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Show Springville members of the All-Star Colt League with those from Spanish Fork which makes up the Spanish Fork-Springville Fork-Springville All Stars, left here Tuesday noon, for San Jose, Calif, to compete in the regional re-gional tournament. From this tournament a team will qualify qual-ify for the National Colt League Lea-gue finals. The Spanish Fork-Springville All-Stars won the right to participate par-ticipate in the coast meet by their win over Bouniful Saturday Sat-urday night at Spanish Fork. A hit, a fielders choice play and a perfectly executed bunt in the bottom half of the tenth inning broke an O-O tie and gave the Spanish Fork-Springville Colt All-Stars at l-O victory vic-tory and the Section 3 Tournament Tourna-ment championship. It was the second meeting of the tournament between the combined Spanish Fork-Springville nine, and the visiting Bountiful All-Star aggregation The locals won the game in the first round of play last Thursday, 6-5 in two extra innings in-nings and the 1-0 victory Saturday Sat-urday proved conclusively that there is little real difference between the two teams. Thrill-Packed game The Saturday night encounter encoun-ter was a thrill packed match all the way. Les Matheson was on the mound for Bountiful & Roger Reid did the elbow work for Spanish Fork-Springville. Both were especially tough with men on bases and spectators spec-tators were treated to one of the finest games in Junior baseball play in this area. Bountiful threatened in the second inning when two hits and a fielders choice put two men on base, but Reid settled down and struck out two batters bat-ters to retire the side. The Northern Utah team had three men on bases in the seventh but Reid tossed out Dickson at second, and used his strikeout ball effectively to send Les Matheson and Richard Rich-ard Tingey back to the bench on strikes. Spanish Fork-Springville loaded the sacks in the bottom of the Third inning but Matheson Math-eson retured the side without a run. The locals had two runners run-ners on base in each of the fifth and seventh innings but failed po break the scoring drought. Little difference Both teams lost their star pitchers, but it seemed to make little difference. Roger Reid pitched the first game which required nine innings and he was good for only seven Saturday. Sat-urday. Matheson had not pitched pitch-ed before but he was out after nine innings according to tournament tour-nament rules. Ray Aiken came to the mount to get credit for the victory and John Lyons was in the game long enough to get charged with the loss for Bountiful. j Tom Smith and Ron Dickson were top hitters for Bountiful each with two safeties, while Steven Mock, Gary Chambers and Kent Creer batted out two safe hits each for the winners. |