Moreno Valley High School - Valhalla Yearbook (Sunnymead, CA)

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MV Opp 30 ».„o 21 Chafey 46 39 Ramona 31 La Sierra 48 Webb 30 ' Novice Tourney 3rd 35 Chaffey 38 41 Webb 24 21 Corona 48 31 Ar.ing.on «— MM 54 BH - S r rsf year coach. Coach Burns, looks over his team with great con- cern. Hoping to be a Moreno wrestler, three year old Joseph Piekert gets an early start. Ju- nior and first year wres- tler, Troy Percival goes for a take down. Two year wrestling veteran, Tom Torres sizes up his opponent. K ear-fall as wrestling begins again The Moreno Valley wrestling team made a strong return after a 3 year absence. Mr. Broncatello started the season as coach and did an excellent job getting the team ready until Coach Burns was hired. Hard practices paid off but the lack of experience showed. Wrestling takes time and experience and it was new to most of the Moreno Valley wrestlers. Tom Torres stated, 1 could have been a better wrestler if there would have been a team the last 3 years. You have to have a lot of agility, quickness, and strength to be a good wrestler. Each match lasted six min- utes unless a pin occurred. A pin oc- curred whenever one wrestler ' s shoul- der blades hit the mat and he was un- der control. Points were picked up for certain moves and if no pin occurred the wrestler with the most points won. Coach Burns said, They have a will- ingness to work with each other as a team, they always pull for each other. Some key wrestlers were Dong Kim. Erik Digby. Alan Hall. Manny Silva, and Tom Torres. Dong Kim was given the MVP award and Alex Perez was given the MIP award. Manny Silva went on to C.I.F. but lost in the first round. Varsity Sports

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TEAM ID. BACK — Susan May (mgr.), Coach Burns, Kelly Bryson (mgr.), Alan Hall. Darrell Goedhart, Troy Percival, Darren Deniston, Chuck Mapes, Manny Rivera. Jeff Lefridge, Suzi Sturdivan (mgr.), Coach Broncatello. ROW TWO — Manny Silva, Erik Digby, Scott Breazeale, Henry Frye, David Torres, Todd Gon- zales, Tim Bradley, Vern Panaquiton, Dong Kim, Robert Smith. FRONT — David Mann, Richard Lucero, Joel Gonzales, Alex Perez, Russell Bigleman, Todd Cervan- tes, Art Tobacco, Frank Luna, Joe Williams, Tom Torres. Senior Kim Dong goes for a pin against a Chaffey opponent. Senior Erik Digby has no trouble pinning his opponent. We Want To Win

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Jiving last minute instructions before the match is Coach Schnekenburger. Number one singles Esther Williams returns the birdie with a back- hand shot. Returning the birdie is Sanae Fujimoto while her partner Yun Lee looks on. Number one golfer Chuck Taylor sinks a putt for birdie. Num- ber three golfer, sophomore Michelle Landers hopes for par. Getting off the ground to smash the birdie is number one singles David Chien. w, e want more birdies The golf team looked forward to an- other successful season with over half of the team returning as veterans in- cluding Chuck Taylor, Sean Benson, Shawn Taylor, Robert Christman. Mi- chelle Landers, and Craig Strovers. Number one golfer was senior Chuck Taylor. He was followed by sophomore Robert Christman and then another sophomore Michelle Landers. Coach Schnekenburger, who has coached for the last twelve years, said, I ' m very proud of my team. They show great dedication everyday by practicing hard at March Air Force Base. The badminton team got off to a good start by winning five of their first eight matches. Coach Dahl said, We ' ll probably come in fourth, but if we work really hard we could reach the C.I.F. playoffs. The number one girls ' singles player was Esther Williams while David Chien was the number one boys ' player. Yun Lee and Sanae Fujimoto made up the number one girls ' doubles team. The boys ' number one doubles team consisted of David Clark and Eric Tighe. Robert C. and Tract T. We Want To Win