Grand Rapids Community College - Olympian Yearbook (Grand Rapids, MI)

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Baseball First Row - Bernstein, Baleski, Boes, Berry O'Brien, Levandowski, Rockwell. -'ff Second Row - Packard, Tunis, Golembiewski, Johnson, Schriber, Ritzema, Whalen, Cassis, Gray. An extremely versatile team that had excellent pitching and fairly good fielding, but was deficient in hitting strength, made the 194-1 edition of the Grand Rapids Junior college baseball team an enigma to its opponents. Since only two of last year's team, Dale John- son, shortstop, and Bill Schriber, pitcher, re- turned, a free-for-all scramble for positions de- veloped. When the shouting died, Coach Dwight Packard selected Ward Rockwell, Jim Levandoski, Dale Johnson, Whitey Golembiewski, Bill Schri- ber, Don Mol, Paul Berry, Gerald Ritzema, and Bob O'Brien as his first team, with several of these boys being able to play two or more posi- tions fairly well. I 'QWVX Wfffyff W ff V' fy ,W X XM' T ' , ff!! ,,,, W ,QMWXM f 0, a ,U ' ww' f wr, . ,L pf , '

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LOST JUNIOR COLLEGE YVINS OVER JACKSON February 28, 1941 1 In a close game, the Blue and Gold forces of Grand Rapids Junior college tonight took a 36-33 victory over the Jackson quintet. At the end of the first half, the score stood 22-15 in ,Iackson's favor, but the Raiders, led by Willis Montgomery, came back in the third to seize and retain the lead. Landers and Montgomery each had 9 points for Grand Rapids. CALVIN SHELLACKS JUNIOR FIVE March 3, 1941 1 Calvin college, already ac- claimed victors in the Michigan-Ontario league, tonight finished their season by handing Grand Rapids JC a 53-32 shellacking, although in the third period the Raiders had the crowd in the Burton gym holding its breath as they rolled up 10 points to the Knights' 2, but a Calvin rally soon disappointed them. Streeter was high scorer for the Raiders with 14 points. MUSKEGON IUNIOR TOPS G. R. QUINT March 5, 1941 - By defeating Grand Rapids Junior college tonight, 54-48, the Muskegon ,IC team clinched third place in the MJCAC league standings, and Francis Miller, Muskie scoring ace, assured himself of state scoring honors by rolling up 25 points. The defeat meant a fourth place tie with Bay City for the Raiders. Schriber led their scoring with 20 points. Second Team First Row - H. Adrianse, W. Rockwell, G. Ritzema, J. Whalen, R. Dykema. Second Row - Coach Lowell Bailey, J. Stowell, K. Fleckner, Paul Berry, R. Essebager, R. Wachter.

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In their first game with Calvin, the Raiders ran into the curve ball pitching of Bob Westveer, and were let down with one hit, losing the game by the score of 4-0. Bill Schriber was the losing pitcher, but with more support could well have won the game. The next game was with Hope, and this time the team really got going, with Whitey Colem- biewski setting the Dutchmen down with three hits, and with excellent fielding, winning the game 2-1. Ward Rockwell was the hero of the game, however, coming up with the bases full, and whamming out a double. A second game with Calvin was disastrous for the Juniors, who, despite the fine pitching of Golembiewski in the first four innings, later com- mitted eight errors and let in five runs, and so lost the game, 6-4. Reserves for the squad are Joe Baleski, Richard Boes, Joe Cassis, Don Oleszkiewicz, Carroll Van Hartesveldt, Jack Whalen, and Joe Pattok. Victor Grey and Lawrence Bernstein are managers, and Schriher and Johnson are the co-captains. The schedule for the rest of the year is as fol- lows: May 6 Muskegon J.C. here May 8 Aquinas College here May 13 Hope College here May 20 W.S.T.C. Frosh there May 22 Muskegon J.C. there May 27 W.S.T.C. Frosh here