Page 39 - 1986 VES Meteor

DECEMBER 5, 1986
THE METEOR
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by Bennett Biever
cer
Prep League, an improvement from last year's finish.
The team is losing many seniors to graduation: three year starter Karl Pace and Tripp Ed- wards in the nets, Bennett
Biever and Nash Redwine at fullback, All-Prep stopper back
Richard Barnes, midfielder TC
Pahner.~ngersPatWarnerand
Rick Dehnert, and strikers Eric Zimmerman, the team's leading goal scorer, and Jay Jackson.
There are, however, many retur- ing starters - Owen Williams, Hunter Tyree, V Fountain, Bill West and Sean Thrash, plus two players, Marshall Thomas and
Mark Stanton, who were hurt most of the season.
•ew bounding should lead to an
organized fastbreak, led. by guards John Hunter, Robert Workman, Stuart Langley, V Fountain and Claude Whitehead. Returning swingmen Rich Kerr and Stuart Mercer and newcomer Jason Rhynne are ex- pected to add scoring punch, and Kent Wiggs and Keith Johnson 'Yill add vital beef up front. This
combination of size and •
quickn 11 should help YES con- trol the tempo of the game and hop fully ita outcome.
Th Varalty WreetUngteam is in pr tty good ahap , not au
ing aa many k y lou 1 aa th
baak tball aquad. AIthough th grappler. lo t two of th!lir thre
h avyweighta, Coach Magnan f ela Troy Aah and T1m O'Hey ahould be more than nough to
Ochsner and Rick Zechini. The
mark in years to come.
Psyched up by an important victory over Woodberry Forest at home, the varsity soccer team put together a solid second half to end the season on an up-beat
note. Victories came against Fork Union, Trinity Episcopal, Steward School of Richmond, a
revenge 2-0 win over Liberty High School and a season~nding 1-0 score over Blue Ridge. The
team also playeq to a very ex- citing tie against a very strong Collegiate tea.m, coming from two goals down in the first ten minutes to totally dominate play,
and a 0-0 match at Woodberry, a game that Coach Culbertson call- ed the best of the season. The team ended up fifth place in the
by Jim Parrott
This winter is a year of transi-
tion for the VES athletic pro- gram. The look and outlook for the Var ity Ba ketball team has changed greatly since last year. In 1985-86, the majority of the of- fenaive load fell on the shoulders of Tripp Bunker and Cecil Gill - th momentum of the game waa
baaed on their p rformancea. If th y werll hot, thinga went well; 1f not, thing• oftlln crumbled.
In t adofor~ve of each other."
tha/the ~~or wen~.on to say • novers while generally shutting
s were one of the ~aostexplosive offensiv~teams I ve ever coac~ed, w1th most touchdown~.commgon long runs
defensive unit forced many tur- enemy offenses down
The baby Bishops; final and most important game or'the year was in Richmond against a
or passes. The offense was powerful Collegiate team
~fet~ ?YT~uarterback Greg Thornton scored ·on end sweep~ u •e ornton, a multi- of45and65yards Granthamand purpose threat, leading rusher Hackney also sc~red on short
a~d score~Paul Hackney and ace
Wide receiver Jason _Rhynne. In
t~e LCA _game,_the Bishops com-
p1led_ an mcred1ble 350 yards in
rushmg offense alone. ·
The JV I h d l respectively, and Andy Kis~lo,
saso a anequaly Rhynne and Are also lat-d strong defense, unusual for a JV tou h. The 27_21 Y. to P Y team according to Mr. Meador g VIC ry was a
led by Carl Blades John Gr : sweet way to end the ~ason;cer- ' an tamly we all hope this years JV
tham, Jeremy Arey, Geoff team will continue to make its
·runs, and Zechini kicked all tl;e extra points. Zechini and Blad~s led the defensive charge with
fourteen and thirteen tackl
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