San Luis Obispo High School - Tiger Tales Yearbook (San Luis Obispo, CA)

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'67 SLO nine blanks Royals, bows to Hart in CIF playoffs For the third time in nine years, San Luis Obispo's Tigers were knocked out of the CIF playoffs by the Hart Indians of Newhall. Hart won 4-2. Mark Lucksinger lo-2, l.O ERA, 70 S.O. I7 wl who still showed the effects of an ankle iniury, was tagged with the second round loss. In first round CIF AA action, the Tigers' Alan Noble pitched a one hit shut out to beat his former teammates, the San Marcos Royals of Santa Barbara, 2-O. The Tigers scored two runs off seven hits and committed only two errors while turning in two double plays to push their season total to I5. By downing Arroyo Grande two days in a row land by identi- cal 4-2 scoresi, the Tiger nine II2-3 Ieaguel dropped the Eagles into a second place tie with Atascadero IlO-5l and took over undisputed first place as well as the loop crown. Both Shortstop Dave Rusco and Noble won all-CIF honors. Rusco, who strangely enough was named to the first team second base position, batted .355 in 22 games, collected I8 RBl's and a fielding average of .928. Hurler Noble, who won nine and lost three, struck out IOI batters, issued only I7 walks and posted an 0.68 ERA, was picked on the second team. With five players on the first team, Stan Luis easily dominated the all league selections. Unanimous selections Noble and Mike McDermott were ioined by Rick Ortner, Pepper Martin, and Rusco. Lucksinger and Mike Lee were named to the second team while Bill Parsons and Steve Bees received honorable mention. I GLOOM-Tiger dugout is silent when Paso Robles ties up the ball game at 2-2. TIE BREAKER-Putting the Tigers ahead 3-2, Catcher Randy Martin fat rightl scores on a sacrifice fly by team- mate Mike Lee. San Luis went on to win 8-4 over Paso Robles. 62-Varsity Baseball SWITCH HITTER-Junior Mike Lee who batted .330 as G sophomore, goes both ways at the plate. Here the second baseman converted to shortstop slams one ot his three hits against Arroyo Grande in the final game ot the Santa Maria tournament Lee batted .571 in the three game tourney series. -1 vf - .r-Y

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Stickmen battle Eagles for early league lead After a disastrous early season record, the inexperi- enced Tiger horsehiders capitalized on last inning rallies to post a 7-O league mark at press time. The Tiger come- back gave hope that Coach Jim Zanoli would annex his third straight league championship, Baseball, the winning- est Tiger sport, has seen SLO win nine titles in 10 years. The loss of Doug Alderman lout with a broken handl left the Tiger horsehiders with only two seniors in the starting lineup while Pat Rusco and Mike Lee got a late start following the CIF basketball playoffs. A thin mound staff meant that the Tigers would rely heavily on seniors Garry Johnson and L. D. Hambly and might bring up Mark Reed from the J. V's. The young and inexperienced team took its lumps in the pre season games ll-5l as well as being outclassed in two tournaments. SLO lost the opener to Santa Bar- bara 2-1. ln the newly inaugurated Lompoc-Cabrillo Tournament, the Zanolimen lost four out of five contests. SLO's lone win was a 5-3 verdict over Lompoc. At the hands of the Santa Maria nines, the Tigers were given rough treat- ment including a 8-l whacking by the Saints and a 9-l belting by Righetti coupled with losses to Arroyo Grande 5-4 and Cabrillo 7-3. Rebounding from identical 3-O losses to Hueneme and Lompoc, San Luis reversed the score to win 3-0 over Arroyo Grande and nail down seventh place in the Santa Maria Easter tournament. ln the all important league race, San Luis blanked Atascadero 3-O, came from behind to defeat Morro Bay 6-2 and 6-5 and knocked off Paso Robles 7-3. Against always tough Arroyo Grande, SLO came from behind to win 6-5 on Randy Martin's tackle play and winning run. In the first two of three league games for the city championship, San Luis topped Mission 4-2 and 6-3. STRETCH-Lanky Pat Rusco, with a mid season league batting average ot' .500 akin to his all-CIF brother Dave, shows his defensive ability in this close play at first. SLO shut out Arroyo Grande in the Easter tourney fat letti. TOURNAMENT TENSION-Juniors Mike Lee fl9J, Pete Phillips, Dave Hildenbrand, Pat Rusco and Rick Reis talk over strategy after losing first two tourney games. Varsity Baseball-61

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Led by Procter's bat, JV nine defends title Midway through the baseball campaign, the Tiger JV team boasted a 7-3 overall record. ln defense of the '67 crown when SLO compiled a T7-2 season, the Tiger JV's had a firm hold on second place with a 4-2 mark after the first round of league play. The Tigers' only losses came at the hands of Arroyo Grande 6-2 and 2-l and Atascadero 5-4. Tiger wins were over Jr. High 4-3 and 4-0, Mission l4-0, Paso Robles l2-4, A G Frosh 8-4 and Morro Bay 8-2 and 7-l. With statistics released after l0 games, Everett Proc- ter led the hitting parade at a .400 clip. Other top hitters were Alan Morton .379, Harold Tartaglia .355, Rick Ped- erson .333 and Randy Spoeneman .323. By mid season the mound duties were divided among Mark Reed i2-ll, Rod Bovee i3-ll and Kenn Seger ll-ll. Reed had struck out 29 men in 20 innings while Bovee had fanned 36 men in 25 innings. Outstanding performance on the base paths was turned in by Procter who by mid season had stolen T6 bases in l0 games. Bob French led the team in RBl's with six while the overall team batting average hit .296 in l0 games. Nevertheless the '68 Tiger JV hopefuls had a tough assignment to match the '67 performance of Pat Rusco who batted .440 and picked up 24 RBl's. MOUND TALK-Coach Martin tries to control Kenn Seger's pitching in the fifth inning against Mission. Joining the mound huddle are Randy Spoeneman, catcher and Rick Pederson, third base. After trailing 2-O the JV Bengals came back in the sixth to win 3-2 with Mark Reed in relief. JV BASEBALL SQUAD-FRONT ROW: John Link, Everett Procter, Terry Spring, Sandy Duveneck, Alan Morton, Harold Tartaglia, Stewart Jenkins. ROW 2: Rob Bovee, Steve Flick, Gordon Carscaden, Charlie Lunn, Kenn Seger, Alan Lanier. ROW 3: Dave Martin, head coach, Tom Becotte, Randy Spoeneman, Rick Pederson, Bob French, Bill Kitley, Ken Lux. J.V. Baseball-63