Ventura College - La Revista Yearbook (Ventura, CA)

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I El 1 1 E 1:1 1 171 51 | l ( I KC 1 Cap! am 8 ERN0N 1 [EBEL Coih h A BASKETBALL Coach Vernon I ' .. Hebel and his 1931 gang of basketball players may be con- sidered one of the best hoop teams the Pirate institution has evei turned out. Hebel ' s squad went into the semi-finals of the Southern California championship playoff, a feal which very few Ventura teams have accomplished. Re-entering school with high hopes and intense spirit, the Pirates encountered the San Luis Obispo High outfit and trimmed them by a decisive 34-12 score. In the first half the Pirates couldn ' t break through the Tigers ' defense, only dropping 12 points through the hoop, while San Luis Obispo accounted for five. By the use of the pony team and other able reserves, Hebel ' s squad tallied 22 marks to seven for the opponents, making a total ol 54 for the Buccaneer-, to 12 for the Tigers. Baskei B l.l. I 1 M Top row. Coach Hebel, J. k mi. . Poplin, K. Nugent, R. Steele, R Orton, X. ( i i.i. (.hi;k, D. Burum, Manager Hurley. Second row. C. Woolley, 11. Reed, Capt. |. Garcia, V. Woolley, . Orm.

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I El I. I K 1: 1 1 171 SI break into the Pirate lair of victories. The game was played in the Northern city. The casaba tossers of the 1929-30 squad took a game from the Santa Maria squad in Santa Maria only to be defeated in a return engagement on the Pirate ' s home floor. So this year ' s aggregation had a little tie to break when they tangled. Martin was not able to play in the tussle, for his bad heel had not improved as rapidly as expected. However, this did not seriously handicap the local lads, and they were able to clean up with Santa Maria in the usual winning style. Again chalking up a victory, the Jaysee men knocked over the Santa Bar- bara State Teachers ' frosh team. The game was played on the local floor and ended with a 49-13 score. The baby State men were too slow in comparison with the fast playing of Guzman and Keith, Ventura guards. Mahoney and Carlson, State forwards both played good games, but they weren ' t good enough to beat our boys. Both of these Santa Barbara boys attended High School here for several years, Mahoney having spent his entire High School career in the Pirate institution. Coach Kolberg ' s reserve men were used in the game, and the victory indicates that they did their duty in a very creditable manner. The last game of the season was a return tilt with the Santa Barbara State Teachers ' frosh cage squad. The Ventura lads went up to the Channel City with the idea of running up the largest score of their season, which they proceeded to do with clock-like precision. Teh game ended 51-15 in favor of this Ventura team. Kolberg used every man on his squad, and still the points rolled up. The boys were set on bringing the season to a terrific climax, and there was no stopping them. Every man played a bang-up game, and the word teamwork was sym- bolized in a perfect manner. Perhaps the boys started their season off as meek as a lamb, but they came through roaring like a lion. The next game, a close one. was with the Moran Preparatory School for Boys in Atascadero. The final whistle found the game a 31-24 affair in favor of the Pirates, but the contest was a much harder one than the score indicates. Moran was able to hold the score very nearly tied up until the last quarter, when the Buccaneers broke loose and dropped in seven markers to put the fray on ice. The crowd was in constant furor due to the excitement the boys created by jockeying of the score. Zapf, Eddy, and Shannon were in top form and did most of the scor- ing. It was anybody ' s game up until the last few minutes of play, but the Pirates ' reserve fight and pluck won the game for them. The heavy scoring of the season was chalked up as follows: Shannon 122. Martin 91, Zapf 73, Edd) 30. and Guzman 2s. Of these Shannon, Eddy and Martin were forwards. Zapf a center, and Guzman a guard. So. with fine victories and large scores, the Junior College squad may consider their season a success in jry sense of the word.

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I El I. I I? 1: 1 1 171 51 The Pirate lads, primed for a League Championship, met the supposedly strong Santa Paula outfit in their new gym and defeated them by a tidy 34-15 score. Reed and Garcia played superb games, and were in a large way responsible for the victory. At a return game the Pirates again emerged victorious 28-13. The Ventura squad ' s next encounter was one with the Lancaster Desert Rats at Lancaster. Here the Ventura men poured it on and merged victorious by the large score of 48-11. The duo of Hall and Woolley stopped the field goals while they were in the contest. Hebel used all of his reserves in this game, but even liberal substitutions did not lower the score. It increased steadily. When the Desert Rats journeyed to Ventura they received another defeat, this time in a 35-22 game. Next came the Santa Barbara game, and what a track meet it was. The Buc- caneers walked all over the aqueros to the tune of 54-10. The Dons were com- plete]} outclassed by the championship Pirate outfit. The Santa Barbara squad took the defeat with a display of good sportsman- ship, however, and promised a better return match. The veracity of their state- ment was proven at a later date when the Channel City squad held the Pirates to only 28 tallies while they collected 16. The Fillmore quintet was the next to be given a severe drubbing by the Pirates, smarting under a 35-17 defeat. Coach Hebel ' s style of play was too hard for the Indians to fathom, and they couldn ' t sink their baskets when they had a chance. Garcia and company were hot and there was no stopping those lads when they were in such a condition. Fillmore lost nearly her whole first string by grad- uation, and with this condition in her ranks she faced the merciless onslaught of the Pirates to lose bv a 49-8 count. Junior College Basketball R. Perry, ( i. Taylor, H. Mitchell. 106