Southside High School - Southerner Yearbook (Fort Smith, AR)

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Bob Safranek Sophomore I think the advantage it gives me the Mark Albright l plan on playing my of playing for JV is that two following years at our year was that we Southside but I will experience needed for pursue a different l l - How 'bout it? Kelly Todd Sophomore The best part about Sophomore played as a team not as five players. playing on the Varsity career after high team the next two school. years. Working for the win against Fayetteville is Junior Varsity players Dirk Copple tno. 143 and Mark Albright tno. 54l. Fast breaks provided an opportunity for sophomore Bob Safranek to score. Bob Safranek does his part in the Junior Varsity team to victory Russellville. Waiting In Wings ..lV's Receive Valuable Experience For Next Year. E njoying a good season was this year's junior varsity basketball' team. The Johnny Rebs were at a slight disadvantage, due to the foot- ball playoffs, for the first few games, but nothing too disastrous happened. From then on the JV's is under the direction of Coach Dan Roberts, rolled on to many wins. Among the highlights of the season were victories over Springdale 59-39, January 205 and Russellville 43-37, January 24. One of the largest margins rolled up by the Johnny Rebs was on January 31 when the squad took a 42-16 win over out- manned Mena. Possibly more important than the wins, however, was the experience picked up by the Johnny Reb players. These cagers would take over the spots next year on the varsity team vacated by the graduating seniors.

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ln the gym sophomore Dana Stallings receives a few helpful pointers from the Confederette Coach Steve Haaser during practice. CDN THE RISE CONFEDERETTES STRIVE FOR GOALS With every season of girls basketball comes the setting of certain goals by the coach, as well as team members in particular. According to Steve Haaser, Con- federettes coach, Our main goals were to do the best we could, try to play up to our maximum capabilities, to get better with each practice and game, and to strive to allow each team member to become a better player and person. For sophomore team member Wendy Newman, playing on a high school team was much different from playing on a junior high team. The competition was greater for one thing, and the challenges were also much bigger, she concluded. Two points are not as easy as It seems for iunlor Sherl Slocum whlle heavlly guarded by Springdale. Challenges were also bigger for Cindy and Suzy Waggoner, sisters on the team. My main challenge was coping with the fact that I am the only senior on the team, explained Cindy. I feel that I needed to show a lot of leadership on and off the court. Her sister, Suzy, who is a sophomore, felt that the team did very well this year. By the time we sophomores are seniors we should be a super ball team. We really enjoyed playing together, said Newman. Our team was really close and we all worked together which made us a better team. 'welL,-ww, 0-skofL5l6 '5b7' H4 H4 RMWQJJX '.fL'.1,0JfJl?Zj,m,u, J4fN0Lyg0y,, d ,few