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Show Merchants Take Title In Beaver Little League The Beaver Merchants, managed man-aged and coached by Garth Penney and Dick Oakden, continued con-tinued their winning ways to finish the league play with an .858 average and championship of the Beaver Little League in the first year of play. They defeated de-feated Arden Dairy, 7-6, in extra ex-tra innings Friday in this year's final game. Tuesday the Merchants handed hand-ed Utoco Oil a solid 14-2 thumping, thump-ing, and Arden Dairy trounced Milne Truck, 9-3. In the other Friday game Milne Truck up-Bet up-Bet Utoco, 18-9. Thursday afternoon the Little Lit-tle Leaguers and their sponsors, managers and coaches celebrated celebrat-ed with a party at Ponderosa Park, and awards were presented present-ed to: HAL MURDOCK, outstanding player; RICHARD SWINDLEHURST, outstanding pitcher; ELLIS TAYLOR, highest, batting bat-ting average. FINAL LEAGUE STANDINGSh Won Lost Pet. Merchants 12 2 .858 Utoco 7 7 .500 Arden Dairy .... 6 8 .429 Milne Truck .... 3 11 .215 TEN HIGHEST BATTERS Hal Murdock 522 Dale Hollingshead 520 Ellis Taylor 511 Jackie McMullen .458 Bollie Baker 420 Lynn Patterson 416 George Murdock 404 Richard Swindlehurst 400 Roger Cox 388 Larry Warby 370 Michael Black 370 Jackie Beaumont , 370 |
