San Luis Obispo High School - Tiger Tales Yearbook (San Luis Obispo, CA)

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.1 .feffwsfsw .. ips STROKING THE BALL--Number 1 man Mark Bailey strokes an eight foot putt in preparation for CIF individual play. VARSITY GOLF SQUAD-Phil Priiatel, head coach, Barry Smith, Bob Buschman, Rick Paulsen, Bill Watson, Russ Sankoff, Randy Slinker, Mark Bailey. 64-Golf Linksmen in 4-way tie behind pacer Pirates With only two returning lettermen Coach Phil Priiatel's inexperienced linksmen landed in a four-way battle for second place behind league leader Morro Bay. Three year letterman Mark Bailey, whose overall finish in league play in the last two years has been fifth and third, was tabbed to finish first or second to Mowrey of Morro Bay. Team medalist honors have usually gone to Bailey with 35 at Atascadero and 36 at San Luis Obispo even par rounds for nine holes and 74, two over at Santa Maria and later 77 at the Lompoc Invitational Tournament good for fourth place. ln non-league eighteen hole matches, the Bengals lost to San Marcos 55-15, Cabrillo 45-27, Lompoc 39-33 but defeated Santa Maria 37-11 and Atascadero 28-8. With a mark of 2-4 in league play, the Bengals bowed to Atascadero 21-15, Morro Bay 20-4, Arroyo Grande 20-16, but defeated Atascadero 28-8 and Paso Robles 21-9. Brad Fleisch, last year's no. 1 man, won the league individual title with 76 at Morro Bay's par 71 after a sudden death play off with Mowrey. Both golfers en- tered CIF play at Palm Desert but failed to place. NUMBER 2 MAN-Randy Slinker hits his second shot to the green. Two year letterman Slinker corded his top round of the mid season at the Lompoc Invitational with a 79. ' Q at

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Led by Procter's bat, JV nine defends title Midway through the baseball campaign, the Tiger JV team boasted a 7-3 overall record. ln defense of the '67 crown when SLO compiled a T7-2 season, the Tiger JV's had a firm hold on second place with a 4-2 mark after the first round of league play. The Tigers' only losses came at the hands of Arroyo Grande 6-2 and 2-l and Atascadero 5-4. Tiger wins were over Jr. High 4-3 and 4-0, Mission l4-0, Paso Robles l2-4, A G Frosh 8-4 and Morro Bay 8-2 and 7-l. With statistics released after l0 games, Everett Proc- ter led the hitting parade at a .400 clip. Other top hitters were Alan Morton .379, Harold Tartaglia .355, Rick Ped- erson .333 and Randy Spoeneman .323. By mid season the mound duties were divided among Mark Reed i2-ll, Rod Bovee i3-ll and Kenn Seger ll-ll. Reed had struck out 29 men in 20 innings while Bovee had fanned 36 men in 25 innings. Outstanding performance on the base paths was turned in by Procter who by mid season had stolen T6 bases in l0 games. Bob French led the team in RBl's with six while the overall team batting average hit .296 in l0 games. Nevertheless the '68 Tiger JV hopefuls had a tough assignment to match the '67 performance of Pat Rusco who batted .440 and picked up 24 RBl's. MOUND TALK-Coach Martin tries to control Kenn Seger's pitching in the fifth inning against Mission. Joining the mound huddle are Randy Spoeneman, catcher and Rick Pederson, third base. After trailing 2-O the JV Bengals came back in the sixth to win 3-2 with Mark Reed in relief. JV BASEBALL SQUAD-FRONT ROW: John Link, Everett Procter, Terry Spring, Sandy Duveneck, Alan Morton, Harold Tartaglia, Stewart Jenkins. ROW 2: Rob Bovee, Steve Flick, Gordon Carscaden, Charlie Lunn, Kenn Seger, Alan Lanier. ROW 3: Dave Martin, head coach, Tom Becotte, Randy Spoeneman, Rick Pederson, Bob French, Bill Kitley, Ken Lux. J.V. Baseball-63

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i f B til fj-.-, - . ff'i'3'v .-j . .T . Yi - A . T Vs . . K A 3? li, .Q,k,,,., . . ,Nan 1 Mg t -. ll . ,A-sims' M Y-A W' .4 A i A HARD DRIVE-From the deep back court senior Jerry Knecht, number 2 singles player ltop of pogel, uses his torehand drive. GOOD SECOND SERVE-Number 7 singles player Ted Flaskell unleashes the sizzling serve which enabled him to enter both singles and doubles play ln the Tulare Open during Easter vacation. Haskell is also known for his net play. TENNIS SQUAD-FRONT ROW: Sam Ellis, Gerald Knecht, Ted Haskell, Jan Schwartz. ROW 2: John Maino, Jim Grow, Wayne Gin, Dan Schuster. ROW 3: Dyke Shaffer, manager, Richard Hoffman, Richard Gove, Steve Rogers, Richard Anderson, Dick Reynolds, Joe Leonard, head coach. Bengal netters ousted by tough Arroyo Grande After posting an early 4-l record, the Bengal netters of Coach Joe Leonard were expected to finish in second place in '68 behind Arroyo Grande, the favorite. As last year's CIF representative from the local league San Luis Obispo was actually co-champion with Arroyo Grande, but held the edge in the best of three game series, 2-l. Although Dave Rasmussen won all his matches, San Luis still lost to Santa Paula 20-8 in CIF first round play in '67. This year, however, the Bengals, plagued by gradua- tion losses, were picked to finish second. The opening match of the season pitted Atascadero against San Luis with the Bengals sweeping the match. Paso Robles fell 6-l before the Bengal rackets and then Arroyo Grande arrived for the showdown. Arroyo Grande took everything except the courts as the highly-touted Eagles swept to an easy 7-O blitz. Stunned, but not demoralized the Bengals dumped Morro Bay twice 5-2 and 6-l. Tennis-65