Elkhart High School - Pennant Yearbook (Elkhart, IN)

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Cross Country by Steve Ball 1977 Cross Country SB Adams SB Clay MC Elston SB LaSalle Memorial Mishawaka Penn SB Riley SB Washington ECHS OPP. 16 47 15 50 24 32 18 45 24 34 20 35 24 31 21 40 19 44 Season record: 9 0 Dutch Heinhuis. Central's leading harrier, strides for the finish. Blue Bunch posts 54-0 dual record in six years Cross country runners come and go through Elkhart Central, some great and most of them good, and no matter who is running for the Blue Bunch the results are almost always the same. This year was no different as the Blazers ran through the season undefeated and won the sectional. However, one face has stayed the same through all the victories and championships: Marshall Sellers. Sellers has been called many things by many people, but one thing nobody can call him is a loser. For instance, this year’s seniors who have gone through three years of cross country have won 27 dual meets without a loss, have captured two sectionals (this year and 1975), one regional and have always qualified for the regional. Since Central was formed six years ago, the team dual record is 54-0. There is good reason why Sellers and his Blue Bunch run by their opponents in literally a blue bunch. Sellers has his team run about 19 miles a day, 6 miles for breakfast and 13 for supper. This training leaves the Blazer harriers starved for competition on meet day. Sellers strives to get his runners to be able to run together in a swift pack, and how the Blazers are bunching” shows how well they are running. In the regional, where the season ended with a fifth place performance, the bunch disintegrated and a lack of balanced performance by the whole squad doomed the Blazers. Cross country's version of the starting lineup is the top seven. Central's top seven for '77 was Dutch Heinhuis, Pat Welch, Rusty Green, Mark Madigan, Doug Zehr, Steve Nystrand and Jeff Vamos. Heinhuis was named best senior, Madigan received the best junior award and Nystrand was named the best sophordore. Crosscountry 19

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Whether using a bullhorn or hot. when Marshall Sellers speaks, people listen (far right). Mark Madigan (foreground) and Steve Nystrand give a small demonstration of bunching. 18 Crosscountry

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All school musical Central is alive with 'Sound of Music' Liesl (Elise Snyder). Maria (Soma Simmons). Gretl (Kellie Fogerty). Brigitta (Susie Vamos). Maria. Georg. Friedrich (Ross Burdin). Louisa (Jody Moore), and Kurt (Stefan Simmons) von Trapp include Edelweiss'' in their performance at the Koltzberg Festival. Franz (Mike Ehret) pours tea for Frau Schraeder as the children and Mar.a amuse themselves on the terrace. New governess Maria calms the Von Trapp children delight party children during a thunderstorm guests with the So Long, Farewell with her musical tale of The taught them by Maria Lonely Goatherd 20 Sound of Music