Binghamton University - Colonist Yearbook (Vestal, NY)

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I I FIRST Row: Sherm Bletchman, Dennis Bottino, Pete Macan, jim Heavner, Bob Bargetzi, Art Kalliche. SECOND ROW: Coach Welborn, Mike Pavylak, Dave Brown, Ted Scarinzi, Bill Walling, Tom Zowine, Bob Hood, Carmen Calenti, Bill Custis, Mgr. BASEBALL Despite the fact that the T. C. C. Colonials shift- ed from high school to sandlot to industrial baseball fields for their home games, they still managed to compile a fair, won 5, lost 6, record for the 1948 baseball season. Four of these six losses were by one run, with two of the games going extra innings. Failure to hit with men on base lost the season opener against the Ithaca College frosh at Ithaca by a score of 2-O. Coach Gene Welborn's team outhit the Ithaca nine, six to four, behind the masterful pitching of Pete Macan, but could not put two blows together. The locals lost a heart-breaking 4-3 extra-inning contest to Hartwick College at Johnson Field. T. C. C. held a 3-1 lead going into the ninth inning, but when the third out was made, Hartwick had knotted the count. The visitors went on to win in the tenth off reliefer Sherman Bletchman, who replaced jerry Flanagan in that fateful ninth. The Green and Wfhite found the formula for victory by knocking off State Tech 14-3 at Johnson Field. Four of the 16 hits garnered by T. C. C. went for extra bases. The Colonial baseballers were limited to two hits as they bowed 5-4 to the Utica College nine in a

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FIRST Row: Jim Johnstone, Les Morgan, Newell Stapleton, Coach John Budd. Slicimsin Row: Jack Jamieson, Al Sanges, Mario Pizzillo, Manager Dick Clinton. GULF The 1948 golf team had, for the second straight year, the best T. C, C. team record in spring sports. The Colonial golfers finished the season with an excellent 4-2 won-lost record. John Budd, pro at the Endicott-Johnson golf course, acted as coach for the Squad. Al Sanges was elected captain of the team after the golfers won their opening match of the season, ISVZ-IOVZ, against the linksmen of Hartwick Col- lege on the E. course. Dick Jamieson shot the dayls low round with a 78. The Colonial mashie-wielders journeyed to Troy for their next conquest. as they eked out a Ji-3 vic- tory over R. P. I. Mario Pizzillo negotiated the rain! soaked course with a low 77. The Green and XY'hite was handed its first loss of the season 6-3 when Hobart College invaded Endicott. The squad also lost its No. three man when Dick Mercer was stricken with appendicitis. T. C. C. took it on the chin again, 10-8, when they traveled to Utica for a match with Utica College. The Triple Cities Linksmen gained revenge for their loss by outputting Utica 12-6 on the En-Joie Workers course. Pizzillo, Jamieson and Sanges were the day's medalists as each chipped in with a 76. Les Morgan and Jim Johnstone both had an off day as Utica garnered all its points from them. T. C. C. finished its golf season at Oneonta against Hartwick College. Pizzillo again led the Colonials to victory, SV2-ZVZ, by carding a 73. Dick Jamieson was close behind him with a 741. The consistently low scores of Pizzillo and Ja- mieson, plus the steady golfing of Sanges, Stapleton, Morgan and Johnstone contributed to a fine record and a successful season.

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loosely played contest at Utica. This was another extra-inning affair. Sherm Bletchman spun a neat four-hitter to shut out Keystone College 3-O in a game played at john- son Field. The Colonials scored all of their runs on two hits and an error in the initial stanza. Bletch- man had things in control all afternoon. The Key- stoners gained revenge a few days later on their home held as they slugged out a 9-8 victory. Coach Wel- born laid part of the blame for the loss on a muddy field. Rain at the end of tive innings of play brought a halt to the destruction handed to the State Tech Hornets by the Triple Cities College nine. Five hits scored eleven runs for the Welbornmen while Tech was able to garner only one tally. Big Pete Macan held the Tech batters to four safeties, two of them scratch infield hits, and gave up but one walk. Wel- born's charges received a total of ten free passes as two Tech pitchers couldn't locate the plate. Behind the one-hit pitching of Macan, the Green and Wfhite drubbed Wfilkes College 6-2 at johnson Field. Macan was also batting star for T. C. C. by getting two hits in three attempts. Three errors spoiled a shutout for Pete. Hartwick shaded T. C. C. 3-2 at Oneonta for their second one-run victory over the Colonials. The diamondeers from Endicott were only able to get five safe blows while jerry Flanagan gave up six to Hart- wick. The locals then traveled to Ithaca to absorb a 9-5 beating administered by the Ithaca College nine. Bletchman led the Colonials to victory over the Utica College Tangerines 9-6, to avenge an early sea- son loss. Sherm held the Utes to six hits while strik- ing out four and walking five. Coach Welborn's charges blasted eleven bingles including a double by Carmen Calenti, off two Utica hurlers. T. C. C. started with two runs in the first but the invaders from upstate New York came back with five tallies in the fourth. The Lincoln Ave. nine picked up two runs in the fifth, two in the sixth and added three more in the eighth. Utica garnered one more run in the ninth to end the scoring. Heavener and Brown paced the local attack with two hits each. T. C. C. lost its chance to finish the season with a .500 percentage when the last scheduled game against Wilkes College at Wilkes-Barre was washed Out.