1988 Gallimaufry

£_ _ f you had compared this IMSA M~ sports' season records with " the previous year's, you might have found a slight discrep– ancy between them. How had our be– loved volleyball team gone from 11-6 to 5-11? What about the first year's boys' basketball team that had ended with an unmentionable record for the 1987- 1988 season? Well, folks, take another look. The big step that IMSA took was moving to the varsity level. Late starts to practice, no seniors for leadership, and many other problems plagued the move; to a larger extent, these problems were really true. It was really tough for the Titan soccer team made up of green juniors and sophmores to take on a Batavia pow– erhouse with eight starting seni- ors(although our team happened to score first!) The good news among all of the bad, was that IMSA had a lot of impressive performances from both individuals and teams, despite tough competition. The soccer team gained a great deal of re– spect in a narrow loss to Geneva and went on to post a winning varsity re– cord. Also, the girls' basketball team stomped all over several opponents and also ended up with a winning re– cord. However, the sports program's most impressive group was the JV boys basketball team, which went undefeat– ed through most of the year, along with winning a few tournament champion– ships along the way. Individually, both a swimmer and a diver from IMSA reached for glory and traveled down to State competition. And most important– ly, no one ever gave up. That's really what made it a good year for IMSA sports . . . Sports