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

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play, Maiorana said. Dannelly held The posiTion oT winning piTcher in The 3-I conTesT Throwing a Three hiTTer and sTrilcing ouT Tive beTore Clemens came in To geT The save. Holding menacing hoT baTs Tor The Tigers were seniors second baseman JeTT Ahrens, ouTTielder David Maniscalco. Comeaux, Calderone and HairsTon. Turning righT around and winning aTTer we losT To San AnTonio in The second gain was really someThing. We picked up Third and beaT New BraunTels aT The same Time, Dannelly said. CollecTively The season ended l7- I O veriTying The Team members' pre-season expecTaTions. A relaTively easy piTcher, was sophomore ouTTielder Richard Hair- sTon's descripTion oT The Dulles righT-hander. HairsTon connecfed with The ball Tor a single hit down The Third baseline. VARSITY BASEBALL SWHS OPPONENT 2 Bellaire 4 5 MacArfhur 3 3 Lamar 5 I0 Dulles I 3 Ausfin High 4 4 Scarborough I 8 Reagan O 6 Gonzales 0 I San Anlonio 3 3 New Braunfels I 6 Sam Houston I0 4 Klein 8 9 Furr 0 4 Reagan 0 I5 Brazoswood 6 I Hasfings 5 O Sfrafford 2 I2 Memorial 2 5 Spring Branch 4 2 Elsik l IO Norfhbrook 0 3 Wesfchesfer 5 I Hastings 2 7 STraTTord 5 5 Memorial I I Spring Branch 3 I 2 Elsik 7 5 NorThbrook 2 3 Wesfchesrer l WiTh The score I-O in The boTTom of The TirsT inning senior second base- man JeTT Ahrens geTs info Tirsf on a pick OTT move. ,-'f' yfsszl .WJ !'H ' 'T 'W' ' K VarsiTx Baseball

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racking GVGH -ul in--fr 1 ff' ff . , . JC.. . . . ,..,f's f WiTh a plunging leap cenTerTieIder Doug Hooks slyly slides inTo home- pIaTe scoring anoTher run in The sec- ond game OT The double header wiTh The Memorial MusTangs. In The only game I-lasTings IosT dur- ing The second haIT oT disTricT. soph- omore piTcher STeve Hope winds up To deliver his TasT ball. On The 'follow Through Treshman piTcher Glen WoITe eyes The sTrike as iT reaches Treshman caTcher Bobby Maas' awaiTing glove. Focusing on The TasT approaching piTch, sophomore Third baseman John Morris connecTs wiTh The ball Tor a solid single in a make-up game wiTh Memorial. + fri up 2 -. X , 1, , Passing The vacanT bleachers he ThoughT, AT game Time Tomorrow These bleachers will be as empTy as They are now. Then hurriedly he posiTioned himseIT aT TirsT base and began To warm up. As pracTice progressed he paced Through each drill. BaTTing, Tielding, sliding, reading signals everyday - ThaT was his JV duTy in preparaTion oT varsiTy. JV is deTiniTeIy a sTep ThaT prepares you Tor varsiTy, sophomore ouTTieIder Bryan Peska said, iT's noT very glorious buT ThaT is iusT parT oT iT and as Tor The empTy bleachers and low aTTendance, iT's noT The besT buT ThaT is The way iT is in mosT JV sporTs. CuTTing down on errors meanT puTTing whaT The Team learned inTo pracTice. This uniTied Team eTTorT resulTed in exceIIenT games againsT NorThbrook, l'lasTings, and On The dusTy mound Treshman Mike Jones winds up To Tire a piTch To The NorThbrook Raider baTTer whose Team IaTer losT The conTesT To The Tigers IO-I. JUNIOR VARSITY BASEBALL SWHS OPPONENT 3 I'lasTings 6 20 STraTTord IDI-ll 0 2 7 5 Memorial 7 6 Elsik 5 8 NorThbrook 9 3 WesTchesTer IDI-ll 6 I 6 8 I'IasTings 7 8 Memorial 7 9 Elsik 8 IO NorThl::rook I STraTTord. We seemed To iusT noT have as many misTakes in any oT These games, Treshman ouTTieIder Glen WoITe said. The absence oT error showed iTselT clearly in The second game oT The season when The Woodsmen swepT The STraTTord SparTa ns 20-O. Good piTching by STeve I-Iope really helped, Peska said. In mid-season The JV beaT The previously unbeaTen l'IasTings Team 8-7 in exTra innings. I was very pleased ' wiTh Them and Their eTTorT in The I-lasTings ball game. They really played The caliber oT ball They are capable oT playing, Cook said. Tiger baTs were hoT once again producing IO runs and beaTing NorThbrook IO- I. IT was a greaT way To end The season, I-Iogge added. I-IaITway lisTening To The coach's consTrucTive criTicism as he walked Toward The Tielcl house To Turn in his uniTorm, The TirsT baseman reTIecTed back on The IasT game Ibarely wonl and on The season as a whole. NOT very many people came To waTch. I guess if we had won more To sTarT wiTh . . . BuT nexT year will be diTTerenT. We all have goTTen so much beTTer in The pasT year and when we are on varsiTy we will play like clockwork. For This ball player, The mediocre season didn'T mean deTeaT buT symbolized a learning sTepping sTone To a vicTorious varsiTy record. Junior VarsiTy Baseball I