Pomfret School - Griffin Yearbook (Pomfret, CT)

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Varsity Baseball Despite an over-abundance of fielding errors and a lack of effective pitchers, the l954 Pomfret baseball team managed to achieve a 6-4 record, With Coach Mans- field again befuddling the opposition with his strategy and veteran hurler Pete Stran- des compiling an exceptional 5 and two mark, the Red and Black played well on most occasions, However they were hurt at other times by erratic fielding and weak hitting. The season opened on April l4, on Pom- fret's home field, with a contest against Tourtellotte l-ligh. Although the visitors pounded starter Em l-lare for seven early runs, Brooks Robbins and Strandes held the Tigers down to only two runs in the later innings. This helped greatly as the home- team scored six runs in the eighth to win, lOe9, The game was highly satisfying con- sidering Pomfrets lack of practice. Four days later the Red and Black played host to a strong Burrillville outfit and the result was one which the home side later tried to forget With Lefty Robbins being battered for l4 runs in the first four inn' ings. it was too late when Strandes came Ilgr fi! fi fi!-fwfr' on in the fifth to quiet down the opposition, and the final score tallied a grim I8-5. Pomfret took the field on April Zl de- termined to make up for the Burrillville slaughter, and a 3-l win against visiting Stafford l-ligh was the result. After giving up one run in the second frame Em l-lare settled down and set the stage for a Griffin victory. This was made possible by Dave Patterson's two-run single in the fifth, and, just to make sure, Strandes entered in the same inning and calmly shut out Stafford the rest of the way. Next came Pomfret's first Saturday game of the year against Portsmouth Priory again at home. Aided by ten runs on seven hits and seven errors in the first three innings, the Criffins coasted to an ll-6 win with Strandes going the route for his second de- cision, The half way mark of the season found the lVlannymen blasting away at Salis- bury, Again it was Strandes who pitched the Red and Black to a 7-4 victory On May 5 the Pomfret Bombers started what looked for awhile to be a disasterous

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The Red and Black journeyed to Wall nngford on February 6 to meet Choate on nts new artnfucal hockey rank Pomfret spent most of the flrst two pernods floppnng on the new :ce and mvsyudgnng rebounds en abllng the home team to score four tumes The game had all the earmarks of a rout untll the thurd frame when Pomfret began to cllck as Warner and Robbuns scored nn quvck successuon Although the strange ness of the homemade :ce can be blamed nn part for the 5 2 defeat Choate was better condutuoned and they mlght have given Pomfret a hard time even on the Red and Blacks own nnk One week hence Pomfret traveled to Slmsbury to take on nts archruval Westmnn gun. ster whuch was the favored team However the vlsltors were led by goalae Hoag who wsth 37 saves managed to hold off the more scrappy home team and end up wath a scoreless tue Hockey letters were awarded to the lnne men who were Captaun Robbnns Hudson fencemen du Pont and Warner and to goalle Hoag Specual nod should go to hlgh scorer Robbuns du Pont Young Hoag and especially to Warner for glvlng thenr ut most un every game Also lay Mllnor should be hlghly commended for the Improvement an the records of the past three years whuch as posntuve evndence of has great job as coach Frcnt Row Left to Rught Hudson V du Pont B Robblns Capt I Warner Hoag Back Row Payson Mgr Young Wnllnams Hare Foehl Coach Mnlnor ye fufnty th Y Q o 'X' . C U y l , l 0 e yy Y y at t Q I I, A , , Young, Hare, Foehl, and Williamsg de-l l'u ' H - ru'

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looslng streak Mary E Wells l-llgh started It off by edgnng the home team 6 4 Through thus game and the next two wlth Putnam Hugh and St Marks Pomfret was plagued wnth errors and a fallure to hut the ball Try as they mnght the Red and Black just couldn t seem to get together The re Sult was a loss of 6 5 to Putnam and an overwhelmlng l3 4 defeat by the Markers By thus tame the team realized that some thnng had to be done On May l9 Pomfret returned to the wnnnung column by beatlng Providence Country Day 4 2 l-lavlng won a game agann the team seemed to pull to gether once more May 22 found the Red and Black playing nts last game agalnst Westmlnster at Snmsbury At flrst the game was closely contested but un the fnfth unn :ng Patterson came through wrth a three run homer Although Strandes started run nung unto trouble nn the seventh lnnlng he had enough of a lead to pull hlmself through ln the nrnth nnnlng Pete found hnmself agann and fanned all three of the frustrated Munsters for a 4 I vlctory and a happrly ended season Front Row Left to Rlght l Warner ran es oe at T wer Sl Sec no ROW Asst CO8Cl'1 Mllrwr Schaeffer Z D Patterson Coach Mar-held T rc Rcx l-l rc Balent ne Mgr Cluthe