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(August 2) Left-hander Ted
Wills threw a five-hit shutout and had a big day at the
plate with a pair of doubles and a single as Saskatoon whipped
Lloydminster 7-0. Wills had ten strikeouts. Meridians had only one good scoring
opportunity. In the 3rd inning, Oswaldo Garcia
tried to score from second base on Chuck McGuigan's
single to right but was cut down at the plate on a throw by Percy
Trimont. Gems' catcher Bob Bennett
was hit in the throat by a foul tip in the 8th inning and
temporarily kayoed. He wanted to continue catching but
Gem's management took him out.
Herrera
(L), Mulcahy (4) and
Tanner
Wills (W) and Bennett, Trimont (8)
Rosetown and the Beavers battled to a
6-6 tie in a game called because of darkness. Trailing 6-3 in
the bottom of the 9th, Reg Jackson began the Rosetown rally with
a double, his second of the game. Ben Brown plated the run
with a single then Harold
Johnson's four-bagger tied it for the Phils. Johnson also
had a pair of singles. Chico O'Farrill knocked in
four runs for North Battleford with a two-run double in the first and a
two-run single in the 9th.
Stites and Green
Brown and
Henderson
Sylvio
Mesa belted two homers, driving in four runs, to lead Indian Head past Moose Jaw
6-4. His three-run blast in the ninth proved to be the
winning margin. Rockets overcame an early 4-0 deficit to
capture the victory. Right fielder Reg Chopp had three of the five
Moose Jaw hits. Reliever Orlando Arango picked up the win
in relief of starter Sammy White. Lionel King took
the loss.
White, Arango
(W) (7), Fabre
(9) and Johnson
King (L) and Loe
W L GB
Saskatoon
30 8 --
North Battleford 25 21 9
Indian Head 20
21 11 /2
Rosetown
19 23 13
Moose Jaw
15 24 15 1/2
Lloydminster 13 25
17
(August 3) Moose Jaw
Mallards stopped Saskatoon's home winning streak at 16 games with a 5-4
win over the Gems in a 10 inning contest at Cairns Field.
The loss was just Saskatoon's 10th in 40 league games. In the 10th, Eddie
Girado walked, moved to third on Russ Stuart's single
and scored when the Gems tried to nab Stuart on a steal of
second. Reliever Dave Kosteniuk,
who blanked the Gems on one hit for the final three innings,
picked up the win. After the Mallards had taken a 1-0 lead
in the first inning, the Gems jumped into the lead in the 3rd as
Mario Herrera belted a bases-clearing triple.
Collins Jones drove in runs for Moose Jaw in the 3rd
and 5th innings to knot the score at 3-3 and Moose Jaw took the
lead in the 7th on Dick Loe's sacrifice fly.
Saskatoon bounced back in the bottom of the 7th as Cliff
Pemberton walked and scored on an error and wild pitch.
EColeman, Kosteniuk
(W) (7) and Loe
MacEwen, Doig (L) (4) and Bennett
Ed Kapp
held Indian Head to just three hits and North Battleford scored
an 8-1 decision over the Rockets. Chico O'Farrill sparked
the Beaver offensive with four hits. a triple and three singles.
Art Stone had three hits and Kapp contributed a double and
single. Indian Head pitcher Juan Prats accounted
for the lone run for the Rockets with a homer.
Kapp
(W) and Green
Prats (L) and
Johnson
Rosetown got a combined three-hitter
from Preston Bessicks and veteran Benny Hill to
shade the Lloydminster Meridians 4-2. Centre fielder
Howard Warfield provided the offense for the Phillies, driving in
Buddy Burbage with the game's first run in the second inning
then, after Lloydminster had tied the score in the 7th, he blasted a
bases-loaded triple to put Rosetown ahead 4-1. Meridians loaded
the bases in the 9th with just one out. Benny Hill
came on in relief and allowed one run on a wild pitch but then got
Arne Thunander on a pop out and fanned pinch hitter
Darrell Martin to end the game. Max Weekly went the
distance for Lloydminster and took the loss in spite of a
six-hit performance. He fanned 11 and walked just one.
Weekly
(L) and Tanner
Bessicks (W) ,
Hill (9) and Henderson
W L GB
Saskatoon
30 9 --
North Battleford 26 21 8
Indian Head 20
22 11 /2
Rosetown
20 23 12
Moose Jaw
16 24 141/2
Lloydminster 13 26
17
(August 4) In the All-Star
game, Saskatoon Gems scored a 5-2 victory. Bennie Griggs,
9-1 on the season for the league-leading Gems, held the All-Stars
to five hits in a route-going performance. Bob Bennett's
two-run double in the sixth was the key blow.
