Oakville Senior High School - Tiger Paw Yearbook (St Louis, MO)

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Worm up proves important for Kelly Koste as she aribbles the ball across the floor. Oakville reaches new heights as Cindy Hamrnerschrniat C1143 scores another two points. Leg held high, Laurie Arthur scores against Kirkwood. ,xv f f, Hr E 1: -W ' VW:-1: 'Ni W ,E . r.. X ' ' it , , Q :1 5, ,.,. s , E. , H . 86 - J.V. Girls Basketball wa

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icTory sTrikes baskeTball sTars arsiTy girls aim, shooT and rebound STriving To make every baskeT counT, The VarsiTy Tigers were ouTsTanding. They won firsT place in The Oakville TournamenT and Took Third in The SouThwesT Subur- ban League TournamenT. We are noT doing as well as we had expecTed To do, com- menTed Debbie Johnson. Howev- er, There were a number of girls on The Team ThaT broke school, local, and sTaTe records and were also ranked among The areas besT. They were Laurie Aldy wiTh The mosT assisTs and sTeals, Sam Bu- ford wiTh The mosT poinTs and leading rebounder, Lisa Allen leading in assisTs and scoring, and Missy Meinburg wiTh The mosT block shoTs. PracTices were long and hard, buT varied aT The same Time. PracTices Took up a loT of Time buT were helpful in The end, re- plied Margie Beck. Laurie Aldy believed, MosT of The sTarTers have been TogeTher for four years and our senior year should be The besT. G-ood defense helped The Team esTablish a perfecf home record CIT - Oy. Some of The Team members were a liTTle disappolnT- ed because They did so well and goT so liTTle fan supporT. Lisa Allen, exasperaTed from a hard prac- Tice, commenTed on The fan sup- porT, We Try our besT To win, buT iT is discouraging To play when we have liTTle or no supporT. The lack of fan supporT didn'T sTop The Tigers from going To Dis- TricTs. NexT year, The Team will be The majoriTy of This year's JV Team. Surrounded by opponents, Melissa Mein- berg shoofs skillfully for a basket Jumping and shooting, Sam Buford ouT plays her Two opponenTs while Lisa Allen awaiTs The ouTcome of Two poinTs. VarsiTy Girls BaskeTball - 85

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- wesome plays work in baskeTball To mosT people, Junior VarsiTy means lack of experience buT ThaT didn'T seem To be The case for The girls' baskeTball Team. A number of The girls have worked TogeTher since The sevenTh grade. 'Tl Think we have a good Team This year because our fresh- men have played TogeTher in years before, commenTed lVli- chele Johnson. Our defense seems To be our besT poinT, replied Trisha Van- FleeT. Offense aian'T prove To be The sTrongesT poinT, buT aT Times iT was ouTsTanding as They beaT Eu- reka L15 - 43. We've had some hard Times, T T C buT we are working TogeTher To T . MA form an offense ThaT geTs The job Y done, replied Laurie ArThur. .. 9, Q- '-'M MW Coach Carol Birch, Diane Boyle, Tony lVlcCrady, Chris Fox, Michelle Johnson, Cindy I-lammerschmidT, Joeiie Jones, Fonda Moyers, Kelly KosTe, Sue Wafson, Tammy Dillow. Laurie ArThur, and Sara Brown. udience gained for JayVee girls WiTh four sTarTers leaving from VarsiTy, many of The JV players will be recruiTed for nexT year's VarsiTy, 'TNexT year The JV Team will work TogeTher on VarsiTy and make a sTrong Team, said Diane Boyle, The Team's ball-handler? When The scheduled season came To a close, The freshmen played in The Freshman Tourna- menT. They enjoyed compeTing againsT ofher freshmen and said They had learned from Their ex- perience. lvls. Cindy Dickerson looks for- ward To coaching again nexT year, wherever she may be. This was her firsT year coaching and according To many people she will be one of The besT wiTh Time and more experience. Q Huddled Together, The JV sauad receives lasT minuTe advice from Coach Cindy Birch. Tension builds as Tony lVlcCrady gaThers her ThoughTs for The Team's nexT move. J.v. cans Bqskerbqii -