Rockdale County High School - Tempus Fugit Yearbook (Conyers, GA)

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Luck went our way at the Cobb County Civic Center. All of our wrestlers but one made it through the first round, starting us out with a good beginning for our team score. As each round progressed, our score rose. After the semi- finals Friday night, it was said that Rockdale had it all wrapped up. We had a score of 103.5, and our closest opponent was Clarkston with 70 points. Gene O'Kelley and Tony lVlcDonald wrestled in the consolations for third and fourth places, Gene getting 3rd and Tony 4th. Our team set a new state record by having five people in the finals. Robert Thornton and Ricky Webb were State Champions, and Scott Dennis, John Plavcan, and Antonio Thornton were runners-up. Our final team score was 125, another record breaker. Congratulations to Coach Spra- gue and wrestlers for their terrific job. Wrestling 139

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138 Wrestling The most important of all the matches and tournaments is still yet to come. We went to the Area Tournament with the intention of winning and moving on to bigger and better things, and that is exactly what we did. We took nine wrestlers to the state tourna- ment, six of whom were first in the area. '4'::'.1'K73ll-

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Junior Savages Do Well Coach John White led his B-Team Wrestlers to a winning season this year. They were only defeated twice out of seven matches. He had many ninth graders to participate and is working them toward being superior varsity wrestlers in the years ahead. Rockdale hosted a B-Team invitational Tournament here this year. Avondale won, but we ran a close second, trail- ing only by two points. There were ten teams entered in the tournament. Jimmy O'Kelley, a ninth grader, won first. We had five boys to come in sec- ond: Mitchell Anderson, Steve Chris' tofferson, Nicky Jones, Norbert Wil- liams, 2nd Scott Ellard. Chris Camp- bell received third place. Dace Gids dens was a fourth-place winner. 2 TAO Wrestling