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Show CSU Baseball Team Wins Three. Loso Three On Week End Swina i The College of Southern Utah Thunderbirii.-. are making a habit oi spiiiling diiuliie-doadeis. ! In a six game seriros this past week etui in a swing into southern south-ern C'aliloinia Hie T-Birds picked up throe wins and three losses. Tnat matched their opening double-header against isevoda Southern to give loom a four and lour record and in every ease .hey have won and lo.st from then ippononts. T!i' six game series was opened open-ed Thursday afternoon against A,.u:-a College. Tne T-hilus got oil to a Hying start, in the opener op-ener blasting lit) hits and swamping swamp-ing A.usa by a 17 to !) maigm. ;Lke Darling was credited with the win although In ovens and Manuel Mart i ne each saw action in the game. Two homers were hit oy the T hirds, by ilex Wright inj the sixth and Marvin Day in the! seventh. Triples were belled by j bill Lamb and Son Sudbury v. i n vVrignt also picking up a double along with Roger Haliaday, j In the second game of the! scries, an abbreviated soven-in- ning a Hair, the T-Iiirds took an early lead then went sour in the lield to wind upon t lie short end I of a 6 to 5 battle. Hank HalversenJ who hurled for the T-l!irds for i is innings, suffered the loss. Larry Giuins finished the seventh. the fourth, but a homer by Lyman Ly-man of Laverna with one on in the fifth again knotted the scout at 5-all. In the sixth the T-Birds pushed in two tallies on three hits and held on for the victory. Disaster struck in the soeoii'l game as LeVerne drove in four runs in the first inning, :;huttlcil m another seven runs in the second sec-ond inning and added two in the iounh lor good measure, to walk; away with a 13 to 2 victory. Th mi iy T-Lird runs came in thi thiid when Sieve Judd walked and RacMis homered. Stopped after af-ter five frames Winkles of La-Verne La-Verne had struck out 1.3 of tho T-ilirds, retired the side in three-of three-of the five with strikeouts anil had two in each of the other two. Saturday the Thunderbirds met Nevada Southern lor the second time in another double-header that proved somewhat different than the previous two. They lost the first game and won the second. sec-ond. The opener was dropped by a score of 4 to 2 and the T-lSiubr. came back with a 12 to 2 win to even that series. in 1 ho opener the Rebels of Nevada Ne-vada Southern put all their eggs; in one basket, pushing in four runs in (lie third inning. Thos-.e-four held up for the victory, witlv the T-Birds pushing in one run in the fourth on three hits and then scoring in the fifth after a triple by Manuel Martinez.. Lamb, however, homered in the contest and Steve Judd and Hal-verson Hal-verson both tripled. Reed Backus came up wih a fine afternoon at the plate with two hits in three trips, including a double. Friday the T-Birds moved to LaVerne College and again picked pick-ed up a victory in the opener, 7 to 5, and lost the back end of the pair by a score of 13 to 2. In the opener Gittens picked up the win after allowing back to back homers and three runs in the first inning of play. The T-Birds T-Birds came back with three runs in the top of the second and moved mov-ed ahead in the third on a home-run home-run by Day. Backus homered in Sudbury gave up only four hits, all in the fatal third inning. Mike Erling picked up his second sec-ond victory on the trip in the nightcap, as the T-Bird bats went wild in a 12 to 2 conquest. Sucf-bury Sucf-bury got the ball rolling starting off the second inning with a double, that was followed by it double by Day and singles by Bill Farr and Bruce Shaheen, Ii the third, five runs scooted across j home plate on a triple by Backus,, a double by Sudbury, triple by Day, single by Lamb and louc walks. Erling allowed seven scattered scat-tered hits in picking up the winv |