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Show St. George Lassies Win Cedar Softball Tourney; Outstanding Player Named Rocky Mountain Service from St. George repeated last year's performance in the Southern Utah Women's Softball tournament tourna-ment last week end when that team captured first place in the tourney over Boulder City, Nev., in a fast-moving game, scoring , a one-run victory, 13 to 12, over the Boulder City nine. Arlene McArthur, St. George catcher, won individual honors for the tourney, taking home the outstanding player award. Arlene Ar-lene not only boosted her team in defense but she racked up an impressive hitting record for the three-night affair. Miss McArthur, only 16 years of age, had a tournament tour-nament batting average of .7G9 and in the championship game alone she hit an even .800, scoring scor-ing four hits in five trips to the plate. In the first inning of play Arlene belted out a home run, and followed with a triple and two singles, to lead all others at bat. Milt's Circus Lounge, coming from a first night defeat, walked away from the tournament with the consolation trophy by defeating defeat-ing Ray's Cafe in its second encounter en-counter and edging out Thornton's Thorn-ton's 23 to 20 in the consolation championship game. In the final evening of play Biederman's Hereford Ranch beat out a hard fighting Milford nine for third place honors after losing los-ing to Rocky Mountain Service in the second round of play. Mil-ford, Mil-ford, which placed fifth in the tournament, had beaten out Milt's Lounge' In the first round, lost to Boulder City in the second sec-ond and went down to Biederman's Bieder-man's in the final night of play. Thornton Drug, who lost its first two encounters to Rocky Mountain Service the first night, who drew a forfeit from Kanab in the second round and who almost al-most caught Milt's in the consolation conso-lation championship game in a last two inning rally, was rewarded re-warded with the sportsmanship trophy for the tournament. In the championship game,! without a doubt one of the most outstanding women's games ever seen in Cedar City, the Rocky Mountain Service nine came from behind to capture the one run victory. Boulder City opened up the game with a six run spree in the first inning and held that lead until the end of the fourth when St. George evened it up at six all. St. George pushed across two runs in each of the first, third and fourth while holding Boulder City scoreless. In the fifth inning St. George put the game on what looked like "ice" when it scored six runs to up the score to 12 to 8 in its favor. But Boulder City, not to be outdone, scored four in the top of the seventh, to even the score at 12-all. In this top half St. George walked in two runs and used three pitchers before it could retire the side with the scored all tjd up. In the bottom of the seventh Cottle, St. George rightfielder, smashed out a single with one lout and Miss McArthur won the i ball game with a double into left field, scoring Cottle. A run down of tourney scores is as follows: Thursday, July 23. Rocy Mountain Service 18, Thornton's 3. Biederman's 30, Kanab 4. Milford 16, Milt's 13. Boulder City 17, Ray's 0. Fridav, July 21: Milt's 16, Ray's 2, Rocky Mountain Service 19, Biederman's 0. Boulder City 15, Milford 1. Thornton's 6 Kanab 0 (forfeit), Saturday, July 25: Biederman's 21, Milford 10. Milt's 23. Thornton's 20. Rocky Mountain Service 13, Boulder City 12. A large crowd was in attendance attend-ance for the final evening's play and the tournament as a whole was very successful, a credit to the Women's Association of Cedar j City. Mrs. F. L. (Tillie) Biederman, I president of the association, deserves de-serves a great deal of credit for a job well done. Mrs. Biederman, however, wishes to thank all those who assisted in the success and those participating as well, for the efforts put forth, and the fine quality of sportsmanship displayed by all of the teams participating. |
