St. Raphael 13, Rogers 7 - April 19, 1951

Coach Barney Garrity's St. Raphael baseball forces successfully opened their eastern division league play by outslugging Rogers High School of Newport, 13 to 7, at McCoy Statdium yesterday. However, the Saints lost co-captain Ray Killeen for at least a month and possibly the season, due to torn ligament in the shoulder of his throwing arm.

Bill Trent opened the game by smashing a two and two pitch down the line in left field for a two-bagger. He was sacrificed to third by Paul Gaines, where he was picked off base by catcher Chet Hanewich. Dick Lendrum then walked, stole second, and scored on Joe Dragon's bad throw to first on Sam Kaplan grounder. Parenteau ended the inning by whiffing Bob Davis.

The Saints went down 1-2-3 in their half of the inning before the curve ball pitching of Jerry Connell. In the second inning Johnny Medeiros let off with a triple between Higgins and D'Ambra, but on an attempted squeeze play, John Knott bunted hard to Parenteau and Medeiros had to hold third. George Lovett dropped Parenteau's throw and Medeiros broke for the plate. but Lovett recovered and pegged to Hanewich in time to get Mederios at the plate.

On this play, Medieros crashed hard into Hanewich, splitting Chet's lower lip, and for the remainder of the game the Saints' catcher could hardly talk.

Knott took second on the throw to the plate, went to third as Honewich [Hanewich] threw wildly into center field and scored on a passed ball.

Saints Tie Score

The Saints tied the score in the last of the second. Lovett walked and Hanewich's pop fly fell between Trent and Sullivan for a single. D'Ambra was hit by a pitch and the bases were loaded with one out, and Ray Killeen's third base replacement, Dragon, at bat. Dragon "dribbled" one down the first base line and beat it out with Lovett and D'Ambra scoring to tie it up. Connell then proceeded to pitch his way out of the inning by fanning Parenteau and getting Guarnin and Agostini to pop up.

However, in the third inning the Saints tallied four times with only one hit. Kennedy walked. Lovett beat out a slow roller to short and D'Ambra walked. Johnny Higgins topped one in front of the plate and both Lendrum and Connell went for it, leaving the plate uncovered with Kennedy scoring and Higgins reaching first. Dragon bunted to the first baseman and Lovett and D'Ambra scored, and Dragon reached first, when the second baseman, who was covering first, dropped the ball. Connell then balked and Higgins scored.

Ten hits good for 20 total bases went down the drain as Rogers High School was crushed by St. Raphael's Academy, 13-7, Thursday at McCoy Stadium, Pawtucket, in the opening Eastern Division schoolboy baseball game.

The Vikings had the batting punch, but lacked pitching and fielding finesse.

Their 10-hit bombardment against Parenteau included a homer by Bob Davis, triples by John Mederios, Bill Nagle and Paul Gaines and a double by Bill Trent. Dick Lendrum joined Davis and Trent in the two-hit class.

Tho Parenteau was around at the finish, Jerry Connell and Bill "Scratch" Nagle, who handled the Viking pitching job, walked six and yielded eight blows. What really hurt were half a dozen errors at critical points.

St.Raphael's victory path was smoothed by eight unearned runs. Parenteau, hit harder than the Viking elbowmen, also was handicapped by six misplays, but his control was much better. He issued only three walks.

Rogers' base-running was a bit on the sleepy side. Two runs were lost when runners were caught off third base.

St. Raphael's wrapped up the decision by scoring four runs in both the third and fourth frames for a 10-3 lead. Behind Nagle's slick relief pitching, Rogers held St. Raphael fairly in check the rest of the game. But the Newporters failed to dissolve the home side's big lead.