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Balk On The Catcher?
A disputed call which went
in Bessemer City’s favor
turned out to be the dif
ference in a 3-2 Yellow Jacket
baseball victory over Kings
Mountain’s Mountaineers
here Friday afternoon.
The victory, which for BC
avenged an earlier 8-0 loss to
the Mountaineers, all but
eliminated any KM hopes of
landing a berth in the South
western Conference playoffs.
The disputed play came
about this way:
With two out and BC leading
2-0 in the top of the fourth
inning, BC catcher Rick Shull
was on third base and cen-
terfielder David Self hitting
for the Yellow Jackets. On an
0-2 pitch from KMHS pitcher
Chuck Austin, Shull attempted
to steal home and was tagged
out by KM catcher Kenny
Falls.
The Mountaineers left the
field and the Yellow Jackets
started on the field but BC
coach Jerry Adams rushed up
to plate umpire Bill Horne and
argued that Falls had in
terfered with his batter. At
that point, infield umpire
Chuck Clements yelled from
his position behind first base
“balk on the catcher.”
After a short discussion.
Home reversed his decision
and declared the runner safe,
giving BC a 3-0 lead and
making the count on Self 1-2.
Self later struck out to end the
inning.
The Mountaineers came
back to score two runs in the
sixth inning to cut the lead to
3-2 but couldn’t come up with
the tying run.
On the disputed call. Falls
actually left his catcher’s
position to catch an outside
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pitch by Austin and that
prompted Adams’ in-
.terference argument.
However, rule 4: OSa of the 1974
official baseball rule book
states that “the catcher shall
station himself directly back
of the plate. He nnay leave his
position at any time to catch a
pitch or make a play except
that when the batter is being
given an intentional base on
balls, the catcher must stand
with both feet within the lines
of the catcher’s box until the
ball leaves the pitcher’s hand.
PENALTY - Balk.”
It should be further pointed
out, that Austin was not
issuing an intentional base on
balls.
On the play, it also appeared
from this writer’s position in
the stands that the BC batter
stepped across home plate to
block Falls’ attempt to
putout the BC runner. If that
was the case. Self should have
been declared out on rule 6.06c
which states:
“A batter is out for illegal
action when he interferes with
the catcher’s fielding or
throwing by stqtping out of
the batter’s box or making any
other movement that hinders
the catcher’s play at home
base...”
The runner could have been
safe on Adams’ argument of
“interference” under rule
7.04d which states that “each
runner, other than the batter,
may without liability to be
put out advance one base
when while he is attempting to Totals ’
steal a base, the batter is
interfered with by the catcher
or any other fielder.”
At any rate, getting back to
the other six innings of play,
BC picked up singletons in the
first and third for a 2-0 lead,
both tallies coming from
shortstop Frank Hovis, who
helped lead the KM Babe Ruth
team to the state title last
sununer.
Hovis singled in the first to . . „ ,
leadoff the game and later
scored on an error and he
doubled and scored on a single
by Jimmy Parker, another
former KM Babe Ruther, in
the third. Then, the disputed
fourth inninj^ tally made it 34).
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Hovis, ss
Parker, If 3
Reynolds, rf-p 3
Bridges, lb 4
Shull, c 3
R. Holt, 3b 4
Eury, p-rf 3
T. Holt, 2b 2
Self, cf 3
Totals
BO^SCORE
ABRHRBI
4 2 2 0
29 3 7
K. Mta
Van Dyke, cf
Southwell, 2b
Austin, p
Fitts, lb
Gillespie, 3b
Payne, If
K. Falls, c
Glass, ss
Baird, rf
By innings;
BC 101 100 0
KM 000 002 0
E-R. Holt 2, Austin, Gillespie
2, Glass. LOB-BC 10, KM 7.
2B-Hovis. SAC- Austin. SB-
Bridges.
Pitcher: IP HRERBBSO
Eury (W) 5 1-3 4 2 0 1 5
Reynolds 1 2-30 0 0 2 2
7 3 1 16
Save-Reynolds. WP-Austin,
Eury. Balk-K. Falls. U-Home
and Clements. T-2:15.
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El Bethel edged Macedonia
14-13 Tuesday night to take
over sole possessirxi of first
place in the local men’s
church league softball stan
dings.
El Bethel’s now 2-0 with
Bethlehm and Second Baptist
tied for second with 2-1 marks.
Barry Rikard hurled the win
for El Bethel and Dean Smith
was charged with the loss for
Macedonia.
In other games Tuesday,
Temple bombed Grover First
Baptist 23-3 and Second
Ba^ist blanked Bethlehem 11-
0.
Larry Wood had five
straight hits in the Temple
victory and Rayford White
hurled the win. Larry Bolin
was charged with the loss.
Sonny Jackson with 3-for-3
and Gary Ofiver and Pete
Burgess with 2-for-3 each led
Second over Bethlehem. Pete
Oliver was the winning pitcher
and Joel Whisnant the loser.
In action last Thursday
night, Macedonia whipped
Temple 10-6, Second Baptist
defeated First Wesleyan 11-1
and Bethlehem bombed Kings
MountainBaptist 19-1.
