South High School - Olympiad Yearbook (Torrance, CA)

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VARSITY GRAPPLER Bruce McInTyre who was in The 141 Bruce cor'npleTed his Third year on The SparTan Tearn, WHO'S WHO? An unidemified SparTan is picTur-ed iusT before he pinned his man during The AviaTion meeT. JV TEAM, Row 1: Wayne KirTley, Tom Peuser, Larry Hill, Ron Hill, Wayne Sirnoules, Row II: Dennis Asbury, Jeff Bur- den, Mike Arnbling, Jim Burden, Larry Mikelson. Row Ill: Ken BlighT, Jeff Fleener, Richard Tibben, Jack Lennon, Jerry Johnson. Row IV: Barney Bernard, Alon WalTi, Joe Freedman, X VARSlTY'S BOB ANDERSON wresTles for a position againsT HANGING ON in a rnaTch vviTh Avignon is Don 1-loape his Toe, Bob WresTles in The 168 pound bracl4eT and Took wresTling in The 130 pound weighT class during The Varmii 143 X r Tiffh in The League Finals. Pioneer League Finals, pound vveighT class has his man in a near pin posifion.

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4 ow I d ey ar s Gar Coe rne wata Row II Mclntire, Louie Labit, Dave Vogl, Mgr. Byron Freeman. Row IV Bob Aide so Denn s Po nten Da e Bi m ngham THE SPARTAN GRAPPLERS completed their best season at South High under the direction of Coach Bonheim and showed outstanding im- provement over the past two years. The Varsity team won 9 of their II dual matches and the JV's defeated IO of their I I foes. The Spartans placed second in the league finals and had every man placing fifth or better. Den- nis Pointen at T83 pounds and Dave Birmingham at 2I8 pounds won first place in their weight divisions. This season the Pioneer League finals were held at South with the Spartans hosting 6 league teams and over 900 spectators. Representing South in the CIF finals were Ralph Freas and Andy Harris. Both did very well in winning their first matches, ln the second round Ralph lost a close decision and was eliminated while Andy went on to take second place honors in the I23 pound weight class. Both boys scored ten points between them to place South thir- teenth out of IO6-schools that wrestled this year in the Southern California area. R : Ri gl H ri , y l , E i l . : Cliff Mosher, Don Hoppe, Ralph Freas. Row III: Mgr. Dave Hall, Bruce . i r n, I i , v 'r i . ERNIE IWATA ITIS Pound Weight Classl is pictured above pinning his man for the third place medal in the Pioneer League Finals. BIG DAVE BIRMINGHAM won the first place medal in the 218 pound weight class. He is shown above in his first match of the League Finals. PIONEER LEAGUE FINALS Ridgly Harris l98l ............ Fourth Gary Cole lIO6l .... .... F ifth Ernie Iwata ll I5l .. ...Third IAndy Harris H231 ... ..... Third Don Hoppe lI3Ol ... ...Second Ralph Freas lI36l .... . . .Second Bruce Mclntyre ll-4Il ... ...Third Stan Fleener lI48l ... ...Third Dave Vogl lI57l ...... .... F ifth Bob Anderson H681 . .. .... Fifth Dennis Pointen lI83l ...... .... F irst Dave Birmingham l2I8l ........ First :kSecond place in C.l.F, Finals DENNIS POINTEN and Torrance's Jack Singer are shown in the referee's position. Dennis pinned this man and went on to win first place in the I83 pound weight class,

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A41 THE SPARTAN BASEBALL TEAM, refurning Crescenf League champions oT lasT year, proved To be a sTrong conTender in The Pioneer League This season. VViTh a Tull lineup oT reTurning varsiTy IeTTermen The Team VARSITY TEAM Row I: Ron Shopper, Doug Perry, Bob Wehrhan, John Mewborn, Mike Czarske, Rick Gomez, Cliff Roy, Doug Brown, Mike Worden. Row ll: Steve Cooke, Gary Law, Larry Anderson, Eric Spellman, Dave Fulford, Phil DelaPorTe, Mike Andrews, Larry Thomas, Joe AusTin, Jim Hawkins. Www? fading 'T T Took impressive wins over Redondo, CompTon, Leu- zinger and Inglewood beTore playing Their TirsT League game wiTh AviaTion. As The season pro- gressed The Team was picked To be in The Top division oT The League. HEADING THE TEAM in l'iiTTing have been Mike Andrews and Joe Lughn, EQTLT hcwe leading b'JTTing averfigfg for l-, Qu-'3 ,gilciy Mike and Joe are borh iuniois 'iiwil in ll be back again nexf year To head ne,-'T 'jfflili roerer. l - f- ' ggi? COACH McILVAINE has been head coach for The Varsity baseball Team for The past Three years. His Team This season has been picked as one of The Top Three Teams To beat in The Pioneer League. Ns -i ' W -, f 3' , N ,, Nu Jr risk .T M, I T A Q A ' , ,,. ,.f, . .4 K: V H I , -,,AW,f,:, - A 3 , .,.f V X : ff,-.v :,,, ,Q 5 sf , ..,:gl,-.W 3 , V , gi. 5 , 3, A ,I 3 . 'f f ,,..,,--Wfzzf - V 1 ' f' . f 'fr , ' . T ff'-A ' a i if ,Q - 4 A ' r , 1 ' 'i ', :,4ie, ,f-,,,.,, - f wid,-w fy rfffafia 'vw-rv-:3.',.i,54fz'.-' , , ,J -V ff f, 4 ffi, 4 .qi w, ff. ,.', wwfm.. 'r ' -A - :- J, is - - 4. , aff , ' f ' ' I ' 'J'-1 ' ,:Y f i'Z '-j4 ':' i ff' '7fT,?i' 'f,'-1,:J'f5:fQ.::L ,,z,1 'V , ' TF-FfT'T'. : , 'ww T 3 f:2' . '. -T -ffl? -Y' , '4ti.i-'ififwi' SPARTAN PITCHING STAFF: Bob Wehrhan, John Mewborn, Larry Thomas, Eric Spellman, Milne Worden. Larry Pace is noTpicTl1red