Memorial High School - Talon Yearbook (Joplin, MO)

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General basketball . . . Ozark conference schools became aware of the fighting Memorial Eagles during the 1970-71 school year. After stumbling around the cel- lar for two years with no conference wins, the Eagles went after a conference championship. The Eagles fin- ished third in the Blue and Gold Basketball Tournament, coming within a point of upsetting undefeated Spring- field Parkview, the top-ranked team in the conference. Coach Bill Stipp, with eight varsity lettermen re- turning, put together a senior dominated team for the first time in the school's short history. In the conference race, the Eagles started out hot with the victories over Parkwood, Hillcrest and Glendale good enough to keep them in second place even though they lost to Central and Parkview. However, a slump during the second half of the season caused the Eagles to drop to a fourth place finish with a 4-6 record and an overall record of 11-10. Two of the quickest guards in the area, Gary Ander- son and Bobby Joe Mingo, led the fastbreaking Eagles with their pressing defense, while the veteran front line of Dick Rush, Randy Wills, Robbie Clay and Macon Mc- Millan worked the boards. Flush led the team in scoring averaging 12.6 points a gameg Randy Wills led the team in reboundingg Anderson was tops in assists. Junior Varsity coach Jim Wyatt overcame the dif- ficulties of playing juniors for two quarters and sopho- mores for the other two each game to coach his team to a 10-11 record and fourth place in the sophomore tour- nament in Springfield. Skip Drouin's freshman teams showed promise for the future as the A team recorded 6 wins, 9 losses and the B team a 6-6 record.

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.23 Q45 E7 Y. x X 1 JUNIOR VARSITY. BOTTOM ROW: B. Cox, M. Bennit, J. Ballard, ROW 35 E, Douglas, B. Land, M. Ham, D. Wagner, T. Messner, K. lvie, M- Lowe, R- H0SkiflS, A. Hill- ROW 21 M- C0bUrI1. T. T. Darby,L.Salsman, J. Schoeberl, D. Hill, H. Cartwright. Deems, M. Tanner, R. Perry, C. Wilson, M. Phipps, S. Harlas. FRESHMEN. BOTTOM ROW: D. Consolver, K. Newby, D. Burt, G. Markley, M. Carol, J. Edwards, S. Lacey, W. Stewart, D. Donohoe, C. Harris. ROW 2: G. Starks, I. Palmer, L. Johnson, T. Edwards, D. Larson, J. Johnson, D. Warrick, R. Franks, G. Moult, R. Hood, V. Chartier, R. Ham, L. Otero. ROW 3: S. Engrim, R. Pilgrim, F. Messner, D. Warden, J. Cupp, J. Man- love, R. Webb, J. Murray, P. Taylor, D. Coburn, D. King, R. Boyd. ROW 4: T. Legg, M. Loyd, K. Oakes, S. Brown, C. Smith, D. Pommert, B. Nelson, J. Chew, D. Warden, N. Moore, B. Deardorf, K. Carnes, S. Woolever. 9

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Opponents Miami Parkwood Nevada Central Hillcrest Glendale Parkview Parkwood Central Neosho Hillcrest Glendale Parkview Carthage Totals