Show morgan drops two games magna 60 6 0 midvale 76 7 6 by herb dunn misfortune plagued the morgan ball club in the northwest semipro semi pro circuit this past week as Ken Sommers crew dropped a pair of rugged ragged games after having timely hitting pull a game out of the fire at layton june 20 morgan went to magna four days later and collected only two awo miserable singles as max slapped a 60 6 0 shutout on the locals then sunday at midvale charlie woodbury had a two out in the last of the ninth and lost the game 7 to 6 at magna glen singled in the first and stole second base france porter opened the second inning with a single after that slammed the door in the face of morgans sluggers in the last las i seven innings batte batterso bat one over par for the course magna waded in on the offerings of jack woodbury and scored four runs in the first three innings sluggers glen duggins duggans and doug thurman drove in five of the six magna runs i two walks and a single loaded the bases for magna with nobody out in the fourth ken sommers summoned glen to the mound and the raven haired hurler pitched his way out of the inning without allowing a run in the fifth two walks two singles and an error gave magna its final two scores the fillmen left 16 base runners stranded at midvale sunday charlie woodbury morgans answer to eddie lopat threw an assortment of junk which tormented midvale most of the day except for pete Spare booms double and triple which came when jack woodbury misjudged two fly balls hit into the wind in left field charlie allowed nine scattered singles and was only one out away from sending the game into extra innings w when hen lou gehring blied flied out to kent murdock and scored frank mascaro from third jack attempted to redeem himself by clubbing herb fortio singles and a home run the homer came in the sixth after dick sommers and ken tucker had walked giving jack three ills his blow gave morgan a temporary two run lead four midvale singles in the bottom of the sixth tied the game at 6 all where it remained until Geh rings payoff sacrifice fly earlier jay porter singled driving darivin in jack and glen chis this gave morgan a 20 2 0 lead which held up for only half an inning morgan now has a 2 won 6 lost record an on the s season e ason an and d th the next game is july 5 when the bingham miners play here |