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Ellis drives to 5th leading scorer in Metro i

By Greg Schenkelberg and Junior Forward Nick Thayer, a
“We worked hard and we hustled, but transfer from Millard South.
we always got the bad breaks at the end The Junior Varsity team ended its year
of the games that kept us from winning,” with an 8-10 record, which included a
Junior Guard Marv Ellis said. four-game winning streak when they
The Varsity Basketball Team’s record were 2-7. Junior Guards Scott Stracke
of 3-16 was deceiving since many of the and Doug Doerr said that the team did
games were lost in the last few seconds. better than they had expected. Stracke
Junior Guard Man/ Ellis said he was said that the team had seven
disappointed with the season because sophomores so he didn’t know what to
things just didn’t go their way. “We al­ expect, but they all played real well and
ways had one bad quarter,” Ellis said. that was a key to the team’s success.
Despite this, Ellis and Senior Guard “We started playing much better
Bill Gray both agreed that the team im­ toward the middle of the season,”
proved a lot as the season went on. ‘We Stracke said. Doerr said the reason for
started to play more as a team later in the improvement was that they played
the season,” Gray said. Ellis said the better as a team and never quit. Both
team was young and it just took time to Doerr and Stracke said the team had to
get used to each other. shoot and rebound well in order to win.
“We have a lot of people coming back The season ended with a bang against
so next year looks promising,” Ellis said. Roncalli. Not only did the Junior Varsity
Some of the key returning players will be win by 20 points, but late in the game
Ellis, Sophomore Forward Bob Guenette Sophomore Andy Dunlap recorded a
two-handed slam dunk.

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Varsity Boys' Basketball Junior Varsity Boys' Basketball
3 W?ns-16 Losses 8-wins 10-losses
RHS OPP
Bellevue West 49 65 RHS OPP
Gross 52 56 Bellevue West 51 49
St. Joe Central 44 62 Gross 38 48
Springfield 46 48 Millard South 43 51
Millard South 38 39 Sioux City East 49 55
Sioux City East 51 54 Gross 38 40
Thomas Jefferson 59 54 Bellevue West 56 45
Northwest 61 94 Bryan 34 54
Bryan 42 44 Bryan 43 54
Millard North 76 83 Millard North 50 63
St. Joe Central 56 52 Papb 50 48
North 57 74 North 61 41
Papio 55 77 Central 58 53
Central 55 73 St. Joe Central 55 54
Abraham Lincoln 64 84 Northwest 53 62
Northwest 56 78 Abraham Lincoln 47 72
South 55 65 South 57 49 Making the points, Junior Greg Stanek takes the
Bellevue East 56 39 Bellevue East 32 42 outside shot as Sophomore Bob Guenette blocks the
Roncalli 47 55 Roncalli 67 47 Abraham Lincoln defense.
Districts
North 63 64

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