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Saskatoon Optimist
: Saskatoon
4 Kindersley 2
Peace River : Dawson
Creek Cardinals captured the Peace River tournament with a 4-3 win
over Barrhead Cardinals in the final.
Lacombe :
(July 27)
"Thanks to perfect weather and Slim Thorpe's
Lloydminster Meridians, all records fell at the 11th annual
Lacombe Lions Baseball Tournament Wednesday. The ideal
weather put a record number of fans in the Lions new baseball
park, 10,000 in two days, and the Meridians broke all other
records for one club's domination in what stands as Canada's top
baseball tournament, money-wise, color-wise and baseball-wise.
The Meridians completed a tournament route by
defeating the Lefty Mack - Ivan Crook North Alberta All-Stars
27-5 in a final game ended by darkness after seven innings ...
Indicative of the Lacombe's tourneys spot in Alberta sport field
is the fact that no - get that no - event has been so heavily
covered, with five dailies, three TV stations, nine radio
stations and six weeklies on the spot for two days."
(Hal Pawson, Edmonton Journal, July 28,
1960)
In the most one-sided final in
tournament history, the Lloydminster Meridians bombed the Northern
Alberta All-Stars 27-5 to take top prize of $1,500 in the 11th
annual Lacombe tournament.
Meridians blasted 25 hits, including homers by Tom Bergeron
and Bill Miller, and took advantage of nine walks, a
hit batsman, seven errors and five stolen bases. Bergeron,
with four hits, and Curly Williams had days to remember. Bergeron
was on base seven straight times in the final while Williams
reached safely on six consecutive plate appearances. In the
three games of the tourney, Williams reached base 14 times
in 15 tries. He had 10 walks to go along with three doubles
and a single. Mike Noakes rapped out five
singles against the All-Stars. 18-year-old Tom Belcher,
who went six innings, picked up the win. He fanned 11.
Belcher, Proctor (7) and Milano,
Miller (7)
Tookey, Reece (2), Gates (4), Waddle (5), Serbu (5), Weise (7) and Williams
The Meridians advanced to the final
by trouncing pre-tournament favourite Drain Black Sox 17-2.
Meridians scored five runs in the first and coasted to the easy
win. Southpaw Dick Dyer held Drain to six
hits and helped at the plate with three singles. Right
fielder Norm Revis blasted four doubles and two triples
to pace a 14-hit attack for the winners. Tom Bergeron
belted a triple and a double. Second baseman Bill Wagner had
a homer for the Black Sox.
Dyer and Milano
Ron
Whittaker, Leon Criner (1), Mark Clarke (3) and Bach
Ruben Rodriguez held
Calgary to five hits and fanned eight as Lefty Mack's All-Stars beat the Buffaloes
5-2.
Slaughter, Graves (7) and Garrett
Rodriguez and Williams
The biggest shock of the opening
day came as the Northern Alberta All-Stars (a combination of the
Cold Lake Cardinals and North Edmonton Rockets of the Big Seven
League) whipped the Saskatoon
Commodores 10-2. The All-Stars jumped into a 2-0 in
the first inning and never looked back. Lefty Ron Gates
allowed 10 hits to Saskatoon but went the distance for the
win. Herb Sewers led the Stars with a homer,
double and single while Tom Murphy added a triple
and a pair of singles. Larry Exel, Pete Estrada
and Gary Herrington each had two hits for Saskatoon.
Gates and Williams
Popkin, Scavo (5), Hobson (8) and Herrington
Calgary scored seven runs in the
first two innings on the way to an 11-0 win over Barrhead.
The key blow was a three-run homer by Marty Hurd.
Bill Casanova had a two-run triple in the eighth
along with a double and single. Ray Wrenn had three
singles and Bill Fennessey cracked out a pair of
doubles and a single. Gene Graves and Jim
Johnson held the Pontiacs to just two
hits. Barrhead was a last minute replacement for the
Bellingham Belles.
Kosteniuk,
Dave Waddle (2) and Kulka,
Johnson (5)
Graves, Johnson (3) and Garrett
Drain punched out 16 hits in
trouncing Lethbridge 12-2. Everyone in the Black Sox lineup
had at least one hit. Jim Lester and Bob
Bourbeau each had two hits for the White Sox. Jim
Withers pitched a seven-hitter for the win.
Withers and Bach
Canner, Bolingbroke (2), Sims (3), Montee (7) and Koentopp
Lloydminster pushed across four
runs in the first inning to beat the Kansas City Monarchs
9-1. Bill Oakley fired a four-hitter for the
win. Bob Milano rapped a two-run homer for the
Meridians while Tom Bergeron had a triple and
single. Norm Revis also had two hits. Sugar
Cain took the loss. The Monarchs were late in arriving
after driving 14-hundred miles non-stop. The team spent three days
and nights aboard a bus to make the tournament.
