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By STAFF WRITERSHie Prince George Royals witslugged Colonial Heights, 12-8, yesterday to increase their Central District'baseball lead, as Meadowbrook fell to Manchester, 7-6, while Petersburg was shutting out Thomas Dale, M and Hopewell was downing Dinwiddle, 10-5.In Southside District action, Lunenberg Central edged' Matoaca in extra innings, 2-1,The Colonials staged a six-: run rally in the bottom of the seventh, and still had the bases loaded, but Royal relief pitcher Ronnie Wade got Jack McCprter on ah infield out to/ end the threat.Colonial Heights got out in front, 2-0, in the first frame, but Prince George ace Alan Chudoba retired the next 12 batters in a row before giving up a single to Mike Hord in the sixth.The Royals scored one run in the second and then, pulled away with eight tallies in the fifth.- They added two more, tuns in the sixth and a solo score in the seventh for a total of 32. Colonial Heights used four different pitchers in the fifth before it could halt the Prince George drive, The Royals pounded out 12 hits and the Colonials nine, six in the last frame. Prince George coach Wayne Collins remarked, “It was our best hitting effort of the year. IPIwas certainalty pleased.’1“Alan pitched a fine game for six innings, then he got a little tired and they began to get to him, of course they had a few balls fall in the seventh, but I'm not trying to take anything away from them, they have a good hittingclub-“I’ve -watched them come from behind several times thisyear. You’ve got to be ableto put 100 per cent into every pitch against, them, and Alan just got tired in the last inning.” .The win upped Prince George’s record to 8-2-1,DINWIDD1E COACH James Maitland was unhappy about the umpiring at Hopewell, as well, as the unenviable record - setting 12 errors his squad committed.“The umpiring was the worst I have ever seen,” fumed the normally soft - spoken General1 skipper. “It was so rotten that the umps didn’t even dare to throw me out and I calledthem everything I could think oft Umpires other places may make a bad call now and then, everyone does, but for a whole ball game? It was rotten 1”Losing pitcher Ricky Clark deserved a better fate by far, as he gave up seven hits, struck out five and walked one.But, five General errors in the first inning and four more in the third were his undoing.Dinwiddle got single suns oh two tremendous home nms by Howard' Batts and Donnie Jones, both of them soaring.a g6od 380 fecit out onto therunning track behind • center-field.They got three more in the seventh on a -double by Billy Avery,' singles, by Alien Cousins and ; Dennis Rose and Batts’ sacrifice.PETERSBURG C O A C H Norm'Jenkins has moaned all season, “When we got the pitching, we don’t have the hitting.- . .but yesterday, the Wave had all three, as they broke a four - game losing• «-Hi* frog rest-fntfcx, Petersburg, Vo., Wednesday, May ), 1f?3 29- — •streak and upped their recordiq / 6-8 while dropping host Thomas .Dale to 5-6. '' The pitching was’ provided by Herb Ford with a six-lii.t shutout, striking out six ’ and walking three. The fielding saw'* his mates commit only oneerror. '. . .; And the hitting, led by Herb Ford, Bev Clark and Barlow himself, saw, the .Crimson score fiye of their eight runs after two were out.They got. a single . tally in the second on sipgles by Gerald Carsley and Gonzefl. Phillips; another: in the third' on singles by Clark and Carl Goode and sacrifices by John Slate and Ford. ;.1 Petersburg exploded for four ' runs in the fifth. Bob Bennett started it off with a triple and seored on Clark’s second single. Carl Goodefs grounder : might have been a double play, but Clark’s slide into second knocked the ball loose and all hands were safe. A double* steal moved the runners, upand Ford scored them with a triple.■ Bruce Poole came in to relieve, got the second out on three strikes, but then was met . by back - to - back singles by Barlow and Robert Hanford.The Wave got two more,in the seventh as Ford and Barlow singled, then, when Ford was caught'in a rundown' on a steal attempt, a wiSd •' JEFF HEBpN’S. heavy hitting, and a clutch play at the plate pulled out a '7-6 win for the Lancers afterMeadowbrook had picked. up four runs in the first inning on walks.But Hedon, with a triple and two singles, led the Lancers back ;to a 7-4 edge going into the bottom of the seventh inning.It makes the 199th career victory for Manchester coach P. K. Perrin.AT MATOACA, Liinenberg! Central pushed across a run in the top of the . eighth ona walk, Mcrific* and double by Ken .Franciscus to break up i tough pitcher’s duel, handing Matoaca its fifth loss is six outings’ and giving Central its first win in nine games.Matoaca’s tone run came m: a triple by Lenriie Wilsoc .la th* fifth.; Dean McCray laid.;, down a queeze bunt, and .Central tried. for the' play at the pl^te unsuccessfully; ' 'Petersburg 0O1 040 2—8 11 1/Thomas Dale 000 000 0—0 B 2.Barlow and Hanford, SlaU C5)i.Robb (L).. Poole lt;5). . . . - .» ■Prince George . OjO 082 1—811 tColonial Heights 200 GOO 6-rB 9 5Chudoba (W), Wa.de (7) and Varga;. Arnold : CL), Webb; (5), Vaden. (5)* KolLman (5) and McCarter,: ■■ ■ * .Manchester 402 001 0—7 10 l’Meadowbrook 202 000 2—. 6 - 7 4 Lewis lt;AV), Burchett (4) and Snead; Koch (Li), Marny (1) Draucker (6) andNorrlG. . ,DinWladle 001 010 2— 5 10 12..HopeweH 305 002 x—lt;-10 7 3iClark and Cousins; Byrne tt and. Stidham,Home runs—Batts, D (3rd, non* on); Jones, D 5th, none on),Central ___________OOO 001 01—2 7 1Matoaca .. 000 010 00—1 5 S-.Oliver CW) and Brown# Broach CL^ and Wilson- «
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Petersburg Progress Index
Petersburg, Virginia, US
Wed, May 03, 1972
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