Oneonta High School - Tomahawk Yearbook (Oneonta, AL)

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JUNIOR BASKETBALL TEAM FRONT ROW. Demetrius Deavers. Lamonde Russell, (Co-CaptaIn), David Elliott (Co-Captain), Brooks Fogleman, Stiawn McMillen, Michael Leavering BACK ROW, Eddie Cornelius, Marshall Deavers (Most Improved Player), John Fauz, Pat Kyle, Robert Warren, Phil Phillips (Most Valuable Player), Coach Earl Woodward. David Elliott bounds in for good shooting position.

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Baseball Slides In AtOHS Baseball, hotdogs, apple pie and Oneonta. An olde cliche? Perhaps. But with the exception of hot dogs and apple pie, the words coincided on the Oneonta Campus as Coach Godfrey and Skins put forth a good effort in the first ever school team. After the many conflicts of starting a team were settled, the season opened April 6 with a come-from-behind win against the Hayden Wildcats. Trailing in the bottom of the fifth 8-2, Earl War- ren started a string of clutch hits to tie the score. Both teams scored one run in the sixth, and Danny Kelly scored the winning run in the bottom of the seventh. Inconsistency was the word in the early going, and the players and the coaches alike began to get restless. The team was hurt in their first by the loss of the catcher Dan Daily. Oneonta ' s field was the sight of a area tournament. Oneonta started the game with 5 hits and 3 runs in the first inning. Oak Grove got to bat in the bot- tom of the first, but it was 3 up and 3 down. Rolling along for 3 innings and Oneonta picked up two more runs. In the bottom of the 5th the game was tied 5 to 5, and Oneonta blew the game open and scored 5 runs. The game ended 10 to 5 with Oneonta the winner. Then Oneonta had to come back and play Locust Fork in the second round of the area tournaments and lost the game 8 to 0. Oneonta would have had a super team if the pitching staff had more experience. The offense had enough runs to win, but we could not manage to get the ball across the plate. Jeff Jones was the best pitcher on the staff. He pitched 7 innings against Springville, but lost the game 3 to 2 in the bottom of the 7th. Mickey Latta plants his feet firmly in anticipation of the batter ' s hit. BASEBALL TEAM FRONT ROW, Dennis Pres- ley, Jimmy Nixon. Dan Daily, Joey Childress, Charles Elliott, Danny Kelly. Lynn Nolen, Harold Lunsford. BACK ROW, fvlickey Latia, Enc Reid. Jefl Jones, Tom Evans, Joey Whitlock, Jimmy Season, Bobby Warren, Charles Gibbons (MAN- AGER) NOT PICTURED, Earl Warren, Gary Godfrey (COACH). 70