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Togetherness key for Tri-Co
team
By Jack Lapos
Of The Morning Call
According to co-manager Scott Davis, the Quakertown team of the Tri-County
Baseball League has been playing about as well as can be expected so far this
season.
"In
the early going our hitting was starting to come around and our pitching was
beginning to improve after the early rustiness was out of the way," he said the
other day.
The
Orioles had won five of eight games at the time of this writing and were in
third place in the Southern Division.
Quakertown is looking for its first championship since 1986. That year the
Orioles won the playoff title.
This
is the second season for Davis and Steve Bauder as co-managers. Davis lives
in Bethlehem and Bauder in Quakertown. Davis is a former Liberty High player
and Bauder played his scholastic baseball at Quakertown High.
In
the first eight games - the team won five of them - the squad showed a
strong togetherness and that really pleased Davis.
"We
are quite happy with our new young players such as Brian Hoehn of Doylestown
and Tucker Shive of Bethlehem," Davis said. Hoehn, a versatile player who
can play many positions, is a product of Central Bucks East. Shive, a
shortstop, is out of Bethlehem Catholic and is the son of Allentown Central
Catholic skipper Tom Shive.
Some
of the other good young players are Bob Drumbore, pitcher- first
baseman-designated hitter out of Quakertown High; Steve Bauder, catcher,
also out of Quakertown High, and Todd Greenawalt, center fielder, Kutztown
University.
Davis pitches and plays first base. Bauder is a catcher.
Other pitchers are Tom Hartman, out of Quakertown High and Glenn Reineke,
Kutztown University.
Additional infielders are Mark Butcher, second baseman, out of Quakertown
High; Darrin Slattery, third baseman, also out of Quakertown High, and Mike
Schaeffer, third baseman, out of Pennridge High. Schaeffer has been nursing
a broken foot.
Also
in the outfield are Glenn Dally, left, from Lehighton; Rod Rush, right,
Quakertown; Chip Friday, reserve, Quakertown, and Mike Katzbeck, reserve, a
Coopersburg resident. Friday formerly managed the team but gave up that task
because of the press of other duties outside baseball.
"It
is hard to say who looks like the team to beat in our division," Davis said.
"Gilbertsville and Upper Perk could be labeled as such.
"As
for the Northern Division," Davis continued, "Limeport looks like the team
likely to wind up on top of the standings." Limeport won the playoff
championship last summer.
All
of Quakertown's home games are played in Memorial Park, home also for the
Quakertown Blazers of the Atlantic Collegiate League.
The
Tri-County League's regular schedule stretches into August and playoff
contests follow.
From The Morning Call --
July 13, 1989
Copyright
© 1989,
The Morning Call
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