Astoria High School - Zephyrus Yearbook (Astoria, OR)

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Tom Coryell Scott McGregor Mike Shannon Kurt Long Ken Knutien Kris VVouri Astoria, in at halftime, recieving instruc¬ tions to capitalize on the Newberg Tigers. !4 Iso, Mike Shannon catches a breather on ' he floor. Astoria came out at half and beat the Tigers 26-20 and ended up the vear beating both Dallas and Newberg to ' nd up with a 2-7 record. Lakeridge and Forest Grove ended up on the top of the jack with Lake Oswego and Tigard close oehind them. Astoria took their lumps all through the long season. Starting out with 32 players, one by one they started thinning out with injuries. Mike Donovan left the season early to have surgery done on both of his knees. Donovan, a starting guard and de¬ fensive lineman was missed by the grid- ders. Kirk Spangle, a senior halfback was also lost by a knee injury early in the season. Joe Plaskelt

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This years 1979 Varsity Football team consists of Front Row, left to right: Alan Caban tan, Scott McGregor, Tom Coryell, Doug Jacobson, Ted Franco, Todd McCallister, Tom Hilton. Row 2: Rod Norris Terry Lockett, John Plaskett, Kris Wouri, Kirk Spangle, Scott Johnson, Ron Williams. Row 3: Assistant coach Mike Coin, Joe Plaskett, Steve Mayfield, Paul Phillips, Mike Shannon, Ken Knutinen, Mike Donovan. Row 4: Manager David Johnson, assistant coach Miles Brenden, Mark Bay, John Ivanoff, Don McGuire, Ken Erickson, Richard West. Top Row: Head Coach Bill Parrish, Kurt Warr, Kurt Long, Jim Parker, Jeff Doughty, Mike Rieck. Astoria football program will enter the AA ranks next year after the one year stand in the newly formed Willamette Valley league. The program will he facing schools with the same amount of enrollment. They will be able to highly compete in the AA level. With Seaside in the league next year it will make for a good rivalry and bring in more fans and more money. The change will change the attitude of the players because they will have more confidence in winning and not always have to go out and be the underdogs.

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CENTER RIGHT: Bionic Joe Plaskett explodes through the little gap the offensive line has created for him while junior Mark Bay looks around for somebody to block and finds it very difficult to decide which one of the Wilson Trojans to clobber. Wilson went on to defeat Astoria 25-0. Mark will be back next year as an aggressive senior fullback and will be facing a much easier league as Astoria drops down to Cowapa AA League. Astoria will then be play¬ ing teams such as Neahkanie, Tillamook, Rai¬ nier, Seaside, St. Helens, and Scappoose. BE¬ LOW: Quarterback Steve Mayfield finally de¬ cides to run the ball after being heavily pres¬ sured by the Trojan defesive line. Steve also known as Dang by most of his friends had a late start this season because of some mishap that occured at home. 16