Robb Township High School - Hoosier Posey Yearbook (Poseyville, IN)

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FALL BASEBALL 'Us' iContinuedJ Allendale 6 Poseyville 3 The Yellow Jackets of Allendale, Illinois avenged a 14-2 lost last spring by dropping Poseyville 6-3 at Allendale. Six big errors, coupled with time base hits and a couple of key walks aided in spelling defeat for Poseyville. A no-hitter and shut-out was averted via 3-run 3-hits rally led by Fletchall, Wilkinson, Rutledge, Cottrell, and Murphy accounted for a 4-3 game going into the bottom of the sixth to make 6-3. Our boys had the bases loaded as a shallow fly ball to left was caught to give Allendalehthe win. Poseyville 19 Cynthiana 3 The League Championship hinged on this game, and our boys had their hitting especially sharp. Jerry Rutledge blasted out two homers, Rodger Cottrell slashed out four big hits including a 3-run triple and Johnny Wilkinson chipped in with a rousing 2-run triple. Thus ended the last North Posey County Baseball League and Poseyville was acclaimed the two Champions with a 5-1 won-loss record. Also it was the 50th baseball win against 14 losses for Coach Don Miller's baseball teams over a 356 year period. Coach Miller praised the fine play of all of his squad for their fine efforts singling out the fine efforts of seniors, Jerry Rutledge, Tom Fletchall, Rodger Cottrell, John Wilkinson and Gerald Gates. He went on to credit the fine efforts of the underclassmen including Terry Crawford, Tom Price, Robert Crumbacher and Keith Murphy. Let us never forget that any team is just as strong as its reserve players. Nice Going Team!

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FALL BASEBALL '93 CContinuedJ Poseyville 10 New Harmony 1 In the second league game of the season played at the New Harmony Rappite's diamond our boys grabbed a first inning lead and went on to post their second league win by defeating the Rappites 10-1 as Fletchall, Wilkinson, Rutledge, Crawford, and the mound giving one run, three hits, walking two, and fanning ten batters. Kaetzel started on the mound for New Harmony giving way to Hyatt and Carr. Wadesville 6 Poseyville 3 The Wavfesville Red Devils defeated our boys 6-3 at Kiwanis Field as they blasted our nine base hits and six big runs. The win placed Wadesville and Poseyville in a two-way tie in league play. Redman and Noelle led the hitting for Wadesville. Murphy led our boys with two for four. Poseyville 14 New Harmony 5 Starting from their loss to Wadesville, Poseyville blasted out 17 hits to crush the visiting New Harmony Rappits 14-5. A big 5th inning was the difference in an otherwise close game. Ernie Rapp, senior Rappite catcher, pounded out a three run homer to put the Rappites ahead 5-4. But the ten run 5th inning barrage sealed the downfall of New Harmony. Rodger Cottrell had four-for-four. Terry Crawford and Tom Fletchall collected three hits each. Other players figuring heavily in the RBI's and hitting were Tom Price with two doubles and Jerry Rutledge with two singles. ,,. vp, may

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BASKETBALL 'Yi 58-59 Poseyville 75 Mt. Olympus 46 We opened our season at Mt. Olympus on November 1 by blast- ing the Mountaineers 75-46. Four of our players scored in the double figures. Poseyville 67 New Harmony 41 On November 7 the Poseyville Posies met the New Harmony Rappites at Poseyville. Cottrell had a hot night with 29 points. Ernie Rapp led the Rappites with 13 points. Poseyville 50 Newburgh 47 Always tough Newburgh played us down the wire and led us by 11 points near the end of the third period. Tom Price was the unsung hero of our victory over the Wildcats. Cottrell cashed in for 17 points. Poseyville 86 Haubstadt 58 Both Haubstadt and our Posies met to decide the better of the undefeated. Our boys were terrific. The team play gained us the victory. Cottrell and Gates led the way with 22 points each. Poseyville 68 Cynthiana 67 Our boys managed their 5th win of the season at the expense of Cynthiana Annas at Cynthiana. A brilliant rally with 15 seconds to play gave us a one-point win on Cottrell's hook shot. Cottrell also set the new single game record of 34 points. Poseyville 90 Allendale 79 Our seventh win came when we defeated an out of state team from Allendale, Illinois. This was an all time record high for one game. John Wilkinson came through with 12 points in the fourth quarter to hold off the visitors. Cottrell and Gates chipped in 46 points to greatly aid the cause. H151