Whitehall High School - Whitehall Yearbook (Whitehall, PA)

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Under stress at an important game, coach Joe Steiner tries to decide strategy in the next inning. Hoping to repeat the league championship, Mr. Steiner was disappointed with the record.

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Flooded with talent, the junior varsity retained Whitehall's baseball image by taking the Lehigh Valley League championship with a clean 7-0 league and 8-3 overall records. First year coach Bill Kunkel admitted to making a few mistakes but none so large as to tarnish the Zephs. Curve bailer John Percival, 4-0, preserved a close 5-4 victory over Catasauqua with Rick Fetherolf, John Domitrovits, and Willie Roman rapping out two hits each. Chief rival Northampton became the victims of an overpowering offensive attack led by Steve Panik, Matt Millen, and Fetherolf in an 11-8 triumph by the diamond boys. Rick Coombe pitched a two-hit shutout for six innings before he was replaced by freshman Bill Hobson. Coombe pitched his second shutout against Stroudsburg, winning 8-0. Panik kept his 10-game hitting streak alive by blasting a home run and Millen singling twice for the Zephyr mittmen. In the final contest of the season, Whitehall needed 15 runs to tie the all-time jay vee scoring record, but the team's futile efforts fell one run short as the Zephs put on the pressure and clobbered the Slatington Bulldogs 14-3. DO CO m DO Making a bee line back to the bag is Bill Marks as he knocks over a Northampton player. Right: John Domitrovits throws the ball to first base. Below: Cary Schlaffer moves in to make a assist. JUNIOR VARSITY BASEBALL — Front Row: Guy Schwenk, Rick Coombe, Jim Mizgerd, Andy Millen, Gary Schlaffer, Sieve Wenzel, Malt Monds-chein. Second Row: Rick Baranchak, manager, Tony Vlahovic, John Domitrovits, Bill Hobson, Bill Marks, Mike Fischer, Mike Humanick, Willie Roman, Bob Reitz, manager. Third Row: Rick Fetherolf, Don Wetherhold, Terry Cramsey, Ron Snyder, Bruce Rarig, Eric Chrales, Steven Prazenka. 21

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A fatal loss to Northampton in playoff action cost Whitehall its baseball crown as the Zephyrs ended the season posting 10-3 league and 14-6 overall slates. Whitehall started the action by beating host Northwestern 9-8. Jeff Mondschein broke a 7-7 tie in the fifth with a two-run triple to give the Zephyrs the runs they needed. Whitehall got a 2-1 win over visiting Parkland as Mike Matejicka drove in his counterpart Tom Leaswitch with a long single to right field in the seventh inning to give Joe Steiner's team the victory. Don Hagenauer hurled a no-hitter to turn the Lehigh Valley League first half championship against Stroudsburg into a rout. Hagenauer struck out six allowing one walk. The Zephyrs defeated Emmaus 5-2 on hits by Matejicka, Ed Roman, and Leaswitch. Whitehall started a come-back in the sixth inning to defeat Lehighton 6-3. In the LVL playoff game May 27 against Northampton, both teams watched runs in the first inning but the Zephyrs went ahead 2-1 in the third as Leaswitch walked and Roman tripled, but the Kids came up with two in the sixth inning to beat Whitehall 3-2. 00 c s m 00 23 Full force ahead, a Lehighton opponent slides into home plate where Whitehall's Al Hetrick holds on to the ball to make the out. Despite numerous errors, the Zephs copped a 7-1 victory over the Indians. Jeff Mondschein takes a throw from a teammate and tags second base for the force out. Left: Tom Leaswitch put the tag on Parkland base-runner but it was too late; he was safe.