Deming High School - Wildcat Yearbook (Deming, NM)

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sends three netters to State Tournament. -t: W- ' ' i m %■ I. Returning senior letterman Jimmy Leupold displays his serving technique. 2. Cov Speer prepares to return a serve as spectators watch closely. 3. Junior Btl ' ly Chaires waits for the serve from his opponent. 4. Junior doubles pair. Coy Speer and Billy Chaires. work together to make it to state. 117

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In his first year as boys ' tennis coach, Pool In his first year as DHS boys ' tennis coach. Dick Pool led his varsity netters to a 2-2 district record in dual matches. Senior Jimmy Leupold held the number one position in singles, and in doubles it was Juniors Coy Speer and Billy Chaires. Eighth grader Tony Cle- mente held the fourth position while Juniors James Benzie and Cliff Heller held positions five and six. In district play the Wildcats came out on top. In boys ' singles, Leupold defeated three opponents to capture the district title. In boys ' doubles, Speer and Chaires also took the champion- ship. All three boys then traveled to Albuquerque to compete in the State tournament. At State play in singles competition, Leupold defeated Mark Salazar of Raton in the quarter finals, but lost in the semi-finals to Ben Sparkman of NMMI. He lost to Garon Fulgenzie of Las Vegas Robertson to place fourth in the state. Speer and Chaires lost in the quarter finals to a team from Sante Fe but gained experience that will be valu- able for next year ' s competition. j B W ' ■i H 3 11 ■ H b---- - -•— ■ Imm rrnr ' ::::: i I 1. Standing; Jimmy Leupold, Billy Chaires, Dick Pool, Coy Speer, James Benzie. Kneeling: James Teran, Tony Clemente, Cliff Heller. 2. Jimmy Leupold shakes hands with an opponent after a match. 116 t-n

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Tracksters win District and place 8th in State. Boys track season started February 2 with 25 boys participating. Deming ' s first meet was the Deming Invitational in which the Cats took first place with 104 points. Next Deming traveled to Silver for the Silver Invitational and placed 2nd with 76 points. Deming placed 2nd again in the Cobre Invita- tional with 63 ' ' 2 points. Deming next traveled to the home of their arch rivals and won the Hendrix Memorial in Sil- ver City with 97 points. The ' Cats next traveled to Animas to compete in the Hidalgo Relays and took first and scored 120 ' 2 points, missing the school record by only 6 points. The tracksters next participated in the Rose Relays in Tularosa and took first with 73 ' 2 points. Deming qualified in the 400 relay and the discus, but missed quahfying in the mile relay by two one-hundreths of a second. They still won the meet with 97 points. Deming next traveled to T or C for another qualifying meet but half of the meet was rained out. Deming ended up second with 63 ' 2 points, but only because their strong events were rained out. The ' Cats also won district with 97 points and Silas Wilson was high point man. At state, Deming ' s Oza Marshall, Steve Sheldon, George Cardona and Silas Wilson placed first in the 400 m. relay. Silas Wilson placed 4th in the 200 m. dash and 5th in the 400 m. dash. Oza Marshall placed 5th in the 100 m. dash and George Cardona placed 5th in the 800 m., Joey Flores broke the school record in the 1500 meters and 3000 meters at state by beating Jose Rios ' 1974 record in the 1500 meters by 1.34 seconds and in the 3000 meters by .30 seconds. 1. Boys ' track; Bottom row: Paul Reyes. David Aranda, Javier Ramos, Mike Borrego. Joey Flores, Michael Prevail, Tony Polish. Middle row: Tercero Pnnce, Ernest Wilson, Armando Reyes, Mike Davalos, Doug Forbes, Silas Wil- son. Top row: Coach Rex Smith, Oza Marshall, Benny Young, Mike Thurston, Robert Canton. Rey Canton. George Cardona, Coach Sim Willis. 2. Doug Forbes sets the pace for the 3000 meters dunng the Therman Jordan-Relays. 3. Tracksters who participa ted in the stale track meet in Hobbs are kneeling: Joey Flores, George Cardona, Armando Reyes, Sieve Sheldon. Standing: Coach Rex Smith, Ernest Wilson. Rey Canton, Oza Marshall, Silas Wilson, Coach Sim Willis. 118 ■ ■