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TWO NIGHTS RUNNINGHi.Toms Clip PiratesBy NEALE PATRICK Gazette Sports WriterThree weeks into the Western C a v o I i n a s League baseball campaign, the G-Pirates have finally lost (wo straight games.ThomasviUe's Hi-Toms are the tormentors who have rie-Buc BoxTHOMASVILLE Pltycr AUUYimpton, cf ............. 4Glover, k ................ 4ARlicrofL, rf ............ 3Vllt;3«tlch. c ................. 4Alexander. If .............. 2Duoley. lb .............. 4Beckner. 3b .................. 3Frw. 2b ...................... 4Srjmmer, p ................ 4Totule .........................33GASTONIAThomas, cf ................... 4« ........................ 4Oliver, lb............3Robertson. 3b .............. 3Pnaler, rf ........................ 3Golden. 2b .................... 3O'Connor, c ...................3Prado vie. If ............-.....3Lamb, p .. ..... 2A—Brown........................ 1Total a ........................23A— Filed out fur Lamb Score By intiJngs:ft H RBI0 0 0 1 0 1 0 I 1 I I #in 9th.Thom as villa .................. 100 ooo 303—7Qahtonla .................... . D00 00- 000— 1E— Sommer, Billie, Oliver, j?o-A— Thomaaviffe 27-5; Gastonia 27-S. LOB— ThomaivviDe 2; Gastonia 1. PR— Glover. Thomas, Beckner. Free. S— Alexander.Pitcher IP n r,r Bb SoSommer .......... 9 2 l l Q 13Lamb..........9 « 7 4 I 7Winner; Sommer m-Gj Loser: Lumh (2-2)HBP— Baclcner Iby Lamb). l3— Vopr and Strives. T— 1:55 A— 532 (PAID).lea led our side two in a row for the longest losing streak of the season, capped off by a 7-1 decision before the smallest local crowd of the year (531) at Sims Park last night.Tacked onto tbe rain-abbreviated loss at Thomasville the night before, the Hues now are in the midsL of their longest losing skein of Lhe season, two straight.Nevertheless, Manager Clyde, Sukeforth's crowd continues to pace the WCL with a 15-5 mark and a game lead over Salisbury which, incidentally, is in third place, precerUageuise. Thomasville is second in the per-cent age column, but in third place in the Games Behind column.Both of the teams closing in on the Pirates are in the midst of winning streaks.Salisbury ran its skein to eight in a row, heating Greenville, A-4, last night, the longest win streak of the WCL race lu date. The Hi-Toms ’.vis here last night hiked their streak to six in a row*, a figure which matches a mark posted by the Bucs earlier. * * *TONIGHT, THE Pirates will seek to snap the toss jag going to Lexington with lies Pennington (1-0 record) on the hill.The same two clubs return to Sims Park Friday nigtlL and Harold Clem gels the nod. seeking his fifth in a row for the Dues,Gaslonia fell vicLim, itself, to an undefeated pitcher Iasi night,Your watch was destined to be wrong.Accutrorfis notfireballing Dick Summer setting-down the Bucs with only two hits, fanning 13 and not walking a batter, in the most impressive pitching performance of the season here.Sommer, however, has been the WCL route before.He posted a 10-7 record for Salisbury last year, and Twins drafted him out of the Dodger organization over the winter.The only hits the Pirates managed rtfr his fireball deliveries ■asl night were a two-out solo homer by Stan Thomas, over the left center field wire fence in the sixth jowing, and a one-out single to Harry Billie in the fourth.In each of the other seven frames, the Hues went down in order. Sommer fanned seven of (he first 10 batters he faced and whiffed at least one batter in every inning except the fifth. On the year he has fanned 57 batters in 44 frames.+ + *rWHILE SOMMER'S hurl i n g stopped the Bucs, the Hi-Tonu made the home run ball pay off lor most of their runs.Jim Glover shacked a solo homer over the left-center fence in the first, Bob Beeknur cracked a two-run blast in the seventh, and Steve Free climaxed the three-homer game (for the Hl-Toms) with a three-run clout in lhe ninth.Those latter two homers wiped out the tying blast by Thomas in lhe sixth.Billie, the only other base runner, singled in the fourth and galloped to third when Sommer threw wildly to first base in a pickoff attempt.The Dues didn’t make much headway the rest ol the time, and hit only three other balls out of the infield.* ★ ★ALTHOUGH LAST night's 531 pair admissions was the smallest of the season, the Pirate home attendance went over the 10,000 mark on the year. . .Thai miai now stands at 10,023 in lo home openings, as average just ovcr a thousand per contest.Salisbury’s Astros collected 10 hits in running their win streak to eight in a row in the 3-4 triumph over Greenville.Lexington also had on their hitting clothes, with 13 hits while defeating Spartanburg, 5-1, as Giant fiurler Andy Sherrill permitted only three hits and had a shutout until the ninth.Shelby righthander A1 Muck allowed Rock Kill only four knocks in lhe first game of a double-header, winning f-2 and Shelby capped the nightcap, 3-2,in 111 mninps.
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The Gastonia Gazette
Gastonia, North Carolina, US
Thu, May 13, 1965
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