South Grand Prairie High School - Signal Yearbook (Grand Prairie, TX)

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noon IT UP! Warming up before the game John Moore puts in a 'S slam dunk. iPhoto by Sean f , . Rubinol x ,W We were young, but we gained experience. Our record doesn't reflect the improvement we've made. VARSITY BASKETBALL Travis Page Coach Bailey, S. Twaddle, G. Stevens, K. Hillyard, A. Kendall, C. Sager, D. Ward, B. Crittenden, Coach Tettle- ton, J. Babina, T. Page, D. Pennie, S. Houston, S. Sim- mons and J. Moore Nimitz DeSoto Irving . Mansfield MacArthur if T Duncanville Grand Prairie 7 Nimitz DeSoto 59-73 52-57 63-34 58-63 42-36 54-66 42-45 74-62 52-58 1 2 2 SPORTS ALL HANDS IN THE AIR . . . Steve Simmons goes for the shot as the Gopher defense awaits the rebound. iPhoto by Sean Rubinoj , ig? ' ' km ,,,. ? X .J 41' 2 ... I 5:35-7 A uf ,

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1 . A x,.,xs JV! F21- 1,'x ,1 , -x 195: , ' 1 X lxf, x77: XT 1, -L I O Q gt: ldelmes xxlx - .N 9- :f What do you do when lux - - 1115,-1 you're on the s1de11ne? 1211 C hfrf .N N x' 3 A If I 'm on the sidelines V I try to get some rest 2 before I go back. Al- ' bert Moreno X 1 f 1- y' Q, K , 6 f X. ' A During the varsity W- games I rest 81' en- courage the team. Jana Wilson tn? I IQZN .DLX x- 1:1 W, iii? I can't really get into the game. If I'm not QI WV in there I just get 11 gggffi bored standing '55j ' f,ijgQ around. Scotty Plun- - ' ke!! 'C : - I 393' in-'x Y I I cheer 8' clap and en- A ' courage the team. 6 .'- Sometimes I just 1 Qty. ' pray that we win. I Stacy Lancaster :Qi 'l'7L' Il K Lx sau ,mtl X21 '1 3:24 ,,,Lx l.,':7 -cg JW! 25,1 is I XI , , - x-,M 071 II ' ' ,N ni I-'I Q v VARSITY BASKETBALL 172 1

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ough would be the word that best de- scribed this year's bas- ketball sea- s o n . T h e team was young, but ready to take on the competition. Led by sophomores, the team was not able to put togeth- er a winning sea- son. With the team being so young they had to learn to play in the big leagues by learning from the Hschool of hard knock . They learned quickly how different the game was on the 77644 07 WEHE7 varsity level. We played in spurts, going up and down and lost most of the games by a couple to three points, quoted Brent Critten- den. The team, under the instruction of Coach Phil Bailey, gave every team more than what they expected, but could not finish on top in the final seconds. We were young but we fought hard and never gave up, said Junior John Moore. As the team entered the second part of dis- trict play all skills seemed to gel. The scor- eboard rarely showed us in the win column, but instead of being sporadic in our play we were a team loosing by less than three points. They weren't expect- ing the improvement and we gave them a real score. Look at the Nim- itz game, we upset the applicant as far as the standings go, quoted Coach Bailey. The players used this year as a year of learn- ing to play together with each other and to learn how different the game is from freshmen or J.V. play. We lost on the scoreboard but yet we gained victories in experience and skills. As we played each game we perfected our skills, learned to play under pressure and learned to play as a team, stated Travis Page. Watch me fly. Stacy Houston flies down the court to send the ball to the net, as teammates Travis Page and Steve Twoddle follow. Photo by Sean Rubino BASKETBALL 1 2