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Show Lockhart Spoils Ron's Sporting Good's Perfect Record on Esplin's Pitching out in front and Cedar Crest scored 1 in the bottom of the framq, but could not muster a tieing or winning effort. Lockhart stayed in the running run-ning with a 5 to 4 come from behind victory over Record during the week with Esplin scoring 'his second mound victory. vic-tory. Lockhart picked up three runs in the sixth on back to back triples by Bernell Thor-ley Thor-ley and Wayne Esplin. The thiee tallies gave them the lead and they held it through the seventh for the victory. Ron's , 5 1 .833 Lockhart 5 1 .833 Iron County Record 1 5 .166 Cedar Crest 15 .166 The two-way battle for honors hon-ors in the Cedar City Colt League tightened this week with Lockhart shattering Ron's Sporting Goods perfect record with a 3 to 1 victory, to tie the teams for honors at the end of the first half of play. Wayne Esplin got the mound victory in the contest and he had a no hit, no run shut out ruined in the top of the seventh inning when Dale Hatch, the opposing ; pitcher belted a home run. It was the only hit and only run for Lockhart in the cpntest. Hatch gave up three hits in his losing effort, and two of those came In the first inning in-ning of play when Lockhart scored all three of their runs. One of the hits was a double by Burnell Thorley, Esplin compiled 18 strikeouts strike-outs in the seven Inning game and struck out the first 11 men to face him in the contest. con-test. It evened the score for the two clubs as Ron's with Hatch on the mound defeated Lockhart 2 to .1 in their first meeting with Esplin suffering suffer-ing the loss. Iron County Record picked up their first win of the season sea-son during the week with an extra inning 9 to 8 win over Cedar Crest. Kenny Pryor took :he mound win for Record ana Lane Spevak suffered the loss. Both boys went the distance. Cedar Crest pushed in five runs in the sixth to tie the score at 7 all. Record scored "a -pair In the eighth to move |