Hudson Bay High School - Aquila Yearbook (Vancouver, WA)

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OBE TH!-7N JUS T HNO THEB GHM6 Candi Gage, down and ready for John Picard, field goal kicker, The serve: Go ahead, make my scores during The Homecoming day! Game, Senior Tim lvlcNall, disTricT champion, proves ThaT Bay wresTlers are num- ber one! From fooTball To Track, from soccer To golf, There has been no oTher year like This one in Bay sporTs. No maTTer whaT The score, vicTory or defeaT, we al- ways mainTained our school spiriT and pride. WiTh The sup- porT of The crowds and The de- TerminaTion of The players, Hud- son's Bay had some very im- pressive records To be proud of. We always played wiTh greaT energy and skill and showed The oTher schools ThaT Bay is a hard Team To beaT. And in The sTands, The fans proved ThaT Bay's spiriT is hard To beaT as well. All in all, we had anex- cellenT year ThaT will be hard To ever surpass. 41 More Than JusT AnoTher Game

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EAGLES ARE CUT SHORT OF EXPECTATIONS The 4987 Hudson's Bay Eagles fooTball Team was The pre-season favoriTe of many criTics and was predicTed To place high in The C-reaTer ST. Helens League sTandings. BoTh coaches and players were anxious To geT The sea- son underway, especially againsT arch-rival Columbia River. The Eagles began The sea- son wiTh an exhilaraTing 211-24 vicTory over The Columbia River Chieffains. The Eagles also desTroyed The Plainsmen of Evergreen 22-7, preparing Them for The following week's game againsT Top Ten rank- ed lVlounTain View of Bend. Bay losT a hearTbreaking game To lVlounTain View 27- 28 in overTime. A facTor in Their defeaT was an injury To kicker John Picard during The game. However, This loss did noT puT a damper on Their spiriTs as They came back To beaT lVlounTain View of Van- couver 30-24 and crush Washougal 55-411. This puT The Eagles aT 11-4 going inTo The game of The year againsT fifTh ranked Kelso. Kelso scored very early in The game, buT The Eagles came back To Tie The score aT 7-7 wiTh a 70 yard Touchdown pass from auarTerback ArThur SeTo To running back Eddie lVlcCullumn. The Highlanders wenT on To score four more Times, defeaTing Bay 35-7. Going inTo The Homecoming game againsT River, The Eagles sTill had a chance To make The sTaTe playoffs. Leading 45-411 wiTh less Than five minuTes To go, The Eagles had The ball in ChiefTain Terri- Tory. However, River's de- fense TighTened up and sTopped Bay. The ChiefTains Then drove eighTy yards and scored The game winning Touchdown wiTh less Than Two minuTes To play. The 20- 45 loss officially knocked Bay ouT of The running for a sTaTe playoff birTh. The 4987 season ended on a disappoinTing noTe in The sense ThaT The Team enTered The year wiTh raTher high ex- pecTaTions, buT could only come up wiTh a A-5 season record. Head Coach, Hugh WyaTT, aTTribuTes The down- Turn in Bay forTunes To an un- expecTed series of injuries beginning in mid-season. NoneTheless, The Bay seniors graduaTe wiTh The knowl- edge ThaT They are The firsT Bay Team in more Than 20 years To have defeaTed The ForT Vancouver Trappers Twice. The Eagles wrapped up Their season by voTing on Team awards. IT came as no surprise when Eddie lVlcCul- lumn was chosen as MosT Valuable Player for The of- Quaferback Aurfhur Sefo runs around The end for a gain. fense and Tim lVlcNall was given The lVlosT Valuable player award for The de- fense. Derek ShafTe was awarded HardesT HiTTer for The Eagles. ConsisTency and deTerminaTion earned Brad lVlcCray The lVlosT Valuable Li- neman award. For The sec- ond year in a row, Mark Don- aldson was chosen as lVlosT lnspiraTional. The Scholar ATh- leTe Award was given To boTh Brad McCray and Tim McNall, proving ThaT These men are dedicaTed boTh on and off The field. Four Eagle men were designafed as Team capTains: ArThur SeTo, Eddie lVlcCullumn, Tim lVlcNall, and Brad lVlcCray. 42 VarsiTy FooTball