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Coach Joe Hodge's Shark Club baseball team posted another j come-from-behind victory yesterday afternoon to run. their unde-4feated record to 7-0.The victory gained'on the RHS j field- in humid, hot; sticky weather J enabled the. Sharks to stay in .first place via the Southwest Virginia Junior League, with three games remaining in regular season* play.Shark right handed, pitcher^ Darrell Dobbins,- survived a rocky first inning in which the visitors ! scored three runs after two were out, then settled down to' pitch three hit; bail the resi of the way.In addition, f)obbins was the batting star, as he personally „drove in seven of the Sharks’ 10 rims to be a one/tn-ari wrecking crew, with a • single/ tripie, and home run.Doubles by Dean and Thicker highlighted the first Austinville rally, but th® Sharks came back to score four ruris in .their turn at bat..Tony. Vlars and Hall’s double odd-•ed two.rpore runs for the Sharks In ! the seeped' inning; after Austinville had scored , twice to take a 5*4' lead without benefit of a base-hit.Lephew’s double enabled the visitors to tie things at 6-6 in the fourth, but the Sharks again Prarp.e back to score three. runs as Dobbins a-1 gain helped, his own cause with' a j lusty home.run with two runners on. The blow scored Howlett whe| had singled and Holland aboard iwith a. base on bails, and. forged ; a 9-G lead. '■ \ • • / '• ” '•Austinville picked tip its final two runs on one‘hit in the' sixth fti-t ning,: eftef singles by Howlett and; Dobbins'i sandwiched around an error enabled the Sharks to score their te^th run in the bottom half of the fifth.The Sharks picked - up ten hits with Dobbins collecting three, , and Howlett adding a nair dfrsingles, off losing pitcher Dean. , .H-. Thacker with a single and • double paced Austinville's six hit lt;attack. Dobbins walked-six. hit one -batter, and struckort asx as he tan his..record to 2-0 foi the season. The victory’was also his first stprt and first complete game.The Sharks return to'action Wednesday whCi.: they iseek. their; second victory of thefseason over Pu- . lar‘ ‘ si. :s '•'-0c!.SignSAN FRANCISCO’ (UPI —The San Francisco Foyty Ninbrs^ ah-bounced Monday that defensive halfbacks 2 d d i e Dove, Jerry -, Mertens, Dale Messer and Flbert • Kimbrough have signed contracts for the 1963 National Football -League season. -» *-P*Hawaii has 1W.B. males to each 100 females .
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Radford News Journal
Radford, Virginia, US
Tue, Jul 02, 1963
Page 4
Full Page
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Kelly H.
NA, 23 Oct 2021
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