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Orioles Split Pair, Return Home TonightBRISTOL — The Bluefield Onoles return home tonight after splitting an Appalachian league doubleheader with Bristol’s Tigers here Tuesday night,The Orioles will face the same Tigers !«adt night. Bristol won the first game. 4-0, on a one-hitter by Jack Smith, but the Onoles exploded for seven rum in the fourth inning to win the nightcap, 8-1.Smith completely stymied the Baby Birds in the opener, limiting them to just a solid, leadoff single by Kddie Rodriguez in the sixth inning Smith struck out eight and taking the defeat was Don Welchel, who surrendered five hits.Brooks Carey hurled masterfully for Bluefield in notching the second-game win He went the distance and permitted the second-place Tigers just three safeties.1 aarry Sheets drove in a run to tie the game in the fourthinning for the Onoles before an error opened the floodgates Six more runs crossed the plate, two on a single by Bill Marerro and two more on a triple by John Shelby.Cal Ripken. Kurt Fabnzio and Sheets led the Birds at the Dlate with two hits apiece
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Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Bluefield, West Virginia, US
Wed, Aug 09, 1978
Page 17
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Becky K.
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