Loara High School - Seaxe Yearbook (Anaheim, CA)

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F-. V . iw iif,-,f . . . f I ,. ,,,, five THIS YEAR'S VARSITY TEAM HAS KEPT LOARA'S WINNING TRADITION. THE TEAM COMPETED IN MANY PRES- TIGIOUS TOURNAMENTS, TAKING QND IN EDISON, IST IN MAGNOLIA, QND IN EL CAION, 8TH IN FIVE COUN- TIES, AND 3RD IN MID-CAL CHAM- PIONSHIPS. SOME OF THE OUT- STANDING PERFORMANCES WERE TURNED IN BY NICKY KOB, EDDIE AN- DROS, BRIAN MALAVAR, TEVITA AHOLELEI, AND DONNY FLORES. WITH ONE WEEK TO GO IN THE SEA- SON, THE SAXONS HAD A TOTAL RE- CORD OF I7 WINS AND I LOSS. EMPIRE LEAGUE CONSISTS OF THE BEST WRESTLERS IN ORANGE COUN- TY, AND IS CONSIDERED ONE OF THE MOST COMPETITIVE LEAGUES. OUT OF EIGHT TEAMS, FOUR OF THEM ARE RANKED IN TOP TEN IN THE COUNTY. UNFORTUNATELY LOARA LOST AGAINST THE SECOND- RANKED TEAM, EL DORADO. BUT THIS DID NOT STOP THE GRAPPLERS AS THEY WENT ON TO DEFEAT ESPER- ANZA, LOS ALAMITOS, KENNEDY, AND KATELLA. CREDIT FOR AN- OTHER SUCCESSFUL SEASON MUST BE GIVEN TO COACHES RICK MAR- TENS, ROB MARTENS, DR. TERRY, AND TOM CASPARI. WRESTLING IS PROBABLY THE HARDEST SPORT IN HIGH SCHOOL. TEVITA AHOLELEI COMMENTED ON THIS BY SAYING, HI THINK WRES- TLING IS THE TOUGHEST SPORT BE- CAUSE YOU HAVE TO CUT WEIGHT AND TRAIN AT THE SAME TIME WITH- OUT SKIPPING A DAY. ALSO, IT'S ONE ON ONE, SO YOU HAVE TO TRY HARD. ALTHOUGH WRESTLING MAY SEEM LIKE ALL WORK, WORK, WORK, IT HAS A GOOD SIDE TO IT. SAID DONNY FLORES, WRESTLING HAS HELPED ME LEARN THE REAL MEANING OF FRIENDSHIP. v. wresIImqfB5

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SELF - ni CIPLINE5 i 5 v 'N' X 'Y 1, X Qu ' Ti 63 H i one W WE 4. - 1 .. A - R 1 f ft VAR ITY WRE TLING TEAM BRINGS PRIDE TQ LGARA xr, wiestliiiu three Atshiri Bayrooti uses cross-lace cradle for a pm. Brian Malavar Controls his opponent. The l986-87 Varsity Wrestling Team. Top: Brian Malavar, Eddie Andros, Mike Brayriard, Bob Grd- ham, loseph Abdelattit, Carlos Barrientos, Atshiri Bayrooti, Ralph Rucker, Danny Rovira. Middle: Te- vita Aholelei, Rick Puccio, lohn Adams, Eyad Alwl. Steve lvlashoof, Dale Six, Sean Culross. Bottom 1 lasori Miner, Donny Flores, Dean Hariario, Nicky Koh. ln his fourth year with the varsity team, Tevita Ahole- lei wrestles with COl'lll'1l6Y1C':'. Senior Donny Flores defeats hir: oppfiricrit from Kd' tella. Nicky Kola, returriiriq C,l,F'. Charripiori, gets ready lor the matfrh,

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j 'if ' 4 .5-' - 'i one in three YOU G TEAM ADD EW DIME SIONS ANDTALE T 86 wrestlmq A I W -',!',a,.4 four ON NOVEMBER IO, 1986, LOARA'S WRESTLERS STARTED WORKING OUT FOR THIS YEAR'S SEASON. AL- THOUGH THE WRESTLING SEASON DIDN'T START UNTIL IANUARY 8, MONTHS OF PRACTICE WERE NEED- ED TO PREPARE THE TEAM FOR A DE- MANDING SCHEDULE. FOR MANY STUDENTS, WRESTLING WAS A NEW EXPERIENCE, BUT WITH THE EXPERT COACHING OF RICK MARTENS AND ASSISTANTS TOM CA-