Ventura College - La Revista Yearbook (Ventura, CA)

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rep asketball ONTINUING a long and almost unbroken dynasty of basketball champions, Ventura once again copped the county cage title. With Joe Buckmaster at their helm, the Pirate crew had comparatively smooth sailing, except for one instance. This was when Oxnard caught the Pirates on her home court and trounced them 23 to l2. For the rest, however, the Preps experienced little difficulty. ln the first game with Lancaster they won 42 to 26. Then came Oxnard which was barely beaten 3l to 30. In the following two games with Fillmore, the Babes won 29 to 20 and 34 to l8. The next week saw the Oxnard deb- acle. After that the Pirates again hit calm water and in succession won two games from Santa Paula 39 to 22 and 33 to 25 and another from Lancaster 30 to 23. Because of that single disaster suffered at the hands of the Yellow Jackets, we found ourselves tied with them for the league lead. The deciding game was on the neu- tral court of Santa Paula where the Buccaneers convincingly won 50 to 22. ln the play-off for the Southern California Championship, Ventura traveled to Santa Barbara to meet their purportedly stronger rivals of the Channel City, in what proved to be the most exciting as well as the most disappointing contest of the whole season. The game supposedly ended 34 to 33 in favor of Santa Bar- bara. l-lowever, a discrepancy was discovered in the two score books. lt was claimed by Venturans that Suy- tar, lanky center, had not been credited with a field goal which would have made the score 34 to 35 in favor of Ventura. Officials were called in and after a conference annulled the contest, thus making the best of a bad situation. Because of advance publicity, it was decided that Santa Barbara should meet San Diego in the semi-finals, the provision being made that if the Gauchos won they would play Ventura for the Championship. They lost, however. And so ended the season for the Pirate Preps. LOVATT BARTLETT ORTON SUYTAR GRAGG ' AMESCUA EUCKMASTER WESTERN LAWHON DONNELLY PEIRAANO GARCIA 5U2UKl NAVERAS I CORN SMITH CHAVEZ JONES page sixty-0 716'

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l .. ,. I 5 l- i .xi 3 . wi 4 , :. .1 1 T ij' ll l14 limi 5 -lf-xiii :bl .33 -llwlfli Y k:.Qgf-' 35? 'qi 3 Wi Z U. :yr-5,26 J -. Z . 'I' ,3.Q:5:.?Z,,f.Q-5 t5l2i1ft'.g1 i??'3lf'ti5 Hill' ' It 'E li' rl - lllklill ,504 ' If '-I 7 .. xr., .N f25Zf,ttffr35S Witt? T515 'J'..,.'E- YHA -f .llflt lJ':fxllf fl arsit rack HE VENTURA track team was not sprinkled with individual stars as in former years, How- ever,, it proved to be better balanced than any of our previous aggregations. This state- ment is borne out by the fact that the Pirates won their first major meet in the history of the school. lt was close, The score was 67 to 64 and was an even battle down to the final event, In other meets, the Buccaneers were beaten by Pasadena, Glendale and Santa Monica. Leo Kibby, social science instructor and himself a for- mer javelin star, was the coach. Q In track this year, there has been a widespread increase of interest, The sport's past unpopularity has been blamed on the somewhat sluggish and slipshod fashion of running the meets, and it is predicted that with improved technique in management, track will gain a following that will rival that of football or basket- ball. Schedule: Santa Monica d. Ventura ........ ..............., . ,,,,,, l l4 2-3 to l6i 3-4 Ventura d. Long Beach ,...... ,,.,,,,,,,,..,,,.,. 6 7 to 64 Glendale d. Ventura ..,...... s,.,,,A 9 8 2-3 to 32 I-3 Pasadena d. Ventura ....... ........ l VM to l6M COACH Kiaav RAiNs mci-i PFEILER cnvpsre sz-:vwiouras mason m.voNs 'rAvi.oR KINNEY FRENCH PRoaAscoo CALVERT RANDALL page sixty--two