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Dave Bruchey, Mark Campbell, Scotty Frye, and Joey Lucas. Carel Hauver was manager. In 1989 Marva won State championship in the 14-15 year-old division. Brunwick players were Taylor, Myers, Campbell, Frye, and Joey Lucas (above list) and Kenny McClain, Jason Frushour, Matt Domer, with Coach Kenny McClain, Sr., and Manager Doug Campbell. In 1989 Marva Prep Team that won state honors was managed by Greg Barnes and included these Brunswick players: Kasey Farr, Richie Wilson, Richard Thompson, Clay Strickland, Dwain Stockman, Ricky George, Jason Ricketts, and Gregg Barnes. This marked the first time both a Prep team and a 14-15 year-old team of Brunswick won from the same league, MARVA.
That was the first of three straight championships at that time, because in the fall their soccer team won the championship. In the winter they snapped Middletown's record of winning seven straight basketball championships and went to the State play-offs and won one game before they were annihilated by 40 points by Bruce High, but happy that nobody else got any closer to Bruce and Bruce won state. Brunswick won the state championship in baseball in 1990, beating Smithsburg Class I-A state champs. -Tapes of Jack Brady and Ralph Manuel W-MMM
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SOCCER W-MMM Brunswick High School's first recognition in county soccer history, according to B.H.C. records, goes back to the 1930's, when Brunswick dominated the county in 1932 and 1933. When Harry 0. Smith coached soccer at Brunswick High those years, he produced county champions both times; the 1933 team also made state champsions when their season ended with an unbeaten 12 to 0. Players included Lawrence "Hammer" Orndorff, Harry Wood, Bud Walker, Nelson "Scotty" Strathem, Gordon Bingham, Bill McLaughlin, Bill Jenkins, Ray Crabill, John Hammond, Edgar Looker, James Bingham, Matthew Donaldson, Gerald Barnard, Carl McQuillen, Earl Nokes, Martin Garrett, Deray Lowry, Anthony Creamer, Ray Reynolds, and Donald Williams. Coach Smith described Bud Walker as the best center half-back in the state of Maryland when they won the state title. Two of the four years Smith coached here (193034) he played with the town soccer team in the McFadden League; Raymond Funk coached and managed the town team, which contained some of Smith's students. The soccer championships of 1939 and 1940 are discussed in tbe next article in this chapter. Members of the 1940 soccer team were Chester Riland, James Caniford, Edgar Virts, William Strathem, Sel Darr, John Schamel, Charles Webber, Arthur Snoots, Roger Himes, Lorraine Huffer, Hayes Huffer, Lee Axline, Adrian Reynolds, and Hillery Rockwell. Arvin P. Jones and Jack Brady coached. Carel Hauver called these records a sports legacy that should be remembered forever. When football came to Brunswick High in 1968, interscholastic soccer was discontinued, buti tmade
HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL AND BASKETBALL John Roland "Jack" Brady, once a student, later a teacher and coach at Brunswick High, recalls his senior year. "We had Edgar Burch; Harry George played second base, Jess Orndorff was pitching, Ernie Burch was catching. We won the county championship, first time in years; that was 192829."
After the school burned in February 1928, they practiced down along the tracks and played their games out on New Addition, on Brunswick's original baseball field, near the Acme Store site. When Jack Brady taught at BHS, they practiced some on the hill (Fourth Avenue school grounds), but played their games at Scheer Stadium. They "trotted" from high school to Scheer's carrying the balls and bats, then trotted back to take showers and then go home.
THREE CHAMPIONSHIPS IN ONE YEAR Ralph Manuel spoke of the championship his team won in 1953. He knew names and positions: Walter Lovelace, Gary Snoots, Billy Hoffman, Louie Dixon, Gary Cunningham. On the mound, Billy Babo Merriman: Every hitter in Frederick County knew that name, because that year Billy pitched a one-hitter and two no-hitters as the team won the county championship without a defeat. They beat Middletown 6-0.
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