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Page 6 — Griffin Daily News Tuesday, May 31, 1977 Green overcomes deficit to down Gold squad, 75-69 The Green overcame a 9 point deficit in the fourth quarter last night to down the Gold 75-69 in Griffin’s intra-squad basketball game that ended spring practice. “It was a super game,” Coach Bobby York said. “I rate it one of the best spring games as far as being well played .We had 12 players on each team and everyone played super,” he said. ■Hie Green team was the smallest of the 2 squads. It had more guards. The Gold squad was slightly larger overall and was considered the best rebounding team. Marvin Curtis and Tommy Joe Coleman paced the Green team to its victory with 16 and 13 points respectively. J. C. Davis made 12, Don Blanton 6, Kenny Barrow 5, Bradley Pless 5, Raymond Mayfield posts victory in Tee Mayfield Motors defeated Griffin Fence 16-0 in the Griffin American Tee League Monday afternoon. Morris Cabinet Shop downed Ringgold Superette 29-17 and Brack Pound Insurance defeated Meeks Realty 11-9 in other American league action. Pomona Products stopped Beatty Shoe Shop 11-4, CWA defeated Optimist Club 22-12 and Rotary Club defeated State Farm 16-8 in National league games. Craig Hodges hit 3 doubles and a single and Billy Lewis hit 2 doubles and a single for Mayfield. Torre Parham hit a double and Chris Parker hit a COWBOY BOOTS Beatty Shoe Shop 458 W. Solomon Phone 227-6723 Soft Frozen YOGURT It / K<- Wow! It s a whole new kind of smooth, cool taste. And it’s even better when we add our marvelous DAIRY QUEENS true-fruit toppings, for a Yogurt Supreme. Like juicy-red strawberry. Then lots of crunchy-sweet coconut. What a naturally-good treat-or even a lunch! Come join the Soft Frozen Yogurt crowd and see. Dairy Queen No. 1 1020 W. Taylor Street Dairy Queen No. 2 Memorial Drive Evans 4, David Brown 4, Eddie Williams 2 and Darrell Jester 2. Joe Ward, who is an Bth grader (he’ll be a 9th grader Bryan Hayes hurls no-hitter in LL Bryan Hayes pitched a no hitter for Mid-Ga. Bandag against Pomona to lead his team to an 8-0 victory in the American Little League division Monday. Commercial Bank edged Holiday Inn 5-4 in another American game. First National beat the Jaycees 10-1 and Drug & Surgical defeated Spalding Knitting Mill 15-4 in the National League. single for Griffin Fence. Scott Mclaren blasted 4 home runs and a triple and Jason Smith hit 2 home runs and 3 singles for Morris Cabinet. Darren Cantrell belted a home run, triple and 2 singles for Ringgold. Jimmy Campbell hit a triple, double and single. Eddie Bethune hit a triple, double and single and Chris Kump hit 3 singles for Brack Pound Insurance. Brian Buice hit a triple and single and Mike McCard hit a single for Meeks Realty. Shane Toland and Barry Patterson each hit a single for Pomona Products. Bernard McCune hit a double and Craig Fields hit a single for Beatty Shoe Shop. Darrell Woodruff hit 2 doubles and a single and Coney Miller hit 3 singles for CWA. Tyler Martin hit 2 doubles and a single and Jay Pitts hit a home run and 2 doubles for Optimist Club. Stephens hit a single and Mike Brown rapped a home run, double and single for Rotary Club. Jerry Gossman hit a home run and single and Michael Bailey hit 2 singles for State Farm. next fall) sparked the Gold team with a 19 point effort. Jeff Treadway made 14, Randy Wimbush 8, Neilson Jim & Joe’s won over Bonanza 9-6 and Griffin Garment defeated the Colonels 14-6 in the Continental league. Mid-Ga. 8 Pomona 0 Hayes struck out 7 and walked 5 in leading Mid-Ga. to its victory. Ira Butler and Randy Thompson were the Pomona pitchers. Tiger Pitts got a home run and a double for Mid-Ga. Chris Lasseter had a double and Hal Ingram and Danny Stewart had singles. Commercial 5 Holiday 4 Buck Lee struck out 5 and walked 