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Show American Legion team takes 4th at state tourney Tri-Cities American Legion team concluded a very successful 25-14 season last week by placing fourth in the State American Legion Tournament at Ken Price Park in Murray. After beating Alta and Woods Cross (last weeks paper) Tri-Cities took on powerful Taylorsville, the eventual State Champions, and lost a tight game, 5-3. Coming to bat in the bottom of the seventh and trailing 5-2, Tri-Cities Shawn Story singled and Chris Baum doubled. A strikeout was followed by Bob Lucero's rbi single that brought Story home to make the score 5-3. Shane Phillips then drilled a line shot to centerfield that was on its suffered in the high school All-Star football game over the weekend. Phillips drew a walk, stole second and scored on Norman's base hit. Norman stole a second and Hansen brought him home with a drive to left field making the score 3-2. But in the Granger half of the inning six runs came across on an error, two walks, a sacrifice fly and a home run. Phillips drove in Story making it 9-3 and in the eighth inning of this scheduled nine inning game, Tri-Cities Tri-Cities tied the score at 10-10. In the 10th inning a pair of Granger hits and two Tri-Cities errors proved costly as Granger went ahead 13-10. Tri-Cities was not able to score in the bottom of the 10th and Granger went on to place second in the tourney. The two teams that Tri-Cities lost to were the first and second place finishers. The top five teams were 1. Taylorsville, .2. Granger, 3. Bingham, 4. Tri-Cities and 5. Hillcrest. Coaches Wardenberg and Scott Eldredge were disappointed in not finishing higher but felt that the team had a very successful year. "I way over the fence when the Taylorsville centerfielder made a great leaping catch to rob Phillips of the hit and Tri-Cities of the win. The Tri-Cities hitters collected 8 hits to 7 for the winners. Steve Hansgen had a first inning rbi for Tri-Cities with Matt Norman belting a towering home run in the bottom of the sixth. Taylorsville got a bases loaded single from Johnnie Walker that was followed by three Tri-Cities errors to go on top 5-2 in the top of the seventh. Walker is considered one of the best players in the State. Playing in the losers bracket, Tri-cities Tri-cities eliminated Logan 3-2. Logan had led 2-0 after three innings when Coach John Wardenberg brought in Travis Hansen to pitch. Hansen shut out the Logan team over the rest of the game and in the bottom ' of the sixth, Tri-Cities collected all three of their runs. Norman singled and Hansen drew a base on balls. Shawn . Bezzant then homered to give Tri-Cities Tri-Cities a 3-2 lead and Hansen retired Logan 1-2-3 to end the game. Against Granger, Tri-Cities fell behind 3-0 after one inning when the left fielder lost two balls in the sun. Bronco, Mendenhal, the regular Tri-Cities left fielder was recovering from broken ribs |