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Show Binsham Wins Third State Junior American Legion Championship Tho team ontorwi by Uinjrham post No. 30, American Legion, in the State Junior American Legion baseball championship, champ-ionship, coached by Bailey J. Santistevan, won their third championship and the right to enter the sectional meet for a chance at national honors. To achieve this the Miners' team Sunday afternoon defeated Ogden 1G-3, in the final game of the Provo tourney. The Miners previously held the title in 19:59 and 1942. In the championship game Bingham bunched 12 nits and capitalized on 13 bases on balls to trim the Ogden aggregation, coached by Aaron Home, 16-3. Stringham struck out 11 men men while his mates, especially Bernardo, at shortstop, were pounding out timely hits to keep the score mounting. Ogden made one run in the 7th and two in the 8th for their only score. Ogden was limited to six hits by String-ham's String-ham's sensational pitching and some airtight fielding on the part of his mates. The Bingham team was rated a well-balanced group of boys with plenty of hitting power, good fielding and a one-man pitching staff that was outstanding. out-standing. Dean Stringham is rated one of the finest pitchers in junior baseball. Bingham gained its place in the finals by staging a lO-inning win, 14-13, over the Provo Legion Le-gion team. Bingham drove out 15 hits to 10 for Provo and Stringham String-ham struck out 16 Provo players to help the cause along, lie gave 12 bases on balls to help keep Provo in the game. The Miners held a substantial lead up until the eighth inning. Stringham was wild throughout the game and this, along with Provo's hard hitting, tied the score in the last of the eighth. Bingham came back to take the lead in the first of the ninth, but Provo tied the game up again in their half of the ninth. Bingham scored one run in the first of the tenth, and this was enough to win a hard-fought and thrilling game. The Bingham players were elated with their victory and knew they would have no tougher tough-er contest in the tournament. Bingham AB R II Boren, If 4 1 2 Dimas, 2b 3 2 1 Reed, cf 4 4 2 Bernardo, ss 5 2 1 Santistevan, lb 5 2 3 Knudsen, 3b 5 13 Crump, rf 5 0 2 Roblez, c 2 2 1 Stringham, p f 6 0 1 Totals 39 14 18 Provo AB R H Kump .... 2 2 0 Greene 5 5 2 Griffith 6 1 1 Dalebout 4 2 1 Vaughn 3 2 2 Oldroyd 6 0 2 Mooney 5 0 1 Brown 6 0 1 Morgan 4 10 Ford 2 0 0 Totals 43 13 10 . |