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

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3,lt,'t5Ea.3eZZ'g2H'3'.3l5?iZI l?5iS3Zi.'ee nQS Struggling Lady Eagles d1SC0vfff ,A-1 .. .csvivf l iGSKp here's no tuming back Foiled in bid for third state tourney f- 4-L 8 ...E-.. T --is, a X , .gf .M- su gs. 1 'ag This years Eagle squad still set several new records in 1984. Senior Kan'y Schmidt set a new single game freethrow mark of 73 percent. Senior Cyndi Moyer pulled down a school record 19 re- bounds. Senior Lisa Tade fell one short of ty- ing the record of 11 assists. The team set a single game freethrow mark at 80 percent and tied the season mark of 58 percent. Alsaker and Moyer shared MVP honors. Alsaker scored 238 points on the season and was selected first team all-conference and se- cond team all-state. Moyer scored 249 points and was selected second team all-conference. Most players said the season was rewarding. It was really fun to play and we had a good time together, said Jenny Holf, who played on both varsity and junior varsity. The Junior Varsity team under new coach Dick Dunn managed a 7-ll mark. Dunn praised the girls by saying, They never gave up and always gave their best. Sometimes they were outrnanned but the girls did the best they could with the material they had. Sophomore Paige Tingley played both J .V. and Varsity. She said, It was a really neat ex- perience, but it was hard to play with Varsity at first because they're so much better. Big Sky's sophomore team ended the season with a 10-8 record. They also sported a young team with four freshmen. Lisa Richardson was one of the freshman who moved up. She said. T he sophomores were really fun to play with and I learned a lot because we had a really good coach. The girls on the freshman team also learn- ed a lot from the older players. Tina Rodgers said she found playing basketball in high school a lot different from grade school. You learn a lot more and have opportunities to play more people. IN MID-DRIBBLE-Senior Karry Schmidt moves 'toward the basket among a crowd including fellow seniors Cyndi Moyer and Darla Sommers. The Eagles lost to Kalispell 66-75. Girl 's Basketball-1 1 7 L BAL ET IRL'S BASK , G

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GOOD LIFT-Working on lifting his legs, junior Brent Polinsky competes on the pom- mel horse in Kalispell. Polinsky scored points on the high bar at state and divisionals. RIGHT ANGLE-Junior David Rathbun at- tempts to hold position on the parallel bar at a Big Sky meet. Rathbun placed eighth at state in this competion. BALANCE - Flocky Bailey works for perfect balance in his routine on the rings at the divi- sional meet in Kalispell. WAITING GAME - Team members Flocky Bailey, Dave Flathbun, Brent Polinsky and Bill St. John wait for the next round of competi- tion to begin. BOYS' GYMNAS-HCS The Big Sky girls set the trend in 1980. Since then a team has always represented the school at the state gymnastics final. This year the boys took up the tradition by placing second in the Western Divisional before advancing to a fifth place finish in the state meet. Keith Kaster, the enegertic and muscular all-sport athlete led the team in spirit and in- spiration. but others scored valuable points to vault the team to second in the division. Kaster, who served as team captain, was the only returning medalist to the team. But that didn't stop other members of the squad from challenging throughout the year. The squad received a boost from junior Brent Polinski. who came on in 1985 as one of the division's top rated competitors in all- around. Others who added valuable points were: Brian Stipe, who finished an Eagle high of seventh in the state on the high bars: Dave Rathbun, who placed eighth in vault in state: transfer student, junior Rocky Bailey who gave the Eagles strength on the rings and was considered the most-improved com- petitor on the squad: and foreign exchange student Staffan Thorell from Stockholm. Sweden who gave the team a boost on the parallel bars and was voted most inspira- tional competitor. Earlier at the divisional meet in Kalispell, Kaster, Polinsky, Stipe and Rathbun led the team to the second place finish. Rathbun notched the best place in the tourney with a sixth-place all around mark. He got that score with a fourth on vault, fifth on floor ex- ercise, seventh on rings and eighth on parallel bars. The squad's performances were marked by team efforts. While no one was outstan- ding in the division, they placed high enough in enough categories to secure the high team standings. What's most important is that the boys finally finished high in team standings after several mediocre seasons. W 'rw E f I lg Y ' f ,f X ld l'1 ff--Wff -1' 'rrf W if r 'W '1 f '-is I nam