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COON VALLEY NIPS SPARTACa (frnnur Srifnitt?Monday, July 13, 1957Deliver** on RED July J*13Schmitz, CashtonBlankDistrictBangoremiPro Crown/By JIM GUNDERSON(Tribune Sports Writer)ANGOR, Wis.—It was Duaneonly five hits, He walked Arentz I tween Donohue, Leo Schroedertwice, the only runner to reach and Bob Steigerwald, Steiger-first by that route while Schmitz j wald's hit being a double.Schmitz night here Sunday as had near-perfect control, walking In the seventh. Bangor threat-Cashton won a berth in the State no Bangor batter. ened. Leo Schroeder got his hit,Semi-Pro tournament at Milwau- j Cashton’s third run in the eighth but Elmer Muenzenberger fliedkee County Stadium with a 3-0 came on clutch-hitting Bob Wais’ deep into center field. Schroedershutout over Eangor. j sacrifice fly scoring Mashak who was forced at second on SchillingsThe big. 28-year-old righthand- reached second on an outfield er- grounder. Then with two out Stei-er hurled a brilliant three-hittcr ror and Mashak went to third on gerwald doubled to deep left cen-and retired 17 Bangor batters in a passed ball. ter, sending Muenzenberger toa row from the first inning until Stuckey had a double and sin- third. Schmitz then got Fred Sand-the seventh. Schmitz had shut out gle in two trips for Cashton while ' man on a pop to the shortstop.defending champion Soldiers Grove in a La Crosse District tourney opener Tuesday night, 1-0, giving just two hits in that game.Coon Valley captured consolation honors, downing Sparta, 2-1,behind Don Jacobson's six-hit performance. It was Jacobson's second win in the meet.Bangor started off with a bang when lead-off shortstop Duke Donohue singled down the rightfield line. He stretched it to two bases as Bobby Arentz’ throw was dropped at second by shortstop Wayne Dahl.Ron Mashak s error on Leo Sciiroeder’s ground ball sent Donohue scurrying from second homeward where he was chopped down on Dahl's fine peg to the rugged C a s h t o n backstop Bob Wais. Schmitz quickly retired the next two batters with Schroeder left on second.Bangor was three up and three down until the seventh. Schmitz retired the side on strikes in the fifth for three of his seven strikeouts in the game.Outside of Donohue’s single, Bangor hi? only one other ball to the outfield until the seventh. That was Leo Schroeder's fly to left. Schmitz had Bangor batters pop- j ping up to all four Cashton infield-er* !Orlando Olson gave Schmitz the only runs he needed in the second inning. The Cashton centerfieid-er smacked a bases-loaded double scoring Jim McIntyre and A1 Stuckey. McIntyre reached first by error, went to third on an error and Stuckey's single. Arentz had walked to load the sacks for Olsen's timely hit Dick Ghelfi, who had stopped Onalaska on a five-hit, 7-0 shutout and later relieved Corky Schil-Li.g to retire two batters on six straight strikes in the ninth inning against Sparta settled down and didn't give up another run until the eighth.Ghelfi fanned eight and allowedas far as third base after an error in the eighth, but Schmitz got out of the jam and then retired the side 1-2-3 in the ninth.Schmitz' one-hitter until the seventh was especially impressive since he was seldom in any trouble.C oon Valley 2. Sparta 1Don Jacobson won his second game of the tournament as he allowed Sparta six hits in Coon Valley’s 2-1 victory. Coon Valley wonBangor's hits were scattered be-. Pinch hitter John Langrehr got. an opener, 11-4. from West Salem,mmbut lost in the semi-final round to champion Cashton, 4-3.Coon Valley got nine hits off young Connie Gasper who struck : out seven, walked two and hit one batter. Jacobson fanned II and hit ; one batter.Coon \ alley scored in the first inning. Bill (Boober) Parizek, who had singled, scored on an infield error.Three hits in the sixth inning failed to produce a Coon Valley score. Singles by Parizek, Swede * Nordstrom and Layton N elson loaded the bases, but Ronnie Len-ser popped to the siiortstop and Roger Beck fanned to end thethreat.Jacobson singled in the doubling Jim Henley for what proved to be the winning run in the seventh.Sparta's ninth inning tally came on Stan Herman's single, an error and Earl Nelson’s sacrifice fly. Jacobson whiffed Dennis La-knwske and Dick Schauf grounded out, pitcher to first, to end the game.Sparta had reached the consolation finals by beating Tom ah,5-1, and losing to Bangor, 2-1, despite Billy Richards’ two-hitter.t II VMFIOJf-HIPAt Bangor Kaiifor lt;0 ( ishtnii (S)AB R H AflP.HTOURNEY STARvS—Stan Herman of Sparta, the leading hitter in the semi-pro tourney with seven hits.- Duane Schmitz of Cashton, most valuable player and best pitcher; and Wimpy Miller of West Salem who represented Karl Haverly, the tourney's leading slugger, areshown above with trophies presented them atthe conclusion of the title game between Cashton and Bangor. Cashton won, 3-0, on Schmitz’ second shutout of the tournament Barry Frcitag of Onaiaska was rated the oest pro prospect.—Tribune TbotuDonahue.ss 4 L.S'n'der.cf 4 M h'ger 2b 4Sc hi! ling. 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Hyland aa4 WuesuBestTournamentrBANGOR, Wis.—Cashton’s Duane Schmitz ran off with top honors in the 1957 La Crosse District Semi-Pro baseball tourney completed here Sunday.The tourney selections committee honored Schmitz with both themost valuable player award and the best pitcher trophy.The sturdy righthander pitched two shutouts in the tourney, blanking Bangor, 3-0, on a three-hitterin last night's finals and stopping Soldiers Grove s defending champions in a Tuesday night openerat Coon Valley, l-oSix pitchers were named to the 1957 star team and rightly so with pitching overpowering the hitting attack in almost every game played this year,Crogan, Wats, Schmitz and Schilling also made positions on tne I95t All-Star team. Schmitz was named the leading hitter last year as he belted two grand-slam homers in the semi-final game with Tom ah.Schmitz this year continued to bat clean-up. He went hitiess in 10 at bats, but his powerful pitching was tremendously importantto Cashton’s title dreams com-MVP,Pitchercatcher Barry Freitag and second baseman Amie Holthaus. Onalaska: and pitcher Connie Gasper, second baseman D.ck Spink and outfielder Norm Kowitz, Sparta.CONSOLATIONAl Bangor *P*rU (!) (’oon Valley lt;)AB R H AB R HB Spink vs) T V T* If *? HO * 4 4 At ,He:4it)faSterir .rfo r--R. t B+ank p00«?io00000r2 Parizek lbTI * «X0 N cis; rorr0 Ler. ?0 B* t..o0 Her {)[ jt'a--4 •rf■■'.'.3bbsnn.p3344344320l00000002I1*2 0 I 1 i0 0 lt;. p r ,j« 4-I * *Total* ■2 aG a - pc r i n 81 \n T ,aortitn\(1*0 001 —■ 1 6 3JIM GUNDERSONlt;r«i 'per, Bi*nk. r O. H « rli i r000 10X--2 9 Iana Laovt,C.trr. H \ .Ai.d and Wue--t.
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Mon, Jul 15, 1957
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