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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1947
Page
13
The Shafter Eagles baseball team will play a return engagement Sunday against the Delano Merchants on the Richland ball diamond at West Lerdo. The Eagles enter with a 6 and 4 record this season and admission is free.
The Shafter Eagles from Mexican Colony lose 9 6 to Bakersfield Tigers. Bakersfield scores seven runs in the first two innings and reliever Dave Flores is knocked out. Trini Rodriguez fans four over three innings while Art Palomo allows no runs in the final two. The Eagles’ big sixth inning nets five runs.
Strong high school sprint and field events loom at the West Coast Relays in Fresno on May 17. Notables include Tulare’s Bob Mathias in multiple events and Shafter’s Wayne Hill in the high school 100 yard dash, with contenders from Roosevelt Fresno Merced and Visalia among others challenging Relays records.
Shafter ace Wayne Hill finished second in the county high school track meet in Taft. Rikard tied for fourth in the class C pole vault, and the class A relay team placed fourth. Taft won the meet with 110 points, Bakersfield second, East Bakersfield third, Wasco fourth, Tehachapi fifth, Shafter sixth.
Shafter high school enters the Valley Sierra league track finals in Coalinga with a class A relay team plus Hill in the 100 and Fletcher in the 220 and broad jump. Graves runs the 440, Melvin poles, Nugent and Sharp run hurdles, Schaeffer competes in the shot put, and Rikard is the sole class C pole vaulter.
Wasco Merchants defeated Shafter 8 to 3 at Wasco ballpark. Demery pitched well for Wasco while Johnson and Lynch shared pitching for Shafter. Johnson started for Shafter and was relieved by Lynd. Demery led Wasco last year in the county title chase as Wasco seeks another win.
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