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Show ; DouHiiful, GleafiGlil En Playoffs , By DAVE WIGHAM ell, Region Two baseball II over and after the dust settled it was Clearfield-Bountiful Clearfield-Bountiful advancing to it season games. f HE FALCONS, who won 4jregion title, have already filified for a state tour-'ient tour-'ient berth. But the Braves p finished second must jlyoff with the third place jm from the city region, oach Phil Olsen of the aves indicated that he Ljght the playoff would be the latter part of this week I il Cottonwood the likely J gonent. I I ft GAIN the playoff berth ! Braves had to win two 'tests, one against Clear-w Clear-w last Friday, and then a Rial playoff with Ben ,mond on Tuesday. gainst the Falcons the big l -n was Fred Hale. This I "or right hander threw a f e hit shutout, 5-0, at the j "ally hot hit Clearfield J in. Offensively the Braves ire led by Ralph Staggell's PieandWally Beck's home n. i THEN ON Tuesday Coach sen again chose to throw i this time he threw a five winning 5-2. To aid his fin cause Fred also hit a grand slam homer, observers noted that it was one of the longest hit balls ever on the Brave diamond. To wrap up their season the Region Two coaches got together and selected their All-Region baseball team for this year. MEMBERS OF the elite squad are: cather, DeVerl Hoskins from Clearfield, at first is Todd Rice also of the Falcons. Second base went to Viewmont's Jeff Ogden, third was given to Ben Lomond's Kim Carpenter. The shortstop position is filled by Layton's Robbie Taylor. Selected to the outfield was Bountiful 's Wally Beck, Og-den's Og-den's Brent Hart, and Ben Lomond's James Green. The coaches also selected who they thought were the two top pitchers in the league. Those two were Bountiful's Fred Hale and Ogden's Ray Quin-tana. Quin-tana. THREE Bountiful players were selected to the second team. Those Braves were -catcher Allan Jarvis, second baseman Dave Toone and outfielder Mark Puride. dw |