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FRONT ROW: Manager Tom Van Eck, John
DiSilvestro, Scott O'Neill, Jeff Mull, Tim
Hardy, Bill Dague, Pat Dougherty, Phil
Mackey, Carl Fissell, Trainer Dave Sanko.
STANDING: Assistant Coach Paul Hurley,
John Chilla, Shane McCusker, Greg Runyen,
Mike Sciarretta, Chris Watts, Thor Cheyne,
Jerry Klein, Steve Gotberg, Joel Ashinhurst,
Eric Miller, Coach Carl Houp. |
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Varsity Record: 21 - 2 |
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H |
2B |
3B |
HR |
BB |
SAC |
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SB |
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626 |
171 |
180 |
12 |
6 |
5 |
134 |
15 |
7 |
54 |
120 |
470 |
187 |
35 |
142 |
0.288 |
91% |
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May 14, 1976 - Whippets' Wait is Over -
Downingtown Pummels Pottsgrove for Southern
Division Title, 13-2
ALL THE WAY FOR SHANE. Downingtown's Shane
McCusker crosses home plate following his two
run HR blast in the sixth inning of the
Whippets' 13-2 title-clinching win over
Pottsgrove on Friday.
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May 14, 1976 - Downingtown captures 1st Ches-Mont Southern Division
title The Downingtown baseball team clinched the Ches-Mont
League's Southern Division title yesterday, with a
13-2 triumph over Pottsgrove on the Whippets'
diamond . . .
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May 27, 1976 - Whippets win C-M baseball title
Hardy allows Bears 1 Hit
Twenty years is a long time. An awfully long
time to wait between baseball titles.
It was
1956, about this time of year, when Downi ngtown,
thick in the era of Elvis Presley's gyrating pelvis,
bobby sox and the infamous DA haircut, won its first
Ches-Mont League baseball crown.
Yesterday, the Carl Houp-coached Whippets picked up
their second. Meeting perennial league power
Boyertown at Pottstown's Enterprise Field,
Downingtown rode the crest of a splendid one-hit
pitching performance by fireballing right-hander
Timmy Hardy to an exciting 3-2 victory before a huge
crowd of boisterous spectators . . .
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SLIDING HOME with
what turned out to be the winning run for Carl
Houp's Downingtown Whippets yesterday afternoon
in the Ches-Mont title game at Pottstown's
Enterprise Field is Whippet left fielder Joel
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May 27, 1976 -
Downingtown C-M baseball champions
Remember the New York Yankees of the '30's and
'40's? They had a winning tradition. A
tradition of winning the big game. They
entered the stadium with a kind of confidence and an
air of class that no other team could match.
The
Boyertown baseball team entered
yesterday's Ches-Mont Championship game
with that same kind of tradition.
They had
never lost a title game before.
They had never blown a big one . . .
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Article.
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June 2nd, 1976 -
Whippets Pop Pennsbury Hopes -
Hardy Relieves Watts In 4-3 Playoff Win
GUESS WATTS
COMING?
Starting pitcher
Chris Watts prepares to throw a curveball past a
Pennsbury batter on Tuesday. The Falcons
took an early 3-1 lead but the Whippets rallied
for the win during a fifth inning uprising.
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Article . . .
Whippets nip Pennsbury in districts
Carl Houp's
Ches-Mont League baseball champion
Downingtown Whippets survived the first
round of the first-ever PIAA District I
playoffs yesterday afternoon . . .
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June 3rd, 1976
DHS continues bid for district title
Whippets play today at 1 o'clock
The baseball scouts seemed comfortable in their
folding chairs as they took a long look at the
players from Downingtown and Pennsbury.
Comments
were kicked around for about two hours at the
Plymouth Whitemarsh High School Field. The great minds of the
game were "second guessing" the moves of manager
Carl Houp of the Whippets and Vic Napolitano of
Pennsbury. . .
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Article.
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June 4th, 1976
'Slick' effort sends DHS by CB East, 1-0
Watts hurls playoff shutout
Central
Bucks East baseball players had to
be wondering about the guy who took
the hill against them yesterday in
the semifinal game of the District
One PIAA baseball playoffs at
Germantown Academy.
One has
to wonder when they start hollering
"nice going Slick."
Slick
was exactly the way Chris (Slick)
Watts pitched. The junior
southpaw worked out of more jams
than a car driving down the loaded
Schuylkill Expressway and stopped
Central Bucks East 1-0.
