Joliet West High School - Alpha Omega Yearbook (Joliet, IL)

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Steve Fink 053 jumps and reaches high to keep the re- bound away from an Eisenhower player. A Steelman player leaps to block Jim Rohr's 6321 shot, but Jim out-jumped him to make two points for the visiting Tigers. 04 Jerry Mabry 6205 .snatches the ball from three Eisenhower Cardinals and prepares to pass it to a team mate. 1965-1966 Sophomore Basketball West West West West West West West West West West West West West West West West West West West Season Record -- 64 Elgin ......... - -- 51 Bloom --- ---- -- 41 Argo ......... - -- 53 East .......... - -- 39 Lockport Central -- 62 Adlai Stevenson -- 46 Blue Island .... - -- 44 Thornton ...... - -- 56 Kankakee ..... - -- 39 Joliet Central --- -- 30 Thornridge .... - -- 58 Bloom ........ - -- 55 Argo ......... - -- 49 Joliet Catholic -- -- 40 Joliet East ..... - -- 50 Lockport Central -- 49 Eisenhower .... - -- 46 Thornton ..... - -- 53 Kankakee ..... -

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SOPH0lVlORE.BASKETBALL-FRONT ROWQ Gary Woods, Greg Charles Ewing, Clyde Brown, Reg Ogg. THIRD ROW: Scott Bates, Jim Kimble, John Bond, Dave Begum. SECOND ROW: Mulbarger, Nick Logan, Jerry Kinney, Loren Lynch, Don Gursh, Manager Dan Graham, Jerry Mabry, Jim Rohr, Steve Fink, Brian Larson, Coach Edwards. Coach Edwards reviews strategy several minutes before game time with two of his starting players, Clyde Brown Qleftb and Dave Beguin Crightj. Sophomores Develop Varsity Potential Joliet West's sophomore basketball team experienced a rough year in the South Suburban League. With several games remaining to be played, they had compiled a season record of six wins and twelve losses. Although far from im- pressive, this record alone did not tell the entire story of many close games. During the final moments of the Central- West game, tension rose as both teams battled for victory with precious seconds ticking away. When the game was finished, the scoreboard showed that West had lost by only four points. West also suffered defeat at the hands of the Thornton five by a slim margin of two points, and Kankakee edged out the Tigers in their bid for victory by just one point. West's sophomores did have some glorious moments to redeem themselves. In the season's first game, the Tigers nearly doubled the total points scored by the sophomores from Elgin. After being beaten by the Argo Argonauts by four points the first time, the Tigers defeated them in a second contest by six points. Coach Edwards' Tigers defeated the Kingsmen once easily and came within five points of repeating the East siders fate near the close of the season. Likewise, they made up for a five point deficit from the first game against Lockport Central by winning the second con- test by seventeen points. Other victories came against Blue Island and Adlai Stevenson fa non-conference gamej. 103

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FRESHMAN BQSKETBALLTFRONT ROW: Manager Dennis Anderson, Jack Ditsch, Mike Reilly, David Keay. THIRD ROW: Carey, Meier, Craig Spiers, Thomas Janke, Kevin Bacon, Coach Coleman, Glenn Gornick, Robert Cipolle, John Turner, Richard Cluzmark, Roger Wyss. SECOND ROW: Steven England, Victor Getson, John Sklare, Richard Gregg, James Dunn. Manager James Looper, Brian Wallace, Eric Nelson, Robert West West West West est est est est est Freshmen Capture Second At Glenbrook Throughout their first high school season, the 1965-1966 freshman basketball team displayed fine basketball winning eleven games and losing only seven. In the first games against Lockport and Thornton, the Tigers each time lost by only three points. After battling to a tie at the end of the game with Thornridge, the Tigers lost the contest by several points in overtime. They beat both East and Central twice and Joliet Catholic once in their only scheduled game of the season. During the Christmas holidays, the freshmen won second place in the Glenbrook Holiday Tournament. After winning the first two games, they were beaten by Proviso East in the championship game. Under the guidance and coachin of their coach Mr Coleman the freshmen have g 5 ' 9 made great strides in improvement. 1965-1966 Freshman Basketball Season Record 1 82 Bloom ........ 73 West Joliet Catholic .. 53 69 Rich East ..... 57 West Thornridge --- 61 51 Joliet East ..... 41 West Bloom ........ 66 38 Lockport Central 41 West Argo ......... 65 52 Joliet Central - 43 60 Eisenhower --- 54 52 Thornton ...... 55 58 Providence .... 37 51 Joliet Central -- 29 West West West West West Rich Central --- 34 Joliet East .... 54 Lockport Central 44 Lockport West - 39 Thornton ..... 59 Jack Ditsch 1343 dribbled under the basket in the midst of three oppon- ents and scored two points in one of the freshman Tigers' many vic- torious games. 105