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

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:eff-azz weak P,-ms edication is a key in the underclass- men basket- ball teams. Since the varsity and J.V. have after school p r a c t i c e th e freshman have to get all their work in before school. It means being her everyday at 7:45 a.m. so a full practice can take place. On the oth- er hand the J.V. put in many hours helping the varsi- ty prepare for their difficult A schedule. J.V. Freshmen teams give it The J.V. team had a lot of talent but could not seem to play to- gether. l feel if we play together as a team, and work hard, we can accomplish many things this sea- son, quoted juniore James Barnes. The team came close in most games but could not seem to pull it out. They lost most of their games by a couple of points. The second half of the season found a team who was finally coming together. The scoreboard began to record more wins. 'fWe could be doing a lot better but it is helping their all. us prepare for the years to come, quoted Stewart Strain. The freshman team found out quickly that their schedule was as hard as the rest of the teams. They had trou- ble finding the winning side of the scoreboard but played hard all year. We had a little trouble all year be- cause of all the people out here playing, we had a lot of freshman, said Brian Steward. But as the season pro- gressed the team be- came closer and fin- ished up the season with more than they expected. 5 Q ,lf ' .,.,N , t X may ef ,, E, I I . ,P Xl fa s 75? ft V' ii ' it 'i'tl iff. ' X 5' VIII . 5, , ,, V Eg: W I ' ,f 'fjfrf . A,,..K s . H, . A -PSV, 1 SPORTS JG

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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

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