6 while Keith Gilbert struck out 6 and walked one in leading Commercial Bank to victory. Randy Peters struck out 7 and walked 1 for Holiday. Mark Greer hit 2 singles for Commercial. Buck Lee, Marshall Woodall, Mark Eskins and Mitch Greer hit singles. Randy Peters had a double and single for Holiday and Greg Marsh had a single. National 10, Jaycees 1 Wes Treadway struck out 14 and walked 3 for First National. Gary Harris struck out 12 and walked 1 for the Jaycees. Ken Ballard had a triple and single for First National. Treadway had 2 doubles and a single. Danny Stover had a double and single and Scott Cummins had a double. Jimmy Morris hit 2 singles and Alan Roberts and Darrell Dix hit singles. Marty Bradford hit a double and single for the Jaycees. Gary Harris and Brian Bailey had singles. Drug 15 Spalding 4 Mark Sexton struck out 4 and walked 2 for Drug & Surgical. Charles Horton and Rusty Jones shared pitching duties for the Spalding Knitting Mill team. Drug & Surgical hitters included Jeff Jenkins, 2 singles; Frank Smith, single and Green, Gunnels, ABC-ettes win Green Studio defeated Shaklee Products 15-5 Monday afternoon in the Junior Softball League. Gunnels Wrecker Service defeated Griffin Machine Works 13-9. In the senior League, ABC ettes downed Crouch’s 10-7. Lisa Brown hit 3 singles and Sue Bunn hit a double and single for Green Studio. Kathy Killingsworth hit a home run Ecker d, Valdosta play today for NCAA title SPRINGFIELD, 111. (AP) — Undefeated Eckerd College of Florida goes into the final round of the NCAA Division II championship baseball tourna ment today facing once-de feated Valdosta State. Monday night, Steve Balboni blasted two homers to lead Eckerd to an 8-2 victory over California-Riverside to remain the only undefeated team in the double-elimination tournament in Springfield, HI. Ringers win in horseshoes The Ringers defeated the Winners 21-15, 21-14 Monday in the Griffin Horseshoe League. The Ringers also defeated Jack’s Junk, 20-22, 21-4 and 21- 12. The Go-Getter defeated the Toppers and the Winners. The scores against the Toppers were 21-11, 6-21 and 21-11. The Winners fell by scores of 21-9, 9- 21 and 21-16. Jack’s Junk defeated the Winners 21-18 and 21-12. The Toppers were victors over Jack’s Junk, 21-12,7-21 and 21-18. Blanton 6, John Lerner 6, Lamell Stlkes 4, Michael Miller 4, L Larry Robertson 4 and Rodney Wyche 4. double; Tom Pfrogner, single and double; Sam Drivers, single, Rodney Askins, single and double; Mark Barry, single; Shane Long, triple; and Mark Sexton, 2 singles. Spalding hitters included Bobby Ferguson, double and single; Bobby McClelland, double and single; Steve Jones, double and single; Luke Welty, double; and Chris Casey, single. Jim & Joe’s 9 Bonanza 6 Bill Whitaker struck out 5 and walked 8 for Jim & Joe’s. Mike Cook struck out 5 and walked 12 for Bonanza and David Byous struck out one. Lamar Parker had a double for Jim & Joe’s while Todd Adams hit 2 singles. Bill Whitaker, Will Cross and George Barksdale had singles. Ricky Adams hit a triple for Bonanza. Mike Cook had a double. Allan Imes, Otis Blake and Donald Cunningham all had 2 singles each. David Boyus hit a single. Garment 14 Colonels 6 Jonathan Eady struck out 7 and walked 2 for Griffin Garment. Brandy Gregory struck out 2 and walked 8 while Van Pelt struck out 3 and walked 1. Avery McCune struck out 6 and walked 5 for Colonels. Mike Newman struck out 3 and walked 3. Van Pelt had 2 doubles and 2 singles for Griffin Garment. Mark McCullough and Jonathan Eady both had a double and single. Doug Hollberg, Ryan Coleman and Scott Tackett all had triples. Tim Mcßride and Bruce Scott had singles. Mike Newman hit a double and Avery McCune had a single for the Colonels. Jay Burford of Moose hit a home run and single last Friday in an 11-11 tie with Mid-Ga. Bandag. The