Billings West High School - Westward Yearbook (Billings, MT)

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PUS ITN IT — Julie Doming, freshman, gives it everything she’s got at a meet at Riverfront Park. BOYS CROSS COUNTRY — BOTTOM ROW: Coach Betty Waite, Steve Overby, Jason Surratt, Rodd Zeiler. Tim Van Wagoner, Mike Simmons, Kevin Doch, Kris Hanson. ROW TWO: Casey Antonson, Chris Fellows, Ron Casper. Eric Allen, Jess McGee. BACK ROW: Bobby Collier, Rev Ellifson, Eric Marritl, Rusty Reichert. Bowen Greenwood, Mike Cook, David Gammill. Rex Lundman. NECK AND NECKi — Junior Jason Surratt gains on CMR's Wood'- Woods at a meet at River- front Park. Woods wja the favorite to take top h o n o r s albtatelburra 11 took second in Stale. GIRLS CROSS COUNTRY — BO Smith. Sara Beers. April Jefferson Betty Waite. Jill kazmierski, Karie Julie Braun, Coach Redgrave; Coae ROW: Tammy (Star) Smith, mar ham, Julie Denting. Hillary Corson TTOM ROW: Jenny ROW TWO: Coach (ended. Angie Harms, Tom Downey. BACK Htger: Alexis Cunning-

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Sepi. 2 Riverfronl Park Boys — Second Girls — Sixth Sepi. 16 Riverfront Park Boys — Second Girls — Fourth Sept. 24 Montana State Boys — Third Girls — 10th Oct. 1 Riverfront Park Boys — Second Girls — Eighth Oct. 8 Great Falls Boys — Second Girls — Third Oct. 14 Rivcrfront Park Boys — Second Girls — Third STATE MEET Oct 22 Helena Boys — Second Girls — 13th m over view 26

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 Endurance, experience send Bears to State Assembly after assembly7ganie after game and win after win, the screaming got louder and the excitement mounted as the Bears took it to State for the first lime in West’s history. Coach Paul Klaboe said the season went well because of experience, teamwork, ability, and the drive to win. That drive gave the team a 9-3 record overall. This year’s team was different, Klaboe said, because it did more work off season along with more weight room work. In the past, teams have pul in one week of two-a-day practices before the beginning of school, but this year’s team gave a full two and a half weeks to two-a- day practices in addition to the regul conditioning. With the Bears in better shape earlier in the season, coaches had more time to spend working on plays rather than nursing sore muscles and other minor injuries. The team showed promise from its first game, a 23-0 ro. : icLory against Missoula Big Sky. The . . - 'v: s fulfilled in front of a packed ho . e who saw the •1 in post-season Bears defeat - play to can» ; against Great A disapp. who had also • season play, no the school proud a successful sea die state title ,s to the Bison, • asl in regular ;!t the team and mplishmcnts of SANDWICHED — Seniors Steve Ketterling and Jerome Duncan and junior Steve Pearson sandwich a Bruin in their matchup against Capitol on Nov. 11. This helped the Bears to win the play off game by a 14 - 7 margin, thus giving West its first championship game berth in its 30-year history.