Birthday Greetings to Jesus Sta Maria ( Dec 17 )

Jess is responsible for the heavy artillery He plays forward, averages about 20 points per game, and has a deadly shooting arm that can disregard the tightest guarding. He's been playing basketball since he was 12 in their neighborhood goal in Mandaluyong where he grew up. At that age he was already 5-9 tall. Now, at 25. the's all of six feet, weighs 153 lbs., and has behind him basketball career which, he says jokingly, "would make you cry." a He started out with JRC in high school, played with Philip and Ed Carvajal in the staup then star- studded NC senior champion team of "72. Then. he was courted by Crispa in '74 and bequeathed by Coach Kiko Calilan to Baby Da- lupan. And with Crispa he played for two years. then played to Carrier, Seven-up then Toyota