Page 32 - 1946 VES Meteor

SPORTS
From the Sidelines
By Fronk Aldred
The Bishops got off to a good start on the gridiron by downing Miller School to the tune of 19-0. Then injuries hit the squad and the team went down to defeat in the remaining six games. First came Har- g rave. Save for two costly penalties, the Garnet and White would have taken the Tigers in stride. Instead, they went down by the score of 14-6. Next came W oodberry's dream team, and before the Davidson avalanche could be stopped, the score stood 33-0. Woodberry used subs in the second half and the score remained unchanged.
Next, the Bishops lost to Fishburne on two freak plays 12-0. Injuries never ceased and when the EHS game came 'round, hardly any material was left. But in the most impressive game of the campaign, the Garnet went down fighting all the way, 20-0. 7he overconfider ~ Bishops then jour- neyed to Randolph-Macon only to be beaten 26-0. In the last game of +he season, the St. Christopher ma- chine rolled to a 33-0 win.
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After the sounds of football had
died away. there arose a difrerenf clamor, that of basketball. But ~he Eishop remained in his losing •uays. !n the first game, Hampden-Sydney's ~'V won 35-25. Next Hargrave took an early lead and went on ~o win 29-23. Woodberry's Tigers ;cored an easy 58-18 victory and Fork Un!on almost duplicated the score by win- ntng 58-33. In a return encounter with the Hampden-Sydney JY, t~e Bishops went down 39-22.
The Bishops journeyed to Weed- berry for a return engagement and redeemed themselves in part for their first defeat by only losing 39-18. lr two quick games with Fishburne, the Cadets won both; the first 3S !4 and in the Barksdale Gymnasium in the best played game of the season by the score of 25-23. The boys frc,n EHS smacked the Bishops 5 1- 17 and the remaining games were cancel!e::l because of various epidemics 11t "he schools. Thus ended a very disastrous season for the Garnet.
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The Y. E. S. baseball team ope:1ed
the season against Hopkins School 12
BASEBALL LETTERMEN
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STANDING: Gor111ly, Jla11ager; Mr. Bell, Coach.
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of New England, a team traveling through the south playing various teams, and was met with a terrible hit barrage, losing 22-5. Next came Hargrave and Blackwell, star Cadet pitcher, batted and pitched his team to a 13-0 win, the only time the Bishops were shut out all season. The team lost to Staunton Military Acad- emy 15-2 before breaking into the win column with a win over Brook- ville High School, I0-8. Staving off several YES rallies, EHS won I 1-4. Bedford won a surprising 15-7 vic- tory in a slugfest on the Bishop dia- mond. In their best game of the season and with some very timely hitting the Garnet and White licked
Woodberry 9-8, putting the game on ice in the ninth inning. In a well played game at Waynesboro, Fish- burne trimmed the Bishops 3-2, but two days later the charges were re- versed with a 5-4 victory in a game played on the Bishops' field. Wood- berry Forest got revenge for its earlier trouncing and took a 15-1 count on their home field. In the last game of the season, Hargrave took advantage of two costly errors and walked to a 4-1 triumph.
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The YES track team was very im-
pressive throughout their season, winning both duo l meets, tak ing sec- ond in a three-way meet and finish- ing third in the state prep meet at Charlottesville. The season opened with a dazzling 73:0-43 0 victory over Hargrave. The Bishops took eight first places and took all three places in three events. Next the cin- dermen journeyed to Woodberry for a triangle meet with Woodberry and Randolph-Macon. YES took sec- ond place with 40.7 points behind
W oodberry
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points. RMA
805 Main Street
D. L. RIANHARD, Agent
W e really owe some t hanks to Miss McCarron for her splendid co-operation.
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