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Show Six teams have zero losses in Vernal baseball leagues Baseballs continue to disappear over the fence for homers in Pony League baseball action as nine white objects were put into orbit. Devin Bailev of the Mets was the number one home run slugger for the past week as he connected for three circuit clouts. Bailey netted two homers in games with the Royals Thursday and gained one homer, Monday, against the Braves. Bailey has a total of five homers so far in the season. Billy Taylor of the Mustangs connected for two homers during the week. He netted a home run against the Mets, May 18 and nabbed a homer, Thursday against the Dodgers. Taylor has a total of four nomers. Jon Nash, Mustangs, garnered lomers, May 18 and May 21. Larry Bartlett, Royals, netted a homer, Friday and Glen Murray, Braves, lomered Monday. The Royals and Dodgers are tied for 'irst place in the Pony League with records of 6-2 as of Monday. The Mustangs are 4-4 and the Braves are 3-. 3-. The Mets are 1-7. The Dodgers nipped he Braves, 6 to 5 and the Mustangs iowned the Mets, 13 to 9, Thursday. The Graves downed the Mustangs, 9 to 3 and he Royals shutout the Dodgers, 4-0, Friday. The Braves toppled the Mets, :2 to 14 and the Royals downed the 1 ilustangs, 10 to 6. Games set from May 26 to June 3 in the Pony League are: Mets vs. Mustangs, Braves vs Dodgers, May 26; Dodgers vs. Royals, Braves vs. Mustangs, June 1; Royals vs. Mets, Mustangs vs. Dodgers, June 2 and Mustangs vs. Royals, Mets vs. Braves, June 3. The first game begins at 5:30 p.m. Two teams have perfect records in the Bronco League as of Monday. The Yankees are 4-0 and the Cardinals are 3-0. The Mets are 2-1. The Dodgers, A's and Red Sox are 1-1. The Pirates and Cubs are 1-2. The Giants are 1-3 and the Braves are 0-2. Roy Goodrich of the Yankees nabbed a homer Monday. The Yankees thumped the Cubs, 11 to 5, May 18 and the Red Sox-A's game was rained out. The Cardinals downed the Mets, 8 to 5, Thursday and the Cubs-Braves Cubs-Braves game was cancelled. The .Yankees thumped the Cubs, 11 to 5, May 18 and the Red Sox-A's game was rained out. The Cardinals downed the Mets, 8 to 5, Thursday and the Cubs-Braves Cubs-Braves game was cancelled. The Yankees toppled the Giants, 13 to 5, Monday. Games set from May 26 to June 4 are : Dodgers vs. Red Sox, May 26; A's vs. Braves, May 27; Cardinals vs. Cubs, Yankees vs. Mets, June 1; Giants vs. , Red Sox, Dodgers vs. A's, June 2; Pirates vs. Cubs, Cardinals vs. Braves, " 76ers THUMP CELTICS The Philadelphia 76ers blew away Boston in the second half in the noisy Boston Garden and captured the seventh game in the Eastern Conference championships, champion-ships, 120 to 106, Sunday. Tk '7 I 1 I A a iic iwcia wcic ieu uy Andrew An-drew Toney and Julius Erving. It was an emotional victory for the 76ers, who had lost the last two games in the best of seven series and had blown a 3-1 lead against Boston last year. In winning convincingly, they became the only second NBA team to defeat the Celts in a seventh game at Boston Gardens. The 76ers were forced to stay together as they had few suoDorters after losing 88-75 in Game 6 Friday at the Spectrum. Toney had shot 1 for 13 in that loss. Toney bounced back Sunday with 34 points on 14 of 23 shooting. Erving scored 29 points. Philadelphia also received a great lift from Maurice Cheeks, who had 19 points, including 10 in the third quarter when the 76ers pulled away. Bobby Jones added 17 for Philadelphia. The 76ers are making their third trip to the NBA finals in the last six years and will be shooting for their third title. They lost Games 5 and 6 to the Celtics by margins of 29 and 13 points. Robert Parish led the Celtics with 23 points while Larry Bird pumped in 20. Kevin McHale scored 18 points and Brigham Young University graduate, Danny Ainge, put in 17 cuuiuers. Philadelphia began fts charge in the third quarter after Boston scored eight straight points to move to 64-62 with 6:05 left. Toney, Cheek