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Sixth Inning llomer Beats Aiken9lost Team Wins DixYouthSeriesBrewers Beal Detroit•On McAuliffe’s Hesitation-IiBy THE ASSOCIATED PRESSThe Milwaukee Brewers had Dick McAuliffe coming and going and Freddie Patek kept Washington on the run The Brewers who had lost 11 consecutive games to the Tigers in Detroit, ended that dry spell with a 2-1 decision Sunday. scoring the winning run on a little hesitation step againstMcAuliffe.Kansas City dumped Washington 4-1 with Patek stealing two more bases and increasing his major league leading total in that department.Elsewhere in the American League Sunday, Chicago tripped Cleveland 5-3, California blanked New York 3-0, Oakland swept a doubleheader with Boston, winning the opener 9-3and taking the second game 2-1. and Baltimore beat Minnesota 6-3.The Brewers and Tigers were tited at 1-1 in the sixth inning when Tommy Harper opened with a double for Milwaukee. Ron Theobold's single movedHarper to third Next. Jose Cardenal bounced to second baseman McAuliffe. Instead of going for the double play, McAuliffe threw to the . j plate to cut off Harper The -4 only problem there was that Harper didn’t try for the plate. He dove back to third base in-i stead, leaving the bases loaded. Dave Mav followed with an-wother bouncer to McAuliffe. This time the second baseman went for the double play, but he didn’t get it. May beat the re-lav to first by a step with Harper scooting home, carrying the winning run.Patek. Kansas City’s peskylittle leadoff man. ran the Roy-i als into a first inning run when ‘ he reached on an error and : then stole second and third)I1Ibase before scoring on Lou Pi-niella’s single.The two swipes gave the little 5-foot-4 infielder 43 stolen basesfor the season, tops in the majors.Four innings later, Patek was at it again, touching off another KC rally with a one-out double. He moved to third on an infield grounder and then scored on Gail Hopkins’ single. Piniella’s second single and Bob Oliver's double delivered two more runsPaul Splittorff got last-out help from Tom Burgmeier topickup the victory, his thirdover Washington this season.The White Sox got some long ball punch with Pat Kelly. Mike Andrews and Carlos May all poling home runs to beat ClevelandWilbur Wood ran his record to 17-9 for the Sox. who’ve won seven of their last eight games Roy Foster homered for the Indians.Andv Messersmith hurled a•*six-hitter while Jim Spencer and Roger Repoz rapped home runs as California clipped New York.Bv CHARLESHENSHAWStaff WriterPASCAGOULA, MissA sixth inning home runSOFTBALL TOURNEY WINNERSSoutheastern Tool Co. took a double header from Clearwater. 11-6 and 8-6. Friday night to win the Aiken Recreation Department s Invitational Softball Tournament. Members of Southeastern Tool are front row, left. Earl O’Rears. Terry Jovner. Don-- W - * ^ ’ ’ —--- —-- ■ Jgp * W ^ w w WDonnie Bowers. LeRoy Bruce. Donnie Cheeks. Curtis Nichols, Mike Campbell, Bil Maroney, and Madison Canady. Absent from picture are R L. Riley and DannyMartin (Staff photo bv Armour)spoiled Aiken’s third World Series bid, as th€ South Carolina All-Stars fell to host Pascagoula, 2-0, Friday night in the fifth round of the Dixie Youth World Series Pascagoula pitcher Larry Toups won his own game with a two run homer off right-hander Elmo Roundtree in the final inning and eliminated Aiken from the doubleelimination tournament.Pascagoula went on to win the double-elimination Series, beating Alabama 7-0, in the championship game Alabama took its first loss of the tournament Friday night, losing 9-0, to Florida, then came back Saturday afternoon to beat Florida, 11-1.Toups’ home run was only the second hit given up by fireballer Roundtree He gave up a single in the second mning, then pitched three and two-thirds innings of perfect ball With one away in the sixth he walked Keith May. who was put out on Johnny Olsen’s fielders choice Then Toups came up and hit a shot over dead center field Aiken had three hits, two by Eric Miner, but never made a serious threat. Miner finished the Series with a .727 batting average and four home runs.Tom Sanders singled for the other, Aiken hit.The Aiken All - Stars won three tournaments. 12 straight games, in claiming the right to represent South Carolina in the Dixie Youth World Series.They won their first game of the Series, crushing Mississippi. 9-2. then lost to Pascagoula in the third round, 5-3 Theycame back with a 5-1 win over Virginia, before being eliminated,Ironically, the Dixie Youth World Series turned out much the same as this year’s Dixie Senior World Series held in Selma. Ala In both. Aiken was eliminated by the host team, which went on to win the championship.Aiken competed in another World Series, the 1969 PonvLeague World Series in Wash ington. Pa. The Pony League All-Stars did not play the champions of that eventT was really proud of the boys. Aiken All-Star manager Tom Sanders said after the tournament •‘They plaved hard ballI'm not depressed, except I felt that I had the best ballclub down there and didn’t unnDonnieit»*
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Aiken, South Carolina, US
Mon, Aug 23, 1971
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