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Tfi* ProgMst-fntfcx, Petersburg, Vs., Wednesday, May 3, 1973 SI1 'By STAFF WRITERSHie Prince George Royals outslugged 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 Diawiddie, 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 scared 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 12, Colonial Heights used four different pitchers in the fifth before it could halt the Prince George drive. The Roy a is pounded out 12 hits and the Colonials nine, six in the last frame. Prince George eoaeh Wayne Collins remarked, “It was our best hitting effort of the year. IPinwas eertafnalty pleased.’*“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 hitting club. '“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-i,DINWIDDIE 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 T could think ; of! Umpires other places may make a bad call now and then, everyone does, but for a whole ball game? It was rotten!”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.Dinwiddie got single suns oh two tremendous home runs by Howard' Batts arid . Donnie Jones, both of them soaring, a g6od 380 fecit out onto the running track behind • eenter-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 HNorm 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... — ,streak and upped their recordto. 4-8 while dropping host Thomas .Dale to 5-6. '‘ The pitching was’ provided by Herb Ford with a six-hit shutout, striking out six' and walking three- The fielding saw1 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 singles by Gerald • Carsley and Gonzeil. 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 scored on Clark’s second single. Carl Goode's grounder might have been a double play, but Clark’s slide into second knocked the ball loose and all hands v/ere safe. A double’ steal moved the runners, upXand 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 wild ' JEFF REDON'S. heavy hitting, and a clutch play at the plate pulled out a '7-6 win for the Lancers after Meadowbrook 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, Ldnenberg! Central pushed across a run in the top of the . eighth ona walk, ucrific* tad double by Ken Franciscus to break up a tough pitcher’s duel, bunding Matoaca its fifth loss ia six outings’ and giving' Central its first win in nine games.Matoaca’s lone run came m a triple by Lenftie Wilsoc in th* fifth.; Dean McCray laid down a queeze bunt and .Central tried. for the'.play''at' the plate unsuccessfully; *■ ‘V'Petersburg 001 040 2—8 11 1..Thomas Dale 000 000 0—0 B 2Barlow and Hanford, SlaU Cd*. Robb (L),. Poolf lt;51. . - . - .Prince George . OjO 082 1—8 11 VColonial Height* 200 GOO 6-rB 9 5Chudoba (W), Wa.de (7) and Varga;. Arnold : (L.), Webb; (5), Vaden. to), Kollman (5) and McCarter ! ■Manchester 402 001 0—7 10 1Meadowbrook 202 000 2—. 6 7 4 Lewis lt;W), Burchett (4) and Snead; Koch (Li),. Marny (1) Draucker lt;6) and Norris* .DimVladle 001 010 2— 5 10 12 vHopewell 305 002 x—lt;~10 7 3jClark and Cousins; Burnett 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 1Oliver CW) and Brown# Broach CLi^ and Wilson. «vinn• «•yi\ ; /• • ■'A'-;: - ►. j .J-fr: •: i-y • y. ■ • • • . • *•-.• 1f, j;- I1'---..- *'ss.‘.X'.:.:: ••• •:x'lt; • •: X;:V *• ” - • : - • . •. , ■..c,: L\ cm* : •:■ * fm0.v.v --s
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Petersburg Progress Index
Petersburg, Virginia, US
Wed, May 03, 1972
Page 12
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