Francis Joseph Reitz High School - Reflections Yearbook (Evansville, IN)

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. Love 15 Forever Picture this! The Date: February, Friday the 13th, The Setting: Reitz High School gym. The Event: Basketball Homecoming. The Challenge: Reitz vs. Terre Haute South. The Outcome: Reitz losses in overtime. Superstitions truly predicted the outcome of the game; however, the Homecoming Dance proved to be a different story. Everybody enjoyed themselves as they danced to the sounds of DJ. Randy Webber. As they swayed to the theme Love 15 Forever, Amy Helfrich and Matt Osborne enjoyed their reign as homecoming queen and king. Stephanie Strieter and Dirk English were proudly crowned prince and princess. Making up the rest of the homecoming court were seniors: Greg Ashby, Andy Washo, John McGregor, Doug Waterman, Kristen Toone, Marlene Vonderahe, Kristi Daugherty, Tricia Moit. Juniors were: Tommy Anderson, John Haller, Barb Barchet, Sloan Carter. Sophomores: Brent Marksberry, Tracey Trautvetter, Susan McGregor. Freshmen: Jimmy Loeffler, Mike Lawrence, Andrea Pate, Kellie Mossberger. Homecoming 74

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ll Winning Tradition Returns The varsity football season started CaStIE; thelbattle 0f the . defegise only anowed Castle to reach out this year with some very high undefeated 5. Castle was 9th 1n midaeld once in the game. Still hopes. With close to 18 returning Class 5A and the Panthers had staymg at 4661 m the state, the lettermen coming back from a team climbed to 4H 1n Ciass 4A. Before panthers went on to post Wins OVer that went all the way to the regional almost 13,000 fans in the bowl, North, Bosse, and Central by SCOres last year, goals of winning a state Reitz definitely provedthey were a of .35-0, 34-0, and 20-13, resPeCtivel team to be reckoned w1th by Wlth the Victory over Central, Reitz- championship were set. Unfortunately, the dream fell short. On the other hand, some very great , things happened this year for the - ,. 1W Panthers. V V w , Reitz went to New Albany on August 31 ranked tenth in the state. After causing numerous turnovers on defense and making several big plays offensively, the footballers embarrassed the Bulldogs 51-0. That next week, Reitz moved to 6th in the state and prepared to take on Memorial. The defense allowed less than 100 yards total offense in the game and Reitz came away with a 33-0 win. After just two games, the team was one of the few in Southern Indiana to be undefeated and unscored on. Being ranked 4952 in the state the next week, Reitz again prevailed 24-7 over Harrison before almost 8,000 fans in the bowl. Still remaining 51752 in the state, the Panthers defeated westside rival Mater Dei 35-6 and brought the Westside Traveling Trophy back on the hill. The stage was then set for the game between Reitz and defeating the Knights 21-0. The hcon't on page 78h D'tll ml'mml m Reitz bursts through the hoop before they play Mater Dei. Senior Ken Hansen rumbles through a hole against Vincennes Lin- coln. Senior Maurice Mayes moving in for the kill. Football 76