Roanoke Rapids Junior Jackets Ball Club Hones 194? Squad
Roanoke Rapids High School announces its junior Yellow Jackets baseball squad with coach Rock Venters leading over 30 players from seventh to tenth grade. Key pitchers include William Wheeler and Troy Hasty. infielders David Cox and Clifton Acree show promise. outfielders include Earl Waters and Cris Edmondson. The team aims to defend the school’s colors after a three year layoff and will train through the season with hopes of strong performance.
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Roanoke Rapids
Yellow Jackets
Rock Venters
Rex Carter
Venters
William Wheeler
Troy Hasty
Willi Lewis
Carl Jones
Robert Wright
D.W. Etheridge
Bobby Bright
Wright
Dwight Buting
Julian Armstrong
Rueben Slade
Harry Talley
David Cox
Keystone Sack
Billy Wood
Buster Britt
Clifton Acree
Herbert Moore
Edison Nicholson
Herman Deaton
James MacDaniel
Billy Nixon
Earl Waters
Bubber” Matthews
James Warren
Kenneth Mizzell
James Butler
Rudolph Deaver
Cris Edmondson
Tommie Wheeler
Hubert Lowder
Howard O'Neil
Town Talk Social Notes From Roanoke Rapids Area
Mrs A O George visited Emporia relatives on Thursday. Miss Mary Louise Ray from Richmond spent the weekend with her parents Mr and Mrs Paul Ray. Mr and Mrs John Grant of Emporia visited relatives here. Jake Johnson returned home after several days as Roanoke Rapids hospital patient. F Ogletree to return home in Enfield after time in hospital following a car wreck. Mr Ogletree injured but not seriously. Miss Lillie Liverman spent weekend in Lasker with relatives. Mrs Henry O Neal of Gaston is a patient at Roanoke Rapids Hospital. Mrs Elmer Ashby left for her Wilmington Delaware home.
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A .O George
Emporia
Mary Louise Ray
Richmond
Paul Ray
John Grant
Jake Johnson
Roanoke Rapids Hospital
F. Ogletree
Enfield
Mr. Ogletree
Lillie Liverman
Lasker
Henry O’neal of
Gaston
Elmer Ashby
Wilmington
Del
1946 Yellow Jacket baseball schedule planned
The 1946 Yellow Jacket team will play about seventeen games with twelve Northeastern Conference contests and four or five non conference games. In 1945 the squad posted fourteen games, beating Emporia once and suffering one loss to the same team. The team posted a .303 batting average. The schedule lists April 2 New Bern Here, April 5 Elizabeth Here, April 9 Greenville Here, April 10 Weldon There, April 12 Greenville There.
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Yellow Jacket
Emporia
New Bern
Elizabeth
Greenville
Weldon
Jax Baseballers Prepare for Banner Year
Coach Crawford Hoyle leads the 1946 Yellow Jackets in early practice with thirty varsity players. Twenty four uniforms issued, six more soon. Pitching staff features ten hurlers led by Ted Etheridge, with Charles Wright Archie Lee Moody Fred Etheridge among southpaws and right-handers Howard Short Ed Taylor showing promise.
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Hoyle
Jax
Yellow Jackets
Hill
Howard Short
Ed Taylor
Short
Jackson
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