Memorial High School - Reata Yearbook (Houston, TX)

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Eagles Clipped Atter a slow start, the Ponies got rolling and dumped the Smiley Eagles 77-42. Absent trom the regular start- ing tive were Paul Poythress and Larry Wood. Dan l-toran and Mike Millegan replaced the two, showing that the Mustangs also have a strong bench. Jerry Kroll compiled 37 points white Vernon Cross came up with l2 to lead the charging Mustangs. Junior Larry Wood warms up betore Spring Woods game. Mustangs Win District Memorial almost waited too long to claim their third straight IOAAAA champion- ships, but managed to overcome the Bears ot Spring Branch, 70-66. Jerry Kroll led the play-ott-bound Ponies trom I3 points be- hind with a tourth period spurt that caught the hosting Bears 62-62 at the regular tinish. ln the overtime period, the Mustangs tirst ot the year, Roland Carter sank six ot Me- morials eight points to ruin Spring Branch's upset bid and end the regular season tor the Mustangs, one in which they posted a potent 30-4 record. Mustangs in double tigures were Kroll l28l Carter ll6l All Cross pumps tor two district Vernon mofel . . . ,, Hosses Hold Tigers The big Red cinched at least a tie tor the district IO-AAAA crown, deteating the Spring Woods Tigers 77-38. Every man on the squad played in the game, which was the last home game on the district schedule. Memorial ran up a 32-7 lead in the tirst period and coasted to the 77-38 win. Four Mustangs made the double tigure scores. Jerry Kroll, with 22, took high point honors. Larry Wood tallied ll and Vernon Cross and Roland Carter sank IO each. Jerry Kroll holding onto the ball and showing the determination that made him a three year all stater.

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Coach Coleman and The Coleman Corps . LeTT To Righlz Cross, Millegan, Kroll, Wood, CarTer, PoyThress. Troians Sfymiecl The IvlusTangs showed ThaT They are indeed a versaTiIe Team as They deTeaTed The SouTh I'IousTon Troians I I5-37. IT is quiTe a TeaT To hold a Team To only 37 poinTs, buT The MusTangs wenT on To also break The cenTury mark. Jerry Kroll was The sTar oT The nighT as he scored a record 58 poinTs. No one could sTop Kroll, who played nearly all oT The game and hiT a phenomenal 20 ouT oT 22 from The Tree Throw line. I-le also rammed in I9 Two-poinTers Trom The Tloor To seT a new disTricT and ciTy record. Larry Wood charges hard as Kroll l42I adds Two more poinTs. North Shore Falls The IvIusTangs handily deTeaTed NorTh Shore Tor The second Time This season 76-42. This exTended The lvlusTangs' disTricT win skein To 29. and gave Them a disTricT record oT 6-O Tor The year. I-Iigh poinT man was Two Time all-sTaTer Jerry Kroll. wiTh 26 poinTs. Vernon Cross Tollowed wiTh a sTeady I2 poinTs. F' , CapTain Jerry Kroll geTs Two oT his record 58 poinTs and Roland CarTer assisTs. Aldine Crushed The Memorial roundballers Took Their ThirTy-TirsT consecuTive disTricT win as They crushed Aldine IO8- 6O in The MusTang Gym. WiTh Their Tine deTense and accuraTe shooTing The IVIusTangs builT up a comTorTabIe lead oT ol-26 aT The haIT. They came back in The second haIT, subsTiTuTing Treely, and ran away To Tinish lO8-60. This was The MusTang's Third Time To break IOO in disTricT play This year. Vernon Cross, doing some Tine shooTing Trom The ouTside, Tallied I8 while Jerry Kroll Took high honors wiTh 20.

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Ponies Ride Rams, Buffs to State Krall rolls Two more 'ThaT's iTl we flid TT ATTer Three sTraighT disTricT championships The MusTang round- ballers were able To Talce Tull advanTage oT Their posTTion and ad- vance To The sTaTe TournamenT in AusTin, Tor The TirsT Time, by winning Two cluTch posT-season games. Memorial, aTTer a nighT oT red-hoT shooTing, came Through bi- disTricT wiTh a shalcey Three-poinT vicTory, 56-53. Rice UniversiTy Field l-louse was The locaTion Tor The game and The lvlusTangs had The awesome memory oT having losT Their bi- disTricT games on ThaT courT The pasT Two years. All-sTaTe candidaTe, Jerry Kroll led The pumpers wiTh 2l poinTs. Larry Wood, besides puTTing TorTh a greaT deTensive eTTorT, scored l3. Vernon Cross and Roland CarTer puT Through 10 and 8 poinTs respecTively, and deTensive specialisT Paul PoyThress scored 4 poinTs. This vicTory Turned The Ml-IS sTudenT body inTo a band oT gypsies as They Tollowed Their Team To The regional playoTTs againsT Beau- monT-French in BeaumonT's Lamar Tech gym. BoosTers Tound an even more suspense-paclced evening Than earlier in The weelq as Memorial snealced pasT The French in a phoTo Tinish 48-47. Top-scoring Kroll and sTand-in Mike lvlillegan 'Touled ouT Torcing a sTall sTraTegy by Coach Coleman. The scoring was eTTecTively iced unTil a laTe game surge by BeaumonT broughT Them wiThin sTrilcing disTance. lT was a game OT breaks Trorn ThaT poinT, and The MusTangs goT a very slighT advanTage, jusT enough To puT Them on The Trail oT The sTaTe championship.