Brownsville had solid teams with Roebuck on the roster
The name Roebuck is famous in Fayette County baseball annals. Ed Roebuck played professional baseball and Scott 无毛视频淪kooter无毛视频� Roebuck did his best to uphold family tradition.
无毛视频淓d is my great uncle, he was my dad无毛视频檚 uncle,无毛视频� Skooter Roebuck said. 无毛视频淚 heard all about East Millsboro and I heard all the stories.无毛视频�
Roebuck fashioned a nice athletic career at Brownsville High School in the early 1980s, excelling at baseball and football.
At tight end and linebacker, Roebuck played on Brownsville teams that posted records of 2-7 in 1980, 3-7 in 1981 and 6-3-1 in 1982.
无毛视频淲e had a good group of seniors in 1982,无毛视频� Roebuck opined. 无毛视频淚 think the drop in classification helped, too. We went from Triple A to Double A my senior year. Instead of playing West Mifflin and Thomas Jefferson we were playing Charleroi and Burgettstown. That无毛视频檚 a little bit different.无毛视频�
Roebuck played for head coach John DeSimone .
无毛视频淎ll of us had a good relationship with Coach DeSimone,无毛视频� Roebuck offered. 无毛视频淗e was tough, big into conditioning. In the 80s we all played both ways.无毛视频�
Roebuck had some football highlights for the Falcons, including a fumble recovery in the end zone for a score in 1981 during a 14-7 loss at Steel Valley. In 1982 Roebuck caught a 12-yard touchdown pass from Mike Brown in a 27-0 win at Waynesburg. He also hauled in a 20-yard scoring strike from Brown in a 32-12 victory over Albert Gallatin. Roebuck garnered all-conference honors as a senior.
Baseball was Roebuck无毛视频檚 signature sport at Brownsville and he was second team all-section as a catcher his senior year. He posted great numbers his senior season, batting .426 with two home runs and five triples.
He had a solid relationship with his head baseball coach at Brownsville, Albert Komacik.
无毛视频淗e had been there for years,无毛视频� Roebuck said of Komacik. 无毛视频淚 didn无毛视频檛 know any other high school coach. He was there probably 15 years before I got there and he was probably there 15 years after I was gone.无毛视频�
Brownsville had some solid teams during Roebuck无毛视频檚 playing days.
无毛视频淟ike a lot of teams we just couldn无毛视频檛 get past Connellsville in that section,无毛视频� Roebuck lamented. 无毛视频淚n those days you had to win your section to advance to the playoffs, they didn无毛视频檛 take two or three teams like they do now. We just couldn无毛视频檛 out-man Connellsville.无毛视频�
Roebuck also played American Legion baseball.
无毛视频淚 enjoyed American Legion baseball,无毛视频� Roebuck said. 无毛视频淚 played for Joe Mazurek. He was still coaching the West Brownsville Legion team. It was a little less stressful than high school. We were pretty good and we played Connellsville in the finals a couple of times. I hit a ton of home runs in Legion ball.无毛视频�
When Roebuck graduated from Brownsville in 1983 he was a recruiting target for college athletics.
无毛视频淚 was actually getting more recruiting letters for football than I was for baseball,无毛视频� Roebuck stated. 无毛视频淚 was small for a tight end or linebacker. I wanted to play baseball more than I did football. The interest for football surprised me.
无毛视频淩alph Ciabattari was the head baseball coach at Baptist College, which is now Charelston Southern, and he was originally from Burgettstown. He had somebody watching me in high school and especially during the summer when I played Legion ball. They called me up and offered me a scholarship and at that point I just wanted to go south and play. We played some great competition and I played pretty well and hit eight home runs as a freshman and I was batting fifth. I got homesick and I couldn无毛视频檛 afford to come home that often. I was home for the summer and I called coach Chuck Gismondi at California University, and he got the ball rolling and I transferred.无毛视频�
Roebuck sat out one year and then played three seasons for the Vulcans. In 1985-86 the Vulcans went 19-25 and Roebuck batted .271. In 1986-87 Cal was 18-21 and Roebuck hit .314 with one home run and 26 RBIs. In 1987-88 the Vulcans posted a record of 23-19 and Roebuck batted .372 with five home runs and 42 RBIs.
无毛视频淢y senior year I was seeing the ball real well,无毛视频� Roebuck said. 无毛视频淭he southern trip of my junior year we were at Lenoir-Rhyne in North Carolina and I had a home plate collision with the catcher and blew out my knee. They patched me up and I played first and then had surgery after the season and switched to first base permanently. It was weird, but my numbers improved my senior year because I wasn无毛视频檛 beat up from catching.
无毛视频淲e had some good talent 无毛视频� Jimmy Burns was our third baseman, Tommy Sankovich was our shortstop. We had some nice teams down there.无毛视频�
Roebuck compiled a .330 career batting average with 68 runs, 108 RBIs, 29 doubles, six triples, 13 home runs and 52 walks at Cal. He was inducted into the Cal U Hall of Fame in 1988.
无毛视频淚 was kind of shocked when I heard about the Hall of Fame,无毛视频� Roebuck said. 无毛视频淐oach Gismondi had mentioned the Hall of Fame, but I really didn无毛视频檛 think this would happen. Because I only played the three seasons my career numbers were not that high but it was a great honor and again I was shocked and grateful.无毛视频�
After earning his bachelor无毛视频檚 degree in secondary education from Cal U, Roebuck worked for a few years as a substitute teacher and for three seasons as an assistant football coach at Belle Vernon Area High School.
He returned to Brownsville as a full-time teacher in 1993 and became the head baseball coach in 1992. Roebuck was an assistant football coach with Brownsville from 1994 through 2006. He has been Brownsville Athletic Director for 14 years.
Roebuck, 49, still lives in Brownsville with his wife, Andrea. They are the parents of a daughter, Taylor, and a son, Shane.
无毛视频淟ooking back, athletics gave me an opportunity,无毛视频� Roebuck explained. 无毛视频淚 was the first in my family to get an opportunity to go to college and it was all because of athletics.无毛视频�
George Von Benko无毛视频檚 无毛视频淢emory Lane无毛视频� column appears in the Monday editions of the 无毛视频-Standard. He also hosts a sports talk show on WMBS-AM radio from 10 a.m. to noon on Saturdays.