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Be advised, observers of that
which even now pretends to be
Climber basketball.
In the short span of the
forthcoming two weeks, he who
dares to watch will be party to
the physiomorphological
transformation of the century, if
not the half-month:
The metamorphosis of a
gangling kid with 27 left feet and
more stray notions than meakers
into a singie-minded basketball
machine able to leap tall state AA
polls in a single bound.
No mere pipedream of an
aspiring hardcourt Gregor Mendel,
this, it may be the very substance
of the pregame plan envisioned by
Coach Terry Caegg for his young
successors to a team which last
year finished seventh in the state.
"In basketball," he observed,
"the whole success of the team
depends on the ability of the
players to blend together, to play
as one.
"Right now we've got some
good players. The togetherness
will have to come."
With perhaps one cut in
personnel remaining, Gregg has 27
players - 14 of whom he labels
varsity material, the rest jayvees -
and just two weeks before the
league opener to mold them into
that cohesive unit.
"'We'll have tO see how some
players respond to game
situations," said the coach. "We
try to create game situations in
practice, and we always practice
with intensity. But right now the
biggest problem is finding the best
combination of players who
perform well together."
The Climbers will have good
experience at the guard positions
this year, but that's about the
extent of it. Seniors Randy
Bostrom and Dale campagna are
the only returnees who logged
appreciable varsity experience last
year, but Gregg said both have
displayed f'me leadership qualities
and should be instrumental i~ the
WHICH WAY doth the ball bounce? Sage confidence exuding from every
facial cavity, a courtful of Climbers watches as the ball ascends during a
rebounding and positioning drill Monday. From left are Dodge Kerr, Dave
Sutton, John Bennett, Sam Martin, Kelly Smith, Chris Kenny, Chris
floor leader by Gregg, tallied at an
eight-point clip. The two will be
Climber co-captains this year.
"'The other spots are pretty
much up for grabs," said Gregg,
refetrin+g 39., t, he Va¢, 9ties left by
Climbers' anticip a4,d++ the:,likes, of,Ma k TtlttOa#4Nlltz*
run-and-press game. + Baze, Todd .Brew and Bob
Bostrom averaged 10 points a - Christensen of the 1974 squad.
game last year - one of five"Sutton (junior Dave) has
Climbers in double figures - and looked good in practice,"
Campagna, dubbed the team's commented the coach, "and Chris
McGee seems to be improving
rapidly coming off his knee injury
suffered during football."
Gregg added that junior Dan
Fitchitt, at 6-5 a likely candidate
for cent, or along with
~lik6+-~d~t~efl~l~ed senior Start
Kaszycki, also has been coming
along well since leaving the
gridiron for the hardcourt.
Other fugitives from the
football wars perhaps shedding a
and whites together...
The blacks will be mixing it
up with the whites next
Wednesday in Shelton High's
Minidome, but don't bother to
call out the riot squads.
The strife will be of a
competitive nature, only, as the
underdog "white" squad tries to
upset the first-team "blacks" in
the annual intrasquad basketball
game.
"'It's a pretty close match-up,
really," said Coach Terry Gregg,
who promises a game fought to
the wire. "The blacks have
traditionally won this game but
don't expect a runaway."
Expected to suit up for the
blacks in the 8 p.m. varsity tilt are
seniors Randy Bostrom, Dale
Campagna, Sam Martin, Start
COACH GREGG watches five Climbers converge on a jump shot during
practice this week. From left are Coach Gregg, Chris McGee, Kelly Smith,
John Vernon, Roger Ayers, Brian Martin and Doug Christensen.
McGee, John Vernon, Tom Swift, Stan Kaszycki and Dan Fitchitt. The
trousered legs spilling from Sam Martin's shorts actually belong to Coach
Terry G regg.
few pounds in pursuit of a varsity
spot are Sam Martin, Jeff McGee
and John Vernon, who is to be
relieved next week of the sling
brace he has worn throughout
turnouts for his mending
collarbone fractured while in
combat for Coach Stark.
Dodge Kerr and Larry Baze,
two seniors who last year earned
varsity letters, are also expected
to see a lot of action this year - if
Kaszycki and John Vernon plus"
juniors Dan Fitchitt and Dave
Sutton. Kaszycki and Fitchitt
both stand 6-5, giving the blacks a
distinct height advantage against a
white squad in which junior Chris
McGee at 6-4 and senior brother
Jeff at 6-2 occupy the only
Climber headspace above the
six-foot level.
But the whites may have more
team quickness, with the McGees
being joined by senior guards
Larry Baze, Pete Francis and
Dodge Kerr and junior pointmen
Roger Ayers and Dale Johnson.
