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Show 1 I Washington, Cedar capture ILL titles 1 ' Last Inning Rally Propels Washington ... . i ' . yi when 10 more Parowan players crossing home plate. Six more walks were issued in this inning. Jeff Wood's double led the way to two more in the fourth inning. Once again, each starter on the Parowan team scored at least one run. Parowan hurler Dave Green allowed just one hit, a third inning single, and struck out 10 enroute to the win. Parowan next faced Beaver, a first-round first-round upset winner over West Zion, and the Iron County team responded with a 7-0 in the fifth with hits by Dave Green, Ranee Bess and another homer by Damon Gree. Damon Green, went three-for-three, and knocked in four RBI's to lead the Parowan attact. Damon Green and Matt Austin combined on a six-hit shoutout. Parowan's unlucky one-run defeat came at the hands of eventual tournament tour-nament champion Washington. 7-6. Washington grabbed three quick first-inning runs, two coming on a double by Duane Martin. They added one in the third to make it 4-0 on Bruce Prisbrey's homer. Parowan cut the lead to 4-2 with the help of third-inning, run-scoring hits by Damon Green and Matt Austin. Washington massed three markers in the fourth to make it 7-2. Parowan made it 7-4 in the bottom of the fourth thanks to Lamoreaux's RBI hit. Shut down in the fifth, Parowan needed three sixth inning runs to knot the score. Two came on Damon Green's two-run homer, but that was all Parowan could produce. , One more run, and surprising Parowan could have had a shot at Tri-City Tri-City and the Little League District One championship. Jones and Harris led Cedar Batters with two RBI's.' Chris Weaver also turned in a stellar mound performance, coming closer than any other tournament tour-nament pitcher to a no-hitter. He did not allow a hit until a leadoff single in the fifth. He finished with a one-hitter. Cedar's fatal one-run game came against consolation game finalist West Zion. The Hurricane team scored all five of their runs in the first two innings, in-nings, with three of the RBI's coming on catcher Mike Hirschi's two home runs. Cedar trailed 5-0 into the fourth, when Ryan Hasrris single scored Jones. Cedar came within one run in the fifth, with Jones two-run doble keying the rally. But the attempt to catch West Zion was stopped short in the sixth, when Bryan Komarek was forced at second to end the game, after getting a leadoff single. Chris Weaver singled three times to lead Cedar, and Jones led the way with two RBI's. Jones also relieved started Corey Miller in the second and shut out West Zion on two hits the rest of the way. At least one more run, and Cedar American would have had a date with Dixie in the consolation finals. CEDAR NATIONAL Cedar National didn't have much problem with first-round rival Milford. Scoring three runs in the first, with solid hits all by Brett Matheson, Troy Black, Steve Stout, Rick Gubler and Troy Topham. Black and Scott Anderson both doubled in the second to produce two more runs for National. Five more were added in the third, due mainly to hits by Bob Schexnayder and Stout. Schexnayder's hit keyed a two run rally in the fourth. Four more were added in the fifth inning, and the game was called due to the 10-run lead rule. Final score was 16-2 All nine National starters scored at least one run in the 16-2 rout, and Stout led the way with three RBI's Anderson went the distance for National allowing just two hits and striking out 10. Cedar National's one-run loss followed, this one a heartbreaking 3-2 extra-inning decision to a championship cham-pionship finalist-Tri-City. Cedar National broke the ice in the top of the second, as Stout was issued a walk and came around to score. Cedar's starter Shawn Stapel held Tri-City Tri-City both runless and hitless through three innings. Cedar National took a 2-0 lead in the top of the fourth on Topham's run-scoring run-scoring single. Tri-City made it 2-1 in the bottom of the fourth and tied it at 2 after five innings. Neither side scored in the sixth. Cedar was retired in order in the seventh, the first of extra innings. Tri-City's Tri-City's winning run came in the bottom of that inning, with one out, on Lad Bunting's RBI single. Stapel allowed just four hits, two of them in the fateful seventh, but Cedar National could muster just two against strong Tri-City hurler Adam Allen. One more run and Cedar