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Devil’s Den

By BRUCE JOHNSONSpecially Written for The Westfield Leader and The Times

Journey Into the Past:A Look at WHS, 1985

(Note: This is the last of a three-partseries on WHS sports history, lookingback 25 years ago to 1984-85; the firsttwo weeks we looked back 75 and 50years.)

The Ed Tranchina Era (which will beending in a couple of months) began inthe fall of 1985, as the former CranfordHigh School football coach was hiredto replace Dick Zimmer as the WHScoach. Easy Ed will coach the BlueDevils for 19 seasons, and will alsoreplace Gary Kehler as the athletic di-rector when he steps down in 1994.

Around the world: The second termas president for Ronald Reagan. …“We Are the World” is recorded byUSA for Africa. … Singapore Zooputs its lions on birth-control pillsafter lion population swells from 2 to16. … Mike Tyson wins his profes-sional debut with a first-round knock-out. … WrestleMania debuts at Madi-son Square Garden. … Villanova stunsGeorgetown, 66-64, to win the NCAAmen’s basketball championship. …Coca-Cola releases New Coke, whichlasts just three months. … U.S. Route66 – the Mother Road – is officiallydecommissioned. … Live-Aid con-certs in Philadelphia in London raiseover 50 million pounds for faminerelief in Ethiopia. … 40th anniversaryof the atomic bombing of Hiroshima,Japan. … The comic strip “Calvin andHobbes” debuts. … A right-wing ex-tremist murders a civil-rights attorneyand his family in Seattle because “theywere Jewish and Communists.” … TheTommy Hilfinger brand is established.

Top movies: Back to the Future, theBreakfast Club, Rocky IV, Pale Rider,Silverado, The Color Purple, Jewel ofthe Nile, Cocoon.

Top songs: “Say You, Say Me”(Lionel Richie), “Money for Nothing”

(Dire Straits), “Take On Me” (a-ha),“Raspberry Beret” (Prince and theRevolution), “The Boys of Summer”(Don Henley), “Small Town” (JohnCougar Mellencamp), “Summer of ’69”(Bryan Adams) … a good year musi-cally.

Under athletic director Gary Kehler,WHS now offers 22 varsity sports, 12for boys and 10 for girls. The BlueDevils posted an overall record, boysand girls sports, of 263 wins, 94 lossesand 7 ties (a 73.7 winning percent-age). As far as championships, therewere seven county, two sectional andone state. Here is a breakdown of thesports:

Cross-country, boys: The team went10-0 under second-year coach JackMartin, the second of his 14 unbeatenseasons. It also won the county cham-pionship, led by Jon Dowell, TimYockel, Tim Brennan and Bill Esbeck.

Cross-country, girls: The team went7-2 under coach Thom Hornish. EllenSplaine was the top runner.

Field hockey: Second-year coachMaggie McFadden guided the team toa 4-8-4 mark. Wendy James had fiveshutouts in goal, while Deneen Rollerihad three goals vs. SP-F.

Football: Coach Dick Zimmer’s sec-ond, and last, team went 2-5-2, with winsover Kearny and Elizabeth, and tiesagainst SP-F and Irvington. The regularlineup on offense was Jay Factor, MikeByrne, Tim Yarrington, Tom Kocaj, DaveCagnassola, Larry Smaracko and GregPrice across the front, Jeff Monninger atquarterback, Doug Kehler, Mark Giaconeand Tony Tiller at halfback and MikeStagaard at fullback. Defensively it wasJohn Kelly, Drew Carey, Cagnassola orJohn Stagaard, Smaracko or AndyKendeigh and Factor across the front,linebackers Yarrington, Stagaard or DaveOdenkirk, and a secondary of Tim Dineen,Mike Varano or Doug Kehler, Tiller andJay Juelis.

Soccer, boys: Coach Walt Leonow’steam went 17-3-1, winning the countytitle and the first sectional soccer titlein school history. Brian Noerr and RobSidebottom led the team with eightgoals each, while goalie Dave Zupko,who, in addition to scoring four goals,turned in 15 shutouts.

Soccer, girls: The team went 15-4and won the county championship un-der coach George Kapner, scoring aschool record 123 goals, while allow-ing just 20. Sally Parizeau (37) andWendy Maier (24) were the leadinggoal-getters, while Linda Mike wasthe regular goalie. WHS lost in thesectional final to SP-F, 5-4, in ashootout.

Tennis, girls: Coach Kathy Luckey’steam went 23-2. With Lisa Kolton side-lined by injury, the regular lineup in-cluded Amy Kern, Amy Briemer andLinda Katsch at singles, and MarneeHall-Theresy Smith and JenniferComstock-Karen Sharpe at doubles.

