New Prairie High School - Prairie Life Yearbook (New Carlisle, IN)

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b-team basketball first row: coach gcorgc olson. kenny joncs. Steve kindig. bob calhoun. jeff schrocdcr. second row: tim ludwig. sieve coorcman. dave nickcrson. don hcrlzbcrg. bob deutschcr. third row: craig brown, dan malicki. coach gcorge olson this year piloted his reserve basketball team to a successful season, giving promise that the future cage fortunes of new prairie appear to be bright, although the basically sophomore team, preparing for varsity action, won their invitational holiday tourney with a cardiac-arresting squeaker over john glenn, the group reportedly played their best ball of the season in a losing (55-53) cause to south bend clay, with a continua- tion of this kind of season, great things can certainly be expected from this very talent- ed and ambitious group of boys. prepares for varsity a few words of wisdom and the all-important pep talk action 1971 b-team basketball schedule team triton sb lasalle john glenn fairficld river valley laville south central me marquette northjudson sb jackson knox north liberty bremen sb clay them 48 64 50 50 69 I 37 30 i did it! i did it!

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 fa PR m i + PMBH- he PR iflr necling: matty bush, larry shcad. dan troxell, co-captain: jay gilpin. standing: don hoover, student manager: bill coddcns. larry boyts. lew plum beck, mike wil- x, brucc nickerson, co-captain: doug dodd. doug schmcltz. tom o'bricn. coach Icon adnson. bruce nets two more cougar points varsity bb strives for teamwork and unity a prelude to victory

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first row: mike miller, phil jankowski. bob smith, paul zahl. davc akin, frank hartman. mike lenig. second row: gary oliver, rich hall, joe laureys, terry banis. frank schrciber. pat dennis. Steve olson. manager jeff wiggins. third row; richard parry, rod swank, ray barncs. greg hofer. coach frank Zielinski, coach tim moffitt. frosh basketball team shows promise 1971 bb frosh schedule them john glenn oregon-davis river valley wcstville north liberty la porte southcentral north liberty john glenn lalumiere north liberty john glenn knox lay i lie south central and endurance as with most younger-than-varsity squads, the freshman basket- ball team spent most of its training time developing styles and techniques that would help not only them, but also see them through varsity action, when, if ever, they did get there, the group started the year off quite well as they won four of their more diffi- cult games, but then apparently fell into bad limes when they lost several, later, regaining their strength and endurance, they began again to win with regularity until the end of the season, finally showing a fairly average record for their year's work, led by coaches frank zielinski and tim moffitt and urged on by their own cheerleaders, the group also, besides gaining much-needed experi- ence on the playing floor and from their sponsors, met and ob- served older np players to see just what they might do in a given situation or how they might react to another team's strategy, etc. 19