National could have had a semi-final match with Richfield. Rich-field. PAROWAN If there was a pleasant surprise in the 1980 Little League Tournament, it was the quality of the Parowan team. Few tourney veterans expected the Parowan team to make it much past the opening round.let alone within one run of the final round against Tri-City ! Parowan opened with an easy 21-2, five-inning victory over helpless Bryce Valley. The fireworks began in the second inning, with nine runs on just two hits. Seven base on balls helped several Parowan runs come in, along withhits by Sean Lamoreaux and Sy Smith. The barrage continued in the third inning He's safe I Cedar City Senior Little League player Craig Soderquist scores the winning run in Cedar's 11-10 triumph over Dixie (top), and is surroun ded by jubilant teammates (above, 1-r) Joel Meyers (13), Ben Whitney (11) and Terry Christopher (15). Cedar went on to win the Senior Title. .... while Cedar Survives Tough Tourney Washington, shut out for five innings, I came up with two runs in the bottom of the sixth to snatch the championship ! from the grasp of Tri-City, 2-1, Monday ; in the Utah District One Little League i Championship at Cedar City. ' ' Tri-City's Shane Button seemed to ! have things well under control going into the sixth inning, as he had spread just three hits and not allowed a runner ( past second base. But Dave Wor- thington tattooed a double off the left-center left-center fence, followed by Brad Keys single Duane Martin's double and Tri-City's Tri-City's only error of the game, and the championship was Washinton's in what most observers felt was a major upset. Bruce Prisbrey spread nine hits, giving up at least one in every inning, but was still credited with the ' victory over the District's defending champions. In the game to determine third place, Dixie battled back from an opening day loss to Richfield, and defeated West Zion 5-1. Dixie's Rick Roberts gave up only two hits for the win. Dixie was paced by key hits by Casey Bundy, Rick Roberts and Travis Gates. The tournament opened Tuesday night, and in a special playoff game, Richfield squeaked by Dixie 11-9. Wednesday's first-round action saw Richfield rout East Millard 26-3, Lincoln Lin-coln County edge South Sevier 12-10, Cedar National bomb Milford 16-2, Tri-City Tri-City blank Enterprise 26-0, Beaver over West Zion 4-3, Parowan easily defeat Bryce Valley' 21-2, Panguitch shut out Piute 11-0 and Washington nip Cedar American 6-4. On second round consolation action Thursday, South Sevier nipped East Millard 3-2, Enterprise defeat Milford 11-2, West Zion rout Bryce Valley 28-5 and Cedar American romped over Piute 8-1. Second round championship games ended with Richfield over Lincoln County 12-2, Tri-City shading Cedar National 3-2, Parowan blanking Beaver 7-0 and Washington blasting Panguitch 23-2. Third round consolation action saw Dixie barely over South Sevier 3-2, South Sevier over Enterprise 20-6 and West Zion edging Cedar American 5-4. In the championship semi-finals, Tri-City Tri-City upset Richfield 5-0, and Washington barely got past Parowan 7- 6. Looking at Iron County teams, one wonders only "what might have been?" All three teams were eliminated in one-run one-run games. Taking a closer look at what they did: CEDAR AMERICAN The Cedar American team can at least have the satisfaction of knowing they were beat in the first round bV the tournament's best-Washington and barely. Curtis Jones home run for Cedar gave them a 1-0 lead after one inning. Jones RBI double in the third made it 2-0 Cedar. Two more Cedar Tallies in the fourth gave them a seemingly comfortable com-fortable 4-0 lead. But Washington exploded ex-ploded for one in the fourth, benefit of Bruce Prisbrey's home run, and four in the fifth, helped by four walks. Cedar was unable to respond. Jones sailed into the fifth inning with a one-hitter going, and ended up being tagged with the loss while giving up just three hits. Cedar faced a somewhat easier task in Piute in their second-round consolation con-solation game, but it wasn't roses for two innings. Cedar counldn't break through and was tied 0-0 after two. The third inning proved to be decisive for Cedai as they took advantage of poor Piute fielding, and hits by Ryan Harris and Cory Miller. Two runs in the fourth nailed the game shut, due to a two run homer by Jones. ' I . . I . , , . i ,.'