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

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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

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pni.NsiE:!!ll'4Pf .- ' 1 IEE 7 as. W C, CD GAME OUT PLAYTNG THE SAME STEADY BALL THAT THEY PLAYED THROUGHOUT THE TOURNEY AND TOOK OVER THE GHAMPIONSHEP CROWN.6 HURRAH2 FOR THE KANGAROOS. AFTER THE COUNTY TOURNAMENT KTRKLAND TRAVELED TO GENEVA, THEY HADNUT FORGOTTEN WHAT THE CARDINALS HAD DONE TO THEM DEEOREG KHRKLAND JUMPED TNTO THE LEAD AND HELD TT ALL THE GAME WTTH GENEVA GOMUNG TN CLOSE RANGE ONGE. THE FBNAL SCORE WAS D3H3T TN FAYOR OF KTRKLAND. THBS WAS A GOOD GAME FOR KTRKLAND. THEN THE APPLE CART UPSET. THE KANGAROOS, TRYING FOR THEBR ETGHTH MTOTORY TN A ROW9 GOT DEATEN DOWN TN THE YELLOW JAGKETUS GYM, THUS GAME WAS WBTH DECATUR GATHOLTO WHO PLAYED GOOD BALL ALL THROUGH THE GAME. IT SEEMED AS THOUGH THE KANGAROOS GOULDNUT GET STARTED THAT NUGHT. THE SCORE WAS 45 To 30 DN PAYOR OF THE COMMTESG KHRKLAND THEN JOURNEYED TO PLEASANT MTLLS. THE SPARTANE CAME CLOSE TO BEATTNG THEME KTRKLAND WAS BEQ HEND ABOUT ALL THE GAME UNTTL THE LAST QUARTER. LTMTTQ TNG THE SPARTANS TO ONE POTNT THE LAST QUARTER, THEY GAME THROUGH WETH A FOUR POHNT MARGTN, 38 TO 42. THE KANGAROOD NEXT WENT TO BLUPPTON TO PLAY JACKSON. KTRKLAND LED ALL THE WAY DUT THE WELLS COUNTY QUBNTET WAS ALWAYS PRESSTNG THE KANGAROOS FOR THE LEAD. KTRR- LAND GAME OUT ON TOP BY A SCORE OE 52 TO 63. MANY GON- ETDERED THTS THE BEST PLAYED GAME OF THE SEASONG TN THE FTNAL HOME GAME, MONROE. GAME TO KTRKLAND LOOKTNG FOR REVENGEQ THE GAME WAS CLOSE WTTH THE KANSA- ROOS COMUNG OUT ON TOP BY A THREE POTNT MARGCNG EETHER TEAM OOULD HAVE WON THE GAME BUT KTRKLAND HAD THE LEAD WHEN THE GUN GRAGKEDD THE SDORE WAS 39 To 36, WTNDTNG UP THETR SEASON AND LOOKUNG FORWARD TO THE SEOTTONAL THE KANGAROOS WENT TO BERNE To PLAY JEFFERSON. KBRKLAND LED ALL THE WAY DUT JEFFERSON WAS ALWAYS UN DANGER OF TAKTNG OVER THE LEAD, THE GOORE OP THHS PTNAL GAME WAS 64 TO 58 BN KRRKLANDUS FAYOR. THE KTRNLAND KANGAROOS' REGEUVED AN ExOEPTTONALLY TOUGH DRAW UN THE SEGTTONAL TOURNAMENT. To WSN THEY WOULD HAVE HAD TO DEFEAT GENEVA, DECATUR CATHOLIG, DE- Qs ii I I T KT 'T ... N , u 'X X in l Q 1 f k - x y , 4 ,f T GATUR YELLOW JACKETS, AND MONROE, -f S X 2 Ik 4921- A., - ,,---- 4' Q