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Show J I were unable to hit a ?0od ball pitcher. Mark Z ' drove in Springville'., 1 , with a long double "ly Stokes had a clean' d J the Sage Creek S. mg'e Sage Creek Club Loses in Tourney Springville's Sage Creek boys baseball team was beaten twice in a row and thus eliminated from the "World Series" of boys' baseball last week at Santa Monica, Calif. The eight-team eight-team tournament was eventually event-ually won by the National came back to play their finest defensive game of the season, only to lose a heartbreaker to the University team of Salt Lake City by a score of two to one. Stephen Mock pitched for Sage Creek and was at his very best form striking out eleven University batters and giving up only two hits. Sage Creek got only two hits themselves, and as in the Northridge game League of Santa Monica. Northridge, California, beat the Sage Creekers in a ragged played first game by a score of 12-2. Big Terry Frost started start-ed on the mound for Sage Creek and pitched very creditably credit-ably until the third inning when four consecutive miscues by his teammates opened the door for the Northridge nine. Alan Moss relieved Terry in the third inning and pitched very well for one inning. Roger Reid came on in the fourth inning and after an initial streak of wildness settled down and pitched pit-ched brilliantly for the remainder remain-der of the game. All of the Northridge runs were scored in the third and fourth innings. Bright spots of the game from the Springville point of view were Steve Mock's long home run which cleared a forty foot flag pole in center field, Rodger Reid's hitting and fielding, field-ing, and a very fine catch by Springville center fielder Boyd Van Patten. ' On Friday the Sage Creekers |