Lake Stevens High School - Pilchuck Yearbook (Lake Stevens, WA)

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 1'U-QoiUiilf fyootluiU GUa HfUO Vi With seven returning lettermen as a nucleus, Coach Martina molded a championship team which ran undefeated through all opposition. Lake Stevens had a record of nine wins and no losses at the end of the season. The team placed first in the Snohomish County Class B League, and also rated first in the newly-formed Tri-County League. The Tri-County League is made up of teams from Oak Harbor, Coupeville and Langley in Island County and from Concrete and LaConner in Skagit County as well as the regular Snohomish ‘'B teams. The initial game of the season found Twin City fall victim, 31-0, to the tricky T-formation offensive which largely replaced last year's single wing formation. The following week the Vikings traveled to Darrington where they trounced the Loggers 38-0. One of the closest games of the season was played the following Friday at the home field, with LaConner scoring on the third play of the game. After a hard fought game, the final score was 14-6 in favor of the home team. Lake Stevens' fourth win of the season was a 25-6 triumph over their rival, Granite Falls. The game was played in a sea of mud and featured mostly rock-em, sock-em football with very little passing. The week following the Granite win, the Vikings had a comparatively easy time in downing Coupe- ville with the overwhelming score of 43-6. The reserves saw a lot of action in this game after the regulars had run up the score. In the first night game of the year, the Vikings journeyed to Sultan and downed the Turks 26-0. The highest score of the season was made in a non-league tilt when the Vikings ran rough-shod over the Everett Baby Gulls to the tune of 55-14. Both of Everett's scores were made against Lake reserves. The big game of the season for Lake Stevens was the championship-deciding affair which was played in a sea of mud under the arc lights at Monroe. By winning 14-7, the Vikings clinched both the Snoho- mish County and Tri-County championships. The last game of the season was a home game with the defensively strong Oak Harbor team. A highly successful season was ended in a blaze of glory when the Lake won by a score of 21-0. Lake Stevens was well represented on the all-star teams this year with Nordquist, Makus, Negaard, Johnson and Lund being placed on the Snohomish County first team and Newman, Bettinger and Hungar on the second team. On the all-conference teams for the Tri-County League, Nordquist, Johnson, and Hungar were placed on the first team and Negaard made the second team. Makus and Lund received honorable mention. David Nordquist was named to the mythical all-state team for an end position. FRONT ROW: Bruce Martina. Ronal Pugsley. Edward Manning. Dick Johnson. Bill Lund. Ted Graves. Howard Negaard. Douglas Black. Mgr.. Bill Bancroft. SECOND ROW: Clarence Makus. Clarence Nelson. Warren Newman. Raymond Withrow. Burton Estes. Charles Dake. Charles Lindgren. THIRD ROW: Dave Johnson. Howard Espeseth. Donald Lundquist. Walter Stribling. Glen Larson. David Nordquist. Wayne Rodland. Harry Chick, Theo Bettinger. Gene Hunger. 29

