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Show INVITATIONAL TOURNAMENT Ron's Defeats Enterprise 2 to 1 Despite Dixie Disappointments Disappointments from St. George and Hurricane hampered ham-pered activities of the Annual Invitational baseball tournament tourna-ment of the American Legion Monday, July 24, when en-tries en-tries from those teams failed to turn up for play, i It is interesting to note that the smaller communities of Enterprise and Kanab were able to produce teams for the tournament and met commitments commit-ments which they had made for the annual event. Neither group, from Hurricane Hurri-cane or St. George, gave formal for-mal notice of their intentions not to play after accepting commitments several weeks in advance. Nevertheless, the tournament tourna-ment got underway Monday and two games were played. Highlight of the opening round was a 2 to 1 extra-inning extra-inning battle between Ron's Sporting Goods of Cedar City and Enterprise in a pitching battle. In the other contest, Cedar Crest came off with a 13 to 3 effort over Kanab. Lockhart and Iron County Record drew byes as the result re-sult of the failure of Hurricane Hurri-cane and St. George to enter teams. Kent Peterson took on the hero role in the 2 to 1 battle to open the tournament Friday Fri-day morning as he picked up two of three hits for Ron's Sporting Goods, scored the Corry of Kanab in the first inning of play. The home run accounted for all of Kanab's scoring and was served up after two men had gained base via the walk route. Cedar Crest had scored three runs in the top half of the frame and the game was knotted at 3 all at the end of the first inning. The tie was broken in the third frame when Cedar 'Crest pushed in another tally, and they added a pair in the fifth, two more in the sixth, and put the game away in the seventh with five runs on a single hit. Cedar Crest collected nine hits including five extra base blows. Blaine Johnson was the leading hitter with three hits in three official trips to the plate. He walked twice and scored four runs. Included Includ-ed in his three hits were a double and a triple. Close behind was Smith with three hits in four trips including a double and a triple plus two runs batted in to his credit. The other extra base hit was a double by Robyn Reid in the fourth frame. Kanab sent three men to the mound in their losing effort ef-fort including starter Greg Swapp, Danny Frost, and Don Corry. See results of semi-final action ac-tion in a seperate story on this page. first run, and drove in the tie breaking run. Wade Roberts picked up the victory in a relief effort, taking tak-ing over in the eighth inning from starter Mike Petty at the end of regulation play with the score knotted at 1 all. The Cedar City crew held the visitors from Enterprise Enter-prise hitless but gave up a run in the sixth inning on a walk, an error and a passed ball. Ron's pushed in their first run in the fifth frame with Peterson leading off the inning inn-ing with a double. Petty tripled to score Peterson to give the Cedar crew an initial lead. After Enterprise tied it in the sixth, the two teams failed to score through the seventh and eighth frames. In the ninth it was Gary Guliford who singled with one away and, with two men out, came on to score on a single by Peterson. Losing pitcher was Tommy Haitt of Enterprise. Hiatt collected col-lected a total of 13 strikeouts over the nine innings of play. Petty of Ron's had a total of 14 strikeouts over seven innings inn-ings and Roberts added five more in two innings for a total of 19 strikeouts. Robert Smith picked up the mound victory for Cedar Crest in Monday's finale, giving giv-ing up only two hits to Kanab. One of the hits, however, was a three run homer to Don |