Hellgate High School - Halberd Yearbook (Missoula, MT)

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Up and away - Sophomore Dylan Jackson shows good form in the lone jump. Heavy concentration - Graduate Wade Hampton sets his mind to winning. On your mark, get set... - Graduate Kevin Harwood is ready and waiting for the gun shot signaling the start. if he boys' track team was the largest it has ever been, and its size proved to be helpful when multiple injuries took out quite a few members. Despite its size, most of the team was unexperienced and they would’ve placed better in the AA meet if they hadn’t been so ner- vous, according to senior Lance Jones. Triple-jump champion, junior John Wagner took first place in the state meet. Junior Matt Murphy and graduates Lance Canning and Wade Hampton were also strong in the javelin throw, shotput, 800 and 1 600 meter runs, respectively. In the Western Divisional Cham- pionships the boys’ have tradi tionally received first and second place for the past ten years. The boys’ have also won the City Chan- pionships every year, thirteen out of twenty times. fLibby.... ..1st MCHS Invitational 1st Kalispcll ...2nd Butte Invitational 4th Kalispell Invitational... 2nd City Championship 1st Western Divisional Championship 2nd State Championship.. 7th Boys’ Track Spring

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Get outta my way - A Hellgate hurdler is training to achieve the best time to win. Triumphant - Graduates Bill Ballinger and Wade Hampton take their places on the winners' stand. Boys Track - Back row: Coach Dan Gilman. Gene Belcourt. Matt Murphy, Derek Swanson. Jeff Lindstrom, Dan Harrington, Kirk Johnston. George McCrum, Ty Beaver, Cameron Sloan, Sean Harrington, Justin Lake. Julio Morales, Erin Grant, Bill Patterson, Scott Miller, Brennan Guth, Tom Cook, Kevin Anderson, Doug Chase, Tony Sorenson. Mike Cote, Michael Violette, Second row: Coach James Miller, Matt Clark. ChrisBellusci,Scott Walker, Mike Combo. Mark Frohlich, Chris Thomas. Tom Nichols, Todd Amick, Travis Cain, Brent Rodgers. Destry Randles, Coach Ron Jones, Third row: Martain Bain, Aaron Laird, Steve Betts, Jeff Roth, Jason Moura, Jim Young, Paul Nisbet, Jim Brewer. Dan Wagner, Randy Coverdell, Ryan Balias, John Chausee. Stefan Leigland, Coach Van Troxel, Front row: Scott Orr, Jeff Bucklew, Alex Foggin, Judd Knudsen. Mike Kelly, Erik Grossman, Wade Hampton, Brian Lineback, Lance Church, Bill Ballinger, Troy Kindred, Lance Jones, Mike Sanders. Boys’ Track Spring

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Another one down - Sophomore Staci Milligan and coach Eric Hays leave the field after another inning. In the dugout - The softball team waits anxiously for the game to start. Batter up - Junior Joy Olson is showing her batting skills while her teammate is waiting her turn. The team anxiously watchs from the dugout. Home run - Senior Teresa Shoen plows into home piate for another Hellgate win. n Softball Spring off ball ” ns Out A Big Hit ellgate’s first softball team began in the spring of '86 with forty girls trying out, and twenty-four making the team. MCHS had the only JV teams in the state so they had little com- petition, but the varsity team com- peted with twelve other teams in the state, and did very well losing only seven games, and winning fifteen. Hellgate found its biggest challenge to be Big Sky: they lost all of the games played against them. 'I was impressed,” com- mented coach Eric Hays, our overall performance last year was good. We didn't let Big Sky get us down.” This year will be better, he added, with all but two of our players back, we have a good chance to do better at the state tournament.”