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Show Tourney Starts Saturday - Teams Await Automotive Action After Good Week and Hillcrest, would rank among teams having a better than average shot at the title. Green MURRAY. Sheet area nines tuned up for the 1980 Ken Price Memorial Automotive Cottonwood's Russ Trutxel puts tag on D. J. Morloy of Kearns. HIGH TAG . . . with some outstanding play during the week. The tournament is scheduled to get under way Saturday at three locations, with pairings to be determined tonight Opening (Thursday). round contests will be played at Bingham at 3 and 5 and at Kearns and Ken Price fields at 3, 5 and 7 p.m. Games will continue through the following Saturday, with the winners bracket at Ken Price and all games after Wednesday on the Murray diamond. Cottonwood, Kearns, Murray and Cyprus, along with Viewmont Cottonwood's Brett Jensen tries to complete double play as Craig Sylvester of Kearns slides into second In key Legion test. CALL IT UMP . . . After Halting Kearns Nine - Cottonwood Alone At League Top COTTONWOOD. win over Kearns SO. A 2-- coupled with a Hillcrest loss to East left Cottonwood all alone atop the Valley American Legion League standings in action through Tuesday. The title picture was expected to be a little after clearer games played last night (Wednesday) when tained place Kearns hosted Hillcrest and Cottonwood enter- fourth Skyline. Skyline was halted in a bid for a share of second when Kearns nipped the East Valley squad 4-- Friday. 3 Kearns was also involved in a tense struggle with hapless Tooele, winning needed Cottonwood 11-1- eight innings Friday to to subdue Granite maintain its hold on the lead. Tonight (Thursday) at Muni, Cottonwood will complete a game with Highland that ended in a 5 tie. Tomorrow the league leaders visit Tooele and on Mon6-- 5 day host Holladay. will find Wednesday Cottonwood at West. Kearns in the meantime will test Holladay in the 8 p.m. contest tomorrow at Ken Price field. On Monday West is at Kearns and South will come to Kearns Wednesday. Kearns will also test Grand Junction, Colo, as part of a double-heade- r at Granite Saturday, with Kearns the meeting Wins One Of Four Colorado lads at noon. Cottonwood lost a 1 decision to a team from Culver City, Calif. Monday night. Murray handed the California team a 3 setback. 4-- 4-- Cottonwd 2, Kearns 0 Kearns shortstop Ryan Job was guilty of three straight errors in the second inning of last Wednesdays key contest. With the bases loaded, Cottonwood pitcher Rocky Lambourne hit a grounder to the right side, scoring Rick Schaap with the only run Cottonwood would Seconds later need. Russ Trutzel trotted home when Kearns tried to pick him off third and threw the ball away. An MAGNA. win 8-- 4 6-- 8 10-- 0 five-innin- affair g Kearns American against East. The team had a bye last night (Wednesday) and has another tomorrow, leaving a Monday test of Alta and a KEARNS. Major, all-st- Players named represent the major to cir- cuit include Don Kelsch, Brent Parker, Jim and Troy Duckworth, Troy Kehoe, Tracy Gallo and Timmy Miller. Also, Beyan Cahoon, Randy Shurtleff, Craig Stauffer, Richard Archuleta, Scott Little, Troy Fail, Shen Young and Kenny Carrillo. The alternates are Mike Holfeltz and Donald Fell. The manager is Paul Porter and the coaches are Alan Little and Ed Shurtleff. Minor division allstars include Stanley Leiter, Rick Newsome, Casey and Calvin Rasmussen, Kelly Higgins, Frank Peasnall, Chris Jeppson and Phillip Garcia. Others are Adam Heineken, Billy Jay Folker, Todd Hailstone, Sam Jensen, Danny Ramsey, Jason Johnson, Brett Miller, Dusty Moody and Kevin Staley. DyAnn Duckworth is team the minor