Exira High School - Exiran Yearbook (Exira, IA)

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7 (5) Belinda Jayne and Kristi Petersen ham it up dur- ing a light moment. (6) Tanya Hoegh fires the ball to the 1st basewoman, Connie Jessen. (7) Kristi Huegerich gets under a pop fly . . . you're out! (8) The 1980 Vikingettes: 1st row: Coach Kapfer, Jes- sica Jessen. Connie Jessen. Sherri Wilkerson. 2nd row: Kristi Huegerich. Annie Rattenborg, Tanya Hoegh, Luann Jorgensen. Belinda Jayne. Michele Petersen. 3rd row: Mary Benton, Melody Petersen. Kristi Petersen, Barbie Hill. ,e uuxx 7Mcnttetyf They also felt they had a good coach that made their season a lot of fun. One of the players, Connie Jessen, stated, I liked Mr. Kapfer as a coach and I wish he was coach- ing again this year. I thought he worked well with the team.” One new idea both the softball and base- ball teams had was go to Kansas City and see the Kansas City Royals play baseball not knowing that later in the year the Royals would wind up in the World Series. Parts of the wall” were built and other parts were torn down as September, and school, finally ended this summer activity. For some it would be their last summer of high school play. Surely they thought it was an important brick in their wall of life.

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—3 Exira 10 C M 11 Exira 13 A-C 28 Exira 8 Audubon 11 ' Exira 2 Guthrie Center 17 Exira 3 S;t 11 Exira 3 Manilla 12 Exira 1 Manilla 5 Exira 6 Guthrie Center 11 Lennox Nishna Valley Anita Anita Elk Horn Ogden Tri Center 3 9 13 13 9 17 6 10 13 0 13 11 13 3 fi 3 (1) Tanya Hoegh. Luann Jorgensen. Belinda Jayne and Connie Jessen watch Susan Jensen s hot pitch- ing during a pre-game warm up. (2) Connie Jessen dares the opposing batter to try to get a hit. (3) Luann Jorgensen chokes up and gets ready to slam a hit. (4) Sherri Wilkerson intently awaits an incom- ing ball hopefully a strike! 'TZctm en 7uui eU Exira girl's Softball no big deal, right? Well, you're wrong. This year’s softball team, consist- ing mainly of underclassmen had a heck of a good time. Earning second place at the Lennox tourna- ment was one of this year's most remembered moments. Their record should have 10 wins and 12 losses except for errors at the wrong time, stated Coach Kapfer, instead of a record of 4 wins and 18 losses. Overall the girls worked very hard this year and got a lot of work done. Coach Kapfer added, Sometimes we would have a poor first and sec- ond inning but we came back. Numbers, often a problem at Exira, prompted Kriste Hugerich to add. I would like to see more upper classmen play. The girls needed more people out to better practice, and have more of a selection to pick a team from. 22

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