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fi ui oiiu rvciuty.TVheel-Moore High Loses Title In Baseball| BEAUMONT (SPL) - Moor*| High «aw its two-year I rasa on the state Cass AAAA Negro*r ball championship expire her*Saturday as Hubert of BeaumontLlt;(t swept a doubleheader to tak* theyoff. two games to one. Vernon Hicks’ Lions had63 won th» opener in Waco Fridayrk | 7-4, but Hebert won Saturday'sin extra innings, $-7, then i deciding game, 6-1. m! Errors hurt the Lions badly as Moore committed a total of 11 in the two games and stranded 10 men on base in the game that derided the championship, if. Amos Gray hurled a four-hitter th for Moore High m the first game,s and James Givens a four-hitter in ho the second game.Id The Lions pounded out 10 hits in the first game, including home runs by Teddy Armstrong and Larry Mason. Moore led, 7-6 goinginto the last half of the seventh,hut wi th two men out Hebertforced the game into extra inningson a walk and a run-scoring triple.Given* struck out 11 batters in the second game, but Hebert sewed up the title in the fifth inning. Leading 2-1 as they came to batin the fifth, the Beaumonters counted four tunes on a walk, a fielders choice, two error*,’ aPassed ball, a triple and a singlefc laaftftgt kTL................ m si* H-i *i ....... m m im4 Thomu: z«ler and Jtktotti * ••wi Brawatag, Tbaam^WnJem
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Waco News Tribune
Waco, Texas, US
Sun, Jun 04, 1961
Page 23
Full Page
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Denton P.
TX, USA 08 May 2021
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