Kapp, Weekly (4),
Brown (7) and Green, Loe ( )
Griggs and Bennett
(August 5) In an
unusual exhibition match, Saskatoon Gems beat the Senior Men's
All-Stars 18-5 in a contest which combined baseball and
softball. Gems scored all their runs during the four
innings of baseball. Against the pitching of Len
Breckner, Gems pushed across four in the 1st, six in the 2nd
and eight in the 3rd. They had nine hits and had help from
eleven walks and six errors. All-Stars notched three runs
in the 3rd on six straight walks from starter Ernie Koroluk
and reliever Bentley MacEwen. Cliff Pemberton
pitched the softball portion for the Gems.
(August 5) Bob Holowaty
pitched one-hit ball as Kamsack downed Winnipeg Jays 2-0 in the
first game of an exhibition series at Madge Lake. Jim
McDonald's safety in the 9th broke up Holowaty's no-hit
bid. Art Shahzade drove in both Cyclones'
runs with a double in the 4th inning. Bill Finley
led Kamsack to a win in the second game with a homer and a
single while Tom Higa punched out a triple and two
singles. Harold Moffitt hurled a five-hitter
for the Cyclones.
(August 7) Moose Jaw took a
four-run lead after the first inning and held on to shade Indian
Head 7-6. Second baseman Russ Stuart was the star
for the Mallards turning in a brilliant defensive show and
blasting a two-run homer and adding a pair of
singles. Creon Psome held the Rockets to seven
hits in a route-going effort. First baseman Antonio
Iglesias belted a homer for Indian Head and Leo Xiques
had three hits.
Washington
(L), Arango
(1),
Rodriguez (7) and Miranda
Psome (W) and Loe
(August 8) Saskatoon had
just four hits but shutout Rosetown 1-0 to sweep a double-header
from the Phillies. Gems won the opener 5-3. Ted
Wills was instrumental in both wins. His first inning
triple gave Saskatoon its first run in the opening game and an
eighth inning double in the second game drove in the game's only
run. Don Kirk and Bob Doig had the
complete-game wins for the Gems. Boyd Brown allowed
just nine hits in losing the opener and Major Coleman
fired a four-hitter, with 12 strikeouts, in registering the
defeat in the second game.
Kirk
(W) and Bennett
Brown (L) and
Henderson
Doig
(W) and Bennett
MColeman (L) and Price
W L GB
Saskatoon
32 9 --
North Battleford 26 21 9
Indian Head 20
23 13
Rosetown
20 25 14
Moose Jaw
17 24 15
Lloydminster 13 26
18
(August 9) Again Ted Wills was
a one-man band as Saskatoon Gems blanked Rosetown 5-0. Wills tossed a
three-hitter for his 5th mound victory and clouted a triple
and two singles for the winners. Preston Bessicks gave up
nine hits in taking the loss.
After the game the teams staged a novelty program in
front of the grandstand and it turned out to be a major hit.
Rosetown's Dick Price, Major Coleman, Harold
Johnson, Lefty Summer and Felton Morrison
sang for the crowd of 1,400 and drew round after round of applause.
Buddy Burbage did as well for his tap dancing. The
evening also featured a walking race and a wheelbarrow race with
blindfolded racing teams.
Bessicks
(L) and
Henderson
Wills
(W) and Bennett
Moose Jaw scored three in the sixth to squeeze out a 6-5 win over
Lloydminster. Meridians had taken a 5-3 lead in the third on a
single by Roberto Zayas, a triple by Chuck
McGuigan, a base on balls and Rick Herrera's
three-run homer. Bill Findley, a recent addition to the
Mallards' roster from the Kamsack Cyclones, led Moose Jaw with three
hits and three RBI. Zayas had three hits for Lloydminster.
Dave Kosteniuk went the route for the win.
Webb
(L), Weekly (4) and
Tanner
Kosteniuk (W) and Loe
Indian Head scored three runs in
the final inning to best North Battleford 10-7. Miguel
Miranda and Clarence York led the Rockets; offense
each with three hits. Miranda drove in four runs with a double and
two singles while York knocked in three with two doubles and one single.
Sergio Fabre was the winner, in relief of starter Jose
Hernandez. Bill Stites poked out three hits
for North Battleford.
