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Show Tri-Cities lose in tournament By DEAN VON MEMMOTT Tri-Cities' dream of going to the American Legion's regional baseball tournament vanished last week as the squad dropped two games in the state tournament. The first team Tri-Cities lost to was the Bingham Miners. The Miners pounded them 10-4 at Murray's Ken Price Park Aug. 11. Tri-Cities got on the board first when Jeff Harris fired a two-run homer in the opening inning. Tri-Cities' lead vanished in the third when Brad Orr's triple put Bingham up 3-2. Picking up four more runs the next inning, the Miners put the game . away. Stung by that defeat, Tri-Cities came close to getting eliminated the next night as Tooele led them 7-3 in the seventh inning. Before Tri-Cities could score a run that frame, they got stung with two outs. Even though the situation looked hopeless, the Tri-City boys did not give up. David Carlson triggered a shocking comeback with a single, which was the first of five straight hits. A three-run homer by Harris put Tri-Cities up 8-7, and Chris Her-mansen Her-mansen scored on a double error to help lock up the win. Wednesday night was a time of lost opportunities for the Tri-City boys as Kearns beat them 4-2 Making nine hits in the game, Tri-Cities Tri-Cities grabbed a 2-0 lead in the first. However, Kearns chalked up four runs in the third before suffering its first out. Save for that one inning, Tri-Cities managed to hold its opposition scoreless. But while the Utah County team did play good ball, it had a frustrating time of trying to regain the lead. In the fifth, for example, Kearns' Troy Dalley's capture of a Dion Bezzant fly ball resulted in a double play. As if that were not bad enough, Tri-Cities' hopes of winning on a three-homer vanished in the seventh when two Tri-Cities men on base watched Kearns center fielder Troy Kehoe tag Harris' fly ball just before it could fall outside the park. |
