Gordon Technical High School - Tech Log Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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BASEBALL | ia SOPHOMORES SSS a 4 ED aid 4 BOTTOM ROW: Han Kim, Mike Rohlicek, Pablo De Vera, Brian Prince, Vince Cappello. SECOND ROW: Frank Mylander, Frank Froegel, Mike Abbinanti, T om Pinsky, Kevin Hunt, John Pacelt. TOP ROW: Coach Terry Ehardt, Todd Schneider, Ken Van Haute, Tom Meitzler, Matt Liszka, Glen Noesen. ' RECORD and held on to win 2-1. Nd eo The Rams are looking forward to the 1982 season. In Mickey Mortorano, Coach Slingerland feels he has the top pitching prospect in the Catholic League for 1982. Hopefully the three starting juniors, Duke Sienkowski, Geno Pignataro, and Lou Vasta will provide the hitting to go along with Mickey’s pitching. St. Benedict St. Patrick St. Patrick Proviso East Northridge Ridgewood Schurz Lane St. Gregory Holy Cross Luther North Quigley North St. Viator Hales Franciscan Loyola’ Mt. Carmel’ Schurz Fenwick St. Francis’ Fenwick Fenwick’ Mt. Carmel Weber’ Leo’ St. Laurence’ St. Rita’ Brother Rice’ Lane Quigley South Northridge St. Ignatius’ De LaSalle Season Record e —Ken Magnus — Frank Blasinski shows the look of deterr- nation. AWOMATMWONAMWWOR NEA PH WH PR WON OO = 3 4 3 2 5 2 8 4 2 2 4 5 5 1 2 2 3 0 6 8 4 3 7 8 2 7 4 1 8 7 5

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ty | |g Don Pierucci touches first base. up only two hits. The Rams lost their second straight conference game strik- | ing out nine batters in a losing cause. The big problem in the St. Lawrence game, May 3, was again lack of timely hitting. Gordon Tech left 15 runners stranded on base losing 5-1. Poor hit- ting continued against St. Rita, as they beat the Rams 4-1. Against St. Igna- | tius, Gordon Tech built up a 9-1 lead, and held on to win 9-7, for their first road victory. Junior Geno Pignataro with two hits plus three RBI’s led the Rams offensively against St. Ignatius. On May 6, Gordon Tech pulled a big upset knocking off powerful Broth- er Rice 5-4. Senior Tim O’Conner went the distance on the mound allowing only 5 hits and 4 unearned runs, Senior Scott Davidson had the game winning RBI. After playing a great game against Brother Rice, the Rams turned right around and played their worst game of the year against Quigley South 11-0. Duke Sienkowski ducks out of the way of an inside GORDON ES pitch. 6 0 3 1 0 2 2 1 3 7 rr weooeonvnovormresisIino P P OPK AS On May 13, against DeLaSalle Gor- don Tech jumped out to a quick three run first inning lead. That was all the Rams scored and ended up losing to DeLaSalle 7-3: The Conference Season ended with a 12-7 loss to Mendel. In 13 conference games the Rams only won 4. After a disappointing conference sea- son, the baseball Rams were looking forward to the State Tournament. In Hales Franciscan‘ RECORD OPPONENT Roosevelt 0 Schurz 10 Taft St. Joseph St. Benedict St. Patrick St. Patrick Proviso West Proviso East Ridgewood Arlington Arlington Niles West Loyola St. Gregory a =Owwe @ hw Oe O ! — OmnNNND CO Mt. Carmel Montini St. Viator St. Francis’ Fenwick’ Weber’ Leo St. Laurence’ St. Rita’ St. Ignatius Brother Rice Quigley South De LaSalle’ b J = J P Ol Gi Season Record their opening game of the Regionals, Gordon Tech defeated a good Holy Cross team 8-6. Seniors Joe Kinahan, Frank Blasinski, and Tim O’Conner led the Rams to victory over Holy Cross with some clutch hitting. The 1981 baseball season came to an end with a tough loss to St. Patrick in the State Tournament. Gordon Tech led 1-0 going into the top of the sev- enth. The Shamrocks scored two runs 181

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BASEBALL di FRESHMEN | | BOTTOM ROW: Bill Henry, Ronald Janega, Joel Almaguer, Jack Kross, Gary Hoffman, Rich Pettit, Kevin Meyer, Sean Davila, Manager Al 1 Maravillas. SECOND ROW: Edward Toledo, Ray Tobler, Kim Ilwoo, John Bowersox, Dean Scimeca, Jim Nelson, Andy Cho,. TOP ROW: James King, Jim Lenczewski, Tom O’Leary, Roberto Caceras, Bob Irrsk, Eric Myszka, Luis Gomez, Paul Parangat, Coach Jack Russo, GORDON OPPONENT Tim O’Connor steps back to first on the pickoff. Fenwick Lane Tech Roosevelt Senn St. Joseph Lane Tech Lakeview St. Patrick St. Francis de Sales St. Francis de Sales Proviso West Roosevelt Parker Proviso East Glenbrook South Ridgewood Schurz St. Benedict Fenwick Maine West Maine West Notre Dame St. Rita St. Rita St. Patrick St. Patrick Luther North Luther North Fenwick Carlos Chillon leaps for a high throw to first. 3 5 6 2 5 2 6 8 8 1 5 7 9 4 5 1 2 2 1 1 - m= 0 Ww Holy Cross Holy Cross St. Viator 183