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Show r. - . '-..' V!-'- - .r ,f '- .-.-" -W--VA-SUVi-' - Jl V ' f ".. . - " - , . i 4 - i' , , BASE RUNNER, Gordon Limb, crawls across home plate and the Mapleton catcher, Thorpe, right, puts his mitt in the dirt. Limb was called out at the plate and the Vernal Mustang League team went on to lose the second game of the district championship by the score of 10 to 5, Thursday. La m g iui s h odd p mi s h 5 p Vernal's A team clobbered Springville-Mapleton, 10 to 3, Thursday to take first place in the Pony League District Tournament in Vernal. The Vernal crew finished the tournament with a perfect mark of 3-0. The Vernal team won the championship cham-pionship game by the score of 10 to 3. but Springville had the lead early in the ball game.-Springville"s Murray drilled a pitch for a single and Smith was walked. Perry gave Springville a 3-0 load in the bottom of the second inning when he creamed the baseball for a three-run homer. Vernal staged a four-run explosion in tire top of the third inning to take a 4-3 advantage. Ryan Siddoway, Jeff IU'ollinger and Lloyd Merkley were walked. Mike Robbins singled and Ryan Siddoway crossed home plate, wiiich cut Springville's lead to 3-1. aurt Robb attacked the ball for a double to drive in Drollinger and .g.-rkley, which tied the game up at 3-3. Skane Gross singled and drove in Mike I Sbbins to give Vernal a 4 to 3 advantage. ad-vantage. Robb was tagged out by the catcher in a run down between home ptate and third base. A'ernal increased its lead to 5 to 3 in the top of the fourth inning. Randy Nelson singled then moved to third base on a sacrifice hit by Ryan Siddoway. J.-ff Drollinger belted the pitch for a single to drive in Nelson. .Jeff Drollinger singled and Mike fobbins slugged a double in the top of the sixth inning. Kurt Robb blasted the Ijaseball for a homer, which gave f ernal an 8 to 3 advantage. : Vernal added two more runs in the tjip of the seventh inning to make the final score: Vernal, 10 and Springville, 3. Darin Nelson and Randy Nelson singled and crossed home plate for Vernal's ninth and tenth runs. Jeff Drollinger, Vernal, got on the bases five time on two walks and three singles. He also scored two times. Drollinger was 3 for 3 at the plate. Kurt Robb smashed a double and a homer, and scored once. Mike Robbins had a single and a double. Robbins crossed home plate twice during the game. Shane Cross had a double and a single. Randy Nelson hit two singles and scored two runs. Darin Nelson had a single and scored a run. Lloyd Merkley and Ryan Siddoway also scored runs. Vernal scored 10 runs and had 12 hits. The winning pitcher in the game for Vernal was Mike Robbins. Robbins hurled a complete game, allowed nine hits and whiffed five batters. Robbins walked only one batter. The toughest slugger for Robbins was Perry, who smashed a homer and a double during the game. Springville jumped out to a 3-0 lead in the bottom of the second inning on a three-run home by Perry, but Mike Robbins pitched shutout ball the rest of the way. After the home run blast by Perry, Robbins retired nine of the next ten batters that he faced from the second to the fourth inning. Vernal's Pony League team advanced ad-vanced into the championship game when they defeated Springville-Mapleton, Springville-Mapleton, 5 to , 4, July 25. Vernal jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the top of the first inning. Lloyd Merkley got on base and Kurt Robb knocked the ball over the fence for a home run. However, Cluff and Murray scored runs for Spr- : . U: , ! ; v y i - '.i . 1 ' ' ; : 1- - eis- ,z VERNAL'S A TEAM captured first place in the Pony League District All-Star Tournament in Vernal, Thursday. Members of the team are: front row, left to right, Robert Merrell, Brad Rir.hens, Shane Gross, Ryan Siddoway, Mark Reynolds, Lloyd Merkley, Dean Allen and se- ingville to tie up the game at 2-2 alter one inning. Lloyd Merkley crossed home plate to give Vernal a 3 to 2 lead in the top of the third inning, but Perry and Petro scored two runs in the bottom of the fourth inning to give Springville a 4 to 3 advantage. ad-vantage. Vernal's Ryan Siddoway got on base and Jeff Drollinger belted the baseball for a home run, which enabled the Vernal crew to defeat Springviile, 5 to 4. Highland downed Richfield, 16 to 6. Springville-Mapleton blanked Vernal's B team, 6 to 0 and Vernal's A team downed Monroe, 7 to 1, July 21. Richfield Rich-field downed Vernal's B team, 9 to 6, July 22. Bobby Rasmussen smashed a homer for Vernal. Monroe toppled Richfield, 9 to 5 and Springville-Mapleton Springville-Mapleton downed Highland, 15 to 7, July 22. The Highland crew toppled Monroe, 5 to 4 and Springville-Mapleton edged Highland, 15 to 14, in order to battle Vernal in the championship game. cond row, Dan RoDDins, coach; Scotty Gross,' coach; Darin Nelson, Kurt Robb, Mike Robbins, Jeff Drollinger, Randy Nelson, Steve Luck and John Pope, coach. Vernal's Pony League team will compete in a tournament in Tooele this week. |