Bloomington High School South, The Gothic, 1999, Page 112

Description:	Varisty Baseball Teamby Lauren HumesSTRIKES OUTOPPOSITION through Roller Coaster Season^ theNUMBERSlisThem2JasperIS8Edgewood61Terre Haute South75Terre Haute South100Center Grove810Columbus North21Bloomington North->5Owen Vallev55McCutcheon96McCutcheon-t4Martinsville09Terre Haute North21Columbus East1113Columbus East39North Central132Perry Meridian33Jennings County412Jennings County25Southport42Pike1^East Centrals12East Central711Franklin Central2-Decatur Central67Lawrence Central173Sevmour13Sectional: Columbus North6big victoriesAlthough the season was full ofups and downs, the team managedto pull out victories against sometough competition.My favorite game was theMartinsville game because theywere ranked second, and we endedup winning 4-0, senior Ben Boonesaid.new facesSenior Henry Rucker threw hissupport behind the team bypracticing with them andsometimes dressing for the games.The funniest thing that I canremember is watching HenryRucker try to pick up ground ballsduring practice, junior AaronMurphy said.pregame preparationThe players went through aseries of drills and meetings inaddition to warming up to getready for a game.Before our games we wouldplay Pepper. Its a game where oneVarsity Basebal(13-13-1)PHOTO COURTESYOF MR. CRIER WERNERFront Row: Charlie Cummins. Jeff Jones, NatHill, Matt Thomure. Tom Harold, Cody Mackey,Ben Boone. Mike Garcia. Joey Mackey. WilfredoVazquez. Back Row: Coach Grier Werner. AaronMurphy. Nate May. Scott Koontz. Henry Rucker.Jared Devich, Scott Scrogham. Tyler Abel,Assistant Coach Eric Dodds. Assistant Coach PhilKluesner.person hits grounders at about fiveother guys who are standing aboutfive or 10 feet away from the batter.Wed also have two meetings alongthe foul line before each game withour different coaches to discuss ourgame plan, junior Tyler Abel said.hard lessonAfter suffering from anunexpected loss in the first roundof Sectional to Columbus North,players had time to reflect back onthe season.Losing Sectional really taughtus that we needed to take thingsmore seriously. We jacked aroundquite a bit, and it finally caught upwith us, senior Scott Koontz said.high hopesThe team was ranked ninth inthe preseason coaches poll.Since we started out rankedninth, it shows how much potentialwe had. We just werent veryfocused, and we let little mistakesdetermine the outcome of ourgames, junior Scott Scroghamsaid.PHOTO COURTESY OF MR. CRIER WERNERup to swing, junior AaronMurphy strides towards the ball. Murphybatted .318 and led the team with 18 RBIs.HSpread Design bysportsJordan Garner and Anshu Kalhanm
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