The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-12
Yanks Defeat Red Sox, 20
Spinners Rout Wilmington BUGS

In what was reported to be a
baseball game, the Sanford Spin
ners debated the Wilmington
BUGS, 20 to 4 in a Tobacco State
league game at the American
Legion stadium last night.
First Inning
Sanford: Bernstein went out
short to first. Gales went out the
same way. Cullen threw out
Shoffner. No runs, no hits.
Wilmington: Bortz threw out
Zazzaro. Fox popped out to the
second baseman. Station struck
out. No runs, no hits.
Second Inning
Sanford: Sboffner walked. Mes
sing flied to center field. Crawford
walked. Poteat hit into a double
play. No runs, no hits.
Wilmington: Laufer went out
short to first. Collins struck out.
Strickland hit a double but was
out trying to go to third. No runs,
one hit.
Third Inning
Sanford: Skinner made a two
base error on Crawford's high fly.
Bortz struck out. Burnstein struck
out. Gales walked. Gales was
safe when Zazzaro dropped C-llens
throw for an error in an attempts
ed force play at second on Shot
finer grounder. Nesselrode singled
scoring Turner and Gales. Messing
skied to Lauffer. Two runs, one
hit, two ror
Wilmington: Lancaster singled
to right. Skinner beat out an in
field hit. Allen was safe on a
sacrifice hit when Catcher CraW-
ford threw wild to third. Lancaster
scored when Turner muffed Zaz-
zaro's hard grounder. Fox hit into
a double play. Skinner scoring.
Allen scored on Stations single.
Lauffer flied to center. Four runs,
three hits, two errors.
Sanford: Crawford hit a home
u over the right field fence.
Poteat hit a double. Turner walks.
Bortz got a single when the BUGS
his bunt roll out to third. Poteat
scored on Zazzaro poor throw to
third when the second base man
made a play on Brunstein's ground
er. Burnstein was safe at first.
Turner scored on Gales Texas
Lacquer. Bortz and Burnstein
scored on Shoffner's single. Nessel-
rode was safe on Cullen's error.
Shoffner and Gales scored on Zaz-
zaro's error. Gilbert replaced
Allen. Messing and Nesselrode
scored on Stations muff of an
attempted force play at home.
Poteat went out to Fox. Turner
went out short to first. Bortz
singled, Crawford scoring. Bern
stein flied out to center. 10 runs,
seven hits, four errors.
Wilmington: Cullen struck out.
Strickland walked d. Lancaster
struck out. No runs, no hits.
Fifth Inning
Sanford: Gales doubled to left
center. Shoffner walked. Nessel-
rode sliced a double into right
scoring Gales. Messing singled
scoring Shoffner. Reilly batted for
Poteat and flew out to left Nessel-
rode scoring. Turner walked.
Bortz walked scoring Messing.
Burnstein struck out. Gales struck
out. Four runs, three hits.
Wilmington: Gilbert walks. Gilbert
stole second. Zazzaro struck out.
Fox struck out. Station flied out
to center.
Sixth Inning
Sanford: Shoffner walked. Mes
selrode hit a homer over the left
field fence. Messing singled to left.
Crawford walked. Benson replaced
Gilbert. Benson walked Riley.
Turner walked scoring Messing.
Bortz hit into a double play, pitch
er to catcher to first. Burnstein
walked. Riley and Turner scored
on Gales double. Shoffner went
out second to first. Five runs
three hits.
Wilmington, Lauffer flew to CEN
ter Cullen struck out. Strick-
land struck out. No runs no hits.
Seventh Inning
Sanford; Nesselrode walked.
Messing doubled. Crawford walked.
Riley flied to right scoring Nessel-
rode. Turner forced Crawford.
Bortz forced Turner. One run one
hit.
Wilmington; Lancaster went out
short to first. Skinner went OUT
third to first. Benson went out sec
ond to first. No runs no hits.
Eighth Inning
Sanford; Burnstein walked. Gales
walked. Shoffner flew out to LETT.
Both advanced on Ben
sons wild pitch. Nesselrode was
safe on Zazzaro's error on his
ground ball, Burnstein scoring.
Messing singled scoring Gales.
advanced on Benson's sec
ond wild pitch of the inning, Craw-