Stratford High School - Mnemosyne Yearbook (Houston, TX)

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Learning the hard way Playing with an inexperienced team composed mainly of sophomores and freshmen, coupled with the fact that their coach, Mark Gilbreath was leaving, the J.V. baseball team finished the year with a 3- 11 record. lt was a developing year, said Coach Gary Koch about the J.V. baseball team. We had a young team, and Paul Kronenberger and Doug Martella did well. Offensively, we were slow to develop. Greg Garrison was the leading hitter early, and the whole team hit better as the year went on. Rhett Rushing1did most of our pitching, and e was personally responsible for two of our three wins. Joel Johnson pitched well and got the other win. l was pleased with the improvement. Although we were not successful on a win loss basis, we improved our attitude and ability. lt was hard for us to get it all together because Coach was leaving, said Sophomore shortstop Mike Delaney, but we'll be a lot better next year. Even though our win-loss record wasn't great, it was a good year for exchange of leadership, said Junior Rhett Rushing. All of the freshmen learned a lot. l'd say thatthe best game of our season was the last. We had a double header against Northbrook, and the second game went into extra innings. We won when Jim Branum hit a triple and Vince Obregon bunted him in on a suicide squeeze. lt was a good season, said Jim Branum, but we had a lot of freshmen, no unity, and we made a lot of mistakes. We had a lot of freshmen, said Freshman Doug Martella, and we weren't used to high school, but we learned a lot and we'll do better next year. Taking his turn at bat, Junior Jimmy Singley prepares to bat against West- chester. We had a lot of good people on the team, said Jimmy, but we made quite a few errors. 144 junior varsity baseball While Junior Gary Morrison covers lirst base, Junior Rhett Rushing winds up to throw the ball against Westches- ter. Although we didn 't do too well this year, we learned a lot, said Rhett. Talking before the game, Juniors Rhett Rushing and Jim Branum ready themselves for the first inning. We had a pretty good season but we didn 't have very much unity on the team, said Jim. ' -.4 'G .-Amit: U... , 1, P x . --M - ' v- Liz . A f ' NPV' 'Z' vm. . 'Q-. . .. e. 1 -as fr.- .1:f'vm.., H - eff . - sf, .1 it . ---Q. ' -' arf-V 5141, xg.. , f - X -K -t.,--.s .., stag., X ... at U ,rw-3 , va, X., V . 1.-f fiss .su .-1 .1 'aff' M 1,

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Stretching out to take a throw from shortstop Brian Luciani, Junior Mike Strulfolino gets the Memorial runner out at first base. The Spartans beat the Mustangs 2- 1. Swinging hard at the bali, Junior Chris Larkin hits a double. l think the high point ol our season was beating Westchester in a tournament, said Chris, mil M ,t',- , ' ,, S 1 e I i Preparing to throw the ball back, Junior Jeff Fondon catches the ball lor the Spartans in the Spring Woods game, Jeff played second base this year. SR if 'X S X .- 4 ' it s Wig, S + 1 Y- Q- digest N S 2 - QS f S5 Stix S' S '-J 5 Qs S S ' l W S 1 S ,S ,SS S S343 ' S uuut ,S ,S r Q S twig t W S Q5 :'i gg, rkkkk 'Y' iu. A':k-: Sf' SS 1 -ifk K vb K .:..:t::: I kk,k 1 S :wifi 'X i-irr 255-T ir SS rSS:f:,: S S 5, S1 -V S , Q sa at S - A S - -S ,f ,vt SS S 'lrr :f1f+sSf:- -fi XS S S f ' QS S, 552 WS ,pre- SiS,S, , 1 ,tg S-,1 fi-SKS A ,K S ,WS ,Szxgvh -- W JSM ' ,,--, S S, H V S R , wh? , , i S b S -S ' S V ' ' l ' If' gf ' S ,--SS L :S QSS K g SSSS SSSSSVL S .S . X K S SS KS ,, 3 N S - Sliding safely into second, Senior Jose Garriga steals second base. We had a pretty good season, said Jose. varsity baseball 143

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Striding toward home, Freshman Doug Martella prepares to score against Northbrook. l think we'll be better next year because we'll have more experience, said Doug, Making a pick off attempt, Junior Gary Morrison tags the runner at first base while Junior Rhett Rushing looks on. l think we could have played a lot better this year, said Gary. As Sophomore Mike Delaney looks on, Freshman Doug Martella throws the ball to the infield. We had a lot of freshmen on the team so it took us a while to get used to playing high school baseball, said Doug. junior varsity baseball 145