Silver Creek High School - Silver Leaves Yearbook (Sellersburg, IN)

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he freshmen Drag- ons ended their rol- lercoster season with a roar, bounc- ing back from a dis- appointing 3-6 start to end their campaign winning 9 of their last 11 games, and capturing the Holiday Tourney title in the process. The Dragons' balanced at- tack came in the form of Todd This has been a fun year for us. - Coach Slaughter Waiz and Tim Rawlings, who averaged 8.1 and 9.1 ppg. re- spectively. The team's top re- bound production came from Rawlings also. He grabbed a to- tal of 138 offensive and defen- sive boards on the season. Guard Roy Hooe led the squad in assists with 37. Center Chris Tackett stat- ouncing Freshmen roar to Holida y Tourne y championship ed, I feel we struggled through the first half of the season, but we got back on the winning track in the second half. Coach Jim Slaughter added, I feel that we worked hard in practice, and by working hard it paid off for us in the games. One more fact that makes the comeback during the later half of the season even more impressive than it looks is the loss of their players throughout the duration of the season. The squad played without their pri- mary force in past seasons, Chris Sweat, due to his iidraft to the JV squad. The team also had to practice and sometimes play without numerous other players in the later half of the season, including their scoring leaders, Waiz and Rawlings. Coaches Slaughter and Larry Stephenson, who are in their 3rd year at the helm of the squad, have captured the Holi- day Tourney 2 of the last three years, and have yet to have a losing season. They plan to Assaulting the basket during a 44-30 victory at home against Scottsburg is Bruce Ramsey. The freshmen were 6-3 on their homecourt throughout the sea- son. Contemplating a strategy for the re- maining seconds of a tight game with the North Harrison cougars is head coach Larry Stephenson. SC lost the match 4244. continue their winning tradi- tion. Opponent Cra wford Co. Scottsburg 44-30 North Harrison 42-44 C Iarks ville 52-49 C or ydon 42-48 Scribner 45-50 C harles to wn 4 I -58 Jefferson ville 5361 Salem 3 751 C harles to wn 50-45 C Iarks ville 50-42 F ond C entral 4441 Jefferson ville 42-58 Henr y ville 70-3 I Austin 51-47 Borden 49-44 Hazel wood 4 7-4 1 Pro vidence 5 7-32 A us tin 45-40 C harles to wn

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i h t m Kelly Stewart escorted by Jon Beyl. or most girls, win- ning one competi- tion in their four years of high school is a thrill. But Melis- sa Bower, sr., did better than that. In less than a week, Melis- sa won both the Holiday Tour- ney Queen Competition and was named the 1989 Home- coming Queen. For as long as both competi- tions have been going on, only two other girls from Silver Creek have ever captured both titles: Lana Smith in 1970 and Audra Gaines in 1984. In 1989, Melissa Bower wrote her name into the history books as the third. In the Holiday Tourney com- petition, Melissa edged out the candidates from the other three competing schools: Provi- dence, Clarksville, and Charles- town. She won on the basis of beauty, intelligence, and per- sonality. According to Melissa, she was a little nervous about what the results of this competition would be. She commented, 'llt wasn't one of those contests Tiffany Fenwick escorted by Chris Jones where you say, This is a shoe- in,' because all the girls were really nice. In the Homecoming competi- tion, Melissa also had to suffer through another nail-biter. When Melissa heard the vote I was really excited to see who the winner would u be' - Melissa Bower was very close, she became very nervous. She said, lll was really excited to see who the winner would be. Brandi Bour escorted by Chip Robinson But Melissa apparently had nothing to worry about. While eating a fortune cookie at a Chi- nese restaurant earlier in the evening, her fortune read, llThe color red will be important to you. Sure enough, that eve- ning, Melissa won the Home- coming Competition in her red dress. By Drew Wessel The members of the Homecoming Court wait patiently for the announce- ment of the queen. The court was espe- cially prepared by the student council. Beth Bailey escorted by Scott Jones A - ;:.: ux-e ..

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Evading his defenders is quard Chad Slaughter, who led the team in free throw percentage shooting 753 and av- eraging 7.6 ppg. Harvesting the glory of a Holida y Tour- ney Championship is guard Garret Gerth. The freshmen defeated Clarks- ville 5042 to take the title. Fweshmcm EthqSkewchH Members of the 1989 freshman bas- ketball squad and cheerleading squad are: Row D Heather Kelly, Beth Bailey, Katie Boggs, Steph Smethers, Kyla Hurst and Sandy Brown, sponsor. Row 2h Scott Wag- ner, mgr, Dan Graf, mgr, Bruce Ramsey, Dan Crowe, Brad Heath, Garret Gerth, Todd Waiz, Brian Pe- ters, Marc Sedwick, Chad Slaugh- ter, Roy Hooe, Jim Slaughter, Larry Stephenson, both coaches. Wow 3 Jay Owens, Chad Tyer, Jimmy Ash, Chris Sweat, Tim Rawlings, Rob Brishaber, Matt Koerber, and Chris Tackett.