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▼ ▼ UTO/ bivjum^ munurcns ▼▼ in vpeners►srRoyals/TD Battle To TieBy WARREN CROWDER Progress-Index Sports WriterBruce Poole of Thomas Dale and Allen Chudoba of Prince George locked horns in yesterday’s opening Central District baseball action.The result was a scoreless pitching duel between the two left handers which was called because of darkness.In other Central District action yesterday, Cornell Barlow hurled Petersburg to a 1-0 surprise win over Hopewell, Colonial Heights collected 12 hits but fell to Meadowbrook, 7-5, and Midlothian blanked Dinwiddie, 2-0.Thomas Dale had runners on second and third and only one man out in the first extra inning when the game was halted by the umpires. Play then reverted to the last completedinning, the seventh.Since neither team had previously scored, the game will go down in the records as an official tie and each team will be credited with % win, lh loss in the Central District stand-ed the lead-off man in each ofthe first two innings, and thenproceeded to retire the next 16 batters in a row.The Knights1 ace was credited with 12 strikeouts although he got three more in the top of the eighth which will not count.Dale had Prince George starter Chudoba on the ropes in the fourth, fifth and sixth frames, but were unable to score.Then in the seventh, with Kicky Robb on third and one out, left-fielder Rusty Baird made a diving catch of a line drive off the bat of Warren Walls.Robb, who thought the ball would fall, was half-way up the third base line when Baird came up with the saving grab. By the time he returned to tag up, it was too late to try to score.ings.Poole gave up only one hit, a one-oufc single by the opposing pitcher, in the top of the seventh. The Knight hurler walk-Chudoba then got right fielder Wayne Kitchen to ground out to second base to get out of the jam.The Prince George ace was credited with six strikeouts, but did not pitch with his usualsharpness. He allowed six hitsand four walks, but managed to reach back for a little extra when the going got rough. We just couldn’t hit theball,” commented Royal mentor Wayne Collins.“We played great defense, but we just couldn’t get a hit. Mickey Vargo was exceptional on defense, This was his first catching start, and he threwout three men trying to steal.”“Bruce Poole did a tremendous job, as a matter of fact, the whole team did,” said an obviously disappointed Lew Romano. “It’s a shame to be so close and come away with nothing,”iiI was nervous the first few innings,” Poole reported, “but then I loosened up and felt like I was throwing well.”BARLOW walked the opening batter, then allowed no free passes the rest of the way while striking out four for Petersburg and giving up twosingles to Allen Brooks.Hopewell’s lone threat came in the third, when they got a man to third with one out on the game’s only error, but Br-low got the next two batters on an infield pop and grounder.The winning run came in the seventh on a triple to deep right field by Gerald Carsley and a sharp single up the middle by Herb Ford.TRI-CITIESSCHOOL SPORTSCALENDARTHURSDAYCarsley added another single, Barlow a pair of hits—but the Wave never got a runner past second except for the lone run—“We made some base-running mistakes,” ad*mitted winning coach Norm Jenkins.COLONIAL Heights col-, leeted 12 hits, but lost thegame on fielding miscues.“We committed six errors,1* Colonial coach Bobby Harris lamented. “Three of their seven runs were unearned. We were our own worst enemy,”“I was pleased with our hij ting. David Richardson, who went four-for-four, hit a tremendous blast over the center field fence.”Mike Hord and Guy Rose of the Colonials were two-for-three at the bat, while Billy Conwell was two-for-four with a double.Danny Koch of Meadowbrook took the mound honors, while Dana Webb of Colonial Heights absorbed' the loss.e,ram-mssneBaseballColonial Heights at Prince George Hopewell at Dinwiddie Thomas Dale at Petersburg Dinwiddie J. V. at Hopewell Prince George J. V. at Colonial HeightsTennisLivingstone at Virginia State Petersburg at Thomas Dale Hopewell at MidlothianGolfPrince George, Colonial Heightsat Thomas Dale Hopewell, Manchester at Dinwiddie Petersburg, Midlothian at Meadowbrook Livingstone at Virginia StateFRIDAY4BaseballMidlothian at PetersburgMIDLOTHIAN pulled out thf victory in the sixth inning.Trailing 3-2, the Trojans opened with a walk by Vernon Henshaw. David East tripled home the tying score, then came home himself on asingle by Johnny Wallace.Dinwiddie had gone ahead in the fifth when Allen Cousins broke up a 2-2 deadlock with a solo home run.Wayne Dickerson was the winning pitcher, going the route and striking out nine. Joey^ Adams was the loser, striking out six and giving up 10 hits.Prince Georg* Thomas Dale Chudoba and WallsCOO OOO 0—0 1 : 000 000 0—0 6 3 Vargo; Poole andPetersburg 000 000 1—1 7Hopewell 000 000 0—0 2Barlow (W) and Hanford; Parke Burnett (L.6) and Stidham.Meadowbrook 200 310 1—7 6 Colonial Heights 200 101 0—5 12 Koch (W) Maraey (6) and Norrl Webb (L), Anderson (4) and M CarterHR—Richardson* Colonial Heigh (Fourth, none on).Dinwiddie 020 010 0—3 6Midlothian 020 002 0—t 1CDickerson lt;W and Lucus; Ada: (L) and Cousins HR—Cousins, Dinwiddle (Fitnone on).Colonial JV
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Petersburg Progress Index
Petersburg, Virginia, US
Wed, Mar 22, 1972
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