Coolidge High School - President Yearbook (Coolidge, AZ)

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50021440 Joe Ortiz, who w's catching, fielded the ball and threw him out at first. Herrada came in on the same play and crossed the plate before the out was made. The run was counted in the scorebook, but in the rule book it says: Wwith two outa, if a hitter is thrown out at Fgrst base, even if a runner from third scores befgre the out is made, the run gill ggi ggggt.' -So the real score was A-L, but Superior stillhad the last of the seventh to bat, and maybe they would have won the game in that last half. Who knows? The next game was with Florence, and the Bears blew up in the 6th inning. Florence collected A runs to tie the score 8 to 8, This was the first loss in seven games. The final score was 10-8. Bueno struck out ll Florence batters and gave up 6 hits. The Florence pitchers, D. Celera and Hawkins, gave up 8 hits. Cwolidge and Florence tangled again a week later wfih o free scoring game of 18-13 in which Florence again came out the winner. Acton pitched the whole game giving up 10 hits and striking out 5 batters, while NHarpoW Celaya pitcP+' f'r Florence yielding 14 hits and striking out 4 batters. Coolidge went to Hayden for the district playoff and was handed their third defeat in a game that was called in 6 ll6 innings because of darkness. Hayden won the game 10-5. The Bears haoie fairly successful season winning 5 games and losing 3. Joe Ortiz led with the most hits getting 12 for the season. He also led in the number of runs made with 12. Acton was second in each with ll hits and ll runs. Jones was third with 8 hits and 10 runs. Acton turned in th best batting average of the season which was .34L. He also led in the number of stolen bases with 6. Ortiz was second in hat- ting average with .3l6, and Schell was third with ,3l3. Bueno was second in the number of bases stolen which was 4, and Ramey was third with 2. f Letter Winners C-Actoni SS-Drtizf P-Buenos LF-Schell, lB-Rameyi CF-R lphi 2b-Perkirgf RF-Vidanof 3B-Jones' CF-Benn' RF-Vallace CF-Freeland 1B-Shoemaker 3B-Steward ' GF-Giles coach--Wisner

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O . i The Coolidge Bears started their season by drubbing a Casa Grande team 14-4. Oscar Bueno and Warren Thompson were the Bear's pitchers for the day allowing only 3 scattered hits between them, and striking out seven batters. Joe Ortiz was the outstanding hitter getting 4 hits out of 5 times at bat. Salazar and Armenta were worked for l2 hits. Runs vera made as follows: Ortiz, 33 Perkins, 25 Jones, 25 Acton, 35 Freeland, 23 Vidano, lg and Bueno, l. The Bears opened the Conference with a win over Hayden of 3 to 1, with pitchers Bueno and Thompson holding the Hayden boys to two hits. Acton completed the battery behind the plate. The Hayden pitcher, Roy Montana, allowed 7 hits and struck out 12 Coolidge batters. Runs were made by Ortiz, Perkins, and Schell. The lone run made for Hayden was made on a Coolidge error. In the next game Casa Grande was defeated for the second time bv the Bears. George Acton pitched for 4 innings and Joe Ortiz was behixd the plate. Then Ortiz pitched and Acton caught. They both allowed only 3 hits while the Bears pound- ed out 9 hits from the two Casa Grande pitchers. The game ended with Coolidge again the winner, 12-1. The only run the Cougars made was a ho e-run by Salazar. Coolidge won their next game at the expense of the Sup- erior Panthers, 12-5. Bueno pitched and Acton caught. The Panthers collected 4 hits from the Bear pitcher and Coolidge collected 9 from the fcnther pitcher. Bueno pitched seven strikeouts. Coolidge made three errors to Superior's four. Catcher George Acton of Coolidge and catcher Joe Herrada of Superior both tallied home runs, the first of the season for the new Coolidge field. Coolidge racked up three runs in the first inning, four in the second, and five in the third be- fore Superior tightened up to hold the Bears the rest of the gamr. George Acton of Coolidge turned in the best hitting performance of the day with with a 3 for L average. Coolidge managed to keep a clear record for 5 consecu- tive games when they defeated Ray l.'3 in a tight ball game. Neither team scored until the xixth inning and all the runs for both teams were made in that inning. The Bears, with Bueno pitching and Acton catching, collected six hits from the Ray pitcherg Hay, with Gonzales pitching and Martinez catching, got four hits. Three of the Eesr's runs were made on errors and all of Ray's runs were made on errors. Cool- idge's winning run was made by Joe Ortiz, after he doubled and he was brought in by Jones with a single. The next game was a tie between Coolidge and Superior. The reason for this is explained as follows: with two outs, Joe Herrada, Superior catcher, was on third base in the last of the second inning. Fraijo was up to bat, George Acton, who was pitching, pitched the ball and the batter, who was Eryiggtto get out of the way, accidently hit the ball with is .

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