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

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'-'xuipll If i!5 wbgpvv T E .Q5 CD KANGARDGS T1 POBNTS. KBRKLAND COULDNUT HOLD A DEFENSE THAT GAME wHnLE THE GARDTNALS HELD A TTGHT ONE. THEN KHRKLAND LOOKED FORWARD To THE NEXT GAME WITH THE HARTFORD GORELLAS. HOPHNG FDR REVENGE FOR THAT FBRST GAME wnTH HARTFORD THE KANGARDDS TRTED TO PLAY GOQD BALL BUT THET MUST HATE TRTED Too HARD FOR HARTD FORD EAGLES GAME ovER T0 woN BT 13 POUNTS, 46 T0 33, THEN A BHG NTGHT HTT THE KANGAROOSB MGNMGDTH GET REVENGE FOR THEBR PREVBOUS LOSSG THET JUST ABOUT DHD BT FDR THE GAME WENT UNTO AN OVER- TTME BATTLE AFTER A LTTTLE GDNFERENGE AT THE END OF REG' ULAR PLAYUNG TTME, AS EVERY DNE WHO SAW THE GAME WTLL REMEMBER. WELL, THE KANGARGGG GAME ouT ON TOP BY FEVE PGENTS 35 To 40. WHEW2 WHAT A GAMEQ SBARTANS. BY A THEN THE KANGARGDS WERE HOSTS To THE PLEASANT MULLS SDGRE GF 23 To 48. THEY HAD LUTTLE TROUBLE UN THUS GAME WENNUNG PAGHTNG THEUR GRBPS THE KANGARGGG MOVED AWAY ON A LHTTLE GADNT TO WASHBNGTON CENTER, LOCATED GGUNTT. WASHUNGTON CENTER PUT UP A FBGHT THE FBRST HALF BUT AND GAME AFTER THAT THE KANGARDGS Toon COMMAND UN WHSTLEY OF THE LEAU HELD BT THE REST or THE GAME, THE GGGRE or THTS WAS 35 T0 53. NEXT AS EVERYBODY KNOWS THE KHRKLAND KANGARGDG GAME THROUGH AS CGDNTT CHAMPS. THE KANGAROOS STEADY BASKETBALL ALL THROUGH THE TOURNAMENT AND CAME OUT ON Top ALL THREE GAMES. BN THE FURST GAME WBTH MONROE THEY WENT REGHT TO WORK AND woN BY A LARGE SCORE, 32 TO 51. THE FTRST AND SECOND QUARTERS THE KANGAROOS HELD DOWN, BUT THE LAST HALF THEY ROARED THROUGH GHAMPTGNE Do. THE SEGGND GAME WTTH HARTFORD WAS A WERE LUKE REAL THEY THRTLLER wuTH -KURKLAND ON TOP MOST STAYED ON TOP AND WON BY Two PGTNTS 36 PLAYED GOOD OF THE WAY, TO 38. IN- QTDENTLT THHS WAS HARTFORDUS FERST Loss OF THE KANGARGGS GOT REVENGE EDR THE TTMES THET UN THE SEASONS THE THTRD GAME WETH MDNMDUTH BALL GAME WUTH THE KURKLAND KANGAROOS UN FRONT BY ONE PQBNT AT HALF TGME. DURING THE FOURTH QUARTER KBRKLAND l 7 THE SEASON. WERE BEATEN wAS A CLOSE K I A si f Il Q x f b fx ,ff X