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Harvey Babe RuthDouble Victory Keeps Coffee Break in RaceThe Coffee Break remained in contention, at least mathematically. for the first round title in the American division of the Harvey Babe Ruth league with a pair of victories over slumping Rube s Sportsmen last week.Pace-setting Don’s Auto Body also triumphed twice, however, and carries a two-game bulge over The Coffee Break entering the last week of first round action.Rube's, a challenger to the top spot earlier in the season, fell to a 4-5 record as the Coffee Break posted 24) and 14-8 victories.CHANDLER MacKEY doubled after two Rube's errors in the second inning of the first contest, and that was all the offense Coffee Break hurler Joe Keefner required.Keefner blanked the Sportsmen on five hits while striking out nine, and wiggling out of several jams. Only once was Keefner able to retire Rube’s in order, that in the sixth inning.Mike Kolodziej poked two loubles in a losing cause, while dackey paced the Coffee Break ittack with a single and a dou-le. The winners registered five lits altogether, and pinned the oss on Ierrick Love.The second contest was any-hing but a pitcher’s duel, as the Joffee Break utilized a seven-un second and a six-run fifth to merge a 1441 victor.COFFEE BREAK pitcher till Cunningham had a rocky uting despite going the dis-ince. He was racked for 11 its, but did manage to shut out ic losers over the last three in-mgs.Duane Parham's three-run homer tied the game for Rube’s at 7-7 in the third, and the Sportsmen slipped •head in the fourth when Jeff Sovak and Gary Wallerich tingled.The winners roared back with xth in the last of the fourth, a Keefner’s walk, a hit bats-lan, singles by Cunningham id Mike Malec, plus Dave atkins double and additional ifeties by Marv DuBois and Jam Wojtowicz.Gil Dickerson, the first of two iibe’s twirlers. absorbed the ss. Novak, who came on in re-f, rapped four singles to steal e show offensively.EVERYBODY, OR so it emed, was picking on theSportsmen last week. Don’s Auto Body managed just three hits, but took advantage of wildness on the part of Novak to waltz to a 7-4 decision.Novak issued seven walks and hit two hatters in his four-inning stint, and winning pitcher Wally Roseman and first baseman Greg Jackson supplied key hits as Don s opened up a 74) bulge.The wildness bug bit Rose-rnan and allowed Rube s a comeback bid with four unearned runs over the last three innings. Roseman only permitted one hit. a two-run double by Jeff Zapchenk in the fifth He struck out 10 and walked five.Don’s then proceeded to pound Tomchaney Motors 12-4 for its sixth win in seventh outings, and this time got an excellent mount performance from southpaw Jackson.GREG WAS touched for just two hits, singles by Bob Anderson and Carlos tanda. and was in control all the way despite five walks and four errors committed by his teammates.The Auto Body crew broke up a 2-2 tie with a five-run rally In the fourth that featured just two hits, singles by A1 Ze-maitis and Dave Hankins. Don’s got even more mileage out of the offense in the sixth, tallying five more with only Jackson’s single to show in the hit column.I.anda relieved Anderson in the second and did himself in with six walks, but eight Tomchaney errors didn't help matters either.The loss failed to alter Tom-chaney’s standing as the league-leader in the National division though. The Motormen, the only team in the division with a better than .500 record, whipped Harvey Cab 8-5 to open up a two and a half game lead over the nearest challenger. Morrison Furniture.TOMCHANEY RIGHTY Doug Mathey pitched one-hit ball for the first five innings and his teammates gave him an 8-0 edge to play with against Cab loser Danny Graham. Cab got five unearned runs in the last two innings for the 8-5 final.Mathey yielded three hits, all singles, while fanning a whopping 13. He also slammed an RBI single and a two-run homer for two of his team's five hits off Graham. Cab turned around and aided Tomchaney further by knocking off Morrison Furniture 2-0 on the strength of Rick Ward s 10-strikeout, two-hit effort. The winners scored once in the second on Graham’s triple and a passed ball, and again in the third on two Morrison errors.loser Dan Chick allowed just four hits but received paltry support from his teammates. Ioadoff hitter Ioe Reinbolt had both Morrison safeties.EARLIER.DANNY Williams and Kiwanis had thrown a 7-0 goose egg at Morrison for their first win of the campaign. Williams made his 1972 mound debut a memorable one. taming the losers on three hits and 13 strikeouts.On offense. Williams cracked a single and a homer and drove in three runs while Nolan Robinson and Jim Bradford notched other key hits.Kiwanis made it two in a row as they trimmed Optimist 5-2. Marty Grant duplicated Williams’ effort with a three-hitter, although Jeff Kaufman did account for Optimist’s only two runs with a double.Doubles by Mike Finney and Lamont Durham figured prominently in the Kiwanis scoring, as the winners rapped seven hits to improve their record to 2-5.StandingsDOLTON BOYS B AtC BALL VOUTM LEAGUENationalEa*lW 1. 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Markham Star Tribune
Markham, Illinois, US
Thu, Jun 15, 1972
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