Show t tl C. C Ii r r F 1 r I r c l' l S t hk C r Th r r 1 T w f j F 1 3 S. S r tt r y VAL VERDA IN PLAYOFF I Members of the Val Verda team include back hack 1 I to r Dan Parrish Par Par- rish coach Gary Brown Steve Ste Deppe LaIT Larry Wall Vall Pete Ipson Kevin Ke Barney Rick Lewis Mike Dechart Mike Hanson Glen The Val Verda Bronco All team composed of 11 and 12 year old boys earned the right to represent the Utah Ida ho area by winning the following tournaments IN N THE FIRST game of the Bountiful tournament Val Verda defeated the Centerville all stars 9 In that game the winning winning winning win win- ning pitcher was Niel Beck- Beck strand In the second game Val ValVerda ValVerda ValVerda Verda defeated Bountiful 1 14 The winning pitcher of the second game was Steve Deppe who came in as relief hurler In the third game Val Verda again defeated Bountiful 1 3 17 7 3 with the win going to the relief pitcher Steve Deppe The outstanding outstanding outstanding out out- standing hitter was with a batting average Niel Beckstrand and Pete Ipson e each ch hit two home runs IN N THE regional tournament Val Verda again walked away with the honors beating Pocatello's Pocatello's Pocatello's Poca- Poca tellos tello's all star team the Optimists Optimists OpU- OpU mists 9 In the first game Steve Deppe again was the winning winning winning win win- ning pitcher with Kim Sellers again getting two hits with three I at bat which included a home run Larry Wall pinch hitting also hit a home run In the next game Val Verda Miller Kim Sellers Wayne Parrish manager Front Tim Fox Kim Nelson Neil Beckstrand Dick Groves Gary Killebrew Not present for picture Larry Dechart business manager played the Boise all stars winning winning winning win win- I ning the game 2 Niel Beckstrand Beckstrand Beckstrand Beck- Beck strand received credit for the win with Larry Wall driving In one run and scoring the second run himself on a passed ball balf IN N THE THIRD game ValVerda Val ValVerda ValVerda Verda was defeated by Boise 6 In the next game Val Verda bounced back to win over Boise 10 Kim Nelson shut ball team out with two hits In four Innings before being re relieved relieved re- re by Steve Deppe who preserved preserved preserved pre pre- served the win Hitting stars again were Kim Sellers driving In three runs with two base hits Steve Deppe and Pete Ipson each with a double double double dou dou- ble which drove in a run and Niel Beckstrand who went two for three and scored three runs NOW VAL VERDA goes into the Western Division Championship Championship Championship Cham Cham- Calif ball club at 4 pm p.m. Tuesday Aug 1 at Provo with the winner of this tournament going to represent rep rep- resent the western division inthe in inthe inthe the world series at Kingsville Tex Manager of the Val Verda team is Wayne Parrish with his hisson hisson hisson son Dan Parrish assisting as coach Business manager is Larry Dechart |