Lindsay Leopard All-Time Basketball All-Stars

   I've published several columns/posts detailing the dominance of high school sports by the Lindsay Leopards and Leopardettes of Lindsay, Oklahoma. Columns and Posts dedicated to the young athletes who've played football and girl's basketball have been published in your Lindsay News over the past couple years, so this column is dedicated to the boy's basketball players who dominated Lindsay Leopard basketball from the 1950's through the early 2000's. I've scoured the trophy case which is located in the hallway at Lindsay High School and have asked high school sports experts/legends their opinion of the stand-out players who once roamed the halls of Lindsay Schools - and this is the consensus list of Lindsay Leopard Basketball All-Stars:
   Gene "Hunk" Estes was a 6'5" power forward on the 1955-1957 Leopard basketball teams. He made the South All-State team in 1957, and was one member of the Estes family, who were all great athletes in Lindsay Schools.
   Bob Milhauser, a center, was Lindsay's leading scorer during the 1954-1955 Leopard basketball season. He scored 18 points in a big come-from-behind win (40 to 36), over arch-rival Pauls Valley on November 30, 1954.
   Curtis Hayes was a starter on the south all-state squad in 1954. He averaged 18.8 points per game for the Leopards during his senior year, the same year the Leopardettes won their first state title and also had multiple all-stars.
   Bill Stone was a stand-out in basketball as well as football.
   Tom Owens was an all-stater in 1959 who averaged 19.5 points per game and was an all-tournament selection.
   Mark Loman, a 6'6'' football all-stater, was also a basketball all-stater. He signed a letter of intent to play football at O.S.U.
   Johnny Branch was another multi-sport athlete who also excelled at basketball.
   Curtis Sanford, a 6'7" post player who averaged 25 points per game his senior year, went on to star for Abe Lemons and the Oklahoma City University Chiefs.
   Chris Hoyle, a small school west all-stater, averaged 20.8 points per game in 1996.
   Jonathon White, a small school west all-stater, who was a sharp shooting forward.
   Brooks Robbins, another small school west all-stater, was perhaps the top 3-point shooter in the mix.
   Other players voted into the all-time Lindsay boys basketball team included David Stone (1973), Lynden Branch (1973), Mark Terrell (1978), Stoney Robbins (1977) whose son Brooks was among the top ten ever to play at Lindsay, James Gharst (1976), Bruce Jones (1977), and Robert Carlton, 1979.

   Many of these LHS basketball all-stars also excelled in football or baseball because they were good all around athletes. Mark Loman was an all-stater in both basketball and football, while Johnny Branch, Mark Terrell, Stoney Robbins, and Bruce Jones were stand-outs in multiple sports. While the list of players is not all inclusive, it represents the basketball greats which were nominated. We can run this list again in a year and determine any additions.