Bernalillo High School - Spartan Yearbook (Bernalillo, NM)

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The varsity volleyball team worked very hard and accom- plished a lot. They grew close and fond of each other. That's part of being a team. This was Vicky Garcia's first year as J.V. volleyball coach. She's very tough and believes in self discipline. Her team had a great season. Hopefully she'll be back to coach the varsity next year. The J.V. football team was tough and rough. Their offense was the best and their defense dominated. Most of these young men will make up the varsity next season and the football team will be 1. Goodbye to the senior football players. They made the year great. They showed leadership to the underclassmen. Maybe someday they'll make the pro's. These tough girl's will be back to make up the varsity next season. They did a great job this year considering they were all 1st time players. Lot's of ACTION, lots of SPIKING! 116

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BHS Spartans win first, 14-12 By Jay P. Tharlnger The Bernalillo Spartans have won their first varsity football game of the season. And it took a gutsy fourth down play to do so. The Spartans defeated Zuni High School Saturday, 14-1}. “Zuni has a good, physical ball club, said Spartan head coach Chris Jaramillo. “It was an incredible vic- tory for us. Zuni had the lead going into the fourth quarter, 8-6, as they picked up a Spartan fumble on the Bernalillo 12-yard line. The Spartan defensive lino knew how important it was to keep Zuni out of the end rone during these final criti- cal minutes. But they couldn't. For the first three downs, the Spartan line kept Zuni from reaching paydirt stopping the outside run. On a 4th-and-one quarterback sneak, Zuni was seemingly stacked up at the goal line and the Bernalillo bench was certain they had held. But the referee felt otherwise, signaling a touchdown. Zuni's extra point was blocked but they had increased their lead to 12-8. Late in the fourth quarter, it looked as though the Spartans would be hand- ed tbeir fifth straight defeat. Senior fullback Brian Perez received the Zuni kick off anl returned the ball to their own 36-yard line. Then their series began. On first down, quarterback Bill Baker threw an out pattern to Bernalil- lo sophomore Shane Mortensen who dropped the ball. “He was thinking touchdown, even before he caught the ball, explained coach Jaramillo. Second down was just as effective, going for another incompleti on. . Third down was even worse u the Spartans were caught holding and pen- alized 15 yards. Their next play, a 3rd- down and 25 pass attempt to junior Jerry Gurule was caught, but out of bounds. Two minutes remained and Berna- lillo was 70 yards from the end zone. So, with 4th-down and 25, the Spartan offense pulled out all the stops. The play was sent in, a Pump Five; a fake pass to the outside, then long. Baker drew the defense away from corner stage with a pump to the right then connected with junior wide receiver Andy Chavez who covered 70 yards and went in for the touchdown. Their extra point was blocked, but that really didn't seem to matter at that point. Zuni still had 1:50 left cn the clock to strike back. But tbeir balloon had been deflated and they couldn't pro- duce a first down. From that point, all Bernalillo had to do was run out the clock. “We were optimistic going into this game,” said Jaramillo. The team's attitude all week was tremendous. The Spartans play on the road again Saturday against West Las Vegas. Kickoff is at 1:30 p.m. 115

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Fall Sports Banquet 1987 It was a year to re-build the team. Because the team gradu- ated last year, we started over aaain with new players and coaches. The skills and teamwork improved greatly during the season, next year promises to be a good season and time to go farther with our skills. - Soccer Coach Ron Olson B.H.S. The girl's cross coun- try team had a very suc- cessful season. The girl's improved week by week, and injuries did not slow them down. We did not have any depth, so a seri- ous injury to any of the girl's would have hurt us tremendously. We won the first place trophy at our invitational the second place tro- phy at the Santa Fe Indi- an School Invitational. These meets were a good preparation for the district meet to take the district championship. Our fantastic freshman, Pheadra Valesquez took first place, Rita Tenorio second, Cynthia Sando- val fourth, Donna Ten- orio fifth, Michelle Can- delaria eighth, and Dawn Blue Sky was tenth. The most valuable runner for the season was Pheadra Valesquez. She also placed seventh individ- ually in the State Meet. The two graduating sen- iors are Donna Tenorio and Dawn Blue Sky. We are looking forward to continuing our fine tradi- tion of winning next year. - Coach Roger Hamel I would like to com- mend the senior volley- ball players for their out- standing sportsmanship leadership, and positive attitude. Tomacita Pena is commended for the most valuable player. Rochelle Garcia and Ju- lie Amette for most im- proved players. I enjoyed coaching these girl's and wish them the best in their fu- ture plans. - With Love, Rita L. Madrid, Head vol- leyball coach Thanks for the 5 years in cross country. It was fun taking on all the challenges, we hope that in the years to come the Spartans will always be a challenge to run against. Thanks to coach fiowden and coach Hamel for the encouragement and support Good Luck to the future Spartan runners. Gotta Run! - Donna Sr Dawn 117