Flyers Seek Strong Pitching As St Paul Faces Rebuild
The 1971 St Paul Flyers baseball team plans a rebuilding season after posting just three wins in 11 games last year. Key losses include pitcher Mike Wasiniak and hitter Mike Mushett who batted .420. Cookie Gilchrist leads the mound corps with a .300 average last season. Don Coletta is back as top defensive MVP. Coach Roger Holman brings seven letter winners including Ron Ridge and Gary Borgeson. The season opens April 5 at Sandusky St Mary, with six Firelands Conference games slated through May 12 on the road and at home.
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Don Hohler
St. Paul
Flyers
Mike Wasiniak
Cookie Gilchrist
Mike Mushett
Gilchrist
Mushett
Don Coletta
Roger Holman
Mike Gottfried
Ron Ridge
Steve Hohler
Bill Magnuson
Gary Barman
Jim Borgia
Denny Schild
Gary Borgeson
Saints
Sandusky St. Mary
New Riege
City Police Face Firemen In Rematch At St Pauls
City police meet the firemen in a rematch of last year’s debacle at St Pauls gym Wednesday night in a doubleheader that starts at 8:15 p.m. The opener features New London High School teachers against the Flyer faculty at 7 p.m.
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Rematch
Norwalk
New London High School
Baseball Drug Use In Early Days Revisited
The story recalls Kenesaw Mountain Landis questioning a player about marijuana use, with the player ultimately denying ever being in the company of the infielder in question. It links this 35 year old episode to modern seminars by Bowie Kuhn on drugs, noting the issue persists.
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Milton Richman
Tampa, Fla
UPI
Bowie Kuhn
Kenesaw Mountain Landis
Landis
State To Stock Chinooks Here
Ohio plans chinook salmon stocking this fall in Lake Erie tributaries including the Huron River after the coho run. Some year-old fingerlings will be released and catchable chinooks may return to stocked streams from the 1972 fall. A few chinooks up to 16 pounds were caught in Lake Erie last year, having migrated from Michigan lakes.
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Lake Erie
Ohio Department of Natural Resources
Huron River
Norwalk Norwalk High Wrestlers Honored at Banquet
About 300 people attended the sixth annual wrestling banquet at the VFW Hall as Norwalk High teams were honored. Vince Matteucci spoke on wrestling growth from 60 to 580 Ohio high school teams, praising coach Dennis Corrigan and presenting varsity awards, patches, and plaques.
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Vince Matteucci
The
Plain Deal
Norwalk
Dennis Corrigan
Tim Hipp
Darryl Smith
Dan Pugh
Hipp
Geoff Hammill
VFW
Norwalk High
the Plain Dealer
Ohio
Matteucci
Red Barn tops Wasiniak in overtime to tie for first
Red Barn defeated Wasiniak Concrete Masonry 80-77 in overtime to move into a first place tie with Wakeman Bank at 11 wins in 13 games. John Fariss led Red Barn with 29 points, while Wasiniak’s Jim Singer had 26 and Jim Wasiniak 18. In the nightcap, Dave Culver nailed a thirty-footer with two seconds left to lift Nite Life past Miller Brothers 58-56.
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John Fariss
Jim Colwell
Mike Gillingham
Wasiniaks
Jim Singer
Jim Wasiniak
Roger Schug
Wakeman Bank
Dave Culver
Nite Life
Miller Brothers
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