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Show 20 Yemat Express wodnwday, w 28, i9ev Year-end tourney starts 2nd Bronco season Cards 10, Dodqers 9 in come back win for Mustang Crown Cards finish with 17-1 mark Continued from page 19 game. That game made it 1-1 for each team as they have been atop the league with the Yankees for the past two years. The three teams have about split head to head play during the two year period. Coaches Bill Johnston and Danny Smuin of the Dodgers have produced the regular season league champion two years in a row and the Dodgers and Cards have battled it out in a two game championship final of the year-end tournament in both years. The Yankees tied with the Cards and Dodgers last year for the league championship with the crown being decided on the basis of head to head competition. The Yanks have finished fin-ished third both years in the tournament. tourna-ment. The year end tournament trimmed the league down to four teams which will now go head to head with the top four teams from Roosevelt in an 8 game double elimination tournament which will begin July 5 at the Vernal Baseball Complex and then move to Roosevelt. The Giants joined the Yanks, Dodgers, and Cards as the top four teams emerging from the year end tournament into post season sea-son play. Yankees finish third in year-end Mustang action The Yankees, Champions of the West Division played five tournament tourna-ment games before being eliminated by the Dodgers in the semifinal game of the consolation bracket. The Yanks opened with a win over the Royals, then last to the Cards in the quarterfinals. They then beat the Rangers and Giants in the conseljiion bracket before losing los-ing w the Dodders w finkh in third place. The Doners samk for . -"Mi, r - .. . "I" J' i A JEFF GREEN makes a running catch of a shot liner between third and short to stop a Dodger rally. The Cards went on to win the game and the title in a 10-9 thriller. the ten run rule. What hud been a 9-9 9-9 Uc after three turned into a no contest as the Yankees were in their third game of the day, a terrible fact of life in the consolation bratlet of a dout'le elimination lounument. eleven runs in the fourth ami fifth inning l,i!e the Yankee bail coaled down to end the game in five under 7 h I ? A a . i -) "i ' i -x .4 1 I i Giants emerge in 4 with win over Twins The Giants came into the tournament tourna-ment seeded fifih and finished in the tp four u advanec to U lour-nanwii lour-nanwii iih RoovtlL The Cianu imxled off the Red Sox befwc fos-inf fos-inf m the IX.rft In the socon.1 tmnL In conwlaurfl the Cwtnh hl a Vtfi iittigH tt4 at tScy iVn j-bjed mi iM the Aores, N'l-i mS Tini 14 airawc id t.--e Cm-i:Uum OuAfWtiftaJ, la il--)t aflie, Utf 0'4J J ( I the &ry. C-.V4 r d l!e Yaf-lrc snj f ulfarj a I V 1 14 tn fvn fvc tvj Cards & Mots Face off Wed. For Pony Title i -. .-5 The Bronco League ended regular season play this past week as a battle bat-tle of the also rans with the Cardinals coached by Keith Peterson and Steve Oldroyd finishing finish-ing the 18 game regular season with a single loss against 17 wins to finish fin-ish four games ahead of the second place Mets and Rangers. The battle for second place boiled down to two head to head games last week and when the dust had settled the two were still deadlocked dead-locked at 13-5. Both are officially second place teams, but the Rangers won a coin toss to become the second sec-ond seed in the year-end tournament which began play Monday after noon. 1 In the first game between the two the Rangers ended the game in five scoring 14 runs to the Mets 2. In the return match three days later the Mets turned the tables and returned the favor with a 7-3 win behind good pitching from Ryan Prcece who struck out 11 Rangers and scattered scat-tered four hits and three runs across seven innings. Scores from Bronco action in the final week were: Yankees 21, Red Sox 10 Rangers 14, Mets 2 Cards 17, Royals 7 Cardsl5,A'sl2 Cubs 12, Astros 9 Mets 10, As 5 Cards 29, Royals 0 Mets 7, Rangers 3 Twins 9, Yankees 8 Royals forfeit to Twins Cubs 5, Astros 4 (8 innings) In the Home Run Derby Jeremy Founuinc and Travis Oldroyd ended end-ed the regular season with five each to take joint lead going into live year end tourney. Monday evening the- year-end tournament started with a bang as the number one seeded Champion Cardinals squared off against the 10th seeded As, and the Cubs mei the Astros for the third time in seven sev-en days. In if.c (fcrnt the Cubs beat the tevm for tSe third time in a tloe pme whktt the Cutbics bn ke r;n in the vuuS u fVfliOi 22-13. lh; Ci fht tnio the mA rJ a (j J Ua la 10 f 4" a-4 cs-'ie M4 l- Ct Inning i;f WJ. V'Cf hcij tt l it the finl nuftj $ s.--e t y $-'-4 r; -UfcTt M l"iC in iL.e tJ.ri i .-.. ti -t t f t x --4.. Vi A v -X .A t (; ft t' --. iA --sS'-f -i v h a ti -e i !. il vtj- :1 :1 from Heath Lemon and Joe Stagg shut down the potent Cardinal attack at-tack and won the game 15-8 to advance ad-vance in the championship bracket while handing the league champs the dubious task of making it back through the consolation bracket to the championship game. A difficult task in a ten team format. The scores by inning were as fol lows: 1st - A's 0, Cards 2; 2nd - As 3, Cards 0; 3rd - As 4, Cards 2; 4th - As 7, Cards 5; 5th - As 9. Cards 8; 6th - As 10, Cards 8; 7th - As 15, Cards 8. In Tuesday night action the Rangers face the Royals, and the Yankees tee off with the Red Sox. Those two games will conclude the opening round of the tournament. 1 989 Bronco Champs It Wy r - . J 1989 BRONCO League Champion-Cardinals pictured (l-r) front row: Lance Grimshaw, Ben Miller, Travis Richens, Jason Scott, and Kim Oswald. Back row: Coach Keith Peterson, Rhett Peterson, Ryan Oaks, Derk Murray, Dylan Feltch, Travis Oldroyd, and Coach Steve Oldroyd. Absent when photo taken was Adam Richards. VERNAL YOUTH BASEBALL ASSOCIATION J989 BRONCO LEAGUE YEAR-END TOURNAMENT TVMl GAMb Ml -T-r ft t 1,1 if -.t ? f :---e t( i) I ' - g, U 9i.jif i--? &y ie i - i i inC 17-t t At. ?!.r A' i" 4 f -f 1 '1 t"- J t - i i ?' frl (ts i 11.. ; , ;X , J 'J-.ip Jr t :; r i .i - r $ 4 t (I S, $ j, ii-J J.. i 'V i-S Jt : ti t- -4 - i 1.1 Jk- j- i .rj Si i t $V J .:3 fill f i'.f -1l 4l A ' ! The J Team Auio Glass Experts - , c r V) I I J 4 II J IM ,MIJ I .. f I X? 1 I SEE THE j TEAM t".: 'l j it i J t. I u'ii 'i f i .. f 5 f .- i- ' :. ' 3 5 t Xrif, if. 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