and Mike Bantom followed with six points in a row. After Boston moved to 76-71, the 76ers closed the quarter with seven straight points, including .. a pair of jumpers by Erving to give them an 83-71 lead entering the fourth quarter. In the third quarter, the Philadelphia crew shot 69 percent from the floor, including six straight field goals in one stretch while Boston shot only 37 percent. In addition the Celtics committed six turnovers in the quarter and throughout three periods missed seven free throws. Boston was hurt by poor foul shooting, missing 11 for the game. The 76ers continued to play fine basketball in the fourth quarter and never let the Celts closer than nine points while building its lead to 102-85. Boston was reduced to taking June 3 and Mets vs. Red Sox, Yankees vs. Dodgers, June 4. The first game begins at 5:30 p.m. and the second game starts at 7:45 p.m. The Yankees, Giants, White Sox and Cubs have perfect records as- of Monday. The Yankees and Giants are 2-0. 2-0. The White Sox and Cubs are 1-0. The Pirates are 2-1. The Cardinals and Angles are 1-1. The Mets and Orioles are 0-1. The Dodgers are 0-2 and the -Warriors are 0-3. The Angels dowried the Dodgers, 25 to 21 May 18 and the Pirates bombed the Warriors, 32 to 7. The Mets-Orioles game was rained out. Games set from May 26 to June 5 are : Warriors vs. Angels, May 26 ; White Sox vs. Cardinals, May 27; Cubs vs. Pirates, May 28; Mets vs. yankees, White Sox vs. Cubs, June 1; Angels vs: Orioles, Giants vs. Cardinals, June 2; Dodgers vs. White Sox, Warriors vs. Mets, June 3; Pirates vs. Angels, Yankees vs. Giants, June 4 and Cubs vs. Warriors, Orioles vs. Dodgers, Cardinals vs. Pirates, Angels vs. Mets, Giants vs. White Sox. June 5. Contests set from May 26 to June 3 in the Pinto League are: Mets vs. Yankees, May 26; Royals vs. Astros, May 27; Royals vs. Dodgers, Astros vs. Mets, June 1; Braves vs. Yankees, Dodgers vs. Astros, June 2 and Yankees vs. Royals, Mets vs. Braves, June 3. long, low percentage shots in a futile effort to catch the Philadelphia team. The Celtics trailed virtually the entire game, leading only in the opening few minutes for a 30 second stretch in the second quarter. FERGUS NETS GOLF WIN Keith Fergus sank a 20-foot 20-foot birdie putt on the first hole of a sudden-death sudden-death playoff Sunday to edgeRaymondFloyd for the championship of the $300,000 Georgia Pacific Atlanta Golf Classic. Fergus and Floyd had finished regulation play deadlocked at 15 under par 273 on the rain-drenched rain-drenched Atlanta Country club course. Fergus had a 69 and Floyd recorded a 68 in the final round. The playoff came after both players narrowly missed birdies on the 18th hole-Fergus lipping out a 15 footer and Floyd having an 18 footer stop just short of the cup. Wayne Levi, winner of the Hawaiian Open earlier this year, had the biggest charge of the day by scoring nine birdies, but his hopes of a first place win fell short when he took a quadruple - bogey eight on the 15th. BASEBALL NEWS Philadelphia's Dick Ruthven had a no-hitter for seven innings against his former Atlanta Braves' teammates Sunday but had to settle for a combined four hit, 2-1 2-1 victory. Ruthven, who retired the first 14 batters he - faced, did not allow a hit until Bob Horner singled up the middle to lead off the eighth inning. Ruthven also lost his shutout in that inning when Chris Chambliss followed with a single to right center. Horner scored on Glenn Hubbard's double play grounder. Bruce Benedict's single later in the inning was the only other hit Ruthven allowed. John Mayberry went 3 for 4 and broke a 1-1 tie with a bases loaded single in the seventh inning and Graig Nettles added a solo homer to lead New york to a 4-2 win over the Minnesota Twins. With one out in the seventh, , Andre Robertson doubled. Dave Collins ' was intentionally walked and Oscar Gamble followed with a walk to load the bases. Mayberry then drilled a single to center to score Robertson and Collins to give the Yanks a 3-1 lead. |