Show Legion Team dumps misses tourney For the first time in several on July the Roosevelt American Leg-ion baseball team won the Region 9 baseball championship by downing its arch-rival from Vernal in both games of a double header on the Ft Duchesne This two out of three game playoff was necessitated on July Roosevelt's allowing only one hit beat Vernal's Gary who gave up only two hits by a slim margin of 1 to 0 to tie the two teams for the Region 9 In two games the was quite different as can be seen by the two scores 6 to 3 and 7 to 6 when and Fenn again started off the action with the tireless Fenn pitching the entire first game and five innings of the second and Gordon Jennings finishing out the last two innings by striking out four of the seven men to face Howard Busch pitched the last game for the former High School club with a side-arm fast ball and In the first the Roosevelt team was either ahead or tied at all and Chad Mul- lins finished out the contest with an over-the-shoulder running catch of a pop-up way behind second in the second due to some hitting and an error or the Roosevelt team fell behind in the first inning 5 to 1 But through the fine efforts of the pitcher and infield Vernal was held to only one run throughout the rest of the while the locals kept hammering away at the bringing in two runs the second inning and one each in the third and fourth to make the until the sixth 6 to 4 In favor of the Vernal in the top of the sixth through the fine stick-toting of the top of the Roosevelt batting the score was changed to the final count 7 to 6 where Jennings held it in relief for it was discovered Friday that the Roosevelt team was not eligible to participate in the state playoffs due to a misunderstanding on someone's the birth certificates of the team members were neither asked for or sent to the proper And without these the correct ages of the players cannot be determined by the Legion officials in charge of the tournament It is against human nature to give up an advantage without i |