Paso Robles High School - El Roble Murmullo Yearbook (Paso Robles, CA)

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BASKETBALL Although they were handicapped somewhat be- cause of the restricted use of school busses, the A's did a fine job of taking the county championship. In their first league game, the Bearcats were in fine shape. But the game was forfeited to us. The next game that came up was the Shandon Outlaws. The Bearcats made this rather a decisive game by a large margin of zo points. Following the game with Shandon was the battle with Atascadero Lirey- hounds, which everyone expected to be the hardest game. However, Bearcats showed their fight and took the game 36-16. The last of the league games was the Cambria Broncos, whom Bearcats over- whelmed by a score of 45-17. VVhen the final play off came with Santa Ynez the Bearcats were in the best of shape. They clinched the championship by winning with a margin of 18 points. As the tires had been rationed, the team could not go any farther. The little fellow who was very good on both defense and offense was our center who played for the B's last year. Bob Rude was also high point man of the team. The two forwards were Speed MCVV il- liams, who played center for us last year, and Paul Kinne who played first string B's last year. The two guards were Darrel Mchlahan, who was a first ringer from last year, and Don Keefer, another one of last year's B's. The substitutes for the Paso Bearcats, who de- serve a lot of credit for sticking with the first string to make it the championship team, were Don Mastagni, Leo Woodward, Tilford Huff, and jim- my Wishusen. P390-23 ...... ......,,.... T aft-33 Paso-17 ...... .... S an Luis-38 P350-27 ,..... ..... f Xvenal- 9 Paso-4 2 .,,,. ......,. S handon-26 Paso-36 ...... ..... . 'Xtascadero-16 Paso-45 ...... ......... C ambria-17 Paso-4 5 ...... ............. S anta Ynez-27 B's VVhen the basketball season began there was not much for the B's to start on, as there were no players left from last year. But as the season went on they proved their ability to play basketball by taking the northem half of the San Luis Obispo league. They could not go any further, because all games were stopped by the O.P.M. director. Their First game was with Templeton, a very hard fought game, but in the last minute Temple- ton won the game by one point. Their next game with Shandong this game was rather lopsided in favor of Paso, 34-16. The following game came the Atascadero Greyhounds, with Tucker leading the team in points. They won the game by a