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Van Wert BlastsLimaLegionContestTLIMA — The Van Wertjon a single by Cunningham, the five American Legion baseball team pitcher. It was at this point that team made three error*« * A A t 1 .... V • 1 * * • k . . ahits. The befuddled Limain thebombed Lima 9-1 Friday night at Lima. It was Lima’s first loss in League play.Mike Gardner pitched brilliantly for Van Wert, par ticularly in the clutch. Lima entered the game with a 37 6Gardner shut the door on Lima inning Bickle led off the inningallowing them just two singles with a single Gardner lined a the remainder of the game. 'screaming single to left center.Van Wert put a hush over and Temple singled to load the the always shouting Lima fans bases. Clay singled scoring when they scored three runs in Rickie. Kline singled scoring the top of the fourth. Gary Clay Gardner and Temple and whenRrecord and had won 24 of their singled, Gary Fline walked and the ball got a wav from the third—. — — ri —— - A — A »last 25 games but Gardner and his teammates left no doubt they came to play.Harter, leadoff batter for Lima, singled. Bowden singled, and that’s where Gardner took over. Taylor, in attempting to sacrifice the two runners around, hit a pop-up to Gardner for the first out. Williams andVan Dyke were quickly retiredon fly balls to the outfield.Lima took a one-run lead in the second. Fraley led off and was safe on an error, Ciminillo sacrificed Fraley to second, from where he advanced to third on a wild pitch and scoredthe bases became jammed when baseman t 1 acored withTom Kiehl was safe on an error. Branfield put down a beautiful bunt taking Lima by surprise for a single scoring Clay. Bave Bickle then hit a clutch single scoring Kline andKiehl. but Branfield was cut down at third base to retire theside.Van Wert added another run in the fifth on a walk to Clay and a long double by Klinescoring Clay.Kline taking second base. Lima brought in Steve Sharp to pitch and he walked Kiehl, Rickardand Hoghe, scoring Kline. McGarvey fanned and Bickle hit into a fast double play to end the inning.Gardner made believers out of the Lima fans and players by striking out Taylor and W’illiams and getting Van Dyke to ground out and end the game.g«CPioiVAN WERT added insult tothe pride of Lima in the ninth inning, scoring five big runs onIT APPEARS Manager Gordon Knittle is set on his Ime-for the District Tournamentti(upCarroll's SinkerGives Reds WinOver Cards/ST LOUIS (AP) — Clay Carroll's last ball put him in trouble Friday night, so thesquare-jawed reliever went back tc work with a sinker in ecording his 20th save.“That 20th save came hard,*’ iaid the 31-year-old Cincinnati Reds right-hander, who choked off a budding St. Louis cardi-i lals rally in a 6-3 win.“I didn’t feel like I had verymuch out there.” he added,drove a sacrifice fly to center field to make it 6-3 and pinch-hitter Ted Sizemore hit another last ball into left field.With runners on first and third and the game in the balance, Carroll served up a sinker to Brock, who slapped it to second baseman Joe Morgan’s right for a force at second.“It kind of scared me be* Jcause, he (Brock) is the ptye of I hitter who can tie it up,” saidas defensively, Van Wert without a doubt played its best game of the year with Claybeing outstanding at third base.Clay, Kline, Branfield. Bickle and Gardner all had two hits to lead the Van Wert attack. Bowden was the only plavcr for Lima to get two hits Gardner got credit for thewin, giving up one run on five hits. He didn’t allow a walk and fanned nine Lima batters. Cunningham and Sharp gave up 10 hits, walking seven while striking out 11 Van Wert batters.Van Wert will travel to Rellfontaine for a league game Sunday afternoon starting at 2 p. m.tlirngvVhSummaryVAN WIKIBl 1 I was lucky enough to get I Carroll. “I was lucky to get thethe ball down. This kind of hu midity wilts you”Carroll, appearing in his 35th game, was auspicious against the first and final batters he faced in relief of Ross Grims-ley, 7-3, who pitched the first 7 1-3 innings.Lou Brock and Matty Alou had worked singles off Grims-| ley around a force play in the eighth when the 6-foot-l Carroll came on and induced Joe Torre | to ground into • double | with his first pitch.That preserved a 4-2 lead theRbds exoanded to 6-2 in th#»J sinker where I wanted it.”The run off Carroll, who car* ried an earned run average of 1.43 into the appearance, was | onlv the second in his last 31TempleClay 3bKline cfKiehl If RickardGeorge IBranxielrij Bickle mGardnerM cGarvevHoghe ss2brfH1320IAlb»H112o00*prf!10A200Total*101.1 M \playinnings“I've just been lucky,” he in-isisted, however. “The guys have been playing good ball behind me and we've had good hittingCincinnati's victory, boosting its National League West Divi* sion lead to 2V* games over the Houston Astros, was the Reds’ eighth in 10 games against thef'arHwBowden If Harter as ..Taylor lb « Williams cf Van Dyke cCiminillo 3b Fraley rf Cunningham Herman 2b Crowe 2b Sharp p .KB14!PR00000010000H 2 i ot0 000 j0 I 0TotalsLimaVan Wert010 000 000 000 310 00SiRI93Hn10
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Van Wert Times Bulletin
Van Wert, Ohio, US
Sat, Jul 15, 1972
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