Blackman
(L) and
Green
Hernandez,
Fabre (W) (4) and Miranda
(August 10) Jesse Blackman
drove in three runs and scored the fourth as the Beavers got by
Moose Jaw 4-2. Blackman had a triple and a homer for North
Battleford. Bill Stites pitched into the 7th inning
to gain the win. Bob Holowaty took the loss.
Stites
(W), Holdaway (7) and
Green
Holowaty (L) and Loe
Felton
Morrison's single in the bottom of the final frame knocked in the winner as
Rosetown upset the league-leading Gems 6-5. The game
was called after seven innings because of darkness. Morrison's
safety, his second of the game, came with the bases loaded and two out.
Lefty Summers, with three innings of no-hit relief, was the
winning pitcher over Bennie Griggs.
MacEwen, Griggs
(L) (5) and
Bennett
Hill, Summers (W) (3) and Henderson
(August 11) Moose Jaw
teammates Collins Jones and Reg Chopp
remained atop the batting race in statistics through games of
August 10th. Jones, although down to .341, maintained a
healthy lead on Chopp, at .327. Jones also took
over the league lead in RBI, with 37. A hot streak by
North Battleford's Orlando Chico O'Farrill
moved him into third place, at .324. Bennie Griggs of Saskatoon had the most wins, nine, but Sergio Fabre
of Indian Head Rockets took over the pitching lead with a
perfect 5-0 record. Lloydminster's Ed Tanner had a
.436 average but did not have enough at bats to qualify. In a
similar position were Ted Wills of Saskatoon, at
.396, and the Gems' Cliff Pemberton at .352.
AB H AVE
Jones, MJ 182 62 .341
Chopp, MJ 168 55 .327
O'Farrill, NB 173 56 .324
Tate, NB 196 62 .316
Lillie, MJ 174 55 .316
Stuart, MJ 127 40 .315
Ford, LM 144 43 .299
Stone, NB 183 54 .295
Morton, RT 149 43 .289
Valladares, SK 161 46 .286
Burbage, RT 147 42 .286
Trimont, SK 134 38 .284
Blackman, NB 181 51 .282
B Brown, RT 175 49 .280
Girado, MJ 141 39 .277
Garcia, IH 183 50 .273
Reyes, SK 173 47 .272
Jackson, RT 177 48 .271
Morrison, RT 176 47 .267
W L PCT
Fabre, SK 5 0 1.000
Kirk, SK 7
1 .875
Wills, SK 5 1
.833
Hernandez, IH 5 1 .833
Griggs, SK 9 2 .818
Morrow, SK 4 1 .800
Doig, SK 3
1 .750
Kapp, NB 3
1 .750
Holdaway, NB 6 3 .667
Hill, RT 3
2 .600
Rosell, LM 3 2 .600
MacEwen, SK 3 2 .600
Gray, MJ 3
3 .500
Brown, RT 5 5
.500
Blackman, NB 5 5 .500
(August 11) Darrell
Martin and Francisco Pilato hooked up in a brilliant
pitching duel which was decided by errors. None of the
runs were earned as Lloydminster edged Indian Head 2-1.
Each pitcher gave up six hits. Each team scored in the
first inning. Chuck McGuigan scored for the
Meridians when he singled then came around to score on a pair of
miscues as he tried to steal second. For the Rockets, Mario
Penalver reached on an error and scored on consecutive
singles by Sylvio Mesa and Clarence York. In the
ninth, the Meridians loaded the bases on a walk, and infield
error and a single. Rick Herrera scored the winner
on a ground out by pinch-hitter Bob Rosell.
Martin
(W) and Tanner
Pilato (L) and
Miranda
Lefty Summers
picked up the win as Rosetown beat Moose Jaw 5-3. He held the
Mallards to seven hits. Arlington Henderson scored what
proved to be the winning marker in the 5th inning when he drew a walk,
stole second and came home on a single by Buddy Burbage.
Ben Brown added an insurance run in the 8th with a homer.
Russ Stuart had a double and single for Moose Jaw.
Creone Psome and Pancho Gray gave up just five
hits in a losing effort.
