Victoria High School - Stingaree Yearbook (Victoria, TX)

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Stings Take North Zone Title Clejata if to HEY, LOOK AT ME, FELLOWS, shouts Chet Cook as he goes up high for a bucket. Needing only one victory to win the North Zone title, Victoria's talented Stingarees smashed the Carroll Tigers, 42-30. Carroll led at the end of the first two quarters by two and one points. But the halftime talk must have done something for the Stingarees, as they came back fired up to shoot way into the lead. The Stings scored five straight points in the opening of the third quarter. Then they slowly increased this margin. The Stingarees' new wonder, Mike Moses, led the game in scoring with 18 big points on five field goals and eight of ten free tosses. Chester Cook was runner-up for the Stings with ll points. Between the two of them, they scored prac- tically three fourths of the Stingarees' 42 points. Defensive play highlighted the game. Victoria's tightly knit zone defense limited Carroll to a mere 50 points in the game, and to only 11 points in the entire second half. Of course, Victoria managed but 42 points, but this was more than enough to swamp the Tigers. fi 7, x . X .11 f U 0 M. Fred Weitzel leaps high for the ball in a jump ball situation. COME ON, BUDDY, LEAVE ME ALONE, murmurs Charlie Heger as a Tiger gets in his way. 225

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Stingarees Topple Tigers in Play-off Game E .Y,P'l, Victoria's big number 44, Chet Cook, leaps over the opposition to hit for the basket. Playing without the help of its leading scorer in district, Fred XXVeitzel, the Victoria Stingarees smashed the Carroll Tigers two games in a row, 54-50 and 42-30 to advance to the Zone play-off with Edinburg of the South Zone district 14AAAA. Mike Moses, who came out of nowhere late in the season, paced the Stings in both games. In the first game in Corpus, Moses sank 19 points for the Stingaree cause. And in the final encounter, Moses flipped in 18 points for a two game total of 37 points. Trailing the Tigers 36-35 in the final period of the first game, Victoria rolled up 19 points to Carroll's 14 points. After scoring seven straight points, Victoria never lost the lead again. REACH FOR THE SKY. CHARLIE! Charlie Heger seems Fred Weitzel attentively looks on as Fidel Padilla to be Sky-iligh 215 he pulls in tl1iS I'CiDOu1'1ci. hifg from the free-throw line, 224

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Big Red Captures District Title GET BACK ON THE COURT, FIDELQ' hollers the referee to yunior Fidel Padilla as he steps out of bounds. In the opening game played in Victoria, the Stingarees never trailed. At the end of the first quarter, Victoria led 14-5, at half the Stings led 24-17, and the Bobcats grad- ually closed the lead. But the Sting momen- tum was too great for Edinburg to contain. The Stings ended with a 50-44 victory. Pacing Victoria's attack were Mike Moses who flipped in 18 points and Chet Cook who dropped in 16 for the evening. The Stingarees meet the winners of Dis- trict ISAAAA, Austin McCallum, in the bi-district game. Victoria's bi-district bound Stingarees dumped the Edinburg Bobcats two games in a row with scores of 50-44 here in Vic- toria, and 52-43 at Edinburg, to cop the district crown of 14AAAA. This is the first time the Stingarees have won district since they became an AAAA school, and since the 1955 team won the AAA state championship. Journeying to Edinburg with a 1-0 game lead, the Stingarees found themselves in for a harder time than they had here. Although they won by a bigger margin in Edinburg, they never trailed in the home game. They trailed numerous times on the road. Behind 20-16 at the half at Edinburg, the Stingarees tied the score with two quick field goals by Chet Cook and Clifton Hueb- ner. After a Bobcat point through a free throw, the Stings took the lead never to lose lt. Leading the Victoria scorers were Chet Cook with 16 points and Mike Moses with 11 points. GET OFF ME, YOU LUGSV' screams Charlie Heger as he is squeezed in by two opponents.