Page 10 Thursday, May 27, 2010 The Westfield Leader and The Scotch Plains – Fanwood TIMES A WATCHUNG COMMUNICATIONS, INC. PUBLICATION Devil’s Den Blue Devils Score 3 in 12th; The Real McCoys Have Devil of the Week Sting Hillsborough Nine, 7-6 Brett Johnson CONTINUED FROM PAGE 9 Quite a Family Tree Baseball “They single-handedly almost won bunt him across, and our bunting has the game on pickoffs. The pitcher been phenomenal. Brett has come By BRUCE JOHNSON was almost balking, such a good through for us a number of times, and Specially Written for The Westfield Leader and The Times move. It was an amazing pickoff it doesn’t get any better than that move,” Johnson said. one,” coach Brewster said. Steve and Tom McCoy were out- frey Bay in South Africa. Dan was a team-high 58 RBI for Wake Forest, 53 seasons, he threw – look the other The Blue Devils knotted the score, standing athletes at WHS (and later the champion snow-boarder, winning the which finished 16-37. Murray started way if you believe in pitch counts or “Two runs score. A suicide squeeze! University of Wisconsin) in the 1960s. USA age group championship as a 19- 52 of the 54 games he played, and had 4-4, in the fifth. Kevin Clancy (2-for- I was demoralized, but we came back. multiple relief pitchers – 28 consecu- Steve won eight letters in soccer, swim- year-old. He and his wife enjoy moun- 14 doubles among his 69 hits. He hit tive complete games. And when the 4) and Johnson (3-for-5) each singled, When I saw Clancy on a perfect bunt, ming and tennis. He was a two-time tain climbing in the Sierra Nevada .299 (198 for 662) with 35 doubles and and Tim Younger laid down a bunt Phillies won the National League in I said there was no way I’m not win- county and state champion diver, and Mountains, and once climbed Mount 20 dingers in his career. 1950, Roberts started, and finished, single to load the bases. Max Fusaro ning this game for us,” Johnson said. also twice won YMCA National titles. Kilimanjaro in South Africa. The Plymouth State University base- three games in the last five days, in- drew an RBI walk. Murray grounded “Love it! Great win!” Tom was strictly a swimmer, winning Even at 90, Lois Welch McCoy Wight ball team didn’t have a great season cluding a 10-inning title clincher. to short, but the shortstop threw wide Hillsborough 111 100 000 002 6 two state titles in the 200-individual appears to still be fulfilling the 1937 (10-29), but sophomore first baseman We were also saddened to see the of second, allowing Johnson and Westfield 000 130 000 003 7 medley. They were both multiple-time Weather Vane’s words next to her se- Mike Cappiello (WHS, ’08) had an parents of some former WHS athletes Younger to score. All-America selections. nior picture: “If it’s sports, cheering, awesome spring. “Cappy” hit a team- of the ’60s pass away. Doug Eakeley, From the fourth inning until the Bridgewater-Raritan Beat Nobody was aware of it at the time, dances or work, ‘Loie’ is right there best .389 (42 for 108) and led the Pan- captain of the ’64 swim team, and his 10th, Scanlon, who totaled 111 but if they’d known about the McCoy’s with that whole-hearted pep which thers in doubles (13), home runs (four), sister Linda (’65), married to the late pitches, retired 21 of the next 23 the Blue Devils, 12-3, in the “family tree,” all that success wouldn’t makes her popular with boys and girls.” RBI (30), walks (28), slugging per- Bob Duncan Jr., lost their dad, Scott, a batters he faced, allowing no hits and North Jersey, Group 4, have come as any great surprise. Their THIS AND THAT centage (.620) and on-base percentage World War II naval officer. And Lois no runs, while hitting a batter and Section 2 semifinal round father Bob is a national champion and Baseball: After Saturday’s nail-bit- (.525). He was second in runs (24) and Rider, mother of Doug (’67), walking one. Anderson relieved in record-breaking quarter-miler at WHS, ing 7-6, 12-inning win over hits. Cappiello, who hit .357 and .356 basketballer Bruce (’69) and baseballer the 11th and finished the game. on May 25 in Bridgewater. graduating in 1937. Their mom is the Hillsborough, it was on to Bridgewater in his two years as a starter for WHS, Ken (’71), also passed away. “My arm the first couple of innings See complete story by former Lois Welch, Bob’s high school on Tuesday for the sectional semifi- will