Alief Elsik High School - Ramblings Yearbook (Houston, TX)

Page 102 text:

Boys Golf: Front: K. Barge, B. Bycr. Back: P. Payne. D. Smitherman, McDaniel, M. Marriott), K. White, B. Bageant, P. Logue, Coach Howe. Johnson, B. Bennett, J. M. Molloy, J. Glasgow, B. Anxiety Leads To Higher Scores Than Expected When any team loses their star player, the team that follows may not be expected to do as well. But not in golf. The loss of Jay Meyer really hurt us. but then again, the five returning lettermen had the experience and picked up the slack well, stated Senior Joel Mathiason. Those five golfers are Joel. Mike Molloy. Vic Mehra. Bill Payne, and David Smitherman. “The addition of Peter White. Jeff Glasgow. Bryan Bageant and Mike Marrioti all contributed to the success of the team, even though we didn’t start that hot.” explained Mike Molloy. All the golfers felt the pressure of living up to Jay and that hurt us in the beginning, but we finally relaxed and came through in the end.” commented David Smitherman. The point of relaxation came at just the right time. The team shot an excellent 347 at their own tournament at Green Meadows. That tournament came just in time for us to hype-up for district.” said Peter White. At the district tournament, which was held April 15 at the Stephen F. Austin course in Sealy, the team finished a disappointing sixth out of 18 teams. “The district tournament was terrible for a couple of us. but for some of the others like Peter, Jeff and Mike Marriotti it went alright.” stated Joel. After joining the team during mid-season Senior Jeff Glas- gow helped the team to a sixth place finish out of eighteen teams at the district tournament by shooting an 89. Senior Peter White hitsa nine iron at the team's practice sight, the Houston Golf Academy. After only one year on the team. Peter was selected as the M.V.P. by his peers. Mike Marriotti was low score with an 83 while Peter and Jeff shot 87 and 89 respectively. By Billy Payne. Reporter 98 Boys Varsity Golf

Page 101 text:

Senior Art Waggoner, the ran Into some tough luck at Photo by B. Mitchell District Diving Champion, Reglonals and finished 10th. Junior Penny Rosen led the girls with a first In the 50-yard freestyle and a 2nd place in the 100 yard backstroke as they finished 6th out of 37 teams in the Texas Coaches Association Invitational Swim Meet. Photo by L. Cates In a tri-meet against Memor- ial and Northbrook, Senior Cathy Boyd took 1st place in the 100 yard backstroke. Photo by L. Cates Swimming Coach Eugene Watson coached his swim club to a 6th place over- all at State. The Rams were represented in Austin by Junior Penny Rosen, Sophomore Kim Lazorwitz, and Seniors Cathy Boyd and Karon Hernandez. Photo by E. Lee Swimming and Diving 97

Page 103 text:

Girls Golf Team Girls Golf: Front: A. Stohle, C. Lengyel. Back: D. Hund, P. Bell, C. Lay. Not Pictured: T. Packard. Photo by V. Pal. Girls Discover Experience Key To Consistent Scores After Debra Massop graduated, five returning lettermen had to improve their skills, and improve they did. ‘‘Our season wasn’t that great, but we did improve some After learning to play golf only two years ago, So- phomore Andrea Stohle has become one of the top five golfers on the team and qualified for every tournament. Photo by V. Pal FirstyearmcmberChristl Lay didn’t get to many tournaments, but the skills she learned will make her a much improved golfer next year when she is one of the four returning lettermen. Photo by V. Pal to where we consistently shot good scores,” commented Sophomore Christina Lengyel. The scores improved so much that the girls finished as high as third place in their own tournament at Green Meadows Golf Course. “Our tournament was great. We all just played super and it showed in the score we shot and the place we came in,” said Senior Debbie Hund. The district tournament wasn’t that successful for the team considering it was at the same course for the Alief tournament. They finished fourth with a score of 460 which was considerably more than last year's tournament. We should've done a lot better but I think that we were too nervous trying to repeat the Alief tournament scores,” said Senior Terry Packard. By B. Payne. Reporter Girls Varsity Golf 99