Basketball, boys: Coach JoeSoviero’s club was 12-10, but lost in

the first round of the county (to SP-F)and state (to Montclair) tournaments.John Miles was the big scorer with 433points and earned first team all-county.The other regulars were Steffen Smith,Jeff Wade, Steve Weinstein, Mike Kelly,Steve Bardem and Charlie Karustis.

Basketball, girls: Coach GeorgeKapner’s club went 8-13. Nancy Kasko(288), Krissy Jeremiah (217) andTracey Arthur (188) were the leadingscorers.

Bowling: One of the rare losing sea-sons for coach Mike Tirone, WHS was5-7

Swimming, boys: Coach PerryCoultas’ team went 11-2 and won thecounty championship. Diver MattFrawley was county, EasternInterscholastics and state champion.Other county champions: ChrisMcFadden (200, 500 free), Aaron We-ber (50, 100 free), Bill McMeekan (100breast), the medley relay of Jim Born,Rich Andrews, Greg Hackenberg andMike Linenberg, and the free relay ofMcFadden, Greg Czander, Tim Coultasand Weber.

Swimming, girls: Coach MerilynDiamond’s team went 7-0, one of sevenunbeaten teams she coached, winningcounty and state championships.County champions were ChristinaCaroe (200 IM), Kerry Hertell (50 free),Chrissy Diaz (diving), the medley re-lay of Lynne Cassidy, Karen Linenberg,Maga Garcia and Hertell, and the freerelay of Jen Horner, Melissa Horner,Caroe and Allison Scott.

Wrestling: The team was 10-5 undercoach Don MacDonald, beating Mor-ris Knolls in the sectional tournamentopener before losing to Phillipsburg inthe final. The regular lineup: Jim Post(101), John Schaefer (108), Rob O’Hara(115), Mike Verdisco (122), RichHingel (129), Joe Valenti (135), BrianNoerr (141), Mark Giacone (148), TolyVolkov (158), Mike Stagaard (170),Jay Factor (188) and Larry Smaracko(heavy). Volkov and Factor won theirweights at the Gov. Livingston Tourna-ment; Stagaard was a county cham-pion; O’Hara, Giacone and Stagaardwon district titles, and Stagaard took aregional crown.

Baseball: One of just five BobBrewster-coached teams (in 28 years)to not qualify for the state tournament,WHS finished 11-14. The regularlineup: Dave Cowell (1b), Chris Diaz(2b), Andy Kendeigh (3b), DerekMuller (ss), Taylor Wright (left), ChuckMueller (center), Mike Connell (right),Chris Masterson (c) and Mike Stagaard(dh). Todd Graf (ss-3b), Pat Brady (cf)and Ben Pavone (2b) also were regu-lars. The pitchers were Mueller, SteveTozier, Muller, Graf and CharlieKarustis.

Golf: Joe Soviero took over as coachfrom the legendary Gary Kehler andthe team went 14-2, winning theWatchung Conference championship.Bill Jeremiah, Dave Humiston, JeffDembiec, Ian Kaswan and Mike

Holmes were the regulars.Gymnastics: Coach Hiram Velez’s

lone team went 9-1.Lacrosse: Coach Shaun Cherewich’s

club went 18-2, was ranked No. 1 forthe first time, and lost only to Columbia(regular season) and Montclair (statefinal). Rob Schmalz set school recordsfor goals (53), assists (46) and points(state-best 99). David Hone and ChrisAslanian were other top scorers, whileSteve Ciarrocca was the goalie.

Softball: Believed to be the first N.J.team in any sport to win 30 games,coach Carol Donner’s club went 30-3,winning county and sectional titlesbefore losing 1-0 in the state final toWashington Township. The regularlineup included Sue Williams (1b), KimCanata (2b), Chris Brown (3b), EliseFinelli (ss), Tara Vitale (lf), SallyParizeau (cf), Sharon Johnson (rf), JenMcCoy (c), Nancy Kasko (p) and SaraCozewith (dh), with Jo Avis (of) andRobyn Brown (2b) off the bench.

Tennis, boys: The team went 22-3under coach Tony Berardo, winningthe county title. The regular lineup hadKeith Komar, Joe Deer and Rob Rogersat singles, Andy Yearley-AdamSherman and Mike Drury-Tom Jackminat doubles. For the season, WHS won108 sets and lost 17. The losses were toDelbarton, 4-1, in the regular season,Cherry Hill East, 3-2, in the NewarkAcademy Tournament and West Essex,5-0, in the sectional final.

Track, boys: Jack Martin filled in ascoach for Greg Gorski this spring, andthe team went 9-1, losing to Union, 72-57. Drew Cary was county and confer-ence champion in the shot put. TonyTiller was a top sprinter. Steve Bardemset a school record in the intermediatehurdles.

