Myrtle Point High School - Bobcat Yearbook (Myrtle Point, OR)

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ROW 1, FROM LEFT: Walt Hogan, Dennis Dayton, John Fran-zen, Wayne Stout, Rex King. ROW 2: Bob Van Vlock, Howard Porter, Vic Murray, Don Mast, Terry Pullen, Jim Key, Lloyd Grant, John Meldrum. ROW 3: Dan Kilgore, Russ Stout, Reed Gurney, Nick Galloway, James Dunn, Bill Floyd, Mike R. Anderson, Dennis Kelly. Seniors Reed Gurney and Terry Pullen practice hand-offs for the 440 relay event.

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BATTING AVERAGES Jim Blohm .184 Jerry Brodie .217 Kent Brown .093 Ron Clark .172 Dave Duren .167 Mike Grisham .196 Harold Hartley .000 Andrew Lancaster .273 Paul Luhrs .250 Jim MacKerrow .140 Pat McCurdy .273 Ross Robinson .238 Terry Staman .094 Delbert Starr .072 PITCHER’S RECORDS W L Harold Hartley 1 2 Mike Grisham 0 7 Pat McCurdy 2 6 Ross Robinson 0 3 Pat McCurdy stands ready to hit away in batting practice while Jim MacKerrow looks on. Delbert Starr, third baseman, fields a ground ball during spring basebal I training. Coach Marv Scherpf, baseball coach, gives John Gurney last minute instructions before batting practice.

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Track Team Sa£ ?s Sunset Cfiampionsfiip MPHS's track team once again took the Sunset championship and broke several records during the track season. Craig Brown, MP’s speed merchant, took three first places in the district meet at Coquille. Brown won the 100 in 10.2 and the 220 in a recording setting time of 22.5. His trip over the track in the 220 broke a 33 year record. Dave Hatfield was clocked in 10.1 in the preliminaries of the Sunset district meet to break the school s record in the 100 yd. dash. Hatfield also gained a second place in the broad jump at district. Vic Murray ran the two mile with a season best of 10:15. Murray took second place in district competition in the two mile. Don Mast also ran the two mile and broke the school record with a time of 2:14. Reed Gurney ran the 220, pole vaulted, and ran the relay. His best effort in the pole vault was a record breaking height of 13' 4 1 8 . Terry Pull en backed up Brown in the 100 and also ran on the record breaking relay team. Pullen's best in the 100 was a 10.5. John Franzen, MPHS javelin thrower and high hurdler acquired season bests with a heave of 165’ in the javelin and was clocked at 16 flat in the high hurdles. At the Spike Leslie Relays at North Bend the relay team comprised of Reed Gurney, Terry Pullen, Jim Hatfield, and Craig Brown took a first place and broke the 440 yd. relay record with a time of 45.5. These four boys also tied the school record in the 880 yd. relay with a time of 1.33.3, and came home with a fourth in the state track meet. Dave Winningham, javelin thrower broke the school record with a heave of 168’ 2 . Distance runners Vic Murray, Don Mast, Howard Porter and Keith Hill work out in preparation for future track events. Wayne Stout, sophomore, clears the bar in practice for the pole vault event. Track 29