Thomas Jefferson High School - El Capitan Yearbook (El Paso, TX)

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- 4 Great Start and Heartbreakers lvlade JV Season Armando Alarcon takes a jump shot from the Sophomore Richard Turner, looks for an open man free throw line attempting a two point play. inside the lane to score for the Foxes. Top left, Jimmy Camarillo, Orlando Andrade, Ruben Gomez, Fernie Rivera, Coach Wilson, Orlando' Gallegos, Robert Rodriguez, Fernie Briseno, Kenneth Henderson. Bottom, Richard Turner, Maurice Evans, Armando Alarcon, Cerjie Garcia, Oscar Aranda, Albert Michelle. The young cagers, led by Coach Danny Wilson, blasted out in the beginning of the season with a five game winning streak. In their great start they beat Ysleta, Cathedral, Lydia Patterson Institute, Alamogordo, and Canutillo. There seemed to be no stopping them until they met the Mus- tangs of Burges. After the defeat to Burges, the Foxes went on to win three more games in a row. They lost a heartbreaker to the Pan- thers at the Austin Gym as Jeff was leading all through the game. The Panthers came back to get the score closer. Points kept going both ways as one team scored, the other team came back to score. Down to last ten sec- onds, the see-saw scoring continued but Austin got on top by one. The crowd was excitedly screaming, so Coach Wilson called a time out to calm down his players. The Foxes went back on the court with five seconds left on the clock. Once they threw the ball in, they went to work on the Panther defense. Armando Alarcon sunk a shot from the side to take the lead by one. Austin came back to score leav- ing the young cagers with one second. The ball was brought in and shot from across court. The shot was missed and the game ended 50-49 Austin. Playing on the B-team was a good experience and challenging. The team was together and well organized. Everyone pulled together, stated Sophomore Richard Turner Q53J.

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Cagers Experience Disappointment Ending the season with a 14-16 record overall and 3-11 in district was quite a disappointment for the varsity cagers. Lack of height and experience proved to be the deciding factors. Senior center Greg Haley was the tallest player on the team. Greg stood at six feet tall while that was the aver- age or just about normal height for all the other teams. Coach Mike Harper commented that this was the smallest team he had ever seen. Though the Foxes were small they tried to make up for this with their quickness. Senior leadership prevailed on the varsity squad, but all of the players worked long and hard hours to keep Jefterson's name in honor. Coach Harper willbe returning next year with practically the whole team. So next year should prove to be an exciting one for the team, for they might lack height but they won't lack experience. It seems as though they will be tough competitors, so look out everybody. Below: Joe Torrew 1 1 , dribbles rapidly down the court. 1 1 1 t l 1 y 2 is l l A amp, 41 1 fe. .lag 7 f.ll - T H l l , ,i,,-