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Show Esplin Sparkles On Mound In Pony League Utah Const. 4 1 .800 Cal.-Pac. 3 2 .600 Phillips 66 2 3 .400 Utah Parks 1 4 .200 Fred' Esplin of the California-Pacific California-Pacific Utilities in the Cedar City Pony League turned in two brilliant bril-liant performances during the past week of play to notch two shutouts and to move hij team within one yame of the league j leading Utah Contstruction crew. I Ksplin threy a two hit shut-j shut-j out against Construction last Thursday evening. It was the first loss suffered by Construe-j Construe-j tion as they went down 13 to 0. ' Again Monday evening Ksplin j was effective against Utah Parks t with a three hit shutout, j Here are the results of this I week's play: ' California-Poc. 13, Construction 0 Ksplin allowed only two hits to Construction and collected a total of 1 1 strikeouts. Losing ! pitcher was John Black with r.rueo Holmes sharing mound duty. Power collected ten hits in-: in-: eluding a home run and a triple by Wes Roberts and also took advantage of 10 walks to score the victory. Phillips 66. 7, Utah Parks 6 This is the second straight one-run one-run victory that Phillips has scored against Parks and Mer-roll Mer-roll Dalley was the winning pitcher. Kim Leigh was the loser. Both pitchers were effective, collecting col-lecting 16 strikeouts each. Parks had the advantage In hits with six compared to five. Phillips lead in extra base hits with two doubles by Doug Knight and a double by Dennis Marchant. Leigh ana Ronnie Nelson each doubled for Parks. Power 11. Parks 0 Esplin allowed only three hits in this contest and gave up only one walk. In addition he collected collect-ed 14 strikeouts and also blasted a three run homer in the first Inning of play. Power had a total to-tal of 9 hits off Martin Skougard, who suffered the loss for Parks. Utah Const 16, Phillips 66. 10 A total of seven pitchers saw action in this contest. Mike Carr was the winner for Construction but also seeing mound duty were Bruce Holmes and John Black. Merrill Dalley, Doug Knight, Jeff Cowan and Cutris Anderson shared shar-ed the loss for Phillips. In win-ining win-ining Construction collected a total to-tal of 11 hits, led by Kent Hum-pheries, Hum-pheries, who homered and doubled. doub-led. Wood row Pete of UC also doubled. Phillips, in losing, collected col-lected nine hits, all singles. |