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Show Legion Baseball Nine Takes Win from Dixie Ray Endsley, lanky right hander for the Cedar City American Ameri-can Legion Junior baseball team, opened the District Seven race with an impressive no hit, no run game Wednesday afternoon on the local field. The Cedar City crew under the coaching of A. L. Jensen, won a 1 to 0 game over St. George. I Endsley allowed only five men on the base paths during the , seven inning game and was aided aid-ed by his team mates in a couple cou-ple of tight spots. In the sixth inning a double play with two men on bases and no one out helped the no run cause. In that inning an error and a walk had . allowed runners on first and sec- jond when Reed Heywood, short- ' stop picked up a hot grounder and threw to second baseman Sheldon Sargent who relayed to I first to complete the double play. The Cedar boys didn't have an 1 easy time of it either. They scored scor-ed the winning run in the bottom bot-tom half of the seventh and final fin-al Inning. 1 Jon Isom, playing third base, beat out a throw from the Dixie third baseman, and was advanced advanc-ed to second when Phil Yergen-Isen Yergen-Isen walked . A wild pitch by Bleak of Dixie advanced the runners run-ners to second and third when Neil Petty, catching for Cedar, drove a long fly Into right field, scoring Isom with the only tally of the game. Participating in the division of the American Legion program this year are Cedar, St. George, Hurricane. Milford and Pan-gultch. Pan-gultch. Milford and Panpuitch are slated to play today, Thursday, Thurs-day, with Hurricane drawing a bye. Winner of the division rao will participate in the state play-off play-off of the nationally organized program. The participation of the Amer-lean Amer-lean Legion in the program this year affords an opportunity for the boys graduating from the already al-ready organized programs of Pony League, to continue to participate par-ticipate in an organized baseball program. The Cedar Team will move Into In-to Panguitch Monday afternoon for a game at 3 o'clock, and will plav Thursday, June 7 at 4 p. m. at Milford. |