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Babe Ruth All-Stars
In Championship Game
Kings Mountain’s 13 year old
Babe Ruth all-stars were to play
Union County last night at
Grover’s Brice Harry Memorial
park for the Western North
Carolina State Championship
and a berth in the Southeastern
Regionals beginning Monday in
Staunton, Va.
The local nine was unbeaten
in the double-elimination event
and would have had to lose two
games to be eliminated. Union
County defeated South Bun
combe Tuesday night to reach
the championship game at S p.m.
Kings Mountain edged Union
County 2-1 Monday night to ad
vance to the championship
round as the only unbeaten
team. For the second time in
three games, the locals won in
the bottom of the seventh inn
ing.
Earlier in the tourney, the
KM entry edged Sparta 7-6
when Baba Curry stole home in
the bottom of the seventh. This
time. Tommy Batchler was hit
by a pitched ball with the bases
loaded to break a 1-1 tie.
Curry went the route on the
mound, giving up just one hit.
Kings Mountain collected Five
off Union County’s Scotty
Rushing.
Eric Marable led the KM at
tack with l-for-l and Rushing
had the only hit for Union Coun
ty-
★ ★ ★
The tournament champion
will report to Staunton Sunday
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Bobby Pearson homers in 16-0 Kings Mountain win ...
Dixie Youth All-Stars
Unbeaten In District Three
Kings Mountain’s Dixie
Youth Major League all-stars
won their first two games in the
District Three tournament Mon
day and Tuesday at Warlick
Field in Tryon and were schedul
ed to play the host Tryon team
in a winner’s bracket game last
night.
Both clubs went into the 8
pjn. contest unbeaten in the
double-elimination event. The
tournament continues
throughout the week. The win
ner will advance to the State
Tournament beginning August 2
at Long Beach.
Kings Mountain edged
Bessemer City 7-6 in eight inn
ings Tuesday night after easily
defeating East Lincoln 16-0 in
their opener Monday.
Edwin Sherer hurled the last
four innings for the local nine
and picked up the win. Brad
Jones started for KM and left
after two innings and Scotty
Bryant hurled the third and
fourth frames.
Bessemer City buih up a 5-3
lead after two innings but Kings
Mountain tied it in the third on a
two-run homer by Shane
Adams. Kings Mountain then
added another run when Kent
Boheler singled and scored on a
single by Sherer.
That made it 6-5 and it looked
like the lead would hold up, but
Bessemer City scored on an error
in the bottom of the sixth inning
to throw the game into extra inn
ings.
In the top of the eighth,
Bryant was hit by a pitch and
moved to third when Bobby
Pearson doubled. He then scored
the winning run on a passed ball.
Sherer fanned seven in his
four-inning relief stint. Bessemer
City collected seven hits off the
three KM pitchers and Kings
Mountain rapped three BC
hurlers for nine hits. Billy James,
the third BC pitcher, was charg
ed with the loss.
Pearson had a double and
single, Sherer a double and single
and Jones a double and home
run to lead the KM attack.
Adams, Boheler and Bryant had
one hit each.
★ ★ ★
Pitcher Tim Roberts got the
KM all-stars off on the right
track Monday, hurling a near
perfect game in a 16-0 victory
Story & Photos
By Gary Stewart
^ .
TIM ROBERTS ... Hurls No-Hitter
over East Lincoln.
Roberts finished with a no
hitter and allowed only one
baserunner. He walked the
leadoff man in the top of the
sixth inning, but he was erased
when he was thrown out attemp
ting to steal second.
Roberts fanned 14 batters, in
cluding the first 12 he faced.
Bobby Pearson gave Roberts
the only run he needed when he
led off the bottom of the first in
ning with a home run over the
leftfield fence. Roderick Boyce,
who homered later in the game,
and Shane Adams had two hits
each to lead the KM plate at
tack.
Doug Schockley, Brad Jones,
Scotty Bryant, Kent Boheler,
Edwin Sherer, Rusty Bumgard-
ner, Sam Smith and Roberts had
a hit each.
★ ★ ★
Todd Landers, who got his
start in Dixie Youth baseball in
Kings Mountain several years
ago, slammed a two-run homer
in the bottom of the sixth inning
to give Bessemer City’s all-stars
an 11-9 victory over Grover in
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