Oakley and Milano
Cain, Calvin Grant (7) and McKnight
After the tournament, Spero
Leakos picked up four players to bolster his Commodores'
roster. Leakos signed up Nate Dancy, Ira
McKnight and Tommy Taylor of the Monarchs and
also acquired pitcher Ruben Rodriguez.
Lethbridge :
(July 30) The
Lloydminster Meridians won their second major tournament in a week
by downing Calgary 9-6 in the final of the 10th annual Lethbridge
Rotary tournament. Meridians took the $1,500 first prize
with a five-run uprising in the seventh inning which featured a
two-run homer by Tom McGarry and triple off the bat of Barry
Arnett. The Buffaloes had taken a 4-1 lead in the
second inning on a leadoff homer by Bill Casanova
and a three-run blast by Gary Engelken.
Meridians came back to tie in the third with Cliff Pemberton's
triple the key blow. Marty Hurd's two-run
double in the bottom of the third gave the lead back to Calgary,
6-4. That was all the scoring until the Meridians winning
rally in the 7th.
Belcher, Dyer (3) and Milano
J Johnson, Burnett (2), Graves (3), Slaughter (7) and Garrett
Lloydminster reached the final with
a 7-2 win over Lethbridge. Curly Williams broke the
game wide open with a grand slam homer in the third. Williams,
Norm Revis and Cliff Pemberton each
had two hits for the Meridians. Lee Murphy and
Bob Bourbeau replied with two hits each for
Calgary. Bill Oakley scattered nine hits to gain the
win.
Bolingbroke, Sims (3) and Koentopp
Oakley and Milano
The Buffaloes came from behind a
3-0 deficit to edge the Kansas City Monarchs 6-5 in the other
semi-final. The Monarchs had jumped on starter Willie
Walasko for three runs in the third inning, two coming on
Frank Williams' homer. Calgary bounced back to tie in the bottom
of the third on doubles by Jerry Pritchett and Marty
Hurd. Buffs scored two in the fifth and Bill Casanova
produced the eventual winning run with a solo homer in the sixth.
Grant, Smith (7) and McKnight
Walasko, J Johnson (7) and Garrett
In first round action, Lloydminster
erupted for ten runs in the third inning and coasted to a 12-8 win
over the Drain, Oregon, Black Sox. Pete Kenney and Don
Lane were the victims of the Meridian onslaught.
Kenney faced seven batters, allowing five hits, a walk, and a hit
batsman. Lane came on and gave up three runs on four hits
before Ron Whittaker finally got the side out.
Tom Bergeron led the Meridians with a homer and a
pair of singles. Norm Revis, Bill Miller
and Mike Noakes each contributed a double and a
single. Larry Pederson crashed a three-run
homer for the Black Sox. Ted Richardson went
seven innings for the win.
Drain 8 Lloydminster 12
Kenney, Kane (3), Whittaker (3) and Haroldson
Richardson, Searcy (8) and Milano
John Vaselenak's
sixth inning homer with Lee Murphy aboard was all
Lethbridge needed in a 2-1 win over the Northern Alberta
All-Stars. Dick Montee, who had a no-hitter
into the sixth, allowed just four hits in a brilliant pitching
performance. He fanned 13. Ron Gates, who
pitched an eight-hitter for the All-Stars, drove in the only run
for the Northern Alberta club. In addition to his homer, Vaselenak
had a pair of singles and Jim Lester belted a double
and a single.
Lethbridge 2 Edmonton 1
Montee and Koentopp
Gates and Williams
Calgary scored four runs in the
second inning on a Ray Wrenn grand slam and went on
to a 10-1 victory over Spokane Builders. Gene Graves
tossed a seven-hitter for the win. He lost his shutout bid in the
seventh on a Rich Rust homer. Bill Casanova
added a homer for the Buffaloes.
Spokane 1 Calgary 10
Barnes, Stoner (5), Hogan (9) and Challich
Graves and Garrett
A two-out double by George Davis
sent Nat Dancy home with the winning run in the
ninth as Kansas City, the defending tournament champions, shaded
Saskatoon 4-3. Sherwood Brewer paced the
Monarchs with three hits while the big blow was a two-run homer by
Willie Washington in the fourth. Larry Exel
had a solo homer for the Commodores. Tommy Taylor
went the distance for the win.
Saskatoon 3 Kansas City 4
Peters, Jones (2) and Herrington
Taylor and McKnight
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