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Majors All StarsThe group 0f Cullman Dixie Majorsi 15-16-year-old) All Stars includes, left to right, Mike Griffin, Paul Alexander, Terry Harbin, Joey Watters, Mark Kilpatrick, Alton Ar-mistead and Marty Robertson, back, Bill Griffin(coach),Barrett IJoyd, Derek Rakestraw, Bryan Cain, Mark Britton,Mark Harper, Barry Garrett, Doug Smith and Coach Greg Patterson. Not shown are Ricky Walker and Kevin Hunt. (TIMES Sports Photo by Bill Shelton)In Dixie Majors district at Arab -Decatur, which couldn’t get anything going against Britton through the first four Innings' was handed aMike Griffin singled with one out in the bottom of the seventh for Cullman, but was left stranded as the nextAB—Cullman’s Dixie Majors All Stars got outstanding pitching from Mark Britton and backed it with some clutch hitting, but at the end it was Decatur’s two-run seventh inning rally that made the difference in an opening round district tournament game here Thursday.Britton, matched against Decatur’s Jimmy Meeks on the mound, finished with a one-hitter—the lone base hit of the pop fly variety—while striking out six and walking five.His mound opponent, Meeks, who was to drive in one of the decisive runs in the seventh, allowed five hits while fanning eight and walking one.Britton was given a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the first inning when Bryan Cain opened with a single and moved to second on an error, then advanced home on consecutive ground outs by Doug Smith and Paul Alexander.break in the top of the fifth when two batters walked and both scored on an error to make it 2-1.Cullman failed to score in its half of the fifth, but then in the last of the sixth Smith tripled with one out and scored the tieing run on Alexander’s single..In the top of the seventh for Decatur, Scott Marshall led off with a walk and scored the tie-breaking run on Phil Hinkle’s pop fly double. Hinkle then scored an insurance run on Meeks’ ground out second to first.Steelers signLATROBE, Pa. (UPI) -The Pittsburgh Steelers Saturday signed quarterback Larry Iawrence, who has played in both the National Football League and the Canadian Football League, 3s a free agent.Lawrence, 29, was with New Orleans in 1977, Tampa Bay in 1976 and Oakland in 1974 and 1975. He also playedtwo bstters batters went down. The only other Cullman hit was Terry Harbin’s fourth inning single. |Lawrenceearlier in the week by Montreal before the CFL season got under way.Lawrence, 6-1 and 208 pounds, played college ball at the University of Iowa.The Steelers cut tight end Jimmy Stephens of Florida, their 12th-round draft selection in 1977. Stephens broke an ankle in training camp last year and was on the injured reserve list all season.with Calgary and Edmonton in the CFL. He was cut
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Cullman Times Democrat
Cullman, Alabama, US
Sun, Jul 16, 1978
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