Show BASE BASEBALL BALL TEAM STANDING Won V on Lost Pcb Ephraim 6 0 1000 Moroni 5 1 1 Fairview 3 3 Manti 2 4 Gunnison 1 5 Mt U. Pleasant 0 6 Results Moroni l 8 at Spring City 6 Fairview 24 at Mt 1 Pleasant 4 Levan 2 at Manti 9 Ephraim 11 at Mayfield 1 Gunnison 10 Schedule July 1 Manti 1 at Mayfield Ephraim at Levan Moroni at Mt Pleasant Fairview at Spring City J MANTI 1 WINS VINS EASILY OVER LEVAN AS COX HURLS OUTSTANDING GAME IE The Manti B as e b ball a 11 team bounced back from a series of defeats to romp over the Levan team 9 to 2 last Sunday The game was played in Manti l and saw Cecil Cox come through with a very creditable pitching performance his best game of the season Cecil has been treated rather rudely by some of the opposing batters through the season but he was master of the situation Sunday and gave only three hits none after the fourth inning Cecil was a bit wild as he started the game He walked two men and a hit and an error following gave Levan their only two runs of the game From then on they got one hit in the second inning and one in the fourth Manti lanti opened in fine style however and scored five runs on five hits in the first inning Dean Lund walked Que Christensen Christensen Chris- Chris singled and Perry Elia- Elia son sent them home to score with a three base hit Perry scored on an infield out and Cecil Cox hit a single Jimmy Sorensen stepped up and hit hita a home run and that was all for Leo the Levan pitcher He was relieved by another this one named named nam nani- ed Carl and he struck out two of the three batters he faced that inning Dean Lund drew a good hand hanc from the crowd as he made two spectacular running catches in center field in the fourth inning He traveled quite a distance for both catches but made it look easy as he hauled them in Manti picked up two runs on two hits in their half of the fourth inning Paul Chapman was hit by the pitcher Dale Lund singled and Dean Lund doubled Perhaps the funniest happening happening happening happen happen- ing of the game was Jimmy Sorensens Sorensen's Sorensens Sorensen's Sor- Sor ensen's ground ball in the fifth inning The ball was not es especially especially especially es- es well hit but went through the legs and gloves of the pitcher second baseman and short stop They all looked looked looked look look- ed to have a good chance to tomake tomake tomake make a play on the ball but it rolled through all of them Playing alert ball Jimmy tore on to second base when none of them chased the ball out in into into into in- in to the field This same Jimmy Sorensen made a very fine and very difficult difficult difficult dif dif- catch in the sixth inning when he ran back from third base to catch a fly ball way back backof of the base snagging it as he heran heran heran ran away from the diamond Manti 1 got two more runs I making their total 9 on three hits in the seventh inning Que Christensen's hit was good for forI I three bases Lee Thurston bunt bunt- I ed very nicely for a hit am and Cecil Cox doubled This was wa the end of the scoring in the game Next Sunday the Manti team will play at Mayfield layfield in the thelast thelast thelast last game of the first half Mantis Manti's leading hitters of the week are I AB H Pct Pet Dale Lund 10 6 60 Cecil Cox 26 13 50 Jimmy Sorensen 21 7 33 Perry Eliason 6 2 33 I Que Christensen 29 8 27 Dean Lund 22 6 27 |