St Marys High School - Lance Yearbook (Independence, MO)

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Happy Harrington Wanted Mother Of The Year. The team members were: Teresa Sicola, Connie Siniawski, Shawn Slocum, Rocky Kolich, Mary Barrow, Sharon Li- poma , Janet Rojas, Kris Bertancin, Michelle Bax. The girls ended the sea- son with a 9-5 record. The girls had their share of ups and downs through - out the year. Coach Har- rington can be quoted as saying The biggest problem was trying to think of something to say to 11 girls who are crying after losing a game.'' Coach Harrington thought he deserved the Mother Of The Year Award, since he felt like a 'mother taking care of eleven daughters' during the basketball season.

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“Getting Up, That’s A Winning Season The wrestling squad for 1979 are Seniors, Phil Baker, Bob Boman, and Richard Lind- sey; Junior, Greg Robinson; Sophomores, Anthony Day, Steve Doherty, Craig Lud- wig, David Pinon, Mark Rodriquez, Tim Siebenmorgan, and Jay Votipka; Fresh- man, Mike Avery, Tom Bellman, Greg Burkhart, Nick Conforti, T.J. Doss, Marty Gibson, Tom Groske, Brian Hertzog, Bill Kearney, Tim McCready, Tom McDer- mott , Steve Miller, Bob Mitchell, Byron Pendleton, Frank SantaMaria, Vic Spite - leri, and Larry White. The squad was very young this year due to lack of upperclassmen, but they carried on all the same. Several records were broken for the season and for careers by Bob Boman. Takedowns-37 (season) 65 (ca- reer) . Reversales-47 (season) 65 (career) Escapes-41 career. The Freshman also made a fine showing. Greg Burkhart broke both the season and career records for near falls with 38 and near fall points with 99. Brian Hertzog had the quick pin in . 12 sec- onds . 1 consider a winning season one when you have young people and they go against a monster they know they can't beat but they go against him anyway and get back up when they are down.'1 Coach Bruce John- son, I'm really proud of these guys for staying in there.'' The squad should expect a fantastic season next year with the exper- ience the 20 Freshman gained this year.

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New Coaches Bring Flash Of Enthusiasm The 1979 Varsity Cagers are Wes Smith, Eddie Sack, Brendan Teevan, Joe Salva, Mike Ginter, Greg Kelly, Mark Lucas, Gerald Julian, and Brian Kelling. St. Mary's was introduced this year to a coach who brought a fresh enthusiasm to basketball along with a new J.V. coach. Wayne Van Dine, along with Steve Beaven started the season with a young, inexperienced squad. They had a large group of seniors but only a few had played varsity ball. He instituted a new school song before each home game. Each week the boy's re- ceived recognition at school, in defense, offense and rebounding. Brad Cleveland led the team in scoring and rebounding. He was on the Independence Examin- er's area Top 20 scorers most of the season. Eddie Sack was on the roll for 2 or 3 weeks. The season was ex- citing, yet surprising, for the Trojans were not figured to improve their record but went one better and had a very fine 14-9 record.