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Show I Last Hall Standings Juggled in Pony League FINAL SECOND HALF STANDINGS Utah Construction 6 3 .667 So. Utah Power .... 6 3 .667 Utah Parks 6 4 .556 Arden Dairy 1 8 .111 An unusual finale to the regular reg-ular play in the Cedar City Pony League brought rather unexpect-ed unexpect-ed results Thursday and Friday wich necessitated a series of play-off games for the league championship. Story on ltagu play-off else-whert else-whert on this page. Southern Utah Power was thrown out of the race for the second half championship on Thursday evening when Utah Parks scored a 4 to 3 victory over that team in an extra inning in-ning fracas featuring the three pit pitching of Sam Chamberlain. Chamber-lain. That loss threw the Power crew one-half game behind Utah Construction Con-struction with a single game left In the league play. The real upset of the week, however, occurred Friday evening eve-ning when Arden Dairy In Its last appearance of the season, posted a 6 to 3 win over Construction Con-struction to tie the league up again. Larry Anderson turned in his best pitching game of the season, allowing only three hits to UC and his teammates backed back-ed him up with seven hits to score the victory. Utah Construction and Southern South-ern Utah Power as a result were forced into a playoff for the sec-ond sec-ond half championship. Utah Parks, first half winner, was then sitting tight to meet the winner for the season title, in one of the closest races in a number of years. Thursday evening Parks bounced bounc-ed back from a 3 to 1 deficit to tie up Its game with the Power Co. In the sixth inning. Neither team scored In the seventh frame and Power was held tight in the top half of the eighth. Leigh Rosenberg, first man up in the bottom half of the extra inning, in-ning, walked, and Danny Lindsay, Lind-say, who hit three for four for the evening, doubled to score the winning run. Friday evening Arden teed off with two runs in the inning off starter Jimmy Nelson and pushed push-ed in single score in the second and third to take a 4 to 0 lead. Brent Cripps. homered In the top of the fourth for UC to score its (first run and that team added . another before the inning was over. Arden iced the game with two more tallies in the bottom of the sixth off the pitching of Jeff Marchant, who came on to relieve Nelson in the second. |