Rancho High School - El Sol Yearbook (Las Vegas, NV)

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. . team is winner The Iunior Varsity Basketball team, for the 1977 school year, placed first in the Sunrise Division with a season record of 14 wins and 7 losses. Coach Ken Iensen was quoted as saying that We had a fair season. We played far below our potential. Many of the games we lost we had good leads in the beginning but then due to mental lapses on defense, we lost. Four team members, Earlist Iohnson, who was voted the most valuable player, Toby Min- ter, Bernie Rhodes and Don Slocum were pro- moted to the varsity team during both Zone and State Tournaments. 1 Coach Iensen has been coaching basketball at Rancho for two years. One year freshmen and one year junior Varsity. He also coached the freshman football team which was undefeated this year. I.V. Basketball Rancho 54 74 Clark Rancho 68 49 Bonanza Rancho 61 62 Chaparral Rancho 68 44 Vo-Tech Rancho 55 50 Gorman Rancho 71 76 Valley Rancho 55 66 Pahrump Rancho 84 54 Basic Rancho 74 76 Las Vegas Rancho 76 60 Western Rancho 93 37 Eldorad Rancho 68 63 Gorman Rancho 82 73 Bonanza Rancho 84 72 Valley Rancho 66 71 Clark Rancho 58 51 Vo-Tech Rancho 56 54 Chaparral Rancho 60 57 Basic Rancho 59 65 Western Rancho 52 51 Eldorado Rancho 72 58 Pahrump 1 Rancho 68 73 Las Vegas 144 I.V. Basketball Going for a lay up, Tom Pletch outruns the Las Vegas team to make two points. T was an member ofthe V team Fi tr 5 A F I.V. Team, Front to Back: Coach Ken Iensen, Ronnie Basped, Earlest Iohnson, Ma Small, Tom Pletch, Toby Minter. Back to Front: Don Slocum, Bernie Rhodes, Angf Porter, Lamar Patterson, Gary Maddox.

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pl .1-X I , ! tl 1 1' x . J ,.,. 4 l -fi fr- fx, X t, Q ,1 l I ' K rf fl J fi if Stein's men if take state The runnin' rams entered the zone tournament second in our division. They worked hard first play- ing Bonanza, taking over from the start and winning 99-69. The next night again Rancho showed its power by outclassing Valley 81-74. Then the rams beat Cha- parral to go in the finals. The last night the rams suf- fered a loss against Clark in a close game, losing 87- 85. But the runnin' rams didn't stop there. They came into the state tournament with the whole school behind them. The team won their first game against Reed 100-58. The next night going forward and beat- ing last year's state champs the Vegas Wildcats 85-83. The final night had come and the rams had moved all the way up the ladder. As the rams ran in the gym the crowd exploded and the cowboys were lost as the rams poured the baskets in from start to finish, win- ning 82-67. I x t t t Varsity Basketball 143 5 t

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eady to pass the ball to a team member is Gary Maddox, Don Slocum is oming in. Iumping over Clark's defense Bernie Rhodes attempts to make two points for the Rams. Coach Ken Iensen discusses I.V. scores with Kerrie Spillare and Bonnie Anderson score keepers. LV. Basketball 145