Show LAST MINUTE RALLY AT LAYTON BRINGS 87 8 7 MORGAN VICTORY by herb dunn our morgan ball club has of tn ten done things on the spur of the moment sunday at layton was no exception at what might have been the last moment of the game morgan launched a four run rally and then staved off a layton surge in the ahe last of the ninth to win 8 9 to 7 with a 32 3 2 count on glen campbell two out in the ninth andrack and Jack woodbury on second base with the tying run roger butler layton hurler hit campbell in the back with a pitched ball and the morgan rally was on burke dickson then blasted a line smash toward third base which bounced off junior hart leys knee and rolled to the fence in foul territory Dick sons blow scored woodbury and tied the game at 55 5 5 after a time out to allow hartley to recover from the blasted knee butler heaved a sigh of relief his relief was temporary however because he saw big tule murdock strolling to the plate with visions of his sunday pitch bouncing off the school house window in right field thanks to murdocks third inning homer butler decided to give kent one base rather than give him a chance to lose another worth of horsehide murdocks walk loaded the sacks jay porter local hep hen fruit salesman connected with a butler fast ball at the crack of the bat jay mallett layton left fielder turned his back to the plate and headed west kno knowing wring he was going to have to move to have even a slim chance of snagging porters blow biow mallett got his glove on the ball but it tell fell to the ground and jays game winning ba blow ow was a standup stand up two bagger layton canie came to bat in the ninth with a 3 run deficit and almost rescued the game paul cook singled and stole second to open the inning but glen who pitched the win tor for morgan fanned jim valentine a member of agdens pioneer league champs last year for the first out john dawson then drew a walk mallett hit his third single of the day to load the bases hartley hit into a fielders choice play forcing mallett at second base however glen campbell missed on his tag of second base and registered the out when mallett wandered off second and glen tagged him butler singled scoring dawson from third base with two on and two out got bill bell on a lazy fly to center the win gave the locals a 2 won 4 lost record for the season morgan plays at magna at 8 p m thursday |