homer was Burford’s fifth. and single for Shaklee. Sandy Terrell hit a single. Alisa Jordan hit 2 singles and Thonda Gunnels hit a home run and single for Gunnels. Lynn Kelly and Beverly Crane hit a single each for Griffin Machine Works. Robin Johnson and Cathy Holmes each hit 2 singles for ABC-ettes. Anita Drewery hit 2 home runs and Pat Mathis hit a home run for Crouch’s. Two errors in the fourth in ning by Balboni, a first base man for the St. Petersburg, Fla. school, gave California- Riverside a 2-0 lead. Eckerd scored three in the fifth to go ahead, and Balboni drove in five runs with his homers in the seventh and ninth innings. Earlier, Valdosta State, led by Cecil Whitehead’s two-run triple, dropped Missouri-St. Louis 114. In the first game of the day, Delta State defeated New Haven 5-3 as Bryan Rogers smacked a two-run home run in Treadway named Little All-American Stan Treadway of Griffin, who re-wrote Jacksonville State and Gulf South Conference batting records, has been named NCAA Little All- American. The slugging first baseman was notified of the selection Sunday. Stan broke the Gulf South Conference RBI record with 64. His 22 homers were the third Si hf Ek'< Hl *-• . * •> Sr wV k » ‘ ■- ■ - ■ i > . * BLOOMINGTON, Minn. — Baltimore Orioles Doug DeCinces (left) holds his stomach and grimaces in pain after colliding with Minnesota Twins second baseman Bobby Randall in the second inning of Monday night’s Eagles 9 Gilreath hurls no-hitter in BR Mark Gilreath pitched a no hitter Monday afternoon in the 14 and 15-year-old Babe Ruth League to give Eagles a 3-0 victory over Dundee. Pounds Insurance defeated Elks 3-1 in the other game in the 14 and 15-year-old League. Mayfield Motors defeated Commercial Bank 17-13 and Forrer Apartments downed Griffin Cable TV 12-9 in the 13- year-old Babe Ruth League. Gilreath struck out 9 Dundee batters enroute to his victory. He walked six batters. Clark Stewart suffered the loss for Dundee. He received relief from Mark Stewart. They struck out 3 and issued one walk. Eagle batters collected 9 hits. Gilreath aided his own cause at the plate, hitting a double and 2 singles. Mike Peaden hit a double and single. Bryant Beeland, Scott Stonica, David English and Charles Bartholo mew hit one single each. Pounds 3, Elks 1 Randy McCurry went the distance for Pounds Insurance, striking out 10, walking 5 and giving up only 2 hits. Tracy Ellis was on the mound for Elks, giving up 8 hits, striking out 4 and walking 2. Homer Daniel led the Pounds Insurance hitters with 2 doubles. Dave Cone and Randy McCurry each hit 2 singles. Mike Huckaby and Darrell Varnadoe each hit a single. Tim Cody and Tracy Ellis hit singles for Elks. Mayfield 17, Commercial 13 Mike Slade picked up the Mayfield victory in relief. Stuart Gatlin started and pitched three innings before the eighth to knock New Haven out of the double elimination tournament. While Eckerd plays Valdosta State today, California-Riv erside goes against Delta State. All but Eckerd have one loss. Shippensburg State and Southern Illinois-Edwardsville were eliminated earlier. Missouri-St. Louis’ loss knocked the Rivermen out of the tournament. Bob Bone hit a solo homer for the Rivermen in the second inning before the Blazers went ahead in the third. highest in the nation and set new records for Jacksonville State and Gulf South. Treadway was the second leading hitter on the Jacksonville State team. He batted .448, scored 52 runs, drove in 64 and had 69 hits, including the 22 roundtrippers. Sammy Davis, a teammate of Treadway’s, made second team All-American. being relieved by Lee Danielly. Danielly came out in the 4th for Slade. The 3 pitchers struck out 9, walked 9 and gave up 6 hits. Mitchell Cardell started for Commercial Bank and suffered the loss. He received relief from Tim Evans who came on in