Bishop David High School - Crosier Yearbook (Louisville, KY)

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With a foot of snow still on the ground when time to start practicing for the baseball season rolled around, everyone wondered how many games would be snowed-out. Not being able to practice out- side, the team came to school every morn- ing at 6:30 a.m. for about 2V2 weeks to start preparing for the toughest schedule in Jef- ferson County. But the sun finally came out and the first game was played on schedule, with the sun shining brightly for the Falcons as they beat PRP, 6-2, behind the strong pitching of Mike House and Jeff Lyons. The next day, Saturday, April 1, 1978, while the seniors were gone on their after-prom picnics, the juniors beat Beth Haven, 8-1 behind the pitching and hitting of Joe Scheler, who hit the first homcrun of the year. Then the sun stopped shining on the Falcons as they dropped their next 4 games against eventual state runners-up, E-Town, Floyd Central, Jeffersonville, and Lanesville. On came the Shawnee Indians in the first night game of the year and behind homeruns by Opie Harreld, Mike Thielmeier, and Doug Higgins, the team broke out of their slump by beating Shaw- nee, 5-2. A loss to Butler preceded the Falcons ' game against the DeSales Colts in the Valley Invitational Toumey. DeSales en- tered the tournament with a 5-3 record and the Falcons with a 3-5 record. The game was close and, up until the 5th inn- ing, nothing much happened. The Falcons looked as if they might strike first when Opie Harreld led off the bottom of the 5th 60 Varsity Baseball

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Frosh post powerful winning season FRESh 4MAN BASKETBALL RESULTS Won 15 Lost 3 BD 32 St.X 30 BD 39 J. T. Alton 44 BD 52 Beth Haven 23 BD 49 Valley 47 BD 40 Ninth 17 BD 44 DeSales 34 BD 24 Trinity 32 BD 37 Seneca 34 BD 33 Western 27 BD 51 Beth Haven 24 BD 46 Westport 24 BD 52 Ninth 0 17 BD 34 PRP 27 BD 59 DeSales 43 BD 37 St.X 39 BD 39 Providence 17 BD 46 Trinity 38 BD 52 PRP 37 Slipping by a Beth Haven player. Chris Manning goes up for 2 points as Danny Bickel moves in for a possible rebound. 1 he freshman basketballers started off with rival, St. X. And a tough one it was, the Frosh winning it in overtime, 32-30. Travel- ing away and playing J.T. Alton, the Frosh had to battle more than the team and wound up losing, 44-39. They then won their next 4 games before losing to Trinity, 32-24. Next game a double overtime vic- tory over Seneca which started another winning streak, 7 in a row. St. X stopped the streak with a 39-37 win over the Frosh. The Falcons went on to beat Providence, Trinity and PRP to finish the season with a 15-3 record. The win over Trinity was the only loss the Shamrocks had all year. Mentioned as standouts on this year ' s freshman team were: Scott Walters, Eddie Stone, Chuck Darst, and Paul Calhoun. ( Freshman Basketball B-Birds — 1st Row: Joe Schoenbaechler, Mike Bell, Todd Richardson, Mark Manning. 2nd Row: Kevin Wesbecker. L rry Mazzoni, Mike Leake. Mark Heuser. Freshman Basketball Team— 1st Row: Danny Bickel, Tony Hogan. Scott Walters. Danny Brown, Chris Manning. 2nd Row: Kevin Wesbecker, Ed- die Stone. Paul Calhoun, Ray Bauer, Chuck Darst, Reynard Zellers. and Coach Mike Moll. Frosh Basketball 59

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s yii a sa Collecting one of his two hits against Butler in the dis trict opener, first baseman, Mike Thielmeier cranks the bat on a low ball. The Falcons collected only 3 hits as a team and lost, 1-0. VARSITY BASEBALL RESULTS Won 11 Lost 13 BD 6 PRP 2 BD 8 Beth Haven 1 BD 3 E-Town 4 BD 1 Floyd Central 4 BD 1 Jeffersonuille 11 BD Lanesville 10 BD 5 Shawnee 2 BD 1 Butler 9 BD 1 DeSales 2 BD 1 Floyd Central 11 BD 6 Beth Haven BD 3 LaRue County 1 BD 7 Valley 3 BD 11 Valley 1 BD 6 Clarksville 5 BD 2 Clarksville 14 BD 8 Thomas Jefferson 1 BD 1 E-Town 6 BD 1 Fairdale 7 BD 4 Iroquois 6 BD 8 Lanesville 6 BD 2 Valley 1 BD 4 Valley 5 BD Butler 1 Varsity Baseball Team — Bottom: Billy Groaning, Joe Scheler, Bob Nash, John Johnson, Mike House, Kavin McGrath, John Rhea, Jerry Wallace, Mike Thielmeier, Opie Harreld, Doug Higgins. Top: Rick Curtis, Mark Faulkner, Jeff Lyons, Larry Druien, Andy Craycroft, Dave Smith, Mike Johnson. with a double. Mike Johnson came in to pinch-run and was thrown out trying to ad- vance to 3rd on a passed ball. Then in the 7th inning the Colts scored twice and the Falcons, with bases loaded, could get only one across. The final score was DeSales 2, Falcons 1. Joe Scheler was named to the all-tournament team for his fine pitching performance. After a week of rest came the first rematch of the season against Floyd Cen- iral. This game was no better than the first with the Falcons losing it 11-1. The team then seemed to shape up, having a 3-7 record at the time, and won their next 5 games. They beat Beth Haven for the 2nd time, LaRue Co., Valley twice, and a come- from-behind-last-inning-win in the first game of a double-header with Clarksville, j Varsity Baseball 61