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Show First Half of Softball Schedule Ends In Three-way Tie; Playoff Necessary At the end of the first half of play in the Cedar City Softball league three teams tied for first place in one of the tightest races in several years. Desert Mound, Utah Parks and Columbia Iron Mines have each won seven and lost three games. v Team standings as the end of the first half are as follows: Team won lost pet. Desert Mound 7 3 .700 Utah Parks 7 3 .700 Columbia 7 3 .700 Record 6 4 .600 Utah Const 2 8 .200 Bradshaw 1 9 .100 In games played during the past week Iron County Record threw the league into a three-way three-way tie by downing the league leading Mounders, 8 to 5 in a well-played game. Mel Reeves, chucking for the Record, allowed only seven hits during the evening eve-ning and also pulled the Record from behind in the third inning with a grand -slam home run. LaMar Clark for the Mounders also knocked a home run in the first inning of play with one on to take an early lead in the contest con-test 2 to 0. Boyd "Gooney" Adams of the Record, also tagged Sturz-enegger, Sturz-enegger, Desert Mound chucker, for a home run in the sixth inning. inn-ing. The Record collected nine hits during the seven innings of play. The second encourter , of the evening saw tho powerful Utah Parks team shut out the Bradshaw Brad-shaw Chevrolet team in a three inning affair, 15 to 0. The Parks collected 8 runs in the first inning, inn-ing, six in the second and one run in the third. Burdell Ruesch pitched a no-hitter in the three .nnings played. Columbia Iron Mines and Desert Des-ert Mound remained in the lead in other games of the week by winning their other encounters. Columbia downed Utah Construction, Construc-tion, 14 to 3, and Desert Mound took Bradshaw, 15 to 7. The second half of the league play will get under way Friday evening, July 11, when two strong teams, Desert Mound and Columbia tangle in the opening game. The second game of the evening pits Bradshaw against the Iron County Record. Monday, July 14, Utah Construction Con-struction plays Utah Parks in the opening game and Columbia and Iron County Record tangle in the nightcap. Wednesday evening, July 16, Utah Construction plays Bradshaw and Utah Parks and Desert Mound play in the second game of the evening. |