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Show Utah Construction Leads in Pony League Contest Utah Construction 3 0 1.000 Utah Parks 2 1 .667 Cal.-Pac 0 2 .000 Arden 0 2 .000 Utah Construction forged Into the lead In the Pony League baseball Tuesday evening with a decisive win over Utah Parks. The win broke a deadlock be tween the two teams after the first week of plav. Construction Thursday came from behind to down California-Pacific California-Pacific 10 to 7 In one of the closest clos-est contests of the week to stay undefeated. Winning pitcher for the Construction-crew against Cal.-Pac. was Mike Carr. Fred Esplin was the loser. Lee Kunter homered for the losers but It was not enough. Three extra base hits, two doubles by Robert Corry and a triple by Roger Bringhurst helped In the winning effort. Cal.-Pac. led 6 to 4 at the end of four innings of play but five tallies tal-lies in the fifth put Construction out in lead and they remained there. Friday evening Utah slaughtered slaught-ered Arden Dairy 21 to 1 in a game that was called at the end of five frames. LeRoy Miller was the winner and the loss was tabbed tab-bed on Dennis Whlttiklend. Two home runs were hit by Parks, one by Wesley Roberts and Kent Humphreys scored his third of the season In that contest. Back to back doubles by Lee Stuck! and Merrill Dalley accounted for the single run for Arden. ( Ronnie Anderson was on the mound for Construction Tuesday against Utah Parks and he allowed al-lowed four hits and four runs to the losers. The loss was charged charg-ed to Roger Olsen, although he was on the mound for the first two and one third inning only, with David Grimshaw finishing up. This game was also called ai iiie enu ul five owing io a rule i that allows the completion of a game after five full Innings if one team holds a 1ft run advantage. advan-tage. In winning Construction l collected 12 hits led by Mike Carr with three hits in three trips and four runs scored. |