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Show UINTAH UTE, Darin Nelson, left, tries to connect with the baseball for a base hit. 1 . , I , " " . -i . ; . v.-:;. ..-.; i!" J ' ' 1 . y , . . v.. '.i . v .-' - .,-4 ' "i , - . 1 'I i THE BALL flies through the air after being attacked at-tacked by Ken Golding's racket. Golding and his partner, Mike Saupe, won the first doubles match and broke at 2-2 tie in the contest to give Uintah a 3-2 triumph. in baseball slugging war Uintah High School owned a 7-6 lead going into the bottom of the sixth inning, but arch-rival, Union High School scored two runs to grab an 8 to 7 triumph over the Utes in Roosevelt, Tuesday, April 26. The Utes scored three runs in the top of the sixth inning for a 7-6 lead over the Union Cougars. Darin Nelson and Gary Swim were retired by Union's hurler, Bryan Eldredge on strike outs, but Mike Robbins tripled with two outs and scored on a single by Rick Capps. Dale Wood ripped out a double and a two-bagger by Glen Murray drove in Capps and Wood and presented a 7 to 6 lead to the Uintah Utes. Larry Crowl struck out for the third out. Union scored two runs in the bottom of the sixth inning to take an 8-7 advantage. Freestone struck out for the Cougars and Jim Trowbridge's pop fly dropped between bet-ween the pitcher and catcher for a single. Lonnie Sammaripa connected for a single and Brett Cramer reached first base on a short hopper in centerfield to load up the bases. A sacrifice fly by Kenny Ken-ny Anderton knocked in Trowbridge with the game tying run at 7-7. Chad Richard singled in Sammaripa with the game winning run at 8-7 and Bardett Fausett was forced out at second base for the third out. Uintah had one more chance at netting a victory in the top of the seventh inning, but the Utes were unable to get a basehit at the right time. Randy Nelson singled and stole second base. Kurt Robb flied out and Darin Nelson's ground out advanced ad-vanced Randy Nelson to third base. Swim grounded out on the first pitch delivered by Eldredge and Union won the game by the score of 8 to 7. The Utes were blanked in the top of the first inning as Crowl grounded out and Randy Nelson and Robb flied out. However, Union wasn't blanked in its half of the first inning as they scored two runs for a 2-0 lead. Mike Ross led off with a strike out, but Trowbridge singled and scored on a two-run homer by Sammaripa. Sam-maripa. Cramer singled and Anderton reached first on an error, but Wayne Gingell struck out. Rick Nielsen singled to load up the bases, but Shane Neilsen flied out. Uintah rallied in the top of the second inning with three runs for a 3-2 advantage. advan-tage. Darin Nelson singled, but Swim flied out. Robbins was hit by the pitcher and a triple by Capps drove in Nelson and Robbins and tied up the game at 2-2. A sacrifice hit by Brad Richens sent home Capps with a Uintah 3 to 2 lead. Bobby Rasmussen was whiffed for the third out. The Cougars scored two runs in the bottom of the second inning for a 4-3 advantage. ad-vantage. Eldredge singled and Ross was hit by the pitcher. A double by Trowbridge knocked in Eldredge and Ross with a Union lead of 4-3. Trowbridge was forced out and Sammaripa Sam-maripa was walked. Cramer flied out and Sammaripa was out at first on a doubleplay. One run in the top of the third inning " by the Uintah Utes tied up the game at 4-4. Crowl reached first base on an error by the Union first baseman and motored to second base. Randy Nelson singled and Robb struck out. A sacrifice hit by Darin Nelson scored Crowl to tie up the game. Nelson committed out number three when he was caught on a stealing attempt at second base. A 6-4 lead was garnered by the Union Cougars in the bottom of the third inning inn-ing due to two runs. Anderton and Gingell were retired on ground balls, but Rick Nielsen blasted the Ute pitcher with a double. Shane Neilsen was walked and Eldredge used his bat instead of his pitching pit-ching arm as he struck for baseball gold with a double, which scored Nielsen and Neilsen with a 6-4 lead. Ross struck out for the final out. Both teams were blanked in the fourth and fifth innings. Uintah's fourth inning wasn't the usual type of shutout inning as three runners got on the base paths for the Utes. Swim grounded out, but Robbins Rob-bins was walked. Capps flied out to the first baseman and Richens was walked. Rasmussen reached first base when the third strike was dropped by the Union catcher to load up the bases. Union got out of the bases loaded jam when Richens was picked off third for the final out on a close play. Union went down one, two, three in the bottom of the fourth inning as Trowbridge grounded out, Sammaripa struck out and Cramer grounded out. Uintah went down in order in the fifth as Crowl, Randy Nelson and Robb committed commit-ted outs. Anderton and Gingell were retired in the bottom of the fifth, but Union's Rick Nielsen reached first on an error. Shane Neilsen singled, but Eldredge flied out for the third out. Uintah scored three runs in the top of the sixth inning for a 7-6 lead, but Union scored two runs in the bottom of the sixth inning for an 8-7 victory. "The lead in the game went back and forth. We had some mental errors that hurt us badly in key situations. Robbins started the game and pitched three innings. inn-ings. Murray pitched the final three innings," in-nings," stated Uintah baseball coach, Vic Anderson. Eldredge pitched the entire seven innings in-nings for the Union Cougars and pocketed the pitching triumph. "Eldredge pitched pretty steady, but had more walks than he should have. He is a smart pitcher. He picked a couple of guys off and played defense and knows how to set up the hitters good. They don't hit him hard. He gives up a lot of fly balls and ground balls," said Union baseball coach, Brent Fieldsted. "We made three or four errors that cost us some runs. We scored two runs in the bottom of the sixth inning to win the game by one run. Trowbridge had a pop fly drop between the catcher and pitcher and he gained an odd single. Sammaripa singled up the middle and Cramer lined a shot to center. A long flv ball scored one run and Richard singled to left over the shortstop on a one hopper to drive in the winning run. Fieldsted added, "The lead went back and forth. We (Union) hit the ball good and so did Uintah. It was a good game." The one run win by the Union Cougars gave them revenge for a 3-2 loss to Uintah Uin-tah in Vernal on March 22. Union will host Richfield or San Juan in a state playoff game, Tuesday at 1 p.m. COUGAR BASEBALLER, Kenny Anderton, swings and hopes for a base hit. Union scored two runs in the bottom of the sixth inning inn-ing to edge the Uintah Utes, 8 to 7. |
