Lunenburg High School - Echo Yearbook (Lunenburg, MA)

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Qfruss Uluunirg FRONT ROW: Left to Righty C. Makinen, R, Bloodgood, Makinen, A, Eden. THIRD ROW A Paton K Schlicter K. MacLean, R. Miller, D, Conrad. SECOND ROW: M. D. Carrier, P. Hickey, J. Sheehan R Mulligan C02-1Ch Sheehan, Managerg P. Gibson, R, Anderson, S. Maki, R. ,States Lunenburg 20 Lawrence Academy 39 Lunenburg 29 Lawrence Academy 26 Lunenburg 34 Narragansett 21 Lunenburg 38 Narragansett 21 Wachusett Regional Meet Lunenburg won the Freshman Class Trophy Lunenburg placed 2nd in the Junior Varsity Class

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GI ,ii if in af I ff! 4- C' G5 V fra F ASHBY-We got off to a good start by defeating Ashby 13-0, with a tremendous no-hit game pitched by Ed Hytinen. Hytinen fannedtwelve batters and walked four. Pete was the big player in our hitting department with two hits. We had a big second inning when we collected six runs, In our second game at Ashby, we again won by the score of 11-3. John Beaulac and Barry Tikka did the hurling for L,I-I.S. Ed Hytinen had two triples .nd a pair of singles, AYER-In our second Wachusett League game we downed Ayer High School 5-3. Ed Hytinen pitched a four-hitter. Barry Tikka and Emory Merrill each had a pair of singles. In our return game in Ayer Hytinen pitched a 5-0 shoutout and struck out fourteen batters. Hytinen, Rollins, Ekstrand, and Porter had hits for L,H.S. NARRAGANSETT-Again with Ed Hytinen's fine one-hit pitching we beat Narragansett Regional 8-0. Lunenburg hitters banged out twelve hits. Dodge, Beaulac, and Tikka all had two hits. Emory Merrill made a spectac- ular catch on a fly ball in deep center field. In our second contest we clinched the Western Division of the Wachusett League by downing host Narragansett 7-1. Beaulac, Dodge, and Petersonhad two hits apiece. PEPPERELL-In our sixth Wachusett League victory, we beat Pepperell 15-1. John Beaulac hurled for L.H.S., allowed four hits, and struck out twelve, Skip Rollins and Stu Dodge both hit well for us, Barry Tikka ended the game with a tremendous catch in left field. Behind the five hit pitching of Barry Tikka, we once again defeated Pepperell 15-7, Skip Rollins had two singles, while Barry Tikka had a home run to help his ovm cause. At the end of the third inning we led 12-0, therefore, all our players had a chance to play, TOWNSEND-In the first game with our arch-rival Townsend, we won by the score of 6-2, Ed Hytinen on the mound for L.I-I,S. gave up but four hits and struck out thirteen. In the first inning, we took adva.ntage of Townsend's two errors and turned it into a four run stanza for L.H,S, Ron Ostertag and Emory Merrill both collected two hits. Behind the two hit pitching of Ed Hytinen, we won our second game from Townsend, a 3-0 shutout. Lunenburg was able to get but three hits in that contest. ACTON-In the first of a series of three games for the Wachusett League Championship, we defeated Acton on their homefield 8-1. Ed Hytinen hurled for us and was touched for only four hits. Skip Rollins had two hits for L,H.S, We were proclaimed Wachusett League Champions by defeating Acton 10-2 in a best two out of three series. John Beaulac pitched atwo hitter for Lunenburg, while our batters collected seventeen hits. Tikka, Dodge, Merrill, Peterson, and Ekstrand had two hits apiece. 79

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