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ACT Crewn Ur Chdergrovmd Telephcoe Cable.licfcl.Travellers capture Alberta TitlePeace River’s Travellers OWilled ft* AJberta Intermediate B PiattaU Chariplonshlp 81 Hi* weekend, defeating {WM from Camrose and DrwmheOrr on ftelr war to toe silverware.And at Startler. Peace River'* A learn captured ■* Pro' vmcUl peeweebascrtalKhamp-“ta^men a provincial inter-mediate B fastball here. Cal-K captured toertiairpkxiahip a pair of thrilling victories over C , Camrose 8-5 SaturdayandDnimhellcr 5-3 and 3-1 In toe finals Sunday.Brennan belted a long lone'■IPitching ace Brian Honk* and catcher Frank Brennan were to. heroes m toe Travs'Uerf •erM. Hcmkr pitched all three •a for the hotetmeo. derun n toe seventh Inning of toe first game against Dnimheller, scoring Henke, who was on base via an error, and breaking a J-J deadlock.Honkr appeared to gH strcoger as toeaerlesprogrea-sed and, helped by some classy fielding, bad little dimcwlty disposing of the tough Dnimheller squad In the teccnd game.In the second game, trailing 3-0. DruBtoeller finally hit toe scoresheet with one no In tor seventh and had a coiple of men on base, but the Travellers hung cm to nip them 3-1 and earn toe provincial Utle.DnimheUer advanced to toe finals wtto a 8-0 victory over Camrose Sinday morning. The logs, coupled with toe 8-5 defeat at toe hands W to* Travel-lets Saturday, drogped Cam-rate from toe running. Drum-heller's fine pllcher John Cameron hurled a cme-hitter game against Camrose.Plncber Creek failed to Show up tor toe tournament.In women's actKm. Peace River Uoncttrs were ellm-inaled Saturday as they suffered a 9-0 shellacking at the harrts of an able Camrose brigade and th*« absorbedaM-11 drub-blrg from Calcary.In the opening game of the best of-tore* finals Sunday, Camrose opened «st«ly and took a 7-0 lead ov.r Calgary after two iniuncsHowever, CaUary. led by toeir determined pitcher, OlsaMagee, chipped away at the lead and scored a run In the seven-toe ft to tie the game 8-8 and force extra Innings.In some of toe finest women's fastball action seen here In recent years, they bottled torowh a scoreless eighth and exchanged single runs in 0u ninth before Calgary lt;g*t*d up for three runs In the top of toe tenth on a Inple by Muriel Humghrey.In toe bottom of toe t«*h. the first batter for Camrose hit a sharp single, but the side was then retired In order and Calgary loch toe game 11-9.Magee then led Calgary to a U-t victon over the disheartened Camrose team to clinch toe provincial title
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Peace River Record Gazette
Peace River, Alberta, CA
Wed, Sep 03, 1969
Page 7
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Clipped by
Grace H.
CA 11 Sep 2017
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