Show bics 0 by A T roberts chronicle sports editor i t aws V unbeaten dry canyon blows lead bows 1412 14 12 first half champ ons western C center won their second game of the second half but only after they came from behind three times over a sp dry canyon nine to clinch the win in a big ing sixth inning dr dry y canyon had a 10 1 0 lead at the end of the first half of the first inn ng scored twice in their half of the inning to go in front dry canyon struck back and once again had the lead in the top of the third this time it was 5 52 2 thy inc erased that lead 9 4 as chem cal came to bat in their half of the sixth inning potent bats speak out for jim jensen started dry canyons defeat when he singled advanced to third on an error and a wild pitch and scored on max bloom berg s single bus harwood arwood II was safe on an error by wim nelson who fumbled harwoods attempted sacrifice gene S ri forced harwood at second bloomberg pulling up at third and S ri rl safe at first dick punchy Pu chinski lived up to his advance notices when he really got a hold of one of wim nelson s sunday pitches and smacked the ball out in left center field for a home run and that was all for wim nelson former eite angelo cerroni came in from cen ter field to put out the fire but found his offerings to their liking and they kept right on roll ing bob finck singled and fore forc ed at second on bill riddell s grounder to third base taft ahl strom drove riddell across with a triple and scored on jim jensens hensens second single of the inning before cerroni got bloomberg BIo omberg via the strike out route seven hits and seven runs in one inning deseret scored three more times in the seventh on a single a walk and bob fineas second home run of the day dry canyon strikes back dry canyon tried mightily to get back in the ball game after that disastrous sixth inning they ed once in the seventh and twice in the ninth but their backs were broken and they never completely recovered in dry canyon canyons s turn at bat in the seventh they probably lost what chance they had for a victory when poor base running cost them at least two runs in this inning everybody got in the act bevan first man up singled and scored when jim jensen let veno s single roll past him for an error with bevan scoring and veno pulling up at third base with none away and one man on third base and the score reading 14 10 for it looked like dry canyon was go ing to get right back in the ball game dale Leat leatham harn slapped a grounder down to bill riddell at second base and Verlo alit out for home riddell fired the pill to hes and they trapped verlo in the hot box boy while they were run ning verlo down leatham had gone to second base and had even advanced toward third base which might look like a good deal inas much as everybody on the chem leal ical ball club was over on the third base line helping to run down aerio even leatham became so interested in the proceedings that he forgot to watch second base when taft AhI ahlstrom strom finally tagged out aerio Leat leatham harn turned to go back to second and who should be on second but gene sin s right fielder who had come out of the field to cover the bag result leatham was also run down in the hot box in the merry mix up rid dell and Il hesseling esseling get credit for an assist and ahlstrom the put out on aerio AhI ahlstrom strom and sir sirl as fists and riddell the put out on leatham that cleaned the sacks and the potential dry canyon rally was biped in the bud dry scored twice in the ninth on a double by veno and a home run by junior baum but it fell two runs short and dry canyon lost the ball game after giving deseret the worst scare of the year starters take showers neither starting pitcher tommy steele for western and wim nel son for dry canyon was around at the finish and neither had any thing to say about who won or lost the ball game bus harwood who relieved steele in the third in ning was the winner his ninth of the year and angelo ceroni who relieved nelson in the sixth was the loser harwood was in hot wat er in every inning but the eighth but he was very effective in the clutch striking out eleven men in the 5 and two thirds innings he ile worked big strikers continue to clout the heavy artillery of con finues to murder everything offer ed them this game it was baseman captain bob finck who played the part of the spoiler finck had two home runs a tri triple pie and a single in 5 trips the fans got a big kick out of finck s first homer he hit one of nelson s slow balls a country mile bob hessel ing added seven points to BA as he pounded out three singles in five tries newcomer dick buchinski Pu chinski whom we predicted would become a star in the league made us look like a good prophet when he smashed out a home run with two on to put back in the ball game this boy punchy Is a mighty sweet number both at bat and in the field but not outscored dry canyon out hit 17 16 but they t out score them junior baum had a pair of singles a triple and a home run in six trips and angelo cebrom is going to be a big addition to clarke john sen sens s club ang also got a home run summary R H E dry canyon 12 17 3 W C C 14 16 5 winning pitcher harwood los ng pitcher cerroni umpires joer Lea leatham thain reneau |