Tranquillity High School - Tule Yearbook (Tranquillity, CA)

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Sitting: Joseph Martin, Martin Barcelos, Richard Knight, Robert Collins, Johnny Camarena. Kneeling: Dick Cowger, Efren Martinez, Dan York, Doyle Barnes, Charles Marguez, Edward Smiley, Billy Hedman. Standing: Norman Lazaroti, Manager, Coach John Marshall, Charles Ybarra, Tony Mendez Pete Cottrell, Norman Boline, Donald Boline, Wabern Barnes, Douglas Dayton, Victor Merritt, Nathan Johnson, and Robert Pedersen, Manager. Pitchers: Dan York, Richard Knight, Efren Martinez, Donald First Fifteen: Sitting, Joseph Martin, Martin Barcellos, Richard Knight, Robert Boline. Collins, Kneeling: Efren Martinez, Dan York, Doyle Barnes, Charles Marquez, Edward Smiley, Standing: Coach Marshall, Dick Cowger, Norman Boline, Don- Catchers: Edward Smiley, Martin Barrcellos, Norman Boline, ald Boline, Wabern Barnes, Billy Hedman. The start of the l95O baseball season was delayed by the lengthened basketball season. Never- theless, the Tigers met Sierra with only a week of practice and were able to bang out a l6-4 win. ln the second league game Tranquillity defeated the front running Laton Mustangs 9-4. Then came a defeat at the hands of Parlier l l -l but the boys bounced back in the title contention by trimming first place Caruthers lO-5. ln the final game of the season, however, Riverdale took the Tigers i8-l. The defeat left Tranquillity in a tie for second with Caruthers winning the championship. Doyle Barnes and John Camarena, both outfielders, will be absent from the team next year because of graduation.

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Squad: Coach Marshall, Billy Hedman, Benny Rivera, Jack McAfee, Richard Gregg, Billy Prater Elias Ros Rcha d Rob nso Charles Ybarra, Freddie Periera, Arthur Gonzales. Tigers vs. i8-22 38-22 22-l7 25-26 26-20 28-29 28-2l l7-26 i9-22 l5-l7 22-l5 27-18 33-l2 35-24 Kerman Central Riverdale Laton Sierra Caruthers Parlier Kerman Central Riverdale Loton Sierro Caruthers Porlier G7eafmB First five: Billy Prater, Richard Gregg, Billy The Blue and Gold Midgets finished the season with a good 6 8 record They were led by star foreword, Captain Billy l-ledmon.

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'Us Coach John Marshall Robert Collins Billy Hedman Joseph Martin Martin Barcellos Buddy Barron Dick Cowger Edward Adney Upper: Bruce Harralson Lower: Billy Prater Richard Knight Dick Cowger Earl Morgan Charles Marquez Elbert Hayes Weak The T. U. H. S. track men capped the i950 season by winning the Class C championship of the Sierra League in Rat- cliffe Stadium on May l7, l95O. The B track team placed second in the final meet, The teams attended the following meets during the season: The Dos Palos Invita- tional Track and Field Carnival, the Sierra Division County Meet at Kingsburg, the Sierra Division Valley Meet at Lemoore and the Sierra Division League Meet. Billy Prater, dynamic and versatile class C performer along with Dan Hayes, bril- liant B class sprinter and hurdler were the big guns on the Tiger track team. Bruce Harralson was the outstanding A man. Prater, in the big valley meet, tied for first in the high jump, took second in the pole vault with a leap of lO' 7 and took sec- ond in the lO8 low hurdles, thus qualifying for the Central Section Finals at Madera in all three events. Hayes won the volley lOO yd. dash in record equalling time of lO.4 seconds, also qualifying, At the time of this writing the Central Section Finals Meet at Madera, in which only the top athletes compete, had not yet been run off. With two such fine performers in this class- ic, the Tigers wrote a fitting climax to the i950 season.