West Orange High School - Ranger Yearbook (West Orange, NJ)

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-. ..-.......,,a Charlie Del Plato takes a vicious cut at a ball the catcher never gets to see Despite the many returning lettermen, West Orange Prominent hitters for this year's club are Pete Force, Stan found it rough going early in the spring, losing its first Fessler, Don Zink, Wally Wissen, Dick Scola, Paul Jones, three ball games, two of them to powerful Montclair. This and Sam Penza. was largely because of the coldland wet weather conditions Now, Wm, good material, Coach Wendy Wear foresees which hampered spring practice sessions.. However, the an Upper hand in the Big Ten and the Greater Newark Cowboys began to show their mettle by winning the next Tournaments three contests. Their first Big Ten Conference victory was a C ' . . . . . . . . . . . oach John Pettit, in his first year as the Junior Varsity grueling fifteen inning affair against Bloomfield, with Sam coach is Strugghng to Coordinate the players ,nt wen Penza driving in the winning run. , ' , ' O a ' A combination of air-tight pitching, provided by Charlie knll leam' Alle' loslng llle llrsl lllree Qamesf llle Squad Del plaiol Jim Liccardol and Bill Hamilton, and a large started to hit and field together. By the season's end Coach amount of good hitting, brought the team to a better than Pellll Should Prod'-'Ce some ballPlaYel'5 lllal will be 90014 .500 average. material for next year's squad. Fl L Muir' .f xr li i f Pl'sQ'Q'-t am. x A -1 WEST ORANGE J.V. BASEBALL TEAM FIRST ROW: Ron Cacioppe, Charlie Stevens, Gordon Swan- son, John Volpe, Charles Young, Richard Egidio. SECOND ROW: Bob Becker, Larry Salerno, Joe Grippaldi, Jeff Koeck, Terry Gi- rone, Paul Avignone. THIRD ROW: Harry DeGirolamo, Rich- ard Moqe, Ron DeVingo, Ar- thur Platt, Coach John Pettit. is M

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