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Vern Glick Rocks Trenton, 7-2; Stewart No- Hits BrowningThe Chillicothe Vera Glick rolled to their sixth and seventh straight victories of the season in a big weekend of District Two Legion play which featured a no-hitter by pitcher Bob Stewart and a stunning 7-2 victory over six-time champion Trenton.The victory over Trenton last night at Simpson Park was a big blow to the defending champion as the Grundy County team suffered its third loss of the season against seven victories.Bill Timmons went the distance against Trenton, giving up six hits, including a solo homer to losing pitcher Mike Arbueklo, who suffered his third loss of the season. Timmons was in complete control after the opening inning in winning his fourth straight game against no losses.Vern Glick, the hottest team In the District Two race, moved into sole possession of third place with its victory last night. It followed an easy 12-1, five-inning win over Browning in the second game of a doubleheader played Saturday night at Simpson Park. Vern Glick is now 7-4.Last night's victory avenged an earlier 8-3 loss at Trenton.Trenton scored first in the top of the first inning, but Timmons buckled down the rest, of the way and Trenton was able to get only one more run—the long solo homer by Arbucklc over the right field fence to lead off the sixth inning. .The first run came after David Seymour had walked, advanced to second on an error and then came home on a single by Joe Slonecker.Vern Glick took the lead for good in the fourth after making some noise in the third inning with singles by Paul McNew and Tom Gatson. Dave Bennett led off the fourth with a single and after a strikeout, Bill Timmons walked. Both Bennett and Timmons moved upon a passed ball and Bennett later scored on a wild pitch. Shermie Smith singled to right to drive in Timmons with the go-ahead run.The host club put the contest away in the fifth and one costly throwing error opened the door for Vern Glick (the onlyerror by Trenton in the game).McNew opened with a single in the fifth. Galson bounced back to Arbucklc and the Trenton pitcher turned around to force McNew at second and threw wildly. The ball got by the center fielder with McNew crossing the plate and Gatson ending up at third. Bennett singled across Gatson to make it 4-1 and Brent Mueeke came in to relieve Arbucklc.Mucckc walked three straight batters to force in one run before getting the second out. Then he walked two more batters forcing in two more runs before Gatson flied out to end the inning. Sharp hurled the final three innings for Trenton.Timmons was never touched for more than one hit in any inning—giving up a single in the first, second, fifth and eighth and a double in the third and the home run in the sixth. He struck out five and walked four in going the distance for the third time this season.The three Trenton hurlers gave up 12 walks and seven hits.Vern Glick (7)ABRHMcNew cf3\2Gatson ss512Ellison c300Bennett 3 b422Scanlon 2b310B. Timmons p220Stewart r(400Smith lb401S. Timmons If301-——3177Trenton(2)ABRHSeymour lf-2b310Slonecker cf502Fisher 3b401Arbucklc p-lb '311Costello ss400Hughes c401Stan turf If201Sharp lb-p200Hoffman rf400Muecke ib-p100Coon 2b200——-3426Score by Innings:Trenton 100 001 000—2 Vern Glick 000 250 000—7The Saturday night victoryWas an ensv ono for Vern Glick.They scored enough runs in thefirst two innings to ran, but Stewart’s no • hitter made it real easy.Stewart missed a shutout in the first inning when Browning put together a lead-off walk, a sacrifice and a Vern Glick error to score its only run.Vern Giick came back in the bottom of the first to score two runs. McNew, Gatson and Ellison put together three straight singles with a walk, an error and a fielders choice to movein front 2-1.Three Browning errors, a hit batsman and a single helped Vein Glick get two more runs in the second to make it 4-1. Again walks helped Vern Glick in (he third when they scored eight runs on only two hits to move ahead 12-1.The big blow was a bases loaded triple by Stewart. Vern Glick sent 14 batters to the plate and took advantage of nine walks in the inning to put its sixth straight win on the board.Stewart finished the Evening game with four RBI's and In the pitching department he fanned 10 in recording his no-hitter, Stewart is now 2-2 for the season.Vern Glick (12)ABRHMcNew cf331Paris cf000Gatson ss422Ellison c111Bennett 3b211Scanlon 2b400S. Timmons If220Smith lb211Willard lb000Conrad, rf110Englert rf000Stewart p211———Browning21(1)127ABRHKnifong 3b-p210Dixon 2b200Greene ss200Hargrave lb100Hoskins 3b-lb200Poor cf100Tlollon rf000Turner If000Brinkley c200Gray rf-.p100———13Score by Innings:a0Browning100OO— 1Vern Glick228—12
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Chillicothe Constitution Tribune
Chillicothe, Missouri, US
Mon, Jul 21, 1969
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