The White Falcon - 05.03.1971, Síða 7
March 5, 1971
THE WHITE FALCON
Page 7
Speaking from the head table at the athletic ban-
quet is Hear Adm. John K. Beling, ComIDF. Seated
from left are: Mrs. Alfred R. Saeger, Chaplain Sae-
ger, Mrs. Beling, Lt. and Mrs. George B. Reynolds,
Lt. Greg Langston and Col. William C. Sullivan, IDF
Chief of Staff.
Banquet honors athletic standouts
The basketball season was of-
ficially terminated Monday night
with the athletic banquet held at
the 56 Club.
The ceremonies began with an
invocation by Chaplain Alfred R.
Saeger on the meaning of victory
I and defeat in athletic competi-
tion. A steak dinner for the ap-
■oximately 300 guests followed.
^ Lt. George B. Reynolds, the
master of ceremonies, introduced
the guest of honor, Rear Adm.
John K. Beling. Following a short
speech by Admiral Beling, Dick
Plante, the director of the House
Gymnasium was introduced and the
awards presentations began.
The first awards were humorous
in nature, recognizing such qual-
ities as acting and the biggest
cry-babies. The C League was the
first to receive trophies. Grin-
davik finished first with a 21-4
record and Special Services was
second with 17-8. Special awards
were also made to Tim Harris from
Special Services who was the high
scorerand John Toles.the league's
most valuable player.
Next on the agenda were the
ladies. The Hecklers won first
place with a 17-8 record. The
Lollies received second place
with the same record. High scorer
for the ladies was Jean Maxwell
and the most valuable player was
Verna Helms of the Globetrotters.
The ladies also won the Player of
the Year award which was present-
ed to Jenny Cashdollar of the
Hecklers.
The Recreation League which
played its games during the noon
hour followed. NSGA won that
trophy by going undefeated in 28
games followed by NavCommSta Sup-
ply with a 23-5 season. High
scorer for the league was Charley
Reed of Weather and the Most Val-
uable Player award went to Mar-
vin Riggs of NSGA.
Air Ops were the champions in
the B League with only one loss
in 22 games; Team member Mark
Maxwell also won the MVP award.
Second place was clinched by Sup-
ply who completed the season with
a 19-4 record after beating High
School in a play-off. High scorer
for the B League was Ted Grobelmy
of Admin. Grobelmy also won the
high scorer award in the A League
with an 18.3 game point average.
The A League champion and o-
verall tournament champion was
VP—56 who compiled a 21-4 record
for the season. Second place in
both the league and tournament
went to NSGA who finished with a
19-6 record. The Most Valuable
Player award was shared by John
Sherwood of VP-56 and Doug Nel-
son of NavCommSta.
All the individual players on
the first and second place teams
were rewarded with individual
trophies.
Handball and ping pong were
also recoqnized at the banquet.
(See BANQUET, Page 6)
House Gymnasium director Dick Plante, looks over the table full of trophies