Thornridge High School - Piper Yearbook (Dolton, IL)

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Doubles teams Q- go to State The girls' varsity tennis team, consisting of two seniors, four juniors, and one sophomore, ended its season with a 7-4 Con- ference record and lO-4 record overall. ln the TTT Invitational the team placed third. Doubles team Karen Wilk and Marian Pitts, sopho- mores, placed third, and doubles teams Diane Laist, senior, and Paula Franson, junior, and Amy Merritt, senior, and Beth Gregerson, junior, took second. Amy and l were a strong team and so were Diane and Paula. We wanted to do our best this year, and we satis- fied our goal, said Gre- gerson. The team went on to Conference with doubles teams Laist and Franson and Merritt and Greger- son both taking third as the team also placed third. Most of the team end- -ed its season at Section- als, where the team took third. Laist and Franson placed second and Mer- ritt and Gregerson took fourth, qualifying them for the State toumament. Qualifying two dou- bles teams was the best that any team I have coached at Thomridge has done, said Coach David Konkol. The two doubles teams went on to Mt. Prospect for State com- petition except for Gre- gerson who became ill and could not compete. Cynthia' Pitts, freshman, took her place. Going down state was the best accomplishment. l was upset that Beth couldn't make it, but Cynthia did the best she could under the circumstances, said Merritt. The juniorvarsity team ended its season with an ll-Z5 record and third in Conference. Top: Varsity Tennis: Front Row: Kimlyn Scott, Amy Merritt, Kim Broome: Back Row: Evelyn Little- ton, Coach David Konkol, Diane Laist, Paula Franson: Not Pictured: Beth Gregerson Middle: JV Tennis: Front Row: An- ette Tokich, Marcia Tokich, Cyn- thia Pitts: Back Row: Coach Karen Cromwell, Marian Pitts, Karen Wilk, Connie Mc Miller Left: Playing doubles together for the first year was the first doubles team of Paula Franson and Co-captain Diane Laist. Girls' Tennis 127

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, My Team reaches Sectionals Swinging their way to a 5- 5-1 record, the varsity golf team placed 5th in Confer- ence, 4th in Regionals, and 7th in Sectionals. 'iThe team did achieve one goal, that was to come out as a team from the State Regional at Argo and, go to Sectionals, stated Coach Sam Tortonci. Tad Mossell and Pete Quirk were the two top scorers at Regionals. i'The overall season was not so good, but we came together at the end and surprised a lot of people, stated Mos- sell. Participating on the team was Doreen Bromm, the first female to be on the golf team. I took a big step this year by joining an all male team. This was something that I'll always remember, stated Brovlm. The team pulled together to finish off rather well. We had fun all season even though we didn't do so well clunng the regular season. We went farther in post-sea- son than expected, stated Brian Blackmore. The JV team ended its season with a record of 10 wins and 2 loses, the best season ever. Top: Driving the ball is Jason Simmons. Right: Brian Blackmore watches to see if an attempted shot is good. Left: Doreen Brown tries to sink a putt on the fifteenth hole at the River Oaks GolfCourse. Go 129