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Show Thunderbird baseball team ends in third place in RMHC playoffs The Southern Utah State ThunderbiiUs playing in the lioeKy Mountain Athletic Conference Con-ference baseball playolls in I'ueolo, Coio. this past week Iim.siu'cl up in thud place in tne tour-team tournament. The T-Birds participated In three games, lost two to Ad- mound for SUSC. He was lilted in the seventh in favor of Curtis Halo and Halo suffered the loss. Charles Norton collected col-lected a pair of hits, Including a double to lead the SUSC hitting. hit-ting. Anthony, who not only lead the hitting for the three days but turned in a brilliant defensive job as well, also doubled in this contest. Anthony finished up the three gaame series with six hits in 11 trips including two home runs, three doubles and I a triple. ams Slate by a single point 11-10 and G-:i, but won a battle bat-tle over Kansas State Teachers Teach-ers College by a score of 9-8. In tlie opener the T-Birds picked up 13 hits but pushed in only 10 runs white losing 10 the Indians of Adams State. At the end o! eight innings of play the T-timis were knotted knot-ted at 8-8 but three hits a vvalk and two sacrifices push, ed in three tallies for the Indians In-dians pu.viiod them out in iront by a score of 11-8. The I'-Birds came back to push in two on a homer by Tex Anthony, but could not get the third run to send the game into extra innings. An-inony An-inony belted two homers in uie contest including a solo aomer in the first frame. Hack vlitchell picked up three hits .n lour trips including a double. dou-ble. Larry Eyre went the distance dis-tance on the mound for Coach ieo Petty and suffered the iOSS. Second round of play saw .ae T-Birds meeting Kansas olate and the tables were reversed re-versed in the game with the jUSC crew picking up a 9-8 victory. Koy Ferguson had the mound victory. He scattered i3 hits over the nine inning jontest. The T-Birds won, tak-mg tak-mg full advantage of eight aits, including three by Anthony An-thony with accounted for five .uns batted in. The T-Birds .railed after eight innings by j. score of 7-8 but in the bot-om bot-om of the ninth Anthony led jff with a double, Val Culli- .nore drew a walk. Anthony oame on to score the tieing run on an error, and Mike Og-rin Og-rin belted a sacrifice fly to jcore Cullimore with the winning win-ning run. Adams State continued their one-point jinks over the T-Birds T-Birds in action Saturday with a 6-5 victory that appeared to be SUSC's game in the early innings. SUSC pushed over three tallies in the second frame and held a 3-0 lead through the first three innings. In the fourth the Indians pushed in two tallies and in the sixth scored a run on two hits to knot the game at3-all. Both teams pushed in two runs in the seventh frame to move the score to 5-all. The winning run for Adams State was scored in the eighth on three straight singles to knock the T-Birds out of the tournament. tourna-ment. Fred Esplin started on the |