Joliet West High School - Alpha Omega Yearbook (Joliet, IL)

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102 Lifting I54 pounds of a helpless opponent from Breinen High School seemed to he no problem for thc museulzn' john Kappas. From starting position, to reversal, to near-pin. to vietory, 112 pounder Ron Brown showed his form in this match against his Bremen opponent Sports if 58v ' Rich Prihode attempted to role his man onto his hack and make the pin. Although this was Rich's first year, he had an 8-8 record. jurrett Hubbard dropped to his knees to make the take-down on his opponent, jarrett was one of three Westmen to go to state finuls. Ron has always been a great threat to the opposition and a supplier of Tiger power. Ron was third in the shite last year.

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Sophomore liill Rimmkc struggles with Lockport Ct-utr-al opponent for thc pos- session of the basketball during the game with the Porters. Tiger Bill Rimmke snares the ball from a Lockport Central opponent while team- mate Dave Leslie sets up the fast break. As a Lockport Central opponent gazes helplessly on, the 'l'iger's Bill llimmkc takes 11 long jump-sliot. Inexperienced freshmen have Winning season Gathering a group of inexperienced boys from many different areas and making them into an efficient basketball team was the prob- lem Coach Tony Gutierrez faced at the be- ginning of the season. Having to cope with a limited freshman schedule proved to be one of many problems he faced during the season. SCORES West Opponent 52 joliet Central 40 55 Ioliet East 53 54 Joliet Catholic 46 39 Lockport Central 45 61 Providence 62 50 Joliet East 52 43 joliet Central 37 47 Argo 31 58 joliet Catholic 53 43 joliet Central 49 Sports 101

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Varsity wrestling coach Ray Klootwyk tenses and anticipates as he watches one of his boys' contests llis attentiveuess proves to he helpful to the team. Dave Wright tried to drag his man from Bremen to the mat to aid the cause of the team. He succeeded. and he and his teammates had a 41-3 victory. As he takes down his man, Randy Eberhard's facial expression is very descriptive of the muscular strain that is necessary in wrestling. Varisty Tiger wrestlers win I-8 championship Joliet NVest's varsity wrestling team had itself a very eventful year during the 1969 sea- son, lt not only took first place in the lllini-8 conference championships. hut also won first place in the Rich Rocket Tournament and the Lockport District Tournament and took second in the Quad City meet. West sent Bon Brown, jarrett Hubbard, and Dave Wright to state finals. Of the three, Dave finished third in the 180 pound division. SCORES VVest Opponent 36 Alonzo Stagg 5 23 Oswego 26 53 Kankakee Eastridge 5 54 Kankakee Westview 0 24 Argo 24 44 Fractional South 0 38 Morris 6 39 Ioliet Catholic 10 27 Lockport Central 17 32 Fractional North 11 44 Lockport West 6 41 Bremen 3 25 Rich East 14 29 East Aurora 15 33 joliet Central 8 36 Joliet East 6 1 Tom McKeon, who had a 23-3-3 record, made pinning a man look easy when he upset this opponent. Sports 103