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

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M a N Y , fAbovei, Dave Wells, who placed fifth in the state at 138 pounds, watches the action. lAbove rightj, The referee signals DeWayne DeBerry the third-place winner at 167 pounds in the conference meet. fCenter righty, Shawn Thornton, a two-time UEC champ, receives some encouragement from head coach Fred Bruder. lRightJ, JV coach Chuck Robinson throws Steve Biddle a towel after a close match. 182

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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

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Sophs finish fourth in conference meet St. Charles' sophomores concluded the season by finishing fourth behind champion East Aurora in the conference meet. Saints John Doba 11451, Odell DeBerry 11551, Dean Reader 11671, and Greg Ninkovich 1heavyweightJ placed second. The sophomores placed third at the eight-team Hinsdale South g gg gg Invitational with DeBerry being the only champion for the as . P78 , Saints. The St. Charles freshmen wrestlers captured the six-team Batavia Invitational. The five individual champions for St. Charles were Dave DeVllbiss 1981, Jeff Hultine 11261, Nick Staten 11381, Keith Millard 11855, and Dave Neilsen 1l'1eavyweightJ. Jwj, Rob Coleman rejoices after being declared the winner. fer rightj, Odell DeBerry puts a reversal on his opponent. 1Far wt, Having trouble taking down his man is Alan Mares. ,free 'QI E X V, -' :asf 1 . , 5-.img Sophomore-freshmen wrestling. First row, left to right: Jim Lazowski, Mitch Brown, Dave DeVilbiss, Jeff Kerner, Tony Simpson, Kirk Bonnel. Second row, I to r: Odell DeBerry, Rich Lidel, Alan Mares, Mike Simmons, John Doba. Third row, I to r: freshmen coach Ron Johnston, Dean Reader, Dave Neilsen, Greg Ninkovich, Lance Zahner, Stan Krasinski, sophomore coach Fred Flahser. 1Missing, Jeff Hultine, Nick Staten, Keith Millard, Chris Beary, Jim Mzhickteno, Tom Loera, Scott Horlock, Kevin Clark, Rob Coleman, Rick Pesina, Tim Benson, Carl Sellers, Tim Martin, Dave Flesch, Scott MacArthur, Bruce Heidlauf.1