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Show Cedar City Pony League Team Eliminated from Tourney Flay Cedar Clly Tony League All-stars All-stars were elinunaieu Horn luuitiameni competition in me eigiun district event held last wl-ck at Price. The Cedar crew lost their opening battle on Wednesday or last week to Pocatello by a score of 11 to 1, came back Tnursdjiy to pick up a shutout shut-out victory 13 to 0 over Roosevelt Roose-velt then were defeated during dur-ing the afternoon play Thursday Thurs-day by a score ot 11 to 9 by Vernal, to be eliminated from further play. Bountiful and Pocatello were the powerhouses of Jhe tournament tour-nament and rated as the team to beat. The Cedar All-Stars opened the tournament action against Pocatello and came out on clar and suiiered the loss. I Kenny I'rvor came on in ine j loui ui and Lane fcpevaK tm-lssnecl tm-lssnecl up tlie game, taKmg over in tne fifth. 1 Aiier losmg and moving into in-to tne losers DiacKot or tne douoie-eiimination tourney, tne Ceiiar crew came bounding bound-ing baeK wnn one ot the iin-est iin-est ei.orts ot the tdurtiarl-ibht, a 13 to U win over Roosevelt. Biyco Betenson was tne mound hero lor cedar, as ne tiuew a no-hit, snut-out victory. vic-tory. He gave up oniy one waiK in tne contest and tnat was wiped out on an attempted at-tempted steal. Two errors allowed al-lowed two other men to get on base both in the third inning, in-ning, but neither came on to score. the short end. Pocatello scored one run in the first inning on an error, a double and a wild pitch. Going into the third frame the score remained at 1 to 0, but the Idaho crew broke loose for six runs in the third frame on only two hits, including a home run by the pitcher, Lee, to move out to a wide margin. In the fifth frame Cedar pushed in their only run when Charles Morris doubled then came home on a passed ball. The game was really tucked away in the sixth, when Pocatello Poca-tello pushed in four more runs. Cedar was held to just three hits. They gave up eight hits to Pocatello and Cedar also was charged with five errors in the contest. Jeff Carr started on the mound for Ce- Cedar started the scoring right off tne bat with seven runs in the top of the first frame. The runs were scored on just four hits as they took advantage of three walks and two errors. In the third frame five runs were pushed over for Cedar with just one hit, that a home run by Lewis Chamberlain. Cham-berlain. Chamberlain belted his second round-tripper of the game in the fifth inning for the final tally of the game. With a 13 run lead the contest con-test was stopped after five innings of play. Thursday afternoon Cedar had to come back to face Vernal Ver-nal in the losers brackej. Ver-al Ver-al had suffered the same fate of losing the opener and picking pick-ing un a win in their second game. Cedar started off strong, pushing in three runs in the first inning of play on two I hits, including a home run by Jeff Carr. In the top of the second Chamberlain belted another homer and Cedar pushed in five more runs to take an 8 to 0 lead. Vernal came back in the j bottom of the second frame to score four runs, then picked up two more in the third on a home run by Chew. In the top of the fourth Chamberlain hit his second homer of the game and fourth of the tournament to put Cedar Ce-dar out by a score of 9 to 6. Vernal came on to take the lead on three hits that produced pro-duced two tallies then held in The top of the seventh to ad-1 vance in the tournament. Cedar had seven hits in the contest, and Vernal picked up 13. Cedar committed four er-ryois er-ryois while Vernal was charged charg-ed with two miscues. Lewis Chamberlain started for Cedar on the mound, gave way to Lane Spevak in the iliird, followed by Carr in the i Mi. Carr suffered the loss. Chew, who came on in relief re-lief for Vernal in the second frame, picked up the mound victory. |