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Show Colts Down Falcons By DAVE WIGHAM f.RRAY -- All year long . .Cflionwood baseball team :.;kh billed as the top club I nstate 4A ranks. This . I :ieam had eight players jirom their state cham-aip cham-aip team a year ago. IMFIELD found ouUn jiv that those build-ups -fn'i just talk, the Colts :some guns to back up claims. Result was a 7-0 .wood win in the open-, open-, round of the state baseball .-ament. eariield, which entered 'ournatnent as the fourth place team from Region One, never did get untracked against the Colts as the score would indicate. Cottonwood on the other hand came to play ball and to them that means solid pitching and big hitting. THE COLTS came up with ten big hits, five of which were for extra bases, to sound a warning to the other seven clubs that they aren't about ready to give up their title without a fight. Falcon bats weren't exactly quiet themselves them-selves as they came up with a couple of extra base hits of . their own. Cottonwood picked up single runs in the first and then third innings, then exploded for four runs in the fourth inning and added their final run in the fifth. Meanwhile their pitcher, Dave Smartt, was limiting the Falcons to three hits while striking out ten. CLEARFIELD had their chances to score but the Colts showed they could also field with the best of them by turning over three double plays to end all Clearfield hopes of scoring. Once Smartt found the range from the mound he was extremely effective in keeping keep-ing the Falcon bats quiet. WITH THE loss the Falcons were scheduled to play Region One foe Viewmont in the second round. Clearfield has beaten the Vikings twice already this year but this time the game is for survival in the state tournament. The winner goes on to play more games while the loser drops out of the double elimination affair. |
