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(June 3) Left fielder Al Leedahl
blasted a grand slam homer in the 5th inning to spark Rosetown Macs to a
10-3 win over Kindersley Klippers. Elmer Walker had
three hits for the Macs while Barry Sharpe and Gary Franklin
each had a pair.
(June 4) The Macs whipped Biggar 15-5
and 18-3 in a twin-bill at Rosetown. Pete Sawchuk fired
five-hit ball and fanned 15 over seven innings for the win in the
opener. Jimmy Chow led the attack with two
doubles. Gary Franklin homered and knocked in five runs
to pace the Macs in the second game. Keith Swan had five
hits in six trips to the plate for the Macs.
Unity swept a pair from Kindersley, 10-2 and
8-6. Erwin Doerkson picked up the mound victory in the
first game. Ollie Harris and Harold Hunchuk
held the Klippers to five hits in the second game. Irl Flanagan
had five hits in seven trips in a losing cause for Kindersley.
Bob McIntyre tossed a
five-hitter as Neilburg topped North Battleford 5-1 in the first game of a
double-header. Jim Johnson homered for the Monarchs
while Don Anderson had a four-bagger for the Beavers. In
the second game, Ron Erne had a lead-off triple and scored on
an infield out to give the Beavers a 5-4 win and a split of the
twin-bill. Reliever Don Stynsky picked up the win.
Ivan Prediger had a two-run homer for Neilburg.
Unity 4-1
Rosetown 3-2
NB 3-2
Neilburg 2-2
Kindersley 2-3
Biggar 0-4
(June 10) Neilburg erupted for eight runs in the 8th inning to down
Rosetown 8-4. Reliever Richie Sheklien picked up the win.
(June 11) Erwin Doerkson
pitched a one-hit shutout as Unity beat Rosetown 5-0 to sweep a twin-bill at
Unity. The 20-year-old Saskatoon native fanned 11 and walked only
one. Doerkson also chipped in with two hits. Johnny
Repin drove in three runs for the winners. In the second game,
Unity got an unearned run in the 4th inning to take a 2-1 victory. Don
Stewart homered for Unity in the 1st inning.
Kindersley took a pair from Neilburg 9-1 and
6-3. Ken Wilson tossed a four-hitter, with 12
strikeouts, to win the opener. At the plate, Wilson had a
homer, double and single. Richard Ford pitched the
Klippers to the win in the second game. Garnet Hannon
had three hits.
Right-hander Clarence Proctor
pitched a five-hit shutout as Biggar topped North Battleford 4-0 in the
first game of a double-header. Beavers took the second game, 9-7 in 10
innings.
(June 16) Neilburg kicked off weekend action with a 14-6 triumph over North Battleford.
(June 18) Roy Rowley
tossed a four-hit shutout as North Battleford whipped Unity 11-0 in
the first game of a twin-bill. Unity bounced back with a 10-8 win in
the second contest.
Kindersley swept a pair from Rosetown, 7-4
and 5-3. Dave Torrens homered in the first game for the
Klippers. Bentley MacEwen stopped the Macs on five hits
in the second game.
Neilburg downed Biggar, 7-6 in the first of
two as Bob McIntyre bested Clarence Proctor on
the hill. Monarchs won the second game, 6-5.
Unity 8-2
Neilburg 7-4
Kindersley 6-4
NB 5-5
Rosetown 3-7
Biggar 1-8
(July 2) Unity Cardinals maintained their
hold on top spot in the Northern Saskatchewan League taking a pair of wins
from Rosetown, 5-2 and 11-7. Singles by John Repin and Erwin
Doerksen drove in three runs in the 7th inning of the opener to
provide the margin of victory. Rusty Devine, with 10
strikeouts, was the winner. Gary Murphy took the
loss. Chuck Ratley had a homer for the Cardinals. Jim
Chow had a two-run double for Rosetown. In the second game, Ross
Stone picked up the win over Rod Campbell. Ross
Morrison had two doubles for Unity while Chow blasted a
three-run homer for Rosetown.
Neilburg swept a twin-bill from North
Battleford, 16-6 and 7-6. Rich Sheklien tossed a
five-hitter in the opener and Fred Hodgson allowed just three
hits in the second game. Bob Taylor and Ron Erne
took the losses for the Beavers.
Kindersley pounded out 15 hits in taking the
first game from Biggar, 16-6. Wally Jackson and Layne
Jackson each had three hits for the Klippers while Ken Wilson
had a bases-loaded triple and a double. Bentley MacEwen
picked up the win over Cliff Lindgren. Klippers won the
second contest 7-6 with Garnet Hannon, who relieved starter Lloyd
Rachul in the 5th inning, getting the win. Clarence Proctor
was the loser.
