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Thursday night, and Oklahoma be Slate heal SI John's 6-1 lo \cnarrow the field lo three leans ei-in the 20th annual College ||,World Series.Each of the survivors of the ja eight * team field — Ohio SiState, Southern California, and a Oklahoma State — has a 3-3 Ja record.Oklahoma Stale was assured stof getting into the champ- n'ionship game Saturday night when a flip of the coin gave eiIhe Cowboys from Stillwater a bye. '!»Thai meant that Ohio State pand Southern California will asquare off tonight for the third time in the series. Earlier in athe tournament Ohio Slate defeated the Trojans, 6-2, to snap Ia 12-game winning streak :or tcthe Southern California club, sThursday night's Trojan victory stopped Ohto State’s win streak at 18 straight games. bThe two teams were tied, 1-1, athrough' six innings. Southern (1California went ahead, 2-1 in t,the seventh and then added |three insurance runs in the lop of the ninth. The victory ran v•right - hander John Stewart’s 1record to .16-0. He left after sev- $en innings with .his team ahead, .s2-1. rMike Swain lock Ihe loss, his first in five decisions this year, f-The winning run came in the cseventh when Fred Shuey tripled home Steve Sogge who had been safe on an error. The ■ninth inning Trojan runs were Iscord on two walks, an error, iand a single by Pal Harrison. 1Oklahoma Slate’s Bob Toney ,struck, the key blow in his Iloam’s win over »St. John's when he lined a bases loaded s-triple fo the wall in right cen- \ter field in the bottom of the jseventh. Two walks and a, sin- jgle had filled the bases to sel «the stage for Toney’s lung blast. iThe Cowboys got their first run in the opening inning when St. John’s pitcher Hickey Schwarta walked three men after a single by catcher Tony Sellari, A triple by Hon McCord followed by an error on relief pitcher Wally Gross gave the Cowboys their sixth run in the last of the eighth.The only St. John’s run came in the sixth inning when Dave Zimms filed, out to deep center after three consecutive singles had loaded the bases.The win was the third in a row for Oklahoma Slate after a first round, 4-2 loss to Ohio Slate.Teams beaten by the Cowboys prior to Thursday night’s game were North Carolina and Texas.St. John’s started with victories over ' Northeastern and Texas before dropping an 3-7 decision to Ohio Slate Wednesday night.The winning pitcher for Oklahoma Slate was Frank Warrington who came on in relief during the sixth inning. His record is now 2-0.The losing pitcher was Cob Smith who also relieved ir. ihe sixth’.
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Columbus Daily Telegram
Columbus, Nebraska, US
Fri, Jun 17, 1966
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