Bedford High School - Epic Yearbook (Bedford, OH)

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At new heights. John Harris, soars to a personal record of 14 feet. John, Joe Shauf, and Ray Kotabish set the school pole vault relay record with a combined effort of 36'6 during the Brush Relays. Sot quite enough. Jim Adams and Dave Sewell compete in the 100 meter high hurdles at the GCC meet. Jim pulled ahead of Dave at the fin- ish line and finished fifth overall. 1979 BOY'S TRACK TEAM BHS OPP 29 Mentor 98 72 Mayfield 55 48 Brush 79 91 Willoughby 36 31 Euclid 96 61 Eastlake 66 70 Maple Heights 57 2nd GCC Meet WON 3 LOST 4 Second best. Senior trackman Ron Theberge duals with his Euclid nemesis during the third lap of the mile run at the GCC meet held at Eastlake. Rons was Bedford's leading scorer with a total of 70 points. Breaking the tape. At the Maple Heights meet, Raymond Blevins finishes first as he leans through the line in the 100 yard dash. He was also the anchorman of the 400 yard relay team which set a GCC meet record of 44.6 VARSITY TRACK

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 WE HAD A SUC- CESSFUL YEAR THE BEST WE'VE DONE IN YEARS, DENNIS BALCER Earth-shattering. As Leonard Johnson lands in the pit. he is unaware that he had just set a new GCC meet record for the long jump with 22'. Kicking A Habit The drought's over! After three years of competing, the Bedford High trackmen finally won a dual meet. Ac- cording to Ross Randazzo, the im- provement was not due to rougher workouts. Practices weren't any hard- er--the team succeeded because of more individual efforts. The seniors became the leaders, doing things on their own. Ron Theberge and Ray Kotabish conducted morning workouts. Dedicated track members joined them before school to get extra practice. The results of these voluntary workouts were a second place finish in the GCC meet and third place overall in the conference. Several group records were set dur- ing the season. The two-mile relay time of 8:33.3 and the distance medley relay time of 10:56.04 were set by Hor- ace Keyes, Dave Mathies, Ross Randazzo and Ron Theberge. The pole vaulting trio of Ray Kotabish, Joe Shauf and John Harris combined for a record of 36'6 during the Berea Re- lays. Angelo Bailey, Leonard Johnson, Darin Bickerstaff and Ramon Blevins set a new 400 meter GCC meet record with the time of 44.6. Even though the individual events practiced separately, the teammates really pulled together at meets, com- mented Augie Mrakuzic. Two individ- ual school records were broken: the 300 meter low hurdles time of 40.9 was set by David Sewell, and Todd Wiese broke the high jump record with 6'6 . Leonard Johnson's long jump of 22 feet set a new GCC meet record. We had a successful season, the best we've done in years, remarked Coach Balcer, recapping the entire track year. BOTTOM ROW: Rick White, Cyrus Hicks, Dan Howard, John Harris, Joe Shauf, Tim Davis, Jim Milosovic, Augie Mrakuzic. Angelo Bailey, Darin Bickerstaff, Ramon Blevins, David Sewell. SEC- OND ROW: Bob Richnavsky, Steve Kainec, Dave McCray, Jim Adams, Todd Pliske, Dave Braund, Chris Natali, THIRD ROW. Ross Randazzo, Mike Rohaley, Steve Fowler, Pete Dickson FOURTH ROW: Paul Lehman, John Kolettis. Kent Shellko. Mike Freund, Dave Mathies, Rob Andrus, Alvin Dozie. Phil Creary. TOP ROW: Scott Hellar, Paul Fowler, Steve Chipchase. Alan Shiely, Don Martinez, Todd Wiese. Ray Katobish, Horace Keyes, Ken McNeal, Charlie Takacs VARSITY TRACK 26

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Six-O 1979 was the first real season for the JV softball team , remarked Coach Margaret Hollingsworth. It was mainly composed of some regular members but others were always in transition between the varsity and JV. They did come a long way, though, surprising themselves with a 6-0 record. We constantly switched players to see who was good for each position, commented Patrice Pepper Lecso on the experimental season. After playing in all six games, Linda Hocevar's .708 batting average was the highest individual average. Linda also led the team in hits with 17. Sixteen runs were scored by Sue Erwin during the season. Lecso, who hit the most homeruns (six) and tied with Kim Rada with 14 RBI's said of Mrs. Hollingsworth: She understood the problems we were having and she helped us. The coach stated that no matter what the grade level, they all pulled together as a team. 1979 VARSITY SOFTBALL BHS OPP 14 Solon 2 2 Brush 10 17 Eastlake 14 12 Euclid 8 3 Mayfield 12 10 Willoughby 12 2 Eastlake 8 1 Mentor 3 1 Mayfield 2 2 Willoughby 12 12 Wickliffe 16 3 Brush 9 0 Mentor 9 9 Solon 5 6 Mayfield 10 6 Mentor 5 7 Euclid 0 6th C.C.C. WON 6 LOST 11 In the pocket. Right fielder Monica Milewski reaches out for a toss while warming up for a game at Taft Park. Because the boys' teams used BHS's two diamonds, Taft served as both the practice and home game field for the girls. Sphere vs. stick During an experimental pitching assignment, Monica Milewski faces a Willoughby batter Mr. Fleming tried out several girls at the mound before selecting Andi Boyd as the permanent varsity pitcher. VARSITY SOFTBALL 28