Safford High School - Ocotillo Yearbook (Safford, AZ)

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Q l e l f i A I S4 I . . rr t ,ff l S - I. Team Top. Brian Estavnllo, Tom Sutton Rob Taylor, John Schreur Armando ad Hemphill Rack Angle The desire to win an a lot of teamwork helped us to u through 7 1 nales. Mike Donnelly. Bottom: Eric Hanoock, John Jacobson, Peter Gauna, . Scgtt Evans

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Fast break. Ricky Angle. 310, moves quickly down the court as M14 Brad Hemphill and 1150 John Schreur, JV teammates, race down the court to set up the offense. Ready? Catch! 1520 Robert Mullen- eaux lobs a pass to Jason Bartlett, 332 in the freshman game against Thatcher. 5 4 Freshman Team. Top: Allen Angle. Mike Dorrell. Randy VanLeuven, Van Mor- tensen, Greg Herbert, Ray Walker, Albert Robledo. Bottom: Travis Jacobson. Robert Mulleneaux, Clay Lines, Mike Sanchez, Nick Holguin, Jason Bartlett, Darin Newell. Determined Shot. JV player John SCHVGUV, 3110, outplays a Thatcher opponent as he scores off the back- board.

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Go get 'em. Before a match, head wrestling coach Rich DeRidder ad- vises varslty wrestler Wayne Fergu- son on how to handle his opponent. Always tough. Marvin Molina doesn't seem to be letting his opponent have a second chance for a pin. Varsity Wrestling Conditioning pays off Always tough and ready for a fight, the Safford wrestlers again this year showed what wrestling was all about. Mr. DeRldder, Mr. Andrews and new coach Tommy Gon- zales had their hands full with the 21 wres- tlers. Exhausting practices and Weights classes improved their skills. Jim Guiterrez-112 pound class-was super coming back from last year. Freshman Mike Turner-191-proved that he will be an awe- some wrestler in future years. Sammy Gra- ham-126-wrestled with experience even though this was his first year on varsity. Marvin Molina-145-knew his moves very well. David Hickey-132-was a super hard worker and a very good wrestler, but lost some time due to an injury in his match against San Manuel. Herman Andrews-119-was an ex- cellent wrestler strong young with good potential for the fu ture Steve Lopez 179 was very strong and should in 86 Jay Merrick and Wayne Fer guson 155 weighed round 145 and wrestled up a weight class all year. Both gained valuable experience which will be tremendously important to the '86 team. Sammy Gonzales-138-labeled by the coach as Most Effort Shown , was just learning, but really hung in there. He was super tough and always gave 100470. Dominic Lopez-105-was a real surprise. He came in 4th at the Gilbert Invitational and was tough all year. He pinned one opponent in 17 sec- onds. The Most Improved Wrestler title went to Anthony Rodriguez-98-who placed first at the Gilbert Invitational and won most of his matches. He definitely worked hard to main- tain the 98 pound weight class and was an extremely strong contender all season. The two captains, Scott Warner- heavyweight and Robert Lopez 167 both pinned opponents in 23 seconds Robert a returning state champion was tough quick and strong and a very smart wrestler Scott champ and was the quickest heavyweight in the state He benched 405 pounds and was a totally awesome wrestler The J V team was young but they got a lot of practice and gained much experience this year reach his full potential was the rleturning heavyweight divisional b o ' t il . . I A n, I in a- ' .