Track, girls: The team went 7-2 un-der coach Thom Hornish. Top perform-ers were Ranjini Vernugopal, who set aschool record in the high jump, andElaine Splaine, who set school recordsin the 400 hurdles and the 800.

Volleyball: Coach Kathy (Ryan)Noonan’s girls went 12-5.

COLLEGE UPDATEDan Liebowitz (WHS, ’08) shot a 4-

over-par 74 to help the Franklin andMarshall golf team tie Gettysburg forfirst place at the Centennial Confer-ence Championships last weekend. Thesophomore also carded an even-par 71as the Diplomats captured the BentCreek Invitational a week earlier.

DEVIL OF THE WEEKThis week’s winner of a free sub

from Westfield Subs (261 South Av-enue East) is Jon Henry. The juniorwon the 200 (22.3) and 400 (49.8) asthe WHS track team knocked off SP-F,then ran the anchor leg on a fast 3:20.74x400 relay at the Penn Relays.

The Devil’s Den appears Thursdayin The Westfield Leader during theschool year. Contact me with comments,complaints and suggestions atbj1019@aol.com. Win or not,WHS4EVR!

Devil of the WeekJon Henry

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“Game in and game out, he playsout of his mind. It’s great to have him,because if you get beat, he’s alwaysthere,” Arnold added.

Senior attacker John Bohlinger ledthe Blue Devils with three goals andtwo assists. His first assist was aninside feed from behind the net tomidfielder Pat Dyer, who slammed ithome, three minutes after midfielderRyan Bohrod scored the firstWestfield goal. Bohlinger’s secondassist came in the third, quarter whenhe found midfielder Jack Allen in theright position.

“We work on vision and communi-cation, to keep cutting, and Pat did agreat job of finishing that play. Pathas been stepping up big. Jack! It wasa perfect pass, and he always finishesthose. I get the credit, but they areputting it in the net,” Bohlinger said.

After the Blue Devils scored thefirst two goals of the first quarter,Brian Jordan scored for the 6-5Wolfpack. Blue Devil Zach Helfandscored four minutes into the secondquarter, then 20 seconds later, Arnoldset up Bohlinger in the seam for abeautiful jump-shot goal.

“We have been playing togethersince third grade. He gave me thatlook, ‘I’m cutting’; and I gave it tohim, and got the score,” Arnold ex-plained.

“Andrew Arnold is like having an-other offensive player out there. Hehas tremendous stick skills. He canscore goals, too. It’s not a risk send-ing him into the offensive zone,” coachSilbergeld added.

Midfielder Nick Matthews added

an unassisted goal to give the BlueDevils a 5-1 lead at the half. Early inthe third quarter, sophomore attackerSam Rosenburgh curled around theWolfpack goal and slipped it pastgoalie Tom Malley. Allen added hisgoal, then Wolfpack’s Ed Hall, on anassist from Joe DeBiasse, rippled thenet to make the score 7-2.

Morrissey finally netted a goal threeminutes into the fourth quarter, butBohlinger came right back with agoal. DeBiasse scored to make thescore 8-4, but Bohlinger, despite tak-ing a wicked hit, added the emphasiswith a patient wraparound goal.

“West Morris is a very physicalteam, but he hung in there, and hestalked those goals,” said coachSilbergeld.

“I just laid it in. My coach chal-lenged me to go to the goal more. Ialways like to run around the cageand shoot, so that the defensemanscreens the goalie, like shoot it rightoff his head, get a nice bounce shot,and the goalie never expects it. I al-ways get crushed after that, but Iexpect it now,” Bohlinger explained.

Matt Domaratzky scored theWolfpack’s final goal.

“Bohlinger got it going today. He isa lot of fun to watch when he’s in thezone. Sammy Rosenburgh gets betterevery time he steps on the field aswell. Everybody did their job. I’mproud of some of the sophomores,who had a chance to get some playingtime. Pat Dyer and Ryan Bohrod madethe most of it,” coach Silbergeld said.West Morris 1 0 1 3 5Westfield 2 3 2 2 9

CORRECTION:In last week’s Blue Devil Invi-

tational Relays, Scotch Plains-Fanwood Raider EmilyNagourney was incorrectly iden-tified as Emily Becker in the teamlong jump event that placed fourth.We regret the error.

Lady Blue Devils BreakWHS Record in 4x400The Westfield High School girls

became the first team of the day torun under four minutes in the 4x400meters at the Penn Relays last week.Katherine Ponce (59.4), SophiaDevita (1:01.8), Kelly Irving(1:00.1) and Ashley Edwards (58.0)won their heat with a 3:59.49 to setan all-time Westfield High Schoolrecord.

Edwards (12.8), Hannah Kronick(12.1), Alex Hawkins (12.8) andPonce (15.5 – a dropped baton)finished the 4x100 in 53.2.

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