Astoria High School - Zephyrus Yearbook (Astoria, OR)

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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

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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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Doug Jacobson John Flaskett Ted Franco Bill Parrish Miles Brenden ABOVE LEFT: John Ivanoff gets ready to throw another block as quarterback Steve Mayfield looks for .ifi open Fisherman to throw the ball to. BELOW LEFT: Coach Bill Parrish points out another Kid call from the referee. 17