Summers
(W) and
Henderson
Psome;
Gray (L) (4) and Loe
(August 11) An
unusual inside-the-park homer by Len Breckner broke a 2-2
tie and carried Saskatoon to a 5-2 exhibition win over Kamsack
Cyclones before 15-hundred fans at Saskatoon. Cyclones'
right fielder Hal Moffitt lost sight of Breckner's
high drive and it landed close to the fence, rolling down behind
a bench. While Kamsack players looked feverishly for the ball,
Breckner circled the bases. Jim Morrow went the
distance for the Gems holding Kamsack to six hits. Ted
Ellis was the loser, allowing 12 hits. Mario
Herrera had two doubles and a single for the
winners. The start of the game was delayed about twenty
minutes as Kamsack had car trouble on the way to
Saskatoon. Cyclones arrived without their regular catcher Bill
Schulz who, early Wednesday, sustained a bad cut on his
foot while chopping wood at Madge Lake. It was the final
action of the season for the Cyclones with most of the players
heading back to their homes in California.
Ellis and Bennett
Morrow and Trimont
W L GB
Saskatoon
33 10 --
North Battleford 27 22 9
Indian Head 21
24 13
Rosetown
22 26 14
Moose Jaw
18 26 15
Lloydminster 14 27
18
(August 12) Collins Jones
broke out of a batting slump with three hits including a
game-winning, 10th inning double as Moose Jaw swept a twin-bill
from the Meridians with a 4-3 win in the second game.
Mallards won the opener 7-5. Jones knocked in Andy
Lillie, who had walked and advanced on an error.
Meridians' Johnny Ford had tied the game 3-3 with a
pinch-hit homer in the ninth. Dave Kosteniuk went all the
way for the win giving up nine hits. Max Weekly and
Tom Mulcahy, who came on in relief in the ninth, allowed
just seven hits. In the first game, Emery Coleman
went the distance on the hill and punched out a three-run triple
for the Mallards. Roberto Zayas had a lead-off
homer for Lloydminster in the first game.
Rosell
(L) and Tanner
EColeman (W) and Loe
Weekly, Mulcahy
(L) (9) and
Tanner
Kosteniuk (W) and Loe
Louis Green had three
hits, including a triple, as North Battleford won 6-5 over
Indian Head. Beavers plated a pair in the 7th inning to
come from behind for the victory. Ed Kapp went the
distance for the win, besting Sammy White. Juan
Garcia had three hits, including a double, for the
Rockets. The game was played at Fort Qu'Ap;pelle.
Kapp
(W) and Green
White (L) and
Johnson
Rosetown's Major Coleman allowed but
three hits but ended up on the short end of a 3-2 score as
Saskatoon beat the Phillies. Gems' Don Kirk
fanned fifteen to set a Saskatchewan Baseball League strikeout mark. Max Weekly
had held the mark with fourteen. Kirk allowed ten hits and
walked five in his winning performance. Gems won the match with a
two-run 6th inning as Bev Bentley singled to score both Cliff
Pemberton and Percy Trimont. Trimont had
received an intentional pass.
MColeman
(L) and
Henderson
Kirk
(W) and Bennett
(August 13) Percy
Trimont's towering seventh inning homer broke a tie as the Gems went
on to beat the Rockets 4-2 in the second game of a double header
at Indian Head. Bentley MacEwen went the distance for the
win and aided the offense with a two-run double. Orlando
Arango gave up just five hits in taking the loss.
MacEwen
(W) and
Bennett
Arango (L) and Johnson, Miranda (7)
In the opener, unbeaten Sergio Fabre held the Gems to
three hits while the Rockets pounded out eleven hits off Bennie Griggs
to win 7-1. Leopoldo Xiques led the Rockets with a
double and two singles. Clarence York added a double and
single. Leopoldo Reyes of the Gems had two of the three
hits off Fabre.
Griggs
(L) and
Bennett
Fabre (W) and
Johnson
Rosetown beat Moose Jaw 6-4. Phillies used a five-run outburst in the 3rd inning,
helped by three Moose Jaw errors, to secure the victory. A
spectacular catch in centre field by the Phillies' Howard Warfield
likely saved the day for Rosetown. In the 8th inning, with a man
on base, the Mallards' Pancho Gray belted one to centre
which appeared destined to fall in safely, but Warfield pulled it in to
get Boyd Brown out of trouble. Brown scattered 11
hits to capture the mound win. Lionel King and Gray
allowed just five hits in taking a loss.
King
(L), Gray (3) and Loe
Brown (W)
and Henderson
North Battleford scored seven in the seventh to top Lloydminster 11-8. The
Meridians had jumped into a 6-1 lead in the 2nd inning helped by Rick
Herrera's four-bagger. The Beavers battled back with three in the
third inning as Chico O'Farrill homered but Lloydminster went up
8-4 in the 4th on Johnny Ford's two-run blast. The Beavers
had six hits in their big 7th frame. Chuck Holdaway,
who relieved starter Gerry Ellyson in the 2nd, went the
rest of the way for the win.
