Memorial High School - Reata Yearbook (Houston, TX)

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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.

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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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Ploinsmen, Spartans Bow Larry Wood deTTIy keeps MemoriaI's inTenTionaI sTaII alive. The passing game was insTrumenTaI in The IvIusTangs successful bid Tor The championship. The high Tlying IvIusTangs swepT inTo Their TirsT sTaTe baskeTbaII TournamenT by beaTing Lubbock IvIonTerrey and Dallas Samuell To cop The highly-prized AAAA sTaTe championship. The semi-Tinal game againsT The Lubbock IvIonTerrey Plainsmen was won by The score oT 50443. As had been The case ThroughouT The year, Jerry Kroll Ied The Mus- Tang charge wiTh his sTrong aII-around play and leader- ship. The aggressiveness and speed OT The IvIusTangs was Too much Tor The deIiberaTe Lubbock Team, as The Coleman Corps played one OT Their more Tlawless games OT The year. Kroll Ied The IvIusTangs wiTh I9 poinTs, while Vernon Cross added I3 and Larry Wood 8. In The pressure-packed championship game, Me- morial avenged an early-season loss To The Samuell SparTans, winning by The score oT 73-68. The game was close all The way wiTh The sTeady play oT Roland CarTer, Paul PoyThress, and Kroll, along wiTh The ac- curaTe ouTside-shooTing oT Cross keeping The Memorial pace. The big sTar oT The game, however, was Harry BarThIow, who enTered The game when Tour Pony sTarTer goT in Toul Trouble. The 6'2 senior did an ouTsTand- ing job, scoring I6 poinTs and dominaTing The re- bounding. Kroll again Ied The scoring wiTh 20 poinTs, hiTTing a solid I2 ouT oT I3 Tree Throws. Cross canned I8 poinTs, while CarTer added 9, Iviillegan 6, and PoyThress 4. Vernon Cross confidenTIy evades SamueII's defense in The big game. Harry BarThIow surrounded by Plainsmen in The semi-Tinal game againsT Lubbock. I69