Octorara Area High School - Venture Yearbook (Atglen, PA)

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DATE December December December December December December January January January January January January January February February February February February February February March March 1 4 1 TEAM OCTORARA Twrn Valley Solanco Lampeter Strasburg Upper Dublrn Garden Spot Alumm Pequea Valley 'Unronvrlle 'Oxford Kennett Medra 'Avon Grove 'Unronvrlle 'Oxford Solanco 'Kennett Garden Spot 'Avon Grove Rrsrng Sun Faculty Twrn Valley Sharon H111 League games OPPONENT 200 7' 'Zfnmaa Wedmmc BACK Ben Wltkowskr Jlm Geesey Bob Tmdall Tom Carver Darrell Grb ble FRONT Dave Patterson, Dave Srmmons, Bnan O'Leary 55 I ' ............ 43 ......... 52 49.........63 1 - ........ 40 ......... 74 15 ' ............ 38 ......... 58 22 ............. 52 ......... 35 29 ' ................ 57 ......... 34 1 ........... 46 ......... 54 8 ' ' .............. 49 ......... 42 X 12 ................ 49 ......... 35 1 15 - ..,............. 62 ......... 59 ' 22 ' .......,....,..., 54 ......... 62 26 - ............. 42 ......... 40 29 ' ' ............. 42 ......... 44 5 ................ 67 ......... 45 ' 8 ............... 76 ......... 56 12 ................ 53 ......... 72 16 ............, 49 ......... 34 19 - ............. 85 ......... 63 j 23 ' ' .............. 61 ......... 42 26 ................ 66 ......... 57 A 1 ' ............. 73 ......... 59 8 ' ..... . ........ 53 ......... 64 60- '

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4-may The basketball team enjoyed rts most successful season by postmg a 13 8 record ln regular season competrtlon and flHlShlHg second ln the Southern Chester County League wrth a mark of 6 2 Because of lack of experxence the Braves started out slowly by losmg fwe of therr frrst seven games As the season progressed the team acqulred the know how and confldence, plus the all lmportant mgredrents, team work and the desxre to w1n to such an extent that they won eleven out of thelr last fourteen, mcludmg a wrnmng streak of frve stralght to close out the season Durmg the flrst round ofleague play the team upset Unronvrlle and Ken nett Square and fought the perenmal contenders down to the wlre When the Braves defeated Avon Grove rn the last league game and Umonvxlle lost to Kennett our team was entrtled to represent the SCCL ln the PIAA Drstrlct I, Class B playoffs On March 8 the Braves played Sharon H111 Sectxon IV wmners of the Suburban League, at West Chester and lost 64 to 53 However, the contest was not declded untll the last mlnute of the game as the Braves once agam exhrblted thelr most sterlmg characterlstlcs, a second half rally, and the determmatlon to hustle untll the fmal buzzer Throughout the regular season the Red and Blue were pacedbythe fme shootlng of John Wrrght and Ronnxe Hlldenbrand who averaged fourteen and eleven pomts perball game,respect1vely B111 Young followed close behmd rn the scormg and was on top rn the rebound department Herman Wll hams and Jack Norton rounded out the startmg fwe throughout most of the games Wxllxams was the key playmaker on the squad whrle Norton's specxalty was reboundmg The splendrd teamwork and trammg are to be credrted to the mfluence and hard work of Coach B111 Adams 54 FROM LEFT Blll Young John Grlffy Ron l-hldenbrand Dave Robmson Herman Wlllrams Don Vandershce Don Townsend Jack Pmkerton Nxck Wrlght NOT PICTURED J ack Norton had gd! fidaan O D I wr 132, Q tif: . - I Q .faq . . . . . . . C JK? . . , - . -. . . - Q 1 . l l I . , . , - I . .

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