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Meador feels that he definitely has a good chance of playing college baseball.
Other good contributors were Brian Grieves, who hit .378 and only struck out once; short stop
Meador, and Charles Munford. The Baseball team has a good
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THE METEOR
June 2,
V. Baseball Finishes Second in League
V. Tennis
BY BRUCE THOMASSON
The Varsity Tennis team ended their season with a dual match record of 7-9 and a Prep
League record of 3-4. On May 21 they played in the Prep League Tournament, finishing 5th. They earned 17 points and were narrowly beaten out of 4th place by Collegiate, who had 19
pomts.
Looking back at the season,
Mr. Foster said: "There were no surprises or upsets, but on the other hand we didn't lose to any team of less ability than ours." He said he felt that the high point of the season was the home match against Collegiate which came down to the last possible point in the doubles match played by Bill Driskill and Blitz James. It was all tied up at four games apiece going into the last game, which Collegiate managed to win and thus
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Golf Takes Third Place BY RODNEY T A YLOR
BY NICK COSTAS Varsity Baseball
Led by Coach McCormick and assistant coach Berry the Golf team stroked to yet another
victorious season, finishing up
13-4 overall, and 4-2 in the Prep
League. Sam Martin, medalist in •
eight matches, and team captain Steve Morris, medalist five times, proved for the third year to be the
mainstays of the V.E.S. Golf Team. Freshman standout Bryant Jenkins was medalist in two matches and often helped secure victories by finishing a strong second or third. Steve Walker and Tom Stoughton were each medalist in one match
V. Lacrosse
BY ANDY OWENS
The Varsity Lacrosse team
started out the season with good depth and leadership. They looked to do very well in the Prep League, but they were plagued by injuries early in the season and ended up winning only four games, tying for fifth place in the Prep League. Coach Pettyjohn feels the team could have won nine or ten games this season, but lack of depth, especially at midfield due to injuries, hurt the team in the last quarters of many games. Four senior midfielders - Dawson Rascoe, ·Bo Walker, and Billy and Bruce Carrington - deserve special credit for playing most of the games with no substitutes and still giving
100% the whole game.
The leading scorer was
Captain Billy Carrington and second to him was sophomore Ross Lynde. Leading the team in assists were Bruce Carrington and Bo Walker.
Next year there will be nine varsity players returning and some hopefuls from the J.V. Lacrosse team. With this experience, the team may be better contenders in the Prep League next spring.
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and added strength to the team · other ways. Richard
completed his golfing career V.E.S. with a strong season
The pinnacle of this year's.
season came in the match New Blue Ridge at Colonial Hi
when a new team record
V .E.S. was set, breaking
previous record of 295 by
strokes. The 293 is also eii'e
Mark Glascock, who had a team, hitting agerage of .375; and Paul captained by Carl Danbury and Holmes, who had a hitting
The
Paul Holmes, had one of its
average of .346 and also pitched, posting a 3-1 record. Mike Sankovich filled in a big trouble spot from last year's team at
finest seasons ever with a final record of 16 wins and 3 losses and with a strong second place finish in the Prep League.
The team was made up of
many good players, with Carl
Danbury leading the team.
Danbury was capable of playing
many positions and excelled
both on the mound and at the
plate. He had a 13-2 pitching
record with 140 strikeouts and an
earned run average of 0.88.
Danbury also led the team in
batting with a .442 batting
average and 4 home runs. Mr. Swartz, Mike Young, Randy
catcher while hitting .315. Probably the most improved was T ed Robertson, who moved
ve~
Mr. McCormick
dismay at next year's loss of S Morris and Sam Martin, but looking forward to next when returning leue Bryant Jenkins and T orr Stoughton will lead the team.
Track
BY TODD FARRAND
This year's Spring Track turned out to be one
promising individuals. Thornhill, All-Prep in the
yard dash, also participated the 220, 880 relay, long ·
and triple jump. He played major role on the team. All-Pre David Heppner turned out to
the work horse of the field breaking the school record in shot-put with a throw of 51 7~ inches. He also led the way the discus with some ·
throws that helped to points. Main attraction in pole vault was All-Prep Belcher with an unofficial best 13 feet 3 inches. He set the record last year with a vault of
feet 10 inches. AI though he had broken wrist, Preston
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to be a course record for scholastic teams. The Golf finished third in the Prep behind Woodberry, which playing on its home course Collegiate, which slid from ' place on the first day to place on the second day. V.E.S. players received IUI-r
Billy Hobbs played well at second base, using lots of chatter
to inspire the team.
Others seeing action were
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