Fairmont East High School - Falcon Yearbook (Kettering, OH)

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INDIVIDUAL RECORDS WI. Name Wins Losses Draws 98 Shawn Pobsl O 9 O IO5 Sleve Meyer I2 9 I I I2 Tim Orlman 5 I I O I I9 Gary Wise I8 2 O I26 Roy Leonard 20 I O I32 Tim Denlinger I I 7 I I38 MarlcSIeir1barqer IO 7 O I45 Sieve Burch 5 9 O l55 Scoff Lucus I I I I O I67 Jim Gales I9 9 O l75 Chris Aflcinson I4 7 O l85 Jim Krifzer 7 I I I I-I. W+.Russ Compron 23 5 O Above Le'F+: Using one of his favorife moves, Jim Gales uses a reverse cradle Io pin his Beaver- creelc opponent Middle Leff: The referee walches closely for a pin as sophomore Sieve Meyer uses an arm-bar series on his anlagonisl. Lower Lefh The referee gels info posifion Io check for a pin as Chris Allcinson sfrains Io force his opponenfs shoulders fo The mal. Top Righfz ln Ihe Beavercreelc meet co-capfain Roy Leonard +hrows Tom Shay wifh a powerful Irip. Lower Righl: A+ Ihe Universify of Dayfon Holiday Tour- nament Tim Denlinger of Ihe I32 lb. class, execu- Ies his heel-frip aqains+ his Ealon foe. Below: As Coach Larry McVey walches Ihe malch, he +asIes Ihe air of viciory. RN

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Leonard, Wise ouTsTanding grapplers of wresTIing Team Being a FairmonT EasT wresTler means Tough physical workouTs several days aTTer school each week, WhaT makes wresTling a personal challenge is The challenge To make weighT. Each wres- Tler musT weigh in beTore each meeT. His weighT musT noT exceed ThaT oT his weighT class or he will be auTomaTically disqualiTied. The Two senior co-capTains, Roy Leo- nard and Gary Wise, had The besT records on The Team This year. As co- capTains, Gary Wise and Roy Leonard led The Team in all pre-meeT exercises, Took The responsibiliTy Tor The acTions oT Their TeammaTes aT all meeTs and Tour- namenTs, encouraged and led pep Talks and presenTed problems oT The Team members To The coach. Roy Leonard. who leTTered his sopho- more year, wresTled in The IZ6 lb. class. Roy was The only EasT grappler To win a class aT The UniversiTy oT DayTon l loli- day TournamenT, Taking TirsT in The T26 lb. class. Roy also placed TirsT aT The NorThmonT lnviTaTional, and made The second Team oT The Miami Valley Wres- Tling AssociaTion. Roy was also one oT Two EasT wresTlers To place TirsT in The WOL7 Gary Wise was The oTher cham- pion. Gary Wise Took TirsTs aT boTh The NorThmonT and The EasT lnviTaTionals. Gary was also named To The second Team - Miami Valley WresTling Asso- ciaTion. T-le had a season record oT I3 wins and I loss despiTe leg iniuries suT- Tered early in The season. AnoTher ouTsTanding member oT The Team This year, ouT Tor his TirsT year, was iunior Russ CompTon. Russ is The heavy weighT Tor The Falcon grapplers. He holds a record oT 23 wins and 5 losses, including I7 pins. Russ's TasTesT pin was in I5 seconds. ATTer Taking The championship in The T38 lb. class aT The NorThmonT lnviTa- Tional, Junior Mark STeinbarger was voTed The mosT valuable wresTler Tor The TournamenT. Mark was also The l38 lb. champion aT The EasT InyiTaTional.

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1972 track team produces winning season despite setbacks East's I972 track team, coached by Mr. Neal Charske and Mr. Dave Mills, produced a winning season. The team recorded tour wins and one loss despite many iniuries and weather conditions. The season was marked with two highlights. East overwhelmed West with a score ot 78lf2 to 48'f2. ln the WOL meet, Chris Gravel finished tirst in the two-mile race with a time ot 9:58.7, breaking all previous records tor the league. Falcon trackmen broke two school records this season. Steve Henry, Chris Gravel, Dave Helton, and Keith Bush improved the previous tour-mile relay record ot l9:I5.2 to the new record ot I8:5O.3. ln the sprint medley Nick Yahle, Dave Huston, Bob Metzler, and Brian Percival set a new record ot I:39.9. Bob Metzler received the most valua- ble runner award and Russ Compton received the most valuable tield man award. Most improved runner was Steve Henry and Jett Berger was the most improved tield man. East tinished titth in the WOL, only eight points tram second. The Falcons tinished eighth in the sectionals. G 4-. F: as at . J, A N s 5: x ff ' X 's:wf'X A 1' - , f I ' 1211 + 'rf 5 W - l ' X mt- ...ei J' ' I Q A T ff-. is S i Pavel J als i, rv - it , Q ,fra xr G . . 'A . V ' , F, g K x . F ir r ,f , it it Q E f S .P it my nf? 1- L , iw -, A , if A J , ' ni: , , K TRACK TEAM: Front Row: Chris Gravel, Dave Moore, Jim Kapnas, Brian Percival, Nick Yahle. Keith Bush, Ken Fosdick, Mike Malone, John Moore, Dave Cunnigan. Row 2: Mark Venetos, Scott Sargent, Bob Metzler, Randy Henry, Andrew Winchek, Jim Gibson, Leonard Overholser, Jim Kritzer, John Schmidt, Mike Husman, Jett Patezel. Row 3: Dennis Foster, Dale Haynes, Arnie Jarvis. Bob Gaughan, Steve Roberts, Mike Fry, Russ Compton, Mark Guist, Mark Jenkins, Pat O'Donnell. Back Row: Duane Kester, Dan Wagner, Steve Malesko, Steve Scarpelli, Tim Winchek, John Smith, Jett Berger, Steve Birch, Darrell Lauderback, Dave Huston, Mike Compton, Jack Carter, Scott Denny, Stan lrvin, Coach Neal Charske.