Dysart High School - El Demonio Yearbook (El Mirage, AZ)

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T' 1 sf? . .. L 1 ixi2gXXNi,5.ff,- V Q, 1 A s 31 WRESTLING WHA P-UP As the crowd roared the Dysart Demon wrestlers walked in with heads high and winning determination. ln great condition both mentally and physically, they knew victory was at hand 'ln the sport ot wrestling it takes a lot of discipline, a good attitude, determination, and hard work, said Ralph Castro. This season our team had 13 wrestlers. Coach Kitchen stated The ones lhad out were good hard workers. - Even though competition was on an individual basis they still had team work. They gave each other confidence. lf one lost as an individual they lifted his spirits and encouraged each other to do better next time. , ln this years individual and invitational meets they had lots of tough competition. ln the Dysart invitational there were 17 participating schools. We had 3 wrestlers who placed Placing 2nd at 112 was Rawh Castro, and at 1832 also 2nd was Benji Carrasco. Frank Garcia wrestled at 138 placing 4th, Mth fewer participants than in earlier seasons there was less opportunity to learn new techniques which are usualhf brought about by wrestling each other. Even though the team wasn 't HUGE they certainhf did pack in a tremendous amount of success. one! Coach !! ls this the way you roll-em? twol All bailed up. threej Hold on there . . . give me your other arm, says Ruben Valdivia. four! Benjie Carrasco gets another pin for the Demons. tive! Coach Kitchen and Mike Carbajai think to themselves, 'looks like another rough nght sixl Benjie makes wegrht. seven! 0h . . . Lookkl Franks on top! eight! Mike Carbajal says . . . Now whose got who? 49

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QQ? Welcome, sports fans, to our sports Hall of Fame. immortalized on these two pages are some of Dysarts hnest athletes. When the year in sports began, football was the big attraction. Our All-Stars in football were Joe Vandzura and Greg McDonald I who were on the second team all conferencej and Ralph Castro, who earned honorable mention. 0ur outdoors view of sports brings us a closer look at the All-Stars in Cross Country. 0ur Cross Country All-Star was lvan Noriega - who became conference champion, breaking a course record for the second time. lt was a great feeling because I was working harder this year than last year since it's my Senior year. lvan intends to pursue Cross Country through college and strives one day to make the Ohfmpics. Mr Padilla gave me a lot of conhdence to accomplish my goals'1 explained lvan. ln our next sports arena we check out our demonic wrestlers. Especially one in particular. Senior, Mike Carbajat took hrst in divisionals and state. l felt good about what l accomplished stated Mike, I had to practice two and a half hours of both basketball and wrestling to stay down to weight to stay realhf in shape. Mike intends to further his sports experience in college. When asked if his experience at Dysart will help him in the future, he said Yea, it 's going to help me a lot. lt ga ve me responsibility. There was a lot of times l thought l would quit but the coaches helped work things out so l wouldn 't quit. They always said that ifl want it bad enough lha ve to work for it . Another top wrestler was Ralph Castro who placed second at the Demon invitationals, and Beniie Carrasco who placed fourth at divisionals and state. Benjie stated l felt pretty good because l've been trying for four years and never placed before'f Well sports fans, that was quite a fantastic line-up of 0utstanding Athletes, but then again - Dysart always turns out the finest. onej Cross Country star lvan Noriega. lwob Football 2nd team all conference star - Greg MacDonald three! All-Star in nearly all sports - Mike Carbajal. fourl Sure to be basketball all star - Ken Allen. fiveb Wrestler - Benjie Carrasco. sixj Our choice lor football all star - Frank Garcia.