Varsity
Baseball 1974
Front
row: G.A. Wagner, Bart
Albert, Jeff Baker, Keith Gochenaur, Dave Cope, Greg Fair, Jeff
Woodward; Row 2: Coach
Mackert, Steve Banks, Ron Lowe, Mike Warner, Mike Conrad, Bob
Stout, Tony Wilkinson, Joe Shamansky, Coach Shirley; Top:
Mike Wamsley, mgr.
In
the beginning …
The
baseball team at Mechanicsburg is looking forward to another
very successful season. After last year’s C.A.C. Championship
team, Coach Shirley's 'Cats are working extra hard to prove last
years team wasn't a fluke. They have already been practicing out
in the parking lot and down at the field for a chance to bring the
C.A.C. crown to M'Burg for the second straight season.
April1,
1974 Torch
Mechanicsburg
Wins
Thirdbaseman
Ron Lowe sparked Mechanicsburg Wildcats to a 11-5 Capital Area
Conference victory over
Red
Land
.
Lowe
went 4-for-5 with a home run, double and two singles and drove in
three runs. Rightfielder Mike Warner was 4-for-4, all singles, and
batted in three runs. Catcher Joe Shamansky banged a triple.
Greg Fair started on the mound for the 'Cats and was
relieved by Dave Cope in the third. They fanned seven batsmen and
walked three.
For
Red
Land
, starter Dave Eshleman was relieved in the seventh.
"We
beat a very good team," said Wildcat Coach Don Shirley.
"
Red
Land
is the best team we played this year."
Line
score:
Mechanicsburg
051 101 3 – 11 14 4
Red
Land
302 000 0 – 5
9 4
Batteries:
M – Greg Fair, Dave Cope (3) and Joe Shamansky; RL –
Dave Eshelman, Rupp (7) and Jack Troutman
‘Cats
Defeat CV 13 – 4
Maybe the
Cumberland
Valley
baseball team should play all their games on the road this season.
Their five wins have all been away.
The Eagles continued to remain winless at home as they
dropped a 13-4 decision to the Mechanicsburg wildcats yeaterday in
the Capital Area Conference.
The Wildcats got on the scoreboard in the first inning when
Greg Wagner walked and Steve Banks bunted.
The throw to second base was low and all hands were safe.
Slugger Ron Lowe walked and the bases were loaded.
With Joe Shamansky at bat, Wagner scored on a wild pitch.
Shamansky flied out to center field and Banks scored for a
2-0 lead.
The Eagles got one in the bottom of the inning when Steve
Foster walked and later stole second base.
And a little later, Scott Peiffer beat out an infield hit
to score Ed Trump (who had gotten on base via an error.
The ‘Cats ,scored two more runs in the second. With one
out, Eagle starter Mike Hoffman,' a 9th grader, walked Jeff
Baker and. Mike Conrad. Conrad was then forced at
,second. base on Dave Cope's grounder. Wagner
hit a fly ball over rightfielder Trump's head. Trump made a good
try, running hard with his back to the diamond. He got his glove
on the ball, but it fell and Wagner scored the two runners with a
triple.
Hoffman walked banks and eagle Coach Tom Billman sent Jeff
Pottinger to the mound. With
Wagner on third and Banks on first, Pottinger fanned the next
batter to end the inning.
The
Eagles had Rob Meier on third base in the third inning but could
not bring him home. They were successful in the fourth.
Witl
two outs, Pottinger went all the way to third on a throwing error
to first base on his ground ball. Randy Rich singled him home. At
the end of four innings, the Wildcats led, 4 –2.
The roof caved in on the Eagles in the fifth.
The “Cats scored nine runs, the big blows being Mike
Warner's triple that knocked in Lowe and Shamansky and Lowe's
double that scored Banks.
The
Wildcats got three more runs on two high infield windblown pops.
The wind lashed the field throughout the game. But the Eagles did
not make excuses. It's part of the game. Shamansky hit a triple to
left to score another run. '
The Eagles got two runs in their last trips on errors.
Dave
Cope went all the way for the 'Cats. He fanned seven batsmen and
walked four.
Randy
Foreman pitched the last inning for the Eagles.
The Wildcats have now won five of their last seven games.
The Eagles are now at .500, or 5-5 overall
Mechanicsburg won the junior varsity game,
3-2, scoring all its runs in the last inning.
Box Score:
|
Mechanicsburg
|
AB
|
R
|
H
|
C.V.
|
AB
|
R
|
H
|
Two base hits: Shamansky, Lowe
Three base hits: Wagner, Warner
Struck out by Hoffman-2, Pottinger-5, Foreman-1, Cope-7
Base on Balls by Hoffman-5, Pottinger-2, Foreman-1, Cope-4
|
|
Wagner, cf
|
4
|
2
|
1
|
Foster, 3b
|
3
|
0
|
1
|
|
Banks, 2b
|
2
|
2
|
0
|
Meier, cf
|
2
|
0
|
0
|
|
Albert, 2b
|
1
|
0
|
0
|
Gilbert, cf
|
2
|
1
|
0
|
|
Lowe, 3b
|
4
|
2
|
2
|
Trump, rf
|
2
|
1
|
1
|
|
Shamansky, c-1b
|
4
|
1
|
2
|
Pizzarro, ph
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
|
Warner, rf
|
3
|
1
|
1
|
Wallace, lf-1b
|
3
|
1
|
1
|
|
Woodward, rf
|
1
|
0
|
0
|
Pieffer,c
|
3
|
0
|
2
|
|
Stoudt, ss
|
2
|
0
|
0
|
Wiest, 1b
|
2
|
0
|
1
|
|
Gochenour, ss
|
1
|
1
|
0
|
Mentzer, rf
|
2
|
0
|
0
|
|
Baker, lf
|
3
|
2
|
1
|
Hoffman, p
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
|
Conrad, 1b
|
1
|
1
|
0
|
Pottinger, p
|
1
|
1
|
0
|
|
Wilkinson, c
|
1
|
0
|
1
|
Foreman, p
|
1
|
0
|
0
|
|
Cope, p
|
3
|
1
|
1
|
Rich, 2b
|
1
|
0
|
1
|
|