Mulcahy
(L) and
Tanner
Ellyson,
Holdaway (W) (2) and Green
(August 14) A three-run
third inning carried the Lloydminster Meridians to a 4-3 win over Saskatoon.
In a battle of lefthanders, the Meridians' Ron Webb
bested the Gems' Bob Doig. Third baseman Johnny
Ford had two hits and drove in a pair to pace the
border-city crew.
Doig
(L) and Bennett
Webb (W) and
Tanner
Bob Holowaty, an
addition to the Mallards from Kamsack, pitched a four-hitter and
Moose Jaw banged out 13 hits to whip North Battleford 9-1. Three
times the Mallards' infield pulled off bases-loaded double
plays. The league's top hitter, Collins Jones of the
Mallards, had two hits.
Holowaty
(W) and Loe
Stites (L) and
Green
(August 14) Rosetown Phillies shutout Indian Head Rockets
5-0 in a game played at Tisdale.
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(August 15) After being held
scoreless for eight innings, Saskatoon exploded for five runs in
the ninth to beat the Meridians 5-1 in the second game of a
double-header to clinch top spot in the Saskatchewan Baseball
League. Gems had only six hits off Max Weekly, but
took advantage of five Lloydminster errors. Don Kirk
held the Meridians to five hits in gaining the decision, his 9th
win against just one loss. Big blows in the game were triples by
Percy Trimont of the Gems and Bob Rosell of the
Meridians.
Kirk
(W) and Bennett
Weekly (L) and Tanner
Gems won the first game 3-1 behind the
five-hit pitching of Jim
Morrow. Darrell Martin allowed seven hits in
going the distance for the Meridians. Jose Vallarades
and Ted Wills each had two hits.
Morrow
(W) and
Bennett
Martin (L) and
Tanner
Moose Jaw topped North Battleford 4-2. Andy Lillie and
George Lipscomb belted home runs for the Mallards. In the weekend series, the
league's top hitter, Collins Jones, went five-for-nine
while teammate Lillie had six hits in ten at bats.
The Moose Jaw infield continued its outstanding defense with
another pair of double plays.
Psome (W) and Loe
Kapp (L) and Green
Rosetown scored four runs in the bottom of the eighth inning to shade the
Indian Head Rockets 6-4. With two out in the 8th, Lefty
Summers tripled to score Reg Jackson and Cy
Morton followed with another three-base hit to plate the second run
of the inning. A wild pitch and singles by Ben Hill,
Felton Morrison and Buddy Burbage scored two
more. Morrison and Burbage each had three hits. Preston
Bessicks and Hill combined to hold the Rockets to six hits.
Rodriguez
(L), Fabre (8),
Hernandez (8) and Miranda
Bessicks, Hill (W) (7) and Henderson
W L GB
Saskatoon
37 12 --
North Battleford 29 24 10
Rosetown
25 27 14
Moose Jaw
22 27 15
Indian Head 22
28 15
Lloydminster 15 32
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(August 17) Juan Garcia
belted a three-run homer as the Rockets edged the Meridians
13-12 in 10 innings in the completion of the July 8th 8-8 tie.
Lloydminster appeared to have the game in hand after scoring
four times in their at bat on a double by Arne Thunander,
singles by Bob Rosell and Rick Herrera, an error
and a walk. But the Rockets replied with singles by Leo
Xiques and Sylvio Mesa, a walk, an error and Juan
Garcia's three-run homer. In the regularly scheduled
game, Indian Head won 4-2 with each side being held to five
hits. Sergio Fabre got both wins, his 7th and 8th
without a defeat. Darrell Martin
suffered both defeats. Lloydminster made four costly errors in
the second game.
Seoane, Martinez (9), Fabre
(W) 10) and Miranda
Herrera, Martin (L) (5) and Quane, Tanner (10)
Martin (L)
and Tanner
Fabre (W) and Yzquierdo
(August 17) Moose Jaw
Mallards, held to one hit through the first six innings, had
three hits in the 7th, singles by George Lipscomb,
Dave Kosteniuk and Andy Lillie to plate
two to break a scoreless tie en route to a 3-1 win over
Saskatoon. Bill Findley, Ed Girado
and Russ Stuart poked singles in the 8th to add
another marker. Gems' got their lone run when Kosteniuk
walked pinch-hitter Len Breckner with the bases
loaded. Koseniuk scattered nine hits to gain the win.
Bennie Griggs was the loser in relief.
