Lake Orion High School - Dragon Yearbook (Lake Orion, MI)

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SENIOR GARY EDWARDS, voted Most COACHES HOLCOMB AND MALATIN Valuable Defensive Back, recovers a fum- Watch Clgsely as the Dragons are ready to ble on the four yard line. ggore, THREE-YEAR LETTERMAN Clark Bushman, recipient of the Coach's Award sweeps around the end to move the Dragons deeper into their opponents territory. DAVE HOLLENS, Most Valuable player runs off the field after an exhausting first half Hollens is also a three-year letterman. f - ay. 3....x1wvf'wrw'-nwx just bareIy, stated Coach Doug Holcomb, pleased with the trouncing of arch-rival Oxford in the final game of the season to give the Dragons a 5-4 record. Holcomb felt, While the result was not amazing, it was a good year in the sense that we got back on the winning track. We were never really blown out of the games we lost, because of our consistently good defense, com- mented Clark Bushman. We played hard and didn't give up, added Ed Spies. The team set high goals for themselves, and though they didn't attain them all, one team member felt, striving to reach them developed character among the in- dividual team members. The seniors gave us excellent leadership all season long, stated Dan Nlesser. But the juniors are ready and looking forward to the up- coming 1979 season. Holcomb concluded, One of our goals for 1978 was for each player to feel he has benefitted from the foot- ball program here at LOHS. l believe we accomplished just that feeling . Athletics 61

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1978 VARSITY FOOTBALL TEAM. Back-Coach Marty Malatin, Curt Smith, Anders Flendahl, Bruce Abbey, Harvey Allison, Doug Henderson, Garry Sommers, Keith Williams, Cory Flendall, Dan Messer, Coach Doug Holcomb. Middle-Jay Hill, Keith Monroe. Jeff Griffith, Jeff Petrusha, Flustv Oliver, Ed Spies, Chuck Parisi, Skip Berry, Flon Olds, Dave Hollens. Front-John Bly, Dave Lowe, Brian Logan, Jeff Bossard, Bill Pennala, Kevin Gonda, Gary Edwards, Clark Bushman, Bill Fleed, Marty Blaskowski. fnot pictured-Bill Hoag, Chuck Skylissl WITH THE HELP of Jeff Petrusha's block- , K F , ' ,wifi .,b, 5 all 60 varsity Football ing, Skip Berry gains yardage after receiving the hand-off from quarterback Bill Hoag. Berry was the Most Valuable Offensive Back. ALL LEAGUE selection Keith Williams yells to his teammates. Jeff Griffith was also an All League selection while Jeff Petrusha and Bill Fleed were Most Valuable Lineman.

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THE 1978 J.V. FOOTBALL TEAM-back row: coach Dave Malone, Rob Oliver, Mark Claussen, Doug Skubick, Todd Messer, Mike Berg, Ron Martina, Martin Griffith, Tom Parker. middle row: Greg DuFour, Rick Hickman, Chris Edlebrock, Rick Helm, John Bach, Greg Hammond, Darryl Roy. front row: Neil McGrath, Rick Compton, Brian Lowe, Todd Gingell, Randy Helm, Victor Reed, Bob Bushman, and Jeff Williams. RON MARTINA AND BRIAN LOWE watch their teammates try to achieve a victory. Il . The team will help versity in future years, noted coach Malone. As Junior Mark Claussen put it, lt's really too bad that the J.V. Foot- ball team never experienced a win this season, but we did beat several teams statistically. This was unfor- tunate for us because we had some fine players that weren't playing up to their capabilities. I think that the Juniors from the J.V. will play anim- portant part in the 1979 Varsity team. Sophomore Todd Gingell added, We got off to a bad start. Some of us started practicing with the Varsity team, quite beneficial to those who wanted to play. Coach Dave Malone had some positive comments, Our year has been successful in only one respect. We have finally developed into un- derstanding the team concept. lt's really too bad that it had to occur at the end of the season. I 62 J.V. Football J.V. Cheerleaders