Rothrock High School - Le Livre Yearbook (McVeytown, PA)

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B. M. O. 'l Belleville 7 McVeytown received their third setback of the current season at the hands of Belleville. Spottv fielding by McVeytown brought about our down- fall. With two outs in the fifth inning, Belleville erupted for seven runs which brought about our downfall. B. M. 0. 'ID Armagh-Brown 2 McVeytown's power hitting along with near perfect pitching by Kenneth Mort over powered A. B. in convincing style, Ronald Boaz connected for two home runs and a double. Mort pitched a one- hitter. B. M. 0. 13 Middleburg 0 The Eagles of Coach Humphries iourneyed to Middleburg and they met with great success. They opened up a two fisted attack which left the Middies smothered. Led by Kenneth Mort with four hits and Harvey Eckert's fine four hit pitching the Eagles were victorious. B, M, 0. 3 Freeburg 7 McVeytown dropped a game to Freeburg by the tune of 7-3. It was a close game the whole way until the late innings. J. Hood pitched the win for Freeburg. B. Nl. 0. 4 McClure 7 McClure dumped McVeytown in a loosely play- ed game. Errors played a part in a great deal .af the time. Kenneth Mort took the loss. B. M. 0. 0 Burnham-Derry I0 Burnham-Derry handed McVeytown its worst loss of the season by thumping us I0-O, A hard hitting squad along with the fine pitching B. Breon was enough. Donald Swigart starting his first game of the year was the loser. B. M. O. 2 Menno Union l In the closest and best played game of the year McVeytown upset Menno Union's applecart by a close score. It took eight innings for McVeytown to push across the winning run. Long's homerun was the only time Menno Union scored. Kenneth Mort got credit for the win. we eg' ll-3 ? ! Q irtiffy i 135- If TE.:

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8 B. M. 0. I3 Middleburg O Behind the fine three hit pitching of Harvey Eckert, McVeytown coped the opening game by a lopsided score. The team hit well as a whole with the big blow being a rousing triple by Harold Youtzy. B. M. 0. 5 Beaver Vocational 8 Beaver handed McVeytown their first loss of the year. Good pitching by Herman along with sev- eral errors by McVeytown brought about the first downfall of our team. B. M. O. 10 Freeburg 9 McVeytown took their second win of the year in I0 innings. After taking an early lead McVey' town saw Freeburg come up and tie the ball game up in the bottom of the sixth inning, but McVey- town held them scoreless and then in the tenth inning, McVeytown showed who was the stronger team. Ronald Boaz homered for McVeytown. B. M. 0. 7 McClure 4 McVeytown picked up their third win of the season by taking the measure of McClure. After letting McClure take an early 3-0 lead McVeytown came back to go ahead 4-3. McClure tied it up and McVeytown brought in 3 more runs and that was the ball game. Robert Dunmire and Charles Rupert both had a perfect 3 for 3 day at the plate. B. M. 0. 5 Burnham-Derry 3 McVeytown took their fourth game in five starts at the expense of Burnham-Derry. The entire team had a hand in this victory as there was no individual star. Kenneth Mort in relief of Harvey Fckert got the win. B. M. O. 3 lelver Voc. ? McVeytown dropped their second game in six starts. Beaver was again our downfall, they have a fine pitcher in Herman. The McVeytown boys were set down with iust five hits. Two of the five by Bill Allgyer.

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Sa B. M. O. 5 Burnham-Derry 16 McVeytown girls softball team lost their first game to Burnham-Derry lassies. Errors and green players were responsible for McVeytown's 'first loss. B. M. O. 5 Menno-Union 6 Menno-Union stopped the B. M. O. girls by a score of 6-5. The winning run came in the last inning. Our girls did not have the winning punch. B. M. O. 3 Armagh-Brown 2 The Iassies from B. M. O. set the Armagh-Brown nine down with a score of 3-2. With good pitching by Arlene Kauttman and good team support we gave the Armagh-Brown team a bad time until the last inning when they scored their only runs. B. M. O. 4 Armagh-Brown 7 The girls from McVeytown never awoke for this game. It was played in the morning with our team making more than its share of errors. B. M. O. 12 Menno-Union S McVeytown avenged their first loss with Menno- Union as our pitching and hitting improved with the season. B. M. O. 7 Burnham-Derry 6 B. M. O. beat Burnham-Derry by a close score of 7-6. Both teams played their best. The game went two extra innings. ln the ninth inning B. M. O. had the bases loaded and one of the girls had a double which brought the game to a McVeytown victory.