Satanta High School - Chieftain Yearbook (Satanta, KS)

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First row, 1-r: K. Brown (manager), R. Sprunger, B. Small, J. Cruz. R. Tatro, D. Day (trainer). Second row: B. McGowan. B. Day. B. Merz. Third row: S. Freeman, D. Claw- son, B. Selby. T. Kelling. E. Specht and Coach Markham. 25

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Boys B sk€tbm.l ® The Satanta Indian's boys basketball team enjoyed a winning season during the 1980- 81 campaign. Led by a dedicated group of seniors which included Billy Day. Randy Ta- tro. Mike Wright, Roy Sprunger. and Bob Small, the Indians had some great victories including a 1 4 point whipping of Sublette and a thrilling overtime victory over Monte- zuma. The Indians also had to suffer a couple of agonizing defeats; one by Moscow in over- time and another by Hanston on a last second shot in the first round of the league tourna- ment. This year's edition of the Indians basketball team was again quite small, but tough de- fense and an aggressive attitude almost al- ways kept the Indians in the game. The Indi- ans played a variety of defenses that allowed their opponents to average only 52 points a game. Though the boys lacked height, they were rarely out rebounded. Team play was the name of the game for the Indians on offense. The Indians love to fast- break but could run their set offense well if they had to. All five starters averaged about the same number of points. Senior Mike Wright. Randy Tatro. and Billy Day averaged 1 0.4. 9.6, and 8.6 points a game respectively. Junior starters Steve Freeman and Brent Merz were excellent shooters and averaged 11.6 and 9.7 points each. The Indians were blessed with a deep bench this year with its members turning in some key performances that led to more victories. Roy Sprunger. Bob Small. Brian McGowan and Tobin Kelling did great coming off the bench. This year's team finished with an overall re- cord of 11-8. The record is deceiving when one considers the Indians lost 5 of those games by a total of 13 points. Once again the Indians earned second place in the Santa Fe Trail League, with a 7-1 record, losing the championship confrontation to Deerfield in the last league game of the year. It was heart- breaking to lose the league championship by just two points. 56-58. But the varsity bounced back defeating Ingalls in the first round of the regional tournament. 59-4 4 be- fore losing another close one in the semifin- als to Deerfield, the eventual regional cham- pion. With a good bunch of juniors returning next year the Indians will be on the warpath again and will be looking to take even more scalps. 24 It looks like Billy saw a ghost. Mike is showing his excellent form.

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The junior varsity Indians also enjoyed success this year post- ing a 7-3 record. Led by JV coach Larry Atkinson the JV's employed the same tenacious defense as the varsity, often re- sulting in several easy lay-ups. One of the highlights for the JV's was going up to Garden City to play their sophomore squad, fully expecting to be blown out and almost escaped with a victory. The boys learned the valuable lesson often ex- pressed throughout the year: “If you think you can, you can! The JV’s were led by juniors Jojo Cruz, David Clawson, Bri- an McGowan, Tobin Kelling and Evan Specht. Sophomores Bryan Selby, Mike Stapleton, and Kenby Clawson also did a good job. Honors earned by members of the junior varsity squad in- clude: Top Field Goal — Evan Specht Top Free Throw — Brian McGowan Top Rebounder — Tobin Kelling Mr. Defense — Jojo Cruz The freshmen basketball schedule was reduced to just 3 games this year. The freshmen lacked the manpower to handle the big freshmen squads of La- kin, Sublette, and Johnson and so lost all three games. The Freshman squad consisted of just five players: Allen Free- man, Jerry Meier, Brian Merz, Stacey Parton, and Eric Feezor. Even though these boys didn't play many games, they made good progress by practicing ev- ery day against the upperclass- men. These freshmen will be expected to make an even big- ger contribution to the team the next three years. Brian needs to get his four arms working together better. Steven is going to put that basketball in the Randy doesn't know which way basket if it's the last thing he does. to go. 26