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Show p,lW,iLil-Mi.lll..-iJlJll,tINl"'i i: I, WJ'.JiW W m ,u"""u II Hl',1' .pUMIpi.-Ji. l , '''T . . .. , - - ft , ,' r . ... . J.- - - , .. ; h - I...- ,r' 1 it 4 . j - -. s . ,. f I,;..-- jmjk,,. ........ . - , .": 4 " 1 MAKES TAG. Lynn Allie of the Thunderbirds Thun-derbirds puts tag on unidentified player play-er from Rangely, Colorado in first CSU victory of season last Thursday afternoon. C.S.O. Posts U, VSctories i tance for the CSU victory, allowing al-lowing eight hits. The T-Birds collected nine hits. CSU's run in lh.e first inning inn-ing was scored by Shaheen who lived on an error, stole second and third, then scored on a single by Reid Kimoto. In the fifth, a walk to Wol-ter Wol-ter resulted in a run when he stole second and scored on a single by Allie. Kimoto came on to score in the sixth for the T-Birds after walking. The run came on an error without benefit of a hit. The two runs in the ninth came withut an out being recorded. re-corded. Dave Jensen, pinch hitting, singled, Slack singled, and Allie got hit with a pitched ball to load the bases. Orr walked to send in the tieing run and the winning run scored scor-ed on a dropped third strike at the plate. Four baseball victories in four starts last week put the College of Southern Utah Thunderbirds on the. road to a successful season after suffering suf-fering 10 successive losses. Thursday afternoon, the T- . Birds picked up victories in both ends of a double-header over Rangley College, 14 to 2 and 4 to 3. Friday, Colorado School of Mines fell victims to the T- Birds in two exciting games, but Coach Cleo Petty and his crew wound up on top in both contests by scores of 3 1 to 2 and 5 to 4. The second game went two extra innings inn-ings in a scheduled seven inning affair. Dave Jensen picked up the 1 first mound victory of the season sea-son for the T-Birds Thursday, hurling a three hitter against Rangely in a seven inning stint. The T-Birds collected only eight hits but took advantage of five Rangely errors to post the 14 to 2 victory. Rick Orr was the hitting star of the contest with three hits and four RBI's acounting for the first four runs of the game for the T-Birds. CSU pushed in two runs in the first frame, added seven in the third,', and four in the fifth."' Two of the Rangely three hits came in the third, accounting for both Rangely runs. Lynn Allie, who has been in a hitting slump this season, sea-son, came up with a timely hit to drive in two runs in the second game to save a 4 to 3 victory for Doug Wolter. Blaine Barney started on the mound for the T-Birds and Doug Wolter came in in relief in the fifth frame. An error and three straight singles by Bruce Shaheen, Bill Lamb, and Rick Orr accounted for the other two T-Bird runs. Larry Eyre picked up the first victory Friday against Colorado School of Mines, 3 to 2. Both clubs collected eight hits in the contest, but errors by CSM spelled the difference. An error and a double by Wolter scored CSU's first run in the third inning. Two errors and a single by Shaheen Sha-heen accounted for another in the fourth, and a tie breaking, break-ing, winning run came in the fifth when Wolter doubled and scored on a single by Charles Norton. Three straight hits in the fourth accounted for both of the CSM runs. The game went over nine innings and was tight from start to finish. A scheduled seven inning second game was extended to nine before the T-Birds could pick up the 5 to 4 victory. CSU took a 3 to 0 lead with single runs in the first, fifth, and sixth innings, but CSM came up with three runs in the bottom of the sixth to tie the score at 3 all. Neither club scored in the seventh or eighth, but the Miners pushed in a run in the top of the ninth, only to have CSU score a pair in the bottom of the frame for the victory. Wynn Isom went the dis- |