Sabino High School - Vista Yearbook (Tucson, AZ)

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Belt Buckles Down As American as apple pie, baseball has long been a popular sport, espe- cially at Sabino where sluggers have launched college and even profession- al baseball careers. Along with many returning players, the team fielded a new coach this year, Mr. Bill Belt. Belt, who had taken the Sabino softball team to the State play- offs this year, had wanted to coach var- sity baseball since he'd been at Sabino. Belt had previously coached very suc- 11 Team cessful l .V. teams. This year he did an outstanding job with the varsity squad. The team worked like a well oiled unit. Senior Daryl Lee said, l've played baseball for 8 years and this is the most unified team l've been on. This team showed why baseball and spirit are errorless at Sabino. By lon Benson and Lisa Muth Photos by Liz Lorch 1. Daryl Lee listens as Todd Welch comments on his grip. 2. Get out of the way, Ken Graff takes a powerful swing. 3. Intensity of the Saber practices are shown in the faces of Iohn Garite and Andrea Benaneti, 4. Varsity Baseball Team: Kneeling-lohn Garite, lohn Krause, Steve Munnell, Todd Loomis, Manerd Bird. Standing-Nancy Reid, lake Katz, Daryl Lee, Andrea Benaneti, Doug Adel- berg, Mike Muratore, Ken Graff, Todd Welch, Danny Soble, Coach Belt. Not Pic- tured: Ted Raszka, Bruce Morton, Bob La- prise, and Steve Brown. Varsity Baseball 97

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Watch Out World Series, Here Come Our Cats What does it take to make up a great team? Strategy, cooperation, determi- nation and skill. These four words best describe our 1983-84 l.V. baseball team. lt turned out to be a whole different ball game when Coach Belt moved up to the Varsity team because Mr. Sicilian decided to devote his time to football. This year's team was coached by Mr. Art Acosta, who came to Sabino from Rincon, where he coached the school's baseball team. This is Mr. Acosta's first year coaching at Sabino. Sabino gave the team support and hoped that this would be the year for the l.V. Cats. The determination in the team made it easier for them to be like a family. Two long, tedious hours were spent each day on warmups, base sprinting, and other athletic skills, mak- ing it tough for the whole team, but they pulled through. All in all, it was a great year for our Sabers. Way to go, Cats! By Melanie Padayao and Debbie Mont- gomery Photos by Greg Selers