be playing summer ball in Con- DEVIL OF THE WEEK was killing me. Then it started feeling sweetheart and, upon closer research, nals. If WHS beat Bridgewater, it would cord, N.H. This week’s winner of a free sub at fine. I settled down. I was throwing Fred Lecomte next week. quite an athlete herself. (And let’s not face the Edison-Woodbridge winner BIRTHDAY BOY Westfield Subs (263 South Avenue East) strikes. I was working my curveball forget their uncle Ken Welch, ’50, a tomorrow at home for the North 2 Eric Burdon recently turned 69. is Brett Johnson. The senior center to keep them off-balance,” Scanlon champion diver at WHS and Yale.) Group 4 title. Never heard of him? If you’re not a fielder had three hits out of the No. 9 said. “I was leaving my fastball up a There were no “official” girls sports Hats off to Aiden Scanlon, who Boomer, you’re not alone. And that’s a hole, including the two-run single that little bit. He [Murray] came out to the at WHS in the 1930s (or ’40s or ’50s or pitched the first 10 innings against the shame. He ranks high among my favor- ended a 7-6 victory over Hillsborough mound a couple of times to cool me ’60s, for that matter), but if there had Raiders. The last WHS pitcher to pitch ite British Invasion artists, along with in the North 2 Group 4 quarterfinals on down. AJ knew what calls to call.” been, Lois Welch would’ve been in- that many innings is believed to be the Moody Blues, Brian Jones, Beatles, Saturday. “He is as tough as nails, tight end, volved. She did play “intramural” soc- Rich Anderson, who went all 12 in a 1- Van Morrison, Kinks, Donovan, Dusty The Devil’s Den appears Thursday cer, field hockey, basketball and tennis 0 win over Cranford and Harry Springfield, the Hollies, Searchers, in The Westfield Leader during the middle linebacker. He’s got that men- for all three years under Gertrude Swift Linderoth to close the 1970 season. Troggs and Zombies. tality. From the fourth inning on, he school year. Contact us with comments, – in addition to being involved in the And let’s not forget Greg Chlan’s epic With his bluesy band the Animals, complaints or suggestions at used all his intelligence to move the Mask and Mime club, the Glee Club, 12-inning effort to beat Union 2-1 in and later with the funk group War, [email protected]. Win or not, Whs4evr! ball in and out in the strike zone,” the Girls Athletic Council, the Red the 1965 Greater Newark Tournament Burdon gave his spin on songs like: coach Brewster said of Scanlon. Cross Council and the Athletic Asso- semifinals, allowing 12 hits, walking House of the Rising Son, Don’t Let Me In the top of the 12th, Raider Pat ciation Council. Oh, she was also part seven and striking out 13. Or Smitty Be Misunderstood, We Gotta Get Outta Roberts sagged a little looper over of the 10-member (five boys, five girls) Lanning’s 10-inning, 21-strikeout UCT This Place, See See Rider, Don’t Bring short. Leftfielder Clancy attempted a cheer squad. win over Rahway in 1960. Me Down, Monterey, San Franciscan sliding catch, but the ball popped out “I went out for every sport that our Tennis: A 4-1 win over Ridge pro- Nights, Bring It On Home to Me and of his glove. Peck punched an RBI athletic director, ‘Swifty’ was in charge pelled the Devils into Tuesday’s sec- Spill the Wine, along with two tremen- single to center and advanced to sec- of,” she said. tional title match against a Hillsborough dous anti-war classics – Sky Pilot and ond on a throwing error. He moved to Lois won a gold bracelet for achiev- team that was Somerset County co- When I Was Young. Check him out on third on a bunt and scored on Chris ing the most points in athletics, but it champions with former No. 1-ranked youtube. Reilly’s suicide squeeze. was stolen at a Youth Hostel, when she Montgomery. DID YOU KNOW? Anderson hammered his solo blast SEMPER FI…David Finn, Jr. com- bicycled around Europe with a chaper- Track: Jon Henry had a huge week- It’s been over 43 years since the boys over the right field fence. Mike pleted the Marine Corps Marathon in oned group of boys and girls during end as WHS finished a close second to tennis team’s last tie. It came in the Washington, D.C. on October 25, 2009 the summers of 1936 and ’37. They Franklin in North 2 Group 4 boys. second match of the 1967 season, a 2- Buontempo (2-for-5) singled, Greg with a finish time of 4:22:56.