McConnellsburg High School - Sparta / Flashlites Yearbook (McConnellsburg, PA)

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Near Stellar Season for Spartan Soccer MHS OPP 7 Hyndman 1 II Cumberland Valley Christian School 4 4 at Broad! ording Academy 0 2 at James Buchanan 1 3 St James Academy 0 1 Greene as tie 2 1 at Fairfield 2 2 at Waynesboro 1 2 at Fannett-Metal 1 7 at St James Academy 0 3 James Buchanan 2 2 at Greencastie 4 1 1 at Mercersburg Academy 4 1 Fairfield 2 1 Waynesboro 2 4 Fannett-Metal 4 r 1 Mercersburg Academy 4 II at Hyndman District V Championship 3 4 at Salisbury State Playoffs 1 1 Mt Lebonon season record II 8 1 7 » %. i Above: Kevin Kendall dribbles up the field with Robert Koontz trailing him during the State Playoff game against Mount Lebonon. The Spartans lost 7 to I. Upper Right: Kevin Kendall ( 4) out maneuvers a Mount Lebonon player and tips the ball to Melvin Peck while Tommie Souders. Barry Spriggs, and cheerleader. Trudy Hege look on. Right: Front Mike Wagner. Chris Garber. Barry Spriggs. Melvin Peck. Ricky Marshall. Loren Barclay. Kevin Kendall. Jeff Garber. Back Coach Allen Cover. Brad McClain, manager. Brian Mellott. Travis Strait. Brian Davis. Robert Koontz. Bill Cover. Tommie Souders. David Thomas. Dennis Swope.

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ISCHCDUlt FOR r. 1 STUCWNH NAAM • •. • a 1 J ? AM 0 ADO fSS 1 '—LiJ—I— — :iT i St ATI % nr Top left: Teachers receive computer scheduled students. Top right Clair Lininger locks up for the day. Middle Left. New schedules are complicated. Bottom Left: Jerry Harmon helps keep our halls clean. Bottom Right Carole Mellon places an order for new materials. 9

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Even while finishing the season with an average 11-8-1 season, the Spartan soccer team managed a birth in the PIAA soccer championships. When practice started in mid August it was still questionable as to how the Spartans would Upp«r: Robert Koontz. kick the ball into a Mercersburg Academy player with Chri Garber ( K ) looking on and Bill Cover ( 15) coming to help. The Spartan lo t the game 4 to I. Lower. Melvin Peck ( 14) and the ballboys show their excitement over McConnellsburg's only goal against Mount Lebonon. Kevin Kendall not pictured, scored the goal with 13.56 remaining in the first half. fare in the upcoming season. The team had only a few returning seniors, which definitely made the Spartans a young team. But the juniors who made up the largest part of the team were fairly well experienced and skilled, and Coach Cover was confident that they could fill the vacancies left by last years graduating players. As the soccer season opened against Hyndman, it seemed as though the long hours of practice and extra time spent playing in the special summer league was paying off for the young Spartan team. They easily defeated Hyndman 7-1. But it didn’t stop there. The team won its next four games including a league match against James Buchanan, thus bringing their record to 5-0 and 1-0 in Blue Mountain League competition. The once questionable Spartans seemed invincible It looked like an excellent season was in store for Coach Cover and the Spartans. But things turned sour for the Spartans when they dropped their next two games to Greencastle and Fairfield, both league rivals, ruining hopes for winning the first half of the season of Blue Mountain competition. The Spartans started the second half strongly, but after two victories, lost their next four games, ended the season with a tie and another loss, making their final record 9-7-1. The Spartans efforts then turned to the upcoming District 5 play-off game. They once again defeated Hyndman 7-0 to advance to the final game of the district play-offs against Salisbury. The Salisbury game started out slowly until the Spartans scored late in the first quarter. Salisbury quickly countered, tying the score at I apiece. This situation was only temporary as the Spartans came back with another score to go a head and then two others to defeat Salisbury and become the District 5 champs for the second year in a row. The Spartans had made the state play- offs. despite a somewhat disappointing regular season. They now faced a considerably stronger Mt. Lebonon team in the first round state game. The Spartans played a strong game but couldn’t hold the eventual state champion Mt. Lebonon team back. Mt. Lebonon defeated the Spartans 7-1, thus ending their season on a losing note, and making the Spartans final record 11-8-1.