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Show Delta High Wins League Baseball Pennant; Play Dixie By Don Greathouse Delta defeated Beaver and Mil-,0,, Mil-,0,, t0 eain the league baseball title and the right to represent the Millard division in the play-off against the Dixie Division winner. On Tuesday, April 19, Scott Sheriff Sher-iff hurled a three-hit shut-out to give Delta a 3 - 0 victory. The only runs were scored in the fourth inning as Merton Lovell lashed a hit past second base, followed by Ronald Anderson's run scoring single. Scott Sheriff clinched the rally with a two-run homer to' deep right field. The infielders end ed any scoring threat by picking the runners off base. Johnny What-cott What-cott suceeded trapping a base-runner base-runner between second and third and threw to DeVon Roper for the out. DELTA 15. TIGERS 2 A single in the last inning ruined ruin-ed the no-hit, no-run pitching performance per-formance of Jim Porter and Bud Fullmer as Delta dealt a 15-2 loss to Milford. Jim Porter was the starting pitcher and he yielded no hits or runs. Bud Fullmer relieved Porter and Milford failed to hit until the last inning when they scored twice. DELTA "67 WASPS 3 Delta collected six runs in the first and second innings to score a win over the Juab Wasps in a non-league encounter April 25 at Delta. Scott Sheriff made a shaky start by allowing one Juab runner to cross home plate in the first inning. in-ning. A precisely timed pickoff play from Sheriff to Merton Lovell Lov-ell ended the threat. Merton Lovell and Ronald Anderson An-derson each hammered out a single. sin-gle. With one out, Scott Sheriff slammed a two-run triple to right field. John Whatcott lined a triple into right field to score Sheriff. He scored when Ronald Greathouse hit a single. In the second inning Scott Sheriff and John Whatcott each drove in a run. Bud Fulmer pitched the last two innings for Delta and allowed no runs. |