Canyon Springs High School - Open With Care Yearbook (Moreno Valley, CA)

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KEY HIT: Corncrbaclc Waller Scwall stops thf drive ot Palm Desert enroute to a Homceoming victor) ' . QUICK OPENER: Greg Zomalt bursts through for four yards in the second quarter of the Cougars 41-7 rout of Palm Desert. JV FOOTBALL CSHS OPP. 14 Redlands 20 5 LaHabra 4 20 Eisenhower 6 17 Fontana 22 X ' esterti 13 ' 9 Eisenhower 33 Tustin ' 4 21 Redlands 20 4 ' Palm Desert 7 3 Fontana WON 8, LOST 2 8 ]V Football 67

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B ig plays prove a key to first season wins After losing its first two games by a combined 44-20 score, the JV football team put together eight straight wins. At the beginning of the season, the team kept playing as individuals, running back Steve Mayo, named the team ' s most valuable player, said. But then our team came together. Coach Jack Fogarty agreed. We felt they were capable of it, he said, if they had the right attitude. Powered by running backs Rudy McGriff and Mayo, the team outs- cored its opponents of the last eight games by more than ick) points. The defense, meanwhile, held opponents to nine points per game. According to Fogarty, the team ' s most improved player was quarter- back Daylind Ridgeway. After the line ' s blocking im- proved, he felt more comfortable in the pocket, Fogarty said. That improvement resulted, center Jason Lowe said, from the line ' s deter- mination. Before every game, Lowe said, Coach Fogarty would say ' It all de- pends on the line, ' and it did. If we weren ' t blocking well, Steve, Pete (Ruppert), (Coaches ' Award win- ner) Greg (Zomalt), Rudy or Day- lind would always let us know. The line always hated to see them get hit, because we knew it was our fault. Ridgeway ' s main receiver was Ru- fus Johnson, who caught 14 passes for 245 yards. We had an offense that was very well executed, Johnson said. We could either pass or run efficiently. f JV FOOTBALL, FRONT ROW: Brijn MorcUnd. Howard Johnson, Brad I loUingswonh, Dec Jones. SEC- OND ROW: Coach Garc ,.1. Pete Ruppert. Rufus Johnson, Rudy McGriff. Chr.s Pcre.i. Steve Mayo. Mike Hastm. Coach Cassette. THIRD ROW: Coa.h Fogarty. Daylind Ridgeway, Gary Trapp, Nathan Fischer. Greg Zomalt, Al- W JV Football bcrt Ensign, Marcus Martin. Jason Lowe. Coach Mathwig FOURTH ROW: Tonv Venaz,, Lcc Chen. Walter Scwall. Curtis Morton, Jeff Oliva, Bill Clark BACK ROW: Mark Driscoll. Dan 1 leritage, Omar Battle, Glen Mollis. Tommy Coleman. ih

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F rosh have fun in a Vreat winning season fc ' I ' he Cougars ' season went JL exceptionally well, Mr. Jack Cassette, the freshman football coach, said. We had a great winning season and everybody improved. All we did was just have fun. The Cougars lost their very first game, but they won their second with a shutout against Bloomington. The team went on to finish the season with a 5-4 won-Iost record. They were all good, Cassette said, but, unfortunately, only one could be named Most Valuable Player. Wayne Collins was given that honor. The Most Valuable Running Back was Mike Christensen. He ran for 265 yards in 33 rushes. We slacked off more than a cou- ple of times in a couple of games, Christian explained. The Most Valuable Lineman was Manny Hernandez. The Most Im- proved Player was Victor Cruz, and the Coach ' s Award was given to Jo- seph Aliviliar. He ran 1 30 yards in 30 rushes. I feel that we could have won a couple more football games, and that would have really improved our sea- son, Cassette said. Our biggest im- provement was in our offense. It was more complicated and took longer to coordinate than the defense. Thanks to our defense, which was more than an average freshman defense, we were able to stop teams from scoring. «V ,f ' 35f 8?,L ., 2 FROSH FOOTBALL, FRONT ROW; Gerald Lo- vclt. Todd Keaton, P.iul Ward, Sergio Hucrta, David Har- Icins, Jostph Alivillar. Dennis Peck. SECOND ROW: Floyd Gaines. Dante Musarra. Tony BruKuh. Tim Hall, Victor Cruz, Jermine Adams. Tom Reecc. Marco Sivally. Tony Allen, Mike Hasiin THIRD ROW: Coach Cas- sette, Coach Mathwig, Manny Hernandez, Burnell Roqucs, Mike Christian, Tim Davis, Eric Zomalt. Richard Whitt,. ker, Mike Pruitt. Coach Fogarty. FOURTH ROW: Jer emy Harper. Ruben Romo, Chris Reifcr. John O ' Donncl. Brian Woodward, Sean Melachi. Mike Mahaffcy. BACK ROW: David Rodriguez, Skip Movetie. John Esquivel. Wayne Collins, Alex Adcj ' c ] • ' ' ««wNM J 68 Frosh Foothal tm