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Show Jim Abegfilen gained the first homer for the Utes when he knocked the ball over the fence in left field in the second game of a doubleheader with American Fork April 3 and after nine games Abegglen was still the Babe Kuth on the Ute home run chart with one homer. Abegglen is still in first place, but now he has a partner in Mike Reynolds, who broke the six game Ute home run drought, with a shot over the left field fence in the first game of a doubleheader with Pleasant Grove Saturday. Reynolds received a handshake hand-shake from his coach Craig Monsen at third base and was greeted by a crowd of Uintah baseballers. Reynolds' homer was a three-run blast in the bottom of the sixth inning which cut the Vikings' lead to five runs at 12-7. However, Pleasant Plea-sant Grove scored four more runs to win the game by the score of 16 to 7. Uintah nabbed zero homers in the second se-cond game with Pleasant Grove and thus Reynolds and Abegglen are tied for top Ute home run honors at one circuit cir-cuit clout each. The Utes have a good hitting team with enough power for doubles and triples, but not enough juice for homers as only two shots have darted over the fence in 11 games. Kurt Robb and Chad Stringham had perfect days at the plate Saturday. Robb was 1 for 1 from the plate in the first game with a single, two walks and a hit-by-the-pitcher. Stringham really ripped the baseball in the second game as he was 3 for 3 due to two triples and a single. Pat Jenkins was almost perfect in the second game as he was 2 for 3 with two singles. Jenkins was 3 for 7 in the doubleheader and was 1 for 4 in the first game due to a single. The Utes turned in an outstanding doubleplay in the top of the second inning inn-ing in the first game with Pleasant Grove. Larry Curtis was hit by the pitcher. pit-cher. Curtis darted toward second base on a stealing mission and the ball was hit by Charlie Baldridge to Uintah stort-stop stort-stop Joe Campbell, who stepped on the bag for the force out just seconds before Curtis arrived and fired the ball to Jeff uuuu ai nrsi uase 10 nan tsaiariage lor the doubleplay. The Utes had problems fielding the baseball, but some fine defensive plays were turned in by the Uintah crew. Brad Richens, a sophomore in his first varsity game, nabbed a ball hit by Craig Hilton and fired the ball to Good at first base to nail the runner for an out. Uintah's second baseman, Jenkins, leaped high in the air to take a base hit away from Pleasant Grove's Jason Allred in the second game. Jenkins was Uintah's starting second baseman last year and has spent most of his playing V5, - V: ) ! If knw5 T." J In li v. ru n- AIG MONSEN, left, shakes Mike Reynolds' hand 1 he Uintah Ute baseballer gained the second varsity homer of the year for the Utes team. V , ' V ' If ,. ' .w ' i s V. , ", - j U - , ' - s .v THE BASEBALL says bye-bye as it gets blasted over the fence for a home run by Uintah slugger, Mike Reynolds. time this year at third base. Jenkins moved to second base late in the first game and started the second contest at second base. Campbell fired the baseball to Stringham Str-ingham at home plate to gain a successful suc-cessful tag on Steve Warner for an out in the second game which caused the Viking coach, John Hoover, to become upset, but umpire, Wayne Reid, stood firm and refused to change his call. Uintah dropped 16-7 and 7-3 games to Pleasant Grove, but Ute pitchers, Mike Robbins, Kurt Robb and Mike Reynolds, didn't really have as bad a day on the mound as the final scores indicate. in-dicate. The pitchers were hurt due to lack of defensive support. Robbins was the iron man on the pitching staff as he pitched six innings in the first game and hurled the first three innings in the second se-cond game. Robb pitched the final inning inn-ing in the first game. Reynolds, who is still suffering from a sprained ankle, pitched the final three innings of the second se-cond game and struck out five batters. Reynolds was the designated hitter in the first game and in part of the second game. Reynolds' leg gave him so much trouble that a hit in the second contest should have been a triple, but Reynolds' leg decided it was worth only a double. However, Coach Craig Monsen said that he was going to list Reynolds' hit as a triple. |