all-stmanager, while the coaches are Jeff Dimick, Ron Sponslor and Dale Evans. In the peewee A diviare Justin sion, all-sta- Justin Weidauer, Stanley, Jim Marquez, Matt Heinhold, Johnson, Jason Richard Lyn Dimick, Aaron Vanover, Brent Martinez, Brent Kelsch, Matt Hill, Chris Davis Player, frames. Dave Peck led off the Cyprus first with a homer and in the third Wednesday rematch with East for the weeks Cyprus play. Russ Hook went the distance on the mound in the win over East, - Recognition In Loop Is Gained minor and peewee division selections in the Kearns American League have been announced. yielding six hits as the losers scored twice in the first and second and Darrin Beltran. Others include Tom Larsen, Tyler Justice, Brandon Moody, Mathew Chester, Jim Winters, Dustin Kunz and Ronald Noel. The peewee A manager is Vern Stanley and the coaches are Ken Weidauer and Dave Hart. All-star- in the s peewee clude division B Todd in- Stroud, Wade Mulliner, Robby Swenson, David Folker, Lonny Behunin, Scott Brown, Dan Slagowski, Jeff Shurtleff, Mike Jarvis, Shane Gray, Mike Millsap, Shane Mears and Jim Morris. Others are Allen Jensen, Trevor Tucker, Chris Hill, Robby Peck, Ryan Fabry, Aaron and Bryan Gonzales. The manager Peterson is Ernie Montoya and the coaches are Randy Rosenbaum Smith. and Rick Sportsmanship trophy winners are Kirk Astros; Braithwaite, Justin Weidauer, Athletics; Jason Hill, Braves; Scott Brown, Cardinals; Kenny Mounteer, Dodgers; Ryan Proctor, Expos; Trevor Tucker, Rangers and Dustin Kunz, Twins. Also, Troy Stroud, Angels; Lyle Robinson, Mets; Dale Kluge, Orioles; Scott Pollock and Ken Carrillo, Red Sox; Terri Hill, Senators Jason ; Johnson, White Sox; Troy Kelsch, Yankees; Tracy Timothy, In- dians; Wayne Bentley, t, Tigers and Les Royals. Lind-hard- knotted the score on a bases loaded walk to Chris and Wadsworth singles by Peck and Bill Inskeep. In the fifth four more Cyprus runners crossed the plate, with base hits by Doug Adams and Mike Applegate doing most of the damage. Cyprus pounded out two doubles, a pair of triples and a homer in the contest. Inability to stop West led to the weeks first The winners loss. scored five times in the first frame and three in the fourth to do most of the damage. Cyprus battled back with a pair in the fourth and six in the fifth. Adams had a two-ru- n double in the fourth, while in the sixth Bill Whitworth stroked a double and singles were hit by Peck, Applegate and Whitworth as Cyprus sent 11 men to the plate. In the loss to Jordan, Peck uncorked a wild pitch after he had picked off one runner and yielded a triple to the next batter. Jordan used a four run second inning to take command, but Cyprus fought back with three runs in the fifth after scoring two in the first. Adams singled home Peck and Wadsworth for the first two runs and had a double in the fifth after two walks and an Inskeep base blow. Wadsworth was 2x3 and Adams 2x4 to lead Cyprus. Against East, Cyprus was able to get runners on in every inning, but was unable to score. The key play was a third-innin- g disputed call at third base with two out. After that play, East scored five runs. Although only Whitworth and Applegate were credited with hits, Cyprus had runners aboard via five walks and two East errors. attempts. The Cottonwood hurler recorded five strikeouts, walked three and allowed three base hits, all singles. Craig Sylvester, Mike Doty and Chad Mantle had LEGION STANDINGS (Gomes through Tuesday) his teammates made the plays that had and to be made, cutting down All-St- including three theft Western Hills KEARNS. for the 15 and divisions of all-st- ar Babe riochoa. Minor the Ruth league have been named for 1980. On the team