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FRONT ROW: Bill Lund. Dave Nordquist. Dick Johnson, Wallace Nelson. Fred Cushman. BACK ROW: Howard Thompson. Lyle Zahler. Howard Negaard. Edward Manning. Richard Neil. Donald Hart. Dave Johnson. Ted Graves. Clarence Makus. Gene Hungar. Coach Martina. fea eball Gather around friends and neighbors I've a story to tell Its an interesting story So listen well. T'was the Spring of 47 and baseball was m the air The first turnout had been slated, There were sore arms here and there. The list of returning lettermen Made Coach Martina glad And the new fellows playing, Didn't look half bad. There were Thompson and Negaard to share the catching Either Johnson or Lund on the hill Nordquist covered the first base sack While Bettinger stood by with a will. Wallace Red Nelson was second baseman Lund, when not pitching, was shortstop Manning was ready to fill in where needed A utility man, who was tops. At third there was Hungar With Graves standing by Ready to stop line drive, grounder, or fly. Roaming in the out field Were Cushman, Zahler and Hart. With Hadsell, Neil or Dave Johnson Ready to do their part. The team had excellent material And a swell coach besides This was the year we had waited for The wins would be on our side. The first encounter was a high scoring one, With Everett's second team. The Vikings won 9 to 10 We were really on the beam. The next team we beat was Granite Falls 4 to 0 was the score The Lake by now was going strong, And wanted more and more. One inning was all that was needed next game, to win it for the Lake, 7 runs we made in one frame that day But that wasn't all we could make. We added 3 more to be sure of ourselves And raise our total to ten. Twin City could gather but six that day Though they had some mighty good men. Lake Stevens—three; Darrington—two; It was mighty close, you can see. Dick Johnson stole home on a wild pitch T'was the margin of victory. Dick also pitched a one hit game. He was hero of the day The rest of the team did their part, too In a way that was really okay; Our fifth game was with Twin City We won without a doubt, the score was 4 to 0, It was our second shutout. The non-league tilt that we played next Was with Whidbey's Langley High. A score of six to two, broke our winning streak (We should have taken our bye.) Darrington lost to us again, in the seventh game that we played, Two runs they had to their credit, five is what we made. Everett Seconds again (once wasn't enough) They probably thought they could win. At the end they had three but we had three more. You can see how wrong they had been. Then Langley came over to play us at home, And we evened the score a bit, Langley had two, Lake had four (Lund helped with his three base hit) The last game of the year was with Granite Falls, We finished the season with a spree, While Lake collected fifteen runs, Granite Falls only got three. We placed first in the league in '47 And lost but one game all year Such was the team of Lake Stevens High now anw . . . that is all, I fear. 28

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fiadhethcdl Having built up a reputation for winning games through football season and last year's baseball season, the Lake did quite well in upholding it during the basketball season. The team was built around the 3 returning lettermen, David Nordquist, Lee Wicklund, and Dick Johnson. Starting out strong, the Vikings won easily from the Coupeville Wolves. A week later they downed the defending champion. Twin City Cardinals, after pulling ahead in the last quarter. Concrete was the next victim of the Purple and Gold sharpshooters. After Christmas vacation everybody came back to school, ready to continue the winning streak. We just managed, however, to squeeze by Sultan by three points. This was the first game that either Bettinger or Wicklund played. Bettinger had been sidelined with an appendectomy and Wick had not been sure of his eligibility due to late arrival at school. We hit our stride again the next game, downing the Darrington Loggers to the tune of 50 to 25. Wicklund played an excellent game and led the scoring with fifteen points. One week later we jumped on the bus and headed for Granite. Again we emerged victorious. In addition to dropping in nine points, Hungar did an excellent job of checking Marshlain, Granite's high scorer. Six straight wins, and we were beginning to feel fairly good. However, whatever illusions we had of an undefeated season were dis- pelled when we played Monroe. Leading the entire game, Lake Ste- vens fell behind in the last four minutes and lost a heartbreaker by a score of 34 to 39. We were now halfway through our schedule with a record of six games won and one lost. Starting the second round the Vikings, trying to atone somewhat for the Monroe game, shifted into high gear and trounced Coupeville 69 to 18. Bettinger played an excellent rebound game. Twin City was next and the Lake, with a couple of ailing players, managed to eke out a one point margin victory. This was a close game all the way through and was certainly no place for a person with a weak heart. Johnson was really on the ball and did everything from potting it from the black line to bounding it off the opposition's backs. The return game with Concrete was the second one we lost. We had again led through the entire first half. We ran through the rest of the games with four straight wins. First we defeated Sultan 75 to 34, the highest score run up in league play. Then we took Darrington and Granite in our stride. The last game was with Monroe and we evened the score a little by running over them to the tune of 47 to 29. The last win cinched our second place standing in the new Tri- County League and also put us into the Northwest Tournament at Twin City in the second team berth. FIRST TEAM—Left to Right: Nordquist. Wicklund. Hungar. Dick Johnson. Lund. Bettinger. Manning. Newman. Rodland. Martina. 30