Stillwater High School - Pioneer Yearbook (Stillwater, OK)

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2? Row 1: Holland, Rassmussen, Denny, Tye, C. O'Donnell, and Stark. Row 2: Coach Loper, Smalley, Andrew, Stites, Stockard, M. Greene, D. Greene, Colasac- co, and Assistant Coach Watkins. Row 3: Horn, Erickson, B. O'Donnell, Daniel, Williamson, Epperley, Snyder, Collyar, and Davis. BASEBALL RECORDi Stillwater ....... ...... Stillwater ...... ...... Stillwater ....... ...... 1 4 Stillwater ,...... ...... Stillwater ....... ...... Stillwater ....... ...... Stillwater ...... ...... Stillwater .-..- Stillwater ...... ...... I 0 Stillwater ...... ...... Stillwater ....... - ....... I 3 Stillwater ................ 1 1 Stillwater ................ I4 Stillwater ................ I I Stillwater ....... ...... Stillwater ...... ,..... I08 Ponca City ............ 3 Chilocco ....... ...... I Perry ......... .. I Blackwell ...... ...... 0 Guthrie ......... ...... 8 Cushing ....... ...... 0 Ponca City ............ 0 Chilocco .-.W 4 Perry ......... ...... 3 Cushing ...... ...... 0 Blackwell ...... ...... 3 Guthrie ........ ...... 3 Okmulgee .............. 3 Cushing ...... ...... 4 Enid ........................ 3 Capital Hill .......... I3 During the first three years Coach Martin Loper has been at S.H.S. his baseball teams have been Northern Eight conference champions two years and second the other. The past two sea- sons the Pioneers have gone to the semi-finals of the state tournament before being defeated. Last year Stillwater won the Regional and Dis- trict tournaments before going to state. On their way to the semi-finals the Pioneers defeated Okmulgee 14-3 in the first round of the region- als. In the finals they won over the Cushing Tigers by a score of II-4.

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Enid was the next team to be downed by the Pioneers in the District finals held at Stillwater 8-3. From here the Pioneers went to the 'semi- finals against Capital Hill, a Class AA school. The Redskins proved to be too much for Still- water and defeated them I3-2. Capital Hill went on to win over Norman to win first place in the state. A Norval Rassmussen, the Pioneers centerfielder, was chosen to the All-State team. The Pioneers have 16 returning lettermen from last year's club. These boys are Rex Stockard, 2nd base, Bruce Andrew, ss, Bob O,Donnel, 3rd base, Donnie Rex Stockard Greene, outfield, Kent Davis, pg Montie Greene, pg Bryan Collyar, outfield, Gene Colasacco, Ist base, Russell Williamson, outfield, Cecil Epper- ley, 3rd base, Glenn Denny, cg Tom Holland, ss, Carmon O'Donnell, outfield, Bob Erickson, ss, Ioe Horn, 2nd base, and Lee Roy Daniel, p. The leading hitter for the Pioneers was Bruce Andrew, a four year letterman, with a batting average of .415. Bruce got 22 hits for 53 times at bat. Montie Greene led the Pioneer hurlers with a 7-o record. In his first outing of the season he pitched a no-hit no-run game against Blackwell. Bruce Andrew if al? ,ae ,iv Glenn Denny ratl is , are s Q X 'i' TT TV li . f Bryan Collyar S A N I z Q Kent Davis I Q n sv Montie Greene - pl. IO9

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Iack Chesbro 114 Ierry Eades 147 Ioe Fry H. W. Wilbur Iohnston 122 Quinton McBride 122 After the Bristow meet Rains' matmen suffered an injury that was to prove fatal to any hopes of having a successful dual season when lack Nasworthy, Iunior. letterman at 129 pounds, fractured a wrist and was side- lined for the season. The Pioneers second tourney, the Geary Tourna- ment, was not as successful as the first as the Pioneers placed fourth out of a field of 16 teams entered. Chesbro and Pike garnered their second, first place trophies of the season and Pike was named the outstanding wrestler of the tourney. However, the Pioneers did not come out of the meet too Well as Sophomore lack Chesbro, 114 pounder, received a brok- en collar bone in the first round and doing so became the second regular lost for the season. As the Pioneers entered the state meet in March, McCracken, Chesbro, and Pike were favorites to cap- ture top honors in their respective weights. Mark McCracken 114 Iack Nasworthy 129 Bill Overholt 167 Larry Rankin 135 Pat Walker 147