Litchfield High School - Wickiup Yearbook (Litchfield Park, AZ)

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i853 GIRLS' SPORTS START AT LITCHFIELD 0 Organized sports for girls such as volleyball, badminton and tennis started this year. Coach Pavlich, girls Physical Education teacher, set up two teams of volleyball, with A and B classification. The girls did very well for their first year of intramural sports. Pat Brown, Captain of A Team lead them to a six win, one loss record. Pauline Jefferies was Captain of the B Team which also had a good record. The A Team had victories over St. Marys, Chandler, Gilbert, Carver, Scottsdale, win- ning one and losing one to Tolleson. A Team, Top Photo: O'Neal Burns, Cooke, Webb, Brown Coach Pavlich, Truman, Callan Rodgers, Rivera, Palmer. i B Team, Lower Photo: DeLa Rocha, Belluzzi, S. Rodgers, Jef- feries, Trask, Coach Pavlich, Scott, Hess, Tyree, Sagasta, Sernas. vrmwxairwars'-mmmtfifvlfwfavakereefsw lQ:era:fXe'Qf'+1aim 2f5L1gmzgw,L,,., ,Am A, ,M ,,,,,, , , ,mia A MM

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xi-.QvIqlIr. fl ln midseason the Owl nine took hold and began showing their strength, as they went into a five game winning streak. Grabbing the first two with easy wins from Parker, 8-6 and St. Johns, ll-55 the Owls then beat Buckeye for the first time in many years, by a small margin, but an efficient one, of 3-2, Wickenburg fo-ll and Gila Bend K8-73 were next to fall in front of the hard hitting nine, before their winning streak was to break. Wicken- burg came back for revenge and got it in a close win, 3-l. Tolleson was the last to fall to the Owls for the season with a 5-O trouncing. Winding up the season with three losses, Scottsdale C2-55, Sunnyslope H4-4l, and a very close one to the district champions, Ajo Cl-OJ, the Litchfield nine finished with a 7-loss and 7-win record. Laddie Coor, work horse for the team, was elected Captain by his teammates for the season of '54, Bill Barnett and Coach Komadina, together, coached the JV squad to a very good sea- son. The Junior Varsity while learning the fundamentals, also worked hard enough to win eight of their twelve games. Tolleson, St, Johns, Sunnyslope, Peoria, Brophy, and Buckeye were some who fell before the onslaught of the eager J. V.'s. VARSITY, Top Photo, Standing: Barnett, Rygiel, Coor, Faulkner, Callan, Shirley, Pratt, Oliver, Glaser, Villa, Col- bert. Front row: Truter, Boyles, Wood, Webb, Coach Ellsworth, Solis, Callan, Valles, JUNIOR VARSITY, Lower Photo, Standing: Barnett, Parker, Bonham, Vizzerra, Blackman, L. Galindo, J. Villa, Manley, Tankersley, Leon. Front row: Rogers, S. Romero, Brawley, Carnpa, Mcfvlillen, Faulkner, Perez, Darnell, Posey. Q-wa. ' QXQHFIQJ? Wi, ri FIQ 'twat s.- 4 V , Q sf? 'ig 'wg

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GIRL NETTERS IN ACTION The girls' badminton team attended the l954 High School Badminton Tournament held at Tempe. Arlyne Rodgers played first singles losing first to Gilbert and then to West Phoe- nix. Camille Kampert played second singles losing to West Phoenix and then to Tolleson in the consolation. Syble Hance and Mary Jane Aragon, playing doubles, won their first match from Mesa, but were dropped out later by Mingus. Getting off to a slow start by losing their first match to Scottsdale, the girls' tennis team improved sufficiently for their second match to hold Tolleson to a tie, but lost a return match with Scottsdale. Practicing hard they defeated Sunnyslope only to lose a tight match against Buckeye. Recovering, they wound up the season by blanking Gila Bend and taking a close decision in a return match with Sunnyslope. Finishing fourth in the West Central Tourna- ment at Buckeye, the team, with Pauline Jefferies, playing singles, lost the first round to Scottsdale, defeating Sunnyslope and Gila Bend to lose again to Scottsdale. The doubles team, Arlyne Rodgers and Gratia Trask, losing the first round to Buckeye, came back to beat Gila Bend and Sunnyslope, only to forfeit their fourth round to Scottsdale. Badminton: Rodgers, Kampert, Coach Pavlich, Hance, Aragon. Tennis Team, standing: Coach Pavlich, Truman, Gaefcke, Haw- kins, Hess, Brown. Sitting: Cal- lan, Rodgers, Burns, Trask, Jef- feries.