Big Sky High School - Sunrise Yearbook (Missoula, MT)

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21 -O. Wav if , ' Kg W ses YA Anouun - Big SWS junior running back Keith Walt slides around right end for another gain through HelIgate's defense. Big Sky was defeated 23-3. TAKES TWO, EH? -Junior Keith Walt strives for yardage while wrapped in the arms of two Hellgate defenders. TOUGH GAIN - Big Sky junior fullback Greg Houldson picks up a couple of hard earned yards. Havre held off a late scoring spurt to defeat the Eagles 35-22 during the Eagles last home game. JUST A FEW MORE - Senior split end Dave Arledge lunges ahead after making a brilliant catch in Sentinel's secondary. Big Sky once again comes up short , 1. NICE MOVE - Shaking off yet another tackle, senior Brent Burt- gw , sfield picks apart Havre's defense 122512, Y during Big Sky's last home game. ft 4? 'H W SMOOTH CATCH - senior tight end Steve Grover snags gy TORQUE - Smothering Hellgate's premier running back Robbie Laird, Big Sky's deffense halts any in- tentions of a score. BIG SKY SCHWINN 2025 S. Higgins 543-3331 'M-fi-4,Q. , another toss in the Eagles crosstown rival game with Sen- tinel. During the season, however, Grover was injured and had to sit out the remainder of the season. young squads battle alling short Sophs notch best record The winning picture of Big Sky football focused upon the promising play of subvarsity teams dtu'ing the 1984 season. There was only one game dtucing the season that we didn't come to play, said assistant sophomore coach Jerry O'Rei1ly. O'Reilly added. Several of the games werent won by the better team but who was the most mentally prepared. The sophomores notched a 3-4 record. the best record of any Big Sky football team. Of the four games that we lost. three of them could have been won if the team would have thought they could. he said. Our game against Anaconda was when they fmally realized that they could play against an older JV team. Since they were behind O6 at halftime, they decided that they could play against a bunch of juniors. They tLu'ned the game around and beat them 266 in the second half. added O'Reilly. The sophomore Eagles' most impressive win was at home against Anaconda. Trailing O-6 at halftime, the Eagles decid- ed they could play against an older team dtuing a halftime pep talk. Led by rtmning back Buck Lake, the revived offense of the Eagles virtually scored at Will during the second half: Big Sky 26 Anaconda 6 Under a mostly rookie coaching staff. the freshman Eagles' best outing win took place in Columbia Falls. Showing sparks of explosiveness, the freshmen handily defeated the Kats 44-8. In his 13th year of coaching football, head coach Cal Johnson retlected, The kids have a lot more talent than their record shows. A couple of mistakes and a little bad luck made the difference between a 2-4 season and a 4-2 season. They have a good future ahead of them.