Humboldt County High School - Winnada Yearbook (Winnemucca, NV)

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ROBERT GINGERY “BOB” (Second Year) CAPT. DAVID BELL “BUSTER” (Second Year) ELMER MOORE “WHISTLE” (Second Year) JOHN ECHAVE “CHAW” (Second Year) THOMAS PEDROLI “WOP” (Second Year) ROBERT SWAN “SWANIE” (First Year) PAGE TWENTY-NINE

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boys’ basketball squad with Echave, Bell (Capt.), Pedroli, Moore, Brophy, Gingery, Swan, Damon, Bankofier, St. Clair and Scholl finally won the Zone Championship and left for the State Basketball Tournament on the night of Tuesday, March 3. Repeating former experiences, we drew an early morning game and after the sun had found its way through the windows of the University gymnasium the score book revealed the fact that Virginia City “Muckers” had put us into the consolation tournament by a score of 15 to 7. Not to be disheartened at this turn of events we went merrily at it and put Bunkerville out of the running the next day by a score of 18 to 16. Then came the disaster. In a slow game with Panaca wherein the boys could not seem to get to hitting the basket we took the short end at half time 14-4. After a talk by Coach Lowry we picked up and finally the whistle caught us just one point of tying them and so our tournament aspirations for this year ended by a score of 15 to 16. In our Zone games, we opened with the Industrial School in a practice game on December 13. After winning this game 51-10 in which all men were used we tackled Metropolis and sent them home on the short end of a 30-27 score. Christmas vacation gave us a rest and then a trip to Lovelock to meet our old rivals. After four periods of hectic play we were caught at the whistle with only 17 to 18 garnered by Lovelock. Our real zone schedule started after this and on January 17 we caught Battle Mountain a little off form and defeated them 20 to 9. Carlin bowed to us the next week 20 to 10 after a rugged game and then on January 29 we tried a return out-of-zone game with Lovelock which had plenty of thrills but lacked the one thrill of our winning. The score of 32-20 doesn’t indicate the speed nor the closeness of the game. The old one point hoodoo caught us on January 30, when we went to Battle Mountain and they took a 16-15 game filled with both good and bad basket shooting. On our Eastern trip to Wells and Metropolis the following week we picked up and defeated them 31-13 and 24-17 respectively. Following the Wells-Metropolis game we returned home for two practices and then took the road to Ely to take on the former State Champs. Not to be frightened by the word “champ” we started in with a will-to-win and lead all through the first quarter only to miss several set-ups later on that gave them the opportunity to overtake us. After a speedy game that the fans of Ely will long remember, the whistle sounded and we had met a 28-20 defeat. Returning home from Ely, we had no more than landed until our leading zone rival Elko, paid us a visit and there followed the most thrilling game of the season for Winnemucca. Coming from behind in the second half, after a sluggish first half, we looped basket after basket, overcame a twelve point lead and finally won the game by a two point margin. Then came a game with Wells which we won, 27-19, followed by a trip to Carlin and Elko in which we won the former game by 28-10, but found the going tough in Elko and after playing them 14-13 in our favor the first half, wilted and allowed them to run away with the game 37-18. With all the boys returning another year, and with the experience gained during the season and at the Tournament, it looks as if Humboldt County High may look for a “Blue and Gold” team next year that will more than do credit to our fondest hopes. —R. G. 32. ▲ PAGE TWENTY-EIGHT

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Leroy brophy “STONY” (Third Year) ERNEST DAMON “HICKORY (First Year) EARL BANKOFIER “BALDIE” (First Year) JACK ST. CLAIR “JACK” (First Year) JOSEPH SONZOGNI “SHENANDOAH” (First Year) ▲ PAGE THIRTY