In a preliminary contest at 6
p.m., the jayvee squad will
entertain a similar match-up.
While no black/white distinctions
have been announced as yet,
those playing in the jayvee game
will be juniors Doug Christensen,
Tom Swift, Chris Kenny, John
Bennett, MarLy Rae, Jim Christy,
Dusty Gallinger, Mel Ferrier and
Kelly Smith plus sophomores
Brian Martin, Stan Bourgault, Joe
Baze and Bruce Dorcy.
Coach of the jayvee squad is
Jack Marquett, while Brian
Brickert and Harlan Buitenveld
round out the Climber staff as
sophomore and ninth-grade
D
coaches, respectively.
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they're up to the challenge from
juniors Roger Ayers and Dale
Johnson, whom Gregg also counts
among his potential varsity
players.
The Climbers are slated to
play 20 league games this season
- and no non-league "tune-up"
contests at start as in years
past, the reason being the
addition of Capital High School
to the league this year.
Gregg admits to missing the
non-league encounters and the
opportunity they present to iron
out the wrinkles before league
play: _
The 1974 Climbers were 13-1
in league play against AA
competition, 13-5 including AAA
and non-league opponents. They
beat Curtis High School at the
regional playoffs and then lost to
Washington of Tacoma by one
point in the battle for the regional
championship. At state they lost
to O'Dea on the final day in the
game to determine fourth and
seventh places.
Although it's a likely topic,
Gregg shuns any comparisons
between that team and his current
squad. "Each team has its own
characteristics and 1 just don't
like to compare them," said the
coach. "I think this is a team
which should improve with every
game and, if so, will find itself
playing its best ball when it gets
to the playoffs - which ideally is
how it should be."
Being a running team, the
Climbers will not be working out
of any real patterned offenses -
at least not in the rigid sense.
"We'll work more with reading
defenses," explained Gregg.
"Each player watches his
opposing player and picks up
certain keys as to how~he should
react. Then it becomes simply a
matter of who has the open
shot."
In keeping with his team-play
philosophy, Gregg tries to
discourage the run-and-gun style
of play. He sees no place in his
line-up for a Pete Maravich, a
superstar who gets his 40 points a
game but only by taking 75
percent of his team's shots.
"But you have to leave
enough room for individual
initiative for a guy to develop his
own skills," added Gregg. "We try
to let each player use his most
valuable asset - but always in the
setting of the whole team."
Gregg stresses conditioning
and knows the value of physical
endowment on the basketball
court, but he likes to look deeper
yet for winning material. 'Tin
more interested in what's inside
of a player in terms of fighting
spirit and competitiveness," he
said.
As to the outcome of each
game - a coach's lifeblood if in a
.winning vein - Gregg has this to
say: "If each player performs to
his ability, the outcome will take
care of itself. Winning in itself
isn't the most important thing."
Sports twenty-five years ago
CLIMBERS & BLAZERS WIN FINALS
Highclimber gridmen closed their 1950 season with
~Alory and a balanced won-lost ledger by trouncing St.
artin's Preps, 28 to 6, in the annual Armistice Day
contest between the two rivals on Loop Field.
The victory enabled_ She!ton to end up the season
with four wins against tour uosses, and second place in
the Central League standings.
The day before the varsity victory the junior high
Blazer squad gave a preview of the big game to follow
when they bopped the junior St. Martin s squad by a
score of 20 to 6. The victory gave me Blazers a 4 and 3
record for the 1950 season.
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1st & Cota Shelton .,.,
DAN FITCHITT, 6-5 junior,
pleads with
Stan Kaszycki during a practice session this week.
6-5 but a senior, would have nothing to do
lifeline, but might have driven 'round the
it not been occupied by a crouching jayvee
Marquett. At extreme left is a pensive Dusty
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ROGER AVERS snares a rebound as Bruce DorcY
Jim Christy look on.
TENTATIVE VARSITY LINEUP
Name Position
Height Weight Class
Stand i n¢
Roger Ayers G 5-10 145 Jr.
Larry Baze G 5-11 145 St.
Randy Bostrom G 5-11 145 St.
Dale Campagna G 5-9 145 Sr.
Pete Francis G 5-10V2 153 Sr.
Dan Fitchitt C-F 6-5 190 Jr.
Dale Johnson G 6-0 150 Jr.
Dodge Kerr G-F 5-10 165 Sr.
Sam Martin C-F 6-3 215 St.
Chris McGee - F 6-4 171 Jr.
Jeff McGee F 6-2 175 Sr.
Stan Kaszycki C 6-5 175 Sr.
Dave Sutton F 6-1 166 Jr.
John Vernon G-F 6-0 157 Sr.
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