from the Dodgers are Jim Mitchell, Cody Skinner and Jeff Wood; the Bees, Dave Inskeep, Chris Nelson, Brian Taylor and Greg Laufer (alternate); the Angels, Frankie Bryan and Kyle Pehrson. Also on the team are Gordon Jackson, Pirates; Tyrone Madrigal, Cory Snodgrass and Kip Woodcox (alternate), Tigers; Jeff Hankins, Marcos Lopez, Tommy Strand and Johnny Walker, Cardinals. Listed as member of the all-st- team are Richard Anderson, Nick Berri-ochoDerrick Boulton, Gary Burke, Gary Bronson, Greg Carver, Mark Hatfield, Shawn Jacobsen and Troy Keener. Also on the team are Phillip Lafeen, Ken Lawson, Rick Medina, Joey Quintana, Tye Olsen and Dino Sanis-tevaAlternates are Pat Vasquez and Chris Bennett. a, Minor Division Evans, Mark Dean Quin-tan- a and Tony The alter- division al- lstars are Chris even threaten until the bottom of the seventh when a leaping catch off the bat of Wade Hope by shortstop Brett Jensen left men on second and third. Kearns 4, Skyline Thurs., July LEAGUE beat Highland 3 in nine innings and nipped Alta in eight. Holladay lost a decision to East but bounced back to defeat before losing Jordan to Hillcrest The Post 71 lads edged in their Brighton final test Tuesday. Cottonwood added a 10-- 6 loss to Viewmont to its woes and Granger decision to lost a Bingham, a 3 to West and to Brighton before win over claiming a Skyline. Standout pitching efforts figured in several of the area teams victories. In Granites win over Murray, Rodger Hof4-- 3 2-- 0 2 City Division (13-4- ) 0 stumbled twice to allow Viewmont (13-4- ) to grab a share of the City Division title while Granite (10-7- ) turned in a solid week to grab third. 4-- 7-- 0 tied Hamblin, Alan Coleman, Arden DeMill, Harry Curtis, Paul Ar Shawn County Division Wilson, Tony Ryan, David Briscoe, Jason Stewart, David Gilbert, Shane Madrigal, Darren White, Shane Warenski, Mike Curtis and Jeff Burgener. The minor circuit alternates are Shawn Turpin and Jeff Orven and the manager is Bob Turpin. Chosen for peewee honors were Joe Trujillo, Mark Madsen, Jared Fernandez, Jason Quintana, Steve Stay, Nathan Tiffany, Scott Evans, Tony Pearson, Ryan Spur, Jess Clark, Billy Wiehams, Dustin Heiden, Nick Carlson, Jason Craft and Danny Turpin. Tommy Callahan and Greg Clawson are the peewee alternates and the manager is Don Bradford. all-st- heat-break- 0 Bingham for fourth in the County Division, just ahead of a slick- - mijo, 17, 1980 9-- 11-- 2. Final Standings second behind the Midvale area squad in the County Division. ) 2 8-- 3 COUNTY (AUTOMOTIVE) (15-2)t- o (12-5- UT. 6-- decision against claim Hillcrest Murray West Valley City, Valley View News fman and Madrigal. nates are Randy Heaton and Scott DePew and the major division manager is Bob Ber- All-sta- Holladay qualified for the tourney with a mark. Cottonwood met Viewmont in a playoff for the City title last night (Wednesday). 2-- 1 Cottonwood team Cyprus ). - KEARNS. Names of youths selected for honors in the Western Hills League here have been announced by officials. Representing the major division are Lynn Crookston, Cory Anderson, Dave Berriochoa, Danny Taylor, Brady Clark, Roby Gardner, Richard Burrola, David Sherrill and Sean Fernandez. Others include Brent Lund, Chuck Crowton, Romano, Ruthers Announced Defending champion Granger was eliminated through league play and will not be among the 16 teams vying for honors. Kearns (13-3- ) took on new respect during the week by winning a (11-6- Youths Selected For Loop Honor Roby ar Kearns - Cyprus Halts South over South highlighted action for the Cyprus American Legion team during the week. Cyprus lost a heart-breakto Jordan by a 5 margin on a seventhinning wild pitch and also dropped a 