Blanchester High School - Brown and Blue Yearbook (Blanchester, OH)

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mega!! mm FIRST ROW-Gene Lucas, Tom Carter. SECOND ROW-Richard Naylor, Charles Day, John Teevan, Ronald Whitacre, Sam Bowman, Paul Kibbey, Richard Rannells. THIRD ROW-Harold McLaughlin, John Simpson, managers. Lloyd Caldwell, Lester Deeter, John Jones, Danny Starkey, Lewis Shank, Coach Jacoby. The 1948 baseball team was rather successful this year, winning three out of four games. Each player showed their skill at one time or another. Gene Lucas pitched all four games and struck out 46 men during the season. Ron Whitacre made the most runs. The team lost only one game and this was lost to Jefterson. In all the games each player showed his skill and did his very best. The longest game they played was with Clarksville. The game was played here and it lasted from four to almost seven. All in all the baseball season of 1947-48 was one ofthe best. 60

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Nov. 6 Nov. 26 Jan. 23 Feb. 6 Feb. 13 'E ZZ SEASON HIGHLIGHTS The Wildcats opened the season with a bang the night before their opening when the school turned out for a Pep Rally under the leadership of the Athletic Council President Jim Smith, and the Cheerleaders. The students gathered at the school grounds where they formed a single line to follow the cheerleaders in a snake dance down Main Street and back to the Athletic Field. When the students returned to the Athletic Field an effigy of Bethel was burned and the cheerleaders led the crowd around the huge bonfire in yells and the school song. Blanchester defeated Sabina for the first time in a league game ln four years. Dad's NIght. The was a special pro- Blanchester turned out to honor the players' p-arents at Dads were guests of the Athletic Association and there gram for them. Barbara Wlnandl Barbara Naylor, The annual Homecoming Game was celebrated. reigned as Basketball Queen with Beverly Villars, Marlene Walsh, and Jayne Carnahan as her attendants. Blanchester defeated Kingman in what was probably the best game of the year, to win the League Championship undefeated. 59

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Blanchester Blanchester Blanchester Blanchester NAME Paul Klbbey Charles Day Ronald Whitacre Gene Lucas Lester Deeter Sam Bowmanu John Teevan Tom Carter A Lloyd Caldwell. Lewis Shank .,.., Richard Rannells John Jones Richard Naylor Bill Roby Dan Starkey. Totals SCORES OF BASEBALL GAMES PCT. 200 385 444 357 333 308 571 231 000 000 154 500 333 000 .000 9 Kingman 2 JeH'erson 3 New Vienna 19 Clarksville TOTALS OF PLAYERS POSITION AB R. F. 15 .C. F. 13 , S.S. 9 P. 14 3b. 6 . 1b. , 13 2b. 7 C. 13 L. F. 8 1 1 , 13 2 , 3 1 1 1 19 61 294