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Show Wildcats' Mike Smith hurls six hitter as Woods Cross wins, 7-1 By KEITH DUNCAN BOUNTIFUL Woods Cross' Mike Smith delivered a dandy dan-dy on the mound Tuesday afternoon as the Wildcats drubbed Bountiful 7-1 and moved into a tie for third place in Region Four. Steve Lindsey, the Woods Cross coach, was high on Smith's performance, calling it "superb." "He ( Smith) was the heart and soul of that victory, he was just super," continued the coach. Smith allowed a good hitting Bountiful team just six hits and went the distance in posting another league win for himself. He also struck out nine Brave batters along the way. Overall it might have been one of Smith's best performances of the year as he kept the ball down all afternoon and very seldom got behind the hitter. To aid Smith, the Woods Cross team failed to make any errors behind him. "We just had a couple of great plays and many routine ones," said Coach Lindsey. The victory moved Woods Cross to 2-3 in league play which is what Bountiful drops to as well. Highland was 4-0 entering league play on Tuesday, having to play winless East. Viewmont beat Davis 10-1 and thus moves to 4-1. Davis fell to 2-3 also. This Friday Woods Cross will play Davis High School. Bountiful Boun-tiful will try and regroup against a very solid Highland High team. The Wildcats had gone up 7-0 in the sixth inning before Bountiful finally scored. It was a Tony Smith triple and a Sid Smith single that gave the Braves their only run. Smith collected another triple along the way and Smith came away from the game with two singles. Woods Cross jumped on Bountiful early by scoring three runs in the top of the first inning on four hits. Brett Rogers led off with a single, Jerry Jensen followed with a double that scored Rogers, Ro-gers, Matt Watson collected a single and Steve Wort hen later hit a double that scored two runs. The Wildcats bunched four hits in the third inning again and scored three more runs. The heroes in that inning were Watson with a single, Worthen with a single, Elkin got a single and an RBI and Richard Julison smacked a double that scored two more runs. In the top of the sixth the Wildcats scored one more run when Shaun Cosper and Jensen put together a pair of hits. Chad Rigby went just two and a third innings before giving way to a relief pitcher. . "If we play up to our ability ana our other pitchers come through, we might have a fair chance of finishing things off the way we'd like," said the Woods Cross coach. Brad Kossin appears to have the nod as the starting pitcher w hen the Wildcats take on Davis this Friday. Kossin is just a . sophomore, the same richer who held Viewmont to four innings in-nings of no scoring last Friday. |