The White Falcon - 13.08.1971, Blaðsíða 8

Greg Norman 3wings into the pitch in Monday night's little league
playoff action as catcher Stuart Meridith awaits the ball. The um-
pire is Wilbur Ray.
Mets, Cards vie tonight
Tigers in little league finals
The NavCommSta Tigers have reached the finals of the NATO Base
Little League Championships with a hard-fought 8-5 victory Wednesday
night over the Comptroller Mets. The Tigers will face the winner of
the Mets-CPO Cardinals Game tonight. Tonight's game will start at
6:30 p.m. at the Little League
field. The title game of the
double elimination tournament
will be played Monday, also at
6:30 p.m., and will ba broadcast
by American Forces Radio.
The four — team tournament
matched the top two teams of the
American and National Little
Leagues. Monday's action saw the
Tigers whip the Cardinals 12-5
behind the two-hit pitching of
John Hyman anda big six-run third
inning.
Also on Monday, the Mets used
the one-hit pitching of Tony Riv-
era and pounded out 13 hits of
their own in swamping the PTO
Yanks, 10-1. Joseph Calise was
the big gun with three hits for
the Mets while Robert Chavez
blasted a second inning triple to
spoil Rivera's no-hit and shut-
out hopes.
The PTO Yanks were eliminated
from tourney action Wednesday as
they dropped a heartbreaking 8-5
decision to the Cardinals. The
Cards rallied for four runs in
the bottom of the sixth to escape
elimination, using consecutive
base hits by Conn Haviland, Ron-
ald Hicks, Bill Ollie and Bryan
Davis.
Jeff Rice was the winning
pitcher for the Cards who rapped
11 safeties. Haviland, Hicks and
Ollie each had two with Haviland
getting a double. Ken Evan3 was
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the hard-luck loser for the Yanks.
His teammates got ten hits, with
Matthew Harder, Greg Norman and
Robert Chavez getting two apiece.
The Tigers' 8-5 win over the
Mets left them as the only unde-
feated team in the tourney, but
it took the clutch two-hit pitch-
ing of Shawn Roman to do it. Ro-
man struck out 12 men, including
the last five men he faced, and
helped his own cause with three
base hits. James Wood got two
hits for the winners as they
scored two runs in the first and
third innings, and then got three
big runs in the fourth and a solo
tally in the fifth.
The Mets kept the game ti^it
all the way and only trailed by
one or two runs throughout the
game until the fifth. Tony Rivera
spoiled Roman's no-hitter with a
fourth inning single and he was
followed by Robert Meredith who
tripled. Then Roman took over to
fan the last man in the fourth
and five out of six the rest of
the way. Joel Norman went the
distance for the Mets giving up
eight hits in taking the loss.
Should the Tigers lose on Mon-
day night, it would leave the re-
maining two teams with one loss
apiece and the showdown game
wouldbe played Wednesday. Should
the Tigers win, they will be
crowned Champions of the NATO
Base Little League.
NavSta Stars
finish third in
1 ND softball
The Naval Station All-Stars
finished third in the First Naval
District Softball Tournament held
last week at Brunswick, Maine.
The Keflavik Stars dropped
their opening contest of the dou-
ble elimination tourney to Ports-
mouth, N.H., 7-3. Keflavik came
back to eliminate Quonset Point
and Davisville, R.I., and Ports-
mouth in the loser's bracket be-
fore dropping a 7-4 decision to
Newport, R.I.
The host Brunswick team won
the tournament by shutting out
Newport twice, 4-0 and 2-0, to
earn the right to represent First
Naval District in the regional
playoffs.
Scotch doubles
bowling tourney
John McCrarron and Karen Bel-
vin scored the night's high ser-
ies with a 572 talley, in Monday
night'8 action.
In the singles division, Skip
Hagelund and Elaine Hart took top
honors in the opening night, with
a 187 high game.
Action continues Saturday af-
ternoon at 1 p.m. and will con-
clude Monday evening.
Touch football
season nears
Touch football will start on
the NATO Base August 21. A pre-
season meeting will be held Au-
gust 17 at 1 p.m. in the field-
house for all teams desiring to
enter league play.
A clinic for football offi-
cials will be held Saturday, Au-
gust 14, at 6 p.m. in the field-
house. Attendance of all foot-
ball officials is mandatory.
Horseshoe tourney
The horseshoe doubles have
reached the final stages. JoivM
Singleton and Red Embrey appeffl
to be the best bet to take thw
doubles title.
August 13, 1971