Buchser High School - Kodiak Yearbook (Santa Clara, CA)

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Dave Torres was named as boih Buchser High's and The CiTy's Top wresTler, MATMEN TAKE VarsiTy wresTlers closed ouT The mosT successful sea- son in Buchser hisTory by placing fifTh in a field of 54 enTries aT The NorTh CoasT finals aT NorTh Salinas High afTer barely being edged by champion CuperTino for The N-SCVAL grappling crown. ln The Norfhern California finals aT SacramenTo The following weekend, Dave Torres came in second in The l33 lb. class afTer losing To CuperTino's Rod Welch, voTed The wresTler of The year. Coach Warren Hayashi, named as Buchser's Coach of The Year by Bear Prints, lisTed Tachibana l5-i-2l, Vince ITaTani i7-l-ll, Vince Kubo lo-2-ll, Dave Torres i5-l-21 and Jay Thomas l3-2l as The Top Bruin grapplers. GuTsTanding Junior VarsiTy mafmen were Dave Becker, Mike BlumenThal, Juan PorTillo, Fred Falk and Mike Herman. Buchser's varsiTy opened iTs season wiTh a smashing 36-7 win over Wilcox buT bowed To champion CuperTino, league and NorThern California king, in iTs second sTarT. The Bruins Then won seven consecuTive dual meeTs, Taking FremonT, 30-18, HomesTead, 35-ll, Los AlTos, 29-l6g AwalT and MounTain View. SanTa Clara nexT ab- sorbed an unmerciful 35-9 beaTing and Sunnyvale was edged 25-i9 for second place in The loop sTandings. 142 Dave Torres is shown in acTion prior To pinning foe.

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RESERVES BREAK EVEN Buchser's Bees, Junior VarsiTy and Frosh- Soph quinTeTs failed To keep pace wiTh The varsiTy showing buT did manage To win Their share of ball games. The Bee's were Tor a Time a TiTle Threat beTore hiTTing a mid-season slump buT did manage To win The big ones over Sanla Clara and Los AlTos. They ended up vviTh 7 wins againsT lO losses. 'f-,fills . v . Q T-if 5' 315, FROSH-SOPH BASKETBALL. Fronf Row: Mike Marchand, Richard Ybarra, STeve Sperou. Second Row: Coach Len Birkel, Doug Parson, Kennefh Mucha, Al Fuenfes. Back Row: Johnny Klassen, Carl Koring, Joe Ferreira, Michel Munger. Happy Coach Gary Gillmor exchanges smiles wiTh equally happy Jim Miceli aTTer Bs ace had led Bruins To a close vicTory over Sanla Clara in Big Game preliminary. JUNIOR VARSITY BASKETBALL. Front Row: Arlhur Mendoza, Larry Cunningham, Jack McWhorter, George Sylvia. Second Row: Coach Len Birkel, Larry BenneTT, Phil OrTiz, Ken Baker, Dan Wilcox. Back Row: Roben' Johnson, RoberT Soldwisch, Dennis Fought, Brett Carlson.

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SECOND Vince ltatani, Jay Thomas and Dave Torres received highest wrestling .honors at the spring'sports banquet. Itatani was N-SCVAL champ in the 112 Ib. class, Al Heinal, winner in 7 out 9 matches, demon- strates the importance of weight lifting in training for matches, Warren Hayashi smiles after being named Coach of the Year to succeed Pat Penick, Coach of the 1961 N-SCVAL cross country champions. Three prominent observers of the campus wrestling scene were B basketball coach Gary Gillmor, Principal Don Calleion, and vice-principal Robert Hileman. of-es -ss is 71 1 14 3