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PARK FOREST BOYS BASEBALLInternationalRaiders Win Away From Playoff SetBy MIKE GLENNON The Raiders of the International league won a big one Saturday, picking up a full game on the .second place Chargers.IntermediateOne Hit Is One TooMany, Falcons FindMidwestPeryam TopsStanke; Reed I Stingy Scott StopsHit Decisive Omaha With ShutoutBy NEIL CHERNIKOFFBy DOROTHY JOHNSONBob May, winning pitcher who held the Chargers to three hits,The Spartans managed to stop the undefeated Falcons 6 to 5 in the Intermediate. Although the three Falcon pitchers only gave up one hit, the Spartansmanaged to score five of their runs on walks, hit batsmen and errors. The Spartansjumped to a four run lead in l Mai or, , „ , . the first inning where they gotstarred also m offense, as he their onlv hit ■ I* Icollected a single and two dou- The Falcons jumped on Doug InClldnS BOtTID**??• „ „ | Spencer in the second inningif the Haiders beat the Tex-1 wken they collected all fiveruns on four hits. Spencer then settled down and blanked theans Thursday, they will haveclinched the second half pennant, and will play in the championship game Sunday at 3 against the Titans, winners of:he first half.In a makeup game Friday be-(Contirmed on page 27)*-r-V/.Falcons for the rest of the game.In the last inning the Spartans put over the winning run on a hit batter, two walks, and an error. The winning pitcher was Doug Spencer, who pitchedthe Spartans to their first winthis second half by holding thefirst place Falcons to six hits.* * *THE WARRIORS dumped thePanthers 11 to 7. The winning pitcher was big John Traysor who gave up six hits and fiveCards; Take Series LeadBy BOB WOLFIn the first game of the Major “World ‘Series,” the IndiansThe Redskins dumped the Packers in a hot senior league contest, 3-2, knocking the Pack out of first place for the second half.It was a pitcher’s duel between Ken Pervam of the Red-Wskins and Ron Stanke.The Skins went out in front in the first inning as Mark Sieron, Jeff G e r h a r d t and Charles Wilkinson each collected a hit. In the fourth and sixth innings the Pack scored their runs.By JO ANNE BOLGRENDallas and Denver played their final game of the Midwest season with Dallas winning 10 to 2. Dallas played a fine defensive game and pounded out 15 hits in support of lefty Woody Wilkes, who won his fourthgame of the season.Captain Jack Lvnch led the hits by Herb Borchers. BobHall and Hartmann Miller.The winning runs came in thetop of the seventh off the batsof Bob Lake. Jim Bean, Woodyand George Fasanella had'two Brosnon and Bob Hall. Ia\eassault with 4 for 4 and played a brilliant defensive game at second base. Chris Marshall had three hits, while Bob LvnchRaboy led the Shreveport hitter with three singles.St. Paul and MinneapolisTHE REDSKINS went out infront in the bottom of the sixth_ as Ronnie Reed singled andwent on the war path and mo- scored the winning run. Mark lested the Cardinals 15 to 0 onSieron had the big bat for thewinners as he had three hits. Gerhardt and Wilkinson hada fine two hit route job by Rick Standish, who after ashaky second when he two Ran(jy Raiman collectedgave up his only hits and the {^wo ^its for packers.The Redskins beat the LionsCardinals had the bases load-1 ed, got out of the jam and went the rest of the way without any trouble.Dick Lang and Ron Shawruns, but needed help from Jim!, * 6 'Post in the fifth inning. bu‘h angled for the Carfc Theb Indians hitters were led byMike Bennish with two doubles,Jim Wolf with a three baggerand Bill Tollefson and Jeff*$A*0 *The Panthers looked as if they had a big inning going in the fifth when Ken Mintz smashed out a triple, George Mintz followed with a double and Ray Cooney singled. However, Post came on and retired the side with no furtherdamage being done.The Warriors scored in all but two innings as Greg Gilow was three for three with threeRBI. Steve Hinesley and JohnTraysor also sparked the Warriors at the plate as both went two for three. The Panthers also did their share of hitting as Dave Wallace led the way with two for three.The Falcons just managed to dians 3 to 2. Tom Sullivan, a squeeze past the Mustangs 91 replacement from Wichita, gotto 8 to clinch, at worst, a first7 - 5 as they pounded out 12 hits. Wilkinson and Peryam shared the pitching with Peryam getting the win.The Lions scored first asGreg Reisig and John Schia- j voni each got a free trip to first. Dave Carmen got on by an error and all three runnersapiece. Bruce Adam had a double for Denver.In a free scoring slugfest,Minneapolis defeated Americankf°und themselves competitorsdivision champion Ft. Worth, *R ,vvo §a^es this week, with 20 to 9. Minneapolis combined eac^ chalking up a victory.good hitting and base running! Game number one saw Minnea-with excellent pitching by Dave P°^s come out on top - to I. Conroyd and Dick Yule to up- j ^ * ,n n 1 ^ *set the newlv crowned pennant! duel. Dick Vuie and Webb Seg-ar turned in sterling moundperformances for the winners.Two St. Paul hurlers. Randy SCOTT F ALLICK pitched a y0Sf ancj j0hn Coffin put togeth-hit shutout, allowing nowinners.twowalks