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Show Pony League Race Tightens as First Half Nears End; Arden Dairy Leads TEAM STANDINGS i Won Lost Pet. Arden 5 2 .714; Parks 4 3 .571 Power 3 4 .429 1 Construction 2 5 .285 , With only four more games remaining in the first half of play in the Cedar City Pony League baseball program, a race has developed for top honors. Arden Meadow Gold is maintaining main-taining a lead which they built up earlier In the season, however, Utah Parks has come fron third place to within one game in a single week to threaten the lead-era. lead-era. The two clubs were scheduled schedul-ed to meet Tuesday evening and Parka was credited with a win when Arden was forced to forfeit for-feit when they failed to field a complete team. Earlier in the season Parks had a similar forfeit for-feit to Arden. In addition to the forfeit win over Arden, Hamilton Benson, a first year man in Pony League, pitched the Parki to a 9 to 4 win over California-Pacific Utilities Util-ities to give the Parks crew two wins during the week. Losing pitcher in the contest was Ronnie Ron-nie Anderson. A home run by Bruce Stuckl aided the cause of the Parks In the victory. Cal-Pacific suffered second loss during the week when they were defeated by tiw v,onivC-tlon v,onivC-tlon Monday evening by a score of 6 to 2. Marian Robb took the win for Construction he is credited with both victories so far this season and J. C Hea-ton Hea-ton was the losing pitcher. Hea-ton Hea-ton gave way to Don A. Mathe-son Mathe-son late in the game. Johnny Logan homered in the game. Utah Construction came out t-f i the short end of a 12 to 11 con-1 test against Arden Dairy Friday evening. UC took an early lead and held onto that lead going into the bottom half of the seventh .tnd final inning. Arden mustered some hitting power and pounded Johnny Logan, on the mound of UC tagging him for four runs to come from behind to win the ga.ne. Game featured a home run by Antone Pryor of Construction. First half play will be completed com-pleted Tuesday evening when Construction and Arden meet. First half winner will meet the second half winner for the league championship at the end of regular season play. |
