Ashtabula High School - Dart Yearbook (Ashtabula, OH)

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Jim Flaherty pauses before attempting a thirty-foot birdie putt on the eleventh green Jim. a senior and four year mem-lier of the team, played varsity for three years Sophomores Todd Marovkh and Andy Sheldon look over their putts at a match aganst Madison Todd and Andy svere members of the very successful jv team GOLF 21

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A 7 - 7 Season Golf season is successful Ls junior Ron McCluskey put it. We are the best 7 and 7 team you will ever find, because we had really close losses to Geneva, Edge wood, and Riverside.' The team practiced all summer to prepare for the season. The team's individual averages were Ron Newsome at 42.6. .Marty Placko at 42.7, Jim Flaherty at 43.4, Ron McCluskey at 44.3, and Bob King with a 44.7. The team's average came out to be a 43.5 with room for improvement. All that practicing did pay off for them though; they won a gigantic victory over Madison in their first match Coach Tom Carr, in his tenth year as golf coach, could not remember a season during which his team won its first match. Even though the team beat last year's record, it still finished only fifth in the league and fifth in the Northeastern Conference Tournament at Punderson State Park This was also the site of the sectional tournament where the team finished fifteenth. Furthermore. senior Marty Placko was chosen for the all Northeastern Conference team for the second consecutive year. The junior varsity team, consisting of Paul Eurez, Bob Detore, Scott Valesky, David Corlett, Todd Marovich, and Andy Sheldon, was trying hard to make the j.v. team a successful. Mr Carr worked not only on perfecting the team members' golf swings, but also on building the characters of the individuals. In that respect, the golf season was a great success! Senior Marty Placko blasts otl the tee at Chapel HU Coach Carr sa d that Marty had the lh d best swing on the team m the last ten years 20 GOLF

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Team improves More successful than records A believe that this has been one of the best teams I have had here at Ashtabula High School since I have coached crosscountry.' This statement by Coach Ray Billy summed up his feelings about the cross-country team. The team went 2 and 6; but every runner knew that his record didn't do the team justice. We could have gone 4 and 4 if it hadn't been for a number of injuries at the end of the season,' commented Mr Billy At the Northeastern Conference, Ashtabula had five runners come in under twenty minutes in the 3.1 mile run. This was the greatest number of people who came in under twenty minutes since the event has been run. One of these people was senior Bob Sholtis. Bob set a school record of 17.27 minutes during his 3.1 mile run. When asked how he felt about his performance, Bob said, 'At the beginning of the year, I didn't think I would do this well, but as it turned out, I could have done better than I did. One thing that Coach Billy saw in the team this year was a sense of its being more of a family The team got t-shirts for the first time, imprinted with nicknames that they had made up for one another It could be this closeness that enabled the team to work together and succeed, no matter what the record said. HK (ace grimaced , Don Gaylord attempts to overtake a Riverside opponent It put the runners to the test when they had someone next to them 22 CROSS COUNTRY