Hunterdon Central High School - Echo Yearbook (Flemington, NJ)

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' 1 1 F 'sjyv' f A I K A Q X . ANN ,L1- - - 5 ...X . thu .... BOY'S GYMNASTICS: Front row QL to RJ: Joe Sheppared, Matt Pfenninger, Ben Rovee, Jeff Fabiianic. Bob Nichols, Lee Mack, John LoRicco, Middle Row. Darin Alles, Shawn Phillips, Tony Malba. Stuart Little, John Mauer, Back Row. Chris Fabiianic. Bill Reahl. Mike Sefko. Kip Winget, Kirby Fowler. Eitan Goralski, Missing. Coaches Peter Fick and Dick Shaefer. .. . sf- wg. f we ts ,. WM X Ew ir s i Q S it .b L V E . ,,,.. 'M -Q The HCHS Boy's Gymnastics Team could have hardly improved on their performance this year. The only team in the state to finish the season undefeated, they went on to take the state crown in a record-breaking championship meet held at Central. Having won the state crown in l975, the Devils became the only team besides East Brunswick to take the title more than once. The team was coached by Peter Fick and Dick Shaefer. The varsity squad was comprised of seniors Matt Pfenninger, Ben Rovee, Bob Nichols, Lee Mack, Jeff Fabijanic, and Joe Sheppard, and juniors Kirby Fowler and Tony Malba. ant, 'Masq Q 'iftgs iff sg-as-Eg has U K, ,..L,s,,s- M., , The team started the State Championship meet strongly, obtaining first place team scores on both floor and pommel horse, Lee Mack taking first place with a 6.55 in the pommel horse event. Ben Rovee then set a new school record on rings with a score of 8.65, taking second in the event. Pfenninger followed suit by tal-:ing first in the next event - vaulting horse. Tensions ran high as the team members realized that they were heading into their two weakest events, parallel bars and horizontal bar, with only a .55 lead over the East Brunswick Bears, two-time winners of the State Crown. When l saw how close it was, I knew we were in trouble, reminisced Coach Fick. But the team pulled through, due to the extraordinary efforts of Rovee, Nichols, and Pfenninger. Matt's horizontal bar routine was the climax of the meet for the HCHS boys, and he came through by setting a new school record and taking second inthe event with an 8.3. The boys finished the meet with an accumulation of l25.l5 points, just .3 point ahead of East Brunswick. An unbelievable ending to a great year. Boy's GymnasticsfI6l

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Girl's G mnastics Varsity QL to RJ: Jill Glassman, Julie McCormack, Eileen Morton, Donna Schwietering, Ellen Denbigh, Tracy Steil. Sherry Pettit, Eileen Fisher, Peri Myers I62fGirls' Gymnastics so smoxmo l 9 Q1 The girls gymnastics team, coached by Jennifer Spieker and Linda Zamek, fin- ished an outstanding season with an ll-I record. This is collectively the best group of gymnasts to come through Hun- terdon Central, remarked Coach Spieker. Led by captains Ellen Denbigh and Donna Schwietering, the team obvi- ously was off to a promising start when they scored an impressive IOO.7 against Piscataway in their first meet when Ju- nior Sherry Pettit scored a season high all around total of 35.2. One of the real highlights this season was the meet against Madison Central, Spieker said. We arrived late, had insuf- ficient warm-up time, and had suffered a lot of injuries, yet the team still came through with a .7 win. l think that meet really exemplified the competiveness of the girls Again the team scored over IOO. On October 26, Somerville, also unde- feated, competed against the Devils in 1 very exciting meet. Competing in front o a large crowd, the Devils continually trailed by tenths or equalled Somerville's scores. Junior Tracy Steil placed first on bars with an 8.8 and senior Donna Schwie- tering placed first on the beam with an 8.45. Unfortunately, though, the Devils still could not pull off the win, and they suffered their only loss of the season.