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

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fOpposite page, lowerl Varsity, Row 1, Evan Kleber, Gary Erickson, Ed Ashe, Kevin O'Brien, Todd Wendling. Row 2, Coach Dan Hall, Matt Nelson, Gary Nussbaum, Steve Schrieber. fNot pictured, Jeff Elliottj iOpposite page, topj Junior Todd Wendling shows his style of backhand. lTopl Ed Ashe wonders if a connection will be made. lBottoml State Qualifier Todd Wendling had a 19-9 record for the season.

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Tennis team ends year with new hope The '77-'78 season for the Boys' tennis team was a trial and error season. The Varsity team ended up with a season record of 2 wins, 10 loses. A stand-out on the varsity team was Todd Wendling, junior. He played first singles and had an individual record of 19-9. He finished second in the district meet at Lake Park and qualified for state competition. The varsity team was young this year, it was comprised of 5 juniors and 2 sophomores. The varsity finished fifth in conference. On the sophomore level, the team finished second in conference with a 7-5 record. The sophomores had four sophomores and five freshman on the team. Playing first singles was John Martin, sophomore. He finished with a 9-3 record for the season. Two conference winning sophomores, Tom Landgraf and Ray Johns finished second and third respectively in the conference meet. The doubles team of Nick Marchi and Doug Stevens had a 8-4 record and took second in the conference tournament. The Saints tennis teams participated in several tournaments during the year, including the Addison-Trail and Oswego. Both the varsity and sophomore teams are coached by Dan Hall. .- 'MNN. lei ...f 414' ,VV

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Saint nine miss by one St. Charles' varsity baseball squad established a record for most wins ever by going 21-4 for the season under the direction of head coach Wayne DeMaar. The Saint nine, in addition to sweeping all six non-conference games and capturing the Upstate Eight Conference championship with an 11-4 mark, brought home the Plainfield Regional title and a second-place finish at the Lockport Sectional. With a state playoff berth on the line, the Saints dropped an 11-2 decision to Joliet West in the Lockport Sectional championship game to miss by one game of having the chance to go to Peoria for the state playoffs. Seniors Dan Gierke 1shortstopJ, Steve Bosene 1center fieldj, Dennis Warford 1third basej and Brad Wickersham 1pitcherJ were named unanimously to the UEC all-conference team. Warford 13337, second baseman Mike Liesman 1.3031 and left fielder Mark Grossklag 1.2991 were among the regulars in leading the Saints in hitting. Ftosene topped the team in doubles with six, while Warford swatted a club-leading two home runs. Liesman batted in 17 runs and Warford swiped 24 bases for other team leaderships. Wickersham and Brinkman carried the pitching staff with seven wins apiece, while senior Greg O'Berry added five victories. Wickersham wound up with a 1.22 earned run average and 66 strikeouts in 62 innings pitched. 7 .- ' . a . n., . A, M Fiow 1: Mark DeHart, manager, Rob Kohlhagen, Mike Liesman, Bob Jones, Brad Wickersham, Dan Gierke, Paul Bray, Steve Rosene, Doug Watson, and Randy Wilkerson, manager. Row 2: Mark Grossklag, Bruce Lawyer, Tim Wade, Jeff Cassens, Mark Pearson, Ken Lundgren, Greg O'Berry, and Roger Berg. Row 3: Coach Wayne DeMaar, Tim Smith, Dave Horton, Curt Kay, Jim Yeck, Phil Brinkman, Dennis Warford, Bri Johnson, Mike Hernandez, and Coach Larry Hawkins. 1Missing, Don Mazur, Jim Banaski, Kurt Sundberg, Ed Warford.J 192 'Q 5 4 E 5' f