Hellgate High School - Halberd Yearbook (Missoula, MT)

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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.”

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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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Honors - Exchange students, Top 20 All- State, and Honors clubs. They are all here, Ironically, there are many d fferenf wa ks of life from a section which is so unified, an oZ xewtyped as 'he iasecmru From the conservatives to the radicals, they are all included, and there is ctereotupe to classify them. Five exchange students representing Brazil Germany, Norway and Denmark enlightened our year: as did National Honor Society by sponsoring their shoot from cente C°M-S% andiBoys’M-State member- ’%£%£?-$%oTpeop'e gave us new people to welcome and something to be p ud of.