(July 5 ) Roy Rowley did
everything but get a win. Rowley tossed a three-hitter and went 3-3 at
the plate but the North Battleford Beavers dropped a 2-1 decision to the
Biggar Acmes. Bob Lindgren's 4th inning single drove in
what proved to be the winning run. Clarence Proctor,
with 8th inning relief from Gerry Gartner, picked up the win.
Ken Wilson pitched a
three-hitter to lead Kinderlsey to a 9-3 win over Rosetown. Wilson fanned
nine and walked nine. Jim Chow was the loser.
Neilburg topped Unity 11-6.
(July 7) North Battleford downed the
league-leading Unity Cardinals 4-2 before 300 fans at North
Battleford. Lyle Bradley, with 7th inning relief by Roy
Rowley, was the winning pitcher. Ross Stone
tossed a six-hitter and fanned 13 but took the loss for the Cardinals.
Irl Flanagan was the game's top hitter with two doubles and a
single for Unity.
(July 9) North Battleford moved to within a game and
a half of Unity by sweeping a twin-bill from the Cardinals, 13-6 and 7-6 as Roy
Rowley picked up wins in both games. Don Stynsky
started both games for the Beavers with Lyle Bradley and
Rowley doing relief chores. Don Drummond homered in each
game for the Beavers and collected six hits in ten trips to the plate.
Barney Krake had a homer for the Cardinals. Ollie
Harris was charged with both losses.
At Biggar, the Acmes took a pair from
Neilburg, 6-3 and 9-8. Clarence Proctor picked up the
mound win in the opener over Bob McIntyre. Doug Dodd
had three hits for the winners. Cliff Lindgren was the winner
in the second game. Ted Richardson absorbed the
loss.
Rosetown Macs blasted Kindersley 17-13 and
14-5. Macs had 18 hits in the opener, just one for extra bases, a
three-run homer by Elmer Walker. Marcel Richard,
who relieved in the 3rd, picked up the win over Rich Ford.
Don Snider was the winner in the second game although he
needed relief from Jim Chow. Ken Wilson
was the loser from the Klippers.
(July 11) Irl Flanagan
bested Bentley MacEwen in a pitchers' duel as Unity downed
Kindersley 2-0. Both Cardinals' runs were unearned, coming on the only
two errors of the game. Flanagan belted a triple in the 3rd and scored
on an error. In the 7th, Chuck Ratley doubled, stole
third and crossed the plate on an overthrow. There were only six hits
in the game, three by each side. MacEwen fanned 15 and walked
just one. Flanagan had six strikeouts and four walks.
(July 12) Marcel Richard
tossed a three-hit shutout as Rosetown topped North Battleford 5-0. Macs put the
game away with a four-run 6th inning. Merle Byrnes had
three hits for the winners while Jim Pettapiece added a triple
and a single. Roy Rowley, who went the distance for the
Beavers, was the losing pitcher.
Ted Richardson, had a no-hitter
going into the 9th, as Neilburg topped Biggar 9-2. Richardson, allowed
two singles in the final frame before giving way to Ricky Sheklien.
Cliff Lindgren took the loss. Charlie Orr
and Glen Thompson each had three hits for the Macs.
(July 14) Rosetown moved to
within a game and a half of fourth place and the final playoff spot with an
8-6 win over North Battleford. Keith Swan led the winners with three
hits, one of them a triple. John Ford and Dave Hallis each had three
hits for the Beavers. Gary Murphy, with relief help from
Jim Chow,
picked up the win. Beaver starter Oscar Tesch took the loss.
(July 16) Kindersley moved to within
one game of league-leading Unity taking a pair from the Cardinals, 4-2 and
6-4. Bentley MacEwen, in relief, picked up the win in
the first game while Ken Wilson fanned 14 in the second
contest and collected the victory. Erwin Doerksen was
the loser in both games. Unity's Chuck Ratley had the
only homer of the day.
Ted Richardson tossed a
six-hitter and fanned 12 to lead Neilburg to a 4-3 win over Rosetown in the first game of a
double-header. In the second game, Jim Pettapiece
slammed a three-run homer to help Rod Campbell and the Macs coast to a
16-5
victory. Bob McIntryre was the loser.
Winning pitcher Roy Rowley
drove in the winning run as North Battleford edged Biggar 8-7 in the first of two. Barney
Krake had an inside-the-park homer for the Beavers. Ken Nelson,
Jack Rowley and Don Anderson all had
triples. Erwin Boehm had three hits for the Acmes.
Biggar won the second game 13-7 as the Beavers gave up eight unearned
runs. Boehm had a pair of doubles to lead Biggar.
Unity
13-8
Kindersley 12-9
Neilburg 12-10
N-Battleford 12-11
Rosetown 10-12
Biggar 6-15
(July 19) John Repin
belted three doubles as Unity downed Rosetown 14-5 to maintain its hold on
first place in the NSBL. Lefty Ross Stone was the winner
over Gary Murphy.
