Valley Central High School - Viking Log Yearbook (Montgomery, NY)

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48 SPORTS VC routs Cornwall two times running. Herb Geiger slides and tackles for possession of the ball as Mike Megginson rushes to his aid.

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K s tAboveJ The members of the Girls IV Soccer Team are: Qfrontj Daria Sullivan, Leslie Whitney, Patty Behr, Denise Bellingham, Lydia Baddalucco, Tracy Upchurch, Robin Kukla, Mary Wilson, fbackj Mary McKnight, Felicia VVhite, Debbie Spinelli, Leslies Sutter, Mary Luft, Michelle Ferrarro, DeeDee Cotten, Coach Cathy Rodriquez. HThey also serve who only sit and watch. Andy Selfridge, Rich Dolseon, Mike Birch, Chris joy, Bob Weiner, Steve Donchey, and Rick Hose wait for a chance to play. fAbovej Girls IV soccer carried off a 10-2-1 season. Leslie Sutter races a Cornwall opponent for a steal. SPORTS 47

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Today it isa 1ock's sport ny jock will tell you: football is the glory sport - not soccer. From start to finish, grid-iron action domi- nates the season in every aspect. The grandstand, the write-ups, the con- cession stand, the play-by-play, the spectator buses, the cheerleaders, the crowds, and the recognition given to the players. Despite its anonymity, some devote hours of discipline to soccer. Why? Varsity coach Ernie Pettine offered these why-nots concerning his high school years: If you went out for soccer and not football, you were an fBelowj VC and Burke played match their skills to a 3-3 tie. Grunt Boyd waits for a header. 'Q 'sf f I un.. Ii I outcast. It was football or nothing. He attributed the modified program credit for bringing more athletes out for soccer, and also believed that more kids are interested fin soccerj because it's not as physical as foot- ball. Quadrupla-captain Larry Sutter agrees. I didn't relish the fact of get- ting knocked over by a guy three times the size of me, he joked. An- other captain, Mike McComb, chose soccer because I wasn't old enough to join football in seventh grade. I stuck with it because in eighth grade I wasn't big enough to go out for foot- ball. Physical size, or lack of it, wasn't the only reason for which these ath- letes play soccer. Captain Eric Bartle commented, I joined in seventh grade to get in shape for hoop. I liked it, so I kept goin'. jerry Ieltsch, a native of Belgium, inherited the desire to play from his country and family. The same could be said for leading team scorer Todd McCormick, who started ax - 'a....w'k i playing the sport in eighth grade be- cause of my brother. Not everybody had a reason for de- voting months to the sport, however. john Zawistowski started playing for the heck of it, while Pete Cocks re- marked, C'mon, my father's Pele . . . Season after season, soccer has sur- vived in the shadows of football. There are still no grandstands pouring cheers onto the field, but the players who have rejected the football or nothing concept for any one of a thousand reasons remain. Soon, how- ever, boys who chose to compete in soccer won't have to justify their ac- tions or give their reasons. junior Mike Megginson, may have taken a step in that direction when he pro- nounced, I joined soccer because I'm a jock! fLeftj In all countries except the U.S. football refers to what we call soccer. The foreign name fits the sport as Scott Kramer demonstrates. , BoYs vARs1TY SOCCER s 'wi- . . , E' , sw- .J -. . 1 egg Sgagf , 1 44 L . 5 '..,-121-ff. it . xr-..Rf,f'Z ir-wt-'K T ,u . Tift 'A ---- .ak p-Qual. I A 3 Avjvfg-eg.,-..mg,Ai:.z. L-,,,-has-Egg-f '.-. -. .frm LJ.. -fpwigg-. 5. ,Qc ja.: . ae ..',,K.., ipji.-, ,Qs , I ,, ,..t..f If-1,1-4, tf 1... M L - - - fs - ' Q rf it T . . v 72 fAbovel The members of the Boys Varsity Soccer Team are: ffrontj Harry Mills, Herb Geiger, Scott Pettine, Andy Lohman, Larry Sutter, Mike McComb, Eric Bartle, Carl Darrigo, Rich Sager, Drew Lounsbury, tsecondj Debbie vi . s .. . 1 Sloboda, Tom Zawistowski, Todd McCormick, Kevin Davie, Peter Cocks, Tim Millar, Tim Coddington, Scott Kramer, tbackj Coach Ernie Pettine, Chris Navitsky, Mike Megginson, Grant Boyd, Dave Smith. SCOREBOARD 3-3 Burke tie 3-1 Monroe win 1-7 Washingtonville loss 3-1 Cornwall win 3-0 Warwick win 4-0 Burke win 2-3 Middletown loss 2-3 Monticello loss 2-3 Ellenville loss 2-5 Washingtonville loss 2-1 Cornwall win 2-0 Warwick win 4-1 Middletown win 1-0 Monticello win 4-0 Ellenville win 1-2 Monroe loss 0-1 Middletown loss Total 9wins 7losses 1tie SPORTS 49