McCluer North High School - Polaris Yearbook (Florissant, MO)

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Stars finish season Warming up before the game, Mike Abeln works on his ball skills. Searching for an open man, Steve McVey dribbles up field. 48 Varsity Soccer In soccer the main object was to score. No one could say that North didn't score goals. One of the highest scorers in the area, Steve McVey, played for North. In 24 games the Stars scored 38 goals but gave up only 33. On many teams most of the scoring was done by the strikers and wingers, but for North the scoring was distributed fairly even among the strikers, wingers, and mid-fielders with one goal coming 2nd in District from fullback Mike Taylor. Strikers and wingers who scored were Terry Ste- panek with 5, Dave Dempster with 4, Dan Regnier with 3, and Mike Abeln, Jeff Hutsler, and Mark Weiss each with one. Midfielders who scored for North were Steve McVey with 8, Joe Waldroy with 7, Mike Sutter with 3, and Kevin O'Mara and Tony DiSalvo each with 2 The team tied the school high scoring} record when they scored 12 goals to beat Normandy 12-1. The old school record was held by the 1975 Sta team. The Stars opened up district play with a bang by defeating North County Tech. 3-0. They continued further by scoring 4 second half goals to defeat} Prep. North 4-1. In front of a pack crowd at Koch Park the team ended i season and chances for winning state by losing to Hazelwood Central 2-0) ‘Even though we blew our chances to win conference, districts, and state, still had a fun season, said goalie Jeff Miller. q