St Charles High School - Halo Yearbook (St Charles, IL)

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Wrestlers finally capture Upstate Eight title fAbovel, The Saints' varsity wrestlers stand in the order of their weight classes following win- ning the conference title. fFtightJ, Dave Wells, one of two wrestlers who went downstate for St. Charles, helps hold up the banner given to the squad during an assembly. The St. Charles varsity wrestling squad did something February 3 at West 7 Aurora High School which had never 7 been done before. Five Saint wrestlers LE brought back Upstate Eight li t Conference titles in leading St. C 0 gg 97. Charles to its first-ever conference N F E R E Q title. The five individual champions g C it N C E 2 were Shawn Thornton at 105 pounds, iiir t gi , , H A M P S Ron Brown 11121, Rick Wilderspin if ggfrgglgimlg .... 1.5.21 l132l, Dave Wells meal, and Tim mmf' F Beebe, lheavyweighil. Bill Berg l155i ' W'W 'f and DeWayne DeBerry 41671 placed second and third, respectively, for St. Charles, while Todd Griffiths 11261 and Steve Biddle 11853 each finished fourth. Under head coach Fred Bruder and JV coach Chuck Robinson, St. Charles swept past perennial UEC champion DeKalb by an impressive margin of 155Vz points to the Barbs' 129. 180

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I-'g 'Ong Sit tLeftJ, Greg Cudworth adds a soft touch on his free-throw attempt. fBeIowJ, Jim Shepard 1111 and Greg Cudworth 1211 grasp the second-placetrophy won by the Saints at the St. Charles Thanksgiving tournament. T' sg, It 'il Will A iiii 4. 4 2 35335 3 Stiff -uf' if SX E- Sophs encounter tough going in UEC e are sorry that we couldn't provide a sophomore basketball team picture to HALO iers, specifically the team members. Sophomore basketball: Chris And rini, Joe Ayala, a Becker, Stan Bednarz, Kirk Born, Dave Carlson, Jeff Carlson, John Donnelly, Steve Ecis, Bruce Gleamza, Lou Griffey, Reuben Jessop, Dan Krasinski, Bill Messacar, Tim coe, Scott Peterson, Dave Potter, Wayne Roby, Mike Stahulek, Doug Stevens, Jeff wn, Dave Vlach, Eric Wermager, Jim Wicklund, head coach Chuck Rachow, assistant coach Dan Hall. We are sorry that we couldn't provide a freshman basketball team picture to HALO ers, specifically the team members. Freshman basketball: Ken Brown, Steve Carlson, n Carlson, Kurt Dennison, Bob Douglas, Jeff Escamillo, Ted Foster, Scott Gilmore, e Graunke, Wes Groot, Dan Haasch, Ben Hershey, Rob Hoenscheid, Randy Jensen, Johnson, Todd Karas, Jim Knutson, Alan Leap, Dave Morlock, Jim McNally, Ron Neri, e Penny, Bryan Peterson, Jeff Seda, Steve Spriet, Tyler Viernow, Cory Webster, Tom Woidat, head coach Gary Gilmore. Again we are sorry for the inconvenience. The Saints' sophomores went through a disappointing season under head coach Chuck Rachow, although the team did win two tournaments. Dan Krasinski and Stan Bednarz led the way in the Saints' 47-28 victory over Immaculate Conception inthe title game of the Wheaton-Warrenville Thanksgiving tournament. The sophs also won their own eight-team Christmas tournament with a 61-58 victory over Larkin for the championship. But, the sophs completed the season with a 1-9 UEC record after playing well the first half of the season. 179

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Wells, Willing L!'iiSlitT, riazaisaiizzfpmsdelzss5aiaEsl?'se2a V'izfdg12Li2p g 0 d ownstate es pressure to his opponent. St. Charles sent five wrestlers to the DeKalb Sectional tournament, after taking second place at the district meet with 98 points to champion Addison Trail's 147V2. The Saints finished fourth at DeKalb with 3OV2 points, behind the 50V2 points by the champions from Addison Trail ' again. Dave Wells survived the sectional meet by taking first at 138 pounds, while Willing ended up second at 145. Although Willing didn't place at the state tournament held at Champagne-Urbana, Wells did finish fifth. St. Charles closed out the regular season with a first-ever 5-O dual meet mark in the UEC which was helped by the Saints breaking DeKalb's dual meet winning mark of 66. Q my A, l l Varsity wrestling. First row, left to right: Mike Fron, Shawn Thornton, Mike Waltz, Glenn O'Connell, Rick Wilderspin, Jim Kelly, Ron Brown, Steve Arloff. Second row, I to r: Andy Gusman, Doug Watson, DeWayne DeBerry, Blake Rittenberry, Todd Griffiths, Ralph Locher, Dave Wells, Dave Deweirdt, sophomore coach Fred Flasher. Third row, I to r: varsity coach Fred Bruder, Lou Rohl, Bill Berg, Tim Beebe, Jim Yeck, Ray Foster, Steve Biddle, Todd Willing, JV coach Chuck Robinson. 181