Owensboro High School - Owensboroan Yearbook (Owensboro, KY)

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Hnother Rivalry OHS Robbed Eagles Of Baseball District Owensboro High and Apollo have built a strong rivalry in basketball in recent years and another rivalry was born between the two schools this year. This time the rivalry game was baseball. The two teams battled in opening round play of the district baseball tournament on May 9. OHS won the contest 5-1 behind the pitching of Val Norris. The two teams had met three times before the district battle and Apollo had taken two of those regular season games. Apollo won 2-O and 9-1 in the regular season while Owensboro won 4-3. Norris got the victory in the district win over Apollo with three-hit pitch- ing. Keith Anderson was the man with the bat as he hit a two-run homer in the sixth inning to open up the game. Apollo committed three errors in the district opener as the wind was changing drastically throughout the afternoon. Apollo errors allowed two OHS runs to score, while Apollo's only run was scored on an OHS error. Owensboro High faced Daviess County in the finals of the district tournament on May 11. The game was close, but OHS won 7-4 for Jack Hicks' 20th district title. Jared Elliot started the game for OHS and had two doubles, driving in three OHS runs. Norris had to come on in relief for Elliot in the closing innings to strike out Steve Cripps and get Lynn North- ern to hit a pop out for the end of the contest. OHS began the 1978 season a little slow, losing four of the first five games. The biggest regular season victory was over Birmingham Banks Q18-23. OHS put together a pair of four- game win streaks through the 1978 season. Other big OHS victories in- cluded Tell City f2-D, Louisville Shawnee Q6-21 and Lexington Tates Creek 14-3 and 5-25. - By Steve Mclntyre 8 fVarsity Baseball V. s,., Q J Keith Anderson belts a homerun out of Chau- photoj are ready to greet him before he is tauqua Park ltop photoj during the district tour- mobbed by most of the team fabovej as he nament win over Apollo. As Keith rounds third crosses home plate. base, Coach Jack Hicks and the team Qmiddle

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