Santa Rosa High School - Echo Yearbook (Santa Rosa, CA)

Page 21 text:

Losing the North Bay League Championship the Class A hoopsters tied with Analy and Healdsburg for second place in this section. The veterans from the 1951 team. These included Captain Kelly, Reents, and Fisher. 1932 season opened with few prospects. There were but three returning The final standing for the Panthers gave Santa Rosa six victories and six defeats. The initial game started after Coach Fortier had worked his cohorts out daily in the local gym. Sonoma was the first team to suffer defeat at the hands of the locals by losing a 26-20 game. The Orange and Black power was emphasized here and in the following tilts which saw the defeat of St. Mary's, St. Helena, St. Vin- cents, and the Gauer. The Panthers were defeated by the Sequoia and Piedmont teams, completing the practice season successfully. The Orange and Black entered the league season by losing a hard fought game to Petaluma 24-28 on the Trojan's court. The following week the locals defeated the Applepackers 25-20. With one defeat and one victory the Panthers suffered defeat by Healdsburg 22-29 on the home court. Starting the second series of play, the Panther team was again defeated by Petaluma 24-31 on the local pavilion. The following game with Analy, the Panthers suffered a 26-28 defeat on the Analy court. In the closing game of the season the Panthers came back in vengeance to defeat Healdsburg 27-29 on the Prunepacker's court. In picking the North Bay League All Star Five, Joe Kelly was the only mem- ber of the team to win a position. CLASS A BASKETBALL Fms'r Row: Lawson, Capilani, Maahs, Poyncr, Zuur, Abendroth. SECOND How: SClllI'lilll?lllJ2lCll, Duggan, Patterson, King, Pavese, Pieeuts. Tnmu Row: House, Copsvy, Zappa, Kelly, Fisher, McCann. CAPTAIN FISH IER ATHLETICS page tlazrleen Basketball Class A

Page 20 text:

Football o Although many veterans are remaining, the school will feel the loss of C. Schneider, H. Snyder, Capt. Fisher, H. Roth, W. Scully, C. Christian, A. Bettini, H. Reents, H. Mortimer, A. Topaz, L. Duggan, I. Engman, Paolini, W. Anderson, R. Bailey. Many of this yeat's squad will be here next season, and with usually strong mate- rial coming up, the 1933 prospects are excellent. Those returning are: M. johnson, B. Lawson, P. Hughes, Kelly, E. Zappa, N. Mortenson, W. Maxwell, R. Gambogi, J. Bianconi, P. Panick, V. Brown, C. Mora, H. Kennie, A. Thurlow, D. Bonfigli. In picking the annual N. B. L. All-Star Team, Santa Rosa was outstanding by placing five men on this team. Those who were chosen were: Kelly, C. Schnei- der, E. Zappa, M. Johnson, Capt. Fisher. CLASS B FOOTBALL Unusual interest was taken in Class B football as was shown by the turn-outs of the gridmen. Daily gruelling by mentor Coach Hickey put the aggregation in trim for the games. V Having a hard schedule the Panther babes proved themselves very capable prospects for the coming years. With untiring efforts on the part of the beginners the class B midgets were an eleven to be feared in Conference circles. Enthusiasm was high and was stressed in large turn-outs of spectators. T ENTIRE 1952 FOOTBALL SQUAD Fmsq' Row: M. Brown, Pi. Brown, Topaz, Duggan, Rcents, Paniclc, Thur:- low, Anderson, Sund, Mora. Slzcomm Row: Coach Hickey, Lfulnlmgi, Johnson, Simonel, Lawson, Chrislinn, Engnmn, Hamlin, LZll1'llll'C0lll, ' Scully. TIIIRII How: Bellini, Maxwell, Sclun-idvr, Roth, Zappa, lxelly, Fisher, liizinconi, Snyder. Fouiwn Row: Brown, Hughes, XXQI11-, Mahncn, Mortensen, Kinnit-, Bush. CAPTAIN FISHER ATHLETICS page twelve

Page 22 text:

Basketball Class B LIGHT and small squad of Panther hoopsters made their threat for the Class B Conference title and although they failed to win the coveted pennant they gave opposing fives hectic battles. With a small percentage of veterans Coach Fortier built up his team around the nucleus of the former Class C material. At the closing of the season Santa Rosa had won eight games and lost four. Starting the practice season Coach O. W. Fortiet sent a fairly well organized team against Sonoma in which the locals won 26-8. In the following games, the Panthers were victorious over St. Helena, Sequoia and Piedmont. The Panthers went down to undying defeat at the hands of St. Mary's and California's 130's. With the start of the league games the locals beat Petaluma 22-16 on the latter's court. The following week the lightweights were defeated by Analy 18-20 in the local pavilion. Playing Healdsburg in the Santa Rosa gym, the orange and black won 53-10. In a return game with Petaluma the locals won 26-24 in the local gym. The following week the Panthers journeyed to Analy to lose 15-52. Wanting re- venge the Santa Rosans traveled to Healdsburg to win a 46-11 game. Those who received small blocks were Mahan, Caldwell, Bonfigli, A. Biagi, Farris, Young, Venturacci and Valentin. Many of this year's first team will graduate and leave vacant positions for Coach Fortier to fill. Those who will leave are N. Caldwell, Farris, Mahan, Young and Waters. Those who will remain are N. Biagi, A. Biagi, Bonfigli, Venturacci, Noriel and Valentine. Mahan and Caldwell were the members of the Santa Rosa team to win all conference berths. CLASS B BASKETBALL SQUAD L Frnsr Row: Young, Frochlick. Noriel, Ross, Thomas. Sxsc:oNn Row: U L Caldwell, Bonfigli, Mahan, Biugi, Venturacci, Farris. CAPTAIN MAHAN ATHLETICS page ou: teen