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Heaton Key to Lancer SnBasketball I(Second in a series ana- s I.vzing Moore League bas- Jl ketbaU prospects.) . 1itsns It’s with mixed emotionsed that Lakewood High basketball coach Fred Engels jS has to be viewing the prog- j•e. ress of the school’s football Tig. team in the CIF playoffs, Ati- Engels roots as hard as 1anyone for the team toI win, but in turn has to also be thinking it’d sure he Kke nice to see No. 85 trade in Har his cleats for a pair of ncj sneakers.jy No. 85 is starting fightend Floyd Heaton, who at 3fd- 6-5, 200 pounds, has sois much ability he tried out ,ufor the football team for Hlm the first, time as a senior N(ry and promptly won a start- hfmg job. . ac0- When he does get ap- chance to get a basketballfe in his hands, wliich mightnot be until mid-Dccem- clt;!it her, Engels expects Ilea-e Inn to be better than the vs!all-City and all-league per- sHPaformer nf a year ago that. vs!I led the Lancers in scoring Go(13.8 avg.) and was second n in rebounds (238). I1- It’s. not. only Heaton who «could make Lakewood the *Moore League’s most ini-l' proved team over a yearit ago when the Lancers fwere 11-16. wit In two years Engels has eie known the ups and downs, thhaving taken a team to the the playoffs two years ago, att then slipping to fifth placelast season. we Lakewood, which shared a], the league’s junior varsity title with Wilson, may start a team that goes 6-5,6-5 and 6-4 across the front. «,line. 6-4 and 6-0 in the —:back court. P~Engels reports the big thing in the early going is,“If we can win now with-
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Press Telegram
Long Beach, California, US
Wed, Dec 02, 1970
Page 27
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