Starter Bentley MacEwen of the Gems fanned 11 in
his seven innings of work.
Kosteniuk
(W) and Loe
MacEwen (L),
Griggs (8) and Bennett
(August 17)
Rosetown took two out of three from North Battleford. Harold Johnson, Howard
Warwick and Ben Brown had homers as the Phillies won
the first game 10-2 behind Boyd Brown's six-hitter.
Johnson knocked in three runs and Boyd Brown helped the
offense with a double and two singles. Curtis Tate
banged out three hits for the Beavers.
Brown
(W) and
Henderson
Blackman
(L) and Green
In the second game,
Major Coleman and Preston Bessicks combined on a
three-hitter to shutout the Beavers 4-0. Coleman went the first
eight innings for the win. He had 9 strikeouts and 7 bases on
balls. The Phillies did all their scoring in the second inning. Cy
Morton drove in two runs with a single. Chuck
Holdaway allowed just five hits in taking the loss. he fanned
12 and walked 3. Beavers had the bases loaded in the 9th with
nobody out but couldn't score.
MColeman
(W), Bessicks (9) and
Price
Holdaway (L) and Green
And, in the completion of the August 2nd 6-6
tie, the Beavers salvaged a win for the day pushing across a run in the
first extra frame on a hit and two errors. Bill Stites
received credit for the win with relief help by Jesse Blackman.
Stites (W), Blackman
(10) and Green
Brown (L) and
Henderson
(August 18) Francisco
Pilato was the star as the Rockets took two from
Lloydminster. Pilato pitched both games holding the
Meridians to five hits in each as Indian Head won 1-0 and
8-1. Sylvio Mesa doubled and scored the only run in the opener
and slammed a two-run homer in the nightcap. Mario
Penalver had two doubles and a single in the second game for
the Rockets. Leo Xiques and Antonio Iglesias each
has two hits. Bob Rosell
lost a heartbreaker in the first game, allowing just three
hits. He also suffered the loss in the second game, giving
up six runs before being relieved in the sixth.
Rosell
(L) and Tanner
Pilato (W) and
Yzquierdo
Rosell
(L), Quane (6) and
Tanner
Pilato (W) and Yzquierdo
(August 19) Lefty Ron
Webb allowed just four hits and a pair of earned runs but
ended up with a loss as the Meridians split a double-header with
Moose Jaw. The Mallards beat Webb 5-2 as Lloydminster
committed four miscues. Bob Holowaty fired a
four-hitter, with ten strikeouts, for the win. Mallards broke a
2-2 tie with a three-run 6th inning. Right fielder
George Lipscomb drove in two with a double.
Webb
(L) and Tanner
Holowaty (W) and Loe
Meridians scored early and often
in the opener to post a 15-5 victory. Roberto Zayas
had the first of Lloydminster's seventeen hits, a homer on the
game's first pitch. Ed Tanner drove in five runs with a
double and a pair of singles. Rick Herrera had
three hits. Tom Mulcahy picked up the complete game
victory.
Mulcahy
(W) and
Tanner
EColeman (L),
Gray (5) and Loe, Jones (8)
North Battleford overcame the pitching and hitting of Ted
Wills to shade Saskatoon 4-3. Wills pitched a
six-hitter, with eleven strikeouts and had a two-run
homer. Errors hurt the Gems. Trailing 3-2, the
Beavers knotted the count in the 6th inning when Curtis Tate
singled, advanced to third on an error and promptly stole home. In
the bottom of the 7th, Ken Nelson doubled and came in to
score the winner on a single by Louis Green.
Mario Herrera account for the second Saskatoon run with a
homer. Jose Valladres had three hits for the Gems. Ed Kapp
was the winner in relief.
Wills
(L) and Bennett
Stites, Kapp (W)
(5) and Green
Pitcher Benny Hill's two-run double in the 7th
inning proved to be the difference as Rosetown topped Indian Head 4-3.
Hill went the distance allowing nine hits and fanning nine.
Rockets' second baseman Leo Xiques went 4 for 4 with two
doubles and two singles. Juan Garcia had a homer for the
losers. Jose Hernandez took the loss.
Hill
(W) and Price
Hernandez (L),
White (8) and Yzquierdo
W L GB
Saskatoon
37 14 --
North Battleford 31 26 9
Rosetown
28 28 11 1/2
Indian Head 26
29 13
Moose Jaw
24 28 13 1/2
Lloydminster 16 37
22
(August 20) Max
Weekly out pitched Bennie Griggs as the Meridians beat
the Gems 5-2. Arne Thunander of the Meridians and
Percy Trimont of the Gems each had three hits. Gems
broke a scoreless tie in the 4th inning on a walk and singles by
Trimont, Len Breckner and Ezequiel Diaz.
