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Show SOUTHERN UTAH NEWS WEDNESDAY JULY 7, 1939 ri-Ci- nips 2 in close game ty1 y 1, which finished in second place in the nine team Snow Canyon league, faced off against Kanab's other team in their final regular season game. Steven Gilberg outdueled Tad Casebolt in an excellent ball game, to get the 6 win. y 2 jumped out to a 0 lead in the first inning. Cody. Brunner led things off with a single. He was forced at second on a Todd Smith grounder before Tad Casebolt ripped a single to put runners on first and third. After a strikeout and a stolen base, Trevor Glover knocked in two with a single. Justin Frost walked and Glover stole third and home on a passed ball. 1 battled back with y one run in the second as Blake Doss singled and stole his way Tri-Cit- It was a pitcher's duel in the Braves, final gains cf the Brow Can- - yon Senior League season. Tri- City came in to their final game leading the league with an 1 record to face the second place ,7-- 2 Snow Canyon Braves. A 8-- With the number 7, 8 & 9 hitters comingup in the inning. it looked good for Blasddl got the first batter to ground back to him on the mound for cut number one. The umpire then tightened down the st rika zen a andBlasdcII walked Tri-Cit- y, y would give win for sole them possession of the lcs3 would mean the number 8 hitter, Thomp-sharin- g while a title, first place with the sen. Blasdell worked his magic y Braves. had 'won the again on Carter for his final first encounter in Kanab by strikeout and second out cf the the sere of boating Ryan inning. The top of the order for the win. Hurst came to the plate and Blasdell It would be Josh Blasdell vs got Westbrook to hit a fly ball to Hurst inthis exciting game that centerfield. Both the right wasnt decided until the last fielder and center fielder came play of the seventh inning. Af-- for the ball, but let it drop on ter trading outs the first two the ground in front of them, innings, the game was still while runners moved to second scoreless in the bottom of the and third, third. Blasdell struck out the Smith then came to the plate first batter, one of 13 he re- and worked the count to full corded in the game. He then before tapping a boop single walked the next two batters, over the head of the second before striking cut the leadoft baseman, which scored both hitter, Westbrook. With two runs and gave the Braves the outs, Blasdell then gave up a victory. Although it was a tough bloop single to right that scored loss, the words of Yogi Berra one. He walked Norton, the big were ringing in ears first baseman, before getting as they collected their of the Hurst to ground to second for for being the final out. league...Tt aint over til its Tri-Cit- Tti-Cit- 5-- 2, t Tri-Cit- ys T-shi- rts co-cham- ps The one run lead by the Braves held until the top of the sixth. In this unusual inning, TJ Petersen Hied cut to the first baseman. Blasdell hit a single to right center and stole second. After a long fly ball to ccntsrficld by Matt Pcppcr,Tri- City was down to the last out. Sam Nc :! came up and after fouling eff several pitches, worked the count to full and over!!! The Senior League Boys will start the State Tournament with an 8 p.m. game against Dixie cn July 15th in Cedar City. Dixie played for the state championship game against Snow Canyen last year, losing in the last inning. ' y ended their regular season play on Wednesday evening beating two different then missed an outside Washington City teams in a eurvehail for strike three. He.- - scheduled. doubleheader. Sam to win ever, tha catcher missed the Noel pitched a Josh pitch and alertly Noel ran to the first game, homer in run first whib Blasdell headed for Blasdell hit a two third. The catcher threw to the contest, The second game against the third, missing B hi: dell, and Noel was safe at first. The first Yankees and some players baseman began to argue with from the ether two Washing-th- e umpire on the play, and ton teams lasted on until the Noel alertly ran to second. With wee hours of the morning on runners on second and third Thursday. Marvin Hoyt in a and two outs, Marvin Hoyt pitched for Tri-Cit- y came to the plate and ripped a slugfest that saw the two hard single to right field, scor- - teams combine for 19 hits, outlasting tho ingBlasdell and Noel. The bad with in Yankees, had changed, it was now favor of Besides being league co in the bottom of the sixth, champions, the Senior Boys striking the 3 hitter ished out the regular season Norton, Hurst ripped a single with an excellent record, win-t- o center. He stole second be- - ning 14 games, while losing 4, fore Blasdell shut down the by a total of only five runs. Come cut and support the Braves with two more y went down beys at the State Tournament strikeouts. in three the one, two, top of tho in Cedar City cn July 15. The seventh, which set the stage for brackets will appear in next the final opportunity for the week's paper. er 8-- 2. Tri-Cit- y Tri-Cit- 12-1- 0. y. fin-aft- er Tri-Cit- 3-- Tri-Cit- 7-- 6. They had another excellent chance in the bottom of the seventh with the bases loaded and only one out, but an inning ending double play grounder ended 1. the pime in favor of y Gilberg fanned four and his Tri-Cit- pick-of- f move to second nailed twerbaserunners for outs. His fielders gave him good defense, bailinghim out twice with double plays. Casebolt also pitched a great game, striking out 12, but five errors, including a couple of passed balls, was the difference in the game. Blake Doss had two hits and scored twice to lead the winners, while Justin Frost ripped a double and two singles 2. Cody to pace Tri-Cit- y Brunner, Todd Smith, Tad Casebolt and Tyson Glover each y 2. had two hits for Tri-Cit- Tri-Cit- around the bases, before Casebolt struck out the side. They added three more runs in After the third, to go ahead the first two batters were retired, an error opened the door for the victors. Clay Greenland 4-- 3. ripped a single and Josh Douglass was hit by a pitch before the next three batters were walked. A flyout to short ended the long inning. Casebolt walked to lead the third and scored later in the inning on a hit by Justin Frost to tie the game at Colt Niemann ripped a single in the fourth and later scored on 1 an error and y regained anadded the lead They other run in the fifth on a single by Doss and a double by Levi Whited to take a two run lead Frost ripped a double in the bottom of the fifth and scored on a Tyson Glover hit to cut the lead to one run, Niemann 4-- 4. Tri-Cit- 5-- 4. 6-- 4. 6-- 5. Tri-Cit- two-hitt- 2-- 1, 7-- Tri-Cit- scored what turned out to be the winning run in the top of the sixth. He led off with a walk, stole second and scored on a hit y 2 by Steven Judd. scored a run in the bottom of the Will sixth to get within scored on walxed an and Hardy infield grounder by Chris Aziz. Ladies golf On June 16, an Odd and Even Tournament was held, with two Big T in Kanab women on each team. The scores Big T, Thurl Bailey, was in Kanab last Thursday instructing the local Junior from one player's odd numbered Jazz players on the finer points of basketball. holes were counted and the even numbered holes for the other player counted. The team of Kathy Terell and Jean Beck won first place in this event. The days draw was for fewest putts. This was won by Di Franklin. June 23rd was Stableford. This ended in a tie for first place with Sally Quinn and Di Franklin. Sally Quinn won the days draw. Engine June 30th was a four, six and lafioi HV nine contest. 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