At Kindersley, the Klippers shaded Biggar 5-4
behind the pitching of Ricky Ford. Clarence Proctor
was the loser.
(July 22) The Neilburg Monarchs were
cited as one of the favourites for the title in the Saskatoon Industrial
Exhibition tournament. Monarchs, six-time winners, were one of eight
teams in the 1961 event. Veteran Pete Prediger was set to
appear in his 28th Exhibition tourney. He was with the Neilburg club
which won four straight tournaments in 1934-35-36-37 and again in
1939. Pete's son, 20-year-old Ivan, was expected to man second
base for the Monarchs.
(July 22) Ted Richardson,
who came on in relief in the 8th, belted a homer in the 9th to give Neilburg
a 7-6 win over North Battleford. Neil Urlacher had a
three-run homer and Ivan Prediger a solo shot for the
winners.
(July 23) Unity swept a pair from
Biggar, 11-5 and 9-1, to stay atop the NSBL standings. John Repin,
the loop's leading hitter with a .487 average, had a double in the opener
and two triples in the second game. Ollie Harris and Rusty
Devine picked up the wins.
Rosetown topped North Battleford 8-7 in the
first game of a twin-bill. Gary Franklin belted a
tape-measure homer for the Macs. Marcel Richard picked
up the win over Don Stynsky. Beavers won the second game 12-8
in spite of another Franklin homer. Roy Rowley picked
up the win. Dave Hallis had a pair of doubles for the
Beavers.
(July 24) In the opening game of the
Saskatoon Exhibition tournament, centre fielder John Repin
had four hits to lead Unity to a 6-4 win over Delisle. A four-run 5th
inning proved to be the winning margin. Ross Stone, with
9th inning relief help from Erwin Doerksen, was the winner. Max
Bentley led Delisle with three hits.
(July 25) Pitching was the highlight at
the second day of the Saskatoon Exhibition tournament. Ted Richardson
tossed a two-hitter and fanned 16 as Neilburg shutout Govan 5-0. Lew
Hobson fanned 15 in a losing cause as Asquith dropped a 4-1 decision
to North Battleford. Roy Rowley held Asquith to four
hits while fanning nine and allowing just one base on balls.
Peter Prediger, playing in his
28th Exhibition tournament, knocked in two runs with a pair of doubles for
the Monarchs. Dave Hallis drove in two runs for the
Beavers with a 5th inning double.
(July 26) First baseman Don Laube
slugged a homer, double and single and drove in three runs as Melville
trounced Kindersley 11-3 to move into the semi-finals of the Saskatoon tournament. Lefthander Cliff Mein held the
Klippers to just three hits and struck out 14. A towering pinch-hit
double by Len Breckner accounted for two of the Kindersley
runs.
(July 27) Don Stewart had
four hits and knocked in a pair to pace Unity as the Cardinals downed North Battleford
5-1 to win a spot in the final of the tournament. Erwin
Doerksen, a 20-year-old right-hander, tossed a three-hitter and
fanned 12 to get the win.
(July 28) Pete Prediger,
the 47-year-old playing-manager of the Neilburg Monarchs, drew a
bases-loaded walk in the 10th inning to plate the eventual winning run and
his son, Ivan, hit a sacrifice fly for an insurance tally as Neilburg
edged Melville 4-2 in the semi-finals of the Exhibition tourney. A
sell-out crowd watched the action. Cliff Mein was the
loser in spite of an outstanding relief appearance. The 21-year-old iron man,
pitching his fifth game in six days, hung up 14 strikeouts in his seven
innings of relief. Monarchs' starter Ted Richardson had
a four-hitter over eight innings before leaving the game after being hit by
a pitch. Fred Hodgson picked up the win.
(July 29) Don Stewart
drove in the tying run and scored the winner as Unity captured top prize in
the Exhibition tournament with a 3-2 win over Neilburg before an overflow
crowd for the final. With the game tied 1-1 in the 5th, Chuck Ratley
touched off the Cardinals' rally with a double down the left field line and
moved to third on a passed ball. Stewart singled him home and
then scored on Johnny Repin's long single which bounced away
from centre fielder Larry Flecik. Rusty Devine
turned in a superb mound performance for the Cardinals holding the Monarchs
to five hits over eight innings while fanning 13. Erwin Doerksen
pitched the 9th. Fred Hodgson gave up just seven hits in
a losing cause. Unity picked up a total of $575 for their
victory. Stewart won $25 as the top hitter in the tournament.
(July 29) Kindersley and the Beavers
split a pair in North Battleford. Bentley MacEwen tossed
a four-hitter as the Klippers won the opener 4-0. Johnny Ford
had a double and three singles as North Battleford won the second game
7-1. Roy Rowley was the winner over Ken Wilson.
