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Show Altonah Clinches Jr. Baseball Title For Basin A. L. JUNIOR BASEBALL Team Standings W L Altonah 5 0 Roosevelt 3 2 Ft. Duchesne 2 3 Vernal 0 5 This Week's Schedule Ft. Duchesne at Altonah, July 4 Vernal at Roosevelt, July 7 Last Week's Results Altonah 9, Vernal 0 (Forfiet) Roosevelt 3, Ft. Duchesne 2 The Uintah Basin American Legion baseball program has turned turn-ed out to be a three-team affair with Vernal failing to show up for the last two games. Just what the reason for the Uintah kids not showing up hasn't been reported report-ed apparently it is a lack of interest. in-terest. The Altonah sponsored post team coached by Ross Iorg of Altamont has salted away their second straight Basin ' championship champion-ship and will represent Divison Nine of the American Legion in the area play-offs in Carbon Co. The dates of the 4-team play-o?f quarter finals have not been announced, an-nounced, but will be the latter Dart of July. Vernal's failure to show up last Saturday handed the title tq the kids up ALtonah way. They had only one more game to play and that was Ft. Duchesne on July 4, yesterday. (Information not available avail-able on this gameX ' Roosevelt Wins Thriller The Basin Post sponsored team of Roosevelt won a thriller from the Ft. Duchesne kids last Saturday Sat-urday afternoon in an extra-inning affair. Roosevelt combined an er ror, two walks and a single by Shirl Rawlings for two runs in the first inning to take a lead they' held' until the top of the third. At this point Kenny Benson Ben-son issued consecutive walks to Denver and Daniels, then struck out Reed. Howeer, a passed ball and a fielder's choice gave the Utes a pair of runs and the bcore was all tied up. The two teams battled on even terms the remainder of the regulation regu-lation 7-inning game, which ended end-ed tied up at 2 all. In the top of the eighth four men faced Leon KiLlpack, who relieved Benson on the mound in the fifth. Bartlet, first batter up, flied out to center; Long singled, then Killpack retired the next two batters via the strike-out route. In the bottom half of the eighth Shirl Rawlings singled and Gordon Bascom broke up the tight game with a solid triple to score Rawlings with the tie-breaking run. The Box Score: l Ft. Duchesne AB H PO NebekeT, 2b 4 0 1 Morrill., ss 4 2 1 LaRose, If 2 0 0 Sixkiller, p 3 0 0 Bartlett, 3b ' 4 0 1 Long, cf 4 2 2 Denver, c 3 0 4 Daniels, lb 3 0 4 Reed, rf 2 0 0 Totals 29 4 21 Roosevelt AB H PO Killpack, cf-p 4 1 1 Labrum, 3b 2 0 1 Broderick, c-lf 3 2 3 Rawlings, cf-c 4 3 13 Bascom, lb 4 12 Cook, 2b ' 3 0 2 Hutchings, rf 2 0 0 Hullinger, rf 10 1 Curry, ss 2 0 0 Benson, p-cf 2 0 1 Total 27 7 24 |