Palo Verde High School - Olympian Yearbook (Tucson, AZ)

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Cagers Finished Season With I9-3 Record Guard Tim Walsh drove past a Tucson High player for an easy lay up. Palo Verde fell to the Badgers in the season opener 86-71 on P.V.'s home court. In the Pueblo game, P.V. Center Barry Schur scored on an easy lay up. Palo Verde scored with two seconds left to defeat Pueblo 80-79 in an exciting game. Barry Schur out iumped two Catalina opponents to get a shot at the basket in a game held in the Trojan gym. Palo Verde won the battle 69-52. l l Palo Verde iumped off to ci quick lead and then breezed to a 65-44 win over the cold-shooting Catalina Troians. The Titans were paced by the rebounding and scoring of Barry Schur, who was the game's high scorer with 17 points. Cata- lina could not manage a basket until the cage contest was five minutes old. The Titans were ahead 40-17 at halftime. Palo Verde overpowered visiting Alhambra, 87-53, with bal- anced scoring and rebounding, to capture its seventeenth cage victory of the season against only three losses. The Titans out- rebounded the Lions with Senior Eric Heinz grabbing 14 re- bounds and Junior Barry Schur bringing down 13. Keith Ridge- way paced the Titans with 22 points and Eric Heinz scored 13. Four Titan cagers scored in double figures as Palo Verde defeated Sunnyside 69-52 on their home court. Dan Crobbe led the Titans' balanced scoring attack with 13 points. Barry Schur had 12 points, Joe Babinski scored 11 and Steve Gun- ning added 10. Schur led the Titans in rebounding with 15. P.V. ended the game with a 54 rebound total to the Devils' 31 figure. In the last league game of the year, Palo Verde toppled Salpointe 60-55 to win the Class AAA-4 Southern Division B League title. The win brought the Titans league record to 8-O and their overall season record to 19-3. The game was close all the way, with the score tied at the half. With less than a minute remaining to play, the Titans took a two-point lead, then made three successful free throws to win the game. P.V.'s top scorers were Joe Babinski with 16 points and Dan Crobbe with 13.

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Tim Walsh and Barry Schur leaped for a rebound in a home basketball game against Rincon. P. V. defeated the Rangers 91-88 for their ninth win in a row. Barry Schur took a rebound out of the reach of an opponent from Catalina. Dan Crobbe, Jim Werner and Joe Babinski rushed to help Schur in his attempt. Titan Rick Heinz battled with two Catalina cagers for a rebound in a game played on January 28. An unidentified Titan also fought for the rebound. Palo Verde outscored Douglas 26-17 in the fourth quarter to come from behind and beat the Bulldogs 85-81. Joe Ba- binski scored 26 points in leading Palo Verde to the victory. Three other Titans also hit in the double figures as Barry Schur scored 20 points while Steve Gunning and Dan Crobbe each had 12 points apiece. The win left Palo Verde with a 11-3 record with 8 games left. In a conference game played on Tuesday, January 28, Palo Verde beat Catalina 69-46. The Titans led by 9 points at half and steadily pulled away during the last two periods. Coach O'Dell substituted freely during the second half. Steve Gunning pumped in 16 points and Barry Schur grabbed 13 rebounds to lead the Titans, which brought their record to 12-3 on the season. Palo Verde led from the start in an 86-76 prep basketball victory over Sunnyside. With the win, the Titans took over first place in the Southern Division B league. Seniors Joe Babinski and Jim Werner scored over half of the Titans' points in the game. Babinski scored 26 points and Werner had 23 before they were taken out late in the fourth quarter. Palo Verde routed Salpointe 93-70 to keep their perfect AAA Southern Division B league record intact. The Titans, despite a height disadvantage, won the rebounding game 59-36. Jim Werner led the team in scoring with 21 points. Joe Babinski had 18 points and Barry Schur scored 15 points. P.V. led by as many as 29 points before Coach John O'Dell pulled his starters. In a home game with Sahuaro on February 7, Palo Verde came within one victory of the Class AAA Division Basketball playoff and two wins away from the B-league title with an 85-67 victory. Top scorers for the Titans were Joe Babinski having a total of 26 points and Barry Schur with 20 points. Babinski and Schur had 13 and 14 rebounds respectively.

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I . , 1 U ' 1 , 7 f i 'Y JUNIOR VARSITY BASKETBALL TEAM-FRONT ROW: Mgr. Don Whiting, Dennis Thomas, Greg Lefko, Mike Kee, Bob Gutierrez, Mark Olbin, Mgr. Ray Bobin- ski. BACK ROW: Steve Young, Rick Ranne, Buddy Droegemeier, Roland Young- ling, Mike Polivchak, Joe Bullard, Richard Ranger, Ralph Matthews. Junior Varsity Squad Took City Championship Winning l8 and losing only l, the Palo Verde Junior Varsi- ty Basketball Team won the city championship for the second year in a row. The loss was to Tucson by one point, 51-50, in the season opener. Leading scorer on the team was Mike Polivchak who averaged l3 points per game. Greg Lefko and Rick Ranne were next with ll and lO points per game re- spectively. Polivchak led in assists having 46 tor the season. Coach Meyer said it was that never-give-up spirit that led to the best season ever at Palo Verde. Sophomore Mike Polivchuk leaped in an effort to tip the ball to a teammate on a iump ball. Palo Verde defeated Pueblo's Junior Varsity in the game. J.V. cager Dennis Thomas took a long iump shot as a Rincon player attempted to deflect the shot. Palo Verde's J.V.'s defeated Rincon on the Titan court.