the 4th inning. They struck out 3, walked 16 and gave up 8 hits. Gatlin led Mayfield batters at the plate with 2 doubles. Tony Stanley hit 2 singles. Chuck Sacred Hearts win in softball circuit Sacred Heart defeated Calvary Assembly 11-8 Monday night in the Griffin Church Softball League. First Assembly blanked First Baptist Youth 7-0, Union Baptist defeated Midway Methodist 28-3 and New Life defeated Second Baptist 11-9. Bruce Comer hit 3 singles and Pete Edli hit a home run and triple for Sacred Heart. David Griffin hit 3 singles and Dave Hunt hit 2 singles for Calvary Assembly. Donnie Kelly hit a triple and single and Jerry Hendrix hit a home run and single for First Assembly. Bubba Manolis and Henry Powers each hit a single for First Baptist Youth. Barry McCarty hit 2 doubles and 2 singles and Randy Skates hit a home run and 3 singles for Union Baptist. Jim Matlock hit 2 doubles and Bobby Griffin hit a double and single for Midway Methodist. David Elliott hit 2 triples and a double and Arthur Moss hit 3 doubles and a single for New Life. Grant Crawford hit 3 singles and Bryan Stansell hit a triple and single for Second Baptist. Commercial League Trophy Shop defeated Chevron Oil, 23-13, Monday @ Wednesday Is DOUBLE S&H Green Stamp Day In Spalding Square Shopping Center We Gladly Redeem U.S.Govt. Food Coupons jajaj Hurting game. Decinnes was called out for interference. He was removed from the game and taken to the hospital with possible internal injuries and a broken nose. (AP) Grey, Mike Slade, Todd Bunn and William Duke each hit a single. Kevin Peek rapped 3 singles for Commercial Bank. Jeff Hattaway, Allen Goolsby and Mark Ellis each hit a single. Forrer 12, Cable 9 Ray Lemons went the distance for Forrer Apart ments. He struck out 10 and issued 11 walks. Cable batters collected 7 hits off Lemons. Paul Lewis went the distance night in the Commercial Softball League. B & F TV Sales and Service edged Fayette Mortgage 4-3, and Hooks Package Store downed Southern States 15-11. Signal Mills forfeited its game with Dundee. Don Sloan blasted 4 home runs and a single for Trophy Shop. Larry Martin hit 2 doubles and a single. Wayne Gill hit 4 singles for Chevron Oil. Dan Leader hit a home run Laverne Beatty wins championship Low medalist, Laverne Beatty won the Third Annual Handicap Championship at Quail Lake with a 2-day net total of 138. Margaret Burdeshaw and Liz Sherliza settled a tie for second with a 3-hole playoff. Sherliza won the playoff putting herself in second and Burdeshaw in third place. They finished the tourney with totals of 141. A playoff for third and fourth place also was necessary between Sandy Schenk and Betty Gossett who finished with totals of 145 for two days. for Cable TV, struck out 6, walking 11 and giving up 6 hits. Lemons led the Forrer batters at the plate with a double and single. Danny Hayes, Bud Brown, Rusty Nealis and Freddie Davis each hit a single. Clay Morris and Danny Caldwell each hit 2 singles for Griffin Cable TV. Kirk Mangham, Lee Whelchel and Scott Lynch each hit a single. and 2 singles. Larry Fears and Milton Fears each hit a double and single for B & F. Mike Ziegler hit 2 singles and Mike Dinkins hit a triple for Fayette Mortgage. Keith Smith hit a double and single and Craig Gordy hit a triple and 4 singles for Hooks Package Store. Terry Haisty hit a double and 2 singles and Ronald Kendrick hit 2 singles for Southern States. Gossett took the playoff. Betty Ziesenehene came in fifth with a total of 148. Award for low putts went to Laverne Beatty with 29 putts on the first 18 of the championship. Mildred Jones, defending champion, and Sherry Kuller were awarded special prizes. Irvin wins GARDENA, Calif. (AP) - After trying for four years, driver Vic Irvin of Salinas, Ca lif. won his first 150 NASCAR Grand National auto race Mon day.
