTh I4. Serk was high Tor l-Tighlands wiTh 26 markers.

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VARSITY BASKETBALL Leff to riqhf, boflom row: D. McAf'ree, D. Sowers, D. Mariin, G. Cochran, F. Crawford. Top rowi L. Bryson, P. Sarakafsannis, D. Smoof, B. Sfephens, H, Groves, J. Flaig. BASKETBA The nighl of Friday. December 9, l955, saw a young and inexperienced Highlands baslcelball Jream lalce lhe floor againsl The Covinglon Holmes Bulldogs. The resull ol lhe lirsl baslcelball game S DENNY MCATEE DAVE SO LL SEASUN ever lo be played in lhe Russell E. Bridges Gy ne nasium was 56-38 ir: favor ol The yisilors. High poinr men for lhe Birds were Bill Slephens and Panny Saralcalsannis wilh Il poinls apiece. DOUG MARTIN FRED CRAWF

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PANNY SARAKATSANNIS BILL STRAUB HENRY GROVES LEE BRYSON DICK SM EXPERIENCED BLUE BIRD Boone CounIy, eye'n'ruaI charnpIons oI Ihe nInIh region, new meI Ihre HighIanders and emerged vICIorIous.BoIhIean1S played a sIow, sIaIIing garne wIIh a Iow EInaI score oI 59-37 as a reSuII. Cnr Iearn IinaIIy Inrned Ihe Iables Ihe IoIIowing Iuesday nIghI by bevahng ErIanger LIoyd 75-52. TEIIM The BIuebirds sIarIed sIowIy as Erlanger IooI ar early Iead. They graduaIIy closed The gap, I'ow ever, and were behind only II-9 aI The guauIer. They Icepf marchIng sfeadily and Ihe haII 'ima score was 26-2I In our Iavor. LIoyd was nfeyer again In Ihe Iead as Ihe BIrds wenI on Io w n buf 22 SECOND SQUAD BASKETBALL Left fo rIqhf, boffom row: Fred Crawford, RichIe Emmens, Tom Crane, Denny McAfee, Top row: Jim Flaiq, Gary Cochran, Paul Finnesefh, Dick Smoof, Henry Groves, Lee Bryson.