Pendleton High School - Wakeipa Yearbook (Pendleton, OR)

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bupbnmure Basket Mall Ulieam Captain Purl ,Planting ....... Forward Edgar DeSpain . Guard George Childs Guard Arthur Bell . Center George Rigby . . . Center Edward Hopper ......... Forward The class of '22, final champions, lost to the Sophomores in the first game played by a score of 13 to 9 in favor of the Sophs and in the next game the Sophoinores defeated the Seniors by the unequal score of 19 to 6. The series of victories tied the Rooks and Sophomores for second place and the game fought to decide the entry for finals was one of the most ex' citing of the series. In the first half luck seemed to be with the Rook team but the Sophs were in to win, and with Planting playing his best form, the final score gave the victory to the class of '23 to the tune of 10 to 9. This entered the Sophomores in the finals, but after a brave fight from start to finish of a fast game, the Sophomores lost the championship by a score of 38 to 31. l129I I 1

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jfresbman Basket Mall Ulieam Uaptain NValfred Holmgren -...... Center James Simpson . . . Forward John Morton Guard John Muir ....... . . Forward Aaron Welolm ......... Guard Bobbie Dunn and Norris Graham, Substitutes The Rocks began the interclass tournament with a victory of 18 to 3 over the Seniors, which gave the team confidence to enter the other games with a firm determination to win the championship. The next two games played with the Sophomores and Juniors were also easy wins, but in the return games the Freshmen found themsleves outelassed by so narrow a margin that only one point turned a possible victory into defeat. One of the closest games of the series was the Junior-Freshman game in which the final score was only 15 to 14 in favor of the school champions. Another hard-fought game was the Freshman-Sophomore game which if won would have placed the Rooks in the finals for the championship. At the end of the first half the SC01'C stood with several points in favor of the Freshmen. but the Sophomores came back with the spirit of the real old fight and the final score stood 10 to 9 in favor of the opposing team. I128l

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Zuniur igasket 355111 Team Captain Frederick Rohrmau ,...... Guard Carmen Saunders ....... Center Harold Houser . l4'orward Carl Nelson . Forward Byron WHI'1l6l' Guard Waltrwi' Colo .......... Guard Kenneth Rew ......... Forward The boys of the class of '22 won the interclass basketball tournament in a series of hard-fought battles. The first game was lost to the Sophomores by a score of 9 to 13, and in the next game won from the Rocks by a very narrow margin, the final score being 15 to 14. In the third game, the Junior team came back strong and humbled the Seniors to a tune of 17 -to 9. Witli two wins and one loss they entered the finals with the Sophomores as strong op- ponents, and the last game which decided the championship was the hardest fought of the series. At the close of the first half the score stood 32 to 10 in favor of the Juniors. In the second half thc Sophomores rallied and brought up their score to Within a few points of the Juniors, making the final score, 38 to 31, and giving the Juniors the championship. The Juniors in the six games played, made a score of 153 points to their opponents 67. I 130 1