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

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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.

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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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Zi' T W--fs l'U M FRESHMAN BASKETBALL TEAM-FRONT ROW: Steve Maish, Pat Daniels, Steve Boothe, Bill Dwiggins, John Williams, Bill Baechler. BACK ROW: Acree Shreve, rs f as f! . 555 - t , ,.,. ,. A fs is f i l llll c , .ll. B it S BABAA bw ' 1 :Wm , ' wr 0215? f 4 eg pmqm V5 Y .. i 5,1 Jeff Willer, Barry Simpson, Joe Cima, Dale Fuchs, Mike Boone, Gilbert Huerta, Mike Olbin, Steve Cooper. Several outstanding individual performances sparked the Frosh team, as they compiled their season record of 9-lO. Bill Baechler established a new school scoring record with 275 points for the year and Bill Dwiggins set the single game re- bounding record with 22. Other outstanding performances were made by John Williams, Steve Boothe and Steve Maish. Among the season's highlights were a victory over a strong Douglas squad and three consecutive wins over Alhambra, Sunnyside and Salpointe at the close of the season. Palo Verde's Frosh was second in its league with a conference record of 6-2. In a freshman basketball game played in Palo Verde's gym, Bill Dwiggins at- tempted to score for the Titan cagers. The Freshman beat Rincon in the game. 3 E eggggggg W Junior Varsity Coach Freshman Coach Boyd Meyer Lou Hopkins Bill Dwiggins drove in for a lay up in a Freshman basketball game against Rincon. Palo Verde won the Freshman, J.V. and Varsity games that night.