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STFPHFVYIU K FMPIRK TRim'XFJackets Down Spa CityNine 4-2 Here Friday• •ourwillWeSllt;at-P-ill.The Yellow Jackets of Stephen* villo High School finally got a good” basehi^l! grime under theiv collective belts Friday afternoon as they downed the Mineral Wells Mountaineers 4-2 at Tarlcton's Memorial Field.Hex Carey, who belted five for five in a previous outing against the Dublin Lions, continued his bat-a . 1 •‘ Dublin Lions, continued his batting splurge by pounding out a 0|v three-run double and a single in,m. f three official trips.tM1, 1 Dee Whitts fireballing lightj hander who has had bis share j of trouble in finding the plate for the Jackets so far this season, toiled the first four frames on the hill and allowed only four walks in the interim while the Mountaineers were picking up one unearned run. White gave up three hits in his stint on the mound, Carey also did creditable work on the hill, going the last three stanzas and allowing one run onone walk and three singles.The Jackets ran into the bestcurve artist they have met this season in the Mountaineers Roger Groves, who kept them loose at the plate with his slants that gave j the press box appearance of head-! ing straight for the right-handed ' batters only to curve across atthe last second. Knough of them ! failed to keep the Jackets wary.! Groves experienced a rough first | inning as he failed to catch on | with his curve and walked five men before getting an out.I Shortstop Bobby White, center*| fielder Darwin Hale andj baseman Wayne Stone each waitidie gardener misjudged. Wayne Zimmerman and Mike Keahey then drew free tickets to reload the sacks am! Tommy Glasgowlashed a slow one back to secondfoi an infield out that scored Car-i y. Groves then found the corners \to whiff both Torumv Loutherback%and Dee White.IT«e Spa City nioundsma.il col-j ieeted IS strikeouts over the route I chaas he shut the door after the first 1 *frame although allowing two has*IFat1 S 4Ap\groboo1gnisunlinrunners each in the third and load- j l|s*ing the sacks in the fourth and sixth. All three of the sixth inning runners were on bv five passesbut he spated the walks around brace of strikeouts.The box scores:J ACK lWi1aTgra(i*iy! G) der:rs■iB. White,Hale, cf| Stone, lb Carey, Mb-pZimmerman, rf if i Keahey. cGlasgow, 2b Lout hei back,l » ■ -• .\ Skillnian, rfI». Whit.*, p) Gunn. .’■! 11ARoItifi•i01111000u000M010‘J0100000K 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 ■ 0Total14 4 111M1NKK \1 WKI.I.SAH HvHota fieinnessin t Hahs i ti!i velt; beerP*IS.b2b:eIed out the Spa City all-around ath-n-lete for walks before Carey brought all of them in with his long double to center that the mid-Zinn, obC. Pratt,(’ampbell, fngle,Groves, p Shoemake,J. Pratt, rfWatson, IfMoore cfTeichman, ci•lb• I• I1000000I00no01 00 012 1 1K0000000000I tobed *have hart it wTotals*r»1 lt;» 0VIFoi tbaselynB i a'Grai w a st a tlt;
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Stephenville Empire Tribune
Stephenville, Texas, US
Fri, Apr 12, 1957
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