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Luke  K linker and Trevor H udson  stand  at the  free throw  line,
                                                                   w hile  the opposing team   shoots.  H udson  is getting ready to
                                                                   box out the  shooter.






                                        The boys basketball team
                                        played  by  their  motto  -
                                        "W e  know  the  way."
                                        They  did  know  the  way
                                        to  the  state  tournament.
                                        Junior  Jason  Shockey
                                        said,  "I  thought  it  was
                                        good  to  make  State,  be­
                                        cause  we  w eren't  ex­
                                        pected  to make  it."  The
                                        Rams  made  their  fourth
                                        consecutive state appear­
                                        ance.  Ralston  lost  first
                                        round  to Beatrice for the
                                        second  year  in  a  row.
                                        Beatrice  ended  up  mak­
                                        ing it to  the  finals.  This                                                      The team
                                        team  had  heart  and  the                                                         huddles up
                                        desire not to give up.  The                                                        as one  of
                                        team  ended  the  regular                                                          their pre-
                                        season  winning  five  of                                                          gam e
                                        their last six games of the                                                        rituals.
                                        season plus a District title   ketball  excellence  at                             This is a
                                        beating  Gross  for  the   Ralston High.  The four                                 w ay for the
                                        crown.  Shockey thought   seniors  did  a  great job                               team   to get
                                                                                                                           fired  up
                                        it  was  the  most  memo­  leading the team.  Tony
                                                                                                                           and  ready
                                        rable  moment.  A fter   Beveridge  made  River
                                                                                                                           to  beat
                                        graduating  10  seniors   Cities  Conference  sec­                          l ,    their rivals.
                                        from  the  previous  year,   ond team.  Luke Worth
                                        this  team  did  an  out­  made  first  team  River
                                        standing job of stepping   Cities,  as  well  as  All-  BOYS  B-BALL-VARSITY
                                        it  up  as  the  season  pro­  State  honorable  men­
                                        gressed.  It helped to con­  tion.  Worth  broke  the   SCOREBOARD
                                        tinue the tradition of bas-  school  scoring  record           RHS  OPP
                                                                 by  scoring 40  points in
                                                                                          S.Sioux      89    85
                                                                 a  single  game.  That
                                                                                          Roncalli     54    65
                                                                 record  was also fifth in
                                                                                          A.L.         52    68
                                                                 the state for most points
                                                                 scored  in  a  game.  The   Holdrege  54    63
                                                                 Rams hope to continue    Omaha NW 55        72
                                                                 their  tradition  by  re­  Bell.East  72    65
                                                                 turning four letter win­  York        49    73
                                                                 ners  and  nine  players
                                                                                          Alliance     65    68
                                                                 with varsity experience.
                                                                                          S.Souix W.   56    86
                                                                                          Gross        60    55
                                                                                          Waverly      53    57
                                                                                          South Sioux  53    45
                                                                                          Beatrice     53    68
                                                                                          Gross        37    57
                                                                                          A.L.         45    50
                                                                                          Roncalli     59    68
                                                                                          Elkhorn      71     56
                                                                                          T.J.         88     74
                                                                                          Norris       61     60
                                                                                          Skutt        72     75




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                                                              Junior Jordan  Farrell will  do
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 *   During pre-gam e w arm ups Luke W orth  tries to perfect his free   anything on  defense to  stop
    throw.  Freshm an Joe Toledo  looks on  trying to pick up  som e   his opponent.  Farrell's
    pointers.  W orth  w as one of the leaders in  the state in free  throw   specialty  is  defense, and  he
                                                              does a great job.
    percentage.
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