Blackford High School - Reflections Yearbook (Hartford City, IN)

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Initial wrestling team victors in 3 Blackford County ' s first wrestling team — ever — came into existence this year. Coach Stephen Jeffrey introduced the sport in the fall and was greeted by a large number of interested boys. The crowd thinned, however, after the first few practices, leaving just 16 boys. Starting rather late, the team had a rough time drumming up opponents but succeeded in scheduling seven varsity dual meets, a tourney, the sectional, and a JV dual meet. During the regular season, wins came at the expense of Wabash, whom the squad defeated twice, 36-16 and 38-15, and Winchester, 40-17. Defeats were dished out by Winchester, 45-13, the Tipton Jay Vees, 45-6, Norwell, 52-0, and Eastbrook, 39-11. In the CIC meet the team ended in seventh place and finished down the list in the sectional. ■• VARSITY WRESTLING SCOREBOARD Bruins 0pp. 13 Winchester 45 36 Wabash 16 6 Tipton Jay Vee 45 Norwell 52 11 Eastbrook 39 40 Winchester 17 2 CIC Meet— 7th 38 Wabash 15 3 Sectional — 13th JUNIOR VARSITY WRESTLING Cubs 0pp. 17 McKinley 21 Taking the offensive is Carl Wilcoxon, 123 pounds, ivho picks an arm in an attempt to thread the needle and break his man down while the official aivaits the outcome. Awaiting the sound of the referee ' s ivhislle and the slap of the mat is Jack Abbott, who at 115 pounds works hard for the pin and five team points during the Winchester meet. 108

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Frosh captured first BHS trophy Coach Rickel ' s Freshman teams proved themselves to be true Bruins as the A team won 10 out of 14 games and the B squad nabbed 10 out of 12, losing only two — each by one point. In addition to their fine slates, the Frosh also added the first BHS trophy as they defeated Delta in the initial game of the Wes Del Tournament by a decisive margin of 54-37 and then clobbered Wes Del in the finals, 53-33. Tim Oberholzer was the spark for his team as he scored 231 points in 12 games for a fine 19y , average. Next high scorer was Dave Bergdoll with 119 total points. i FRESHMAN A BASKETBALL M m SCOREBOARD 1 Frosh Opp. 1 33 Eastbrook .... 30 B 44 61 Bluffton 64 Fairmount ...59 63 Marion Washington . . . ...52 44 Miincie Kuhner . ... 59 41 Huntington Salamonie . ... 68 58 Alexandria ...50 29 Mississinewa ... 55 Fesf Del Tourney 54 Delta ...37 53 Wes Del ...33 59 Pennville ...35 55 Elwood ...34 56 Southern Wells ... 11 71 South Adams .... 58 FRESHMAN B BASKETBALL SCOREBOARD Frosh Opp. 35 Eastbrook ... 26 64 Bluffton .... 44 60 Fairmount .... 39 42 Marion Washington .... ...34 47 Muncie Kuhner ...30 31 Himtington Salamonie . ...27 42 Alexandria ... 36 48 Mississine ' a ...32 43 Pennville ... 44 48 Elwood ...42 58 Southern Wells ...12 30 South Ad.img ■ mk All eyes are on Dave Bergdoll as he takes a jump shot during the South Adams game. Hopefully awaiting the outcome are teammates Perry Clamme, Jeff Hart, Tim Oberholzer. FROSH TEAM: (Kneeling) Ross Elwood, Jeff Bonham (mgr.). (Standing) Tim Cain. Bill Wine, Dave Conn, Craig Roberts. Byron ' al- ter, Jeff Hart. Perry Clamme. Coach Bob Rickel, jMike Ducy, Dan Morrical, Dave Berg- doll. Neil Hahn. Mark Baughey, Dave Bow- man, Chuck Noble. Max Stroble.

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of 7 matclies Bruin ISO-poundcr, Mikr Marsh, executes a drjuhle le tnkedourt and gains luo points ott his Winchester opponent. Marsh ivas auarded a pin in 1:17 oj the second perirjd. VARSITY WRESTLING TEAM: (Bottom Row) Dave Kilty, Marti Dan- iel, Mike Marsh, Carl Wilcoxon, Jack Abbott, Greg Lamott, Keith Day- ton. (Roiv 2) Coach Stephen Jeffrey, Bill Lents, Dave Ramsey, Mark Reese, Marvin Clamme. Garj- Nottingham. Ralph Monfort. Jay Townsend. and Don Rogers.