Berrien Springs High School - Canoe Yearbook (Berrien Springs, MI)

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Our Baseball team enjoyed one-., of the most sucessful seasons ever registered in the local school. Under the coaching eye of our principal, F. H. Weirs, we came through to win the Berrien County Baseball Championship. V e boast a record now of 12 straight wins in high school competition. At the beginning of the season when Coach Weine called for candidates 26 reported. After about the first practice only about twenty came. Our first game was with our traditional rivals-Eau Clairt We vanquished them with little trouble the score oeing 10—1 at the end of seven innings. The next game we encountered some real opposition. Three Oaks! many times county champs. V e go over after our second victory in the league. It turned out to be a pitchers battlebetween Tillstrom of Berrien and Shwenk of Three Oaks. Tillstrom outpitched his rival by + wo hits. Shwenk allowed us four hits while Tilly was the stingier of the tv.o only allowing two. By a little luck and a timely hit we forced across a run which won the game.l—0. Next in line was Eau Claire again. This time we did not fare so well only beating them 3—2. Now we came to another test we engaged Stevensville here. 7 e got « only three hits but they accounted for four runs. Stevensville made - a number of errors enabling us to score quite easily. The score at the end of the game stood 4—2. The next Friday we were rained out in a game with Galien and cancelled it altogether. Our last game of the season! V e were all set for the game with Coloma who were but a game behind us. If they won we would tie end then play the final Gane. So out we went (continued on next page)