Show i Jordan Scares East Easl but bul Falls 9 to 10 8 By J Jack ck Schroeder East mana managed ed to stay at the top of the Big Eight baseball conference conference conference confer confer- ence Thursday although the Leopards Leopards Leopards Leop Leop- ards had a mighty narrow v esc escape pe from a hitting hard-hitting Jordan nineA nine nin nineA A confusing decision in the ninth inning pulled the Eastside boys out of trouble and gave them their sixth victory of the season 9 98 By virtue of the victory East remained lied for leadership of f the league with Ogden The Tigers knocked over Davis Thursday Inthe in inthe inthe the big game same of the day Next week East will move to Provo and GranIte GranIte Granite Gran Gran- ite will play at Ogden in the regularly regularly regularly regu regu- scheduled season finales Should both teams win It will necessitate a play-off play to decide the champion The Victor will meet the winner of the Carbon region contest contest contest con con- test to decide the state class A champion For the first time this year Don Kam Kamerath rath was hit hard and almost shelled from the mound The husk husky got to the offerings of little Don for a total of 11 hits and coupled with some horrible fielding miscues by the Leopards got eight runs If both teams hadn't taken time timeout timeout timeout out to play soccer it it might have been a much better game As it was the Leopards and Diggers put on the shabbiest display of fielding fielding field field- ing ing- ingin in the Big Eight this season season East got away to a big 7 0 lead at the end of four innings as the Leopards found the hurling of oC Ray Andrus easy to solve The lead looked safe enough but Kamerath and East blew blew up in the fifth frame Jordan banged out six singles and East kicked the ball baU all aU around the infield with reckless abandon But the Leopards came right back to get a brace of runs in the sixth on a walk single and three errors However in the top of oC the seventh seventh seventh sev sev- the roof almost fell feU in on East when Jordan banged out a single and triplet and used a first base error to good advantage to push across two more runs The winners got a pair of singles in a the seventh but got absolutely nowhere i t Jordan threatened again in the eighth on a pair of singles but Kamerath got the side out before any damage was done The disputed decision arose In Inthe Inthe Inthe the ninth after alter Ray Andrus had grounded out from pitcher to first Darnell Andrus then singled sharply to center Don Price then lifted a high pop fly just inside the the line which East catcher Blaine Elaine Barnes dropped The batter was ruled out and k long argument ensued Jordan AB H Ii O 0 A AM Hunt Est AB AS U Ii O 0 A M Price ss es 5 1 2 1 Pratt 5 1 l' l 0 Pierce cf ct IS 5 0 1 0 e lb Ib 2 2131 1 3 1 Bush 4 0 1 1 Hunter rf rt 2 2200 2 0 0 p 4 2 0 5 Nielsen ss 51 5 1 3 3 rf 5 1 1 10 0 Coombs cf d 8 1 4 0 O D Price Ib lb 5 2110 0 It 3 1 3 0 c 2 2041 0 4 1 4 1 3 0 Elmer rr 2 2010 g 0 1 1 0 g Barnes e c a 3 2 9 g 0 4 2 1 4 Kamerath p 4 2 1 1 Greer It If 4 3 2 0 Totals Total o 24 12 Totals 3 33 12 27 5 Score by Innings Jordan 2008 8 H LAst Kan 0 E East E-East East 7 Joran Jordan 3 HR HR Barnes D. D. D Price SH SH Hunter Hunter 2 2 Kamerath M. M Price Pierce SO SO SO-Kam- Kam Kamerath erath 8 Andrus 4 t. BB Kamerath BB-Kamerath Kamerath 1 1 Andrus 4 4 |