Spring City High School - Pirate Log Yearbook (Spring City, PA)

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Softball The first sign of spring brought approximately twenty-five girls out to try their softball skill. Among these were four veteran :seniors ready to play their last :season of high :zchool softball. The first game was played on the North Coventry diamond, Norco's powerful hitting put them ahead from the start. Spring City started to rally but was unable to :score the two much-needed runs. lean Finkbiner and lanet Mull constituted the battery that sparked the team to a 20-12 victory over the Collegeville Colonels. West Chester was the scene of the next slaughter. Spring City's overwhelming power put them on the top half of a l5-2 score. In the next contest Phoenixville brought with them a little more competition for the Blue and White nine. Spring City broke a 7-7 deadlock in the seventh inning to take home the bacon and a score of 10-7. Again the Pirettes entertained North Coventry on the home diamond. This time the story was a different one, Spring City's eight runs proved too much for Norco. The next game with Boyertown turned out to be a pitching duel between Nancy Renninger, the Bears' ace hurler, and Spring City's own lean Finkbiner. This was a battle to the very last inning-a 2-l Boyertown score evidenced the fact. A return game with Phoenixville ended the season. The Pirettes eked out a 14-13 victory in eleven long, hard-fought innings. Five wins, two defeats, fine cooperation, and excellent coaching constituted a very successful softball season, Six Iyrllz rw

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Hockey The second week of September opened the l949-50 season of bruised ankles and black eyes. The minute the sticks were taken from the box, the idea of an undefeated season was born in the minds of every member of the squad. After only one week of skills and scrimmages, a practice game was scheduled with Schwenksville. Before this game the team elected Ianis Place to pilot them through the season as captain. The Spring City lassies racked up three goals that proved the Blue Birds' downfall. With this victory under their belts the Pirettes felt they were ready to undertake the first game of the season with the Upper Merion Spartans. The first half of the game belonged to Spring City, with Barbara Hetrick scoring the only goal. A reiuvenated Upper Merion team took the field in the second half to score two winning points. The idea of an undefeated season was replaced by that of a good one as the girls prepared themselves for the annual West Chester fray. Spring City was again the aggressor with lean Himes driving the first and only Blue and White goal through the uprights. Unable to stop a fast moving, hard driving line, Spring City again wound up on the short end of a 2-l score. Determined to end the two game losing streak, the Pirettes met the Bridgeport Dragons on the home field. Ianis Place sparked the Spring City maids to a 3-O victory over the Bridgeport aggregation, A hard-fighting Pottstown team battled the Spring City pucksters to a l-l stalemate. Shirley Gumma scored the only Blue and White goal. The Eaglettes from across the river proved to be the Pirettes' next victim. Mary lane Smoyer and Ianis Place tallied the two goals that handed the Orange and Black maidens a 2-O setback. A strong mainline team from Berwyn afforded our lassies their next contest. The team burst into action with Ianis Place, Patsy Bentschler, Mary lane Smoyer, and Ianet Mull taking the scoring honors. Trying to make up for a late start, Berwyn fought back by scoring twiceg but they still fell short of the Spring City eleven. The last game of the season brought an undefeated Collegeville team to the Spring City field. The whole forty minutes of the game found us incessantly pounding at the Colonels' goal cage, but to no avail. The game was fought to a U-U deadlock. Sixly-Iwo

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Boys' Varsity Club i' LARRY DAVIS President EARLE NELSON Vice-President DONALD STAUFFER Secretory HORACE CARL Treasurer Sixiy-fam Girls' Varsity Club i' DORIS ANNE EDWARDS President PATRICIA IONES Vice-President IANET MULI. Secretary-Treasurer