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Ottumwa to LL finalBy ALAN HOSKINS Courier News Editor It’ll be Ottumwa National against Fairfield for the Area 1 Little League champion Saturday.National earned a berth in the title game Thursday with a booming 24-1 win over Fox River at Ottumwa American Field. The championship game will be played at 3 p.m. Saturday at Ottumwa Midwest with the winner advancing into district play here next Tuesday.The championship game matches a pair of hardhitting teams. Ottumwa lashed out 20 hits Thursday while Fairfield had 17 in a 16-7 win over Ottumwa Midwest Wednesday.10 extra base hits The 20 NL hits Thursday included 10 for extra bases — four home runs and six doubles as the winners scored in every inning.Pat Shepard led the way, driving in five runs with a pair of home runs, a double and single. Mike O’Lear and Steve Slye each added three hits with O’Lear contributing a homer and double and Slye two doubles.Kevin Hall, Tony Swanson and Bill Peden each had a pair of hits with Hall slamming a 3-run homer and Peden a 2-run double.Hall 2-hitter Fox River meanwhile could manage only two hits off the hard-throwing Hall, who fanned 13, walked two and hit one. Kevin Denly singled to right in the third inning and Randy Smith beat out an infield tap and eventually scored on an infield grounder andOaks down leadingIndianapolis 7-2INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — TheIowa Oaks scored twice in the first inning on a hit, two walks and three wild pitches, and went on to defeat Indianapolis 7-2 Thursday night in an American Association baseball game.The Oaks added a run in the fourth on Rene Lachemann’s 12th home run of the season and finished off the Indians with a four-run outburst in the sixth.Larry Haney drove in three of the inning’s four runs with a long, bases-loaded double to center. Ron Clark’s ground-rule double scored Haney.Indianapolis scored in the first inning on three singles, and in the sixth on a solo home run by Frank DeCastris.passed ball for Fox River’s only run in the sixth.“We’re just not use to this type of pitching,” said Fox River manager Allen Holsapple. “I suppose Ottumwa pitched its best pitcher against Je-Wa-Ke but if this one (Hall) isn’t the best, I’d sure like to see the other one.“I think they could go a long way. They hit the ball like high school kids. That Shepard is going to be something. In fact, he’s something now. We just didn’t have the pitching for their kind of hitting.”National was held to just one hit for six innings before edging Je-Wa-Ke 2-0 in the seventh Tuesday but manager Leroy Fleming wasn’t surprised by the robust hitting.KEVIN HALL Allows two hitsIllness fatal to CR driverCEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — Edgar Irving Janey, 54,well-known builder of stock racing cars, died here Thursday after a brief illness.Janey was the father if Irv and Chuck Janey, both drivers on the International Motor Contest Association circuit.“I thought they’d break loose with their bats. And the bench really looked good when I was able to substitute.”Big StartOttumwa broke the game open in a hurry, scoring eight times before Fox River got to bat. A walk, hit batsman and tardy throw on a grounder loaded the bases with one out. An error scored two runs and a third crossed on a wild pitch before Swanson doubled in one run, Comesano singled in two and O’Lear homered for two more.Shepard led off the second with a homer, doubled in a run in the third and then belted a 3-run homer far over a high tree in left-center in the fourth.Peden had a single and double in a 6-run fourth inning while Hall’s line drive over the centerfield fence with two on was the big blow in a 4-run fifth.Shepard, who pitched a one-hitter against Je-Wa-Ke, will pitch Saturday’s title game for Ottumwa.OTTUMWA NATIONALAB R H RBIO'Lear, 2b5 3 3 2Woodard, 3b2 3 10Davis, 3b2 110Shepard, c-ss4 4 4 5Hall, p5 3 2 3Slye, If-c6 4 3 1Swanson, rf2 12 2Fleming, rf2 10 0Peters, 1b3 2 0 0Mitchell, 1b10 10Harbour, ss2 0 0 0Peden, If3 12 2Comesano, cf2 112Morrison, cf3 0 0 0Totals42 24 20 17FOX RIVERAB R H RBIB. Moore, c3 0 0 0Hornberg, 2b2 0 0 0Smith, 2b1110J. Moore, 3b3 0 0 0Holsapple, ss-p2 0 0 0Lydolph, If -p-ss2 0 0 0Ward,ss10 0 0Augspurger, 1b10 0 0Watkins, 1b0 0 0 0Denly, cf2 0 10Bruggeman, rf10 0 0Carter, rf10 0 0Bradley, p-lf0 0 0 0Petersma, If10 0 0Totals20 1 2 0R H EOttumwa84 1 641—24 20 0Fox River000 001— 1 2 52B — Slye 2, O'Lear, Shepard,Swanson, Peden; HR — Shepard 2,O'Lear, Hall; SB— Slye, Smith;LOB — Ottumwa 0, Fox River 4.E — Augspurger, Holsapple,Ward, Lydolph, Bradley.Pitching IPHRERBBSOHall (W)621 1 2 13Bradley (L)1 4 9 4 2 2Lydolph 2 2-3 9 10 9 3 2Holsapple 2 1-3 7 5 4 1 1HP — Shepard(by Bradley);Bradley (by Hall); WP — Lydolph4, Bradley 2; PB -- Slye.Umpires — Russ Buffington, JoeBoyer, Carl Dencklau; Time —1:40.lt;%“1C
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Ottumwa Courier
Ottumwa, Iowa, US
Fri, Jul 23, 1971
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