California Western University - Loma Del Mar Yearbook (San Diego, CA)

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NETMEN REACI Senior Jay Miller, top seeded tennis man, approaches the net for a backharid in an early season home match with MCRD. s ' Q i Freshman Phil Durning, number one Western doubles team member, smoothly returns an MCRD 'serve. 4 if E? SEQ 'Q 2 5 5 t Perry Duming Jay Horton Tom Huse Tony Mavar Mel Myler Bill Savoie Bill Savada Tony Smith

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TENNIS TEAM CCMPILES - ON Bob Kloppenburg Tennis Coach 19 4 SEAS Jim Gofses and Allen Brown wafch warm-up pracTice before Taking To The courts. The Cal WesTern Tennis Team had iTs besT year in hisTory, compiling a remark- able lf?-4 record and qualifying Three men for The NAIA DisTricT Ill playoffs. AT The beginning of The season, Coach Kloppenburg had only Three reTurning leTTermen. The addiTion of Three Fresh- men rounded ouT The squad, supplying depTh and sTrengTh, and providing a nucleus for powerful Teams in The years To come. Twin vicfories over MCRD and single wins over such highly TouTed schools as Arizona STaTe, Pomona, and Universify of California aT Riverside served noTice ThaT CWU had one of The finesT small college Tennis squads in SouThern Cali- fornia. GraduaTing Senior Lee HirT, selecTed MosT-Valuable-Player will be The only man losT To nexT season's Team. Playing fifth man, he posfed The besT win-loss record on The squad, providing many cluTch vicTories. HirT combined wiTh Jay HorTon, a Freshman, To form The mosT consisTenT WesTern doubles Team. The doubles Team of .lim GoTses and Perry Durning was good enough To finish second aT The DisTricT lll playoffs. Jay Miller, who also qualified for The DisTricT playoffs, and Al Brown alTer- nafed beTween firsT and second doubles, adding power.and sTrengTh ThroughouT The year. , NUMB, f ' i f . A : sf Jay Miller Allen Brown .Jim Gofses Lee Hirf 203 RECORD

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AIA PLAYOFFS ,sw- is -Av-F f ...Q-lf' .--E ' if V R M WW i I...-1' we - .au Mm,..,tmMf-S-sfAM 'I f'm Senior Lee Hirt provided an offensive threat with his Ieft-handed court play. INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS SINGLES W Lee Hirt ....... ...I6 Perry Durning .... .. . I9 Jay Horton ..... ...IA Jim Gotses... ...I5 Jay MiIIer.i... ...I4 Allen Brown. .. .. 7 en Savada. .. .. 2 ill Savioe... .. DOUBLES Hirt and Horton ...... ...I5 burning and Gotses .... ...I7 Miller and Brown .... .. 9 Robb and I-Iuse .... .. 2 IVIyIer and Savoie. .. .. I I Jay Horton blossomed into a key player this year in his first season on the courts. I 2,9 ., ' swf s ,tt I I Tony Smith smashes his serve to open a new set against BiII Savada slows for a soft return in competition POVTWOFWCI- on the NTC homecourts. 205