| OCR Text |
Show i T-Birds Improve Season Record With Two of Three Series With Colorado College of Southern Utah Thun-derbirds Thun-derbirds improved tlieir season record over the week end, picking up two wins in a three game series with Colorado School of Mines. The Thunderbirds staved off a Miners' rally Friday afternoon in a nine inning affair to pick up a 11 to 10 victory, then split a three runs on four hits In the ; fifth. Colorado collected 13 hits. Kred Esplin was charged with the (loss, going 4 23 innings with 'Martini', finishing up. Doubles I were hit by Bill Fai r and VVes Roberts Ro-berts for Hie T-Birds and Laman of the Miners hit a triple, their only extra base hits. Petty wrote a storybook finish to the second and final game of douDie-neauer .lamiuay i their record to nine wins and six losses. The T-Birds lost Saturday's Satur-day's opener 8 to 2 then came back in storybook form to win 5 to 3 with a three run homer by Neil Petty in the bottom half of the last inning with two outs already al-ready recorded. In Friday's opener Reed Kimoto picked up the win on the mound, going eight innings and leaving with a 11 to 5 margin. In the top of the ninth the Miners belted four of their ten hits including in-cluding a double by pinch hitter Walker, to nearly catch the T-Birds. T-Birds. Mauel Martinez came on in the ninth and he was replaced by Larry Gittins who finally curbed the drive. The Thunderbirds had 12 hits compared to 11 for Colorado Colo-rado and Rex Wright led the hitting hit-ting barrage with three for four at the plate, including a two run homer in the first frame. Reed Backus homered for the T-Birds in the" eighth with one on; Bill" Farr hit a single round-tripper in the second and Kimoto homered in the big eigth inning to start things off. -Saturday In the first game of the double-header Clay Chambers of the Miners had things going h'is way, as he limited the T-Birds to just five hits. One of those was ' a homer by Neil Petty in the first inning, but it was not enough as the Miners had picked up two runs on three hits in the top of the frame and were never challenged chal-lenged in the contest. Colorado added another pair in the second, picked up a fifth run in the third atid put the game away With the series Saturday with his three run homer with two out in Ihe bottom of the seventh and final inning. It was a game that up to that point, looked like it was going against the T-Birds. Both scored in the first inning. Robert McKee, leadoff man lor the Miners, homered to start the game, but the T-Birds came back in the bottom of the frame to score on an error. Neither team scored in the second sec-ond or third innings and tne visitors vis-itors moved out in front in the fourth with a pair of tallies. With two away Kirbry of Colorado lived liv-ed on an error and Barr behind him walked. Kirby came on to score on a single by Manning and Barr came across on a single by Carroll to move out in front, 3 to i. ; 1 It stayed that way until the seventh and ifinal inning. 1 Steve Judtl struck out to start the inning,, then Marvin Day singled and Bruce Caheen was hit with a pitched ball. Kimoto batting for Lamb, lived on a; fielder's choice and Day was lore-1 ed out at third. Shaheen came on to score on an error to move the i score to 3 to 2 for the Miners. Wes Roberts then hit one at the third base bag, puting two runners on. There remained two away and the T-Birds i were still trailing, setting the stage for Petty's homer hom-er and that Was it. Mike Erling picked up the win for the T-Birds and the loss was suffered by Dick Walker of the Miners. , ... ., .. MwHwi,.wii.uiww wj y mm |
