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FHS Nips• -For 3rd Straight Win- % - • 4-By DAVE EGBERT Stiff Writerkom Hall’s Statue of the bay hat was too ’sba* of Liberty play and long sparked FindlayHigh’s baseball team to a 4-3 victory—the third straight this season-over Defiance in the first-ever game on the newly-lighted$90,000 complex Tuesday.The Trojans, now 3-0, head into southern Ohio Thursday for a five-game slate over three days which features doubleheaders Friday and Saturday.Winning pitcher Ron Smith, who relieved Brad Reddick in the fifth, punched a one-out single up the middle—past a drawn-in infield—and brought pinch runner Kurt Jefferies home with the winning run in the bottom of the seventh inning, r ; *Defiance, 4-4, clipped Smith for three runs in the top of the seventh to tie the contest, Jay Lehman doubling for one run and Don Corwin following with a two-run single to left. , • \ '* !‘T was disappointed ip the way we hit the ball but I thought we,were going to win it,” FHS mentor Woody Curlis said. “It looked like maybe we were swinging at some pitches down and away from the strike zone but if I go back and check mv score book for the last seven years I think you’d find we don’t play very well at home. Don’t ask me why.”Third baseman Hall reached up like that famous French gift guarding the New York harbor-curing a no* outs, bases loaded situation in the fifth—andafter the frisky bait popped his mitt, stepped on third for a key double play.‘‘Definitely if the ball gets by Tom it’s a two-run single,” Curlis said, “it was ironic that he did it since the first baseman took a hit away from him on a line dfive the inning before.”Findlay scored twice in the second inning with Dave Litzenberg’s triple to the fence in left centerfield the big blow.Andy Schramm led off the frame with ahard bouncer to third and first baseman*Mark Ensign let the throw get away for a two-base error.Brian Wisner, who had a perfect day at the plate, beat out a slow dribbler downthe^thlrd base line and Schramm scored as Hectoraway.Litzenberg, who had two of Findlay’s three stolen bases, followed with his longclout.Tom Jones’ double to left, pinch hitter Marty Gase’s sacrifice bunt and a sacrifice fly off the bat of Wisner gave the Trojans a 3-0 lead in the sixth.The bat that was too long incident got Findlay started toward its winning rallyDin the Seventh.Catcher Bob Lambert, leading off the inning, fouled a hall back over the fence but catcher Tom Kulwicki was called for, interference when his glove touched Lambert’s bat during throwing.Smith wasted little time, after a steal. • * • */and wild pitch advanced pinch runner Jefferies to third, and singled home the winner. ,“We have a lot of rhaneuverability,some real burners sitting on the bench,” Curlis’ said. “That’s probably, the biggest, reason we dress so many. There are some that swing the bat pretty well but the ones that can run can’t hit and the ones that hit can’t run.”HISTORY CLASS—Here are some firsts fdr history’s, sake on the new diamond. First batter—Hector Rivera (Defiance); first out—Hector Rivera; first hit—Jay Lehman’s (Defiance) single, also first baserunner; first extra base hit and RBI—Dave Litzenberg’s (Findlay) triple; first run scored—Andy Schramm (Findlay); first pitch—Brad Reddick (Findlay ) threw a ball outside toRivera.Defiance * . 000 000 3—3 f 3Findlay 030 001 1-4 S 2WP—Ron Smltti (1-0). LP—Nick Keel.Leipsic Tourney PlannedLEIPSIC—A Class A softball tournament, sponsored by trie Leipsic Eagle softball team, is planned for May 1-2, 8-9. Entry fee is $45 and one new softball.Drawing for the tournament will be held in the Leipsic Lodge on April 24 at 8 p.m. For furtrier information contact Dick Mangas (275-2423) or Greg McDonald (943-2714).r
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Findlay Courier
Findlay, Ohio, US
Wed, Apr 14, 1976
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