1965

1966

Des Plaines Suburban Times, June 9, 1966 ©Pioneer Press

SOUTHWORDS BASEBALL EXTRA
June 1966

Bam, Biff, Pow--We're No. 2 in State
by Derek

   In the state baseball eight team playoff in Peoria, the Maine South Hawks had little problem getting by Rock Island-Alleman and Alton, doing so 13-0 behind the 3-hit pitching of John. Alton was stubborn, but lacked finesse and pitching and fell to the Park Ridgians 8 to 6.
   Fatigue finally caught up to the squad, when only one hour after the Alton game they took the field the second time to face the powerful Spartans of Glenbrook North.
    Glenbrook jumped on a fatigued John who had pitched his way to a shutout in the Rock Island game and worked one and two-thirds innings to save Chuck's win in the Alton game. Glenbrook sent 13 men to the plate in the first inning, scoring the first eight runs of their 15 to 2 win. South for its own part ended up scoring 23 runs in the three game series on the way to the runner-up spot....

Bam, Biff, Pow--We're No. 2 in State
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   After winning their first two tournament games by impressive margins, the Hawks found an old jinx in Glenbrook North and succumbed to the slugging Spartans 15 to 2 in the championship game.

   As co-champions of the same conference Maine and Glenbrook had met twice in the regular seasons and the Spartans had emerged victorious on both occasions....

[Auggie, Rick] named to all-tournament team
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   The all-tournament team for 1966, selected by the sports writers covering the state finals, contained the names of two outstanding Hawk infielders, Auggie and Rick.
   Rick's all-around play far outshadowed any other third-sacker in the tournament. At the plate he showed power with a home run and several other extra base hits. This, combined with his slick glovework at the hot corner, earned him a unanimous choice as all star third baseman.
   Even though Auggie missed a unanimous selection by one vote, the writer who failed to vote for him surely couldn't have been watching the ball game. If he had stopped his paperwork long enough to look down at the field, he would have observed the finest all-around player in the tournament playing shortstop for Maine South.
   Auggie's infield play was sparkling as he made one great play after another. In the Alton game he made two brilliant plays in a row on hard smashes that could just as well have been hits....
   At the plate Auggie was on base more than anyone in the tournament. The little shortstop banged out 5 hits in ten official trips to the plate. When he didn't get a hit he walked, and his mere presence on the basepaths gave opposing pitchers and catchers additional woes.