Rock Island High School - Watchtower Yearbook (Rock Island, IL)

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Front row M McCarthy. C. Allison. M. Travis. J Klingaman, H. Cao, S. Blackwell. B McGee. J. Wil¬ son. B. Colvin Row 2: M Esparza. D Lindholme. M Nelson. C. Ortiz. M Peterson. E Wistedt. A. McQueen. A Moreno. K. Soyke Row 3: P Roberts. J. Rasmussen. D White, C. Ellis. B Hallburg. K. Shrake. P Dean. J. Christianson. S. Vance Row 4 S. McCubbin. M Jones. K. Nolan. T. Spaulding. G. Guy. J Berry. J. DeYoung. R. Knanishu. D. Shannon Back Row Coach A. Gorgal. Mgr. P Collinson, P Hovomck. G. Hass. J. Allen. P Jackson. S. Terry. J. Snyder. Coach M Benson Football 29

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Rough season Getting the jump on the other teams helps Rocky stay ahead. The Rocky freshman football squad endured a rough season, as they were winless in seven co ntests. However, the Rocks had several fine individual players. Mike Esparza led the team in rushing with 211 yards. Quarterback Tony Spaulding passed for 385 yards while completing nearly 50 percent of his passes. On defense, Joe Allen led in tackles with 49, and punter Chris Allison averaged 38 yards on his nine kicks. Meanwhile, the sophomores struggled to a 4-5 season, but were 3-2 in Western Big Six play. Their biggest highlight came when Tony Teague returned a kickoff for a touchdown against Springfield Griffin. Offensively, quarterback Mickey Borcherding threw for 654 yards. Jamie Williams led all rushers with 724 yards and averaged almost eight yards a carry. Don White shined on defense with four interceptions. Joe Lawrence recovered six fumbles, and Chris Quinones led the sophomores in tackles with 56. —ss:—c Giving the runner help shows how the Rocks worked as a team. Front row; R Burrell. J. Williams. T. Hovinga, M Snyder. T. Smith. E. Schwertley. R Walme. B Al¬ dridge. V Ma. Row two : K. Loveless. U. Yuenyoung. P Kernan. C Quinones. P. O ' Brien. J. Park. M King. J McReynolds. Row three R Hendrickson. S Hergert. D Pease. A Verser. M Borcherding. J. Lawrence. E. Sarno. G. Scalf. Row four. T Peterson. K McGee. M Bradford. C. Wilson. M Morrison. B DeBrobander. J. Pickett 28 Football

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Cheerleaders add zip Varsity basketball cheerleaders include: Front row: Twyla Perkins. Row two Marci Hotchkiss. Kelly Fair- man. Back row: Angie Bowen. Louisa Carter. Heidi Dunsmoor. Julie Payton. Michele Young. The Rocky cheerleaders symbolized the loyal school spirit this past year. Enthusiasm and dedication filled the everyday life of a cheerleader. Through the rainy cold nights when most Ians chose to enjoy the game on the radio, the squads were out in the stadium cheering the guys on. Week night and weekend practices throughout the year created quite a tight schedule for the girls. However, the cheerleaders did make time to provide the basketball players with cookies, decorated locker rooms prior to the games, and made available the traditional hoop the players jumped through. During the Homecoming assembly, a dance routine to Prince’s hot hit KISS” was a well presented and fully enjoyable program. The varsity squad performed that same routine at South Park Mall in a competition with other area high school cheerleaders. The varsity and sophomore cheerleaders who were chosen to cheer for football had the option to remain a cheerleader throughout the basketball season. Another differentiation from this year’s cheerleaders was that a new routine to the Rocky school song was choreographed. The 1986-87 cheerleading squads worked extremely hard to prove they had the talent to make Rocky more proud of the fact that Red is our color.Gold is the other!! Sophomore basketball cheerleaders include: Front ly Collins Back row: Debbie Cox. Kim Lingafelter row: Angie Schmit. Betsy Bell. Tracy Schneider. Kel- Performing expert moves at the Homecoming as- Freshmen basetball cheerleaders include: Monica Kesler. Latonya Williamson. Sara Chambers, sembly were Twyla Perkins and Debbie Cox. Rodgers. Stephanie Scott. Jenny Penndleton. Karol 30 Cheerleading