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the complete Record
Article.
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June 4th, 1976
Watts hurls Whippets past CBE 1-0
It
started back on March 27.
That breezy, windy afternoon Carl
Houp's Downingtown Whippets smashed
an incredible 30 hits en route to
two easy victories and the title in
the annual Downingtown Baseball
Tournament.
Rolling
through the Ches-Mont League season
with an amazing 13-2 mark, the
Whippets won the southern division
title and the league crown.
Today, Downingtown is one short step
away from winning the PIAA District
1 baseball Championship.
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the complete Daily Local News
Article.
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June 6th, Downingtown wins the District Title
It was history in the making Saturday afternoon at
Delaware Valley College
in Doylestown for Carl Houp's Ches-Mont League
champion Downingtown Whippets. PIAA District
one baseball history.
Behind the masterful
four-hit pitching of fireballer Timmy Hardy, seven
hits and an incredible 25 free passes yielded by a
trio of chuckers for Marty Baracca's Suburban Two
champion Interboro Bucks, Downingtown literally
walked off with a convincing 10-2 decision to win
the first-ever District One title.
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the complete Daily Local News
Article.
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Article
Caption, Right: COOLING OFF - Players on the
DHS baseball team threw Head Coach Carl Houp
in the shower after the Whippets won the
District 1 Championship.
Pictured from
left to right: Steve Gotberg, Coach
Houp, Chris Watts, Scott O'Neil, Thor Cheyne,
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Caption, Left: Leading the cheers from the
Downingtown Bench is Assistant Coach Paul Hurley
(center) during a big whippet uprising in
Saturday's District 1 championship game with Interboro. Downingtown defeated Interboro
10-2 to win the district crown as Tim Hardy
twirled a nifty four-hitter at the bucks.
Staff photo by Larry McDevitt
From
left to right: Scott O'Neil (clapping), Greg
Runyan, Assistant Coach Hurley (fist), John
DiSilvestro, Shane McCusker
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Caption
#1, right: Crossing the plate with one of
Downingtown's five runs in the bottom of the sixth
inning in Saturday afternoons' District 1 title game
at Delaware Valley College is Whippet Billy Dague.
Catcher Jim Wasson of Interboro looks to be putting
the tag on Dague. However, Wasson did not have
the ball. Wasson was tossed out of the contest
on the play for verbally showing his disgust.
Dague knocked home four runs in leading Downingtown
to a lopsided 10-2 win.
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#2, right: A little tap of support by Downingtown
coach Carl Houp went a long way Saturday for Pitcher
Timmy Hardy. Behind the four-hit pitching of
Hardy and four RBIs from first baseman Bill Dague,
Downingtown trounced Interboro 10-2 to win the
District 1 baseball title.
Staff photos by Larry
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Caption, Left: Tim Hardy, pitcher
for the Downingtown Whippets, rears back to
throw a fastball in yesterday's Ches-Mont
baseball championship against Boyertown in
Pottstown. Downingtown won 3-2 behind
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| 1976
Whippets Season |
| 11 |
Ephrata |
5 |
| 20 |
Octorara |
1 |
| 7 |
Avon Grove |
1 |
| 7 |
Phoenixville |
6 |
| 2 |
W. C. East |
4 |
| 2 |
W. C. Henderson |
0 |
| 6 |
Kennett |
4 |
| 3 |
Great Valley |
0 |
| 5 |
Coatesville |
1 |
| 7 |
W. C. Henderson |
6 |
| 24 |
Phoenixville |
2 |
| 5 |
Boyertown |
1 |
| 9 |
Spring-Ford |
3 |
| 11 |
Coatesville |
3 |
| 5 |
Great Valley |
0 |
| 12 |
W. C. East |
3 |
| 13 |
Pottsgrove |
2 |
| 3 |
Owen J. Roberts |
1 |
| 1 |
Pottstown |
5 |
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Ches-Mont
Championship |
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| 3 |
Boyertown |
2 |
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District 1 Games |
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| 4 |
Pennsbury |
3 |
| 1 |
Central Bucks E. |
0 |
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P.I.A.A. District 1
Championship Game |
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| 10 |
Interboro |
2 |
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June
6, 1976 - Downingtown
Captures District One Title
Pressure. There just has to be
pressure when your team is playing in a
district championship game . . .
