Palo Verde High School - Olympian Yearbook (Tucson, AZ)

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..l 5... JUNIOR VARSITY WRESTLING TEAM-FRONT ROW: Mike Emerling, Rick Ruff, Jim Musgrave, Bill Blackwell, Pete Jorgenson, Kim Acorn. SECOND ROW: Gary Lovato, Don York, Dave Britton, Roy Dwiggins, John Hansen, Greg Knox, Joe Kalt, Daryl Bever. BACK ROW: Jeff Estes, Tom Stoops, Warren Lind, Dun Har- rell, Mark Canright, Mark Arneson, Sherman Miller, Bill Ramos, Gilbert Canzio Guy Davis. JV Wrestlers E d Year With 5-5 Record Tension was felt during the opening part of a varsity wrestling match between At a wrestling match with Amphi on January 6, a lunior varsity Titan struggled to bring down a Panther. The game was held at Palo Verde in the boys' gym. v ..-WM' 'Q Carlos Tellez and a Rincon grappler. Palo Verde beat the Rangers 28-12.

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Varsity Grapplers Placed Seventh in State VARSITY WRESTLING RECORD Palo Verde Oppqnenfs 34 Salpointe 13 20 Pueblo 26 17 Tucson 27 Phoenix College Tournament 27 Amphi 21 33 Flowing Wells II 20 Sunnyside 20 33 North Phoenix 5 I6 Catalina 26 I7 South Mountain 25 28 Rincon I2 COACH In the December 9 wrestling match against Pueblo a final score of 26-20. A Pueblo grappler tried to Bill Ismay Coached by Mr. Bill lsmay, the varsity wrestling squad ended their season with a 5-4-1 over-all record, a fourth place finish in the AA-4 divisional meet and seventh place in the state championships. Carlos Tellez, senior, won a first place in both divisional and state meets. Jim Thompson, senior, and Clark Canright, iunior, also won first places in the divisional meet with iunior Allen Lowe finishing third and sophomore Gary Lovato and senior Bob Mitchell finishing fourth. In the state meet Canright won third place and Thompson finished fourth. in the Warriors gym, Palo Verde was defeated by defeat his opponent by using the take down hold. Coach William lsmay lecl the iunior varsity wrestling team to a good season in 1967. The squad had a record of 5 wins and 5 losses. Wins were recorded in meets against South Mountain, North Phoenix, Tucson High, Salpointe and Amphi. Top players of the season were Tom Stoops, Gary Lavato, John Bell, Roy Dwiggins and Pete Jorgenson. Mr. lsmay said that these boys showed good wrestling characteristics and had fine possibilities for the varsity team next year. Jim Crim managed both the varsity and iunior varsity teams during the wrestling season. VARSITY WRESTLING TEAM-FRONT ROW: Ken Moulis, Bob Mitchell, Mike Red- ding, Carlos Tellez, Allen Lowe. BACK ROW: Jay McClure, Max Bamett, Mike finial, York, Clark Canright, Brock Swanson, Jim Thompson, Mgr. Jim Crim.

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FRESHMAN WRESTLING TEAM-FRONT ROW: Rusty Spillers, Marshall Colter, Dennis Pike, Khris Schottleutner, Ron Winger, Mike Schultz, Steve Schull, Gary Bob Metz, Joe Hart, Bill Wright, Mark- Muse, David Brahms, Gene Valdez, Gary Pope. BACK ROW: Carl Gaidarus, Mike Miller, Greg Roetteis, Steve Knox, Bob Welch, Andy Kleiman, Mark McDonald. SECOND TEAM: Rene Ruiz, Larry Leg- Hawkins, Andy Davis, Eric Krutzsch, Bob Morris, Eric Schrader, Joe Arriaga, Bob gett, Jim Henken, Charlie Liccoine, Joe Hartnett, Ken Zobel, Charlie Campos, Eppstein, Bob Wright, Charles Simmons, Larry Simms, Mgr. Jim Pratt. Frosh Matmen Learned Better Technique Under The coaching of Edward Baron, The freshman wresfling Team equalled Their previous year's record of seven wins and one loss. The Team was victorious in games againsT SaIpoinTe, Tucson, Amphi, Sunnyside, CaTalina, Flowing Wells and Rin- con. Through many hours of pracTice, The members of The squad developed individual wresTling skills. MosT of The frosh wresTlers were awarded Their class leTTer. The TorTy wres- Tlers who finished The season showed poTenTial Tor The iunior vamhy and vamhy Teanw in connng yeam. Another victory was added by the freshman wrestling team to their record of seven wins and one loss. Amphi was defeated 32-19 in a match on January 9. COACH Ed Baron Frosh president, Bill Ramos, moved to pin down his opponent from Flowing Wells. The Palo Verde-Flowing Wells frosh match took place on January 28.