The Meridians bounced back with four in the 5th as Weekly,
Roberto Zayas and Rick Herrera drove in
runs. Singles by Herrera and Thunander produced another
marker in the 8th.
Weekly
(W) and Quane
Griggs (L) and
Bennett
Indian
Head picked up two wins from the Mallards. Rockets scored four in the
1st inning of the regularly scheduled game and held on to beat Moose Jaw
7-4. Leo Xiques, who had four hits Thursday, paced the 12-hit Indian Head attack
with two doubles and a single. Miguel Miranda
and Sylvio Mesa had homers for the winners. Reg
Chopp clouted a two-run homer for Moose Jaw.
Sergio Fabre picked up another win, his 9th of the season without
a loss.
Seymour, WWilson (7),
Psome (L) (10) and Loe
Hernandez, Fabre (W) (10) and Miranda
Rockets picked up a second win, 5-4, in the completion of a 4-4
tie on May 25th. Mesa led
off the 11th with a triple and scored on Miranda's
single. Right-hander Sergio Fabre picked up
the win, his second of the day and 10th of the season, although
giving up 14 hits and four runs.
Psome (L), Gray (1)
and Loe
Fabre (W), White (8) and Miranda
(August 21) Meridians swept
a twin-bill from Moose Jaw as Darrell Martin tossed a
brilliant two-hit shutout and Jerry Quane, normally a
catcher, pitched a five-hitter. Lloydminster won the
opener 3-0 behind Martin. The Meridians had just five hits
including a double by Rick Herrera and triple by Chuck
McGuigan.
EColeman
(L) and Loe
Martin (W) and Quane
Lloydminster scored in every inning in taking the seven-inning, second
game 8-3. Meridians collected 12 hits off Dave Kosteniuk and
Andy Lillie while Jerry Quane moved from behind
the plate to the mound and held the Mallards to just five hits.
Lloydminster ran wild on the bases with six thefts, three by Roberto
Zayas.
Kosteniuk
(L), Lillie (6) and
Jones
Quane (W) and Tanner
(August 22) Lloydminster
took its second twin-bill in two days with 3-1 and 5-4 victories
over North Battleford. Tom Mulcahy picked up both
victories, a complete game victory in the opener and a win in
relief in the second game. First baseman Arne Thunander pitched
the first four innings for the Meridians in the second game,
giving way to catcher Ed Tanner before Mulcahy finished
up. Lloydminster won the second game in the bottom of
the 9th on back-to-back doubles from Bob Rosell and
Thunander.
Holdaway
(L) and
Nelson
Mulcahy
(W) and Tanner
Blackman, Stites
(L) (7) and
Nelson
Thunander; Tanner (5); Mulcahy (W)
(8) and Quane
The Saskatoon Gems played four
games Sunday, three at home, one on the road. They ended
with two wins, a loss and a tie. The Gems split up the
club, sending half the squad to Rosetown for an afternoon game
while the other half hosted Indian Head in a twin-bill. The
Phillies won 6-5 in 10 innings in Rosetown in spite of a
six-hit, 14 strikeout performance by Bentley MacEwen.
Reg Jackson singled in Buddy Burbage with
the winner. Bennie Griggs had the big stick
for the Gems with two triples and two singles in five trips to
the plate. The makeshift lineup featured Percy
Trimont catching, Griggs at first, Bev
Bentley at second, Ezequiel Diaz at shortstop,
Doug Bentley at third, and Don Kirk,
Ted Ellis and Arlo Goodwin in the
outfield.
MacEwen
(L)
and Trimont
Bessicks,
Summers (5), Hill (W)(8) and Price
At Cairns Field, the Gems shaded the Rockets 2-1 in the first game as Bob Doig tossed a five-hitter. The teams
tied 2-2 in the second game. In the opener, the Gems
had just three hits and won the final frame as Len Breckner
tripled and Mario Herrera singled to send him home with
the winner.
Arango,
Rodriguez
(L) (6) and
Miranda
Doig (W) and Bennett
The second game was cut short by the Sunday
curfew. The Gems came from behind with two runs in the 5th to tie
at 2-2. Jose Valladares drove in both Saskatoon markers.
Mario Penalver had a triple for Indian Head and Juan
Garcia and Ross Washington had doubles.
Jim Morrow and Sammy White both went the
distance.
