The Chemawa American (Chemawa, Or.) 19??-current, April 03, 1975, Image 4

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Newspaper Page Text4 Don & Tom Pace Losing Season Chemawa's varsity basket ball season ground to a halt at Gervais March 4. The Braves ended a winless con ference campaign in the lea gue cellar. Despite their 0-14 stand ing , the Braves' two guards finished among the top ten scorers in the league. Jun ior Tom Tillequots canned 172 points in 12 games for a 14.4 average, making him the number 6 scorer in the lea gue. His backcourt teammate, Don Abrahamson, totaled 169 points in 14 games for an average of 12.1, good for 10th place among the indiv idual leaders. Their com bined total of 341 points made them the top-scoring guard combination in the conference. Three Braves played their last game for Chemawa ag ainst Gervais. They are Ab rahamson, Fred Hill and Stan Peter. The rest of the team will take to the court again next year. Chemawa America* Girls Take 3rd, End at 9-6 The girls varsity basketball team wound up their regular season February 28 by losing a heartbreaker to Gladstone, 27-25 in the last second. Their overall record was 9-6. In league play they were 4-4, good for third place. Team Captain Linda Jane was the Bravettes' floor leader. Debbie Jane led scoring with 90 points. Debbie Hall was right behind her with 89. Myrna Abrahamson and Sherry Tho mpson had 69, Becki Noyes, 63; Linda Jane, 54; Debbie Smith 36; Chris Penn, 31 and Bonnie James, 25. Myrna Abrahamson led in rebounding with 166, followed by Becki Noyes with 116. Linda and Debbie Jane led in assists with 29 and 26. Becki Noyes had 24. Coach Yvonne Hale said that the team should be better next year because they will only lode two seniors. Jayvees Improve.But Finish Winless The boys jayvee team struggled through a 16-game sche dule without a win as lack of height (no player over 5 'll") and a high turnover in personnel plagued them all season. Only six players lasted the entire season. Many dropped and others were added in mid-campaign. Coach Ed John named junior Gary Carden as team captain and most inspirational, and sophomore Robin Matt as most improved. "I feel that the players who stuck it out the whole sea son learned a lot of basketball fundamentals and improved a tremendous amount," said Coach John. "Although we didn't win any games-,. I really enjoyed working with this team." The jayvees were also hurt by a shortage of varsity pl ayers, which moved up three promising sophomores. Lee Goes to State Lee "Slim” Adolph, a 157- pounder from Omak, was the only Chemawa grappler to win a trip to the State Champ ionships. Slim; finished 2nd at District in his, weight class. Bad luck eliminated Slim in the first round at State, but his overall record for the year showed 17 wins and only 4 losses. Eleven of his wins came by decision and six by pin. The varsity team also had a winning record for matches actually wrestled. They won 75 times, lost 62 and twice wrestled to draws. Lee "Slim" Adolph squares off against an opponent m an early-season match at Chemawa. Slim led Chemawa's grap- piers with a 17-4 record. (Matt-photo)