Corvallis High School - Chintimini Yearbook (Corvallis, OR)

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J game 2-1. Sparts win games, miss playo fs The highlight for me was the kids responding by winning the rest of their league games after the big loss to Crescent Valley, said coach Tony Vandermeer of the boys' varsity soccer team. The big loss of which Vandermeer is speaking was a game that could have won the Spartans a chance for the playoffs. However, they lost the According to senior johnfar Kerlee, the team went to the CHS- CV game with confidence and dominated the game even though they lost. Kerlee felt they had a disappointing year because they 1 were expected to win. The team finished with a record of 10-3-1 overall and 6-2-1 in league. When Valley League boys' soccer coaches selected the :X leagues' All-Stars midfielder, johnfarKerlee was the only pp,,pi l,.tT ff N unanimous first team choice. Other Spartans who made first 3 team were senior goal keeper Steve Needham and i' sophomore forward Chuck Bechtol. Sophomore full back V e Chris Jorgensen, was the only player from Corvallis High to N 4 , gi make second team and Sean O'Shea, a junior full back was given honorable mention. y . M, li t - e sf . . . . ,... if 5- Q 2 I 1. Senior Steve Meyer knows how to use his head. 2. Senior johnfar Kerlee prepares to make a goal. 3. Varsity Boys' Socgefg Back Row fl.-RJ: Coach Tony Vandermeer, Steve Needham Sean O'Shea, Rusty Pochop, David jolliff, Mitchell Thomas, Chuck Bechtol, john Callahan, assistant coach Howie XVeinman v Middle Row: Steve Meyer, Henry Pittock, Chris Jorgensen, Todd Reeve, jeff Mendenhall, johnfar Kerlee, Larry Guffey, joe Loper Front Row: Paul Shearman, Hoddy Vfells, Dave Harman 4. Kerlee under pressure 5. junior Mitch Thomas challenges the opponent for control of the ball.

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of the year, i At the beginning saw the potential in our squad, and as the year progressed, we began to mesh and come through hke erue Spartans do. Air-Ga! realiy came through during the CV game, as we thrashed the Raiders for our third at shutout. Oyerah, it was a aiiy awesome season. f Derek Heyden 1 Eeit, as a team, our best games re against Crescent Vaiiey and banon because the shutours :iped us to iock up the Vaiiey ,eague titie. Personaiiy, X feit West Pribany was my best defensive game because X was abie to show Head Coach 'Yom Boebme what he had taught me as Coryaiiis High' s defen- sive coach in the two years prior. f Doug Siibernagei 5

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seas0n bu: didn'r 'We played a good . come our on top. We defmarely needed more practice. f ChnS Jorgensen 're accomplish all of We didn'r qui our goals 81 iniuries didn' r help much. We grill played hard 8: mosr of the e looking forward guys coming back ar ro ir. 1 Chuck Bechrol disappoinred char we :his Wlxile l w2S didift make playoffs, l feel what ' several years, beSr rearn in d team was the of skill an bosh uniryf' in rerms f Sreve Meyer h we did nor accomplish the seas0n 4 Alrhoug goals we ser for ourselves, our s ' . seam manages ro e C ' ' f v ' b' rewarding Our p ogvallls High soCcer as one o .e besr in che Valley League eryborly worked hard and wish a rr E luck we could have been che League ghampions. Bur now, up ro che new erarion, which looks very promis- gen ingf ' 1 johnfar Kerlee We staffed our slow wich several pCO' ple, myself included, geering manor iniuries. l mink that really held us back from coming our on rop of che league .' ' 1 jeff Mendenhall s