and letting only one run-Wray with two singles.In the final games of the j crossed the plate. ,schedule, some upsets were re-1 The Redskins made it three corded. The most explosive of i in a row as they came out on these was engineered by the! top of the Eagles, 9-5. Gary I Tigers Bob Hogland, who with | Brust took the win. The Eagleshis club losing 6 to 3 in the ! scored three runs in their half j For Pennant in Illini last of the sixth, hit a grand of the first, but the Redskins slam #home run, to send the came right back and did theCards down to defeat 7 to 6. same. The losers thener a not hitter, but even this_ was not enough as Dave Conner get as far as third base, to rovcj scorelt;j the winning run inlead Buffalo to a 7 to 0 win the fottom of the eighth, over National division chain- |n (he second game s, pau,pion umaha. scored an 8 to 4 victorv behindLouisville and Shreveport; the pitching of Don Anderson.battled seven innings with I Anderson went the distance giv-Louisville coming out on top 5 ing up four runs on four hjts4 * I C L* m m * m a* 4 la I ♦ / * II ... . • . « i *to 2. Shreveport held a 2 to 0t vvhlIe stnkmg out six and walk-lead until the sixth inning j jfjg onlv twowhen Louisville tied it ud on * * *Salem, Peoria ClashThe makeup games in the American are finished, with Sa-5?: *lem coming out on top. partially thanks to Kankakee’s defeat of Champaign. The championship will be decided in a two-out-of-THE SAINTS continued theirmarch down the victory trail by downing Houston 5 to 1, behind the pitching of left hander Mark Roter. Roter gave up onerun on two hits, striking out It.Steve McCuen wielded a bigt --------— ------ ------ got1npiirr DDJvrc i • , i another run in the second, but,k K k ! 5 p ahylng fT1 the winners came across with Ibaseball behind t h e steady Th jn (h fjf(h ipitching of Jack Dekker, seored cmcbe(j tbe w;n The hitters | three”series between Salem and Saints tight defensetwo runs in the bottom of the ! {or (he Ea les were M j k e ttlree senes between Salem anabat. getting two hits in three at bats. McCuen also sparked thesixth to take the Champion In- Lamb Hoffman. Jeff Holmes.two hits, his last scoring StevePat Sullivan. Garv Alsbrook* Xand Larry Bowdoin.*!y.yv.v«■ . • » • m * W- -• J**. »»:* ti.0 ¥ .v.-v.v./.y• « « 0mm «, - 0 m , m• J ••Av/a» • r • • * mlm • P ■ • - . FJmm — m wyySfe activity on Saturday, August al Ladies day, the ladies will to the field before the Sox-in exercise class designed to e physical and figure fitness.place tie. The Mustangs jumped i to a quick six run lead as Mike Chesley, Bob Treitker and Doug LoSchiavo all blasted out singles to lead the six run outburst. The Mustangs scored two more runs in the top of the sixth to lead 8 to 3.HOWEVER, IN the bottom of the sixth the Falcons bats broke loose as Mike Lamb and Terrie Kerestes singled then Greg Johnson and Gary Als-brook* tripled. Before the Falcons could be retired they had collected six runs on four hitsto stay in the lead for good.The Warriors remained in contention for first place as they dropped the Badgers in a short three inning game 7 to 3. The Warriors started offSa liman with the tying run and then scoring the winning run on Bryan Teed’s single.with a bang in the first in-ing as Ron Nykl, Bill Hanson and Ken Hetzler singled, backed up with doubles by Joe Passavanti and Tim Kerestes for a 4 to 1 edge.In the top of the second the Badgers got to Nykl on hits by Tom Peralta and Jim Klema. Jim Post came on in relief and blanked the Badgers the rest of the way. In the bottom of the second the Warriors picked up three more runs on a single by Steve Hinesley andBill Hanson’s second hit of thegame, a long double. The winning pitcher was Ron Nykl who only gave up two hits.COLLECTING HITS for the. fl:Redskins were Keith Kanten-1mwein with three, including two doubles, and Mark Sieron, Charles Wilkinson, Norm Kane. Ronnie Reed. Gordon Sieberg and Phillip Burnett.The Steelers took two fromPeoria.The second game is scheduled for 10 a.m. Saturday and the final battle is slated for 3 30p.m. Sunday.Pitches No-Hit GameThe Midwest league 9 and 10 vear old all stars defeated awtough Matteson all star group Sunday, 3 to 0. Herb Borchers, Dick Yule, Scott Fallick and Ed Blechschmidt combined pitching talents, yielding only one hit. The Stars offense was1 from the Eagles, 4 - 0 and 8-2.' Xeen-Er league. In the first game the losershits were by Bruce Hoffman,Rich Kasting and a triple by j Jeff Holmes. The Steelers crossed the plate four timesin the first. Winning pitcher ‘Jerry Denk collected a dou-; ble and a single, with Steve Bergstrom, Jeff Brown and Alan Kelley getting the other 1hits.Bergstrom took the win in(Continued on page 27)In VFW Teen-Er Ball 1c. ci by ^ ^ oo i ^ ^ ^W’ilbur Smith of Moose pitched a no-hit game against Ki-wanis, winning 3 to 0. last week , in the Chicago Heights VFW'Read “The Hot Corner’’fa home run in the third inning to bring in two runs. The entireteam played well defensively,with the highlight coming in the third inning in the form of a double play, Tom Henry toDick Wade.
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