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Show Rotary Rangers, Lions Vie for First Half Honors TEAM STANDINGS Rotary 7 2 .778 Lions 7 2 .778 Columbia 4 4 .500 Elks 4 5 .375 Kiwanis 3 5 .375 Milne 1 8 .111 The Lions Tamers of the Cedar City Little Lpague baseball race were dropped from the top of the heap this past week by a hustling hus-tling Elks Ruler nine to throw l the league race into a two-way tie for first between the Lions and the Rotary Rangers. The defeat for the Lions added emphasis to the game betww?n ;the Lions and Rotary which is scheduled for Friday evening on the Little League park. It is the final game of the first half for both team.-; and the winner will be crowned as first half champion. cham-pion. Randy Rosenberg was on the mound for the Elks Monday evening, eve-ning, chucking them to a 6 to 5 victory. One of the highlights of the game when Leigh Rosenberg, Rosen-berg, brother of Randy, pounded out a three-run homer to almost spell victory of the Lion Tamers. I Columbia Scores Win I Last Thursday evening, Columbia, Colum-bia, the only team that has been able to down the Rotary Rangers, Ran-gers, scored its second successive victory by a score of 6 to 3. Kenneth Ken-neth Benson, heavy-set Indian chucker for the Columbia nine, spelled the difference in the contest. con-test. However, the miners were forced to come from behind in the final innings of play to score their victory over the Rotary. Tuesday evening the Rangers bounced back to take revenge against Milne Truck Line in a 13 to 0 contest. Roger Higbee was on the mound for the Rotar-ians. Rotar-ians. and they scored in practically prac-tically every inning of the game. Final games of the first haif will be played this week end with the Lions and Rotary contest con-test Friday afternoon. Thursday, this evening,, Columbia and Elks meet, and Saturday it is contemplated contem-plated that Kiwanis and Columbia Colum-bia will play a make-up game I to complete the first half schedule. sched-ule. j Second half schedule will not get under way until July 11, it I is understood. |