Hempstead High School - Equine Yearbook (Dubuque, IA)

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Pin Gaining Experience by Lisa Chappell The 22 freshmen wres- tlers finished the season with a 1-6-1 record, but more importantly, Fresh- man Coach Dick Worm said, they had the opportun- ity to learn the necessary skills and get the needed experience to compete in the Mississippi Valley as sophomores. ' Worms' expectations of the season were to improve skills and just basically survive. Worm said, The inexperience of those who had never wrestled before really hurt us, but as the skill improved so did the scores. One wrestler, Kelly Davis 1108 lbs.l did more than survive with a personal 11 Kelly Davis, 108 lbs., tries to gain an escape for points. Photo by Ieff Becker. record of 17 wins and no losses. Worm said, Kelly has all the potential of becoming a great wrestler. His ambi- tion, drive, and personal motivation together with skill will definitely work in his favor. Worm feels Davis will be wrestling varsity next year because of his talent and weight. And wrestling tends to lose participants as they get older. If I could do one thing to improve this program, it would be to get more boys on the team. With the problems of weight control, knowledge, skill and strength it is hard to get kids interested these days, and that's a pity, Worm said. 21 Legs fly as lohn Guinta tries to pin his opponent. Photo by Karl Anderson. ,,,.unl!'i I 3 -in 'ef t 'N-vu 5 -' , 'WV X -L. l 'xf tr, Front - Mike Hammerand, Lee Hammer:-md, Ken Iones, Ioel Langan, Ron Fens, Kelly Davis, Brian Brandel. 52 Middle - Doug Bishop, Brian Sabers, Steve Grey, Brian Hefel, Chris Stahr, 'Wx ws,-sig, Dan jackson, Mike Harris, Kevin Shetler. Back - Ted Tammer, Clint Sharkey, Brian Phillips, Iohn Guinta, Ioel Moorman, Ken Gorton, Iay Gren- ore, Absent: Eric Blakeman. 1 1. 2 , 21. mf.- sf 4 3. Q-we f f.fs,e,.t A t.. . was g N3 kl ll F .wx siivwfz--Y so 1 X 1 S.-. sf . V. , ttf., ,. gs. fs .tw . t ,en 1 Invitational Dubuque Area Frpsh League, 'R

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Captain Dennis Debolt, '83, puts 51 Mark Simon, '84, struggles to 61 Tom Duccini, '84, struggles to get man in position to get back gain control over his opponent for control on top. Photo by Karl ints. Photo by Karl Anderson. points. Photo by Karl Anderson. Anderson. X ,,jQw....... gg Varsity wrestling scores 1 1 Hempstead Hempstead Hempstead Hempstead Hempstead Hempstead Hempstead Iowa City West Davenport Central Wshlert Bettsndorf Beckman C.R. Washington Iowa City Ctty Hempstead West Dubuque Hempstead C.R. lefferson Hempstead C.R. Kennedy Hempstead Clinton Hempstead Senior 1 4 9 'L ' A A - 6 81 Walt Woolf, '83, forces a sit-out 91 Captain, Dale Brandel 83 fights to gain control on top. Photo by Ieff to get a takedown and gain control ' Becker. Photo by Ieff Becker. C, r,e 1. I .4 1 J

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LL- Take Down Disappointing Season by Lisa Chappell With nine members of last year's freshmen wres- tling team returning as sophomores, Coach Chuck Iuergens was expecting a good, steady 500070 season, and placement in the top half of the Mississippi Valley Conference, but the final season record closed with only two victories. lim Fransen U26 lbs.1 said, The season record really didn't show the capacity of the team, I think we could have done better throughout the season and we proved it at the Missis- sippi Valley Conference Tournament in Iowa City when one half of our team placed in the top five positions. Fransen said, Being beat by Wahlert was the worst because there was a lot of 11 Dave Lehr tries to maneuver his opponent into a pin. Photo by Karl Anderson. pressure on all of us, and pressure is one of the hardest things about wres- tling to deal with. But other team members had different views of the demands of wrestling and its drawbacks. Ioe Giunta, l132 lbs.1said, The hardest thing for me is to lose weight. It usually means spending time in the hot box and I hate that! Yet even with the setbacks, wrestling is popular. The outlook for next year is very promising according to Greg Gottschalk, I98 lbs.l who expects a better than 500070 season. Giunta said, Next year's team is going to be young, but we have gotten a lot of valuable experience and I think we'll be hard to beat! Time will tell. 21 lohn Gremmel takes the advan- tage over his opponent. Photo by Karl Anderson. JKI ist' 0. lb O W Kneeling - Greg Gottschalk, Tim Esser, Tim Cate, Steve Pins, Doug Iudge, lim Fransen, Ed Clancy. Standing - Don Burrows, Dave Iohnson, Tom Coyle, Tim Matthews, Bob Scherf, lohn Gremmel, Ron Snyder, Ioe Guinta, lim Weis, Chris Cox. Not pictured: Tim Berry, Dave Lehr. 53