Woodland High School - Wocowa Yearbook (Woodland, WA)

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Bf SEBQXVLL 1954 Tabbed as the dark horse Beavers of the Trico League this year, Woodland lived up to its name by ending the season in a dead heat with Kalama for first honors. In the resulting playoff game, held at neutral LaCenter, airtight pitching had the Beavers whiffing futilely and the Chinooks took division honors in that 6 to l game. Rich Kroon, outstanding southpaw hurler for the Beavers compiled an enviable record of six wins and no losses in league play until the last regular game of the season. There, against Kalama, Rich was the victim of circumstances and lost a tough one, 5 to h. That loss and the playoff one which saw his opposite hotter than the Fourth of July, were the only league setbacks graduating Kroon encountered. Besides Kroon, the 1955 baseball team will have to replace Ward Hardy, stylish first baseman. The rest of the team will be intact for another season. Bill Cheatley, in his first year as diamond mentor, had a hustling aggregation of batsmen with lots of holler and pep and as the season drew to a close, they were beginning to hit the pellet, Rich Kroon, Orv Seifert, Charlie Blue and Clyde Teel were selected as northern division Trico All Stars for this year, LEAGUE SCORES Woodland - 1 LaCenter - O Woodland - h LaCenter - 3 Woodland - l Cathlamet - 3 Woodland - 5 Cathlamet - h Woodland - 3 Castle Rock - l Woodland - 7 Castle Rock - 7 Woodland - 2 Kalama - l Woodland - M Kalama - 5 Trico League playoff game -- Woodland - l Kalama - 6 T KV A C K This yearls trackteam was a joint sophomore-freshman squad. Only two men, Arnie Albrecht and Claire Hess,were back from last year's snr- prising outfit which took third in the '53 Trico track meet. Coach Blauman spent the season building and teaching, looking ahead to 1955 and 1956 when these same fellows would be bigger and better. In this year's Trico track meet Amblin Arnie Albrecht, workhorse squad member who tried the hhO, broad jump and the relays in earlier workouts, took first place in the hhO with a 56,h seconds quarter mile, Sam Dyer, who had yet to total five points for the season, picked two points in the Trico meet when he took third in the mile run, much to his own surprise and Coach Blauman's. Bobby Hoefs and Claire Hess, both unbeaten in any previous meet up to the Trico affair, were both ill the day of the final meet. Earlier in the season Hess broke the Ridgefield track record for the mile run, Both Hoefs in the 880 and Hess in the mile will be expected to pick up points next year, In addition to these, Gary Balch appeared to be gaining form in the shot and discus events at season's end, Bill Reese, frosh speedster, was rounding into form as a potential hurdler and dash mang Don Otto seemed to be getting the knack of leg and arm coordination in the high hurdlesg and Mervin Brown also showed promise in the short and long dashes, - VVV

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cf? iii 5 ?QK'fS 1 coach Blauman, the UBaby Bcaversn, with fourteen frosh huskies as a nucleus, plus four eighth graders and three seventh graders, showed the hustle, spirit and speed to com- plete a pigskin season with four wins, one loss and one tie game. Graduating to the varsity next fall are current frosh, candidates, Chuck Feris, Robby Pettit, Bob Meize, Lyle Boz- arth, Doyle Blankenship, Richard Knight, Dave Rhoades, Duane McDowell, George Booher, Don Otto, Tom Hunt, Jack Ripp, Bill Reese and Jim.Wright, All of these potential sophomores will be welcome additions to the varsityf A 6 to 6 tie started the team off. This was followed by a win and a loss from Kelso, Woodland winning the first game 6 to O and losing the retu n battle, 20 to O. Playing in Vancouver the youngsters took Shumway 32 to 13. They fin- ished the season with a pair of wins from Ridgefield, 20 to 6 and 13 to o. ,, ,, ,, v 'v v Developed under the watchful eye of junior high foot- Coach Cheatley worked with the seventh and eighth grade basketball teams this year. Both teams lacked size and ex- perience. The seventh graders managed to break through the .Soo percent with five wins against four losses. Their older brothers were not so fortunate, winning but one game out of the Hines Kenny Bays was the leading scorer, with a total of 75 points for the season. Ronnie Albrecht, for graders, totaled hl points. Coach Cheatley, it was rumored, was investigating num- erous growth stimulating breakfast cereals in the hope that a brand would be found capable of putting his boys on a more even footing with others in Southwest Washington. V V V Coaches Lemiere and Cheatley traded man power for the spring sports. Cheatley took over varsity baseball and Limiere took up junior high baseball development. The youngsters developed a good batting attack and at times sported fair pitching but were consistently weak in the field. Errors were the chief cause of games lost. In spite of erring afield they managed to break even with three wins and three losses for the season. The record showed them winning from LaCenter twice, 23 to O and 13 to 12g breaking even with Ridgefield, winning 9 to 8 and losing 5 to hg and finally dropping a pair to Kalama, 8 to 6 and lh to 7, V V V the eighth Q ll 0 I YI' 5 can