Blackford High School - Reflections Yearbook (Hartford City, IN)

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Discarding the Bruin baseball cap in disgust is Bruin Back to first-base in time is senior Joe Leeth as the Head Coach Craig Moore. Asst. Coach Gary Chees- Marion firstbase man gets the ball. Leeth led the man renders his advice on the situation. Bruins with the second highest batting average, .328. W mA Young team ended 11-10 Under the direction of Head Coach Craig Moore, the Bruins ended the season with 11 wins to 10 losses. In the CIC the Bruins defeated Madi- son-Grant, Elwood, and Alexandria, los- ing to Peru, Tipton, and CIC champion Wabash. In the Blackford Invitational tourney, the Bruins defeated Ft. Wayne North to advance to the final game of the tourney only to be defeated by Muncie Central, 3- 0. In the Sectional the Bruins were knocked out in the first game by Bluffton, whom they had earlier defeated 4-2. The Bruins were led in hitting by John Polster with a .360 average, and Joe Leeth with .328. Pitching was led by freshman John Twi- bell, who compiled a 5-0 record with an ERA of .77. It was really exciting to see John Twi- bell, pitch, said Head Coach Craig Moore. 180 Varsity Baseball

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Getting ready for a race is not always an individual task. Kris Dcarduff accepts tlie help of track team manager Tony King to get his number pinned on. Each year a CIC queen is chosen from each school in the conference. This year ' s CIC queen for Blackford was senior Angle Bowman (center). At the helm of the Bruins ' track team is Head Coach Chris Coy. Coy led the team to a CIC victor}: an invitational victory and third-place finish in the Sec- tional. Up and over the hurdle is Evan Pethtel. Evan cleared many hurdles, as he broke the high hurdle record with a time of 14.24 and advanced to the State meet. VARSITY TRACK TEAM RECORD BHS OPP 90 Bellmont 32 32 Muncie North 48 32 Ft. Wayne Snider 81 89 Peru 37 1st Blackford Invitational 102.5 Mississinewa 24.5 88 Nobles ville 34 88 Tipton 31 73 Ft. Wayne Wayne 71 73 Ft- Wayne Luers 14 2nd South Adams Relays Track 179

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Huts off to the Bruins! says Gary Larjgdon. as he retrieves the ball from the first-baseman. Gary helped out the Bruins in the pitching department. A key position first-base was held down by junior southpaw Pat Parker. Here Pat executes a routine throw to first-base for the out. VARSITY BASEBALL RECORD BHi OPP. 2 Muncie Central 3 8 Marion 1 4 Blufflon 2 10,0 2 Pendleton Heights (DH) Southern Wells 7,4 6 Belmont 3 12 Norwell g 5 Muncie South 1 6 Madison-Grant 1 4 Elwood 3 1 1 Madison Heights Peru 12 8 1 5 Huntington North Alexandria Blackford Invitational: 2 4 Ft. Wayne North Muncie Central 3 2 Muncie North 5 1 Wabash 7 1 Tipton Sectional 3 5 Bluffton 6 .lyKSfic ' VARSITY BASEBALL SQUAD: (Bottom Ro») Doug Myers, Dan Young, John Twibell, Chris Town- send, Larry Williams, Bret Townsend. (Row 2) Tony King (mgr.), Mike Howard, Joe Leeth, Pat Parker, In the final game of the Blackford Invitational against Muncie Central, Tod Cain rushes back to first base in time, but the Bruins lost the game 0-3. Steve Stnne, Matt Daniels i,mgr. I. Mike Bi ' .ii (mgr.). (Top ?ou) Craig Moore (coach.) Eric Lang- don, Greg Glancy, Gary Landon. John Polster. Tod Cain. Gary Cheesman (coach). Mr. Bill Milholand. Varsitv Baseball IS I