Richie Ford had three hits for the Klippers.
(July 30) Ted Richardson fired a
two-hit shutout as Neilburg downed Rosetown 5-0 in the first game of a
double-header. Macs won the second, 11-10, getting homers from Jim
Chow and Dick Hoffman. Ivan Prediger
homered for the Monarchs. Marcel Richard, who lost the
opener, got credit for the win in the second contest.
(August 4) Bentley MacEwen pitched
a no-hitter as Kindersley beat Unity Cardinals 5-0. The Klippers'
lefty ace fanned nine and didn't issue a single free pass in the abbreviated
contest, called after seven innings because of darkness. Three
Kindersley errors kept MacEwen from a perfect game. Losing pitching Irl
Flanagan gave up six hits.
(August 9) Lefty Ted Richardson
pitched and batted Neilburg Monarchs to an 8-0 win over Kindersley Klippers
in the opening game of their best-of-three semi-final series. Richardson
tossed a one-hitter and blasted a three-run homer. Larry Flecik
added a homer and two singles. Ken Wilson was the losing
pitcher.
Roy Rowley tossed a four-hitter
to pace North Battleford to a 4-2 victory over Unity Cardinals. John
Ford and Dave Hallis each had two hits for the
Beavers. Losing pitcher Ross Stone doubled in a run for
the Cards.
( ) Neilburg - Kindersley
(August 13) Neilburg advanced to the
Northern Saskatchewan League final with a 6-4 win over Kindersley.
Klippers gift-wrapped the win for the Monarchs, booting the ball ten times
as pitcher Bentley MacEwen took the loss in spite of holding the
Monarchs to five hits. Ted Richardson gave up nine in picking
up the win. Ken Wilson of the Klippers was the game's top
hitter with a homer, double and a single.
North Battleford and Unity split a pair of
slugfests. Beavers won the opener 12-10 while the Cardinals came
back with a 21-6 victory in the second game. Beavers lead the
best-of-five series 2-1.
Roy Rowley held Unity hitless after
the fourth inning in the first game as North Battleford prevailed.
Rowley, who started, gave way to Lyle Bradley in the fourth
and then returned to the hill to retire the last man in the inning and then went
on to shutdown the Cardinals the rest of the way.
In the nightcap, Chuck Ratley
led Unity with two homers and a triple. Irl Flanagan
chipped in with a double and three singles. Cards battered four
Beavers' pitchers for 21 hits. Erwin Doerksen picked up
the mound victory.
(August 14) Ross Stone, Ollie
Harris and Rusty Devine combined to hold North
Battleford to two hits as Unity beat North Battleford 4-2 to even their
semi-final series at two games apiece. Cards
had six hits off losing pitcher Lyle Bradley.
(August 18) A third inning grand slam
homer by Neil Urlacher paced Neilburg to a 14-8 triumph over Unity in
the opening game of the best-of-five final series. Urlacher also had a
pair of singles while veteran Pete Prediger added a homer and
two singles. Brian McIntyre, who relieved starter Ted
Richardson in the 5th, picked up the win. Ollie Harris,
first of three Cardinals' hurlers, took the loss.
(August 20) Playing-manager Pete
Prediger slammed a two-run homer in the 11th inning to give Neilburg
a 5-3 win and a split of their playoff double-header before 1,000 fans at
Unity. It was Prediger's third hit of the game. Mike Repin
accounted for all the Unity scoring with a three-run homer in the fourth
inning. Ted Richardson picked up the win in relief.
Cardinals won the first game, 2-1 in a
pitchers' duel between Richardson and the Cardinals' Rusty Devine.
Richardson allowed just three hits while Devine gave up four. Mike
Repin provided the key blow for Unity, a two-out, two-run double in
the seventh inning.
(August 23) Ross Stone
belted a homer, double and single to lead Unity to an 8-4 win over Neilburg
to tie their final series at two games apiece. Cardinals took a 6-0
lead through four innings and held on for the win. Chuck Ratley
also homered for the Cardinals. Rusty Devine, with
relief help from Erwin Doerksen, picked up the win. Ted
Richardson went the distance for the Monarchs.
(August 27) Fred Hodgson
and Ted Richardson combined to shutdown the Unity bats as
Neilburg scored a 3-0 victory to win the Northern Saskatchewan Baseball
League final. Before close to 2,000 fans at Unity, Hodgson gave up
only two hits over seven innings before giving way to Richardson. Pete
Prediger's fourth inning homer was all Neilburg needed. Rusty
Devine took the loss. Monarchs got their second run in the
fourth inning as Brian McIntyre singled, stole second and scored on a single
by Gene Dextrase. Their finally tally came in the eighth
when Ivan Prediger singled and scored on a double by Neil
Urlacher.
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