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Healing Arts retains slow-pitch championshipHealing Arts, formerly Allison’s, repealed as Bedford County Slow Pitch Softball League champions for 1987 with a 27-1 league mark. Shownarc, front row: batboy Travis Corle, Barry Weyant, Ken Corle, Chuck Corle, Richard Miller, Bob Mickle, Richard Ickes, and batboy ChrisWeyant. Back row: Don Miller Mike lckes, Jeff Burket, Johi Defibaugh, George Crist, Doui Miller, and Larry Weyant.Far East belts U.S. againOne team was changed, and one team name was changed. But the outcome of the Bedford County League Slow-Pitch playoffs Sunday was a virtual mirror-image of that of a year ago.For the second consecutive season. Healing Arts (Allisons of a year ago) entered the finals with an undefeated season at stake. For the second consecutive season they came up one game short. But for the third straight season overall, they went on to capture the BCL title.Healing Arts opened Sunday’s title series with wins of 16-11 and 12-8 before Bedford Carpets stopped the streak with a 14-5 win in the third game. HA bounced back to take the clincher. 9-3.The tone for the series was set in the first game, when Carpets jumped out to a 9-0 lead and could not hold the fort. The key shots inCarpets' li-hit first inning were a three-run home run by Tim Foor and a two-run single by Jeff Mearkle.A three-run blast by Doug Miller started Healing Arts on the comeback trail in the first inning. The score stood at 10-7 in favor of Carpets into the sixth, when HA exploded for nine runs of its own. With one out and the bases loaded, Bobby Mickle started a string of eight straight RBI plate appearances. Richard Miller had a two-run single, Larry Weyant an RBI double, and George Crist a run-scoring triple.Winning pitcher Don Miller was a perfect 4-4 for HA, and Crist added three hits.Carpets held an early 3-2 lead in the second game, but a three-runhomer by Crist in the top of the third♦put Healing Arts up for good. A five-run fourth inning, keyed by a doubleby Don Milter and a triple by Richard Miller, put the game on ice. Carpets did rally late, with a two-run homer by Sam Beard in the fifth and two unearned runs in the sixth.Don and Richard Miller each had three hits in the second game, as did Carpets’ Steve Beard.The meat of the Bedford Carpets lineup found the range in the third game. No. 2 hitter Steve Beard was 3-3 with two doubles. Three-hitter Foor was 3-4 with two RBI. cleanup hitter Sam Beard blasted two two-run homers. Steve Press and Jim Criswell also had three hits each.Carpets was also sparked in the game by pitcher Barry Graham, who held HA scoreless over the final four innings.Healing Arts picked up two runs in the first inning, then went up 4-0 in the second on a homer by Richard Ickes. The game remained relatively close until HA exploded for four in the sixth on an RBI single by Larry Weyant, a two-run homer by Crist, and the second homer of the game by Ickes.Carpets' fate was sealed in the sixth inning when Barry Weyandt, playing shoeless because of a painful toe injury, climbed the fence in left field to take a home run away from Foor.SEMIFINALS Healing Arts 15 County Traitifer 13 County Transfer 513 030 2 — 1310Healing Art* 10$045 * —15 22CT: Dave Musselman and Tom Dodson. LP—Mussulman HAt Meath Miller and Larry Weyant. WP—MIHer 2B; HA-Meach Miller, Larry Weyant? CT-Alan Dickens, Doug Cl ay comb. Dave GrabfH* Dwayne Fleegle, Tom Dodson.3B: AM-JeH Burket, George Crist; CT-Owayne Fleegle.HR I HA-Muga Miller 2; CT-Doug Claycomb, Phil Langham.Healing Arts 11 County Transfer 4 Healing Arts 420041 0-11 17County Transfer 010 2001 — 410HAi Meach Miller and Larry Weyant. WP—Miller CT: Dave Mussetman and Tom Dodson. LP—Musselman 2Bi CT-Dwayne Fleegle 3B: HA-Meach Miller HR; HA-Doug ClaycombBedford Carpets 17 K's Vending 9 K's Vending 043200 0— 912nflrilr.rrf Carnvi*. 32? 044 V — 17 24WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. (AP) -Little Leaguers from Irvine, Calif., rode to the World Series championship game with strong pitching, an explosive offense and the rallying cry, “Catch The Wave.”On Saturday, they were swamped.Hua Lian, Taiwan, routed the U.S. West champion 21-1 in the Little League World Series championship game to give the Far East its 17th title in 21 years with the most lopsided score in the tournaments’ 40-year history.“They don’t have anything to be ashamed about,” said Irvine Manager Bob Garcia, father of star-16-7 win over Lock Haven, Pa., in the first World Series championship in 1947.Aron Garcia, who had given up one run in the previous 60 innings, allowed 13 hits and all 21 runs in the first 2 2-3 innings.Taiwan scored five runs in the first inning on two hits, two errors, three walks and three wild pitches.Pang Yu-Long hit a grand slam in a nine-run second inning, and Yu-Long, Lin Yi-Hung and Wang Chi-Kwou each added two-run homers in the seven-run third.“Their pitcher was not calm enough,” Hua Lian Manager LiucaiH arlHint? tVint HaRyan O’Toole, who had two hit came in for Garcia and pitched 2 1 innings of hitless relief.David Lambert and Chris Greinl each doubled, and Garcia and Ry* Jones added singles for Irvin located about 50 miles southeast Los Angeles.Hua Lian, 16-0, reached the fina by blanking a mostly Americi team from Dhahran, Saudi Arabi 7-0, in the quarterfinals Tuesday ar edging Moca, Dominican Republi 4-0, in an eight-inning semifin. game completed Friday after beir postponed because of darknes Thursday.Taiilroti Koc? nmir umn tmnHealing Arts’ cleanup hitter league championship series. MillerRichard Miller finds a nitch he likes lashed the ball for a two-run triple,
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