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Show College Nine Picks Up First Victory The College of Southern Utah Thunderbirds picked up their first win of the baseball season Monday In their first home game, when they defeated de-feated Weber State College 4 to 1. The Wildcats, however, came back to win the back end of the double-header with a 10 to 5 victory over the T-Birds. An almost disastrous trip to Phoenix over the weekend left the Thunderbirds with a long haul to catch up their win loss record. In six games in Phoenix Phoe-nix the T-Birds suffered five defeats and one tie. The double-header Monday left Coach Cleo Petty and his crew with a one win, seven loss and two tie record. In Phoenix the T-Birds suffered suf-fered three losses at the hands of Grand Canyon College by scores of 12 to 1, 9 to 0 and 6 to 2. The T-Birds also lost to Northern Arizona University by a score of 17 to 3 and to Glendale College by a score of 5 to 4, then ended up in a 7-7 deadlock with Mesa College in a game called because of darkness after eight innings of play. Larry Eyre, a freshman hurl-er hurl-er for the T-Birds was on the mound for the CSU victory in the opening game Monday. He allowed five scattered hits, giving only two hits in any one inning, the first. From that point he gave up one hit in the third, fifth and seventh. Each club picked up a single score in the first frame. In the third inning Bruce Shaheen got the T-Birds moving, opening open-ing the inning with a triple, and he came on to score on an overthrow at third. An error, a hit, a stolen base, and two walks produced a run for the T-Birds in the fifth and Steve Judd put the victory on ice in the sixth with a homer over the left center field fence. Errors and walks were compounded com-pounded with eight hits by Weber in the second game to spell defeat for the T-Birds 10 to 5. CSU sent four men to the mound in the contest including includ-ing Reed Kimoto, Keith Murry, Mike Erling and Hank Murry, who relieved starter Kimoto, sufferd the loss. Shaheen lead the CSU hitting hit-ting with two singles and David Myers homered and Bill Lamb doubled in the losing effort. The T-Birds will be out of action this week end but will be at home next week for a four game series. They will tangle in two double-headers with Colorado School of Mines on Friday and Saturday, Mar. 31 and April 1. Home games are being played play-ed on the CSU campus diamond dia-mond located on Center Street between 500 and 700 West streets. |