13-- decision to West and a For Kearns hurler Kelly Lund, it was the second time he has been the victim of his teams failure to hit. He allowed a first inning bouncer up the middle to Rich Fankhauser and an infield single to Norm Tarbox in the fifth, striking out seven and walking just one. Lambourne, however, was equally effective tourney fielding In their final week of play area teams picked up 15 wins against eight defeats. Kearns won all three of its outings, beating Hillcrest by the 1 and margin, West 2-- 6-- 5 East 7-- Granite anchored its strong finish with a 1 2-- over Murray, win blasted East South 8-- 2 and 7-- Cyprus also enjoyed a productive week, toppJordan 2 ing Alta and Highland 12-Murray was one of those who cause Cottonwood to stumble, winning Murray also 6-- 3, 2-- WANTED! School Class Rings Gold Rings Gold Jewelry 966-675- 6 Spence McDonald hooked up in a pitching duel that saw Hoffman help his own cause with a homer. McDonald lost a three-hitte- r and the losers made only one error while Hoffman scattered five hits, limiting Murray to a single run in the second. Brett Chidester threw at Hillcrest a while his team made the most of just three safeties. McDonald was on the mound against Cottonwood and this time scattered five hits for the shutout while one-hitt- (SeePage 3, Col. 1) 5-- AIRLINE TRAVEL BAGS GYM BAGS, SPORTS BAGS, DIAPER BAGS, TENNIS BAGS CLOSE OUT PRICES t $1.00 Up 3335 So. Rodwood Rd. S39 10 3 The win over Skyline helped ease some of the keen disappointment Kearns felt after Wednesdays test. The West Valley lads scored the winning run without benefit of a hit when D. J. Morley led off the seventh with a walk, survived a pickoff when a Skyline lad failed to cover second and stole third to be in position to score when Mantle hit a fly ball to the outfield, Kearns scored three runs in the top of the second when singles by Wade Hope and Mike Doty and a Tracy Johnson walk loaded the bases. Rick Roehling e and Morley drew run-(Se- Page 4, Col. 8) - Royals Capture Title In Kearns KEARNS. Jimmy Halliday singled, drove in two runs and teamed for the pitching decision as the White Sox defeated the Senators 2 in the minor division championship game of the Kearns American League. Sam Jensen joined the Halliday youth on the mound for the winners. The Jensen lad also doubled, as did teammate Robbie Carrillo. 7-- Jones Larry while Danny singled Ramsey singled and was,a credited with sacrifice. For the Senators, Todd Hailstone and Greg Woodward each singled and drove in one run. Brian Reeves also n singled while Troy and Mechelle DiAntonio both doubled. Other results of minor division games held prior to the leagues closing ceremonies on July 4 included the Yankees 8, Angels 7; White Sox 11, Mets 10 (two extra innings); Senators 11, Yankees 7; Orioles 17, Yankees 11; White Sox 7, Angels 5. Mor-tinso- Major division results included the Royals 8, Indians 7; Red Sox 13, Tigers 8; Royals 7, Indians 3. In the minor division White Sox 0 win over the Mets, Kelly Higgins of the latter squad singled and doubled while driving in five runs. Home runs were hit by Craig Stauffer in the Royals triumph over the Indians, while Troy Kehoe hit a circuit clout for the Red Sox in their 13-- 8 victory over the Tigers. In the 3 Royal decision over the Indians, the winners were paced by Troy Duckworth and the Stauffer youth, who each had a home run and one other hit. Championship honors in the league were won by the major Royals (manager Paul Porter, coach Richard Binns), 8-- 7 minor White Sox (manager DyAnn Duck- worth, coach Dale Evans) and peewee Athletics (manager Vern Stanley, coaches Ken Weidauer and Greg Park). ?nrirs Hill '1 Mountain Be D |