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Van Wert Blasts LimaLegionContestLIM AThe Van Wertion a single by Cunningham, theAmerican Legion baseball team bombed 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. Limapitcher. It was at this point that Gardner shut the door on Lima allowing them just two singles the remainder of the gameVan Wert put a hush overthe always shouting Lima fans when they scored three runs inentered the game with a 37-6 the top of the fourth. Gary Clayrecord and had won 24 of their last 25 games but Gardner andhis teammates left no doubtthey 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 runnersaround, hit a pop-up to Gardner for the first out. Williams and Van Dyke were quickly retired on 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 scoredsingled, Gary Kline walked andihe bases became jammed when Tom 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 runin the fifth on a walk to Clayand a long double by Klinescoring Clay.0 * *\ \\ WERT added insult tothe pride of Lima in the ninth inning, scoring five big runs onCarroll's SinkerGives Reds WinOver Cards.ST LOUIS (AP) — Clay Car-i oil'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,” said the 31-vear-old Cincinnati—■ - .mmReds right-hander, who choked off a budding St. Louis cardi-lals rally in a 6-3 win.“I didn’t feel like I had very much out there,” he added, “BUT I was lucky enough to get the ball down. This kind of humidity wilts youCarroll, appearing in his 35th game, was auspicious against the first and final batters hefaced in relief of Ross Grims-ley, 7-3, who pitched the first 71-3 innings.Lou Brock and Matty Alou had worked singles off Grims-ley around a force play in the hittingdrove a sacrifice fly to center field to make it 6-3 and pinch-hitter Ted Sizemore hit another fast 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 because, he (Brock) is the ptye of hitter who can tie it up,” said Carroll, “I was lucky to get thejsinker where I wanted it.”The run off Carroll, who carried an earned run average of1.43 into the appearance, wasonly the second in his last 31 innings.“I’ve just been lucky,” he in* jsisted, however, “The guys have been playing good ball behind me and we’ve had goodi eighth when the 6-foot-l Carroll came on and induced Joe Torre to ground into a doublewith his first pitch.That preserved a 4-2 lead theRfeds expanded to 6-2 in theplayCincinnati’s victory, boosting its National League West Division lead to 2VH games over the Houston Astros, was the Reds’eighth in 10 games against the Cards.five hits. The befuddled Lima team made three errors in the inning. Bickle led off the inning with a single. Gardner lined a screaming single to left center, and Temple singled to load the bases. Clay singled scoring Bickle, Kline singled scoring Gardner and Temple and when the ball got away from the third baseman. Clay scored with Kline taking second base. Lima brought in Steve Sharp to pitch and he walked Kiehl, Rickard and 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 Williams and getting Van Dyke to ground out and end the game.ItIT \PPEARS Manager Gordon Knittle is set on his lineup for the District Tournament as defensively, Van Wert without a doubt played its best game of the year with Claybeing outstanding at third ba^e.Clay. Kline, Branfield. Bickle and Gardner all had two hits to lead the Van Wert attack. Bowden was the only plaver for Lima to get two hitsGardner got credit for thewin, giving up one run on five hits. He didn’t allow a walk and fanned nine I ima batters. Cunningham and Sharp ga\e up 10 hits, walking *even while striking out 11 Van Wert batters.Van Wert will travel to Rellfontaine for a league game Sunday afternoon starting at 2 p. m.t(tISum manVAN H K H ITemple 2bClay Sb ,,Kline cfMH If Rickard c George rf Branfield Bickle s* Gardner p McGarvey Hoghe a*Total*AB3334lbR1320I0ftrf♦i0 0 !Of9m*i I% I00 I9 10LtM %IBowden IfHarter as .,Taylor lb . Williams rf Van Dvke cCiminillo 3b Fraley rf .. Cunningham Herman 2b Crowe 2bSharp pTotals |p: * * LimaVan WertABIf 4 ; :no0O(IClBH210100 (}!11H01• MIN X ftfi!
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Van Wert Times Bulletin
Van Wert, Ohio, US
Sat, Jul 15, 1972
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