Rye Neck High School - Scraps Yearbook (Mamaroneck, NY)

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l mamvhall For a number of years Rye Neck has been unable to put a consistant winning ball team on the diamond. Now, for the first time since the days of Wendell, Potts, Ottman and Drewes, who were of the early twenties, the Blue and Black baseball representatives earned an average better than five hundred. This spring the team finished the season with seven consecutive triumphs after dropping the Hrst four. Coach Sherwood had an excellent nucleus for a good ball team in johnny Farrell, Bob Gunn, Ray Lapolla, Bunt Harris, Ed Wood, Olin Boom, jack Armstrong and Charlie Rigano, all veterans from past teams. Ed Farrell, Harry Young and Pat Triiiletti came through for the first time this season to round out the team. Throughout the season, Bob Gunn starred on the mound, defeating Har' rison as a climax. Rye Neck received excellent pitching from its array of twirlers in every game. In only one game, the season's opener, should the pitch' ers be credited with a loss. We were def cisively outplayed in this game. However, in the three succeeding games the players failed to support the moundmen. Thus each one was lost, two by one run and the other by two. The team finally pulled together in the fifth game and played errorless ball to subdue Scarsdale. Eastchester and Bronxville were successive victims in the spree for victories. Then Rye Neck engaged in a slug fest to beat Valhalla overwhelmingly. The season's class' ic followed, the longfwaitedffor Harrison game. Harrison had only lost one game in nine starts and were favored to triumph again. However, Rye Neck fought stubbornly to overtake their old rivals with a three run at' tack in the fifth to overcome the Ze-1 lead held by the losers. Elmsford and Valhalla were easily beaten, closing one of the most successful seasons in the annals of the sport. Page Forfy-one

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1 Mzuikrilmll The basketball team, as in past years, held its own by winning six of the ten games played. Coach Sherwood had an excellent nucleus for a winning court team in Bob Gunn, Ed Wood, jim Reed and john Frascella, all ex' perienced in the fundamentals of the game. The two Zerega brothers, Al and Roland, who came here from Port Chester High, and the certainty of Bob Rankin's eligibility, strengthened the team considerably before it got far under way. However, all three of these players left school beforc the end of the season, leaving the team flat footed to battle it out. The season's review The season started with the Valhalla game, the only contest to precede the Christmas ref cess. The game resulted in an easy victory and the coach made many tryfouts. The schedule was renewed with Scarsdale. After leading a major part of the game we were overtaken by Scarsdale's late rally and before a rally could be initiated the final whistle blew with Rye Neck on the smallest portion of the rope. Coach Sherwood led his team to New York to meet a team of varsity substitutes representing DeWitt Clinton, metropolis champions. Rye Neck was over' whelmingly beaten by this fast stepping team. The Regents week recess was followed by the return DeWitt Clinton game. In this game the Blue and Black turned the tables on the team that beat them scarcely two weeks before. The following day Elmsford was taken into camp by a good margin. As in past years, the Harrison game proved to be the season's classic. Rye Neck was trailing 9-3 at half time but a spirited rally late in the third period and ex' tending into the final quarter gave Rye Neck a one point victory. Two quick baskets by Roland Zerega and john Frascella, respective' ly, were the winning factors in the fracas. Elmsford was again defeated, extending the winning streak to four straight. Scarsdale halted this spree abruptly by administering a decisive setfback to the locals. Rye Neck went into the winning column again by sub' duing Greenburgh. The season climaxed with an exciting game against St. Gabriel's, which resulted in a victory for the visitors, Page Forty

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