Aldine High School - Round Up Yearbook (Houston, TX)

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PAUL MILLER Sr. i yr. Ieftermcn ROGER LANE Jr. 1 yr. leffermcm WALTER JOHNSON Soph. i yr. Ieffermcin if '- V U i 5 fi Coach Skog watches his feom with anticipation. I20

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i Aldine Wins Its 1 t State Title! lilly McElroy talks to the North Shore Mustangs. f is Nu' Paul Miller beats out an infield hit. With a 7-O district record and the l 5AAAA district championship behind them, the scrap- py, determined Mustangs went on to win the i970 Class AAAA Baseball State Champion- ship, the first in Aldine's history. The curve- balling Glenn Bryant and Stan Stockley teamed up at Austin to pitch a no-hitter at Bellaire, only the seventh in state meet histo- ry. Phillip Terrell led the 4-O Aldine shutout with a perfect three-for-three night against Bellaire, including a run-scoring double. After winning district, Aldine started off right towards eventual state championship by beating Spring Branch in both bi-district games, 8-O and 3-2. In the first game James Bates and Edwin Dewberry had three hits with the entire team collecting ll hits. Aldine won the second game at the bottom of the seventh inning when Leonard Truett hit a per- fect suicide bunt to get Larry Reneau home from third base. With the win of bi-district, the Mustangs went on to the regional play- offs against Waco-Richfield. ln the first game against Waco, Aldine won 7-2 with the pitching of Glenn Bryant who struck out i2 and tossed a three-hitter. Richfields Rams won the second game 4-O with three Aldine errors aiding the win. The Mustangs had to win the third game and did 3-2. ln the first inning Aldine tallied three un- earned runs and at the bottom ofthe seventh Waco scored twice on two Aldine errors. Paul Miller scored first from third base when Bryant got to first on Waco's second error. Waco's third error put Phil Terrell aboard and moved Bryant to second. Billy McElroy singled down the third base line, scoring Bry- ant, and Larry Reneau singled home Terrell with a shot up the middle. Bryant went the distance striking out nine and walking seven, forthe victory which advanced Aldine to the Region II final against Fort Worth Wyatt. The Mustangs scored four times in the lOth inning to defeat Fort Worth Wyatt 9-5 in the first game of the regional playoffs at Fort Worth. Bryant walked nine and struck out l3. Aldine scored a run in the third on a single by James Bates, an error, a bunt single by Bryant and McElray's squeeze bunt. They added four in the fifth on singles by Miller, Bates and Ed Dewberry and three errors by the Wyatt catcher, A four-run rally on singles by Miller, Bates, Bryant and Dewberry, and a two-run error by Fort Worths left fielder won it for Aldine in the lOth inning. Aldine won the Regional ll baseball cham- pionship by beating Fort Worth in the second game 4-3, and for the first time in Aldines history the school made a trip to the Universi- ty lnterscholastic League Baseball State Championship Tournament in Austin. Down l-O in the Wyatt game, Aldine struck for three runs in the fourth on a two- run triple by Terrell and a run scoring single by Bryant. Fort Worth tied it in the sixth and in the bottom of the ninth, two inning over the limit, the Wyatt pitcher walked the bases full of Mustangs and with two out, Bryant de- livered a clutch hit down the third base line. This scored Roger Lane from third and was the tie-breaking run which won the regional baseball championship for the Mustangs. With the regional championship over, Al- dine went to the state play-off in Austin, Thursday night, June llth and beat Lubbock Monterey 2-O. The Mustangs bunched all of their hits, three in the founh inning for both runs. Miller started it by reaching first on an error. he took second on an infield single by Bates. A bunt single by Terrill loaded the bases. On an attempted squeeze by Bryant, Miller broke for home. Bryant missed getting the bunt down and Miller was hung up. The Lubbock catcher threw back to third and Mil- ler headed for home. The return throw hit Miller in the back as he slid home with the first run. While all that was going on Bates scored on a wild pitch by the Monterey pitch- er. Bryant, up to lfi-l, turned to his curve when the going got rough. He walked nine and had eleven strike-outs. The following night, June l Qth, Aldine met Bellaire, won the state championship game and made history, for never in U.l.L. history has two Houston based schoolboy teams played against each other for the state cham- pionship in the state tournament, Glenn Bryant, in the three innings against Bellaire, walked five and struck out tive, but in the fourth inning, with his arm in great pain from having pitched the entire game against Lubbock the night before, he was re- lieved by Shockley, Aldines first run came in the first when Miller reached first on an error, went to second on a wild pitch and scored when Bellaire's right fielder booted Terrell's single. ln the third inning, Bates was safe on a Card error, stole second and scored on Ter- rell's double deep in the left-center alley. The Mustangs won the game in the fourth with two runs, all coming after two outs. ln-field singles by Reneau, Shockley, and Truett, plus two wild pitches by Bellaire pitcher Jim Miller and a Card boot, got the runs. Reneau scored after card catcher Marc Mullins dropped the ball after a tag at home and Lane, in for Shockley, scored on a wild pitch by Card pitcher Miller, Of the nine players Coach Skog used most in the play-offs, only two will return. Back will be Dewberry and Reneau, but Bryant, Shock- ley, Terrell, Truett, Miller, Bates and McElroy all graduated. ll9

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JAMES BATES Sr. 2 yr. Iettermcn DANNY CRAFT Jr. I yr. letfermcxn LARRY REN EAU Jr. 2 yr. Iehermon Edwin Dewberry Jr. 2 yr, Ierfermon VICTOR GARCIA Jr. I yr. Ieffermcm GLENN BRYANT Sr. 3 yr. Iettermon LEONARD TRUETT Sr. 4 yr. Ieriermon BILLY MCELROY Sr. 4 yr. lettermon DON ROBERTS Jr, 'I yr. Ieftermcxn STEVE BURRISK Jr. I yr, Ieifermon STAN SHOCKLEY Sr. I yr. Ieffermon CHUCK SIMKINS So. I yr. Ieftermon PHILLIP TERRELL Sr. 2 yr. Ieffermon