Nazareth Area High School - Comet Yearbook (Nazareth, PA)

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DIAMOND MEN IN THE SWING Larry Roth crosses first base with ease. The Nazareth Blue Eagle baseball team had a very suc¬ cessful season under the guiding hand of veteran coach Andrew Leh. With an 8-3-1 record, the team took second place in the Lehigh-Northampton League as Hellertown snagged first place. Ron Gold ' s pitching was excellent, and by the season ' s end he had won 5 of the 8 games snagged by the diamond men. Martin Manning is credited with winning 2, while Stan Metz won the Whitehall game, the only game in which he pitched. Captain Walter Fry led the batting with an average of .473 and first baseman Larry Roth, a sophomore, had a spectacular fielding average of 1.000 with no errors in 108 put-outs. The Wilson game was one of the highlights of the base¬ ball season. A school record was set and a triple play was executed. The school record was broken when the first inning lasted 54 minutes. The diamond men trailed 3-0 when they came to bat in the first inning. A nine-run attack, led by Dale Mengel, followed. Later in the same game the triple play was executed. The action started as the batter lined a single to center with runners on first and second. While rounding third base, the runner who had been on second base fell and was thrown out at home. By this time the ball was flying to third to tag the runner who had been on first. The ball was thrown to second to tag the batter. Another remarkable feat was the game at Hellertown. Hellertown won 1-0 after 16 innings. Although seven seniors were on the 1961 team, the coming season looks very promising. Lester Butz slams a triple. 23

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ROW 1: Robert Saltern, Lon Werner, James Deichman, Glen Engler, Dale Lindenmoyer, Jack Deichman, David Filchner, Melvin Messinger, Lonnie Herritt, Nick Drosnock. ROW 2: Martin Manning, Larry Roth, Delbert Buss, Dale Mengel, Albert Toth, Lynn Rothrock, Ronald Gold, Walter Fry, Samuel Werkheiser, Lester Butz, Sherwood Roth, Stanley Metz. ROW 3: Barry Rinker, Frederick Kindt, Managers; Ronald Serfass, Larry Werkheiser, William Grucela, Robert Stocklas, George Spence, Stanley Fehr, Glenn Gold, Robert Bill, Alan McNear, Coaches Roanoke and Leh, Gregory Brock and George Strobl, Managers. BASEBALL STATISTICS Name AB R H E RBI B.Av. Toth 41 11 16 0 3 .390 Fry 38 16 18 0 8 .473 Rothrock 37 9 11 8 5 .298 L. Roth 36 3 6 0 5 .166 Butz 41 4 14 0 10 .341 Mengel 35 6 14 7 6 .400 Werkheiser 37 7 4 0 1 .108 S. Roth 33 3 6 2 3 .181 Gold 18 3 3 7 0 .166 Manning 10 1 3 0 0 .300 Buss 5 0 1 1 0 .200 Spence 1 0 1 0 0 1.000 Metz 5 1 1 0 1 .200 TOTALS 337 64 98 29 42 .324 Al Toth shortens stride to round first base. 1961 BASEBALL SCHEDULE OPP. NAHS April 7 Pen Argyl 3 3 April 1 1 Bangor 4 1 April 14 Whitehall 4 14 April 18 East Stroudsburg 1 9 April 21 Wilson 3 12 April 25 Pen Argyl 13 1 April 28 Coplay 0 4 May 2 Southern Lehigh 0 3 May 5 Fountain Hill 0 6 May 9 Parkland 2 3 May 12 Hellertown 1 0 May 16 Bangor 0 6 22

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TENNIS TEAM ENDS FINEST YEAR ROW 1: James Riefenstahl, Bernard Hahn, David Bowers, Frank Naracci, Browne, James Peppel, Thomas Ruloff, Craig Leake, Carter Young—Manager. Richard Rundle, Scott Bowers, Richard Keck. ROW 2: Coach Christman, Barry With five determined lettermen from the previous year, the tennis squad attained its best season ' s record of 4-5-1. All of the four wins were shut-outs (6-0), while Easton had the only squad able to shut the Blue Eagle netmen. Two of the senior lettermen, Richard Rundle and Frank Narracci helped attain this goal in both singles and doubles, l | while the third senior letterman, James Riefenstahl, aided ( with doubles. Although a .500 average was not attained, our tennis team showed a marked improvement. Experience will provide the margin to give Nazareth an edge in the coming season. 1961 TENNIS SCHEDULE NAHS OPP. April 19 Bethlehem 1 5 April 21 William Allen 3 3 April 24 Reading 6 0 April 25 Easton 1 5 May 1 Dieruff 6 0 May 3 Reading 6 0 May 5 Bethlehem 1 5 May 17 William Allen 2 4 May 18 Easton 0 6 May 19 Dieruff 6 0 24