West High School - Chieftain Yearbook (Torrance, CA)

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For the Striders, Victory was a Prize Rewarded Only by a Unique Desire to Win The Warrior Varsity won the big Moorpark Invitational over Royal, last year ' s defending C.I.F. A AAA champs; Powerful Dos Pueblos, a very strong Torrance team and many outstanding others. Tom Herman, John Curry and Jeff Schor took three of the top 10 spots to lead the overall varsity win. These three boys, along with Doug Skinner, Rod Tower, Larry Janisch and Mike House continued to impress with near perfect scoring wins over South, Micohi, and Samo. The Warriors were 4th overall in a tough Morningside Invitational and placed high in each division. They then proceeded to win the runner-up championship of the El Camino Invitational by placing John Curry, Doug Skinner and Tom Herman all in the top 10. The Varsity placed 6th out of 28 of the C.I.F. ' s best in the big PV Invitational with Tom Herman, Jeff Schor and Doug Skinner leading the team; strongly backed by Rod Tower, Larry Janisch and Mike House. Junior Jeff Schor set a new all-time West High home course record of 14:25 for 3 miles of hills, breaking Kevin Larsen ' s 1973 record. Warrior runners (Below), make their move against Nortli ' s Saxons in one of the final meets of the 1974 Cross Country season. 52 Varsitj Crosscountry

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f •■ ft: f o % 79:j: ' J ' wK.Wja,37 y Sophomore Football-Top Row; Coach Rick Petersen, Coach Kurt Davis, Ed Penningto n, Phillip Norris, Jack Campbell, Fred Mitchell, Fred Weisoff, Mark Holden, John Duncan, Jeff Boldstat, Dan Dreiling, Coach Bob Maura, Head- coach John Black. 2nd Row; Bob Hudspeth, Mike Franks, Mack Ortega, Eric Schnepp, Eric Fernald, Shawn Carlson, Paul Simpson, Mark DuVall, Rick West, Steve Sanchez. 3rd Row; Scott Haberman, Steve Gervig, Dave Weatherman, Kerry Cogan, Greg Stotsbury, Ron Stablien, Jim Lintz, Alphonse Woertenbrock, Dan Shanks, Bob Talley. Bottom Row; Larry Turnage, Steve Schwartzkopf, Tom Highwart, Jerry Stablein, Mike Justice, Jack Rodin, Mike Leonard, Steve Taggart, Brad Young. 40 ' 20 £.i;c39 38 ' 22 Freshman Football-Top Row; Coach Steve Mossman, Coach Alan Dishon, Coach Jim Hester, Coach Dom Ochippinti. 2nd Row; Bart West, Bob Greek, Mike Lowry, Rock Connor, Tom Rauman, Pat Bradley, Danny Pierce, Danny Beight, Andy Bonchonsky, Glenn Erickson, Drew Tigeland, Ken Halbert, Ken Walter, Gary Breckheimer, Ed Torres, Bob La Van Way. 3rd Row; Grant Lomas, Jeff Drinkard, Glen Chaffee, Ken Ayers, Stuart Haberman, Horace San- hofner, Tom Young, J.K.Mc Kay, Page Morgan, Jerry Lawson, Raoul Eslraete, Tom Gerety, Tim Wick, Shawn Mahn. Bob Hazelwood, Paul Sempek. 4th Row; John Morrow, Tim Roquemore, Guy Antrim, Bret Gordon, Tom Schnabel, Kevin McMillian, Steve Howland, Jack Krause, Gary Reety, P.J.Wardrop, Joel Lawrence, Rick Tiberio, . rt Molina, Kevin Garvey, Dennis Brown, Tony Padilla. Bottom Row; Mark Vantine, Doug Gohl, John Turner, Kevin Richie. Bob Long, Dave Weisoff, Craig Tower, Jeff Rivas, Henry Herron, Scott Stout, Robbie Zintz, Tim Richards, Dick Newhall, Nel Fulton, Daryl Rippstein, Lance All The Way. Sophomore and Freshman Football 51

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Varsity-(Left, Starting at the Bottom Going Clockwise), John Curr . Rod Tower, Larry Janisch, Doug Skinner, Mike House, Tom Herman, Jeff Schor. Junior Varsily-(Left to Right), Mike Hedden, Don Sprague, Tony Yamada, Kevin Jordan, Gary Morgan, Dan Evans, Ron Chastain. Only an incident with Torrance where two West striders were knocked down; (one of them put out for four weeks), marred an otherwise outstanding season. . .West High is rated in the top 12 in C.I.F. AAAA; However, the Bay League is one of the nation ' s strongest cross country leagues. The Jayvees won the Runner-up Championship of the El Camino Invitational. Leading the Warriors all year were Kevin Jordan, Tony Yamada and Dan Evans. The Sophomores were led by Steve Ybarra, John Fekete, Brian Rubel, Leonard Aube and Dean Carpenter. They were tough in every meet winning their sha ' -e and usually when they lost it was by one of two points. The Freshmen, led by Dan Tomich, Kevin Curry, Rick Conner, Dave Melton, Dennis Galbraith and many others, really came on against North taking ten of the top eleven places. Varsity strider Jeff Schor (Right), clears an obstacle against North ' s Sa.xons in one of the meets of the ' 74 season. West up- ended the Saxons 26-29. Jawee Cross Country 53