Mike Smith and Gary Smfth
had 3-for-4 each to lead
Macedonia and Gene Htmt-
singer and Chuck Bohelor
slammed homers. Emmett
Green was the winning pitcher
and Tony Tompkins the loser.
Tim Echols and Ken Cash
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Qiampion was the winning
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Final tryouts for Babe Ruth
League baseball players will
be held Sturday at 2 p.m. at
the community center.
All boys ages 13-15 who did
not play Babe Ruth ball last
year and who would like to be
on a team must be present. In
event of an emergency and a
prospective player cannot
possibly attend, he must call
one of the following persons by
Saturday: Max Bolin, Jimmy
White, Tony Leigh, Tommy
Pruett or Ifoy Pearson.
'The regular season will
begin the week of May 20 and
continue throughout the
month of June. All teams will
play a 15-game schedule.
’The Babe Ruthers are
defending state champions.
Kings Mountain Junior
High’s baseballers seek their
second straight Tri-County
Conference victory Friday
afternoon at City Stadium
when they take on Ashley
Junior High of Gastonia.
Coach Porter Griggs’
charges split their first two
league games, losing to
defending champion Shefoy 8-
0 Friday and defeating Lin-
colnton 9-4 Monday.
Ronnie Wilson hurled a two-
hitter in Monday’s victory and
recorded nine strikeouts. A
seven-run second inning was
all Wilson needed.
Kings Mountain secured
nine hits with Jerry Jackson
getting a pair of singes and
driving in three runs. Other
hits, all singles, were by Scott
Ellis, Kenny Self, Bruce
Valentine, Steve Lancaster,
Scott Hovis and Tim
Whitaker.
Lancaster secured the only
hit for KMJH in Friday’s loss
to Shelby. He singled in the
fourth inning. Scott Ellis was
the only KM player to reach
scoring position, getting to
third in the sixth inning after
(foawing a base on balls.
The locals are now 3-2 in
overall play. After Friday’s
game here, they play Crest on
the road Monday afternoon.
Mounties Win 5-2,
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Host South Point
Kings Mountain, which had
been handcuffed by BC south
paw Perry Eury over the first
five frames, got back-to-back
singles by Austin and Jimmy
Fitts with one away in the
sixth. They later scored on
errors but Richard Gillespie
and Kenny Falls drew bases
on balls from relief pitcher
Jeff Reynolds to put runners
on first and third with two
away.
Hal Glass attempted to bunt
Gillespie in but bunted a liner
to third baseman Robbie Holt
and he doubled Gillespie off
third to end the threat.
Reynolds put the Mounties
down in order in the seventh to
earn a save.
KENNY FALLS
...Victim of balk
lUolves
Winner
Over KM
Lincolnton’s Wolves held off
a seventh inning rally by
Kings Mountain’s Moun
taineers here Thursday af
ternoon to salvage a 8-7 vic
tory in Southwestern Con
ference baseball action.
The Wolves, who avenged
an early-season 4-2 defeat to
the Mountaineers, carried a 8-
3 lead into the bottom of the
seventh. Kings Mountain
tallied four runs to cut the lead
to 8-7 and had the bases loaded
with only one away but two
Mountaineers fanned to end
the game.
Tony Payne was the only
KM player to secure two hits
as he went 2-for-3 and drove
home a pair of runs. Richard
Gillespie and Jimmy Fitts had
a single apiece to account for
KM’s other two hits.
Kings Mountain High’s
baseballers, who have never
had a losing season under
Coach Barry Gibson, close out
1974 play next week and must
win two of their final three
contests in order to play over
.500 for the year.
’Die Mountaineers broke a
three-game losing streak
Tuesday at North Gaston,
scoring all of their runs in the
seventh inning for a 5-2 vic
tory. ’The win gives them a 4-5
Southwestern Conference
record and 5-5 overall mark
heading into a game this af
ternoon against South Point.
The Mountaineers host
Cherryville in a makeup game
next Monday, then travel to
Cherryville next Thursday for
their season’s finale.
Although the Mountaineers
are out of Jie running for the
Division One title. Coach
Gibson would like nothing
better than to see his charges
in the role of spoilers for South
Point, which has copped the
last two SWC championships.
A KMHS victory over the
Pointers today would go a long
way toward handing the
Division One title to East
Gaston, which at last report
was leading the Red Raiders
by one-half game.
victory and claim their second
win over the Warriors.
A three-run single by
McGill, a run-scoring double
by Tony Payne and a run
scoring single by Steve South-
well were the big blows for the
Mountaineers. KM’s fourth hit
in the inning was a pinch-hit
single by Richard Gillespie.
Kings Mountain had
threatened seriously in each of
the first three innings but the
Mounties never managed to
come up with hits in the
clutch. The only hits by KM
prior to the seventh were
singles by Chuck Austin and
Dale Hartsoe.
John McGill got the win for
the Mounties Tuesday, hurling
a three-hitter for his second
win in four decisions. Only one
of the runs off him was ear
ned.
Kings Mountain’s bats were
silenced until the last inning,
_whpn_ the Mountaineers_
collected four hits, including
three in a row, to «'ase a 2-0
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