Blue Ridge High School - Cresta Azul Yearbook (Lakeside, AZ)

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A S. MVP Sutton has 16 point half By Dee The Dee Donaldson J.V. team, coached by Peggy Grippin in her first year of coaching, finished the season with a recor scored against toughes d of 3-13. Leslie Sutton 16 points in the first half Round Valley their t competition This proved to be the highlight of the season The Ja i 1 ckets lost that game but came within seven points of beating the Elks the next game. The most valuable player was Leslie Sutton. The most improved player was Sarah Anable, accor- ding to Coach Grippin. The record doesn't show how much they improved by the end of the season or how much fun they had commented Coach Grippin 3 1:1231-ilgg.-. f L- W - - f,js':51E:',f . i it l BASKET ALL 9

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Wrestlers 5th out of 25 at State Tournament By Danny Townsend The Blue Ridge Yellow Jacket wrestling team was gearing up for another short but very intense season. The 22 man team started the season very impressively finishing 6th out of 12 teams at the Show Low Tournament. Five wrestlers won medals. With 23 days to prepare for the next match, the wrestlers were really determined to get in shape so they brought in the expert conditioner Coach Tom Marsing. Every day before practice Coach Marsing took the wrestlers out for a half hour of pain and sweat. The team was grateful for his contribution. The wrestlers had earned the reputation of being very physical and aggresive. Any team that met them in dual or tournament knew who Blue Ridge was. The Orme Tournament was a good example of the awesome power of the Jackets. The team placed 1st out of 9 teams and placed 11 players with four 1st place wins. This has been the first time the Yellow Jacket wrestling team has taken 1st in a tournament since the 1974 State Champion wrestling team. Coach Chuck Ellsworth was very pleased with their performance. The District Tournament was finally here and the wrestlers were ready. The team placed 5th out of 14 teams and placed 8 wrestlers: Lionel Evans 3rd, Danny Cartier 1st, Brent Moya 2nd, Danny Townsend 2nd, Jeff Ellsworth 2nd, John Golden 4th, Lance Boone 4th, and Shawn Hemmings 4th. All of these wrestlers qualified for State. The team then traveled to Phoenix for the State Tourna- ment. Lionel Evens came away with a smashing 3rd, losing his on- ly match to 4-time State Champ Paul Salazar. Brent Moya ran into a little misfortune while wrestling an opponent from Clifton. Moya had to forfeit his match because he hurt his opponent's arm with an il- legal move. Moya took 3rd. Danny Townsend had already beaten the State Champion, Crosby, but he was not on the same side of the bracket and didn't wrestle him. In his match against Wilcox he hurt his shoulder but still won the match. He couldn't wrestle his last match and had to forfeit and take 4th. Danny Cartier ripped through his class, pinning 2 out of 3 wrestlers and taking the state championship with a breeze. Jeff Ellsworth took 4th in State and should provide tough competition for next year. John Golden looked very promising by almost beating number one seeded wrestler from the South. Golden didnlt place but should be a major contender for next year. WRESTLING 'ZI