Roanoke Rapids High School - Ro Rap Yearbook (Roanoke Rapids, NC)

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Baseball Roanoke Rapids 2 Kinston 3 The Jackets took another loss from Kinston, losing their top position in the NEAC. Kinston squeezed by the Jackets by scoring the winning | run in the bottom of the 8th. F. D. Snead led the | hitting with 2 hits in three at-bats. Dennis Gre- gory went the distance for the Jackets, giving up 13 hits. He issued no walks and whiffed 3. Roanoke Rapids 3 Elizabeth City 2 The Yellow Jackets tightened their grip on top position in the NEAC by winning this game. F. D. - Snead led the hitting with 2 hits in 3 at-bats. Roger Warren went all the way to pick up his second win of the season, giving up nine hits and two walks and striking out 2. Roanoke Rapids 5 New Bern 3 The Yellow Jackets won the NEAC when they won this game against the New Bern Bears. F. D. Snead led the hitting with a homerun, triple and Roanoke Rapids 9 Greenville 0 a single in 5 trips at-bat. Dennis Gregory went the distance for the Jackets, giving up 11 hits. The Yellow Jackets picked up another win against . the Greenville Greenies in this game. This seventh victory of the season put the Jackets in the home stretch of the NEAC. David Myrick led the hitting with 3 singles in 5 trips at-bat. Dennis Gregory went all the way for the Jackets, giving up 3 hits, no walks, and striking out 3. Each of the Jax Roanoke Rapids 1 Elizabeth City 5 players, except one, hit safely and scored a run in this game. The Yellow Jackets’ second string played this game against Elizabeth City. Fuzzy Garner led the hitting with 2 hits in 3 at-bats. Roger Warren went all the way for the Jackets, allowing five runs on five hits. Roanoke Rapids 3 Tarboro 2 The Yellow Jackets scored their second win against Tarboro in this game. The winning run came in the top of the seventh inning. Joe Searcy led the hitting with 3 hits in 4 at-bats. Gregory was again the winning pitcher, giving up 7 hits and one walk and striking out 2. Roanoke Rapids 4 Jacksonville 3 Both Jacksonville and the Yellow Jackets had 8-3 NEAC records at the beginning of this game. The Jackets broke the tie to make their record 9-3 and to take the NEAC lead. Dennis Gregory was the big man in this game in pitching and hitting. He got 3 hits in 4 at-bats and gave up 10 hits and 4 walks and struck out one.

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Roanoke Rapids 9 Washington 4 The Yellow Jackets opened their ’64 baseball season with a big win over the Washington Pam Pack. The Jackets got 9 runs off 6 hits, bringing the final score to 9-4. Two Jacket miscues in the 4th inning gave the Pam Pack their 4 runs. Dennis Gregory went the distance for the Jackets, giving up one walk and four hits and striking out three. Roanoke Rapids 0 Kinston 2 The Yellow Jackets went down in defeat in the second game of the season. Dennis Gregory went all the way for the Jackets, giving up two hits, one walk and striking out three. The home team made two errors in the 6th inning, giving Kinston their only 2 runs. The Jackets got 4 hits but could- n’t stretch them into runs. Varsity | Roanoke Rapids 8 Greenville 4 The Jackets came back after the Kinston game by walking over the Greenville Greenies by a score of 8-4. F. D. Snead led the hitting for the Jackets with three hits in 4 at-bats. Dennis Gregory pic- ked up his second win of the season, giving up seven hits and striking out three. Roanoke Rapids 8 Tarboro 7 In this extra-inning game, the Jackets scored the winning run in the top of the 8th. A total of 13 hits were secured by the Jackets with Joe Searcy and Gilbert Portela leading the pack. Each got 3 hits in 4 at-bats. Roger Warren pitched until the third. Dennis Gregory finished, the win going to him. Roanoke Rapids 3 Jacksonville 6 The Jackets fell short in this game with Jack- sonville, bringing their record to three wins and two losses. The Jackets scored three runs in the 8rd but failed to threaten thereafter. The home team got three runs on three hits. Roger Warren was credited with the loss, giving up 8 hits and 2 walks and striking out 7. Roanoke Rapids 3 New Bern 2 The Yellow Jackets nipped the New Bern Bears in a 8 extra-inning game. F. D. Snead and Dennis Gregory led the hitting with 2 hits each. Gregory picked up his 4th victory of the season, giving up five hits and 3 walks and striking out 4. The Jax broke the 2-2 tie in the top of the 10th when Tommy Eure brought F. D. Snead in on a sacrifice. Roanoke Rapids 6 Washington 2 The Yellow Jackets downed the Pam Pack for the 2nd time in the season. The Jackets secured 6 runs off 10 hits. Donnie Phillips led the hitting with three singles in 3 at-bats. Roger Warren re- ceived his first win of the season, giving up nine hits and no walks. He got 2 strike-outs. es J

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First row, left to right: S. Fayed, W. H. Overman, Jr., P. B. Whitton, W. H. Compton, Jr., J. R. Carlisle, J. L. Bullock, B. E. Griffin, R. E. Running, J. L. Haver- stock, J. E. Allen. Second row: W. P. Eason, A. R. Hale, W. D. Butts, T. W. Chambliss, C. A. Waters, R. The Yellow Jacket tracksters presented healthy competition in all their track meets this season. The team took first place vic- tories in most of their meets and managed to finish sixth in the annual Northeastern Con- ference Track Meet held in Greenville. The mile relay team, composed of Arthur Rose, Phil Whitton, Tommy Lancaster, and : i Eason is “up and over”. F. Hayes, T. W. Joyner, J. S. Clifton, A. R. Rose, E. A. Compton. Third row: W. S. Davis, Jr., M. C. France, D. L. Williams, J. E. Robinson, T. E. Lan- caster, F. E. Kidd, Mr. J. C. Rodri. Walter Compton, set a new RRHS record for this run. The team ran the mile in 3:44.4 minutes. In the dashes, Stanley Faulkner dominated the 100, Perry Pruette and Phil Whitton dom- inated the 400, and Jerry Bullock put his fleet feet to work in running the mile. Moe Garner took firsts in the high jump Bullock swiftly turns the mile into a trail of dust.