West Lampeter Vocational High School - We La Hi Yearbook (Lampeter, PA)

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EST Lampeter high school's junior varsity basketball squad, along with Coach Finkeldey, can take a bow for their fine performances, despite the terrific height advantage they had to yield to in nearly every game. This height advantage proved to be overwhelming at times, and, as a result, they dropped a goodly share of the games. RONALD MENTZ-ER The team was a fighting and spirited aggregation, They had to be! Many teams, who, like the WLHS J-V, were small, probably would have taken one glance at their opposing players hover- ing over them and fled to the showers. Not our J-V teams! They had that hustle and spark which coaches try to instill in teams artificially, but seldom can. That intangible hustle seemed to come naturally to Coach Finkeldey's charges. Individually the junior varsity is comprised of small but scrappy lads. Spider Mentzer, team captain, is the backbone of the junior varsity, even though he is the smallest boy on the team. Other promising sophomore J'-V members are Howard Shaub, Don Moore, Pat Rhineer, FIRST ROW: Stanley Longenecker, Parke Rhineer, Ronald Meutzer, Clair Ressler, Kenny Gochenauer. SECOND ROW: Kenny Rankin, Iohn Leed, Allen Yuninger, Robert Howry, Robert Shaub, Donald Moore, Mr. Finkeldey.

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game although they did blow a sizeable lead to Ephrata in the second game and almost came from behind to whip Columbia in the initial tilt. Lititz, who proved to be to L.ampeter's liking was the Blue and White's first, and, incidentally, the second victim of the season. In the games in which they played Lititz, Coach Finkeldey's proteges ran up scores of 77 and 70 points respectively. Also, the fact that Appel and Ferich racked up 115 points in these two Lititz games is another indication of what these two senior boys accomplished in the way of scoring. In several of these league games, the West Lampeter 5 took leads over very reknowned Section Il teams only to have a poor fourth quarter spell doom for them. Probably the first instance of this disastrous faltering in the late stages of the game was the first Ephrata game in which West Lampeter had built a good lead only to lose out in the fourth quarter when Ephrata outscored West Lampeter 12-3. There were many more examples of this mysterious dying out in the last quarterg this seemed to be one big reason for losing many games. Individually, the team was a fairly well-rounded squad although there was a serious laxity of team depth. Jack Ferich and Ed Appel were the class of the team and the class of the county. Back of these boys was Bob Duvall, a dependable backcourt man, Mowery Frey, a scrapper and good shooter, and Larry Mellott, a steady guard. These five boys comprised the starting team. Representing the reserves were Don Aukamp, Don Barley, Paul Rhirieer and Bill Knight. These boys were used frequently as subs and showed their ability to play good sound ball. Of the squad of nine boys eight are seniors and one is a junior. The junior is Don Barley. All this indicates that Coach Finkeldey will have a tremendous rebuilding job on hand next winter.

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Allen Yunmger Bob I-Iowry Stanley Longenecker Kenny Rankm and Clan' Ressler have been steady and lmpresswe performers throughout the entlre season The team has been a credlt to the school and our hats are off to them 45 and John Leed. The two juniors on the team,