. ' m ' I Gaining the Championship of the Utah District One Senior Little League Tournament took more a survivor than a "world-beater" this year. For your information, that survivor was Cedar City. - The hometown team battled their way through three games winning by a total of just four runs, to emerge scuffed, bruised and battle-worn, but champions nonetheless, in one of the best and most evenly-matched tourneys ever. Like the weather, which frequently pummelled Cedar City during the tournament, brutal hitting stormed on what finesse pitching was offered-the team with the best overall pitching Panguitch, was drummed out in two games! In Wednesday's first-round action, cut short by rain, West Zion routed Parowan 15-0 and Dixie shaded Panguitch 2-0, in a game shortened to five innings by rain. Todd Jolley hurled a three-hit shutout at Panguitch in Dixie's victory, but found a worthy opponent in Rod Frandson of Panguitch. Frandsen, who repeatedly pitched masterfully out of jams, held the powerful St. George club to two hits and two runs, neither of them earned. Jolley struck out 1 1 in just five innings work. Cedar's scheduled nightcap with Kanab was postponed until the next day due to rain, when the Cedarites hung tenuously to a 13-11 victory in a marathon contest. Dixie then followed with slim 5-4 verdict over West Zion, and Kanab eliminated Panguitch 5-1, all three games played in the only really good weather seen all week. In Dixie's victory, Jeff Drake doubled in the winning run with one out in the bottom of the seventh to break a 4-4 deadlock, in effect since the fourth inning. Dixie's Brent Reusch retired nine of the last 10 batters faced to nail down the win. Panguitch's Donny Leach struck our 12 Kanab batters but to no avail in his team's loss. Leach, who threw faster, it appeared, than any other pitcher in the tournament, also suffered from stretches of wilderness. Kanab's Weston Huntington, Brent Ha fen and Eric Brown all delivered key hits in the win. A game of survival, matching onetime one-time losers Parowan and Kanab, was washed out Friday before it could barely get underway. The tilt, with all other games planned for the rainy Friday, , was reset for Saturday. Parowan then lost to Kanab 12-1, Cedar outslugged Dixie 11-10 in a battle of then-unbeatens, and Kanab eliminated West Zion 4-1. ' Kanab's Wes Huntington held a good West Zion team at bay throughout the game, yielding his only run in the fourth through a combination of walks and errors. Brent Hafen belted an RBI-double for the key hit. Dixie and Kanab met Monday morning to determine who would go on to meet undefeated Cedar. In a slugfest highlighted by towering home runs by Jeff Drake of Dixie and Eric Brown of Kanab, Kanab finally triumphed 16-11. Kanab scored five runs 'in the third inning and seven in the fifth to pave the way for their victory. Kanab returned two hours later to ' meet Cedar in the championship game. ' In a wind swept-affair, Cedar's Tony Taylor's crafty ptiching and the team's timely hitting resulted in Cedar taking i the game, and the championship, 5-4. 1 Now, a close look at Iron County's two teams-Parowan and Cedar. PAROWAN For the first three innings of the tournament, Parowan looked like "world beaters." After those three innings, with Rob Stevens pitching effectively and a good defense behind him, it was 0-0 with strong West Zion. However, the walls came tumbling down in the fourth for Parowan. West Zion scored three in the fourth, seven in the sixth and five in the seventh, to make the game seem not as evenly matched as it appeared for those first three innings. Troy Moreno led Parowan hitters with two hits, including a double. Stevens, though he had his problems in the middle innings, still managed to strike out seven West Zion batters. After their opening loss, Parowan faced the difficult task of coming back through the consolation bracket to challenge for the championship. That task was made no easier by having to face the eventual second place tourney team--Kanab. That bad luck was compounded by the weather, the game with Kanab began on schedule--at 3 p.m. Friday. The leadoff batter for Parowan hit a long fly ball dropped by Kanab's left fielder, and he ended up on third. The next batter had a 3-2 count on him when a lightning bolt flashed fairly close to the field and a downpour of hail began. The game was called, and sincean inning had not been completed, had to be started over again. "We were raring to go," lamented a Parowan player. Things