West High School - Shaheen Yearbook (Davenport, IA)

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Season of success IT was a vlcforious season from beginning To end for The varsity baseball Team. During The last game of The regular season, The Falcons blasted 6 home runs against The Burling- Ton Team winning The game with a score of 44-2. Ending The season, The varsi- Ty Team placed second in The Mississippi EighT Conference with a record of 46 wins and 4 losses. The championship wenT To CenTral. The Falcons wenT on To become The disTricT champs, and They were also one of The final 46 Teams in The sTaTe Tour- nament. They ended The season wiTh a 22-8 record. IT Turned ouT To be an excepTional season. AT first, we didn'T expect To be as good, commented Coach Tom Souhrada. AssisTanT coach was Mr. Jerry Zinn and manager was Jeff Mokhtar. Honorable mentions in all- sTaTe wenT To piTcher Andy Behncke, who was also The leading hiTTer of The Team wiTh a .444, and pitcher Todd Geurink, who lead The confer- ence in strike-outs wiTh 79. FirsT baseman TrenT Rubley was named firsT Team all-sTaTe. and shorTsTop Todd Bennett was named fourth Team all- sTaTe. Leading The conference in home runs was Jeff Lambert wiTh six runs. IT was a good season and we all worked hard aT iT, said Mark MasTer- son. Cwritten by P. Marest Fronf row: Nm Iverson, Mark Master- son, Scott Tague, Brian Rommel Nell Worfh, Todd Benneff: Second row: Coach Tom Souhrada, Don Scharnhl, Tom Breck, Andy Behncke, Mark Swingle, Todd Guerink, Trent Rubley, Dave Asman, Kevin Kellums, Bdan Kennedy. Rob McCufcheon, Jeff LamberT, Assisfanf Coach Jerry Inn. Varsity Baseball West Opp. WSST ODD- DB. Wahlert 6 40 Burlington 6 3 DB. Wahlert 7 44 Burlington 3 44 Muscatine 44 4 Pleasant Valley 6 2 Muscatine 42 O Muscatine 7 4 Bettenaorf 0 3 Muscatine 43 O Bettendorf 4 5 Bettendorf 4 4 Central 5 4 Clinton 3 2 Clinton 2 4 Assumption 4 3 Clinton 4 O Assumption 5 7 CR. Washington 49 8 CR. Jefferson 3 4 CR. Washington 7 7 CR. Jefferson 5 6 Assumption 5 6 North Scott 7 4 North Scott 41 O Burlington 6 5 North Scott 4 O Burlington 44 2 440 Boys' Baseball AFTER A MIGHTY SWING, Nm Vaugh, '85, succeeds in hitting The pitch. fphoto by C. Swansonj