Mexico High School - Pep Yearbook (Mexico, ME)

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PAGE TWENTY-EIGHT THE 1945 PEP Academy team in a close ten inning game. Mexico took the lead in the second inning when they pushed over two runs. No more scoring was done until the sixth inning when Gould scored once. They scored twice in the seventh and four times in the ninth. At the end of nine innings the score was tied, 7-7. In the first of the tenth, two errors and two bases on balls produced one run for the Bethel club. Going into the last of the tenth, with one out, Burns singled and after Seeley had iiied out, Mott walked, sending Burns to second. With two out, Fraser singled to score Burns with the tying run in a close play at the plate. Then Downs singled and Mott scored the winning run. Jami- son pitched the whole route and won his second game of the season, Mexico's third. Mexico 0200001402-9 94 Gould 0000012041--8133 Mexico at Wilton-May 9, 1944 Mexico won its fourth straight ball game from Wilton in another slugfest, 21-6. Alto- gether 31 hits were banged out, Mexico getting seventeen and the Eagles fourteen. Besides seventeen hits the Pintos were given nine passes. Wilton made twelve errors which aided the Pinto scoring. ,Worthley struck out Hfteen to win his second game. Mexico 300404235-21172 Wilton 210010011-61412 Mexico at Dixfield-May 14, 1944 The Mexico Pintos played its Worst game of the season against Dixiield High at Dixfield. Jamison pitched a good game for the Pintos, but was given poor support. The Mexico team made a total of six costly errors. Besides poor fielding, poor base-running on Mexico's part decided the game. Dixfield won 3-2. Dixfield O0001011x-3 73 Mexico 000010001-2 86 Rumford vs. Mexico-May 20, 1944 Mexico played another very poor game against Rumford to get beaten 4-2. A total of ten errors was made by the Mexico team. The Pintos outhit Rumford 10-4, but failed to hit at the right time. Jamison went all the way on the mound to lose his first game of the year. Mexico's only runs came in the third inning, on two errors, a base on balls, and a hit. Jim Kelly pitched a good game for Rumford but it was Mexico's errors that lost the game. Rumfrd 200001001-4 42 Mexico 002000000-21010 Mexico at Gould Academy-May 25, 1944 Mexico was beaten by Gould Academy in a close affair and Mexico led 4-2 going into the return game at Bethel 7-4. The game was the seventh. But in the seventh, two errors, three doubles, and a base on balls produced five runs and Gould won 7-4. Worthley started for Mexico but was relieved by Jamison in the sev- enth inning. Mexico played a good ball game but the Bethel boys made their hits count. Reid and Dorion each homered for Gould in the fourth inning with bases empty. Gould 00020050x-7 83 Mexico 012001000-4 72 Mexico at Livermore Falls-May 23, 1944 On May 23, Mexico journeyed to Livermore Falls to play a second game with that club. Mexico won 6-4 in a good game. Worthley pitched for Mexico and in the first six innings faced only eighteen men, three an inning. But in the seventh, five hits, a base on balls, and an error produced four runs for Livermore. Mexico scored one in the fifth, four in the sixth, and one in the eighth. The Andies were greatly im- proved since their last game with the Pintos. Worthley fanned nine and allowed five hits, all of them in the seventh frame. Mexico 000014010-6 83 Livermore Falls 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0-4 5 5 Mexico vs. Dixfield-June 1, 1944 On June 1, Dixiield came to Mexico for their return game with the Pintos. The Pintos, out to make good their 3-2 defeat in the former game, won in a well played game 4-2. Swan, Dixfield's submarine-ball pitcher was touched for seven hits and gave six free passes. George Worthley did the pitching chores for the Pintos and went all the way to Win. He struck out thirteen enemy batsmen and gave no bases on balls, while allowing six hits. Mexico O0111100x-4 72 Dixfield 000100100-2 62 Mexico at Rumford--June 3, 1944 For the first time in four years a Mexico baseball team defeated Rumford when theAPin- tos took them over 6-5. However Mexico did not win the game, Rumford lost it. The Pintos went right to work on Phillips, Rumford start- ing hurler, and scored three times in the second. the Panther scored twice off Jamison in the first inning. Jim Kelly took over the mound duties in the third and one run was scored off him. This put the Pintos ahead 3-2. They added one more run in the sixth, but in the eighth inning, four singles, a base on balls, and a triple by Leader put across three runs for Rumford to tie the score, 5-5 . In the first of the ninth, with one out, Waite was hit by Kelly. Burns then hit a ground ball to Kelly ior the start of an easy double play. However l'ielly's ball went over the second has' man and iVk':.i--2 went to third. Burns was- put out going into second on Seeley's grounder to T.ea..ier. With two out, and menfon first and third, t--so strikes on the batter, Wagner, Panther's backstop, zrical to pick off Seeley on first base, but no one um: covering first, and the ball went into right. Helo. Waite scoring on the play. Fraser, the batter. then struck out to end the inning, First battfez' up for the Panthers singled but the side was then retired. The third out was made by Jam? A son striking out Kelly, the opposing pitcher Mexico 031001001-6 bi Rumford 200000030-5 12 1:

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.THE 1945 PEP PAGE 'TWENTY-SEVEN BASEBALL SQUAD 4th row: Whytock, Mgr., Cobb coach. ley, Fraser. 2nd row: Jamison, Worthley Waite. T BASEBALL-1 944 The .Mexico,Pintos had a very successful sea- son last spring, .Jinning seven games and losing three. The Pinto hall club scored a total of 106 runs against f' their opponents. At th: .M ui the season, Rae Burns, the centeriielder. and leadoff man, was elected cap- tain of the 'baseball team. Baseball letters were awarded to the fol- lowing: Capt. 'Rae Burns, George Worthley, rlarland Seeley, William Mott, Leo Jamison, James Fraser, Norbert Waite, Albert Downs, Robert Allen, and James DesRoches. X Mexico vs. Wilton-May 1, 1944 fMe:rico opened, its baseball season by swamping a weak Wilton team, 37-3. Worthley started on themound 'for Mexico to win his first start. The Mexicoebatters had no trouble in banging out 'twenty-two hits off five Wilton pitchers. The Pintos scored in every inning but the eighth, while Wilton scored a lone' run in the first and one in the 7th and 9th. V R. H. E. Wilton 100000101-3 4 6 Mexico 2 7 6 6 4 2 10 0 X-37 22 1 Mexico vs. Livermore Falls-May 5, 1944 Four days after Mexico had beaten Wilton they whitewashed Livermore Falls' ball team, 15-0. Jamison started the hurling, but Worth- ley took over with one out in the 3rd frame. The two Mexico pitchers struck out a total of eleven men while Patton, Livermore hurler, fanned five. The Pintos banked out thirteen fanned five. The Pintos banged out thirteen solid hits and received eight free tickets to first. Mexico- 2 0 2.1 0 1 0.x-15 13 0 Livermre Falls 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0- 0 4 1 Mexico vs. Gould-May 6, 1944 The Pintos played their best game of the sea- son to defeat a strong, Well-coached Gould 3rd row: DesRoches, Mott, See- lst row: Downs, Burns, Allen.

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