Sewickley Academy - Panther Yearbook (Sewickley, PA)

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Basketball Thls year, the long, wet w1nter term was hlghllghted by some 6XC1t1I'1g basketball games at the Academy and away Gu1ded by Coach Partenhe1mer and Mr KITWID, the Panthers lost more than the1r share of games to such tough teams as Shady S1de Academy, Quaker Valley .Tumor H1gh, Coraopohs Jun1or I-hgh Moon Jun1or H1gh, and Nev1lle Jumor Hlgh The home games were espec1ally 1nterest1ng Urged on by the cheerlng D1ck Means, Jan Burden, and Larry Gerard alternated on the forward pos1t1ons and Brownlee Br1nk1ey, Drew Kennedy, and Scott M1tchel1 held down the guard pos1t1ons Team effort and sportsmansh1p aga1nst h1gh odds was the keynote of the past season if ff 6 student body, our players responded with a fine brand of spirited team play. o 4 -V - I - Hg B 1 M J! O , ' I

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Glrls' Basketball Sw1sh' The ball reached 1ts dest1nat1on Score Home 18 away 16 The tweet' of the whzstle and the close match got underway whlle the twelve players darted about the gym the breathless student audlence cheermg them on Sally Flower had the ball and w1th a qu1ck pass lt was T1na I-Iarker's Now Susan Bar ker crept up beh1nd got the ball drlbbled and sank It Two more polnts scored by our v1ctor1ous forwards Thls 15 what the spectators who watched the f1rst g1rls' basketball game played w1th Wmchester Thurston saw and heard Other schools we played were Elhs Coraopolxs Bellevue and Quaker Valley 1n whlch games the g1rls showed profess1onal techn1que We had more games than last year a total of twelve We won many games Among the best guards were Sarah F1sher Marle El1SC Snyder Beth Rlch d d ar son an Llsa Zug None of the v1ctor1es would have been poss1ble wlthout the excellent coachlng of M155 Schenerleln , . . . . . : , . ll I ' ' ! , . . . , . . . . . - . , , . . . . 0 ! . . - , . . , . , , , . . . . . . , . o . , . . , . - , . . . . . , u