Spring Woods High School - Safari Yearbook (Houston, TX)

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hard CIC I to follow Equipped wiTh a surplus of youTh, varsiTy baseball head coach Charles Maiorana and a I5 man squad. prepared To deTend The Tigers' I7-AAAA disTricT TiTle and wage war againsT neighboring Teams. Previous Tiger baseballers advanced To regional con.peTiTion in '7I,sTaTe Tinals in '74, bi-disTricT in '78 and quarTer Tinals in '79, Thus, This year's varsiTy inheriTed a season Tull oT work and high expecTaTions. Nine capable players graduaTed inTo college baseball Trom lasT year's Team leaving i many posiTions To be occupied. Maiorana immediaTely Tilled These vacancies: however, due To academic sTandards. iniuries and players moving Their residences. keeping These posiTions required perpeTual ' 1 - . care and consTanT waTch. We ,i. . .g-. LPQTY N . 'f1 Q I . ' S . . ', ' . r -- S have a young Team - loTs oT ' ' - a 3 NinTh leading l'1iT'Ter in The ciTy wiTh 4-'. ji -'. :-Q i. F- -5 -A ,' 'N i J ' a baTTing average oT .438, senior ':'f fl g',Q ': 'T h- ' ' ' piTcher STeve Calderone makes - .. . - -...L conTacT wiTh The ball Tor a double in i I 1 'f . . '-- 5- ' , . , , . The TirsT round in The Spring Branch , ' - TournamenT. .- . Nr . 2'-ef-1.-'l or .n-N' . ' I Treshmen and sophomores and iT is going To Take a couple oT years To gain back ThaT experience and power we had beTore. Maiorana said. ThereTore, The Woodsmen relied heavily upon senior shorT sTop Johnny Comeaux. senior piTcher-TirsT baseman Roger Clemens and senior piTcher-TirsT baseman STeve Calderone Tor leadership, experience and all around know how boTh on The playing Tield and aT pracTice. Comeaux was only The TiTTh player in Spring Woods' hisTory To capTure The honored senioriTy oT Tour year leTTerman. Calderone was raTed ninTh leading hiTTer in The ciTy possessing a baTTing average oT .438, and Clemens, The Tigers number one man on The mound. esTablished an impressive ERA oT I.lO winning IO oT I5 games. These seniors were Tamiliar Taces and a welcome relieT Tor Tiger Tans, buT many underclassmen also conTribuTed individual TalenTs To sTrengThen The Tiger's pounce. Sophomore John Yard unabashedly walked onTo The dusTy diamond and played caTcher. Yard did a good job - especially having To iump in and iusT Take over The posiTion, Calderone said. MelTing inTo The varsiTy ranks and quickly learning Their posiTions were Treshman Aaron Tanguma, iunior piTcher Todd Dannelly and ouTTielder Richard HairsTon. GeTTing inTo disTricT The ball club as a whole had excellenT games. beaTing Spring Branch. STraTTord and WesTchesTer. ln The mosT exciTing game This Four year leTTerman. senior shod- sTop Johnny Comeaux followS Through on his swing affer clobbef' ing a Triple To The outfield. The W - I v - , rg' ,'g..,4.qn V -, A. , . Tigers wenT on To win The game .. - fi -' , T T ' iq, f 5 against Northbrook. 5-2.

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