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THE WHITE FALCON
March 5, 1971
VP-56 reigns
as NATO base
hoop champs
The Dragon's of VP-56, led by
Bill Greaver's 23 points, defeat-
ed NSGA 68 to 37 in Sunday's NATO
Base championship game. The ex-
cellent performance capped a per-
fect 5-0 tournament and an 11-3
second half championship record.
Since the regular season ended,
no team seemed to cause the
mighty Dragons any problem. In
tourney play they routed all four
of their other opponents. Their
victories were over NavFac 60-24,
Rockville 61-27, 552nd 56-26, and
AFI 67-31.
Athletic director Dick Plante
said that VP-56, "is one of the
best teams I've seen in intra-
mural basketball."
The team used a zone press de-
fense led by Joe Schwanabeck and
John Sherwood. The leading scor-
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VP-56's basketball team, the NATO base champions are: Bill Hich-
bourg, Mike Gray, Glen Gueder, Cliff Nemeth, A1 Thacker, Bill Greaver,
John Sherwood, Doug Werber and Don Riffle. Bill Brunka, Joe Schwane-
beck, Bob Williams and Paul LeBlanc were not available for photo-
graphs.
er for the season was Bill Greav-
er, posting a 16.9 game average.
NSGA finished second with a
10-4 6econd half record and a 6-2
tourney record. Their victims
were Public Works 54-37, Grinda-
vik 59-42, NavSta 67-65, 552nd
34-33, 57 FIS 59-43 and AFI 67-50.
Their only loss was the first
time they played AFI.
The leading scorer throughout
the season for NSGA was Vem
Kingery with an 11-point average.
Larry Wilkenson took high tei
honors in the championship g
with a total of 13 points.
BANQUET HONORS ATHLETIC STANDOUTS, from Page 3
First place in the handball dou-
bles went to Jim Gall and Dick
Plante. Second place went to A1
Thecker and Tom Bullion, both of
VP-56. The ping pong singles was
won by Glenn Holland.
The banquet not only signaled
the end of one athletic season
but also ushered in a new sched-
ule of events. Volleyball will
be the new challenge in which
five leagues will be represented.
The American League has 13 teams
and the National League has 12.
The ladies have fielded seven
teams and the Recreation League
currently has ten teams. There
will also be a mixed doubles
league which will play on Sunday
evenings and currently has eight
teams.
Flemma leads top six AF bowlers
John Flemma's lb*, average led
the Air Force roll-offslast week-
end at the Arctic Bowl. Flemma
and five other top oowlers will
now go on to Hancock Field, N.Y.,
to participate in the 21st Air
Division Tournament.
Flemma bowled 18games, spilled
3,317 pins for his leading 184
average. John McCarron had a 175
average, with 3,159 pins. Third
was Lou DeJoy with 3,122 pins for
a 173 average. Ralph Knepper's
3,092 pins and 171.78 average
just nosed out Charlie Champlin's
3,084 pins and 171.33 average for
fourth place. Sixth place went
to Bob Burris and his 3,063 pins
for a 170 average.
Eighteen1 men entered the com-
petition.
FLEMMA
McCARRON
DeJOY
KNEPPER
CHAMPLIN
BURRIS