Thornridge High School - Piper Yearbook (Dolton, IL)

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3 lead team to 18-11 he Falcon batmen ended their season with a record of 17 wins and 11 losses before los- ing thier first regional game to Tinley Park. We had a young team so our underclassmen got the chance to gain varsity expereincef' commented Coach Wally Shatkowski. A bright point of the season was that the Falcons, consist- ing of 8 seniors, 9 juniors, and 2 sophomores, beat every team that they played at least once with an exception of Thornwood. We all played to- gether and no one tried to be the hero. We wanted to win as a team, stated Mike Small, junior. Selected to the all-confer- ence team were Captain Mike Top: Assistant Coach Al Budding of- fers his advice to Mike Small Middle: Tim Zackavec was one of the two sophomores on the varsity team. Above: Freshman Pete Quirk makes a good play at shortstop. 122 Baseball record Koontz, senior, Steve Straka, senior, and John Garcia, ju- nior. Awarded all-conference honorable mention were Will Svilar, senior, Tom Spence, senior, Mike Small, junior, and Edgar Anderson, sophomore. Koontz, Spence, and Straka were also selected by the SICA East coaches to partici- pate in the senior all-star game. Leading the team at bat was Anderson with an average of .47O. Garcia j.308j, Koontz j.447j, and Svilar j.378j also performed well. The batmen ended with a conference record of 7-5. The sophomores' record was 16- 11 and the freshmen were 14- 12 9 fi rlrri Above: Varsity Baseball: Front Row: Tom Frazier, Tim Zackavec, John Garcia, Edgar Anderson, Jim Banasiak, Clearts Boyd, Angelo Car- lomangog Row 2: Tom Spence, Ken Poison, Scott Vasquez, Jim Nelson, Mike Koontz, Mike Griffin: Back Row: Coach Wally Shatkowski, Will Svilar, Steve Straka, Eric Pfister, Mike Small Joe Janz, Coach Al Budding

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