Long Beach City College - Saga Yearbook (Long Beach, CA)

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DENNIS MILLE, defending Metropolitan side horse champion, displays his winning form. By Jack Hoffman The Long Beach City College gymnastic team, coached by Wayne Skill, completed their finest season this past year, finishing in second place in the dual meet standings and taking third place in the Metropolitan Conference finals. This marked the finest finish ever for Long Beach in the conference gymnastic finals. Since the first gymnastic team at Long Beach in 1956 there has been steady improvement in each succeeding team. This year ' s team proved to b no different, ending up with a record of six wins, one loss and one tie. Their only loss came lat the hands of dual meet champion Valley, and the tie was with nationally ranked Long Beach State. This year ' s team was composed of Skip Mercier, Jim Fountaine, Dan Speraw, I arry Brown, Dennis Mills, Brian Ratzaff, Alan Ams- bary, Don Jones, Bill Moore, Larry Smith and the two Roberts, Jim and Ray. Individually, Speraw, Mills and Mercier were the team ' s lead- ing point winners. Speraw was the iron-man performer on the squad, scoring in all 10 events in many of the meets. Mills made a great deal of his points on the sidehorse and longhorse, while Mercier rolled up his total on the trampoline and in tumbling. Those qualified for the Southern California Junior College Championships which were held at Long Beach were Mercier, Mills, Brown, Speraw and Fountaine. Coach Skill, who originated the gymnastics program at Long Beach City College, shows an over-all coaching record at City College of 29 victories and 19 defeats. In the last three years his Vikings have accumulated a total of 21 wins and only four losses. DAN SPERAW. the leading scorer on the Viking squad, Is seen here on the horizontal bar as teamnnate Jinn Roberts looks on. 26

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RON MORSE IN ACTION TENNIS By Dave Daniel The Norse Metiers this season compiled an overall 8-9 record and finished conference play with a 6-8 mark. San Diego swept through the entire conference, defeating every team twice, to cop the crown with an unblemished 14-0 rec- ord. Viking tennis coach Rollie Eilerts piloted the squad to fifth place in the Metropolitan Con- ference. The Viking wins came at the expense of Cer- ritos, East Los Angeles, Bakersfield, and Los Angeles Valley. Cerritos and Valley were beaten twice by the Norsemen. Members of this year ' s squad were Ron Morse, Marty Newman, George Francisco, Al Valera, Jack Tyler, Bob Gaede, Ron Applebaum, and Grant Boyar. Boyar was somewhat of a new- comer to the squad as a result of transferring from the baseball team. First doubles team was played by Newman and Francisco. They qualified for the Southern California Junior College Tournament as a re- sult of their showing in the Metro Conference finals. The finals were dominated by the Knights of San Diego, with the first two places in singles and doubles going to members of the Knight squad. ROLLIE EILERTS, Coach AL VALERA i . RON APPLBAUM MARTY NEWMAN GEORE FRANCISCO JACK TYLER

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THE LBCC GYMNASTIC team are, left to right, row I: Jim Fontain, Skip Mercier, Larry Smith, Don Jones, Bill Moore, Larry Brown; row 2: Ray Roberts, Dan Speraw, Alan Amsbary, Brian Ratilaff, Dennis Mills, Jim Roberts. GYMNASTICS JIM FOUNTAIN completes one of his routines on the parallel bars. ALAN AMSBARr makes a perfect land- ing off the horizontal bar as coach Wayne Skill assists him. 27