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

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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

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fxxxiswy ,,- T- 3 E v ,T9 Q THE TTRST GAME WTTH GENEVA WAS TTT FOR TAT THE WHOLE NAT THROUGHS KTRKLAND woULD UUMP AHEAD FOR A LUTTLE WHKLE9 THEN THE GARDUNALS WOULD MAKE A COMEBACK. THE KANGAROOS ETNALLY woN DUT AT THE END or THE GAME BY TWO POTNTSD A2 TO 44. THE NEXT GAME WTTH THE COMMODORESO KBRKLAND STAYED UP wTTH THEM UNTTL THE LAST QUARTER. THEN THE KANGAROOS PUT ON THE STEAM AND woN BY SEVEN RoTNTS 41-34. A TOUGH BREAK GAME T0 THE KANGARooS THAT GAME WHEN DARREL ARNOLD HURT HTS ANKLE. SATURDAY AFTERNOON THE KANGAROOS TANGLED WUTHTHE DECATUR YELLOW JAGKETS. THE SCORE wAS DLGSE ALL THE WAT WTTH A T2m12 THE AT THE END OF THE FTRST QUARTER, 25-22 AT THE HALF HN FAvoR OF KTRKLAND. BY THE END OF THE THERD QUARTER DECATUR LED BY ONE RDTNT BUT THE KANGAROOS GAME SAGK TO TAKE THE LEAD. THEN DTCK BAUMGARTNER FOULQ ED DUT FOR THE KANGARGDS AND LEFT KTRKLAND WBTH LTTTLE HEBGHTH, FRGM HERE ON UN DEGATUR TOOK THE LEAD AND woN BY 11 POHNTS GAME EXCEPT KANGARDOS F ULAR CENTER. SUMMTNG GOOD REGORDG HAD A RECORO REST OF THE 9 BSSA9. DARREL ARNOLD DTD NOT PLAY UN THTS FOR THE LAST Two MTNUTES. HATS GEF TO THE OR PUTTTNG UP A Gooo BATTLE WTTHOUT TTS REG- UP THTS YEARUS BATTLES9 THE KANGAROOS HAD A ONCE AT THE BEGKNNHNG DE THE SEASON THEY OF A LOSSES AND 5 WINS. THEN THEY WENT THE SEASDN LOSDNG DNLY TWO MORE GAMES. THEER STANDENGS NOW DS ETGHTEEN WON AND SEX LOST. THTS LEAVES A 0?33 STAND WITH THTS GO TNG MARK9 THE SECOND HSGHEST BN THE COUNTY. OD RECORD THEY ALSO WON THE COUNTY TOURNA- MENT OF WHUCH EVERYONE HS VERY PROUUS RONALD Bo: 9 Q 6 W 9 0 W 4 B B WEUVE HEARD THAT COLLEGE-BRED MEANS A FOUR- YEAR LOAF MAD WTTH DADUS DOUGH. SGME CRUST, EH? OTHERS NHERE, WAHTRESS, TAKE THTS CHECKEN AWAY? TTUS AS ToUG WAHTRESS8 N MR. DECKER8 l H AS A PAVBNG-STONE. MAYBE BTUS A PLYMOUTH RDGK, STRGU nWHAT Do You CALL THE LAST TEETH WE GET?W BETTY TSGHQ UFALSE TEETH.Nff fx si X T ffj X T I' T 9 '. Tx .,vn N K X x T x 'fx