David Crockett High School - Texan Yearbook (Austin, TX)

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Far Left: Senior Eric Hoge hits a double play that even- tuall leads him to a score against the San Marcos Rattlers, Crochlett eventually shut the Rattlers down 6-2, Left: Junior Shannon Dorsey guards home plate as an Austin High player slides in to barely score. ' ,, I ,411 Above: Junior Leslie Callihan prepares to go to bat at the Austin High. Right: Senior Pitcher Ramone Martinez burns a fast pitch to an Austin High player. Being pitcher requires hours upon hours of practice ta get it down just right and Martinez shows his experience as a Senior player. 114fVarsity Baseball ' 'Ax 0 'Q ' 'lfw-vents. I l 9 ' f z E , l 5 xl i

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Sophomore Marco Martinez farm full of dirt trying to beat home as he scores against the Lanicrteam. fixff kpfxlf N 5,-,If Xf,QXxf g-ug , 65' Si!.4nvCi, is -bf-' 46:7 Youthful Team They may not have had the experience t most teams in the district had, but the . baseball team made up for what they ked by finishing fourth in the district h a 6-7 season. he team blasted through their first two Ines when they whipped Austin High 2 and stomped out Travis 9-2. They 're handed two defeats soon afterwards ren they narrowly lost to L.B.J. 2-3 and cCallum 3-7. Coach Connor Grady said Q that since they were such a young team this was a factor in their inconsistancy. The players felt that they had secured second place when they tromped over San Marcos 11-1, but they were to lose their last two games by one point each when they lost to Austin High 2-3 and Travis 1- 23 they had previously beaten both teams. Grady explained that the team's strong point was their hitting. They usually outscored the other team by three to five g Junior VarsityiBatseball Scorecard- 7 2 C V . Crockett 10 .Austin Travis. . I, Crockett L.B.J. ' T yi, Crockett McCallum ' 2 Crockett San Marcos Crockett Westwood Crockett Anderson 7 Crockett ,k Reagan Crockett ' Johnston g Crockett Lanier 7 3' Crockett San Marcos Crockett s 7 Austin p Crockett Travis 2 3 7 0 15 4 3 7 5 1 3 2 5 ' blink?-n C 1 'W ..... 1' . K ' ' lnexperienced players gain valuable lessons, game time points. With the new no pass, No play rule, Grady pointed out that luckily the team wasn't touched. We lost one guy the first six weeks but he was able to play the re- mainder of the season when he brought his grades up. Next year Coach Grady expects to have a more consistant team since there will be a large number of returning players. by James Erben J.V. Baseball front row: J. Cox, M. Martinez, R. Kennard, R. Webb, L. Guerrero, middle row: B. Montgomery E. Graham, G. Hodnett, T. Gage, S. Martin, R. Dean back row : Coach Grady, C. Croft, G, Weams B.MMh D.S ' R.R dlh c a an, artin, an op , J.V. Baseballf113 A-YV5

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o Last game shatters team's State Playoff hopes Crockett's dream of making the State Playoffs was completely shot down vhen they were shutout 5-0 by Reagan n the first game of the Bi-District Playoffs. , Part of the problem was the way the Playoffs are set up. It's a one shot, one game situation, Senior Chris Eads said, 'That one game elimination doesn't avork. We were the top in our division, put it came down to one game, do or iief' Eads and others would like to see ,t changed to a three game series. ' At the Reagan game nothing seemed so go right, we didn't apply ourselves at the right time when we needed it mostf' :ommented Senior Ramone Martinez. j When we beat Johnston we knew we in . l P ' 1 were in the Playoffs, it was the first time in a long time we had made it to post- District playf, explained Eads. In the first game against Lanier Crockett lost 1-6. It was the same old story again, said Senior Earnest Her- nandez, t'We lost it in the fifth inning. People would strike out with players on base, we had a man on second and third base and we still couldnlt scoref, This year's Varsity Baseball team was one of the best playing teams Crockett has seen in itls seventeen years of existance. With a 14-6 season record fthe best in the Districtb, the team was South Zone Champs and was looking forward to playing in the State Playoffs in late May. This year's team went out ,,,,..,.,. W ,, ..,,.,. ..,.. on the field and knew what they wanted to and had to do, explained Martinez Throughout the season the team played excellent, beating top-notch teams like last year's District Cham- pions Lanier and this year's State Playoff Contenders Austin High. Our strongpoint was definitely our defense. We had a very strong outfield. At the first of the year our hitting was not so hot, but as the season progressed so did our hitting. Obviously, it wasn't there when we needed it at the Reagan game. We were disappointed, but the season was really great, commented Senior Eric Hoge. by: James Erben r' ..,. : A A , , 1 ki N 1 -, I. front Row: Shannon Dorsey, Carlos Medel, Eric Hoge, Chris Reynes, David Dubois, Leslie Callihan, flichael Hodnett. Back Row: Coach Cardona, Chris Eads, Ramon Martinez, Richard Park, Heath 'ohnson, Shane Adams, Joe Yadouga, Richard Fogle, Coach Grady. Varsity Baseball I Scorecard s i Crockett 8 Killeen Crockett 5 Killeen Crockett 9 L.B.J. 'Crockett 0 Westwood Crockett12 L.B.J. Crockett 1 Lanier Crockett 2 Anderson . Crockettll McCallum , Crockett 3 Lanier is Crockett 4 N.B. Canyon 'Crockett 3 Travis L 'Crockett 8 Johnston L 'Crockett 7 San Marcos 'Crockett 7 Austin 'Crockett1O ,iit T ravis 'Crockett 13ffgJohnston f Crockett? 15 3958811 i s 'Crockett-6' fgSan.Marcos 'Crockett 1' ,T Crockett 0 Season Recsri .iif1i4+6f '-Denotes Districtlgamegt , ' -Denotes DistrictPlayoff games Varsity Baseball 1115