Madison High School - Cauldron Yearbook (Madison, OH)

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Course records are broken five times! The first meet of the season brought Harvey to our course at Hogan’s Farm. Jay Fabian equaled his own record of 12:12 coming first across the line. Charlie Rizzo followed in sec- ond place and Jim Jackson brought in a third. Harvey took fourth, fifth and sixth. Madison won the meet 21-28. We won our first league meet against Chardon the following week. Jim Jackson, Charlie Rizzo and Jay Fabian tripled a first place breaking Chardon’s course record by 14 seconds. Chardon took fourth place while Bob Leitch, Mark Nixon and Norbert Doland gave Madi- son fifth, sixth and seventh re- spectively. Madison ran one of the few close meets against Harbor the next week. We slipped by the Mariners with a score of 28-29. Jay Fabian was first across the line followed by twro Harbor runners. Charlie Rizzo over- took their third runner in the final sprint and gave Madison a fourth. Harbor took fifth and Jim Jackson took sixth. Poge 13

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Madison wins first W.R.L. Cross Country Championship. The 1966 Cross Country sea- son proved to be most success- ful. This year’s team was the first to capture the sole owner- ship of the League Champion- ship title for Madison since Coach Strother began the sport five years ago.

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For our second league meet Kirtland came to our course, The course record was broken by the four top runners; Jay Fabian, Jim Jackson, Jeff Mills of Kirtland and Charlie Rizzo. Kirtland took fifth but Madison came through with sixth, sev- enth, eighth and ninth by Bob Leitch, Gary Blackie, Bill Mc- Ginnis and Mark Nixon. Madi- son outran Kirtland with a score of 20-41. The team met little resistance against Jefferson in the next meet, winning its third league meet 15-49. Madison swept The 1966 Cross Country Team ROM7 1—Dave Gragg, Steve Fos- ter, Dan Constable, Mark Nixon, Skip Kennedy, Charlie Rizzo, Nor- bert Doland, Jim Lefler, Pat Ortiz, Gary Blackie, Conrad Potemra, Tim Jackson, Kim Webb. first thru sixth places with Jay Fabian in first followed by Jim Jackson and Charlie Rizzo tied for second. Bob Leitch was fourth, Gary Blackie fifth and Bill McGinnis sixth. Madison displacers brought in eighth thru twelfth place. The next week brought Wick- liffe to the Madison course. Wickliffe found the tough Mad- ison team eager for a 6-0 rec- ord. They did it by walking over Wickliffe 22-35. Jay Fab- ian was first with Charlie Rizzo following. Wickliffe grabbed third and fifth while Jim Jack- ROW 2—Rick Howard, Stu Fran- cis, Tim Smith, Bill McGinnis, Bill Buckius, Jim Reidel, Bob Stone- man, Tom Orsini, Ed Leitch, Rick Stoneman, Ray Antweiler, Lou Mavko. son ran a fourth. The following week the har- riers met their toughest compe- tition against Geneva. The meet was held at Chapel Hills in Ash- tabula on a cold, windy day. Madison received a first by Jay Fabian. Geneva got second, fourth and fifth place. Charlie Rizzo brought in a third and Jim Jackson a sixth. Thanks to the fine work of the displacers, the meet was won by a slim 27-28. On October 20, Madison met Perry to decide the champion- ship of the W.R.L. The meet ROM' 3—Coach Strother, Joe I)e- Rubertis, Chuck Hiller, Mike Mc- Farland, Wes GerTosky, Keith Klein, Bob Leitch, Jim Jackson, Jay Fabian, Tom Miles, Dave Neundofer, Phil Tater, Lenny Le- Baron (Manager).