Mishawaka High School - Miskodeed Yearbook (Mishawaka, IN)

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John Kindley is ready to take down his man. Ed ElUasser is going to put his opponent on his back. Rob Mills puts a cross-face on his man. Joel Krop readies himself to wrestle. Varsity Wrestlers Do Better Than Expected What the coaching staff thought would be not-so-great turned out to be better than usual for the wrestling team. At the beginning of the year, Head Coach Al Smith had thought that his team might do poorly this season be- cause it lost many wrestlers. Bob Strong, who went to state last year, and Jeff Koontz, MHS ' s highest placer at state in five years, were lost to gradu- ation, and many wrestlers eligible to wrestle this year chose not to go out. These departures left a young team, mostly sophomores, trying to make bet- ter last year ' s record of 11-2. They came along just fine with a re- cord of 8-3 most of the way through the season. Coach Smith predicted that the team would end up with a record of 11- 4. The good record was due to the accu- mulation of everybody ' s talents, but some of the outstanding wrestlers were Dan Moreno, a junior; John Kindley, a sophomore; and Jon Moshak, a senior. Mr. Smith said the thing that they and some of the other wrestlers had that made t hem win was the attitude, Wres- tle to win or Wrestle not to lose . That attitude worked well in dual matches, but the team didn ' t do so well at tournaments. The team came in tenth in the Mishawaka Invitational, but they did well at the Mishawaka Triple Dual, coming in first. 28 W resiling

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Step They Take ton scored were on spikes by us out of bounds. The entire game lasted twenty- two minutes which included the three minute break between games. Goals and highlights were many for the Cavewomen. First, the main goal for the freshmen team was not the win-loss record but to teach the basic style of play they will have to use eventually on the Varsity and B-Team level of play. The freshmen team progressed nicely toward that goal and will have many players contributing on the B-Team and Varsity next season, Coach Carlton said. The highlight of the season was the tournament victory over Schmucker. The girls had lost their first game of the match 13-15, but they came back and played the best of the season and won the next two games 15-6 and 15-6. A couple of individual highlights were as follows: Pam Wise served fourteen straight aces in the third game against South Bend Washington, and Becky Klein served five straight aces in the third game against rival South Bend St. Joe with less than twenty-five seconds left on the clock to win the game. The Wise sisters set new records this year. Pam Wise scored six aces during the season, a record for the team and all teams coached by Dale Carlton. Peggy Wise set the record for the highest ser- vice percentage of balls in play — nine- ty-six percent. Row 1: C. Snyder, M. Thorton, K. Draskovits, P. Wise, J. Bathje, and P. Wise. Row 2: J. Filip, J. Woodward, B. Klein, J. Tobolski, K. Kovach, D. Mahaffey, J. Burkowski, L. Barton, and Coach Carlton. MHS plays block their opponents serve. Volleyball 27

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John Kindlcy wins another one! Mike (Beef) Faulkner is ready to pin this poor Dan Mareno throws his opponent to the mat. Row: 1 T. Burch, M. Baer, R. Mills, D. Moreno, J. Kindley, T. Schaffer, and C. Cornell. Row 2: A. Patterson, E. Ellsasser, T. Ashburn, S. Wilson, D. Metcalf, and T. Emmons, S. Roggeman. Row 3: E. Sabbe, M. Faulkner, J. Flatt, J. Kocsis, M. Hesch, J. Krop, T. Margraf, and Coach Smith. Wrestling 29