El Dorado High School - El Dorado Yearbook (Placentia, CA)

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Sticking Together With some key injuries, things didn ' t go as planned. stated lunior Jeff Boucher. This year ' s varsity soccer team knew what it meant when the saying injuries can kill you came up. With injuries to such players as Jeff Boucher. Bob Bunce. Rich Yarger and Gene Tjoa the group tried to but could not overcome these obstacles. Playing such powerhouse teams as Esperanza. Cypress, and Brea Olinda. the team had their share of bad breaks. The season starting off with a bang and entering league play with an umblemished record is when things fell apart, com- mented |unior Vic Irwin. The season ended with a record of 4 wins 9 losses and 6 ties which placed them a respectable fifth in league. The most important thing is to have fun and we did that, but It would have been nice to win a couple more games. concluded junior Darren Mathews. Boys varsity soccer from L-R top row, T. Portugal. M. Holdeman, R. Yarger. B. Peters. V. Doose. M. Rowen. R. Galvin. D.Mathews, bottom M. Connors, T. Dean. B. Butice, J. Boucher. K. Osterberg, V. Irwin. G. Tjoa. T. Holt, J. Eyer. ut-jumping the opposing player. Gene Tjoa keeps his Heading the ball. Darren Malhews lakes another shot on goal, ye on the ball. Varsity Soccer 227

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.° 3 0 « .° ' ! ° 0- Trying to retain possession from the Paclfica player, Todd Holt shows off his talent. Giving their all. Gene Tjoa and Todd Holt sky for the ball. 226 Varsity Soccer i».- ' -»iA»i« . With key positioning. Rich Yarger heads the ball away from the Esperanza defender.

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J.V. Soccer Undergoes Frustrating Season Although endrng the season with a 7-40 record, the boys JV soccer teatn underwent a frustrating time. Under first year coach Jeff Herrara. there were a few team problems and rough edges. We had good team spirit but alot of players didn ' t get along with each other. This caused some problems in a few of our games. stated Mark Chapul. Also, our practices were unorganized and more fun than work. commented Jamie Lynch who continued. It was hard sticking out the season with a team of only 4 juniors and the rest under- classmen. Despite the downfalls, the team members did have fun. The coach was fun to joke around with and I really enjoyed the team. We just never seemed to get a decent break. explained Nick Cruz. El Dorado El Dorado El Dorado El Dorado El Dorado El Dorado El Dorado El Dorado El Dorado El Dorado El Dorado El Dorado EI Dorado 3 I I I I 2 I 3 I 2 3 2 I 3 2 I Loara Esperanza Cypress Pacifica Los Alamitos Kennedy Loara Katella Cypress Esperanza Los Alamitos Pacifica Kennedy The boys J.V. Soccer Team; J. Herrera (coach), J. Redman. N. Cruz. M. Chaput. C. Herrera. B. Stwernik. K. Scott. R. Massey. M. Warner. D. Petalas. J. Lynch, R. Debest, C. Rodriguez, D. Shea. C. Waterworth. G. Ouellette OMver Bohlman gets yellow carded for unnecessary roughness. Sophomore Rick Bowen attempts to head the ball into the goal. 228 Boys J.V. Soccer