Kirkland Township High School - Shadows Yearbook (Adams County, IN)

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,ns-Ns'iE!.lQ4Ef .- ' 1 E 'O il , 'wzsuv ,g' CD BASKETBALL THE KANGAROOS STARTED THE SEASON OFF WTTH A BANG BY WTNNTNG THEIR FTRST THREE GAMES, JEFFERSON FELL FIRST T0 THE KANGAROOS BY A SGORE OF 55 TO 41. THE KANGAROOS WERE NOT PRESSED Too MUCH, BEUNG ON TOP ALL THE TIME, ROCKGREEK WAS THE SEOOND VTGTTM BY A SOORE OF 25 TO 61. THE KANGAROOS LED ALL THE WAY AND MUCH TROUBLE. WERE NEVER HN THE THTRD FALL WAS THE GOMMODORES WHERE THE KANGA- ROOS HAD TO WORK A LTTTLE HARDERE THEY GAME OUT ON TOP WTTH A STX POINT MARGBN 29 TO 35v SUT WERE ALWAYS HN DANGER OF GETTTNG BEHTND- THEN THE KANGAROOS TRAVELED TO HARTFORD HOPTNG FOR A FOURTH VBCTORYS MTDWAY THROUGH THE GAME TT LOCKED AS TF THEY MTGHT GET TT SUT HARTFORD TORE LOOSE THE LAST SEVERAL MUNUTES TO BEAT THE KANGAROOS Snx POBNTS9 48-42. THE KANGAROOS THEN WENT TO BERNE TO PLAY MONROE. THTS WAS THE WORST GAME FOR THEM SO FAR TN THE SEASON. MONROE LED MOST OF THE WAY BY A FEW POTNTS WTTH THE KANGAROOS HAVTNG THE LEAD NOW AND THEN. FATLBNG TO GET REBOUNDS WAS KURKLANDUS BTGGEST TROUBLE TN THTS GAMES MONROE GAME OUT ON TOP BY FTVE POTNTS9 HO To 35, AFTER THE KANGAROOS LOST Two GAMES TN A ROW THEY DECTDED TO WTN ANOTHER. AT MONMOUTH THEY CAME THROUGH A HARD FOUGHT STRUGGLE BY A SEVEN POUNT MARGTNQ THE SGORE WAS Ah To 51 AND THE GAME WAS NOT A PTCNTC FOR THE KAN- GAROOS. TRAVELTNG TO BLUFFTON TO PLAY THE PETROLEUM PANTHERS THE KANGAROOS HAD BLOOD UN THETR EYES, THE PAST SEVERAL YEARS PETROLEUM USUALLY TROUNGED THE KANGAROOS BUT THTS YEAR UT WAS DTFFERENT. THE KANGAROOS LED ALL THE WAY AND GAME OUT ON THE LONG END OF A 36-41 SCORE, THE GENEVA CARDBNALS THEN ARRTVED AT KTRKLAND. THE GARDTNALS, PLAYTNG ExOEPTTONALLY GOOD BALL, WHTPFEO THE T f ' is 6 K I ' I ,E I .3 un x 5 N A X KL .fy X