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Muscling his way to the basket, senior Kevin Cox drives for a
layup as junior Dana Davenport and senior Jeff Shuman
await the rebound
Showing his left handed layup to a North opponent, junior
Casey Johnson shoots the ball Johnson was the team s fifth
leading scorer with 146 points.
Season provides
ups and downs
n the first two-thirds of the sea points. Senior Steve Peterson led all
I son, the varsity basketball scorers with 254 points for the year.
squad held onto a 6-5 record. After Junior Dana Davenport was the
that, the Rams lost seven consecu rebound leader for the Rams with
tive games to finish with a 6-11 win/ 118 total defensive and offensive
loss record. rebounds.
“We were competetive, but we Although the Rams beat North
just didn’t win the games that we early in the year, the cage squad lost
should have,” said head coach to the Vikings in district competition.
Denny Crawford. Voted most valuable for the sea
At one time during the year, the son were seniors Steve Peterson,
varsity cagers were tied with West- Dave Hattan, and junior Dana
side for the lead in the American Davenport. Senior Kevin Cox was
Division Conference. The Rams voted best defensive player.
then faltered with their remaining “ I think this year was an improve
games to finish below the .500 mark. ment from last year. Even though we
According to coach Crawford, the did let down from the beginning of
Ralston cage squad was team ori the year, we had a lot of good
ented during the 79’-80’ season with moments in the season,” said coach
three players scoring over 200 Crawford.
