Walnut High School - Cayuse Yearbook (Walnut, CA)

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Working and Pla ingO ertime ,J l0. 9. 8. 7. 6. 5. 4. 3. 2. ll The crowd roared as the buzzer went off. Claremont had just tied the game at 48. The game will go into a 3-minute overtime, announced the speaker. Little did they know that the game would go into not just a single nor double overtime, but a triple over- time. lt all happened during the first home game of the season. Highly ranked Claremont was expected to leave Walnut way behind in scoring, 4A TYPICAL COACH'S LOOK OF WORRY is registered by Coach jerry Davis during the bout against Edgewood. The Mustangs trailed the entire game, losing 53 to 64. but somehow the final results were quite different. The Mustangs held on tightly up until the very end, when Claremont took the lead with a final score of 59-61. After the first game, the Mustangs had a rough time pulling themselves back together. For the first few weeks of league play, Walnut seemed to lose game after game. Coach jerry Davis claimed there were various reasons for the losses. What most people don't realize about the team is that they are still in the develop- mental stage. The majority of the players are undergrads, therefore, they haven't reached their full poten- tial yet. We've also been scheduled to play top-rated teams this season, plus we're in a tough league. No matter how each game resulted, the Mustang basketball players never sloughed off or gave up. Player sacrificed their lunches to practice in the gym and traveled to Cal State Fullerton on weekends to play. Dinners and other social activi- ties were held to keep their morale up. Although the Mustangs didnft take a first place in league, they still proved by their dedication and abil- ity to be a highly competitive team with a future ahead of themg QHEADING FOR THE HOOP, Kelly Liebhart dribbles around a Claremont opponent during the first home game of the season. Kelly made a surprising basket from the opponents' half of Q' utlfgillf ilfallgii the court at the halftime buzzer. Q 1 Q 1 i ,ll T-S ill l w AVARSITY BASKETBALL. Front row: Terrance Lyons, Kelly Lieb- hart, Pat McQueen, Iohn Whiting, 4A SCRAMBLE FOR THF BOARD between Claremont's Tim Rand Walnutls Bill Donner and Mark Friend gives the Mustangs another Boys' Varsity BasketbaII!Mergers lim Paulson, second row: Bill Don- ner, Mark Friend, Lester Lim, not shown: Kent Brantingham. rebound. The statistics from the game showed that the Mustangs grabbed 43 rebounds to Clare- mont's3-1. 237

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When asked if Coach lon Goode had a close team, he replied, l have nine really good guys as far as mental awareness and the unity of the team is concerned. According to Coach Goode, even if the lunior Varsity didn't winanother game all year, they were a good group of guys. The team was not a very quick one, which at times worked against them. ln their first game against Los Altos, The Mustangs were unable to keep up with the Conquerors' sharp pass- ing and fast play-setting. Coach Goode's second year of coaching was made easier by solid play from Drexel Spivey and Drew lohannsen. The players were asked to put time in over the weekends, but, there was no CIA Force checking up on them, commented Coach Goode. Q AWITH THE FULL COURT PRESS ON Kellll Gunn defeated by L05 Allgg 77 to 73 puts pressure on the in bound pass Walnut was Mergers! Boys' lunior Varsity Basketball