Seeley Swan High School - Snow Country Yearbook (Seeley Lake, MT)

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Left to Right, Kneeling: Wes Rammell, Jay Rammell, Mike Haines. Standing: Coach: Mr. Baretta, Randy Frye, Curt Hoehn, Dean Dellwo, Mitch Baretta, Bob Baier. Boy's Cross Country We went into the 1977 Cross-Country season fully expecting to win the State Class C Championship. Juniors Dean Dellwo and Wes Rammell and sophomores Bob Baier, Curt Hoehn, and Jay Rammell, all returned from our 1976 State Class B runner-up team so we knew we had a young but very strong group. In addition to that group, were three inexperi- enced but strong freshmen in Randy Frye, Mike Haines and Mitch Baretta. We had several good meets with local A , B , and C teams and showed rapid and steady improve- ment throughout the season. By mid-October, gritty Bob Baier had established himself as our number one runner and also a contender for the state crown. Our peak was reached two weeks before the state meet when we trounced class A Poison, Ronan and Bigfork, and class B Frenchtown to win the first place trophy at the Poison Invitational. Bob Baier ran a tremendous duel with Bigfork's Mark Thompson that day, finally beating the premier Class A runner by 25 yards for the first place ribbon. But then disaster struck as first Dean Dellwo and, at the last moment, Wes Rammell, became seriously ill with the mumps. Without our number two and three runners, the young Blackhawks were obviously out of the running for the State Title. Wes was unable to make the trip at all and Dean got out of the sickbed in time to go to Great Falls and make a courageous effort, but was unable to finish the race. Super Sophomore Bob Baier did his thing and finished fifth out of 128 runners while Curt Hoehn came up with yet another courageous effort and finished 45th even though his glands were already swollen with the mumps. Randy Frye, a long-legged freshman with tremendous endurance, finished 50th in his very first State Meet. The young Blackhawk's scoring was completed with fine efforts by diminative Jay Rammell and Mike Haines, two tiny but tough runners who had amazed area coaches all season by often soundly beating athletes a foot taller than they were. 12

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B-Squad Scores Seeley-Swan 33 Seeley-Swan 37 Seeley-Swan 29 Seeley-Swan 31 Seeley-Swan 33 Seeley-Swan 24 Seeley-Swan 36 Seeley-Swan 32 Seeley-Swan 42 Seeley-Swan 26 Seeley-Swan 27 Seeley-Swan 49 Seeley-Swan 27 Seeley-Swan 38 Superior Charlo Phlipsburg Drummond Alberton Florence P-Burg Victor Charlo Sentinel Drummond Alberton Florence Victor 34 18 55 25 30 28 38 10 17 46 33 31 44 29

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T S’ The combined score of the three sophomores and two freshmen was still good enough to place the Blackhawks ninth out of 22 teams. Further evidence of what might have been was when Noxon placed a solid third in the meet for we had beaten the Red Devils three times during the regular season. . . Thus, after our hundreds of grueling miles of training we were very demoralized by the outcome of the 1977 season but luckily we had no seniors on the team and we will all return to continue our quest for the State Title in 1978. Coach Baretta Girls Cross Country Dora Places Third At The State Meet! 13