Show Semi pros win one of th three ee sf state ate games gumes The Vernal semi-pro semi baseball team played good baseball at atthe atthe atthe the state semi pro tournament at Brigham City but they ended up the short end anyway Wednesday of last week Vernal lost a close game 5 to 1 to Smithfield Vernal recovered Thursday and stomped Willard 15 to 4 However they were eliminated 11 later ter Thursday when Brigham City defeated them in a close 4 to 2 ball game IN TilE THE game with Smithfield the pitching duel between Bill Loos and Steve Rose was the center of attention Smithfield was leading 1 to 0 going into th the bottom of the sixth inning but then the Smithfield group groups s scored ored four more runs to put the game away Loos gave up only five hits but walked six Smithfield batters Vernal had six hits hits' but couldn't get the hits when they had men in scoring position THE TilE SECOND game with Willard saw Vernal blast away for 14 hits and 15 runs in the five inn inning ng affair Vernal scored eight eight- runs in the first inning with Marty Mangum and Greg Munson leading the hitting attack Pitching in the game for Vernal were Gary Huber Greg Munson and Lowell Aycock Vernal was leading 2 to 1 in inthe inthe inthe the seventh inning but Brigham City scored three runs in the seventh and eliminated Vernal from the tourney Big ig On Potatoes More ore potatoes are produced in the United States than any other vegetable Corbin Bennion of Vernal pitched pitched pit pit- ched cheda a hit five-hit game but three costly errors by Vernal in the seventh inning gave the game to Brigham City HUNS RUNS FOR FOIl Vernal were scored in the fourth inning on a single by Marty Mangum a hit pitch by Ken Edrington and a double by Corbin Bennion which knocked in Edrington and Mangum Both of Vernal's losses looses came at the hands of two good pitchers pitchers pit pit- chers Steve Rose 8 2 Smithfield Smithfield Smith Smith- field and Greg Williams 6 0 Brigham City ROY noy GARNERED two wins 15 to 4 and 3 1 from the Smithfield Smithfield Smith Smith- field nine to take lake the honors as the 1975 State Semi-Pro Semi Champions The next evening Brigham City lost loot to Logan by a score scare of off 7 to 2 Vernal finished with nine wins and five losses looses for 1975 and next year will be in the Beehive League the Vernal team will have 16 home games all on Saturdays and 16 away games during the season Brigham City plus other teams from Northern Utah are members of the Beehive League SOME businesses that purchased purchased purchased pur pur- pur- pur chased uniforms for Vernal's semi-pro semi team and were not previously mentioned are Showalter Ford and Gibsons Gibson's Discount |