White and Miranda
Morrow and Bennett
In the evening game, at home, the Gems fielded most
of their regular lineup and proceed to trounced Rosetown 11-4. An
eight-run explosion in the 5th inning put the game on ice.
Saskatoon had 12 hits, but just one for extra bases - a triple by
Cliff Pemberton. Rosetown had just six hits, but four went for
extra bases. Harold Johnson and Howard Warfield
belted homers for the Phillies with Johnson adding a double and Cy
Morton a triple. Don Kirk registered his 10th win
of the season.
MColeman (L), Bessicks (5), Summers
(5), Hill (7) and Price
Kirk (W) and Bennett
W L GB
Saskatoon
39 16 --
North Battleford 31 28 10
Rosetown
29 29 11 1/2
Indian Head 28
30 12 1/2
Moose Jaw
24 32 15 1/2
Lloydminster 21 37
19 1/2
(August 23) Max Weekly
had a two-hitter and a four-hitter but came away with just one
victory as the Meridians wound up the season splitting a pair of
five-inning encounters with with Rosetown. Meridians, who
won six of their final seven games, scored three times in
the first inning of the opener and went on to a 5-1 win.
Roberto Zayas had two hits and Tom Mulcahy had the lone extra
base hit, a double.
Brown
(L) and
Henderson
Weekly
(W) and Tanner
The Phillies put
three on the board in the first inning of the second game and held on to
a 3-1 victory. Preston Bessicks tossed a three-hitter for the
win. Reg Jackson has a pair of singles for Rosetown
while Howard Warfield and Weekly rapped out
doubles.
Bessicks
(W) and
Henderson
Weekly (L) and Quane
(August 23) Saskatoon which had probably set
a standard with four games in a single day on Sunday, tried for
five games on the closing day of the season.
In Saskatoon,
the Gems split a double-header with Indian Head, winning 6-5 as Bennie Griggs
went the distance, then losing 4-2 in the completion of
Sunday's 2-2 tie. The first game was a replay of an
earlier contest in which the Rockets had used ineligible
players. The Gems had only nine players and used three
pitchers in the outfield. Ross Washington and
Francisco Pilato drove in the winning runs.
White, Pilato
(W) and Miranda
Morrow, Griggs (L) and Bennett
In the nightcap, Saskatoon erupted for five runs in
the first inning and held on for the 6-5 triumph. Griggs victory
was his 10th of the season, against 5 losses. Ross
Washington had a homer for the Rockets.
Pilato
(L) and Johnson, Miranda
(7)
Griggs (W) and
Bennett
The rest of the team went to Moose Jaw to meet the Mallards in a
triple-header. They won all three, but the victories were
protested. Ted Ellis was credited with all three
pitching wins. In the regular contest, the Gems won 13-8,
then Saskatoon picked up two more victories, 11-8 and 8-4, in
the completion of earlier tied games.
Ezequiel Diaz doubled in Mario
Herrera and Percy Trimont bashed a two-run homer to
give the Gems an 11-8 victory on the completion of an earlier tie game.
Morrow, Doig (4), Garcia (8),
Ellis (W) and xxx
Seymour, Kosteniuk (L) and xxx
Saskatoon Gems erupted for four runs, on two hits,
two walks and two errors, in the first extra inning to down Moose Jaw
8-4 in another completion game. Again, Ted Ellis picked up
the win and Dave Kosteniuk was the loser.
Doig, Griggs (3),
Ellis (W) and xxx
EColeman, Gray (3), Kosteniuk (L) and xxx
In the final contest, Saskatoon broke an 8-8
tie with a five-run 7th inning to take the win. Mario Herrera
started the rally with a walk followed by consecutive singles by
Ezequiel Diaz, Percy Trimont and Jim
Morrow. With a run in and the bases-loaded, Bev
Bentley tripled to right to clear the sacks and came around to score
on a Moose Jaw error. Diaz led the attack driving in four
runs with a triple, double and single. Herrera had three hits.
Collins Jones belted a homer and single for the Mallards and
Russ Stuart drove in three runs with a double and single.
Andy Lillie punched out three hits. Ted Ellis
allowed ten hits but hung in for the complete game win, his third of the
day.
Ellis
(W) and Trimont
Lillie,
Holowaty (L) (3) and Loe
W L GB
Saskatoon
43 17 --
North Battleford 31 28 11 1/2
Rosetown
30 30 13
Indian Head 29
31 14
Moose Jaw
24 35 18 1/2
Lloydminster 22 38
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