Thatcher School - El Archivero Yearbook (Ojai, CA)

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EL ARCHIVERO 79 at Cate. On January 17 Thacher kept a return appointment with the Blue men at Carpinteria, and the game was more even than before, but when Nicolaus fouled out, Cate's 48-33 win was assured. Thacher's first home game on January 24 saw League Champion Santa Clara commit a 66-13 murder. On the last night of the first month, the losing streak was snapped by rapping Santa Barbara Catholic, 39-30, there. Behnke was hot with jump shots in the first quarter, giving Thacher a lead that Was held despite the Cardinals' third period bid. In a return match with Villanova on February 5 the Wildcats racked up a 56-36 Win, with Behnke nabbing 12 points for the losers. Five days later Moorpark defeated Thacher at Nordhoff, 54-29. In the last game of the season on February 20 Simi's superior shooting gave them a 55-37 win over the Thacher hoopsters. The starting line-up was: Gordon, N. Chickering, Behnke, Helmholz, and Nicolausg with subs: Bonner, Coleman, Labbe, and Oliver-Smith. At the banquet Hugh Gordon was elected next year's captain. B BASKETBALL Under Coach Kleinfelter and Captain John Truog, the B basketball team ended the season with 3-4 League and 5-6 over-all records to gain a tie for fourth place in the Tri-Valley. Troug, the high scorer with 106 points, was elected a member of the All-League B Team. Thacher opened the season on December 6 by Whipping Cate 39-26, Truog was high-point man with 14. The team next lost to San Marcos, 32- 20, to Villanova, 28-275 and to Santa Ynez, 55-37. Thacher re-entered the win column with a 56-44 victory over Midland in a non-League encounter, superior ball control and Troug's 16 points made the difference. In a re-match of the season's opener an improved Cate team trounced Thacher 54-40. In the first home game Santa Clara, the eventual League Champion, swamped the Ojai squad 56-24, and a red-hot Santa Barbara Catholic team followed with a 45-34 win after scoring 37 points in the first half. The B's finished with three consecutive league wins on the Nordhoff court. Truog led his team to reverse an earlier loss to Villanova for an easy 45-31 victory over the Wild- cats. Despite a weak third quarter, Pete Whitney's 14 points helped Thacher to pull away in the final period to a 48-30 win over Moorpark. In a close contest that required overtime Thacher grabbed a 39-37 win from Simi in the season's final game. The season's starting line-up included Truog, J. Acquistapace, Christen- sen, Kent, Gardner, Jensen, and P. Whitney, while Escher, Kendrick, Leppo, J. Williams, Lambert, and Taylor were the substitutes. C BASKETBALL Getting off to a slow start this year, Thacher's C team dropped its first four games, to Cate Q27-17J, San Marcos Q32-8j, Villanova Q28-17J,

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78 EL ARCHIVERO Standing: Coleman, Oliver-Smith, Behnke, Labbe, Mr. Kleinfelter. Kneeling: Helmhoilz, Cordon, Nicolaus, Bonner, N. Chickering. BASKETBALL A BASKETBALL COACHED by Mr. Kleinfelter and captained by Dave Behnke, the basket- ball varsity finished this year's season with an over-all 3-8 record. Un- fortunately, the team was able to take only one game out of six in League play, tying for last place in the three valleys. Windy Nicolaus was high man scorewise with 98 points and! an 8.9 average per game. The cagers fell to Cate, SS-32, on December 6 as Tony Schilling's 22 first quarter points gave the Blue a fast start. December 11 saw Thacher squeeze by San Marcos, 37-34, in Santa Barbara. The winners were losing throughout most of the game but made a stirring comeback in the last quarter as Behnke, Gordon, and Nicolaus began to find the range. Five days later Thacher trailed all the Way to give a 62-39 decision to Villanova. On January 8 the first League game saw a Santa Ynez squad power to a S6-36 win in its own gym. The next Wednesday Nicolaus and Behnke dunked 19 and 16 points respectively to lead the team to a 56-34 victory over Midland

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80 EL ARCHIVERO and Santa Ynez Q34-91. The squad recovered to down Midland 28-21 and upset Cate in a rematch, 29-22. In the first home game, the C's lost to the fast Santa Clara five, 45-23, but then defeated Santa Barbara Catholic 20-1 S. In the last three games, all at home, the team suffered losses, Villanova Q26- Zlj, Moorpark C30-231, and Simi Q29-18j. The squad's final League record was 3-8, while for all the games it was 3-11. Corbett, Forster, and Weitzel were the C's leading scorers. Coached by Mr. Halsey and captained by Barry Smith, the team con- sisted of Corbett, Weitzel, Recsei fAll-League playerj , Kerr, Cooley, Forster, Farquhar, S. Case, Meehl, Keesling, and Hornby.