were totally different the next day. Kanab hopped on Parowan starter Kelly Orton for seven runs in the second inning, and it went downhill from there. Three were added in the fourth and two in the sixth to finally do Parowan in, and eliminate them from the tourney. Parowan's run came on singles by Shawn Robb and Moreno, and an RBI ground ball by Neil Orton. Robb also pitched well in relief, striking out four of the five outs he was responsible for. CEDAR Things went a little better for the Cedar team, if taking the championship can be called a little better! Cedar began their quest by taking on the team they eventually met for the championship-Kanab. After an (unusual) scoreless inning, Kanab broke through for five second-inning runs, thanks to three consecutive Cedar errors. Cedar responded with a massive eight-run rally, sparked by seven walks issued by Kanab's Wes Huntignton and RBI singles by Ben Whitney and Terry Christopher. Cedar's lead went to 9-5, thanks to an RBI double by Craig Soderquist. Kanab began hitting solidly off Cedar winning pitcher K. C. Jones in the fourth and fifth, scoring two in each one. Cedar . also tallied four in those two innings, and they found themselves with a 13-9 lead after five. Key hits in those innings were delivered by Jim Russum and Whitney., Kanab kept chipping away at the lead, scoring one each in the sixth and seventh innings. Gutsy relief pitching by Roger Hulet in those innings held off a determined Kanab rally and iced the victory. Whitney and Christopher led Cedar with two hits each, and they also nabbed four and two RBI's respectively. respec-tively. Centerfielder Paul Morris also came up with two RBI's. Jones, though he gave up nine runs, was only charged with two earned runs, and pitched solidly against a powerful kanab lineup. It was then time for a long-awaited match with bitter arch-rival Dixie. Both teams came into the game un-beaten--the winner would have a big advantage in being able to wait for three other teams to battle it out for the right to once again meet them in the championship game. The game was all it was trumped up to be. Cedar took a 3-0 first inning lead, thanks to hits by Morris and Christopher. Dixie nailed Cedar starter Brett Staple for five runs in the top of the second, answered by two tying Cedar runs in the bottom of that inning. Each team scored two in the third, Cedar's coming with the help of two Dixie errors. Dixie took a 10-8 lead after four, maintaining it with a scoreless fifth inning. Cedar narrowed the lead to 10-9 when Christopher scored on a Dixie miscue. Cedar reliever Soderquist retired Dixie in order in the top of the seventh, setting the stage for Cedar's winning seventh-inning rally. Morris, Soderquist and Meyers all walked, forcing Dixie to brin in reliever Scott Fuller. Jim Russum also walked, scoring Morris with the tying run. Then the first pitch to Whitney got past catcher Scott Lee, allowing Soderquist to scamper home with the winner, and bringing hundreds of Cedar fans to their feet in wild glee. Cedar would go on to the championship game. Kanab endured the tough road to meet Cedar, and seemed to be primed to dethrone the home team. But a confident Cedar team, and a strong wind, stood in their way. The wind, blowing in strongly from left field, made surprise starter Tony Taylor almost unhittable, and when Kanab did hit him, it was on the ground, and right at Cedar infieldiers. Cedar jumped on top 1-0 in the third, thanks to an RBI single by Morris. That lead was 4-0 after four through solid hits by Christopher, Russum and Whitney. Kanab tied the game at 4 in the fifth when Cedar fielding became shaky, and five errors followed. Cedar's winning rally came in the bottom of the sixth this time, with Whitney delivering the game-winning RBI. Kanab advanced a runner to third base before Clay Evans took a called third strike, clinching Cedar's championship. cham-pionship. Christopher and Whitney once again led the team with two hits. But the real hero had to be Hulet," who came in relief and shut down Kanab on two hits over the final 2 2-3 innings, striking out four. Cedar National pitcher Shawn Stapel is consoled after losing a heartbreaking 3-2 decision to championship finalist Tri-City in extra innings. Stapel repeatedly pitched from trouble in the searing, mid-day heat. ii.Mwr . . Lf ', If TiiMMiiiiiitf iiMMirn Mtm iMibii' :iir iw.. 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