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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'fake'TWvo:c:5Q:JnUhq.:i T0 STATE. OHS came into the state tournament as one of the teams capable of winning it all. The Red Devils had won 21 in a row, and were sixth in the state. Coach Grant Talbott's dream of winning the state was short-lived as Barren County knocked OHS from the tourney in the quarter-finals. OHS defeated Anderson County 49-47 in the opening round before falling to Barren County 51-37. This marked the second straight year that OHS had fallen from the state meet in the quar- ter-finals. The girls finished the season with a 28-2 re- cord, the best won-lost record since girls' basket- ball was revived four years ago. Barren County used the inside game of 6-foot- 1 Belinda Bradley and 5-foot-11 Terri Wilkinson for the easy shots inside to beat the Red Devils. Owensboro shot a horrid 16 of 51 for 31 per- cent. The Red Devils hit only 5 out of 15 free throws. Barren County made 15 of 28 free throws. OHS fell behind early, and were back by 11 points at halftime. Things didn't get better in the third quarter as the girls fell behind by as many as 21 points. Starting the fourth quarter, the Devils were behind by 19 points. Then came an OHS rally that cut the lead to eight, but Barren County held on in the waning minutes to win. Nobody was in double figures for the Red Devils as the leading scorer was Willene Owsley with eight points. OHS led Anderson County at halftime 21-20. In the third quarter, the favored Red Devils out- scored their opponent 16-3 as they led at the end of the stanza 37-23. Anderson County cut the lead to one with less than a minute to go before june Harris made one of two free throws to secure the two-point win. Harris and Jeanette Rowan paced the Red Dev- ils with 13 and 12 points, respectively. Rowan finished the year as the top scorer and rebounder. She had 14.1 points and 15 rebounds per game. June Harris was the No. 2 scorer with 12.3 points per game. - By Nicky Nicholas Giving a head fake Bea Brown C211 prepares to put up a jump shot against Ande n the first round of the State Tournament. 8 fouls' Basketball Vi , .54 UUNTY e .JM J' Reaching for the stars is Barren County's Terri Wilkerson and OHS' . Ms. Wilkerson C512 has the rebounding position over Brown f21j and Janice johnson KSOJ in State Tournament quarter-final play at Eastern Kentucky University. OHS lost the bout 51-37. ,ff A ,rf I 'kd . ,, . . agar, Sift? 1 i