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Twin City from pax* BI untracked in the loss to South west. Coach Ed Brown of Twin" City said his team fought hard, but had too much to overcome against Southwest. "They played their hearts out for us," Brown said. "After giv ing up the big lead, we held them for four solid innings, but we hurt ourselves in the fourth and fifth inning by not coming through with, hits with the bases loaded." In fact. Twin City battled back to make the game very com petitive. In the fourth inning, it forced a bases-loaded situation with no outs. Howev er. the hits that had been coming through in previous games suddenly dried up. Pinch hitters Dontae Wilds and Sadarious Palmer started out the inning with hits, but the bats went cold after that point. Lamonte Odom scored both of Twin City's runs, reaching home safely in the third and sixth innings. Ralph Saunders gave up a two-run homer and had ! two walks that led to f runs in the second r inning before settling down and going the dis tance on the mound for Twin City. Twin City also had a strong defen sive game by Marquis Parker who made sever al key plays at second base to prevent South west from increasing its margin. Offensively, Michael Lawrence led the way, coming through with two hits. "Regardless of the outcome of this game I am very proud of the way this team played," Brown said. "This was a team that everyone said didn't have a chance at winning but we ended with a winning record in All-Star play. I knew we had it in us and I'm proud of them." While Twin City struggled through a tough offensive game against Southwest, the team had lots of fireworks in each of the three previous games. Wilds, Lawrence, Saunders and Vernon' Brown sparked the team in its 10 0 victory over Spencer. That led to a 15-4 rain-short ened victory over Northwest on July 4. In that game Twin City fell behind 4-0 in the first inning before scoring 15-unanswered to record the win. Everything seemed to work perfectly in Twin City's victory 31-1 victory over Stokes County last Saturday. Twin City jumped out to a 5-0 lead in the first inning, paced by run-scoring sin gles from Brown and Saunders. Damien Lineberger's tiple in the second got things started and. Twin City extended its lead to 17 I in the second to break the game open. Parker also had a two-run triple during the rally. Twin City! put the game away in the third! getting triples by Lawrence and I Brown and a key single by Anto-J nio Bennett. Brown substituted freely th^; rest of the way and Bell pitched a complete game on the mound fow Twin City. Against Southwest, however"! Twin City got out of <the gate?; slowly and never reached it? stride. Ed Brown Senior All-Stars drop heartbreaking loss to Walkertown, 5-4 Last-inning run eliminates Twin City from District All St&r Tournament c BY SAM DAVIS III! c HBONK I I Frustration was all over Marlin Wilkins' face after his team dropped a 5-4 loss to Walkertown in the Senior Division of the District All Star game last Thursday in Walkertown. Wilkins, a first-year All Star coach, could only look dejectedly at his team after it failed to take advantage of several opportunities to win the game. "I really can't say anything right now," Wilkins said after the game. "There's not a whole lot to say because we didn't play the way we're capable of playing." Wilkins' team lost both of its matchups in the tourna ment. A one-sided loss to Southwest Forsyth in the opener dampened the spirits of the players and coach. But Twin City bounced back to play solid baseball against Walkertown. Twin City took an early 1-0 lead and never lost its compo sure against Walkertown. Although it didn't have a breakout offensive outing, the defense was solid and several timely hits helped keep Twin City in the contest. In the third inning Twin City manufactured a key run. Joseph Cause led off with a walk and Eric Eaton singled through the middle. Kevin ShelMollowed with a bunt, but Gause was forced out af^third. Eaton put himself in scoring position by stealing third. He then scored on an errant throw down the line. Twin City could have added more runs when Darryl Love walked. But a strikeout and a grounder ended the inning. Jerrell Hairston's one-out single helped Twin City tie the game at 3-3 in the fourth. Hair ston advanced to third when a steal and an errant throw allowed him to move up a base. Hairston then scored on a grounder. Twin City tied the game 4 4 in the sixth, but Walkertown pushed across a run in the sec ond to break the deadlock and end Twin City's run in the tournament. Press Box from page Bl There has been much to be desired from administration. There have been lots of com plaints. but no one has stepped forward to not only demand change, but to also offer alter natives to the current status quo. So. the league has thus gone through an unnecessary downturn. For years league officials fought for a complex. Games were scattered throughout the city and so were practice facil ities. Community leaders and former Twin CitJ' president Melvin "Rip" Wilkinx made their case to the powers that be in city government and Twin City now has one of the top facilities in the area. The league also enjoyed rapid growth and increased visibility and popularity. How ever, it has not been able to sustain it and now it is starting to slide the other way. There has been less involvement from parents in the league's operation than ever before. A steady decline in players and number of teams followed as well. It is high time that parents, coaches and other concerned parties step up to the plate and provide the leadership and direction needed to get the league moving in a positive direction. The first step begins by acknowledging that some thing has to be done and it hits to be done now. Someone must be held accountable for the league's decline and it has to . start at the top. a 4~~iss= o*? It's a fact. i h. .??? ma m, mkrJ ih* Ir.-. .?. hikfc.,. rhr lr? t>M> ?Ur ?ir m ? *?lwl ?**,., aru? ntn Wlp kfc* h?Li 41* .rk .fc* ,*,?? ? .* 4m. ifcr Cj? I ?M 72* ?? s, hjM, Vmr lW (tflrhn. I r.\Kny Oar khfc www. wschronicle. com Your online choice for community news and information Photo by Bruce Chapman Stay Low! Participants at the Next Level Football Camp receive instructions on blocking from coach Reginald Jones Jr. WHEMI gererzv 100% Corn Fed! USD A Certified Hereford Top Round Lonaon Broil s 1 I IV',, Grade A Frozen Turkey Breast ^ 4 lb. 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