Brighton High School - Crossroads Yearbook (Rochester, NY)

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uerloolzed . . . GOLF: O'Brien, Burch, Dengler, Mr Marling. TENNIS - Standing: Loveland, Batty, Cox, Wiig. Kneeling: A. Ross Treash. o Golf: Spring didn't come too soon for Brighton golfers as the snow wasn't even off the ground when Coach Raymond Marling's darlings of the links started to chase the pill around the fairways. Last year's big two, Bob Burch and Tony O'Brien, prominent in the area golf picture for four years were back and ready to continue where they left off. Two new- comers, Mike Murray and joe Haefner added punch to the team. In reserve and offering contention for top spots were Bill Dengler, Ron Klineman, and Hank Greenwald. The team competed in the city inter- scholastic league, and played matches with Dansville, De Sales of Geneva, Attica, and Pittsford. o Tennis: Brighton's netmen begarrtheir early April workouts in hopes of retaining their Monroe County crown and extending their win streak of twenty-four consecutive victories. Coach john Cox had Roger Batty, defend- ing county singles champ, and Len Treash, one-half of the Sectional and County cham- pionship doubles team from which to form a nucleus. .Answering the first call to practice were Don Wiig, Al Ross, and Don Loveland, of last year's squad. Matches were scheduled with Pittsford, 'East Rochester, Webster, Canandaigua, Mon- roe, Marshall, Franklin, and Clyde, with County matches May 19 and the Sectionals June 2.

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o Swimming: Even though they were to be the last swimming team handicapped by the absence of a pool, the Blue and White aqua- men were able to snare fourth place in the Section V championships last winter. Mermen, coached by Etsy Reifsteck, toppled Hornell, Brockport, and Wellsville, while losing to Canandaigua, Geneva, and Ironde- quoit. Chick Uhlen captured third place in the 200-yard free-style, jerry Ross ' took fourth in the back stroke, Ron Klineman, sixth in the breast stroke, and Dick Palmer, sixth in the 50-yard free-style. Earning enough points for letter awards were Uhlen, Ross, Palmer, Klineman, Chad Lakeman, and Alan Ryan. Not to b TOP: SWIMMING Back row: Braun, Kline- man, Lakeman, Hopps, Ryan, Kidd, Uhlen. Front row: Humes. Palmer, Ross, Dewey, Ziegler, O'Brien, Coach Reifsteck. BOTTOM: jV's Left: Fleig, Miller, Craw- ford, Wickman, Coach Hynes. Bottom: McNall, Mills, Moynihan, Steven- son, Hershey, Proper. Sec- ond: P. jones, Heumann, Gradinger, Edwards, Nes- sel, Dengler, Faulkner, Reinhard, Kroll, F. Trost. Missing: Zonnevylle, Whalen, J. Ross. a junior Varsity: Bombarding the hoops for 752 points and a 41.8 average, Coach Bob Hynes' Junior Varsity concluded the campaign with a 15-3 top-rung mark in the mythical County circuit. The junior Barons compiled a nine-game win skein in mid-sea- son to set a new school record. Alternating at starting slots were Bill Dengler, Larry Edwards, Sandy Gradinger, Fred Trost, 'lim Zonnevylle, Bernie Heu- man, Rudy Nessel, and Bob Faulkner with Merwyn Kroll, Pete jones, and Doug Whalen seeing early service. Bill Dengler, hitting consistently on his one-armed stabs, paced the club in scoring with 178 points, while Larry Edwards tallied 161 marks, and Sandy Gradinger, 112.

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Top left: fVolleybalD Back row: Treash, Jacobstein, Glasow, B. Laumeister, Kidd, Harvey. Front row: Braun, Burch, Sandway, Grunert, Ijlmelson, B. Williams. Top right: CA, B, Intramural champsj Standing: Harvey, j. Williams, B. Laumeister, Kidd, Gulick. Front row: Gillette, jones, Greenwald, Liebschutz, Tholstrop, Clunies. Lower right: CLeaders' Classj Back row: Pete Wendt, Coach Reif- steck, Diuguid, Ross, Whalen, Peters, Halaby, Kingston, Ameele. Kidd. Front row: Sandway, Dewey, McOuat, G. Hopps, Mills, Braun, Moynihan. Webber. Winter Champs Crowned o Volleyball: The Blue and White volley- ballmen spiked their way to the Monroe County crown by out-netting Brockport, East Rochester, and Webster without losing a match. Sectional play, however, saw the locals up- set by Marshall in the first round. o ATIT: The All-Trnpezoid Intramural Team, selected by the Tmpez0id sports department was paced by A and B league high scorers. Len Treash, high man in points for the A circuit, led the ATIT selections for the senior loop. Top B selections were Hank Greenwald and Dave Clunies, circuit's high scorers. o Intramurals: Cashing in on first-place honors in the A intramural chase were the high-scoring Blackjacks who edged out the Screwballs in the season's finale to gain the league championship. Nearly the same situation existed in the B loop where the Browns nosed out the Aves for top recognition. o Leaders Corps: Brighton sent four tum- blers to the Section V Winter Sports Carnival with jerry Ross copping the Class B tum- bling laurels. Dick Braun, Pete Wendt, and Dave McOuat placed third, fourth, and fifth, respectively. The Leaders' Corps also performed at the winter awards assembly. W-i Top: Wiley pushes one up against East Rochester during second half chase. Dave Miller goes over the hurdles. George Ungerer chal' lenges two Brockport booters for the ball. Left side: Uhlen and O'Brien dive into the pool at Monroe. Cross-country squad talks it up before Section V race at Geneva. Center: Varsity cap- tains talk over season's performances with Cornel1's jim Smith. Bottom: Uncle joe Strumph talks it up among the JV footballers. Dave Trost hooks one up during county championship playoff at Palestra.