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Show Elks Defeat Kiwanis to Break Tie; League Playoff Set for Next Week Elks Rulers, after fighting i their way into a tie for the sec-1 ond half championship in the Cedar City Little League, went all the way Monday evening when they trounced the Kiwanis for the second half honors and the right to play the Rotary Rangers Ran-gers for the league championship next week. Losing last Friday night to the Kiwanians, 8 to 6, the Elks Rulers bounced back Saturday evening against the Rotary team to take a 10 to 5 decision over the Rangers and set-up the playoff play-off game Monday evening. Against the Kiwanis Monday night the Paibrs started off with a bang, scoring seven runs in the first inning. All seven runs were after scored after two outs had been made. Loading the bases with no one out, the Kiwanians Ki-wanians looked like they might get out of trouble when pitcher Larry Smith threw out an Elks runner on third who had dared to go lust a fot too far from the bag. The second out came when Smith struck out a batter but the inning when sky high when the next batter knocked in two runs and the Kiwanis Kubs couldn't stop them until seven runs had crossed the plate. In the second inning of play after holding the Kiwanis club scoreless the Elks stretched their lead by four more runs before the Kiwanis retired the side. Final score of the game was 16 to 6. Phil Yergensen, who pitched for the Kiwanis for four and two-thirds innings was outstanding out-standing for the evening, knocking knock-ing in five of the six runs and scoring the sixth himself. The championship playoff between be-tween the Elks and Rotary has been set for Monday, Wednesday Wednes-day and Friday of next week. The games were set for next week to eliminate a conflict with the Southern Utah Softball tournament tour-nament and also to hold the Dlay-off on an even basis regarding regard-ing pitcher eligibility. At the end of the second half of regular play the Kiwanis and Elks tied for first and second and the Lions and Rotary tied for third and fourth place. The Rotary Ro-tary and Lions were just one game behind the Elks and Kiwanis, Ki-wanis, indicating that the race was close all the way. Teams were selected through a system suggested by the National Little League board and the teams were very evenly matched for the season's play. Sports fans of the area are encouraged to attend at-tend the championship games next week. The play-off will be a two out of three series with the winners to be awarded a huge trophy which can be seen at Mullett Jewelry in Cedar City. Pitching regulations for the (Continued on Page 14) LITTLE LEAGUE (Continued from Page 10) Little League are very strict and should the games next week continue con-tinue to a three-game series both teams will be faced with the problem of pitching that should develop a great amount of interest in-terest in itself. A pitcher Is eligible eli-gible for only six innings of play each week and the three game series would necessitate at least three different pitchers from each of the teams. Registered pitchers with the two teams include Gary Anderson, Ander-son, Roger Lewis, Jeff Marchant, Ramon Prestwich and Roger Hig-bee Hig-bee for the Rotary, and Duane Jones, Neil Gentry, Bevan Leigh, Norman Iverson and Jimmy Nel son for the Elks. Remaining players on the two teams are as follows: Rotary, George Manning, Brent Cripps, Sam Chamberlain, Ronald En-glestead, En-glestead, Spencer Jones, Gary Sutherland, Michael Jones, Robert Rob-ert Browning, Steve Yergensen and Paul Watson; Elks, Robert Thompson, John Spevak, Danny Matheson, Michael Carter, Robert Rob-ert Lee, Robert Lowder, Bill Martin, Mar-tin, Randy Rosenberg, Larry Adams and Kenny Brunson. |