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Show Broncos Split Week's Games; Hinge Hopes on Next Hopes of the College of Southern South-ern Utah Bronco baseball team retaining its title as southern division di-vision winners in the Intermoun-tain Intermoun-tain Collegiate Athletic Conference, Confer-ence, hinges on two games being played this week end. Today, Thursday, Ooach Cleo Petty's diamond men will entertain enter-tain Carbon Junior College and Friday afternoon at 3 will meet the Snow Badgers of Ephraim on the local diamond. ! Last week the Broncos won and lost on a road trip to these same schools. Thursday they moved into Price and garnered their second conference win at the expense ex-pense of Carbon, 9 to 6. . However, How-ever, Friday the Broncs bowed to the Snow Badgers 13 to 9 in a 10 inning game. J If the Broncos get past Carbon Car-bon this afternoon the all lm-! lm-! portant contest against undefeated undefeat-ed Snow College will do one of two things to 'the conference standings. A win for Snow will virtually give them the southern division championship, but a win , for C S U would put the race into a two-way tie for the top spot . between the two schools. Both Snow and C S U have ' posted wins over Carbon and Dixie. Little Jerry Bertleson went the distance against the Carbon Eagles Ea-gles Thursday afternoon, allow- ing only six hits. Three of the six however, were by Regis, first sacker for the Eagles. One of the three was a round-tripper with two men on base in the second inning. Pounds Out Homer Gordon Sargent, first baseman for the Broncos, evened it up in 'the home run department in the second when he pounded one out, the first man up, with no one on. Rex Erickson hit .600 for the afternoon, the Broncos got off to a flying start, garnering six runs on four hits and two Snow errors. However, Snow retaliated with five hits and four runs in the bottom half of the frame and continued their drive in the sec-J sec-J ond inning after downing the I Broncos, 1, 2, 3, with another two hits and another four runs to move out in front. Ray Robinson Robin-son was on the mound for the , Broncos for one and one-third innings. He was replaced in the , second after Clair Faux, second j baseman for Snow, pounded out a homer with two on. Clintorr Roper, regular third baseman for the Broncos, replaced Robinsorr and finished the game. Seventh Inning Lead At the end of the seventh inn- ing Snow held a 13 to 8 advantage. ad-vantage. In the top of the eighth the Broncos poured on the pressure.. Erickson, John Wood, Sargent,, and Soper hit successive singles and Bertleson lived on an error,, before any outs were made. They ended the. inning with four hits,, five runs and a 13 to 13 ball game. Snow was held in the eighth and both failed to score 1 nthe ninth, forcing the game into extra innings. The Broncos were set down in-order in-order In the top half of the 10th as Faux came into relieve Hal Jensen for Snow. A wild pitch with the bases-loaded bases-loaded and two men away in-the in-the bottom of the 10th scored Robinson of Snow to give the Badgers the hard fought victory |
